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March 2007 - Posts

MOSS rich text editing from any browser with Telerik's r.a.d.Editor

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 uses an ActiveX control to provide rich text editing capabilities (actually HTML editing) in several places. Here are a few places where it is leveraged: Multiple-lines-of-text column editor in list item Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:52 AM by josebda | 3 Comments

Filed under: sharepoint, activex

List of MOSS 2007 ActiveX controls (created searching the visible code)

I was looking for a list for all ActiveX controls used by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, but it seems like this list is not available at this time. The best references I could find was the SharePoint team blog post on web browser compatibility Read More...

Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 10:53 AM by josebda | 4 Comments

Filed under: sharepoint, activex

Site Directory in MOSS 2007 via a custom Search Scope

In a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, you will likely need to provide your users a list of sites you host. There are a few ways to do this. First, you can leverage the out-of-the-box Site Directory template, coupled with a few settings Read More...

Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 9:54 PM by josebda | 10 Comments

Filed under: sharepoint, search

Complete reference of all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007

This post is obsolete. Please check the SP1 version of it at: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/03/15/complete-reference-of-all-stsadm-operations-with-parameters-in-moss-2007-sp1.aspx I was looking for a specific action under "STSADM -o spsearch" Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:13 PM by josebda | 18 Comments

Filed under: sharepoint

Crawling SharePoint sites using the SPS3 protocol handler

When you setup your content sources in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007), you have a few options to choose from: SharePoint Sites, Web Sites, File Shares, Exchange Public Folders and Business Data. When you use the SharePoint Sites option, Read More...

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 9:39 AM by josebda | 6 Comments

Filed under: sharepoint, search

Packaging, Deploying and Instantiating SharePoint Applications

There are tools and methods to package, deploy and instantiate SharePoint applications (I made a case for these SharePoint applications as opposed to ASP.NET applications in a previous blog post here). If you are deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Read More...

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 10:26 AM by josebda | 1 Comments

Filed under: applications, sharepoint

The risks around SharePoint application deployment

SharePoint is growing in popularity, partially due to its great model for describing and deploying packaged applications. This is especially true in the latest v3 or 2007 release, with the introduction of the "solution" deployment. However, if you're Read More...

Posted Sunday, March 11, 2007 11:37 AM by josebda | 1 Comments

Filed under: applications, security, sharepoint

The Case for SharePoint Applications

Introduction I have been spending some time on the idea of using SharePoint as an application hosting platform, as opposed to using regular ASP.NET applications. Some solutions are a great fit for this, others are not. My main goal is to describe some Read More...

Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 8:38 AM by josebda | 8 Comments