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The Time has come...

...to move on... I've landed a new blog location to call home... My time here on SharePointBlogs.com has been great. You can get my new blog at http://echef.chaosfarm.net ... See you there! jn

Published 08-15-2008 3:11 PM by josef.nielsen
NSOT MOSS Install Scripter released...

Well, I finally got an alpha release out there of my script generator... You can get a copy out on http://www.codeplex.com/nsot . It is a C# WinForm app (vs2008) that can generate scripts for building a MOSS Farm or a single server install. It includes...

Published 07-18-2008 9:52 AM by josef.nielsen
Adding "Jump to ID#" to a list view...

So there have been a few times where a user has wanted to jump to a specific record number in larger lists... This little bit is nice on the top of the page. Add a content editor web part to the top of your page and add the following code in the source...

Published 06-06-2008 10:04 AM by josef.nielsen
Email Enabled List Alias Management

Ever notice that there is not way to centrally manage or get information about email aliases? Oh that annoys me! So I did what any self respecting geek would do, and I started taking it apart... Here are a couple SQL utility scripts...

Published 05-16-2008 10:06 AM by josef.nielsen
Pre-populating Form Fields for a New Item

So for surveys and such I thought it would be nice to pre-populate a SharePoint List "new" form with some data from the link... This makes it very nice for surveys and such from users. In this case it was to automate and remove error from some...

Published 05-16-2008 8:29 AM by josef.nielsen
Scripting the "Connect to Outlook" function

You've got to love the "Actions, Connect to Outlook" function in SharePoint lists... Handy for offline viewing of data, nicer GUI for detail entry, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to automate the connection of these things for a team or a project...

Published 04-15-2008 10:47 AM by josef.nielsen
MSCS Watcher released

For a few years now I have been making due with a simple notification system for MSCS fail-over clusters that implemented either a script, or later, an application that started as the last resource in the cluster to send an email letting me know the cluster...

Published 04-10-2008 8:16 AM by josef.nielsen
MS-SPC2008 - Day 3

Day three was quite a long one, filled with some great content. The day started out with a Keynote by Greg LeMond , the American Cyclist who won the Tour de France 3 times in the late-80's. He shared the amazing story of who he got to...

Published 03-06-2008 10:17 AM by josef.nielsen
MS-SPC2008 Day 2

So, the second day's down, and was a pretty good day... I did find out that the Vendor hall wasn't as good as I though, and they have been closing it during the sessions, which I suppose makes sense, but is annoying if you want to skip a session...

Published 03-05-2008 11:26 AM by josef.nielsen
MS-SPC2008 - Day 1 Summery

Boy, I wish Connections had been setup as good as this one is... From the starting blocks, I have been impressed with how good this conference is setup. I unfortunately am starting this conference off with a torn ligament, but I'm limping along...

Published 03-03-2008 9:07 PM by josef.nielsen
Mutex Mischief

To clean up an old farm from some setup errors, I recently rebuilt the farm from bare metal, re-attaching all the content DB's after the rebuild to prevent data loss. Imagine my horror when after 100% successful testing, and flawless installation...

Published 02-16-2008 1:52 PM by josef.nielsen
Image Changes on Hover

It sees there are a lot of large javascript samples out there to change an image source on mouse over, but they all seem overly complex. Here's a little one I made recently for a project I was working on: <script> function imgHover(imgObj...

Published 01-22-2008 1:44 PM by josef.nielsen
Security Trimming WebControls and ASP Objects

I hadn't used this yet, and had cause to this week. It works slick, and is pretty configurable... I used it to hide the SiteActions button on list pages for members, but not admins, as well as admin web parts embedded in a page. It works...

Published 01-22-2008 1:18 PM by josef.nielsen
Adding category titles to Blog sites (category.aspx)

I recently found an application of the Blog template that was a great fit, but needed the Category title listed on the top of the page when you click a category from the default page. Normally, it is not visible anywhere except in the URL as a parameter...

Published 12-27-2007 12:05 PM by josef.nielsen
How to clear off a SQL server quickly...

So I was asked in an online community how to quickly clean off a SQL Server to rebuild a MOSS Farm. Although it won't clean up and "add-ins" to the system DB's or any security identities, this does a quick and dirty job... IF object_id...

Published 12-05-2007 7:19 AM by josef.nielsen
Service Account problems...

I was asked a question the other day that I thought might be good to share... The company had made some changes and suddenly SharePoint stopped working, and they got these errors in the Even log every minute (italics added for anonymity): -----...

Published 12-04-2007 7:46 AM by josef.nielsen
A document repository by any other name is still... well... just a list...

So this is not so much technical as it is theoretical, but for requests I've gotten, here is a brief on SharePoint Lists. Everything in SharePoint (WSS, MOSS, MSS, etc) is a list. This goes from a document lirbary to a publishing web part page library...

Published 11-27-2007 8:39 AM by josef.nielsen
Excel Calculation Services (ECS) Invalid Handle error

Just had this happen to me while testing out a new IIS Build script... When firing up the ECS on a new farm, if you get the following "Handle is Invalid" error: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The handle is invalid. at System...

Published 11-20-2007 12:22 PM by josef.nielsen
Getting Search Crawl Details from the DB

Ok, so I must be on a roll... Here's another glorious script that goes directly to the SharePoint DB's... Don't tell Bill! As usual, this is not recommended by MS, etc., etc., etc. This one is to get result sets of your Crawl Details. It will...

Published 11-13-2007 2:45 PM by josef.nielsen
Details and manual monitoring of the Content DBs

So our Ad-Hoc environment started growing a bit faster than we had originally anticipated. We knew we would have some disparity between site's content size, so we set our content DB max site limits a bit lower than normal (hey, we have 50 of them...

Published 11-08-2007 2:10 PM by josef.nielsen
SharePoint Connections - The Real Day 3

Well, today was already scheduled to be a short day, but between a VPC failure (seems to be a common theme... a few presenters also has this issue) and some issues back in the office, it looks like I'll probably miss the rest of the day. It solves...

Published 11-08-2007 2:01 PM by josef.nielsen
SharePoint Connections - The Real Day 2

I started off by trying out Veli-Matti Vanamo's Introduction to Web Part Development presentation. He was actually a substitute for his co-worker, Emer McKenna. The majority of the content was from their new book to be released in Dec, Microsoft SharePoint...

Published 11-08-2007 8:26 AM by josef.nielsen
SharePoint Connections - The Real Day 1...

Well, thus ends the first "real" day of Connections 2007 ... Lots of good warm-up stuff to get everybody on-deck for tomarrow and the begining of some of the deeper dive sessions... Here's a couple notes I got from the conference: Tom Rizzo...

Published 11-07-2007 12:23 AM by josef.nielsen
Full site customiztion...

A very interesting topic in that is coming up more and more today. A customer wants to customize SharePoint, not just the user viewed screens, but also the administrative (Application Pages) functions. In many cases, creating customer list templates and...

Published 10-29-2007 11:30 AM by josef.nielsen
Pulling site collections details via direct SQL query

I certainly don't recommend making changes to your content DBs directly in SQL, but there's no harm to be had pulling data from the DB's. I found that this was the easiest way to poll data about all farm content DBs and Web Apps listed by...

Published 10-09-2007 8:22 AM by josef.nielsen

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