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• Workflow AutoCleanup Workarounds

  As many of you know I have received much attention related to my Workflow blog posts . Everything from "incendiary, headline-grabbing attempt to create a problem where none exists" comments to notifications about dissrailing SharePoint training... Posted Jul 31 2008, 10:32 AM by dwollerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Workflow, Workaround, Development

• New SharePoint Professional Community Websites Launched

  There have been a couple new sites developed for the SharePoint professional community by SharePoint MVP's, check them out. ISPA: International SharePoint Professionals Association The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is... Posted Jul 17 2008, 01:55 PM by dwollerman with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, community

• Using a Site Template (STP File) to create a site collection

  Site templates can be very useful for an easy custom starting point for common site usage. Site templates can be saved from any site (except publishing sites for some reason... ). These site templates are stored into the site collections site template... Posted Apr 21 2008, 09:37 AM by dwollerman with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, WSS, Site Collection, stsadm, Administration, Command Window, Template

• Upgrade Solution Package with a Feature Reciever after the feature has already been deployed.

  We all know by now you can deploy features using a SharePoint solution package. This is a great addition for SharePoint developers as it easily allows us to quickly and efficently upgrade our customizations, plus it helps keep everything organized. One... Posted Apr 11 2008, 02:16 PM by dwollerman with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, stsadm, Feature, Deploy, Solution Package, Feature Receivers

• Logging exceptions to the SharePoint Trace Log (Diagnostic Logging)

  Microsoft has a great piece of example code that you can copy and paste into your solution and start using on how to write to the SharePoint trace log. these are the log files that get created from setting up "Diagnostic Logging" under Central... Posted Apr 11 2008, 02:10 PM by dwollerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, WSS, Logging, Diagnostics

• Remote Debugging GAC'd Assemblies in SharePoint

  Like alot of people in the SharePoint development community I have been using a VPC to do debugging of code through SharePoint. I don't really like this because for one, running an enterprise level application plus visual studio with a laptop and... Posted Apr 10 2008, 03:48 PM by dwollerman with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Remote, Debugging, Visual Studio

• Create custom Alert Email Handler

  Ever needed to enchance the email for SharePoint alerts? Maybe you wanted to do... • Fields, such as the ItemName field, are truncated to 70 characters in the e-mail alert. To work around the 70-character limit, use the method that this article describes... Posted Mar 28 2008, 07:27 PM by dwollerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, KB, Development

• Search Core Results Web Part and XSL Link Property

  I was customizing a search core results web part display recently and I wanted to have a sinle instance of the XSL used to translate the results since I will have multiple instances of the same search core results on many different site collections. I... Posted Feb 25 2008, 08:40 AM by dwollerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, search, xsl, web parts

• Web Application Timer Jobs not automatically created when restoring from SharePoint backups

  *** UPDATE *** I was made aware of a fix in SP1 that should cover this issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422 SharePoint administrator beware!!! You must manually recreate your web applications (with the exact naming as compared to what was backed... Posted Jan 25 2008, 03:18 PM by dwollerman with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, errors, restore, KB

• Moving to a new database server (or instance)

  Updated on 1/28/2008 to include link to post related to web application timer jobs and SharePoint restore. There comes a time when SharePoint databases will have to be moved to another database server. The problem is that it is not that easy to just move... Posted Jan 02 2008, 02:42 PM by dwollerman with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Configuration, MOSS, SharePoint, sql, backup, restore, Moving Databases

• Site Collection Taxonomy Thoughts

  This post is inspired by a comment I recently recieved from someone asking about when to use site collections vs sub sites and what things are shared within a site collection and what things are not. Since I don't really see this type of foundation... Posted Nov 09 2007, 02:09 PM by dwollerman with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Site Collection, taxonomy

• Information Management Policies and Inheritance

  We all know that content types are inheritable assuming that the features of a content type is also inheritable. In most cases this is true, for site columns and workflow. Where it doesn't work is when it comes to Information Management Policies.... Posted Oct 25 2007, 12:14 PM by dwollerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, content type, information management policy, inheritance, content

• Errors Creating Record Center Sites

  So, I was working on creating a record center site today and had a couple errors show up on me. The errors were "Access Denied", "System.Exception", and "Error in Application". I was confused being a system administrator... Posted Oct 25 2007, 11:00 AM by dwollerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, records center, errors

• SharePoint and Managed Paths

  I recently had a question on my SharePoint Architecture posting asking about more details on the use of managed paths. In the email I was asked about a specific scenario regarding 180 departments, managed paths, and scripting out the creation of these... Posted Oct 24 2007, 08:26 PM by dwollerman with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Managed Paths, Architecture, stsadm, scripting

• Huge MOSS Workflow Issue... What is Microsoft Thinking!!!!

  There is a problem with the workflow in MOSS. For some reason Microsoft decided that they need to purge the workflow associations after they are 60 days old. This means that when you looks at the workflow history for an item you will not see workflow... Posted Sep 21 2007, 10:13 AM by dwollerman with | with 33 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Workflow, Microsoft, Issue

• SharePoint Disaster Recovery Tips Using SharePoint and SQL Backups

  There are a number of companies out there that utilize SQL transaction log backups for their SharePoint solution. This of course is fine and supported by Microsoft, but if there is a complete disaster then the SharePoint administrator will have to piece... Posted Aug 01 2007, 08:04 AM by dwollerman with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, sql, recovery, Disaster, backup

• InfoPath 2007 Rich Client / Form Services / Document Information Panels

  This will become my list where I log some of the issues between running a form with an InfoPath rich client versus inside of SharePoint Form Services, outside of the warnings given within the designer. Please be welcome to share yours as well. I am sure... Posted Jul 01 2007, 07:03 PM by dwollerman with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Forms Services, InfoPath

• Site Collection Logical Architecture

  This post is probably not relevant to most people, but I keep running into the same discussions with companies that are setting up SharePoint for the first time or have already set it up and are asking a lot of questions about why their environment is... Posted Jun 25 2007, 08:50 AM by dwollerman with | with 84 comment(s) Filed under: Configuration, MOSS, SharePoint, WSS, Database, Site Collection, Managed Paths, Architecture

• SharePoint 2007 Single Sign-On Setup

  I went through and ran through setting up SSO for a test environment to see what all the hype was about. I can't believe that the administration accounts are that confusing to setup. Here are the steps that I took to get the SSO configured and the... Posted Jun 25 2007, 08:49 AM by dwollerman with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Setup, SSO

• SharePoint Database Growth Rates

  I am not sure about everyone else, but I have seen SharePoint databases grow out of control. This happens especially when you have people install SharePoint that don't maintain or even understand SQL Server 2005. I have seen configuration databases... Posted Jun 25 2007, 08:47 AM by dwollerman with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Configuration, MOSS, SharePoint, WSS, Database

• Caution: User Profile Image

  I came across a weird thing the other day and wanted to share it. I was working with a my site and uploaded a large image for my user profile image. When it updated my profile, it did what I expected it to do. It put the image into a picture library and... Posted Jun 25 2007, 08:44 AM by dwollerman with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Weird Things, Configuration, User Profile, MOSS, SharePoint