SharePoint

Not long ago we’ve had a situation where the newly created users in Active Directory couldn’t be recognized to add them in SharePoint. The whole topology was the following: 1 server as Primary Domain Controller for domain 2 server as secondary Domain Controller for same domain and for hosting SharePoint Each on its own external [...]

I’m happy to announce that in our company we’re making effort to contribute to open source and design community. We’re looking to sponsor web designs that will be free to use. If you are interested, you can find more information on Web Designers Sharing Point. There are already some members in the community, the latest [...]

I’ve already posted on how to refference SharePoint field with JavaScript (here – with functio getField). For "Date and Time" type of fields you can use the above function only to refference the Date part. Thanks to Erik / Tanker who commented my post and discovered that these dropdowns get the same ID but just [...]

When making a SharePoint Designer backup of a certain Windows SharePoint Services site it’s creating it normally. But when you try to restore the same backup you receive the cannot find … exportsettings.xml error. After digging a lot around I’ve discovered that this is actually a SharePoint Designer Bug. This error occurs if your backup [...]

stsadm -o export and stsadm -o import To backup: 1. Locate stsadm.exe 2. in Command prompt type stsadm -o export -url http://[url-of-the-web-site-or-subsite] -filename [path and name of the file.dat] To restore: 1. Create a web application and a site collection using sharepoint central administration. Or you can create a subweb in an existing site collection. [...]

stsadm -o backup and stsadm -o restore To backup:   1. On the server locate the file stsadm.exe (if you have sharepoint 2 and sharepoint 3 locate the one in the "12" folder.   2. Open command prompt and type [path to stsadm.exe\]stsadm -o backup -url http://[url-of-the-web-site] -filename [path and name of the file.dat] To [...]

I started to create my first ajax-like web application and I was looking a good site, where to find animated gifs. After a while I’ve found a great site, which not only offers animates gifs, but actually you can generate the loader alone, selecting the foreground, background and style of the preloader. Click here to [...]

Sometimes you need to refference SharePoint form fields for manipulation. I usually use JavaScript. With SharePoint 2.0 you can refference a form field with document.getElementsByName(urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Field_Name)[0] where Field_Name is the SharePoint name of the field (you can find it at the end of URL when viewing properties of the field under “Modify Settings and columns”. For [...]

I’ve already been explaining in my previous post about application pools how to save on page file by reusing application pools. When you need to release page file size and memory consumption, you can run iisreset. This will kill each application pool for each site and therefore release the memory (untill the site is revisited). [...]

In one of my previous posts I’ve already explained how to publish your own video on web pages (still a bit difficult in SharePoint blog because it gets filtered out). I’ve come across another very good .flv flash video player. It’s published under creative commons licence and it’s free for non.commercial use. What I also [...]