tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48356571585533093852024-02-19T19:34:29.338+00:00iMOSS - SharePoint and WSS BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-17755395606449559192009-11-03T17:52:00.001+00:002009-11-03T17:54:32.741+00:00Coming soon...I am going to be creating a new blog soon called <a href="http://www.SharePointRandy.com">SharePointRandy.com</a> so watch this space.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-83299865510946826322009-06-04T21:28:00.003+01:002009-06-04T21:31:39.738+01:00Create Page – Access deniedIf users are getting an access denied page when they go to create a page it is because they do not have Restricted Read rights to the Master Page Gallery.<br /><ul><li>From the root site collection click: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Site Actions</span> > <span style="font-weight: bold;">Site Settings</span> > <span style="font-weight: bold;">Modify All Site Settings</span></li><li>Under <span style="font-weight: bold;">Galleries</span> select<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Master pages and page layouts</span> . This takes you to the master page gallery which stores master pages. The master pages in this gallery are available to this site and any sites underneath it.</li><li>Click in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Settings </span>> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Document Library Settings</span></li><li>Under <span style="font-weight: bold;">Permissions and Management</span> select <span style="font-weight: bold;">Permissions for this document library</span></li><li>You need allow <span style="font-weight: bold;">Read </span>access to users and/or groups of users who need to be able to Create Pages.</li><li>In my situation we added a custom SharePoint Group. However note the screen grab below, it shows the default setup.</li><li>In may be easy to inherit from the Parent (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Actions > Inherit Permissions</span>) and then remove the ones you don’t need.</li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgo_WhUu6Yaon3UWUcfYrwSIki2K9MFIn-VG7376MTTtV_MUadC28k5WlB3u9-P0mn7oHhph1ZZRNS5f6kZQpuSOcn3Zzj3G_tubDQgyMIORH-fzXEK6wMMQsRu0JL1-h5vRWdDT1-XYA/s1600-h/Create+Page_1.GIF"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgo_WhUu6Yaon3UWUcfYrwSIki2K9MFIn-VG7376MTTtV_MUadC28k5WlB3u9-P0mn7oHhph1ZZRNS5f6kZQpuSOcn3Zzj3G_tubDQgyMIORH-fzXEK6wMMQsRu0JL1-h5vRWdDT1-XYA/s320/Create+Page_1.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343572672353580578" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-36880291511895536812009-05-27T20:42:00.001+01:002009-05-27T20:42:54.576+01:00TechNet UK Virtual Event<p>Ok this has very little to do with SharePoint but worth trying to catch if you can: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/technet/govirtual">www.microsoft.com/uk/technet/govirtual</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-41814602291844627902009-05-26T13:58:00.001+01:002009-05-26T13:58:48.751+01:00MOSS SP2 trial expiration!<p>There is a small bug in MOSS SP2 that will turn your MOSS license from a fully paid version to a trial one :-). Don't worry it doesn't cause any other problems. Details of how to fix the the issue can be found under <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620" target="_blank">KB Article ID: 971620</a></p> <p>. But here is a short summary: </p> <p></p> <ol> <li>Browse to Central Administration <ol type="a"> <li>Click on the Windows Start Menu </li> <li>Click Administrative Tools </li> <li>Click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration </li> </ol> </li> <li>Click on the Operations tab </li> <li>Click on Convert License Type </li> <li>In the Enter the Product Key textbox, type in your product identification number and click okay. </li> <li>The License Synchronizer Job will execute on all machines in the farm after a few moments. Once all machines have updated their license from the timer job, the Convert License Type page will reflect the correct license. </li> </ol> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:baa014e8-4e9d-4cc6-8464-6d6d0bbf3885" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SharePoint" rel="tag">SharePoint</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SP2" rel="tag">SP2</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/MOSS" rel="tag">MOSS</a></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-42903034863512591912009-05-19T11:17:00.001+01:002009-05-19T11:21:55.570+01:00SUGUK - Vendor Night - London - June 17th<p>The SharePoint User Group UK is holding a Vendor night on Wednesday 17th June. Go to <a title="http://suguk.org/forums/thread/18923.aspx" href="http://suguk.org/forums/thread/18923.aspx">http://suguk.org/forums/thread/18923.aspx</a> for more details.</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-9685681221741976392009-05-15T22:05:00.003+01:002009-05-15T22:12:34.177+01:00SharePoint 2010 SearchYou most probably know by now that SharePoint Server 2010 will use a lot of the FAST search technology. I don't know much about FAST so I was surpised to hear of a couple of the new features that may appear.<br /><ol><li>Visual Search<br />I guess you select or upload an image and it will go and find similar pictures.</li><li>Conversation Search.<br />Audio file is uploaded, speech to text translation takes place allowing search to find words in the file.