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• BillyRay Adding third front end web server

  Hi All - Quick question. We currently have a small sharepoint deployment in our testing environment with two front end web servers (load balanced) and one database server. My boss asked me a question that I could not fully address. After we move to production and if our load increases, how do you add another front end web server. I know you have to install Sharepoint (either complete or web server only) and join the farm. Is there anything else Will all my web applications be replicated over to the new server What is the site is load balanced Thanks in advance Brian ...Show All

• Tryst O/R Mapping

  O/R mapping is quite interesting.  I would like to post this question for discussion. I have the following classes: Employee, FullTimeStaff, PartTimeStaff, etc.  FullTimeStaff and PartTimeStaff have many attributes and behaviors in common and also many other unique attributes and behaviors.  So, FullTimeStaff inherits from Employee and PartTimeStaff also inherits from Employee. Do you think it is good to map both FullTimeStaff and PartTimeStaff to a single table called Employee (the table contains an extra field to identity whether he is full time or part time) in the database a employee table with the attributes they have in common a table with employeeTypes and a table with employeeType specific attributes is ...Show All

• Gert Jan Veenstra Crawl performance on BDC application

  We have been working on a POC that involves a reasonably complex BDC mapping on the AdventureWorks2005 database. We are including about 10 entities with numerous associations. The BDC generation was reasonable straight forward (one problem we had I will post about seperately) however I am finding the indexing of the content to be painfully slow. This is running on a single machine (so results will not be indicative of live) but we have found that it has taken over 4 hours to index 150,000 entities (works orders, products etc). Also the SharedServices_Search database has grow to over 2GB which is a significant multiplier on the base data of about 170MB, do we have any numbers of this or is it totally dependent on the mappings, assoc ...Show All

• Kevin Hoffman Accessing SharePoint ways other than Web Services

  Is there a way to access the information within SharePoint Services 2003 other than using the canned Web Services We are trying to pull information about Lists and the amount of information returned doesn't make using web services a good option. I've looked at the Windows SharePoint Services and Windows SharePoint Product & Technologies (what's the difference!) and not sure if both of these use web services as the underlying communication technology. Are these SDK's a "non-web services" API into the SharePoint product Thanks Steve Woha that was alot of questions. All of those are answered if you read the intros in the SPPT and WSS SDK that it seems you already found! WSS is th ...Show All

• afshar Feature cannot be activated: Failed to find the content type schema

  When I activate my feature with a list definition that includes a new content type, my logs are filled with the message: Failed to find the content type schema for ct-1031- while caching feature data. My schema.xml looks like this: < List xmlns:ows = " Microsoft SharePoint " DisableAttachments = " TRUE " Title = " $Resources:UrlaubsanspruchList " FolderCreation = " FALSE " BaseType = " 0 " Direction = " $Resources:Direction; " Url = " Lists/Urlaubsanspruch " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ " > <!-- _filecategory="ListDefinition" _filetype="Schema" _filename="schema.xml" _unique ...Show All

• kesim Content Editor Webpart Errors

  Setup: Windows Server 2003 SP1/WSSv3/SSL/published via ISA2004/basic authentication When using the Content Editor webpart, using either rich text editor or source editor, trying to save changes results in: "Cannot retrieve properties at this time" and "Cannot save your changes". I've tried iisreset, and adding the servername in the host headers in IIS without result. Suggestions Thanks, Christian ...Show All

• J.Wadsack Change background color

  Hello, I am using an existing template then I customized it by recoloring some graphic. All has worked well except there is a couple of areas when I cannot change the gray background to blue. I've search the .css files and tried changing it manually and nothing has worked. Does anyone know where I can locate the codes to change these specific areas Here is a graphic to illustrate the areas I need to change. <img border="0" src=" http://www.ewebsites.ws/screenshop.gif " width="499" height="131"> Thanks, MonaE I am not sure if will solve all the problems, but Heather Solomon has a <a href="http://www.heathersolomon.com/content/sp07cssreference. ...Show All

• Jeremy Jarrell Can we update to Subject in ProfileManager Scenario?

