WebPart Maintenance Page

SharePoint gives you "An unexpected error has occured" after you dropped in a custom webpart. So how do you get to the webpart maintenance page to delete the webpart? Simple, just add ?contents=1 to the end of the URL.

Example: http://localhost/sites/TeamA/pages/default.aspx?contents=1

Tool to migrate from Wordpress to Blogspot using Blog2Blog

Its a .Net application that supports the migration of contents(excluding comments) from

- Live Journal
- Blogger
- Wordpress

to

- Blogger
- Live Journal
- MSN Spaces
- Wordpress

Link to the author's blog and link to the software

Add stsadm to path

How to add stsadm to path so that you will not need to point it to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN to use it.

Just type in @set PATH=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN;%PATH% in the command prompt.

Site Owner is unable to create sub sites - Access denied

Special thanks to Neville Pinto and Brain Farnhill who helped me with this problem.

The problem:
1. Owner of site C which is located under http://top/sites/siteC cannot create a subsite under site C
2. Owner has read only rights on http://top
3. http://top/sites inherits all permissions from parent site
4. Access denied error when creating a subsite on site C

The solution is that straight forward, just that it didn't occur to me!!
1. The site owner needs to have contribute rights to the Site Directory.
2. Break inheritance on site list on http://top/sites and give owner of site C contributor rights

Problem solved!

I passed my 74-674 BVPS exam

I passed my BVPS exam on Monday 30th March. It is a bit late to blog about it but what the hell.

I found the materials on BVPS extremely helpful, especially the study guide. I guess the key to it is to be mentally prepared to read 5 case studies and when in doubt, always go back to the case study. :)