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• Swapna.B. WSE 3.0 Security

  Hi All, I am developing a prototype which requires usernametoken to be stored once the client is authenticated. The client will call webservice after a secure authentication using WSE 3.0, from then onwards I want this token to be used to call other webservices also. The scenario is something like this, - Client calls WS-A. WS-A authenticates using usernametoken. Client gets confirmation and subsequent calls to WS-B, WS-C shouldn't be asked for authentication. Meaning after WS-A's form based authentication, the subsequent calls to WS-B, WS-C should be also automatically secured and webmethods should be allowed to be executed. Can we share a UsernameToken after authentication. Can someone shed some light in this scenario. ...Show All

• Anarchy SharePoint Portal server 2003 - No Gantt chart??

  I just upgraded from Sharepoint Services 3.0 to SharePoint Portal server 2003. For my surprise the Portal Server doesn't have the Gantt Chart webpart, a very important tool in our organization.. How is this possible .. anyway is there some way to export the gantt chart from Sp Services to SP portal server .. you can check this links to know what I'm tslking about.. http://www.sharepointhosting.com/tutorials/create-sharepoint-gantt-chart/create-sharepoint-gantt-chart.html http://www.sharepointhosting.com/tutorials/work-with-sharepoint-gantt-chart/work-with-sharepoint-gantt-chart.html I wouldn't call it an upgrade if you go from WSS 3.0 to SPS 2003. SPS 2003 uses WSS 2.0 (the previous version) ...Show All

• ftw761229 (0x80042616 - Error in the Site Data Web Service. )

  Hello all, This error appears in my sharepoint portal gatherer log. Does anyone know what the cause is and how to resolve it Thanks, Ugo ...Show All

• jwrodriguez When should I create another instance?

  If I have a loop and I have to use another object each time I iterate. Should I instantiate this object for each step, or should I instantiate it outside the loop By doing it outside the loop I might have some problems concerning getting "ghost" information from the previous iteration. But, by doing it inside the loop (for each step) I would slow down the whole algorithm, besides consuming more memory... Any opinion on this Could you instead take what is needed within the loop and expose that as a static method on the other object That way it is stateless by design and the creation of an object is not required. Hi, I think the answer to your question depends on two factors: what language you're using and what ...Show All

• Tryst High availability application

  Hi Everybody! We are starting a project to develop a mission-critical web application (therefore, availability,reliability and scalability are major concerns). We are thinking about using a SOA approach, using WCF services hosted on IIS (using a cluster in order to provide the required availability, scalability and reliability). My questions are 1) I've seen that WCF can be hosted on IIS or as Windows Services. I'd like to know the advantages and disatvantages of each approach (considering specially performance and development/deploy effort issues) 2) Is there any reference we could use in order to estimate the hardware requirements to support the solution (the information we can use to estimate it a ...Show All

• Jakein2006 How to set the number of display rows to unlimited?

  The MOSS 2007 Excel services' report only display ~70 rows at a time. Is there any way to display all rows at once (about 120 rows) Regards, Aleksandra, Can you post a seperate thread with specific details on what you are trying to set up. Andrew Can anyone give me more detailed explanation how to set up this in SharePoint Thanks. Aleksandra You can control this in the Modify Web Part properties - it's one of them under the View section (I think). You cannot have it as unlimited, but you should be able to set it to 120. There's a limitation of returning 10,000 cells at a given time from Excel Services (IIRC). Thank you very much. I will try i ...Show All

• HowardRichards Custom IRM Protector

  The SDK has some light documentation on creating custom IRM protectors, but no reference as to where to get the interfaces or the class definitions for the supporting classes. Is there a typelib somewhere I can't find it. A sample project would be nice too. The documentation has a sample pseudo-implementation, but there's no way to get started without the COM interface definition. Dear All, We are also strugling a lot to impose expire date on MS office files (excel / word / power point / Info Path) using C# Kind of a custom IRM Protected files that will be uploaded in the document library of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) such that if a user downloads the file ...Show All

• dj1s Anonymous access not working for lists and libraries

  I am banging my head against a wall here on what should be a trivial issue. I have just one site set up that is going to be used predominantly as an internet, but have a component for users to login as an extranet. I have gone thru everythign and still I am having a significant issue. Anything that is a list or library is not visible when logging and requires a password if I enter the URL directly. Background: * SharePoint 2007 installed and all components of the website appear to work correctly when anonymous access is not enabled and I login. * "Anonymous Access" setup on IIS. (done) * Central Admin -> Application Management -> Authentication Providers -> "Enable anonymous access" is checked (done) **** ...Show All

