Manage Site Content And Structure in Sharepoint Server 2007
In a Sharepoint the Site Content and Structure page is cool tool for site administrators to manage site content and structure. You can do lot of stuff here in a easy and efficient way
You can do the following
1) Create Sub site/pages/files
2) Delete Sub sites/ pages/ files
3) Move files between libraries
4) Delete Sites/ files
5) Bulk Check in/ Checkout/ Approve pages or documents
6) Publish Pages – If you want to publish the file, you have to check in the file then approve and then publish it You can do this in one step by selecting the Action >> Publish through Site Content and Structure Page.
Navigation Path: Site Actions >> Manage Content And Structure
Securing Publishing Internet Sites – ViewFormPagesLockDown Feature
In Internet facing websites, you don’t want anonymous users to access pages such as AllItems.aspx etc. There is a Sharepoint feature ViewFormPagesLockDown which can be enabled to secure your sites. Find out more details about this feature at: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f507f5d6-4c9d-4f98-909f-069c53b9a3f61033.mspx#section6
Activate Feature:
stsadm -o activatefeature -url <site collection url> -filename ViewFormPagesLockDown\feature.xml
De-Activate Feature:
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -url <site collection url> -filename ViewFormPagesLockDown\feature.xml
Disposing Sharepoint Objects– SPDisposeCheck tool
In sharepoint, you should explicitly dispose SharePoint objects that implement IDisposable when you are finished using them.
The SPDisposeCheck tool will aid in inspecting the disposing of certain Sharepoint objects. This is a must have tool for SharePoint developer to check disposing of SharePoint objects in there custom codes
Download - http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SPDisposeCheck
Best practices for disposing windows share point objects http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973248.aspx
Sharepoint Free-Ebooks
My thirst towards understanding sharepoint better and better is a never ending story, I came across a cool microsoft link which offers free e-books available for download in word format. Following is the list of available books .
Getting started
Getting started with Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Planning
Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007, part 1 Download
Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007, part 2 Download
Governance guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Deliver accessible solutions (white paper) Download
Best practices for developing accessible Web sites (white paper) Download
Deployment
Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Download as .doc Download as .pdf
Installation guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Operations
Administering enterprise search for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Security
Security for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Solutions
Web publishing and planning guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Records management guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Document management guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download
Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm
Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is on a billion-dollar quest to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites and potentially handing Microsoft its next cash cow.
“I have not seen anything like this since the early days of [Lotus] Notes,” says Mike Gotta, an analyst with the Burton Group. In those days, corporate users were enamored with a shiny new technology that seemed to have infinite uses. “The talk [around SharePoint] is getting strategic now, and people are talking about it as a middleware decision,” Gotta says.
MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 is the fastest growing product in the company’s history and seems to have as many uses as a Swiss Army knife. Its six focus areas are collaboration, portal, search, ECM (enterprise content management), business process management, and business intelligence.
Issue or Bug in Explorer View?
The explorer view is not updated even after refreshing the page when we delete the documents from the document library in “All documents” view.
Issue repro steps:
1)Create a document library “MyDocs1” and upload the documents
2) Now change the view from “All Documents” to “Explorer View”, it correctly displays all the documents added
3)Switch to “All Documents view” from explorer view
4)Delete all the documents in the document library using “All documents” view.
5) Now again change the view from “All documents” to Explorer view, and observe that the deleted documents are still shown, do page refresh and etc, no change, deleted documents are wrongly displayed in explorer view
Sharepoint Object Model Best Practices
Follow the below best practices while doing custom coding using sharepoint object model. I found these articles very useful.
1) Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687949.aspx
2) Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms473633.aspx
How to activate or deactivate feature using sharepoint object model
To activate feature through Sharepoint object model use the following code
Activate a feature:
spSite.Features.Add(“featureId”)
Deactivate a feature:
spSite.Features.Remove(“featureId”)