Microsoft Evolution Days

Ich war am 3. Dezember an den Microsoft Evolution Days bei Digicomp.

Die Präsentationen findet man hier: http://www.digicomp.ch/MicrosoftEvolutionDay

Wichtige Präsentation: Office 2010!

Interessantes & Erwähnenswertes

• Silverlight wird immer zentraler und stark von Microsoft gepusht
• Service Manager: Beta 2 im Januar; RTM im Mai
• Virtual Machine Manager: Unterstützung für XEN folgt im Mai
• System Configuration Manager: neues Release im 2011 welches “bahnbrechend” sein soll
• Windows 7 wird schon flächendeckend eingeführt bei Grossfirmen (bspw. Swisscom, Unique, Implenia, Suva…)
• Januar 2010: Beta 1 von SP1 für Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Mobile 7 wird wahrscheinlich an der MIX Konferenz im März 2010 vorgestellt
• FAST for Sharepoint wird es als Enterprise CAL Besitzer zu einem geringen Aufpreis geben;
• Viele Informationen rund um Sharepoint 2010 –> wird ein paar echte Killerfeature haben
• Office 2010: Aktivierung (auch innerhalb der Unternehmung) wird notwendig

SharePoint: Access denied error when adding new page to page library – Gunnar Peipman’s ASP.NET blog

Had exactly this problem…… how it happend? No clue….

SharePoint: Access denied error when adding new page to page library

On one of my servers I detected very weird error. There are authenticated users who can add content to some page libraries and modify pages they have made. One day suddenly they were not able to add pages to page library anymore because of Access Denied error. Well, thanks Google, God and Clinton Cherry for saving my ass this time.

Clinton Cherry has very helpful blog entry about this issue: Fixing ‘Error: Access Denied’ error on creating a new page in MOSS.

1. Go to Site Actions -> Site Settings ->Modify all site settings
2. Go to Galleries -> Master pages and page layouts
3. From the list toolbar, select Settings -> Document library settings
4. Select permissions for this document library
5. Add ‘Restricted Read’ access to the required groups.

To make robots to swallow this blog entry I give some bold keywords: SharePoint add page access denied

SharePoint: Access denied error when adding new page to page library – Gunnar Peipman’s ASP.NET blog.

Connecting TFS 2010 projects to SharePoint sites – Weblog Ton Stegeman [MVP]

The new Team Foundation Server (currently in beta 2) has the option to connect TFS project to an existing SharePoint site. This also allows you to specify on which SharePoint server to create new project sites. For us this is important, because a lot of our projects start way before the TFS project gets created. Then we end up moving all files to the TFS project site, or we have two project sites for the same project. When we go live with TFS2010, we no longer have to transfer files. And we can host the TFS project sites on our company SharePoint implementation, which means 1 WSS server less to maintain. With one of my colleagues we managed to get this working in our test environment. This post shows you how we have set it up.

via Connecting TFS 2010 projects to SharePoint sites – Weblog Ton Stegeman [MVP].

Search by Approval Status

Problem: You have a scope which depends on some sharepoint items which are required to have approval (like a company blog which is aggregating over different feeds). By default also articles which are not approved are appearing in the core search result webpart (configured per scope)….

Use this trick to exclude them.

Search by Approval Status.

SharePoint Experts Blog : Hot-Off-The-Press: Web Analytics With SharePoint Whitepaper!

A Whitepaper about the possibilities in Web Analytics with Sharepoint. Attention, the document is in the XPS Format, you need the XPS Viewer…..

http://blogs.technet.com/sharepointexperts/archive/2009/10/30/hot-off-the-press-web-analytics-with-sharepoint-whitepaper.aspx

SharePoint: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

I had the problem that after configuring Sharepoint for .Net 3.5  suddenly I could not edit some sharepoint pages anymore. At  first I changed the debug settings in web.config to get more clear error messages (instead of  „an unexpected error occured“).

See here for Details for enabling clear error messges

http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/02/15/a-solution-to-quot-an-unexpected-error-has-occurred-quot-in-wss-v3.aspx

After that I got the strange error messsage „A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client“…after 2 hourse researching I found the solution…..

Somehow a section inside the Web.config has disappeared (or I deleted it accidentely…)

SharePoint: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client.

Semantic URL’s in MOSS 2007 (Imtech SharePoint Semantic URL’s free Feature) – Waldek Mastykarz

Semantic URL’s are one of the things I always wanted to have in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Since the first time I have opened an Internet facing site made in SharePoint 2007 I knew it would be great if the Pages part of the URL could be removed as well as the .aspx extension.

I believe that everyone working on Web Content Management (WCM) solutions would agree, that semantic URL’s are very important in today’s Web. First of all they are much more user friendly. Visitors are able to memorize certain URL’s based on their information. Compare for example http://mycompany.com/Division/Services with http://www.mycompany.com/Division/Pages/Services.aspx. The second one will be obviously much more difficult to remember for someone who doesn’t know SharePoint.

via Semantic URL’s in MOSS 2007 (Imtech SharePoint Semantic URL’s free Feature) – Waldek Mastykarz.

Things that Should be Easy: Impersonation options in SharePoint code

Interesting article about the possiblities to Impersonation:

Summary

„When creating web parts, event receivers, timer jobs and other SharePoint code, I often find that I need to temporarily grant the code more permissions than the current user has. I’ve found that many developers either don’t know what options they have for user impersonation through code or are confused as to the subtle differences between the various options.“

Things that Should be Easy: Impersonation options in SharePoint code.

SharePoint: Dynamische Verlinkung zur Wiki einbauen

Oft kommt es vor, dass es zu einer umfangreichen Sharepoint Anwendung auch eine umfangreiche Wiki gibt. Hier ein Beispiel wie man zu den Listen eine dynamsiche Verlinkung zu der Wiki der aktuellen Liste in die Seite enbauen kann. Wenn es zu der aktuellen Liste kein Wiki gibt, dann wird auf die Wiki-Startseite verlinkt.

SharePoint: Dynamische Verlinkung zur Wiki einbauen.

Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology

Der neue Gartner Report bezüglich Information Access Technology ist draussen.

Wie schon letztes Jahr wird Microsoft als Spitzenreiter angeschaut. Mal schauen wie sich das bis nächstes Jahr entwickelt wenn SharePoint 2010 da ist und viele Technologien (bspw. FAST) integriert sind.

http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol7/article2/article2.html