Implementing SharePoint Blog

Cross posted with Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/14/how-we-did-it-automating-service-requests-using-infopath-forms-services.aspx

Overview

Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. …

Cross posted with Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/03/how-we-did-it-allowing-connections-to-multiple-ssrs-servers-with-report-viewer-and-explorer-web-parts.aspx

Overview

Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. …

SharePoint applications are made up goodies such as custom web parts, lists,  list event handlers, site definitions, site pages, application pages, and on and  on. We package our SharePoint applications as features in order to maximize  reusability and ease deployment. Then we add more deployment-ease by packaging  our features and their resources as SharePoint solution (.wsp) files. The [SharePoint Solution Installer|http://www.codeplex. …

Yesterday I needed to have several instances of the same site collection available in a SharePoint farm. The purpose was to have the same SharePoint content available and then manually configuring each slightly differently for testing purposes. In this case I was doing some automated testing against different instances of Confluence for the SharePoint Connector for Confluence and wanted a different SharePoint site collection for each. …

If you have registered a search security trimmer with a crawl rule and then prevented SharePoint from accessing the security trimmer (such as removing it from the GAC), you will get a nasty error when trying to execute a search that has results that meet your crawl rule.

To aid those searching for this error I'll restate it:

{{Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information. …

Recently I needed to disable a SharePoint Form's Submit button until a checkbox on the form was checked. Sounds pretty simple and straightforward, doesn't it? Well, here's a little description of why it was NOT so easy for me to do this. The form required a user to indicate that they understood what they were submitting in a form, a sort of consent checkbox, by checking a check box which toggled the Submit button's Disabled property. And finally, the initial state of the [SaveButton|http://msdn. …

The SharePoint Connector for Confluence, a connector ThreeWill co-developed with Atlassian that integrates SharePoint and Confluence, has been in production for a few weeks, but not announced until yesterday. See the announcement here.

There are plenty of articles on the differences between MOSS 2007 and WSS v3, but I still get questions on this so here is a summary of what I have provided for clients in the past. Most of this is simply a compilation of data from different sources (referenced at the end of this post). This was originally compiled about a year ago, so there may be some tweaks necessary, but it should be a good start. It shows the features that MOSS provides above and beyond what is in WSS. …

I recently researched the feasibility of using My Sites for sites using Forms Based Authentication. We are seeing clients who want to leverage My Sites in an extranet scenario where users are not in Active Directory. I thought I would share my experience from what I found when looking into using Forms Based Authentication with My Sites.

I used a handful of blog posts to support this endeavor. …

We wrote a VBScript to assist with backing up SharePoint then improved it by adding this to a C# console application. We put the source code on CodePlex so that others can improve on this as they see fit. Feel free to check this out and make suggestions on how it can be improved.