  Hi, I have one scenario where I want to udpdate the Subject itself. Is it possibe to do so from CSF point of view Following are my Subject, Predicate and Object. Subject: http://schemas.microsoft.com/connectedservices/pm#/ dick@contoso.com Predicate: http://schemas.microsoft.com/connectedservices/pm#UserProfile UserName Object: dick@contoso.com I want to Update the Object " dick@contoso.com " and I am able to do so. But I am using this object name as primary key in Subject to identify the user profile. Show how can I update the subject This semantic is not supported. Please refer to Connected Services Framework 3.0 Developers Guide for the requirements of UpdateProfile ...Show All

• 2162 Separate Association and Initiation forms

  Hi, I have a workflow that uses three forms, one for association, one for initiation, and one for edit task. When I first associate the workflow with a list, the association form opens correctly with the pre-defined association data that I passed to it. The problem is, when I try to instantiate the workflow on a particular document in the list all I get is the message, "The form has been closed." When I looked in the logs it looks like the Initiation form is looking for the association schema and not finding it. I know the association data is passed to the initiation form, but if the schema is available for opening the association form why isn't it available to open the initiation form Is there something I'm not specifying in ...Show All

• tyler2424 Scheduling Job in a Web Farm

  Hello, I have a farm of .NET servers. The application also needs scheduled jobs - like sending reports / notifications periodically. The question is - what is the best way to schedule this job I want the same set of software to run on all machines - so that if in case one machine goes down, the other is able to run the scheduled job. The options I am considering: 1) making them SQL Server jobs ( which are failed over in a cluster), but these jobs need resources available on the .NET servers, and I donot think that opening a backward connectivity from DB to App would be the best way. 2) To have some kind of a lock in the database, and schedule the job on all the machines in windows scheduler. The one which wakes up first, gets the l ...Show All

• Dottj Product Service mapping to be loaded at runtime

  hi, I receive a request from my order management system which has some product information. Based on this product, i need to pick up the services that have to be provisioned. Also i Need to know the which methods of the services have to be called. What is the best way of doing this One option that i have: 1. OHSBE receives request from OMS. 2. OHSBE sends request to Service Logic. 3. Service Logic sends a request to Product Service Mapping (which can be implementd as web service) and returns an XML.Can this service also return me actions 4. and then Service Logic calls various services. Services to be called is determined at run time. How can Service Logic be modelled for the same using C# or using BizTalk Any he ...Show All

• vannielou Windows Application Versus Web Site

  I need to develop an application that reads from and writes to a database housed in a SQL Server located in an Intranet. I am using Visual Studio 2005 (VB). I can see that there are two possible routes to the development - as a Windows Application or as a Web Site. I will be most grateful if some body out there could advise me on which option route to take and perhaps why. Regards. Nkenta It will depend on wat the application is to do and who will access it. When developing a windows application, this will require the clients to have software installed onto there machine. But with a web application all they will need is a web browser. With the windows app this software will include the ...Show All

• drscape Web farm architecture

  I want to design a web farm with three web servers. Can I use Application Center to do that If yes, is there any reference design diagram If no, any other suggestion You can access the cluster using the .50 address, the other two access a specific server in the cluster (since it is not a shared address). You can certainly deploy the application to a given server without detaching, but it's not recommended, because then one of your users might get their request routed to the server you're deploying to and get an error. However, if you detach it from the cluster, all user's will still get all their request serviced by the other servers and won't likely noticed your operations. Hi Tomas Thank you very much. You advice is ex ...Show All

• RemcoJVG document library upload event

  Is there any way to write a custom even for a document library so that when a user uploads a document (and it has a certain custom property checked) the custom event creates a copy of that document in a network share directory Cheers, Thanks for the help guys, I should be able to make this stuff work from now! If I have any more issues you'll be hearing from me! check this class http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spitemeventreceiver_members.aspx here is a sample I found in one of the blogs http://blah.winsmarts.com/Post.aspx postID=68 You should be able to trap the "Insert" event on a document librar ...Show All

• R.D. How to install additional CA site?

  Hi, there. I 'm playing with Best Practice Analyzer recently releaseed. When I run it on my farm, following advice was there. Is it really possible to install additional CA sites other than that created on farm creation If yes, great! then how to do it (I think technet should mention that if that is one of best practices...) Thanks in advance/ ---- Title: Highly Available Central Administration Capability Severity: 3 Description: Only one instance of the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration Web site exists in your installation. To make sure that you can administer the farm in the case of a failure of a server hosting SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, you should ...Show All