RE: [OzMOSS] VS Project type for feature - a few questions

2008-11-30 Thread STRINGFELLOW Mike (Con) 
Use '.Recycle' first off!

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Noone
Sent: Monday, 1 December 2008 10:57 AM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] VS Project type for feature - a few questions

 

Many thanks for all the advice so far. I'm hoping it'll just keep coming! J

 

I've successfully deployed my solution and activated the feature for my site 
collection.

 

All my libraries now have the Delete All action (security trimmed) and Copy 
Item ECB command. Nice!

 

The Delete All Items action works great. In fact it works too well! I was 
expecting some kind of confirmation, or at least to find the deleted items in 
the user recycle bin. But it seems the item is completely removed and not 
retrievable. K

 

I fear my code is far too simplistic/brutal and possibly quite dangerous in its 
current state. Ideally I'd like to add a confirmation dialog (at least) that 
perhaps includes a checkbox to Permanently Delete All Items, or default to 
moving them to end-user or admin recycle bin.

 

Can the following source be easily modified to accommodate this?

 

à SOURCE - DeleteAllListAction.aspx

 

%

SPWeb oWeb = SPContext.Current.Web; 

 

SPList oList = oWeb.Lists[new Guid(Context.Request[List])];

 

oWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;



for (int c = oList.Items.Count - 1; c = 0; c--)

oList.Items[c].Delete();



Context.Response.Redirect(oWeb.Url + / + oList.RootFolder.Url);   

%

 

All advice much appreciated.

 

Am also having some trouble with the Copy Item command but am changning all 
this so it's handled by a cookie and will allow pasting to a different location.

 

Regards,

Paul

 

From: Paul Noone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2008 2:40 PM
To: Clayton James
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] VS Project type for feature - a few questions

 

Thanks again. Was just doing so. J

 

Regards,

Paul

Online Developer, ICT
CEO Sydney

From: Clayton James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2008 3:37 PM
To: Paul Noone
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] VS Project type for feature - a few questions

 

MS have release a user guide on using VSeWSS so make sure you download and have 
a look.

 

Lots of nice examples to get you started.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A8A4E775-074D-4451-BE39-459921F79787displaylang=en

 

cheers

 

CJ



From: Paul Noone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 28/11/2008 3:29 PM
To: Clayton James
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] VS Project type for feature - a few questions

Cheers mate. Much more user-friendly than AC's article which I'd already given 
myself a headache over.

 

The lack of offical documentation for this sort of stuff is really quite 
aggravating.

 

Cheers,

 

Paul

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clayton James
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2008 2:53 PM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] VS Project type for feature - a few questions

 

Hi Paul

 

VSeWSS doesn't have an exact template for Custom Actions.

 

You first create a Empty sharepoint project and then add a new Module template.

 

I have an example here. This example creates a custom action for a code behind 
page in sharepoint.

http://claytonj.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/sharepoint-code-behind-demo-using-vsewss11/

 

HTH

 

CJ



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paul Noone
Sent: Fri 28/11/2008 11:43 AM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: [OzMOSS] VS Project type for feature - a few questions

Hi all,

 

I finally have some developer questions! This is my first foray into creating a 
feature for MOSS so please be gentle. J

 

I have created a custom list action and a 'copy item' command for the ECB and 
would now like to deploy them with a single feature.

 

I now have the following files and folder structure:

 

CopyDeleteAll.ListActions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\CEOCopyDeleteAllListAction\feature.xml

CopyDeleteAll.ListActions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\CEOCopyDeleteAllListAction\actions.xml

 

CEO.CopyDeleteAll.ListActions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\myCustomPages\CopyListItemECB.aspx

CEO.CopyDeleteAll.ListActions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\myCustomPages\DeleteAllListAction.aspx

 

So far so good.

 

I would now like to wrap everything up in a solution but WSPBuilder Extensions 
expects a project file.

 

So...

 

Questions:

-  What type of  project file should I start with for something like this? 
I have the VSeWSS for VS 2008 installed.

-  Do I install on the application server or (one of) the web front ends?

-  Can I set the scope to Site?

-  Is there anything preventing me from just copying the files to their 
destination manually?

-  Does this require an IIS reset?

-  Is there anything else I should know?

