[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 ] Providing some real world samples for import After we managed to export content in part 2 lets now focus on the importing side. Import actually has two different ways to work: ...

[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 ] Introduction Today I would like to start an article series on an interesting new feature in WSS 3.0: the Content Deployment and Migration API. A similar API has previously been provided...

[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 ] Providing some real world samples for export To demonstrate how powerful the Content Deployment and Migration API is I will now provide some real world examples: Export a...

[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 ] Advanced content deployment scenarios Till now we have covered export and import of single list items or documents containers like folders, lists or webs complete site...

[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 ] Avoiding common problem This can be one of the most frequently updated chapters of this article series as "common problems" can change over time. In addition I can only talk about...

In an earlier article I have discussed that all SPSite and SPWeb (and potentially also PublishingWeb) objects need to be properly disposed to avoid memory pressure situations. Roger Lamb has a nice summary of coding patterns which will actually cause...

[ Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 ] Requirements for a successful content deployment Be aware that this article cannot provide a complete list of all requirements. I will update it from time to time if required. Today...

In the past I have seen the following problem a couple of times: a customer creates a backup of a content database on one server farm (e.g. using STSADM -o backup or a DB backup in SQL) and restores the backup on a different farm and attaches the content...

As a follow up to my article series about the content deployment and migration API here are some tips on how you can "fine-tune" the out of the box content deployment jobs. This will include information about how adjust settings in Content Deployment...

A common question I receive is the following: I have tried to save my site as a template using "Site Action" - "Save site as template" but this option is not available as soon as I enable the publishing feature. After some tries I managed to save...

This article replaces my earlier article about MCMS Navigation Providers which I have written while ASP.NET 2.0 was in Beta 2. After Beta 2 a couple of things have changed which prevent the earlier code from working properly with the final version of...

Currently we have a couple of known issues with MCMS 2002 SP2: DCA complains about missing priviledges when selecting a database when SQL authentication is being used Our current findings show that this issue is caused by the fact that the DCA now...

In the last couple of weeks I have seen several issues related to memory pressure situations in MOSS or WSS application pools so I think it is a good idea to discuss some aspects of this type of problem in a separate article. What is a memory pressure...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob Content Deployment General...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - The Basics continued Part 3 - Configuration Part 4 - Communication Part 5 - Quick Deployment Part 6 - Logging Part 7 - Change Token Basics Part 8 - Job and Change Token Part 9 - Job and Timerjob A while ago I created...

In the past I had a couple of cases where users received the following error message: The site is not valid. The 'Pages' document library is missing. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please...

The product group released the delayed August 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the August Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed...

A common problem we see with content deployment and with STSADM -o export is the error message below: [4/11/2008 9:25:01 AM]: FatalError: Failed to compare two elements in the array. at System.Collections.Generic.ArraySortHelper`1.QuickSort[TValue...

Requested since MCMS 2002 SP2 has been released was a possiblity to install MCMS 2002 with VS.NET 2005 without a need to install VS.NET 2003 first. As SP2 is a service pack that only updates installed components it was necessary to install VS.NET 2003...

Jeremy Jameson created an article series which talks about serious problems he ran into when using the variation feature. Unfortunatelly I cannot comment his articles directly as he disabled anonymous comments - and my blog is not on MSDN but on TechNet...

Yesterday the product group released the August 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process...

Today I played around a little bit more with HttpModules and implemented a more elegant solution for the problem as discussed in my previous post . Especially the second problem - normal postback caused by ASP.NET controls - was not properly solved...

There are several articles around discussing the dispose of SPWeb and SPSite objects, e.g.: SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example from Roger Lamb Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects from Scott...

The product group released the April 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the...

Finally also the February 2011 CU for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released. The MOSS 2007 fixes have been released rougly two weeks ago. Some of the KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get...

I have posted a solution for this problem in a subsection of this article but someone who is just looking on how to get AJAX working in general might not find it easily. The probem with AJAX is that the client does a silent postback from Javascript...

I have seens this problem a couple of times in the past: sometimes when running incremental content deployment the deployment job fails with the following error message The changeToken refers to a time before the start of the current change log...

