Creating a Lookup column using features.

Useful article about how to create a Site Column that is a Lookup to a List, this seemed pretty straight forward but try to know more

SharePoint 2007: Issues with DataForm Web Parts and Site Templates

Have you had this issue yet?  Open a site in SharePoint Designer, select Insert Data View from the Data View menu item, and do all the magic to add it to the page.  Now save that site as a template and hydrate a site from it.  What happens to that web part?  Mine breaks and so does all the other devs' that I work with.

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Using Delegate Controls in Sharepoint

Try to know how to replace the Sharepoint Search box on the fly with your own custom control without ever having to touch the aspx page itself. This is a very cool feature with unlimited ramifications.

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Customizing MOSS 2007 My Sites within the enterprise

Steve Peschka one of SharePoint Rangers team, he is writing in the official blog of the SharePoint Product Group in MSDN, he wrote an article about "Customizing MOSS 2007 My Sites within the enterprise"
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Administering security credentials (Office SharePoint Server)

Listed TechNet articles discuss password changes for different service accounts

MOSS

• Change passwords used for administration accounts
  
• Change passwords for SQL Server services
  
• Change passwords for Central Administration and Timer service
  
• Change passwords for the Search service
  
• Change passwords for the default access account
  
• Change passwords for Shared Services Providers
  
• Change passwords for Web application pools
  
• Change passwords for single sign-on
  
• Change passwords for profile import

WSS

• Change passwords used for administration accounts
  
• Change passwords for SQL Server services
  
• Change passwords for Central Administration and Timer service
  
• Change passwords for the Search service
  
• Change passwords for the default access account
  
• Change passwords for Web application pools

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As we usually say this sentence “Eltatawor eltabi3y lel7aga elsa23a” and because of the aggressive growing of content management techniques, its time now to go through the new technology MOSS 2007 , its powerful amazing technology that will change the development world.
Let’s proceed with the huge GURU and try to check where we will go with it.

The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

This case happened to me when I was deploying new environment for client, 403 is the most ugly error message you can get. There is no complete list of reasons available for this.

Error: 0

Description: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

Severity: 5

Source: System

Debug info: N/A

Extra info: N/A

Client Source: CExProgress::ProcessPackage

Recommended Action: N/A

 

There is main problem for this error which is the disk space, when you export SDO file there is a temp folder in this path C:\Program Files\Microsoft Content Management Server\Server\Temp\.

 

While exporting there are temp files placed in this folder so you need to have space for this files or you can change this temp folder from the registry.

Adjust the following registry value and restart IIS and AESecurityService:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Resolution Content Server\Configuration\ResolutionTempFolder

Issues reported with the MCMS security update (updated: 17.04.2007)

Stefan Goßner posted this article in his blog

Customers reported the following problems with the MCMS security update:

Issue 1

Symptoms:

• Resource Gallery Items show up as red-X after installing the update
  
• the DCA does not start
  
• Site Manager won’t start and throws an error indicating a missing satellite dll (NrMsgRes.dll) when done locally.
  
• Site Deployment results in an unspecified XML parser error when done from a remote machine.

Reason:

• The fix will overwrite certain registry keys underneath HKLM\NCompass and point them to C:\...

Workaround:

• If the server portion of CMS is installed:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\CmsInstallLocation
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\SatelliteDLL
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Resolution Content Server\dir
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Resolution Content Server\Database Manager\PhysicalExecPrefix
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Resolution Content Server\Database Manager\PhysicalReadPrefix
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\MCMS\EventMessageFile
  
  
• If the client portion is installed:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\NCompass Resolution Client\Dir
  
  
• if Site Stager is installed:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Staging Server\ExePath
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NCompass\Staging Server\LogsDirectory
  

Issue 2

Symptom:

• The following error message shows up on the CMS site:
  
  Description: Could not load file or assembly
  'Microsoft.ContentManagement.Common, Version=5.0.1200.0, Culture=neutral,
  PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system
  cannot find the file specified.
  Severity: 5
  Source: AEJavaProxy
  Debug info: N/A
  Extra info: N/A
  Client Source: Login::ctlLogin_Click
  Recommended Action: N/A

Reason:

• in some situations the fix seems to remove the Microsoft.ContentManagement.Common dll from the GAC.
   

Workarounds

• manually add the DLL to the GAC.

Issue 3

Symptom:

• the fixes addressed by the hotfixes 923755 and 914782 show up again after installing the security fix.

Reason:

• the security fix reverts the fixed files to the SP2 version 

Workarounds

• install the hotfixes again after installing the security fix.

MCMS Ad Rotator Control has been adapted for MOSS 2007

William Cornwill has published an article on how to modify the MCMS AdRotator control to work with MOSS 2007.

Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products

The Microsoft Office server products that are listed in the "Applies to" section store data in Microsoft SQL Server databases. These products use various stored procedures for regular processing. Therefore, the Microsoft SQL Server databases are important to the successful operation of these products.
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