This is a series of White Papers that have been published by Microsoft before the reveal of Sharepoint 2010 at Sharepoint Coference 2009.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Planning
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Test Your Upgrade Process
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Services Upgrade
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Microsoft just announced the Sharepoint 2010 preliminary system requirements. From this point on only 64bit of Sharepoint and SQL are supported.
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After installing WSS 3 SP2 I encounter the following error.
Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96177
I try the following and nothing happened, after started changing the version number in the SQL DB and that broke the entire solution.
USE master;
GO
EXEC sp_configure ’show advanced option’, ‘1′;
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE;
EXEC sp_configure;
psconfig -cmd upgrade
stsadm -o upgrade –forceupgrade -inplace
stsadm -o upgrade -url http://laptopdev -inplace –forceupgrade
At [...]
The simple program will send emails at the end of the month.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Mail;
namespace SendEmailLastDayofMonth
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
DateTime lastDayofMonth = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, DateTime.DaysInMonth(DateTime.Today.Year,DateTime.Today.Month));
if(DateTime.Today == lastDayofMonth)
{
try
{
MailMessage mM = new MailMessage();
mM.From = new MailAddress(”eddyblanco@gmail.com“);
mM.To.Add(”eddyblanco@gmail.com“);
mM.Subject = “Text Subject”;
mM.Body = [...]
Today in the process of a SharePoint migration I encounter several Warnings in the logs. Warning: User or group xxxx cannot be resolved.
The problem is every security group that has the ID’s with the warning above do not come over on the import, which shows up as a warning in the import log as.
Warning: Importing [...]
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Article by Michael Gannotti on the announcement of ESP for SharePoint.
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PDisposeCheck for SharePoint Developers has been released. SPDisposeCheck inspect your SharePoint assemblies to make sure you are code is disposing correctly
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The reason for the problem is that the GUID is the same as an existing site. You could either delete the old site or create a new web application and restore in that new one.
The Community Technology Preview release for Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.3 is now publicly available on Microsoft Connect.
The CTP is available at: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=428
New Features in VSeWSS 1.3
The extensions now install on x64 bit OS. Visual Studio 2008 and SharePoint must be already installed.
Command Line Build option for TFS and MSBuild integration
Separate WSP Package [...]
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I spent most of this year doing SharePoint development and Architecture. My role at my company will probably continue along that path and perhaps even more so.
Resolutions for 2009
Spend more time outside and SharePoint of course.
If your alerts stop working below you will find the solution that works for me. Also I have created a custom handler to take care of the 70 character
stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url -f “c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML\alerttemplates.xml” -LCID 2057″
stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname alerts-enabled -propertyvalue false -url
stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname alerts-enabled -propertyvalue true [...]
In order to use the navigation from the parent site. The following code would help with that.
SPSite SiteCollection = new SPSite(http://laptopdev/eddy);
SPWeb Webopenme = SiteCollection.OpenWeb();
Webopenme.allowunsafeupdates = true;
Webopenme.Navigation.UseShared = true;
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I needed to add a group and several users to all site collections in a farm that consisted of 4000+ site collections and 20+ terabytes. This users would be a part of an administration group that could view and manage the collections. In order to add the users I use the spfarm class.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using [...]
The rule of thumb for SharePoint lists has always been “no more than 2000 items in a given container”.
Now in the recently released White Paper “SharePoint Performance Optimization - How Microsoft IT Increases Availability and Decreases Rendering Time of SharePoint Sites”, the following is stated in the Best Practices section:
“Manage large lists for performance
Having [...]
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I just read that Patrick Tisseghem, one of the most remarkable persons in the SharePoint community, has passed away. Patrick leaves a huge global footprint in the community, and he will be remembered. I’d like to express my deepest condolences to his family, friends and the entire U2U team.
Patrick, you will be missed.
Some of the improvements in the Windows 2008 operating system are:
RPC Asynchronous Pipe vs. Multiple RPC Calls in Windows Server 2003 R2
Asynchronous I/Os vs. Synchronous I/Os in Windows Server 2003 R2
Unbuffered I/Os vs. Buffered I/Os in Windows Server 2003 R2
Low Priority I/Os vs. Normal Priority I/Os in Windows Serve 2003 R2
16 Concurrent File Downloads vs. [...]
If you need to upload files to a SharePoint document library programmatically the following code accomplishes that need.
SPSite site = new SPSite(URL);
SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates=true;
string path =””;
string []fileName =filePath.PostedFile.FileName.Split(’\\’);
int length = fileName.Length;
string file=fileName[length-1];
SPFolder folder = web.GetFolder(LibraryName);
SPFileCollection files=folder.Files;
Stream fStream = filePath.PostedFile.InputStream;
byte[] MyData= new byte[fStream.Length];
fStream.Read(MyData, 0, (int)fStream.Length);
fStream.Close();
SPFile fff= files.Add(file,MyData);
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates=false;
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The picture below is me surfing in Melbourne Florida about 2 months ago.
I’ve working on infopath recently. I had to insert a value via code to a sharepoint list and here in how I did it.
XPathNavigator xnDoc = this.MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();
//Create a Navigator object for the field that you want to set.
XPathNavigator TitleDescription = xnDoc.SelectSingleNode(”/my:Baseline_Change_Request/my:TitleDescription”, this.NamespaceManager);
XPathNavigator XMLFileName = xnDoc.SelectSingleNode(”/my:Baseline_Change_Request/my:CR_File_Name”, this.NamespaceManager);
//Remove the “nil” attribute.
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