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Setting Up a Custom Event Log Installer with InstallUtil.exe and SharePoint 2010 Feature Receiver
Hi, If you’ve seen this error message before “The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security.”, you’ll know what I’m taking about. If not, that’s cool. In this blog post, I’ll attempt to show you how to setup a custom Log and have it display…
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Upload a File into a SharePoint Library using Copy Web Service
You probably seen something similar to what I’m about to show you all over the internet. I will be using the Copy Web Service. This service is used to add or copy files from disparate SharePoint sites to other sites or can be used to simply upload files to your SharePoint libraries. Information about this…
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Before SharePoint Client Object Model – Using Web Services to Consume SharePoint 3.0 Data in WPF
Technorati Tags: SharePoint Development,WPF I am thinking about posting a few entries on how we would go about consuming SharePoint data. There are many options out there. I’ll start with the good old web services way. Using SharePoint ASMX web services will allow you to consume List and Site Data as well as do many…
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Convert Office Word Documents Stored In SharePoint to PDF Using Save As PDF Add In
A while back I was working on a project where we had to convert a massive amount of documents into PDF with minimal intervention. We looked at several products and compared their features as well as their pricing and value-add. Our budget was limited and this functionality was not really needed at all times. The…
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Code for blog entry: Delete and/or Recycle File versions in a MOSS 2007 Publishing Site
The following piece of code is for this entry http://johnnyharbieh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C1E28E97CCB39CC2!308.entry Well, due to some issues with Live Writer, see below, I’m going to go ahead and take some screen shots of some important parts in the code. Part One – Ensure that we have what we need and validate the site collection in question…
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Console Application to Delete and/or Recycle File versions in a MOSS 2007 Publishing Site
A while back, I wrote a console application that helped me cleanup file versions in a publishing site collection just before we went live with the site. This console application was sitting on my laptop for the longest time till now. This application evolved into an STSADM Extension. This blog entry represents the work done…
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Themes in SharePoint 2010
I thought I’d leave a note on SharePoint 2010 Themes. Nothing too deep. In version 3 of SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007), to create and publish a Theme, you would have had to go through the following steps outlined here in the How To: Customize Themes (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979310.aspx). You needed access to the SharePoint Front…
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Close the circle on your SharePoint Search Implementation by adding a custom IE Search Provider
How many times have you thought of ways that could help you bring people into your SharePoint portal. Ways that can help sell SharePoint internally. You want your users to really use SharePoint for everything they do. Well, if you’ve done or worked on search solutions, you probably seen or heard of custom IE search…
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SharePoint 2007 and Section 508 Accessibility – A brief look at what it takes to become compliant
SharePoint 2007 (SharePoint hereafter) and Section 508 Accessibility are not a very happy couple. They are happy, but not very much. The relationship still needs some work 🙂 Today, we still have to deal with how SharePoint renders its pages, web part zones, OOB web parts, and navigation. Out-Of-the-Box SharePoint sites are not very accessible.…
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Options for setting a custom Master Page file in WSS 3.0
As you may know, in WSS 3.0, we don’t have the option through the UI to set a custom master page file. In MOSS 2007, we have this "Master Page" action link that lets us select a different master page then the one initially configured for the site. So what are our options, here are…