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shaneperran — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:02:07 +0000

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For those of you asking about recordings of our virtual user group sessions, they are available.

shaneperran — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:08:32 +0000

We make our user group sessions available when possible via our website.

http://www.sharepointnation.org

Free Themes for SharePoint 2003

shaneperran — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:07:26 +0000

For those that have been asking for the link to the 10 free themes for SharePoint 2003, they’re still available via Infotech.

Download 10 free themes:

http://www.infotechsolutions.com/products/sps/Pages/default.aspx

Breadcrumb Issues in SharePoint 2007

shaneperran — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:41:59 +0000

If you do much SharePoint 2007 Customization, then it’s quite likely that two of the following things are true:
1.   You have visited Heather Solomon’s great SharePoint Customization Blog and used her Base Master Pages.
2.   You have run into a wall with the breadcrumbs. More specifically, after applying the base master page the breadcrumbs get a little wonky, the default page starts to show pages > default.aspx – this is not the default behavior and not something desirable so let’s work through the issue.
There is a partial explanation which seems to be that there are two different sitemap providers used across page layouts one causes the pages > file.aspx and one that doesn’t.

This breadcrumb with the following provider causes the pages > file.aspx
SiteMapProvider=SPContentMapProvider
Using this breadcrumb provider removes the pages > file.aspx
SiteMapProvider=CurrentNavSiteMapProviderNoEncode
This said, technically an easy fix is to swap the breadcrumb on your page layout (which overrides the one in the master page) so that it uses the second version. I found this fix on Andy Burns Blog.

Create a Site Collection Using the Collaboration Template. Notice that it doesn’t show pages > default.aspx. You might think the default layout for the home page is using the wrong site map provider, but unfortunately that is not the case. The DefaultLayout has not been touched.
Next Create another Site Collection using the Collaboration Template and this time upload the base master page from Heather Site and apply it. Note: I am not touching the DefaultLayout.aspx (main page page layout. You will notice now that it does show the Pages > File.aspx
I am assuming there is some code/logic that should exist in the page that has been stripped out? I have not touched the Page Layout so the site map provider in the page layout of example 2 is the default.
So the site collection which is totally default/out of the box using collaboration does not show pages. The site collection with the custom master applied does.
If you have any thoughts, please email or leave a comment. shane at graphicalwonder dot com.

***** Update and what I assume is the start of tracing the root cause *****

The out of the box master page has a couple of ID’s in the surrounding table which have been stripped out. If I was a bettin’ man I would guess these are tied to some logic contained in core.js that does some fancy footwork with the breadcrumb.

The ID’s are: onetidPageTitleAreaFrame and onetidPageTitleAreaTable

The original code is in the following order:

td id=onetidPageTitleAreaFrame

table id =onetidPageTitleAreaTable

breadcrumb placeholder

I copied the out of the box table containing the breadcrumb (and the ID’s above) and pasted it into the base master page and it seems to work.

Hope it helps,

Another Externally Facing SharePoint 2007 Website…

shaneperran — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:32:50 +0000

This week we launched our latest website built on SharePoint 2007, just in time for the SharePoint 2010 madness in Vegas.

Visit Infotech:
http://www.infotechsolutions.com

VMware Fusion + Windows 7 "Shutting Down Mode"

shaneperran — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:29:58 +0000

If ever find yourself stuck in an infinite loop while trying to shut down a VM in VMware Fusion you can get out of it by holding the (ALT or OPTION) key while selecting the “Shut Down Guest” from the Virtual Machine Menu. It will change to “Power Off”, just like hitting the power button.

This tip just came in handy, hope it helps.

If you are using SharePoint 2007 + Windows 7 and getting SLOW transfer rates within document libraries…

shaneperran — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:36:02 +0000

If you are using windows 7 and moss 2007 you may find things get REALLY SLOW while moving files in document libraries. This rather obscure fix worked for me, maybe it will help you as well.

I spent some time today doing some work on a site whereby I needed to add a large amount of images to the style library of a SharePoint Site Collection. To speed up the process of course I would select the Open with Windows Explorer option so I could just paste the required files in with ease.

Instantly I would notice a significant freeze and then subsequently extremely low speeds when uploading. Since this was my first time experiencing this, I immediately tried a different server to see if the problem had to do with network settings on the server. I experienced the same thing on multiple servers.

We then tried to replicate on other desktops and it turned out everything was fine on Vista running IE7 or IE8 connecting to the same document libraries. Finally in the end, a little searching lead me to the forums where a user had pointed out that this issue can be resolved by going into your IE Settings and turning off Automatically Detect Settings.

So if you run into extremely slow speeds uploading to a SharePoint Document Library via Windows Explorer (Webdav), do the following from IE.

Select Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings and unselect the option for Automatically Detect Settings.

I was totally surprised that this was the fix so I had to provide some extra search engine love for the forum post that saved me…

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/600a9825-0ba1-4c15-93f6-fc99c64b4930

SharePoint Nation! User Group Meeting Tonight w/ Dev Panel

shaneperran — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:56:01 +0000

Join us on Tuesday, August 18th at 8pm EST as we welcome a developer panel featuring Ed Musters, Geoff Varosky, Paul Schaeflein, Paul Stork and Rebecca Isserman. These guys will be there to answer your questions as well as provide some of their own guidance on topics such as getting started with web part development and the proper implementation of user controls. This event will be hosted by Laura Rogers.

As with all previous meetings, come join us no matter where you are in the world as this meeting will be delivered virtually via Live Meeting. In order to hear audio for the event, you will need to download the Live Meeting client.

Live Meeting Address:
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SharePoint Nation! – Virtual User Group Meeting Tonight!

shaneperran — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:37:22 +0000

Join us Tonight, Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 8pm EST for another SharePoint Virtual User Group Meeting. In this meeting, Laura Rogers will demonstrate just how flexible and useful the Out-of-the-Box Web Parts are in MOSS. She will take a detailed look at the Filter, KPI, Excel Web Access, Outlook Web Access, Business Data Catalog, and Data View Web Parts. She will then look at how to customize some of these web parts using SharePoint Designer while still adhering to the Industry Best Practices. All of this is done without using any code.Speaker Biography:

Laura Rogers is currently a SharePoint Administrator at HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama. She started out as a NT 4.0 and Exchange 5.5 Administrator, and has ten years of experience with Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration systems. This includes four years in SharePoint implementation, training, and customization. Laura has been a MCSE since 1999, with her most recent certifications being MCSE 2003 + Messaging, MCTS in MOSS and MCTS in WSS 3.0 Configuration. She was also a contributing author in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion.

Live Meeting Connection Information:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/join?id=SPN04&role=attend

SharePoint Nation!: Presentation with Shane Young

shaneperran — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:24:23 +0000

Join us Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 at 8PM EST for our next virtual user group meeting for SharePoint Nation!

Shane Young (www.sharepoint911.com) will join us for a very special presentation as we resume regularly scheduled monthly meetings.

Session Overview:

In this session Shane will walk you through common mistakes made during the installation process of SharePoint and give you some tips on keeping your server running in tip-top shape. No death by PowerPoint but more of a hands on review of the server and Central Admin. He may also sneak in some nuggets to help you plan for the future….

PLEASE NOTE: This is a virtual event that is available live online so anyone can attend. It’s just like any other user group meeting but you can connect from anywhere and well…there is no free pizza at the end.

Click here to connect (right now!)