SharePoint & more
Configure SharePoint search pdf files with a free ifilter
Feb 4th
1. Download Free ifilter from: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/all/ifilter60.exe
You can also download Download Adobe Reader 9.0 which contains the ifilter. Necessary for x64 bit systems. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025
2. Run the newly downloaded file and go through the install wizard with your preferences.
3. Enable the pdf extension in SharePoint. Central Administration > SharedServices > Search Settings > File Types >New File Type
4. Enter ‘pdf’ as a file extension and Click OK.
5. Right click and save the pdf icon from http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html
6. Add the Acrobat pdf icon to the SharePoint templates directory. Copy the Acrobat PDF picture called pdficon_small.gif in the 12 Hive\TEMPLATE\IMAGES folder, e.g. %programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES.
7. Open the 12 Hive\TEMPLATE\XML\DOCICON.XML file.
Find the <DocIcons.ByExtension> part
Add the following: <mapping Key=”pdf” Value=”pdficon_small.gif” OpenControl=”" />
Save
8. Run
net stop osearch
net start osearch
9. Perform a full crawl to reindex your pdf files.
The directory C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 is already being used by another IIS Web Site. Choose a different root directory for your new Web application.
Jan 13th
When creating a new web application, you may experience this error:
The directory C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 is already being used by another IIS Web Site. Choose a different root directory for your new Web application.
Solution:
1. Ensure you have a proper dns name / entry in the hosts file of your server for the new url you are wanting to create.
2. Ensure you have typed in the ‘host header’ typed in when creating the new web application.
3. If this doesnt work, open IIS Manager – Start>run> inetmgr> and verify the home directory – it could be located on a different drive.
Content type ‘0×01010007FF3E057FA8AB4AA42FCB67B453FFC100E214EEE741181F4E9F7ACC43278EE811′ not found in web
Jan 12th
You may sometimes see this error when creating a new page in a SharePoint MOSS 2007 publishing portal.
“Content type ‘0×01010007FF3E057FA8AB4AA42FCB67B453FFC100E214EEE741181F4E9F7ACC43278EE811′ not found in web ‘http://yoururl’
Two step solution:
1. Go to Central Admin, Application Management, User Permissions for Web Application.
Ensure “Use Client Integration Features” and “Use Remote Interfaces” are enabled.
2. Go to Central Admin, Application Management, Policy for Web Application.
Add your user account with Full Control and Finish!
You may have to do an IISRESET and you should be able to create new pages.
SharePoint Designer 2010 useful links
Jan 11th
SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers alike can rapidly create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. Advanced users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to Line-Of-Business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and human workflows, leveraging the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy to use environment. In addition, developers can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to get a quick start on SharePoint development projects.
Here are some useful links for you on SharePoint Designer 2010 I hope you find useful. You can bookmark this page and refer to it later as I will be updating more links as time goes by.
MSDN blogs on SharePoint Designer 2010: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2009/11/02/sharepoint-designer-2010-new-shell-tour.aspx
SharePoint videos: http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/free-sharepoint-sharepoint-designer-and-infopath-2010-videos/
Official SharePoint Designer 2010 page on Microsoft: http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/related-technologies/Pages/SharePoint-Designer-2010.aspx
Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2009/11/12/introduction-to-sharepoint-designer-2010/
Download Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (64-bit): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eeda9ab1-ac53-4870-9e1c-38940343d677&displaylang=en
Download Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (32-bit): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82df15bd-16a5-460e-a7c4-22599c669bb1&displaylang=en
Changes in SharePoint Designer 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179083%28office.14%29.aspx
SharePoint Designer 2010 books: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672331055
SharePoint Designer 2010 training: http://www.kalliance.com/microsoft-office/microsoft-sharepoint-designer-2010-training.htm
SharePoint MOSS Shared Services SSP delete unprovisioning
Jan 9th
When you try to delete a SharePoint Shared Services Provider – SSP, you may notice the SSP stuck with unprovisioning as its state. Eg. SharedServices1 (Unprovisioning)
Possible Cause: The SSP database has been deleted in SQL and SharePoint is unable to delete the SSP.
