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MOSS Mania Minute: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Mike Parrill — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:33:00 GMT

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit has been released. It adds some new features for administrators. The first feature is "Batch Site Manager" and it allows you to Move, Lock, and Delete site collections from central admin on the Application Management page. The second featu ... (More)

MOSS Mania Minute: Creating a Publishing Page in code

Mike Parrill — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT

I've had to create a publishing page from code several times and it's a handy thing to know how to do. The following is an example of how to create a Publishing Page on the root web in SharePoint 2007:private void CreatePublishingPage() { SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate() ... (More)

MOSS Mania Minute: Using Extension Methods in C# 3.0

Mike Parrill — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:35:00 GMT

Microsoft released a really neat feature in C# 3.0. This allows you to add methods to existing classes, even classes that you didn't write. I've been creating and using these all over the place to add functionality that probably should have been there from the start. They basically work like st ... (More)

MCMS SDO Import Error

Mike Parrill — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:01:00 GMT

I was trying to import a large SDO file (550MB) with Site Manager and I was getting the following error:Error: 0 Description: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. Severity: 5 Source: System Debug info: N/A Extra info: N/A Client Source: CImProgress::Proce ... (More)

MOSS Mania Minute: Checking Permissions in SharePoint

Mike Parrill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:39:00 GMT

If you have a custom section in your site and you want to lock it down, SharePoint has provided built in functionality to do so.You can either wrap your control in the security trimmed control, or you can add one line of code to your page load function if you prefer to do it in code:SPContext.Curr ... (More)

MOSS Mania Minute: Ensuring that a user is logged into SharePoint

Mike Parrill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:32:00 GMT

If you are writing code for a custom component in SharePoint and you need to make sure that the user is logged in, SharePoint has provided an easy way for that. All you have to do is make a method call to:Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility.EnsureAuthentication();This will automatically r ... (More)

MOSS Mania Minute: Permissions Matrix

Mike Parrill — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:21:00 GMT

Mark Arend has created a permissions matrix using the out of the box permissions in SharePoint 2007 to show you what is available to users of different permission levels. It shows you what options are available in the Site Actions and Site Settings menu as well as shows the individual permissions t ... (More)

MOSS Mania Minute: Error while deploying or retracting a solution

Mike Parrill — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:38:00 GMT

While trying to upgrade a solution, I was getting the following error:"A deployment or retraction is already under way for the solution ".wsp", and only one deployment or retraction at a time is supported." In order to get around this, I found the following ... (More)

Using a Config File for Windows SharePoint Services Timer Jobs

Mike Parrill — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:49:00 GMT

One of the biggest problems I've had with timer jobs is that you cannot access the membership provider or role providers with them because they do not have a configuration value. Then if you want to read from a configuration file, you have to point it to one of the web.configs of the site. No ... (More)

SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

Mike Parrill — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:30:00 GMT

Chris O'Brien has released a new tool for your SharePoint site to migrate content. He lists that the tool is good if you want to do any of the following: I just need to move this document library from A to B I just need to move these selected files (e.g. master page, page layouts, CSS etc.) fr ... (More)