</li></ol>How is Conversation Search going to work? If I search for a keyword that is in the audio multiple times will it indicate each time the word is used and allow me to go to that part of the audio?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-75812145520335800672009-05-15T21:46:00.000+01:002009-05-15T21:47:28.539+01:00SharePoint AdventureWorks WCM demoCool, SharePoint AdventureWorks WCM demo has landed at http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/ Thank you cScape, Microsoft and everyone else involved in putting it together.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-17559119255283082332009-05-11T09:49:00.001+01:002009-05-11T09:54:30.000+01:00STSADM -sitetemplateI noticed something odd today while trying to create a web using stsadm. I ran the following:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">stsadm -o createweb -url http://litwaredemo/sites/EasternConference/AtlanticDivision -sitetemplate SPSSITE#0 -title "Atlantic Division"</span><br /><br />However I got back an error saying :<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">File or arguments not valid for site template SPSSITE#0</span><br /><br />I realised the problem was I forgot the last “S” just before the # for the site template. But rather then completely failing SharePoint partially created the web. So after fixing the syntax error I first had to delete the web before running the command again.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-86727722096614290142009-05-08T20:13:00.002+01:002009-05-08T20:21:49.432+01:00stsadm -helpWhen using stsadm you can see the syntax for each operation by opening a command line and typing:<br /><br /><blockquote>stsadm –help <operation><operation></operation></blockquote><br />E.g.<br /><blockquote>stsadm.exe -o addpath</blockquote>Would display:<br /><blockquote>stsadm.exe -o addpath<br /><operation> -url <url><br /> -type <explicitinclusion wildcardinclusion=""></explicitinclusion></url></operation></blockquote><operation></operation>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-71052083880123324142009-04-23T18:49:00.003+01:002009-04-23T18:51:47.165+01:00SharePoint Foundation ServerI predict the new version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will be called one of the following:<br /><ul><li>SharePoint Foundation Server</li><li>SharePoint Foundation Server 2010</li><li>SharePoint Foundation Services</li><li>SharePoint Foundation Services 2010<br /></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-33825126286206287512009-04-21T18:35:00.001+01:002009-04-21T18:36:59.390+01:00Get up to speed with FAST, fastNatalya Voskresenskaya (SharePoint MVP) will be blogging about <a href="http://www.fastsearch.com/">FAST</a> soon, see her post <a href="http://spforsquirrels.blogspot.com/2009/04/fast-as-sharepoint-search-engine.html">here</a>.<br /><br />I’ve spoken to a few people in the SharePoint community about FAST and I am not surpirsed that most know nothing or very little about it. My reasoning is that it is expensive and hard to get hold of, last time I looked you couldn’t download it. Anyway I look forward to the blogs by Natalya Voskresenskaya.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-55723120019928891882009-04-17T10:15:00.002+01:002009-04-17T10:21:19.814+01:00SharePoint 2010 predictionsI predict SharePoint 2010:<br /><ul><li>Will include a LMS within its first service pack</li><li>A new content type will be Multimedia (Video and Audio)</li><li>Records Management will be very different - better</li><li>W3C standards support will be much better - it couldn't get worse could it?</li></ul><br />Oh and the learning curve will be as steep as MOSS!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-72320859089023354682009-04-17T10:12:00.002+01:002009-04-17T10:15:30.664+01:00SharePoint 2010 beta released soon?So Chris Capossela says that:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Office 2010 — including Office Web applications, SharePoint Server 2010... will enter a technical preview in the third quarter of 2009 and will release to manufacturing in the first half of 2010. </span><br /><br />I take this to mean that some Gold Partners will have SharePoint 2010 before the technical preview.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-52955788377792711632009-04-16T08:21:00.000+01:002009-04-16T08:23:35.513+01:00SP2 now here in Q2 not Q1 as I had hoped.Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System due to ship April 28th. Lots has changed so checkout: <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/16/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-to-ship-april-28th.aspx">http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/16/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-to-ship-april-28th.aspx</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-66630765861157734642009-04-15T20:18:00.002+01:002009-04-15T20:21:17.037+01:00Sorry Microsoft I didn't mean it!In my last post I shortened Microsoft <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">SharePoint</span> Server 2010 as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">MSS</span>. But for the record Microsoft say:<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx"><span style="font-style: italic;">Don’t try to acronym Microsoft </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">SharePoint</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Server to </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">MSS</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> since </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">MSS</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> is already taken by Microsoft Search Server. Just remember, </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">SharePoint</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> is </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">SharePoint</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> is </span><span style="font-style: italic;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">SharePoint</span><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span></a><br /><br />So <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">remember</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">SharePoint</span> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">SharePoint</span>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-24416669514617056272009-04-15T18:52:00.002+01:002009-04-15T18:55:24.143+01:00MOSS is dead long live MSS!It looks like Microsoft Office <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">SharePoint</span> Server is dead and being reborn as Microsoft <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">SharePoint</span> Server 2010, note the lack of the word Office. Why? I think it is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">because</span> Microsoft want us to stop using acronyms.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-37980232533534475022009-04-15T17:35:00.000+01:002009-04-15T17:37:25.469+01:00Thank YouA BIG thank you to the guys who participated and organised the <a href="http://www.sharepointbestpractices.co.uk/">European SharePoint Best Practice Conference</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-45111532953894222352009-04-13T12:59:00.001+01:002009-04-13T12:59:30.447+01:00Job WantedIf you are reading this and need some help with SharePoint then I am available for contract work, feel free to call me on +44 (0) 70 1737 5467. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-88766381183211132212009-04-03T08:30:00.001+01:002009-04-03T08:32:14.942+01:00SharePoint and ChocolateAt work I love working with SharePoint and at home I love eating chocolate. But now these two have come together as Cadbury are running their web site <a href="http://www.cadbury.co.uk/">http://www.cadbury.co.uk/</a> and <a href="http://www.cadbury.com/">http://www.cadbury.com/</a> on SharePoint. How cool is that?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-19735026294409663262009-04-01T12:48:00.000+01:002009-04-01T12:49:46.224+01:00.NET Mobile APIPlease excuse the non SharePoint blog item but I wanted to let you know about <a href="http://www.51degrees.co.uk">www.51degrees.co.uk</a>. I’m not going to explain what it is but if you are using .NET to develop web sites for mobile devices you should check it out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-1111416866773878212009-03-29T20:36:00.002+01:002009-03-29T20:38:56.044+01:00TwitterI'm finally Twittering, tweeting and microblogging more, whatever it is called i am at <a href="http://twitter.com/randyperkins/">@RandyPerkins</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-55052761822133332142009-03-29T20:20:00.002+01:002009-03-29T20:25:43.894+01:00Microsoft Commerce Server 2009<p>I recently twittered (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/randyperkins/">@RandyPerkins</a>) about the release of Microsoft Commerce Server 2009. I can't compare it to any ecommerce packages around at the moment as I haven't used any, however when I last looked at MCS or whatever it was called it compared well. I can only imagine that it now is even more competitive.</p><p>Time to build a dev server and test it out.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-77595280510162102132009-03-20T19:54:00.001+00:002009-03-20T19:58:09.321+00:00Office Communication Server 2010In my previous post I mentioned that the next version of SP will be in 2010. I think we will see a Beta this year still.<br /><br />As for Office Communication Server I see this being rebranded Office Unified Communciations and being released in 2010 also.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-62956797950850263502009-03-20T19:51:00.002+00:002009-03-20T19:54:47.292+00:00Fact the next version of SharePoint...will be called SharePoint 2010, well it isn't going to be called SharePoint 2009 as Balmer has said<br /><br /><span name="intellitxt" id="intellitxt">"From a strategy perspective, the next big innovation milestone is Office 14, our next Office release, which will not be this year, there's a version of Sharepoint, there's a version of Exchange, there's a new version of Office Live,"<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4835657158553309385.post-29160995730383204792009-03-18T11:32:00.001+00:002009-03-18T11:44:23.706+00:00SharePoint Designer Free - Part 2The following seems to prove it:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.sadev.co.za/node/339">http://www.sadev.co.za/node/339</a></li><li><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2009/03/13/sharepoint-designer-free-as-in-beer.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2009/03/13/sharepoint-designer-free-as-in-beer.aspx</a></li></ul><p>But we will have to wait tw0 weeks to be 100% sure.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0