Matt Ranlett's SharePoint and Office blog

I'm giving a sort of intro to SharePoint Designer webinar for Intellinet on Wednesday at noon. Rather than attempt to re-craft the descriptive text, check out what the Intellinet marketing department (Rebecka, Laura, Alysha, et al. ) put together. We're going to cover some customizations to master pages...

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I really am only posting this so I don't forget again. 2003 doesn't have solutions and features so I couldn't remember how to deploy the SPS 2003 web part code I'd fixed. If you have a CAB file and need to deploy it, use the STSADM AddWpPack command. I'd detail everything for you, but this guy already...

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JOPX on SharePoint just released a blog post which extends the work Brendon and I started in our 2 part ASP.Net Pro magazine article ( part 1 , part 2 ). JOPX went so far as to release his extension on CodePlex . Check it out!...

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I've got some custom code which looks at a SharePoint list for data which it renders to the screen. Of course, I used the delegate controls mechanism to put the control in question on the masterpage, so it basically shows up on every page in my publishing site. Notable exceptions include the admin screens...

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This morning I spent another 30 minutes trying to figure out why my solution package wasn't deploying correctly. Oh, the deployment would report success. No errors in the Central Admin UI or in the error logs, but several of the files on disk were not getting replaced. Turns out that the problem was...

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I just received notification that I've been selected as a SharePoint Server MVP, after 2 years of being a SQL Server MVP. I'm glad someone more deserving got the SQL spot I'd been occupying, but not as glad as I am that I'm now able to hang out with my SharePoint buddies and not have to hide in the shadows...

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If you are programmatically adding list entries to a SharePoint 2007 list which contains a lookup field, you have to supply the ID of the source list's ListItem. If you fail to supply the ID you might see error messages such as this: "Invalid data has been used to update the list item. The field you...

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If you're having problems with MOSS 2007 Search indexing the user profiles which you have imported from AD or some other source, check the identity of the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service. I bet it's set to Network Service . That's not going to work. Instead, set it to Local System (like the...

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Have you ever run into a situation where you log into a site with SharePoint Designer to make a change or add a workflow. Later, you need to log into the site as a different user (you're not logging in as the admin user all the time, are you?) but SPD never gives you the chance to provide different credentials...

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Sunday night started off with me begging for a bed as my intended roommate's reservation got him a king sized bed. So I have ended up rooming with Dan Attis (thanks again Dan!). Since then it's been a veritable Who's Who of SharePoint MVPs for me the last two days. Sunday night saw me drinking in the...

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