• chawacho Detecting internal calls in business object without using TLS or overloaded internal method

    Hi Forum I have the following problem. I need to know whether a call to a business object was made from another business object or directly from the UI. I need this because of Security and Logging reasons. Security - Users might not have permission to call the method on a business object. But another business object might need to call it. - But it's the same method :( Logging - I often want to log when a user performs an action. Another business object might also perform that action but then I don't what to log it. But it is the same method. ;( The best solution I have found is to make an internal version of the method with parameters. Like this: public class BusinessObject{ &n ...Show All

• Roger McKinney Hosting Long Running Batch Processes In IIS 6

  I am currently architecting a framework that will depend on IIS to host batch oriented code. The design will use a disconnected model with a controller (that lives remotely) and checks back periodically via an ASMX layer. When invoking the actual batch execution code the ASMX call will spawn as many threads as it is configured to run and immediately respond (hence avoiding any long running HTTP connection). I like the idea for a number of reasons, obviously I get to use a standard communication protocol to invoke the batch code across tiers and I can even incorporate standard load balancing routines. I'm also able to use the same communication end points to check back in on the threads as they are executing. There are also a number of o ...Show All

• Simon Ellis Well-enabled Services

  Hi Folks, I have been looking through the docs, but can't find a definite answer. Does the Connected Service Framework benefit in any way from the fact that the services it consumes are well-enabled. Is the Microsoft WES Template an example / recommendation of something that is a "good" webservice, or is it more than that Thanks for your help All the best, Ash Ash, It is not mandated that all services should be WES, but it does help in a system of collaborating services to share standard interfaces so that new services can be plugged in easily. The benefit comes from the fact that all leaf services expose similar (if not identical) interfaces. It makes it easy to disccover and cosume the ...Show All

• Reva reference to a listitem into a list folder

  Hi all, I'm looking into WSS 3.0 lists. I'd like to know if I can create a "link" list item, that represents a reference to an existing list item into another list folder. I'm going to explain myself with an example. I'd like to create a structure like this: List1 Folder1 ListItem1 Folder2 ListItem1 (this is a "link" list item) In this way, I can create a ListItem, and then put a reference to it into other folders in my list folders structure. When I edit ListItem1, changes should be immediately applied to ListItem1 links in the folders structure (because links are simply references to the same list item). And... if I enumerates items of Folder2 (or through SPQuery or SPView), I should be able to ...Show All

• .net sukbir reference to a listitem into a list folder

  Hi all, I'm looking into WSS 3.0 lists. I'd like to know if I can create a "link" list item, that represents a reference to an existing list item into another list folder. I'm going to explain myself with an example. I'd like to create a structure like this: List1 Folder1 ListItem1 Folder2 ListItem1 (this is a "link" list item) In this way, I can create a ListItem, and then put a reference to it into other folders in my list folders structure. When I edit ListItem1, changes should be immediately applied to ListItem1 links in the folders structure (because links are simply references to the same list item). And... if I enumerates items of Folder2 (or through SPQuery or SPView), I should be able to ...Show All

• da_Codez Architecting aggregation of data

  We have a group of very similar sql server databases running on our server. We are plannning to create an application which will need to get information from all these similar databases. What do you all think is the best way to go about doing it I am thinking about creating a realtime or periodically updated central database aggregating the info from all the others. How can I do this DTS Or create a data cache in memory A web application, web service and windows forms will be running off this database. Should be able to do a fast search. Is caching the database the only way to achieve this How about XML databases thanks a lot in advance. If I understand you correctly you are looking for creating an O ...Show All

• NewbieDude Runing web apps with Windows NT Load Balancing Service

  I was assigned to solve problem with our IIS web server cluster. The problem is when we need to boot one of our servers, the sessions connected to server are lost. Which means that the client needs to login. Is there a way to do this without losing the logins Here's a good overview of how to configure NLB: http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/loadbalancing/NetworkLoadBalancingWindows2003.asp The affinity settings are on the Add/Edit Port Rule dialog shown around the middle of the page You might want to check alongside that your client affinity is configured correctly and that you're not configuring NLB to divide the load unevenly while you're at it :) Because those are Windows servers. I believe shared sessi ...Show All