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• More on Manfiest.xml

  There are a ton of tools out there to create SharePoint solution packages (.wsp files) for you, but it is still a good idea to know what those tools are creating for you exactly. Sometimes, things don't always work right, and you may need to customize... Posted Sep 04 2008, 10:19 AM by Corey's .NET Tip of the Day Filed under: Sharepoint, deployment, solution, Code Access Security

• SharePoint Infrastructure Architecture Resources

  Body: This page contains a list of guidance and best practice topics for planning and architecture for the deployment of SharePoint. I will update this list and make changes and add new information and links to articles when I come across them. MOSS 2007... Posted Aug 13 2008, 04:54 AM by Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts Filed under: deployment

• Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers

  A new update is available for your SharePoint farm! The updates mainly applies to tow of MOSS's features: Search, and Content Deployment. (The Infrastructure Update has more to offer for other Office products, but for us SharePoint guys those I listed... Posted Jul 16 2008, 01:51 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, deployment, Microsoft Search

• SharePoint Content Deployment Myths

  Body: When using SharePoint for creating and maintaining content rich web sites the content deployment API provides a way of moving content from a source server to a destination server. For example if you have a team developing a content heavy Internet... Posted Jun 30 2008, 03:04 PM by Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts Filed under: deployment

• Managing team based SharePoint development scenarios

  Body: If you are starting on a SharePoint development you will need to start thinking about how you will manage and provide a team based development environment for building and deploying solutions for SharePoint. Even in a scenario where you are about... Posted Jun 05 2008, 04:56 AM by Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts Filed under: deployment

• Profile Pictures Library

  I have created a deployment project for Steven Van de Craen 's solution for managing user profile pictures from a single picture library. About the original project: The project itself is a simple event handler that synchronizes a picture library... Posted May 28 2008, 09:23 AM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, deployment, Development

• Notes and Resources from SQL User Group Session on SharePoint

  Body: First of all thanks to SQL Server User Group leaders Adrian Engelbrecht and Clive Trott for the invitation to speak and to Ron van Moorsel of Prophesy for helping with the tricky SQL questions and help with demos. Also I want to thank Todd Klindt... Posted May 15 2008, 09:08 PM by Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts Filed under: deployment

• SharePoint Search Deployment Guidance

  Body: Recently I have been working with a few clients to come up with solutions to a range of Search scenarios. As a result of this I learnt quite a bit about MOSS Search capabilities and overcame a few issues. In this series of posts I will highlight... Posted Apr 29 2008, 02:47 PM by Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts Filed under: deployment

• Recipe for successful use of Content Deployment Wizard

  So my tool, the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard has been available for some time now and I've been monitoring the feedback and issues people have raised closely. The current version is labelled 'beta 2' but I'm happy with the stability... Posted Apr 06 2008, 03:04 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: deployment, content deployment, content migration API

• New version of Content Deployment Wizard released

  I'm happy to announce that development/testing of the next version of the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard is now complete, and the new release has been uploaded to Codeplex. If you're not aware of the tool then Introducing the SharePoint... Posted Feb 27 2008, 06:30 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: Sharepoint, deployment

• External BLOB Storage Provider (EBS)

  I think AJAX stole the spotlight with MOSS SP1.. The feature I'm most excited with is External BLOB Storage Provider (EBS). "A large proportion of data files are represented as unstructured binary files—that is, binary large object (BLOB) data... Posted Jan 22 2008, 12:31 PM by itaysk : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, deployment, EBS, MOSS SP1

• Using the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

  So if you've read the earlier posts about the tool ( Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard and When to use the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard ) and figure this is a useful tool, let's go onto the next level of detail. Generally... Posted Dec 17 2007, 04:06 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: deployment, content deployment, content migration API

• When to use the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

  Following my introduction to the tool last time, today I want to try to help position the tool for people who aren't sure if it could be useful to them or for what scenarios - if you only take one thing away from my postings on the Content Deployment... Posted Dec 13 2007, 06:02 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: deployment, content deployment, content migration API

• Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

  Regular readers might have spotted I've been slightly quieter than usual over the past few weeks - actually I've not been slacking, but working on a tool which you might find useful from time to time. As I've discussed in numerous posts, deployment... Posted Dec 05 2007, 08:40 AM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: Sharepoint, deployment, content deployment

• Change a SharePoint site's URL

  Something you may find yourself tasked with at some point, is changing the URL of an existing SharePoint 2007 site. This is a fairly interesting scenario, and it's fair to say the relationship between SharePoint and IIS makes this more complex than... Posted Nov 11 2007, 05:02 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: Sharepoint, deployment, content migration API

• STSADM export, Content Deployment, Content Migration API, Features/Solutions - deployment options compared

  Back in May I wrote a post titled SharePoint deployment options : Features or Content Deployment? , which discussed some thoughts on what was the "right" way to move assets from development to production (and perhaps environments in between... Posted Oct 29 2007, 05:37 AM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: Sharepoint, features, deployment, content deployment, content migration API

• Deployment using STSADM export or content migration API

  Having focused on deployment using Features for several articles, back in May I wrote an article titled SharePoint deployment options : Features or Content Deployment? , which explored some of the decisions around deployment strategies for SharePoint... Posted Oct 14 2007, 05:53 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: moss, features, deployment, content deployment, content migration API

• Blending publishing/collaboration functionality in SharePoint

  Most often when creating SharePoint solutions, the requirements often map fairly well to one of the out-of-the-box site definitions which can be used to create new sites. If we're creating heavily-branded internet/intranet sites (WCM sites), we'll... Posted Sep 09 2007, 04:14 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: moss, Webparts, deployment, customizing, master pages, page layouts

• Office 2007 Customization Tool: APPEXTENSIONWARNINGS setting error

  In my efforts to deploy office 2007 to my workplace, I used the Office 2007 Customization tool, which is available by running Setup.Exe (on the disk) with /admin switch applied. I went through and spent alot of time considering each and every setting... Posted Sep 03 2007, 11:53 PM by Rod Dot Net Filed under: deployment, Office 2007

• VSeWSS 1.1. CTP - a look at the nuts and bolts

  Regular readers of this blog will know that I've been a reasonably keen advocate of Microsoft's Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) for certain SharePoint development tasks. If you read more than a couple of SharePoint... Posted Sep 03 2007, 05:24 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: Sharepoint, VSeWSS, deployment

• Deploying WSS 3.0 Web Parts easily to a production server with VSEWSS

  There are a lot of pages on the internet which describe building and deploying Windows Sharepoint Services web parts. With the Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services , creating a basic web parts is a breeze, it's a simple case of... Posted Sep 03 2007, 02:06 AM by Rod Dot Net Filed under: wss, deployment, Web Parts

• Creating, deploying and updating custom site definitions

  This is the first article in a series of three where we'll discuss custom site definitions, and in particular how to run your own custom code in the site creation process. This technique is useful if you need to make any customizations using the API... Posted Aug 05 2007, 04:51 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: features, site definitions, VSeWSS, deployment

• Building and deploying SharePoint Solution packages

  Following a comment left elsewhere on this blog, I thought I'd cover exactly what SharePoint Solution packages are, including how they are built and deployed to other SharePoint environments. First of all, let's be clear on exactly what a Solution... Posted Jul 22 2007, 03:19 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: Sharepoint, features, deployment

• Deploying web parts as a feature

  This time we're talking about how to deploy web parts as a feature. Now, deploying custom web parts the manual way is a bit of a pain - the following things are required for the web part to be used:- the assembly containing the compiled web part class... Posted May 11 2007, 11:45 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: moss, Webparts, deployment, CAS policy

• Series : how to create common MOSS site artifacts as features

  Having been through the process of creating a MOSS site entirely through Features, it struck me how non-intuitive some of the associated tasks are. Many SharePoint developers who are working in this way will agree that something that takes 30 seconds... Posted Feb 27 2007, 01:17 PM by Chris O'Brien's blog Filed under: moss, features, deployment