Content Deployment

Many of you have played around with content deployment and gone insane trying to get it to work. After much trial and error, I've found the best way to get it to work is to create a blank site on the destination server. On the source server, set up content deployment and the first time around, do a full deployment. Once the full deployment has finished, change it to incremental deployment.

If you need more details, just email me and I'll be more than happy to help out.

Fadi

WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP2

SP2 for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has been announced. The release date is scheduled between February and April this year (2009).

Some of the improvements include:

• Improved Read-only content databases
• ECM Performance and Manageability
• Improved Index Rebuild Timer Jobs
• Upgrade Checker

I'll let you know closer to the release date if there's anything further included (I'm sure there will be).

Fadi

SPDisposeCheck Released

SPDisposeCheck v1.3.1 has been released (well a couple of weeks ago now). It will help improve your SharePoint assemblies. It inspects you assemblies and checks that you are correctly disposing of certain objects. Go to http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck to download it.

Fadi

Audit Logs KB

Hi,

I'm not sure how many out there are using the out of the box Audit Logs, but I've come across an issue where if you try to generate a log, the whole system slows down. After doing some research, I came across this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958127, but that doesn't address the issue where its not a custom report, as the other reports you have no control over the date range. If you've come across this before and know of a work around, please let me know.

Fadi

Bad SharePoint site Part 2

A few days ago I told you guys about a bad site created in SharePoint (http://www.deewr.gov.au/). Anyway, I was going through the site today and came across this
(go here to see the large image http://www.dhf.com.au/deewr.jpg)

look at all the things like "This is a default IPOD menu" and "Please edit me before use" and the "Please enter content here". So please people, when developing a site, make sure the content editors know how to put content on the page.

Fadi

SharePoint 2009 / WSS 4.0 / Office 14

Rumors of a new version of SharePoint/Office is already going around the net. From what I know, the beta is scheduled to be released in March 2009. Here's some features that are included:

• Native AJAX and Silverlight support
• More offline capabilities
• Microsoft Office files HTML viewers (following the line of OWA and EWA)
• Bi-directional BDC
• Native support for SQL Server tables as SharePoint lists
• Publishing module rewritten, to change the faulty Export / Import process
• More Business Intelligence capabilities for MOSS, as PerformancePoint 2007 matures
• Social networking improvements, maybe with Knowledge Management module included out-of-the-box

As soon as I know if there's any other features, I'll keep you posted. I know with SP2 of WSS3 there's a pre-upgrade checker as well as XSTL-based list view that will be available in WSS4.0.

Fadi

VSeWSS 1.3 CTP available for download...

VSeWSS 1.3 CTP is out. You can download it from

https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=428

The new features in VSeWSS 1.3 are:

· Can be installed on x64 Server OS machines running SharePoint x64. Previously only x86 Server OS could be used.
· Separate build commands for package, deploy and retract are added
· Command line build, package and retract commands are included enabling continuous integration and build servers. Previously command line build of SharePoint projects was very difficult
· Refactoring support for renaming of Web Parts. Previously renaming a web part required changes in several files in the project
· WSP View improvements for consistency of deleting feature elements, merging features and adding event receivers to features
· Solution Generator can now generate solutions from publishing sites. Previously only regular sites could be generated
· Allowing partial trust BIN deployments of web parts. CAS configuration must still be provided by the developer.
· New project item template for SharePoint RootFiles items
· Deployment will now optionally remove conflicting existing features on the development server prior to redeployment. Previously any feature name conflicts would result in an error
· Ancillary assemblies such as for business logic can now be added to the SharePoint Solution WSP
· Hidden features related to Site Definition projects are now shown in WSP View. They are no longer hidden
· For advanced users a fast deploy is included to update only the compiled assembly on the SharePoint development installation
· The User Guide is now installed with the extensions instead of being a separate download
The final release of VSeWSS 1.3 is planned for the North American Spring of 2009.