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• MOSS 2007 profile import using BDC with Single Sing-On: Permissions

  If you want to extend your profiles with data not only coming from an LDAP source, but also from the BDC you have to be aware of some permission settings in order to prevent you from a severe headache. And even more when you connect to your external data... Posted Sep 18 2007, 03:42 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Security, BDC, Single Sign-On, Audiences

• Sharepoint cannot authenticate to ISA Server - Resolved: Kerberos needed

  This gave and gives me a hard time! Imagine MOSS 2007 running in a corporate intranet. Your requirement is to connect to datasources on the internet. There are various scenarios, the most common are to Consume RSS Feeds using the RSSFeed webpart Consume... Posted Sep 06 2007, 02:37 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Security, ISA Server

• Using the Business Data Catalog with Single Sign-On

  Connecting the Business Data Catalog to a Microsoft SQL Server Database or any other ADO.NET based data source is an easy task when using Windows Credentials since the users own credentials or the application pool identity can be passed to the business... Posted Jul 30 2007, 11:06 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Infrastructure, BDC, Single Sign-On

• SharePoint's core.css stylesheet: Put it to where it belongs!

  When rendering CSS stylesheets, SharePoint puts core.css always as the last stylesheet. This post is about how to change this sometimes unwanted behaviour. OK, why bother with how CSS Stylesheets are rendered? Imagine you create your own Stylesheet overriding... Posted Jul 16 2007, 12:25 AM by mhofer1976 with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, MOSS, Visual Studio, WCM

• Creating custom 404 and landing pages (easy to remember URLs that are redirected) in SharePoint

  This post is about how to create custom landing pages ( www.mysite.com/products or www.mysite.com/newsletter ) that directs the visitor through and easy to remember URL to any page in your deep site hierarchy. It also contains the approach how to create... Posted Jul 12 2007, 03:44 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, MOSS, Visual Studio, WCM

• Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 - Page Titles (Part 3)

  This post is how to build composite page titles using an enhanced FieldValue WebControl. Page Titles are very important for internet sites since more and more search engines rank pages higher that contain (parts of) the search phrase in the page title... Posted Jul 08 2007, 02:35 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Visual Studio, WCM, Web Controls

• Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 - Metatags (Part 2)

  (please read the Part 1 here ) In the second part of building a professional set of Metatags for a public-facing MOSS site, I'm going to explain how to use the "MetaTag" WebControl in a MOSS environment. Deployment There are two ways how... Posted Jul 07 2007, 09:20 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Visual Studio, WCM, Web Controls

• SharePoint Solution Deployment: Handy Post-Build Events

  Having built some nice additional SharePoint WebControls, I want them to be deployed as a SharePoint solution, packed into a WSP file - and of course automated. I was very impressed how easy it is, to deploy Workflows based on the MOSS SDK Visual Studio... Posted Jul 06 2007, 12:39 AM by mhofer1976 with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, MOSS, Workflow, Visual Studio, Development

• Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 - Metatags (Part 1)

  When building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 and its WCM features, you should also think about two major things that will make your site better found when using search engines: 1. Self-speaking, keyword-dense page titles 2. A full set and... Posted Jul 04 2007, 11:37 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Visual Studio, WCM, Web Controls

• How to convert a class library project type to a SharePoint Solution project type

  You might wonder who cares about this - or even what this post is all about. Imagine that you are developing SharePoint custom web controls. However, since working in the SharePoint environment always takes lots of time for deployment, application pool... Posted Jul 04 2007, 10:39 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, SharePoint, Visual Studio

• A must-read: Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System by David Mann

  Workflow - how many times did I hear this word in the last 4 years. SharePoint and workflow - oh yeah, even more . With Windows Workflow Foundation, SharePoint Designer and even the built-in workflows of WSS/MOSS (yes, the three-state is also available... Posted Jul 04 2007, 09:01 PM by mhofer1976 with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, Workflow, Books

• .Net Framework bug SharePoint: Service account needs local profile

  When working with ShraePoint Shared Services of MOSS 2007, we ran into a strange error. The Shared Services run under a special service account, just as best practices recommend. Everything works fine, but when another SSP Administrator than the original... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:20 PM by mhofer1976 with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, Bugs, .NET Framework, SharePoint

• SharePoint under the hood - see real error description and callstack/stack trace

  I have always loved the nice SharePoint error messages that are presented when something goes wrong. My most popular error message is "An unknown error occured. Please contact your system administrator.". In order to see the real error messages... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:18 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, WSS, MOSS, SharePoint

• Implementing SPSiteDataQuery - Learning by doing

  (Migrated post from June 19th, 2007; Updated on July 12th (see comments)) Facing the challenge to write a custom query that spans multiple lists that contain subfolders and a rather complex set of metadata, we had to evaluate both methods of querying... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:16 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, MOSS, SharePoint

• Customizing the Content Query Web Part and Custom Item Styles - Best Practices

  (Migrated post from June 15th, 2007) Facing the challenge to customize the Content Query Web Part by displaying custom site columns (following the wonderful description of Heater Solomon @ http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/customitemstyle.aspx... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:14 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, WSS, MOSS, SharePoint

• .NET Runtime Bug: SharePoint asks multiple times for the same login

  (migrated post from June 15th, 2007) Found a strange behavior with a customer MOSS 2007 installation. Whenever a user accessed the main site/portal entrance, he is asked multiple times for his window login (we are using windows security). After providing... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:13 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, Bugs, Security

• MOSS Backup & Restore: Misleading description

  (migrated post from June 15th, 2007) While performing a restore of a MOSS 2007 web application, I found that in the “Restore from Backup - Step 4 of 4: Select Restore Options” screen the following label is very misleading: Login Names And Passwords: If... Posted Jun 28 2007, 02:10 PM by mhofer1976 with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tips and Tricks, WSS, Backup and Recovery, MOSS