A question we have often seen in the past is to have a method to prevent IIS from sending the server identification header to a client which allows a client to identify which type of http server it is talking too. Usually this request comes from security...

Yesterday I received the question to add an RSS feed to one of our internal MCMS Web sites. At that moment I did not know more about RSS as that this blog has an RSS feed to be able to keep updated with my writings. ;-) So I searched for a document...

Once in a while I see people using code to directly access the MCMS database. Today I found a blog from Chester who wrote a module to do this. Unfortunatelly direct access to the MCMS database without using the MCMS publishing API breaks the Microsoft...

[This article has been replaced with a new improved version .] As outlined in the article I posted yesterday ASP.NET 2.0 provides new concepts to implement site navigation based on new server controls and the Site Map Provider concept. The controls...

Part 3 - How to identify 3rd party products using undocumented program internal intefaces I have discussed problems when using undocumented program internal interfaces and how they affect support in Part 1 and Part 2 of this article. Now lets focus...

Yesterday the product group released the December 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process...

Yesterday I received an interesting question: a customer had the need to import several hundred keywords and related best bets programmatically to a couple of site collections. And for sure he did not want to do this manually using the web UI. I...

Everyday is a good day to learn something new about MCMS 2002. Today I learned that lots of custom placeholder controls I and others have written are not really necessary! The same functionality can be achieved with the standard Placeholder controls...

I have already posted two articles about how to solve the "ugly" URL problem. In the last article I discussed a solution based on a custom http module which does all the necessary checks and adjustments. But one issue is still unsolved: Internet Explorer...

We had a big number of cases where customers reported the following pattern: Event ID 7076 - Office SharePoint Server "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. " "System.AccessViolationException...

The Office Service Pack team officially anounced the upcoming Service Pack 2 for the Office 2007 suite including MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0. The expected release date will be between February and April of 2009. Here are some of the expected highlights...

Some of our field controls shipped with MOSS show a quite ugly behaviour as they add an extra   entry after the field. Means an extra space. This is especially ugly for the RichImageField control as it prevents two images to show up right...

With VS.NET 2005 the VS.NET product team decided to change the behaviour of VS.NET for web applications. Up to VS.NET 2003 only virtual directories and files explicitly added to the projects were taken into consideration for the compilation. With VS...

Now - after support for ASP.NET 2.0 with MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 - has officially been announced lets have a short look on the new features coming with ASP.NET 2.0 and how they might give benefits to a MCMS site. Master Pages One of the key selling...

As I discussed in an earlier article backup/restore between farms for publishing sites was unsupported due to the fact that MOSS often stores absolute URLs to the Page Layout in the properties of a Publishing Page. Workarounds had to be used to adjust...

April 2013 CU for SharePoint Server 2013 is planned to be released in a couple of days. In case you are only interested in April CU for SharePoint Foundation 2013 or Office Web Apps Server 2013 you can already download it from here: KB 2751999...

STSADM -o export/import is often used to split site collections into multiple pieces when they reached a certain limit. Or to do the vice versa and consolidate multiple site collections into one larger one. Both of these actions work fine as long as the...

SharePoint 2010 has a new feature which recycles the OWSTIMER.EXE process every night – similar to the application pool functionality in IIS – to avoid memory problems inside the timer service. The recycling is controlled by a new timer job which has...

The product group released the August 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. August CU for SharePoint 2010 should be available in a couple of days. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days...

The product group released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the December Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before...

Today a newsgroup post reminded me that I did not yet publish the necessary changes for my Http Module that corrects the Ugly MCMS URLs caused by ASP.NET postbacks when ASP.NET 2.0 master pages are used. The HttpModule I published earlier does not...

This is the first time since more than one year that I will not have internet access and will not be able to answer MCMS newsgroup questions. I hope you guys are able to survive a month without me. ;-) But I'm sure you will. On the right you can see the...

A problem I have been confronted serveral times is that authors have problems to save pages because the content of the page is refering to a resource gallery item that has been deleted in the past. Usually deleting such resource gallery items should...