TechEd 2005 Gold Coast: SharePoint Sessions

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The TechEd 2005 will be starting this week from 30 Aug – 2 Sep at Gold Coast. Following are the 3 SharePoint presentations details,

SharePoint Portal Server 2003: Best Practices for an Implementation
Gayan Peiris

Come to this session and learn the best practices on designing a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 implementation. This session discusses the ten key areas of planning that need to be considered in your design, why you should consider developing a SharePoint Planning Team and what to do if you've already deployed portal server and need to make adjustments to your design. The advice is straightforward and based on the experience of working with many clients in many different scenarios. If you manage or design for SharePoint Portal Server 2003, you should attend this session.

30 Wednesday 3.50pm – 5.05pm


SharePoint Products and Technologies: Issues and Problems Solved
John Hodgson

This session will cover the challenges that you are likely to encounter in a SharePoint Products and Technologies solution. Attend this presentation to get valuable insight into your future projects to ensure you are equipped with the knowledge to address these situations. We'll cover both SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. Various 3rd party products will be discussed and we'll present useful, custom code to deliver the most common demands of users.

30 Wednesday 11.55am – 1.10pm

Developing Site Definitions and Templates for Windows SharePoint Services
John Hodgson

Site definitions are the most powerful, flexible way to customise existing sets of SharePoint sites or create entirely new classes of sites designed to address specific business needs. Learn how to use a combination of XML instructions and ASP.NET pages to design solutions that users can self-provision just by selecting a template in Windows SharePoint Services. In this session, we build a solution that involves custom lists, views, pages, Web Parts, Web services, and design elements. Come see and learn the same techniques that were used to provide key functionality for Visual Studio Team System, BizTalk Server, Class Server, Microsoft CRM, MBS Business Portals, and (of course) SharePoint Portal Server.

31 Thursday 3.45pm- 500pm

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Performance Monitoring in SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Performance monitoring helps organizations identify performance bottlenecks. The problem is that with so many performance numbers available, how do you know which ones to watch? This article helps you identify which are the critical performance counters in a SharePoint Portal Server environment and explains how to monitor them. By monitoring performance regularly, organizations can recognize performance trends as they develop and prevent problems before they get out of hand.

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Deploy a Fully Trusted Form to a SharePoint Form Library [InfoPath 2003 SDK Documentation]

One of the most useful features in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 is the ability to publish a form to a form library on a server that is running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. By default, forms published to SharePoint form libraries are restricted from accessing system resources and are not allowed to use any software components that are not marked as safe for scripting. Such forms are said to be sandboxed; when a user fills it out, the form is placed in a local cache and denied access to system resources. This type of form inherits its permissions from the domain in which it is opened. You can avoid these limitations by creating a fully trusted form.

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Understanding Fully Trusted Forms [InfoPath 2003 SDK Documentation]

Microsoft Office InfoPath provides the ability to create fully trusted forms, which are forms that have greater security permissions and are allowed to access system resources and other components on a user's computer. This article explains what a fully trusted form is and why it is used and describes how to convert a standard form into a fully trusted form, either manually or by using the form registration tool.

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Melbourne SharePoint User Group

ATT: Melbourne SharePoint Community

The Melbourne SharePoint User Group will be launching on Thursday 25th August 2005 to give the Melbourne SharePoint community, including both technical and business people alike, a chance to get to know each other over some beer and pizzas and to share and expand their knowledge of SharePoint and its uses.

Gayan Peiris from Unique World will give two presentations, one on ‘Deployment Options’, and another on ‘Web Parts You Can’t Live Without’. The purpose of this User Group is to increase knowledge of SharePoint and its uses in the Melbourne community.

Start: 6.00pm

Date: Thursday 25th August 2005

Venue: Microsoft Melbourne, Level 9, Como Office Tower, 644 Chapel St, South Yarra.

For more information on the Melbourne User Group, and to register your details, drop by to http://sps.uniqueworld.net/Melbourne. You can also participate in the online discussions to help ensure that the user group focuses on the topics of interest to you.

If you have any questions or require any further information please do not hesitate to contact us, we look forward to seeing you there.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Training Kit

The Training Kit has been designed keeping in mind the unique need of the beginners and advanced users with easy to understand content that can be accessed either as a self paced study guide or as a quick reference guide. Learn how to perform everyday tasks like collaborating on documents, setting up efficient meetings and searching for relevant information and resources. This downloads contains demos that visually guide you through various tasks. These demos can be viewed in auto run mode, where you will be guided through the steps or they can be viewed in interactive mode for hands-on training.

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Adding Hyperlink button to Rich Text Box tool bar

You can create custom list in SharePoint environment. The list can contain multiple columns with different data types. (Single line of text, multiple lines of text, Date and Time, Numbers, Currency …..)

When you create a multiple lines of text data column, this will display a Rich Text Box when user enters the data. But this text box won’t support highlighting a text with a hyperlink. If you have a look at Rich Text Box available in adding a News item in the Portal server, it contains this functionality.

To allow the above functionality for all the Rich Text Box’s simply do the following change in OWS.JS file located at “C:\Program Files\Common Files\ Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033”

Find the RichTextFieldBuildUI() function and replace the following line

RTE_ConvertTextAreaToRichEdit(
this.frm.stFieldPrefix + this.stName,
true,
fld.fAllowHyperlink,
this.stDirection,
L_Language_Text);

with

RTE_ConvertTextAreaToRichEdit(
this.frm.stFieldPrefix + this.stName,
true,
true,
this.stDirection,
L_Language_Text);

The version number that is in Site Settings is not updated to 6.0.2.6361 after you install Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1

After you install Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1 (SP1), you may find that the version number that is listed in Site Settings is not updated to the version number that is for Windows SharePoint Services SP1.

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Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version.

I was working on restoring a WSS site from dev environment to test environment using STSADM. I receive following error message

Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version.

The different between the two environments were that one is with SP1 and other without it.

6.0.2.5530 (Original)
6.0.2.6361 (SP1 Applied)

I had to make sure that both environments are running the same WSS versions by applying the SP1 before restore the WSS site.

Service Application Unavailable

I was trying to extend a IIS virtual server as a Window SharePoint Services site. After successfully extending the virtual server, the browser was displaying above error message when I was trying to pick a template for the site.

None of the pages from _layouts\1033 directory was working. To test wether the DNS entry is correct, I added a hello.htm file that contains hello world text and the page was rendering fine.

I did stop and start the virtual server few times and couldn’t get it working. Unfortunately I couldn’t restart the IIS that given time, due to it was a production environment.

After I manage to restart the IIS, it was working fine. So the thing I learn from this was, don’t just depend on stoping and starting the virtual server. Restart IIS if you get the same error message.

Canberra SharePoint User Group

ATT: Canberra SharePoint Community

The Canberra SharePoint User Group will be launching on Wednesday 17th August 2005 to give the Canberra SharePoint community, including both technical and business people alike, a chance to get to know each other over some beer and pizzas and to share and expand their knowledge of SharePoint and its uses.

Gayan Peiris from Unique World will give two presentations, one on ‘Deployment Options’, and another on ‘Web Parts You Can’t Live Without’. The purpose of this User Group is to increase knowledge of SharePoint and its uses in the Canberra community.

Start: 6.00pm

Date: Wednesday 17th August 2005


Venue: Microsoft Canberra. Walter Turnbull Building. Level 2, 44 Sydney Ave Barton, Canberra.

For more information on the Canberra User Group, and to register your details, drop by to http://sps.uniqueworld.net/canberra. Youcan also participate in the online discussions to help ensure that the user group focuses on the topics of interest to you.