Thursday, May 27, 2010
MOSS Usage Reports explained
I got an email from a client asking me about MOSS usage reporting and why the numbers seems to not match up. After some googling, I found a great document with detailed description of parameters displayed in the usage reports.
Labels:
SharePoint 2007,
Usage Reporting
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Viewing your SP 2007 files using Outlook 2010
You can connect a list/library on SharePoint 2007 to your Outlook 2010. Doing so will allow you to
Synchronise items to Outlook
Step 1 Navigate to a SharePoint library or list that you want to sync with Outlook.
Step 2 Click on Actions from the toolbar and select Connect to Outlook.
Step 3 A windows will pop up requesting for permission to access Outlook, click Allow.
Step 4 The library is now connected to Outlook and can be found in your left navigation pane in Outlook under SharePoint Lists header.
Select the document from the connected list in Outlook and the document content will be shown in the Reading Pane.
Offline access and editingSharePoint
Step 1 Double click the document to open it
Step 2 Click on File and select Check In
Step 1 Double click the document in Outlook to open it.
Step 2 Click on Edit Offline
Step 3 A pop up box will appear providing information on where your document will be stored when it’s being edited offline. Click OK to proceed.
Step 4 Make your changes and save the document.
- preview document from Outlook
- post reply to discussions via Outlook
- search within the connected list/library using Outlook Instant Search
- it enables offline access and editing
Synchronise items to Outlook
Step 1 Navigate to a SharePoint library or list that you want to sync with Outlook.
Step 2 Click on Actions from the toolbar and select Connect to Outlook.
Step 3 A windows will pop up requesting for permission to access Outlook, click Allow.
Step 4 The library is now connected to Outlook and can be found in your left navigation pane in Outlook under SharePoint Lists header.
Preview Document
Select the document from the connected list in Outlook and the document content will be shown in the Reading Pane.
Offline access and editingSharePoint
Documents that you have edited will have an icon to indicate that the changes have not been saved to SharePoint.
Step 1 Double click the document to open it
Step 2 Click on File and select Check In
Step 3 Select the type of check in and enter comments pertaining to the changes made to this document and click OK.
Check in your offline document onto SharePoint
Step 1 Double click the document in Outlook to open it.
Step 2 Click on Edit Offline
Step 3 A pop up box will appear providing information on where your document will be stored when it’s being edited offline. Click OK to proceed.
Step 4 Make your changes and save the document.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Hiding left navigation in SharePoint 2010
To hide the left navigation in SharePoint 2010, you will need to the following to a content editor web part on the page. Place it so that its the first webpart on the page to load, otherwise, you will be able to catch a glimpse of the left navigation.
<style type="text/css">
#s4-leftpanel{
display:none
}
.s4-ca{
margin-left:0px
}
</style>
<style type="text/css">
#s4-leftpanel{
display:none
}
.s4-ca{
margin-left:0px
}
</style>
Labels:
SharePoint 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Unable to Browse to SharePoint Site from Server - Custom Host Header
I have created a web application with a custom host header and on the server, I am not able to browse to the site. The problem is the loopback check. To resolve this issue, I need to disable loopback check registry key.
1. Open the Registry Editor (regedit)
Caution: Incorrectly editing the registry can severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.
2. Open the following key: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa.
3. Create a new DWORD value called DisableLoopbackCheck.
4. Set the value to 1.
5. Reboot the server.
Note: This is required for the change to take effect.
If this resolves the issue, there is a more secure way of making this change. Instead of making the server-wide change that DisableLoopbackCheck implements, you can disable checking for specific host names. For more information about how to do this, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base
Information is taken from Microsoft MSDN site
1. Open the Registry Editor (regedit)
Caution: Incorrectly editing the registry can severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.
2. Open the following key: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa.
3. Create a new DWORD value called DisableLoopbackCheck.
4. Set the value to 1.
5. Reboot the server.
Note: This is required for the change to take effect.
If this resolves the issue, there is a more secure way of making this change. Instead of making the server-wide change that DisableLoopbackCheck implements, you can disable checking for specific host names. For more information about how to do this, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base
Information is taken from Microsoft MSDN site
Labels:
SharePoint 2007
Monday, January 11, 2010
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
Example: http://localhost/sites/TeamA/pages/default.aspx?contents=1
Labels:
SharePoint 2007,
Web parts
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
- Live Journal
- Blogger
- Wordpress
to
- Blogger
- Live Journal
- MSN Spaces
- Wordpress
Link to the author's blog and link to the software
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