One of the big "gotchas" in coding against the SharePoint Object Model is not disposing of resources properly. In relatively little time, you can find that your server is cycling itself to free up resources, with no apparent reason. The first thing you should check is your own code. Roger Lamb has written an excellent,…
My client was seeing an odd error in one of their environments, bot not any of the others. When you would go to configure an out-of-the-box workflow on a site, you’d see the "The form cannot be displayed because session state is not available." error after clicking Next on the first configuration screen (/_layouts/AddWrkfl.aspx). Some…
Oftentimes you’d like to mimic the out of the box display capabilities of SharePoint when you create a view using a DVWP (Data View Web Part or Data Form Web Part). One of the things you might like to do is to show the document type icon for the documents in your view. These are…
This seems to be a fairly widespread issue with no clear solution. It occurs when the user chooses the ‘Export to Spreadsheet’ Action and the SharePoint list view has a Date/Time column displayed. With Excel 2007, the data is exported to Excel just fine, but with Excel 2003, the above error is shown in a…
I ran into an instance today where a column’s data contained the ampersand (&) character when I hadn’t expected it to. Since the ampersand is used to separate Query String name/value pairs in the URL, that ampersand was causing me problems. In general, you should always encode Query String values just in case they might…
Over the last week or so, I’ve had the opportunity to work with the reports available in Quest’s Site Administrator for SharePoint toolset. The out of the box reports that it provides can help you greatly in administering your farm. See this PDF document for a list of all of the out of the box…
The documentation for this process on the Microsoft Web site explains the basic steps for this. To create and publish KPIs in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you must follow four procedures: create a KPI list, add the KPI to the list, add a Web Part (Web Part: A modular unit of information that consists of…
My client is considering using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor their SharePoint Farm. Coming out of a meeting with Microsoft, we got this set of links from the rep to give us an overview of what SCOM is and how it might help us with SharePoint monitoring. Seemed like a useful set of…
Because I usually can’t find these details when I look for them, I thought I’d post the links. Note that if you go to the top level reference page for STSADM at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261956.aspx, not all of the commands are listed (e.g., Adduser), whereas the links below seem to contain everything, including operations that were added…
If you try to make changes to your site’s navigation settings and get the error ‘The page has been modified by another author on…’ with the date and time that you just tried to make the changes, there’s a fairly quick fix. Apparently this is a known issue that Microsoft has on its list to…