SQL Server Agent job status web part for SharePoint
I have released a small web part for SharePoint that displays the current status of a SQL Server Agent job as a colored icon and displays status messages as text. The solution and the source code is available at: http://jobstatus.codeplex.com Here is a screenshot of how it might look in a standard SharePoint 2007 team site. Why would anyone want …
Read MoreSharePoint and BI seminar in Stockholm
I’m presenting at the Itera Consulting Groups breakfast seminar on SharePoint and BI on September 24th (in Swedish). My presentation will focus on hands on examples of efficient, easy to use, interactive ways to access and analyze information in SharePoint and SQL Server. By combining the power of data processing from SQL Server with the possibilities to personalize and focus …
Read MoreSharePoint Theme fails with international characters
When designing and deploying a new Theme in SharePoint 3/2007, the metadata for the Theme is stored in the ../12/TEMPLATE/LAYOUTS/1033/SPTHEMES.XML file for the default English sites. Other languages are stored under their respective folders, for example Swedish is using the 1053 folder. When populating the SPTHEMES.XML file with information about a new Theme, international characters such as ÅÄÖ works fine …
Read MoreHow to not do a service pack
Microsoft recently released the SP2 for SharePoint, good stuff. However, now it seems as if the SharePoint installation will expire 180 days after the installation of the SP… Not what the average user would expect. More info: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx KB Article here (soon): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620
Read MoreSharePoint Designer now available as a free download
Microsoft has decided to release Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 as a free download. Find more information here: www.microsoft.com/spd
Read MoreSharePoint Diagnostic tool
The SharePoint diagnostic tool (SPDiag) is included in the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit. It comes in handy when analyzing and troubleshooting SharePoint implementations. Copied from the tothesharepoint blog – http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2009/02/05/3197739.aspx: “With SPDiag, you can: Collect IIS and ULS log files, performance counter data, event logs, and WMI instrumentation data from a SharePoint farm. Filter data to show granular information related …
Read MoreSharePoint eats PerformancePoint
Microsoft has announced that PerformancePoint will be eaten by SharePoint and SQL Server. PerformancePoint will be discontinued as a stand-alone product and features like the scorecard’ing, KPI and graphing will be integrated into SharePoint. Microsofts BI strategy appears to focus on SharePoint, Excel and SQL Server. More info will probably be available within a few days…
Read MoreCommunity Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3
While waiting for decent developer support for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010 one might use the STSADM utiliy from codeplex. However, Microsoft is working on it and now the 1.3 version of the Visual Studio extensions fix some of the earlier shortcomings of the Microsoft tools, get the CTP and try it out…
Read MoreTypemock for SharePoint
There is now a Typemock product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint. It allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server.
Read MoreSharePoint development with Visual Studio 2010
News about the upcoming release of Visual Studio starts to pop up everywhere. Here is a video demonstrating some of the features involving SharePoint development. It seems to address some of the shortcomings of the current approach. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Sharepoint-Development-with-Visual-Studio-2010/
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