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• mta37 Can I have a document library point to an existing server directory

  I have local intranet users that have a directory structure on the same server as the webserver and I would like to point the document library to that structure instead of uploading the files into the document library. Local users have shortcuts to these docs on their machines and I don't want to screw that up. Can this be done in either Sharepoint Services 3.0 or Sharepoint Server 2007 Please help! First lets understand the storage mechanism of SharePoint documents. All of the documents in document library are stored in the SQL database as content blob. SharePoint UI generates simple UI (links) for these documents. As user clicks on these documents links in the libraries, the file content is f ...Show All

• larz Thoughts after reading Introduction to Progmmatic Arcitecture

  I think the concerns raised in the "Introduction to Pragmatic Architecture" (MSDN Series) are very important ones. They do not leave anybody indifferent. We are daily involved in these issues one way or another. These are my thoughts on architects and architecture. Expressed by many members of the developers’ community opinion about architects - "cannot code anymore" – is a stigma which seems never fades away. Ironically this is coming from developers who are endangered species in our market today. They are so close to extinction that sometimes the closest developer can be found in India. As an architect I often participate in different types of reviews, including code ones. From my experience I can attest ...Show All

• polymorphicx 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

• rach.xXx Output Cache

  Hi, Is there any way to support output cache at FARM (More that one app) level in MOSS 2007. Regards Sumit K ...Show All

• CharlieRussell Modeling .Net Generics in Visual UML Diagrams

  Hi Forum I'm trying to find out how I should depict our generic collections or generic types in general. Our company has a range of generic collections and I want to deliver class diagrams to developers where I depict the various generic collections that we have. (So I guide them to use the right one for the job) I only have Visio to work with - Is there any good way of doing this Ok, So I'm answering my own question. I can use Visual Studio 2005 Class designer for this. It actually works quite well. Now I just have a problem with all the other diagram types in UML. By default "types" are not shown on the diagrams. They are only in class details. You can change this under ...Show All

• Noorul Ahmed Data Transfer Objects and Collections

  Hello, My business logic layer is using a domain model. The classes in the domain have intricate associations with each other and make lots of little calls to each other. This is fine for business logic on the server. On the UI, I use Data Transfer Objects to move data between UI/BLL. The DTOs map 1:1 with the domain objects, but they don't have the deep references graphs. Basically the only references between the DTOs are strict aggregations such as an Order and it's collection of OrderDetails ( NOT an Order and a reference to it's Customer object). So the OrderDTO class has a collection of OrderDetailDTOs. When sending a list of OrderDTOs to the gui, it seems very inefficient to load each one's orderdetails as well. Using lazy load ...Show All

• IamWasim Passing the Excel parameters to the backend

  I can define parameters in Excel Services, but I couldn't find any directions on how to pass those parameters to the back-end SQL Server relational database. Our users may see different set of data depending on their position. The Asia manager isn't allowed to see New York data for instance. I need to identify the user currently viewing the Excel sheet, and pass it's name as a parameter to the SQL server, so that SQL will filter out the data that the user isn't allowed to see. Is there an article out there that shows how to pass parameters to an SQL data source from Excel Services Try running the following: stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs OK, this would work ...Show All

• RayCan Left Navigation - Sub Menu Items

  When selecting a second level menu item that points to a document library or list the item isn't being shown as "selected". This doesn't seem to be a problem with second level menu items that point to pages. The "leftNavSelected" class is being added to the tag for page menu items but not document library or list items. Any suggestion Thanks ...Show All

• Ashish Chawla what is more performatic? a single join or multiple selects?

  In my app we have some methods where we start it by selecting a whole bunch of information (in DB), compute a lot of of things and then fire some save commands to update this new information in DB. Well my question is what to choose when I have 2 options: 1) to query a huge SELECT command joining all needed tables all at once. Then all information I might need would be brought in this select. 2) to select the main table and then in each step of the iteration, based on what I really need, I go selecting information in other tables, passing the IDs I brought in the main table. Why would I choose one or the other What is more performatic I am using an ORM, which, for the moment, does not work directly with joins, so if this wou ...Show All

• Sledgehammer Images in Wikis

  Is it possible to paste images into a Wiki We tried to copy content from a Word doc that contained some screen shots and paste it into a Wiki. None of the images copied over. What happens is the text copies over fine, but it does not copy over the images. It just leaves a blank where the image should be. Any ideas That's an interesting solution, but you have to be careful about where those images are stored when the web page filtered page is created. So, if you created the word document on your hard-drive and save it as .htm, all it does is create a file structure to save the images as .jpgs and links to those images in your .htm. So, what may have happened is that the path that links to those images ...Show All

• Smitha R Error running Sharepoint 3.0 configuration wizard - Please help!!

  I am having trouble with sharepoint configuration. It keeps bombing out with a filenNotFound error. Here is the error from the log: 02/08/2007 09:08:14 9 ERR Task services has failed with an unknown exception 02/08/2007 09:08:14 9 ERR Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.MSSITLB.IGatherApplication2.BackupRegistry(Boolean fBackupNow) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.GathererApplication.Provision() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.SPSearchServiceInstance.Synchronize(Boolean installGathererApplication) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.A ...Show All

• Tdah MOSS 2007 Forms Auth with 12k users

  I've created a web application that uses forms authentication. My forms authentication uses a custom membership and role provider to retrieve user information from an existing sql server database. The forms authentication works fine, and I'm able to login to the application as any user that is in our database. However, whenever they enter into the site collection they get an "Access Denied" error. Now, if I login into the site as an administrator and go to the Site Actions>Site Settings>People and groups I can add any user I want to this list and they are able to login to the site successful. This is great. However, we have a database that has over 12,000 users and this number goes up and down on a daily basis (due to people being re ...Show All

• Romantic_touch Error in Central Administration: No relevant source lines

  I have been able to access our Sharepoint Central Administration area in the past, but yesterday I accidentally dragged the Inetpub folder to another folder. I realized my mistake and moved it back, but since then, when I go to Central Administration in a browser, I get the error: No relevant source lines. Anyone have any idea what is wrong. I can still access the other web applications on the sharepoint server without any errors. ...Show All

• Kitz New data type

  Hi, i need to make a lookup column in list, and I want this column to have a list of columns (from another list) as a data source is that possible thanks for suggestions ...Show All

• drachx WSS 3.0 Disaster... Config database lost..

  Hi, today morning when I arrived work and try to access my sharepoint portal, I get the error "cannot connect to configuration database" .. for my surprise, I chek SQL server, and the "Sharepoint_Config" database is missing. I have no backups, and the only thing I have left is the content database "wss_content_SOMETHING" ... And I also have the "Inetpub" localfolder.. So my question is if is there anyway to recover my site with this data I have left.. Maybe creating a new configuration or new site and adding WSS_Content.. The thing is I created a new site, and this builds a new Sharepoint_config database, but I still get the same error when trying to connect. I also checked the permissons in the SQL ...Show All