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Search iFilters released for Microsoft Office documents

Microsoft has released a filter pack (collection of iFilters) which will provide search indexing for a variety of Microsoft Office documents. The filters are compatible with a majority of the big search products, including: SharePoint Portal Server 2003...

Published 01-12-2008 7:58 AM by erickraus
MOSS Service Pack 1 and Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Released!

Office 2007 SP1, WSS 3.0 SP1, and MOSS 2007 SP1 have been released on Microsoft.com The downloads can be found at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx There are over 600 specific bug fixes across the Office server...

Published 12-12-2007 4:18 PM by erickraus
Enable Session State in SharePoint 2007

Here’s a quick and dirty on how to enable Session State within your MOSS 2007 farm. I’ve been stuck on this many times before, so for my sake and hopefully a few others’, I decided to write a quick note on the process. First, the biggest difference to...

Published 12-09-2007 3:54 PM by erickraus
Modify SharePoint Document Icons

Here’s a quick easy way to modify the icons SharePoint displays for different file types. This procedure can also be used to configure an icon for a custom file type you may have. Be sure to back up any files before making any changes! 1. Open the 12...

Published 12-08-2007 11:01 PM by erickraus
Missing Web Applications When Creating SSP

Have you ever gone to create a Shared Services Provider only to discover that the Web Application dropdownlist(s) are missing your Web Applications? Here is a work-around to create the shared services provider manually using the stsadm tool. (Only the...

Published 10-11-2007 11:28 AM by erickraus
SQL Profile Import with Forms Based Authentication

This has come up several times now and I thought I would contribute a solution that has worked for me. The problem: Need to create an Audience based on a profile of a SharePoint user. The users is, however, stored in a SQL Server membership database ...

Published 10-09-2007 11:04 AM by erickraus
DLL GacUtil and Reflector Shortcuts

Here’s a little trick to help all of us SharePoint developers working with DLLs. It adds the gacutil.exe -i and Reflector.exe command to the right-click context menu. Get Reflector.exe at: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ Now, all you have to do is...

Published 10-04-2007 11:46 PM by erickraus
SharePoint Automated Deployment Using MSBuild

MOSS Automated Build & Deploy with MSBuild Here are the steps to create an MSBuild script to: 1. Label Visual Source Safe project with a new version 2. Get latest source code to a build server 3. Compile source code 4. Look for .DDF files 5. Build...

Published 10-03-2007 10:26 PM by erickraus
Create Workflow Feature to Copy Content to New List

This post is part of a two step tutorial that walks through the process of creating a custom workflow to copy abstract or summary text of a list item into a separate list. This could be used when the list item needs to be returned in security-trimmed...

Published 09-19-2007 5:30 PM by erickraus
Content Query Web Part Alternative for WSS 3.0

While working for a small client, I was tasked to create a web part for displaying list items from separate site collections/sites. Typically, in MOSS, I would have chosen the Content Query Web Part, but because of the constrains: (1) client is using...

Published 09-19-2007 5:07 PM by erickraus
Copying Wiki Pages To New Wiki Page Library via PowerShell

This process will copy a wiki page from one library to another. Note : this process will set up the destination page as a "linked" document to the original. I'm sure there is a way to remove the "link" via code, but manually you...

Published 09-06-2007 10:33 PM by erickraus
Promote XML Nodes to Columns in Form Library

Need to automatically promote the properties (nodes) of an XML document in a Form Library using a properties.xfp file? This can be accomplished by publishing an InfoPath form to a Form Library as well; however, these steps walk through a similar solution...

Published 05-18-2007 3:48 AM by erickraus
Create WSP solution for a feature

How to create a wsp solution file to deploy a MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 feature. My apologies....the original post was lost when the server crashed....here is MSDN article on how to create WSP solution: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543741.aspx...

Published 04-13-2007 2:00 PM by erickraus
Create Event Handler Feature in WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007

Creating a custom event handler feature to disable all updating for document libraries: Prerequisites: -Visual Studio 2005 -Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (or WSS 3.0) -SharePoint Server 2007 SDK (Download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

Published 04-13-2007 4:46 AM by erickraus
SharePoint Object Model - Modify List Item Document via Code

In this demo, I will connect to a SharePoint site and iterate through a document library. In the document library, I will download an XML file, modify it, and upload it back to the document library. First things first...big lesson learned: ** Do your...

Published 02-21-2007 5:27 AM by erickraus

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