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Managing MOSS / WSS Environments — keeping up with Microsoft’s knowledge base

Microsoft creates knowledge base articles day in and day out and some of those are darned important to know about if you live in the SharePoint world. I keep up to speed with them via a service provide by the good folks at www.kbalertz.com. KBAlertz…

Web Application Policy, Security Sites and Security Trimming — Know your configuration

(UPDATED 11/29 to explain how to access web application policy settings via the UI) I had one of those "why is MOSS doing this to me????" moments today. In the end, it’s all my fault. We have an enterprise MOSS project going on and we…

Quick and Simple: Use Fixed Keyword Query in Search Core Results

Quick and Simple Instructions: Edit a page and add a Search Core Results web part. Edit that web part and expand "Fixed Keyword Query". Add the fixed keyword query (e.g. ContentType:"Training invoice" TrainingInvoiceNumber:1111) Exp…

Tell me about your blog!

If you maintain a blog that is at least minimally connected to SharePoint, please let me know in comments. I would love to add you to my blog list. If you maintain a blog that is not connected to SharePoint but want me to add it anyway, let me know….

Employee Training Schedule and Materials Template — Decrement bug in the template

The client noticed a bug today with the above mentioned template. Course managers create courses. When creating a course, the manager specifies maximum number of available seats. The template provides for self-service enrollment. I enroll and …

Using “Person or Group” in a calculated column

People commonly ask about using a column of data type "Person or Group" in another column of data type "Calculated". Bottom line, this does not work in WSS 3.0 (or MOSS). When adding a calculated column, WSS shows the list of fields …

MOSS/WSS tells me: “The page has been modified by another author on …” but actually, it was not.

We did some heavy duty re-organizing of our site taxonomy via "Manage Content and Structure". For reasons unknown to me, this process (though working in the main) broke some navigation links in the quick launch. The broken links are charact…

Problems with “Pause Until Date” activity in SPD-created workflows

UPDATE 12/10/07: Hotfix as described in MSDN KB929816 solved the problem for us mentioned below. Obtain the hotfix and then install on each server on the farm. Then, sharepoint configuration utility on each server. Here is the MS Support link for…

MRO Workflow case study using MOSS, SPD, InfoPath & web services.

Overview This entry describes a case study describing an actual MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) workflow approval process implemented in MOSS. This is not an overtly technical discussion, but instead serves to provide a real-world example th…

MOSS/WSS Search results (and dataviews): view the raw XML data

This may be obvious to many, but while studying for my MOSS programming exam, I learned that it’s pretty easy to get the actual XML from a search query via the user interface. One quick method is as follows: Access advanced search. Perform a s…