SharePoint

At TehNet they’ve released a very nice silverlight interactive help for STSADM command which the SharePoint Admin almost can’t imagine living without.
Straight to the point:
stsadm for MOSS 2007
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/cc948709.aspx
stsadm for WSS
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/dd418924.aspx

If you have a SharePoint environment which not every employee in the organization uses you’re stuck with two obsticles:

How to limit that the person is not selected and/or added as a member of the site collection (because of licencing issues)
How to stop MOSS from importing entire AD domain or forest. If you’re stuck with 100 [...]

Today the strangest thing happened. During the content migration suddenly the target list lost the proper destination. The result was ALL the lookup values missing and the dropdown empty when adding /editing. Horror! if this would have been a short list the first thing I’d do is to restore it from backup and recover the [...]

When inserting JavaScript code into XSLT dataForm webpart it can sometimes get tricky. Sometimes SharePoint designer messes up our code or we have huge trouble with & signs,… the best way to insert the JavaScript code block into XSLT data view is to enclose it with xsl:text and cdata. Below is the sample:
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping=”yes”> [...]

If you need custom CAML (for example in Content Query WebPart QueryOverride) and you need items filtered by Current User – the one that is currently logged in, you can setup the following filter (the example below references the field “Assigned To”:
<Where>   <Eq><FieldRef Name=’AssignedTo’ LookupId=’TRUE’/><Value Type=’Integer’><UserID/></Value></Eq> [...]

I’ve been looking a lot around to find an option to have multiple filters available on BDC that would not exclude each other out. The scenario is:

we have a BDC connection to a SQL table with entity that contains company ID and Company name. Company ID is a primary key. Both ID and name are [...]