It all started out as a simple exercise, whenever an item is added to a list, create a site using information from the list using a site template. The site template had previously been created using "Save Site As Template". Now normally t ...[Read more]

So last Saturday saw the first of what I hope will be the first of many SPRetreats. Andrew Woodward (21stApps) and Ben Robb (Cscape) organised a gathering of SharePoint people down at cScape’s London office. It’s been quite a while since I spent ...[Read more]

We all like the HTML / XML in our Master Pages and Page Layouts to look nice so that they are easily read. However, every so often SP 2010 trips you up and this is one of those occasions. Take the following in a Master Page or Page Layout :- Y ...[Read more]

Upgrading the company blog site from MOSS 2007 to SP 2010 I came across a strange error message.  "Invalid List Template".  The log entries looked like this :-   Failed to find <ListTemplate> tag corresponding to ID "301&quo ...[Read more]

I was upgrading a site (I thought) from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 using the attach Content Database method. When I tred to access the site I got the following error message :- Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=9 ...[Read more]

I have been trying to get the Developer Dashboard working with MSS 2010 Beta 1 and having a few problems.  There are a number of blogs out there which claim to make it work but most seem to assume you have MSS 2010 beta 2.  This is the only one I ...[Read more]

I was updating a site from MOSS 2007 -> MSS 2010 and I tried to access the site and kept getting a blank screen and the word "Done" in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.  So I looked in the IIS log and noticed that there were ...[Read more]