Thanks in advance,


Paul

 

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RE: [OzMOSS] RE: VS Project type for feature - a few questions

2008-11-27 Thread STRINGFELLOW Mike (Con) 
I liked wspbuilder to start from (in VS 2005), but once you've got the
idea, it's just as easy (and more controllable as I've had stuff
released I didn't want) to edit the features, elements, onet, solution
ddf and manifest xml files yourself - none of the 3rd part or MS
solutions are perfect, so you'll probably end up editing what the
builders give you for some requirements anyway - unpack some CABs and
have a look at what they contain.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Paul Noone
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2008 12:46 PM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] RE: VS Project type for feature - a few questions

 

Thanks Jeffrey and Caroline.

 

So what do people recommend for solution generation? STSDEV or
WSPBuilder.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Jeffery Tsui
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2008 1:58 PM
To: listserver@ozmoss.com
Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] RE: VS Project type for feature - a few questions

 

You can add the instruction in manifest.xml that controls whether WSS
will run IISRESET on each front-end Web server after the output solution
package has been deployed, upgraded, or retracted.

sample manifest.xml

Solution




  SolutionId=24F91DED-8BA7-4633-8BA0-4C9B2A4387D7




  ResetWebServer=True 









 
  xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/; 




  !--TEMPLATE files--




  TemplateFiles




TemplateFile




  Location=IMAGES\HelloWorld\AfricanPith32.gif /









 
  /TemplateFiles




/Solution

STSDEV is very useful in terms of building sharepoint solution,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337895.aspx

Cheers
Jeffery

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Caroline Specker (AU)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Paul,

 

I will have to skip your first question about wsp builder, but i'm sure
someone else will answer that one for you.

 

As for the rest:

 

To clarify, a solution is a collection of features that you install onto
a SharePoint farm.

 

Once you have your solution file (eg whatever.wsp) you install it by
running the stsadm command addsolution
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263162.aspx).  You can run
this on a server that has central admin on it.  Because you are
installing a solution it will automatically install each feature in the
solution onto every web front end on the farm.  

 

When you create a feature you can set the scope for the feature to Web,
Site, WebApplication or Farm.  Look at this link to see what elements in
a feature can be scoped at different levels:
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861828.aspx).  A custom
action can be scoped at any of these levels.

 

Why do you want to copy the files manually when you can run a simple
command line to do it properly for you?  If you were to go down the path
of installing individual features that were not wrapped up in a solution
you would have to copy the files to their destination manually, and then
run a command on each WFE to install the feature, but solutions remove
that requirement.

 

I believe that installing a solution will do an iis reset automatically
for you.  Sombody please correct me here if I am wrong.

 

Other things you should know:  Once you have installed the solution that
means it is available in Central Admin.  You still need to deploy the
solution to sites.  This effectively makes the features inside the
solution available to the areas you deploy it do.  You can deploy the
solution either through stsadm deploysolution
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262459.aspx), or from
Central AdminOperationsSolutions Management.  

 

Hope this helps.

 

Caroline



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul
Noone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2008 11:43 AM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: [OzMOSS] VS Project type for feature - a few questions

Hi all,

 

I finally have some developer questions! This is my first foray into
creating a feature for MOSS so please be gentle. J

 

I have created a custom list action and a 'copy item' command for the
ECB and would now like to deploy them with a single feature.

 

I now have the following files and folder structure:

 

CopyDeleteAll.ListActions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\CEOCopyDeleteAllListActio
n\feature.xml

CopyDeleteAll.ListActions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\CEOCopyDeleteAllListActio
n\actions.xml

 

CEO.CopyDeleteAll.ListActions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\myCustomPages\CopyList
ItemECB.aspx

CEO.CopyDeleteAll.ListActions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\myCustomPages\DeleteAl
lListAction.aspx

 

So far so good.

 

I would now like to wrap everything up in a solution but WSPBuilder
Extensions expects a project file.

 

So...

 

Questions:

-  What type of  project file should I start with for something like
this? I have the VSeWSS for VS 2008 installed.

-  Do I install on the application server or (one of) the web front
ends?

-  Can I set the scope to Site?

-  Is there

RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS Content deployment Errors

2008-05-06 Thread STRINGFELLOW Mike (Con) 
I had huge fun (not) with the import/export API trying to do something similar 
but in code.

 

I’ve NOT used the Content Deployment Manage/Settings pages, but these are the 
thing I found out using the API directly:

 

Usually inconsistencies in the two structures were causing me problems. If that 
doesn’t seem to be the case, other things to look at:

 

The import/export classes have a logfilelocation property – I 
presume you have looked at those logs, (but might just be the same as the job 
report)?

