SharePoint

Active Directory User Editor

SharePoint is importing user information from the Active Directory through the Shared Services Provider (if you have MOSS). Wouldn’t it be nice if users could “manage themselves”? That would save lots of time for the Admins 🙂 The answer is here: http://nominesptools.codeplex.com/ 5 different types of properties fields: Simple TextBox, DropDownList/ListBox (with predefined values), People Picker, Date Picker with calendar. Multi-domain compatible. Nearly Any Active Directory property can be easily added or removed of the edit form, directly trough the webpart configuration (nothing “hard-coded”).

New WSPBuilder version

Carsten Keutmann has released a new version of his great WSPBuilder. Here are the new features: A Reference folder under GAC and 80/Bin is now supported for large dlls that do not need reflection for SafeControls and Permissions. New menu function “Recycle the Windows SharePoint Services Timer” implemented on WSPBuilder Extensions. Refactoring of “Copy to GAC” in order to improve the functionality. Bug fixed! “Unable to get solution id from manifest: Unable to extract manifest.

Automate iFilter and PDF Indexing support

Setting up your SharePoint farm to be able to crawl PDF files and show the PDF icon is a manual task which involves changing the registry. If you don’t want to go through the steps manually, try the stsadm command from here: http://notesfor.net/post/2009/07/14/Automate-iFilter-and-PDF-Indexing-support-to-a-SharePoint-Farm.aspx You can find the CodePlex site here: http://notesforsearchfilter.codeplex.com/ After the stsadm extension has been installed, setting up PDF support is easy: <span style="color:#606060" id=lnum1> 1:</span> stsadm -o searchfilter -ext pdf -filter PDFlib –iconfile "

SharePoint 2010 Screenshot

Look at this: Hans Brender has posted a blog article (in Germany) with this screenshot. I can’t wait to get hold of the bits 🙂

free DocAve SQL Restore Controller

An item level restore solution is available at AvePoint. The DocAve SQL Restore Controller care restore items, sites and site collections from a SQL or DPM database, or a backup. If you click on the download link, you have to provide an email address. A download link will be sent to you. The files you have to download are 414 MB (Manager) and 40 MB for the Agent. But the download server is fast 🙂

Do you stsadm –o backup?

Then you should install the SP2 and the April (or June) CU for SharePoint. setting site collections to read-only during backups fixes to Backup/Restore of publishing sites Zac Smith has posted an article about the why.

Multi Level Navigation

The out-of-the-box WSS navigation offers one level of navigation. The navigation elements can be configured in the site settings. There is a way to make it have multi level navigation, as MOSS does, by changing the DataSource. But this “hack” is not flexible, as you can not reorder the item within the navigation menu. While I was reading the post How to create your own Cascading Navigation using the ASPMenu control, the decision was made to build a custom navigation which supports multiple navigation levels.

Using SharePoint Controls

Back from vacation. 1 week with an offline version of feeds is hard. So I read the postings I got closely 🙂 One post I do want to bring your attention to, is about SharePoint Controls. My post about using the SharePoint Controls shows how to use the controls you see in forms (TextField, NumberField, LookupField…). There are plenty of SharePoint controls, which you can use. Robin Meure has written a post “re-using SharePoint controls”.

SharePoint SP2 and expired license update

If you ran into the expired license issue after applying the Service Pack 2, you will be happy to know Microsoft has released an update to resolve the issue. Quote from the SharePoint Team Blog: The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2.