Some objects may still be dependent on the configuration database, hence you are unable to delete the SSP.
Solution: Manually delete the SSP by the following stsadm command:
stsadm -o deletessp -title “ssp_name”
You may also want to check if your SSP is providing services to other farms.
1. Go to Central admin > Application Management > Manage Shared Services between Farms
2. Disable “This farm will provide shared services to other farms”
3. Enable “This farm does not participate in shared services between farms”
Try to delete the SSP again.
You may also receive this error:
“An object in the SharePoint administrative framework, “SharedResourceProvider Name=SSP Parent=SPFarm Name=MOSS”, could not be deleted because other objects depend on it. Update all of these dependants to point to null or different objects and retry this operation.
Solution: Identify the GUID of the SSP in SQL and then delete the configuration object by the GUID.
Perform the following steps to get the GUID of the unprovisioning SSP and then delete it:
1. Log into the SQL Management studio and go to the configuration database.
2. Expand the tables and open dbo.object
3. Update the following queryto your database name and run it to receive the GUID
SELECT * FROM [Name of your configuration database].[dbo].[Objects]where name like ‘Name of the Shared Services’
4. Run the following stsadm command
stsadm -o deleteconfigurationobject -id “GUID retrieved from object table in SQL database”
(Provisioning failed: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)))
Jan 1st
When creating a SharePoint Shared Services provider (SSP), you receive the following error:
(Provisioning failed: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)))
Solution:
Check the Windows SharePoint Services Timer if its running and try restarting it. You may have to update the services logon credentials.
This link can help you further: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client: download error
Jan 1st
When installing SharePoint 2010, you may see the following error in the SharePoint 2010 preparation tool “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client: download error”
Solution: Install the SQL Native client and then re-run the preparation tool. You need to run sqlncli.msi file which can be found in your Microsoft SQL Server 2008 install media.
In Microsoft SQL 2008 R2, it is located here: 1033_ENU_LP\x64\Setup\x64\sqlncli.msi
You can also download it directly from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123718&clcid=0×409
SharePoint 2010 Certification
Dec 28th
Future SharePoint 2010 Certification Opportunities: Coming in June 2010
Certification Path for IT professionals
* 70-667 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover configuration of SharePoint 2010 including deployment, upgrade, management and operation on a server farm.
* 70-668 PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics including capacity planning, topology designing and performance tuning.
Certification Path for Developers
* 70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of.NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010.
* 70-576 PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led training course designed for development team leads who have already passed the Developing on SharePoint 2010 technical specialist exam. The course covers choosing technologies for and scoping a SharePoint project, best practices for SharePoint development, configuring a SharePoint development environment, advanced use of SharePoint developer features and debugging of code in a SharePoint project.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 beta download
Nov 19th
Yes, its available to the public. Here is the direct link. Click here
There are two versions of SharePoint Server 2010 Beta
1. SharePoint Server 2010 (Enterprise Client Access License features)
Click here to download
2. SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise (this includes entreprise features as above).
Click here to download
Approx size of download: 561.9 MB
Beta2 will be available this week.
System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
Software Requirements depend on configuration.
Hardware requirements:
The requirements below apply to single server with built-in database installations and server farm installations that include a single server or multiple servers in the farm.
Processor: 64-bit, dual processor, 3 GHz
RAM:
4 GB for stand-alone or evaluation installation.
8 GB for single server and multiple server farm installation for production use.
Hard Disk: 80 GB.
SCOM Management pack for SharePoint 2010
A Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack is available for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Beta (which includes SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and Project Server 2010 Beta).
Click here to download
SharePoint 2010
Oct 7th
As the year 2010 is fast approaching, we not only have another Christmas but we also have SHAREPOINT 2010 around the corner! For us techs, the latter is more exciting!! 
I remember reading on one site that Microsoft will have a beta version ready after the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009. The conference dates are: October 19-22, 2009. Unfortunately, I would attend it if I lived in the USA.
Read more at: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx
Some of the key features to look out in SharePoint 2010 are:
