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September 2005 - Posts

• Windows Sharepoint Services Service Pack 2 available!

  Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9c552114-dc9a-43ee-9281-b080b7c280b4&DisplayLang=en Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:39 PM by Porint | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• ASP.NET error messages instead of 'user-friendly' WSS error messages

  A nice tip from Serge van den Oever on how to show the real error messages on a SharePoint-site, instead of SharePoints' own so-called user friendly error messages. Turns out it's already is the SDK ! Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:09 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• Son of Smartpart

  Read this article on Jan Tielens' blog about 'Son of Smartpart' http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2005/09/14/425192.aspx The good news is, they are going to release a preview version soon. The bad news...'soon' isn't specified :-) Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:43 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• *OVERVIEW* Windows Sharepoint Services Service Pack 2 Available (in Beta)

  Try the BETA version of the WSS Service Pack 2 . Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=abba20f2-3625-4c9c-a412-ab9bbebdb5e8&displaylang=en Hmm...I should have tried this before posting it. If you follow the link, you Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:39 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

  Via Pedro Serrano : The IE Developer toolbar which was discussed at the PDC '05 is now available for download . It supports both IE 6 and 7. Features include : Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page. Locate and select specific Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:18 PM by Porint | 2 Comments Filed under: Content Management Server, SharePoint Portal Server

• Upgrading your WSS v2 sites to v3

  PJ Hough, group program manager on the WSS-team, comments about upgrading existing v2-sites on Channel9 : We are aiming to make the upgrade experience a very smooth one. There are definitely some new components that you will have to install before upgrading Read More... Posted Sunday, September 18, 2005 7:03 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• Future for Microsoft CMS: WSS!!

  Mart Muller describes how WSS v3 will replace MCMS . And not to worry: their will be a conversion tool! :) Read More... Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 1:24 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: Content Management Server, SharePoint Portal Server

• Featurelist for SharePoint v3

  There's so much news about SharePoint v3 coming from the PDC '05 that it's hard to keep track of things. But not to worry! Dustin does a great job on his blog for making a list of all the new features ! Read More... Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 8:44 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• SharePoint v3 uses masterpages!

  This is a BIG improvement! If you want to change the layout of a WSS/SPS-site, currently you will have to modify the site definition templateset that the site or area is based on. And still, the general sharepoint pages (in the _layouts folder) are not Read More... Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 8:38 AM by Porint | 5 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• Technical preview of upcoming SmartPart-version on PDC '05

  How to use ASP.NET 2.0 usercontrols and webparts in your WSS-site and why it will not work with SPS 2003 . Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:51 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server