Monthly Archives: October 2007

Looking for cheap Sharepoint Hosting? Look no further.

I have to tell you how surpirsed I am with the Web hosting / sharepoint hosting of webhost4life.com. These guys go all the way for assisting you to setup decent hosting, especially with WSS. I wanted to experiment with WSS, … Continue reading

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SharePoint Skinner

Another great tool from eLumenotion http://www.elumenotion.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=4 This tool allows you to easily change your WSS site theme colors

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Content Migration Package Explorer

When you have exported content from SharePoint to a cmp file and want to take a look at the exported package, you can use the Content Migration Package Explorer tool. Read all about and download it from on Ronalus’ Blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/ronalus/archive/2007/10/02/content-migration-package-explorer.aspx

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StsadmWin: the Windows GUI for STSADM

One of the most frequently used utilities in SharePoint (2007 as well as 2003) is STSADM.Although highly improved in 2007, it maintains backward compatible with 2003 syntax. As STSADM is a command line utility, and the command-line is somewhat limited … Continue reading

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Add a Copyright Statement to your MOSS site pages

If you need to add a copyright on the bottom of your MOSS Site pages, then you need to add this information to your Master Page. Now, I would suggest not to edit the default master page (Default.master), but copying … Continue reading

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Copy a site to Another Site collection with Sharepoint Designer

I always catch myself looking for this information when I need it, so I thaught: why not post it here. Logon as Administrator Open the WSS site to be copied in SharePoint Designer (SPD) in SharePoint Designer, select the menu … Continue reading

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Prohibit the use of Sharepoint Designer to Edit Sharepoint Sites

If you ever need to prohibit the possibility to edit Sharepoint Sites with Sharepoint Designer, you can edit the following File: \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\Site Templates\STS\XML\Onet.xml Replace the line that starts with <Project Title=”$Resources:onet_TeamWebSite;”  (it should be the … Continue reading

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Edit Sharepoint page from IE7 does not work

Something I came across: When viewing a Sharepoint site with IE7, you cannot Edit (with Sharepoint Designer) it until you make the following change: Go to the menu Tools -> Internet Options, switch to Advance Tab, and disable “Disable script debugging … Continue reading

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Create a site definition from an existing site definition using Visual Studio

I found a link to an excellent article in the “Beginning Sharepoint 2007 Administration” book that is worth mentionning. It describes how to create a new site definition by copying an exitsing site definition using the Sharepoint Solution Generator for … Continue reading

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MOSS 2007 Hardware Specifications and Server Sizing

The following article was grabbed from Maina Donaldson’s Blog (http://geekswithblogs.net/MainaD/Default.aspx). You can find the original article and comments on http://geekswithblogs.net/MainaD/archive/2007/10/17/116101.aspx This article gives a nice overview of the Hardware Specs and Server Sizing you need to consider during your design … Continue reading

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