Nigel's Experiences With Sharepoint

Microsoft Announces Release Date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010

Nigel Price — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:14:34 GMT

Microsoft, today, have announced the timetable for the release of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will be released to manufacturing (RTM) next month. For businesses, they will launch the 2010 ... (More)

SP 2010 and IE8 – no vertical scroll bar

Nigel Price — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:28:21 GMT

I have been migrating a number of MOSS 2007 web sites to SP 2010 recently and I came across the following quirk. The site migrated OK to 2010 but then when I displayed the site using IE8 there was no vertical scroll bar even though the site disappeared off the bottom of the screen. This works OK if ... (More)

SP 2010 Master Pages and Page Layouts – A pitfall of trying to have a nicely laid out Master Page or Page Layout

Nigel Price — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:31:00 GMT

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 :- You decide to layout your ViewFields as below :- V... (More)

Invalid List Template upgrading list from 2007 -> 2010

Nigel Price — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:12:00 GMT

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 tag corresponding to ID "301", tried both onet.xml for site definition ID &quo... (More)

One or More FieldTypes Are Not Installed Properly After Upgrading Site From 2007 to 2010

Nigel Price — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:27:00 GMT

The Problem :- I had a problem with a very simple Intranet site which only had web parts in it and no variations when I upgraded it from MOSS 2007 -> SharePoint 2010. It failed with the error message "One or more fieldtypes are not installed properly". After A LOT of investiga... (More)

Strange 2007 Error Message when Accessing a SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 site

Nigel Price — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:05:00 GMT

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=96177 If you followed this link to went to this pa... (More)

Getting the Developer Dashboard to work with MSS 2010 Beta 1

Nigel Price — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:07:00 GMT

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 have found so far that actually works with MSS 2010... (More)

MSS 2010 and the dreaded Loopback Test

Nigel Price — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:12:00 GMT

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 a lot of 401.1 and 401.2 entries in it. So imme... (More)

Creating Folders using Microsoft Word in a MOSS 2007 Document Library

Nigel Price — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:03:50 GMT

I had a problem recently where customers were complaining that they could not create folders within a MOSS 2007 document library and get them approved when the folder was created from Microsoft Word 2003 or Word 2007. However, when I created the folder using the MOSS 2007 document library GUI it cr... (More)

Determining whether a menu item is a site or a page

Nigel Price — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:55:00 GMT

I had an issue recently when I needed to know whether a particular menu item (from asp:menu) was a site or a page. Finding the answer was not very easy as blogging for this did not seem to turn up many answers. Some people created a publishing web object and then got the deafult page for the publi... (More)