Danish Hussain

You may sometime noticed that page viewer webpart displays scroll bars when you try to display pages that has large view area. This is because page viewer webparts works with fixed width and hieght and when content page increase webpart displays scroll bar. The solution for this is to use custom webparts if the page is internal page.

Will working with sharepoint you may find yourself in a situation where your webpart blows up and you will not be able to access your page. You cannot fix page as design options are available for editable pages in design mode. There is an option to remove webparts from these page to make them working. Providing query parameter Contents=1 will redirect you to WebPart administration page for selected page. This page will provide you options for removing webparts. e.g. your page link was as follows http://moss:2000/Pages/ErrorWebparts.aspx Opening following url http://moss:2000/Pages/ErrorWebparts.aspx? Contents=1 will allow you to fix your page.

If you need to display Reports developed using SQL Reporting services there are two options. Either you use you Share point Server in integrated mode with SQL Server Reporting services or you may use it in Native Mode. Following defines the steps you need to perform in oder to use reports in Native Mode. Microsoft provide report explorer and report viewer web part to display and browse reports deployed at MS SQL Server Reporting Server. But these web parts are not installed by default so you need to download and install reporting server add on ( SharePointRS.msi) following link may be used for downloading SQL Server Add-on from Microsoft site. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1E53F882-0C16-4847-B331-132274AE8C84&displaylang=en Now even if you installed the addon it will deploy necessary cab files in your system but web part will not be activated automatically and you need to run following stsadm command in order to activate and utilize web parts "%Syste...

Recently I was assigned with an assignment to integrate/configure moss so that it can crawl the lotus notes database and provide search mechanism to moss users. Following are some really really useful links for that Following links on tech net are helpful for achieving the 90% of functionality. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262927.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261820.aspx The trickiest part of solution is to select the correct field of person view in creation of notes mapping database. As that information is not clear in above technet article. Creation of mapping table and setting/picking up lotus id (using owner field of person view) is well defined in following POC. http://blogs.msdn.com/edhild/articles/473060.aspx Another trickiest part that I face was that you need to explicitly assign default security setting to reader by clicking document properties of security mapping views. I have tested that lotus protocol handler is working fine with Lotus 6...

I was working on configuration settings for MS SSO service in MOSS. I think following information may also be useful for you. You need to perform following simple steps for configuration of MS SSO Service. 1. Configure log on account to administrator user and run Microsoft Single Sign On Service. 2. Go to CentralAdministration->Operations->SecurityConfiguration->ManageSingleSignOn Serice. 3. Configure single sign on using available links i.e. Manage Server Settings, Manage Encrption Key, Manage Setting for enterprise application definition, Manage account information for enterprise application definition For details please see following link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262932.aspx#Section1

When you administrator your MOSS protal on Windows 2008 you may notice an lots of strange issues. One of them is that create or extend web application will be hidden and not available on central administration site. This is due to security restriction in windows 2008. You need to start Internet explorer as an administrator in order to access several option including option for creating and extending application.

I was working with share point site and lots of documentation is available on the net that claims that every list and library in MOSS 2007 and WSS version 3 is capable of hosting mobile view. And we can see the site after appending m in site URL. I tried that it was not working and giving 404 error. After some research I found that http:// /_layouts/mobile/mbllists.aspx was displaying mobile view. That proves that MOSS supports mobile view but still not sure why appending m in my site not working as expected. Any ideas will be much appreciated.

Page layout is a very powerful feature for setting up templates of your pages in a publishing site. You need to do following steps in order to create pages using page layout Define Site Column (If you need to add columns for your page you will have to define columns) Define Content Type (Need to define content type based on column) Create Page Layout Modify it in Share Point Designer Publish Layout Create a new page using published layout

I was deploying moss in a farm environment and faced strange issues. My configuration was a webserver, a query server and a database server. I deployed sharepoint on a webserver and join index server in farm. But when I tried to start services on index server the status seems to be stucked at "starting". I tried to disconnecting and reconnecting index server in farm but problem seems to be persitent. I tried running following command stsadm -o spsearch -action stop to stop search service and then issueing stsadm.exe -o execadmsvcjobs and strangely my problem get resolved. I don't know the reason as my timer service was working fine before issuing above commands. I am not sure about the issue so any comments will be really helpful in this regards

Building and deploying solution in moss sometime throws error “Failed to extract the cab file” This issue generally occurs due to inconsistencies in your ddf file. Please check following for correction. 1. Open your ddf file and location duplicate entries. If found remove them 2. Open your ddf file and check if there is any entries present in ddf not included in your project. A simple way to check is by clicking on “show all files” button in “Solution Explorer” view of visual studio 2008 and check if any file exists in root file that is not included in a project (Files not included in project will not become part of your cab files). For such files either include them in project if required or delete them from folder.

MOSS provide out of box support for importing users from LDAP directory. You need to perform following steps in order to configure share point shared services provider to enable imports. 1. Open Central Administration site 2. Go to shared service provider link under shared service Administration link 3. Select User Profile and Properties under User Profile and My Site section 4. Select View Import connection 5. Click on create a new connection 6. Provide connection setting similar to that. Please note that example are for connecting your site with LDAP Server comes with domino server. a. Type: Select LDAP Directory b. Connection Name: Write name of your connection e.g. LotusLDAPCon c. Directory Server Name: Write IP Address of your LDAP Server or your Server name e.g. LOTUSSRV d. Port: Leave it to default i.e. 389 if your LDAP is deployed at custom port specify your port. e. Time Out: Specify time out or leave it to defaul...

Sending alerts to users are much easier and administrator can assign active directory user for dispatching emails. Please note that share point uses email address from user’s profile for dispatching emails. Therefore alert cannot be configured for user if email address is not associated in active directory account. Coming back to original points sending alerts to groups can be of two types. 1. Sending alert to AD Group 2. Sending alert to Share point Group For sending email to AD Group you need to make sure two things. 1. Group needs to be “email enabled security group”. As distribution lists are not supported in share point 2. You need to explicitly add group in permission setting in list/Document Library etc There is one limitation is that you cannot edit group and can only delete/recreate alert from Site Action->Site Setting ->User Alert (Site Administration) option For Sending email to Share point Group There is no out of box support for sending email alerts to share point gr...

Following post is really helpful for configuring simple farm environment on share point portal server 2007 or MOSS. I believe any novice person can start deployment reading this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262243.aspx Following define a specific scenario deployment for share point server 2007 with three separate servers. 1. Database Server (SQL Database) 2. Share point Web Front End (Web server, Central Administration, Query Server) 3. Indexing Server (Indexing Server) Please follow these steps. 1. Install SQL Server on Database Server. 2. Install Share point Portal Server 2007 on Share point Web Front End with following consideration a. Select Advance option b. Select Complete in Server Type c. Do not run Share point Product and Technology Configuration Wizard 3. Install Share point Portal Server 2007 on Indexing Server with following consideration a. Select Advance option b. Select Complete in Server Ty...