Off To Las Vegas!!!
Some I’m off to Las Vegas for the SharePoint 2010 Conference! Ill be trying to do a daily update from the sessions that I attend of things of interest so stay tuned.
Archive for category: Tips and Tricks
How to view the GAC
When viewing the GAC,especially in SharePoint development, is pretty annyoing that you can actually interact with thing and you dont get the nice windows thing that allows you to say drag and drop things in there. What you do actually see is an composite view of the different files and folders that are stored within the GAC but its kind [...]
SharePointGovernace.org
A new website has been created at www.sharepointgovernance.org that details many of the governance best practices for SharePoint. Check it out as one of the things that we find with SharePoint is the lack of governance can really kill a implementation and subsequent adoption of the product.
Stack Overflow
I’ve been looking at the new, well to me anyway, site called StackOverflow. Its a great source of deep technical SharePoint questions as well as a whole bunch of other topics. Highly recommended so check it out!
Deploying solutions via stsadm vs user console
When deploying a solution within SharePoint you have two options, either using the following stsadm command: stsadm -o deploysolution -name SolutionName -local -url urltoSolutionToDeployTo Or the other option is to deploy via Solutions Management in Central Administration -> Operations -> Solutions Management as seen below: You might think that there is no difference that the process is the same for [...]
WSP Builder:Microsoft SharePoint Services Administration is not running
If you are using the awesome WSP builder then you can possibly get this error when trying to deploy a solution file: Microsoft SharePoint Service Administration is not running In order to get this working then all you need to do is go to the services module in Start > Control Panel > Administration Tools > Services Then simply set [...]
Removing specific tabs in top navigation
How to remove tabs in the top navigation menu without going crazy on the custom code