 

The classes have a large number of options – things like ExcludeDependencies on 
the export and RetainObjectIdentity on the import may be tripping you up.

 

You can break up the export/import manually to test things in code– maybe try 
the list on its own to see what happens? You can also use STSADM to test 
things, although many of the properties aren’t available (probably STSDEV has 
these).

 

Make sure you are up to date with patches/releases in source and destination, 
and I also seem to remember there is a hotfix to do with content deploy if 
appropriate.


Hope something here helps.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski
Sent: Tuesday, 6 May 2008 1:44 PM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: [OzMOSS] MOSS Content deployment Errors

 

Dear All,

 

I am having a fun time trying to get content deployment working between a 
staging and production server and was wondering if anyone else has found any 
gotchas or potential settings I have missed getting this working.

I performed the following steps:

 

1.   On the destination server farm, create an empty site collection based 
on the Blank Site template to receive the initial deployment job.

 

2.   On the destination farm, on the Content Deployment Settings page in 
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Central Administration, configure the farm to 
accept incoming deployment jobs, assign a front-end server as the import server 
to manage incoming deployment jobs, and specify whether or not to require 
encryption on the connection between the source and destination farms.

 

3.   On the source farm, on the Content Deployment Settings page, assign a 
front-end server as the export server to manage outgoing deployment jobs.

 

4.   On the source farm, on the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs 
page in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Central Administration, create one or 
more deployment paths.

 

5.   On the source farm, on the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs 
page, create one or more deployment jobs for each path.

 

6.   Run the initial deployment job to initiate the content on the 
destination farm.

 

7.   If the path does not deploy all security information, then on the 
destination farm, create the initial set of users, roles, and permissions on 
content and sites.

 

From this article:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f/?en-us/library/edcdacca-8013-460e-95a0-d2b83b6cc7ef1033.mspx

 

and also followed this one:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261732.aspx

 

 

The content deploy job runs and the .cab files get created and sent up to the 
production server no worries. The error I keep getting is that the list 
‘/contact’ exists and cannot be overwritten during import. This is weird, 
especially in light of the fact that I have created a blank site collection to 
do the initial deployment drop. I have even tried to do an export and import to 
get the server all setup with master pages etc and I get an even stranger error 
when trying to do a deploy.

I have heard of problems with this technology but didn’t figure it would be 
this troublesome.

I am using domain admin service accounts to perform the deploy so I don’t think 
this is a security issue.

 

Do tools like Tzunami and Echo get around this?

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Anything obvious I should be checking for? I 
have checked the event logs etc and they aren’t very helpful.

 

Cheers,

Aaron

 

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RE: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation

2008-05-06 Thread STRINGFELLOW Mike (Con) 
Fixed. Specifically, the issue I got was:

 

Could not bind to the 'EncodedName' property (specified by TextField)
while data binding TreeView.  Please check the Bindings fields.

 

Using:

 

SPnavControls:PortalSiteMapDataSource ID=SPPortalSiteMapDataSource
Runat=server SiteMapProvider=CurrentNavSiteMapProvider
EnableViewState=true StartFromCurrentNode=false
StartingNodeOffset=0 ShowStartingNode=true /

SPwebControls:SPTreeView ID=SPTreeViewSiteMap runat=server
DataSourceID=SPPortalSiteMapDataSource UseInternalDataBindings=false
ExpandDepth=3 /

 

I tried an encoded provider which didn't help, but setting the
UseInternalDataBindings property to false fixed things for me.

 

Onto my custom provider now.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of STRINGFELLOW Mike (Con)
Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 9:41 AM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation

 

Excellent stuff. Do you have an example of binding this custom site map
provider to a control in a page layout in VS, such as a tree view?

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Ishai Sagi
Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:11 AM
To: listserver@ozMOSS.com
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation

 

I was suggesting that you develop a custom SiteMapProvider, most
probably by inheriting from SPSiteMapProvider or PortalSiteMapProvider

Look at Implementing Site Map Providers in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897739.aspx  which has a nice
code sample how to override PortalSiteMapProvider and add items to it
- your custom code can then add site collections to it.

 

It can be a bit complex at first, but I managed to do what you are after
in a few hours. The main trick here is security and caching (make sure
that users only see the menu items they are allowed to see, and cache
the data on a user level cache). 

 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Kanwartej Singh Basrai
Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 09:40 AM
To: listserver@ozmoss.com
Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation

 

Ishai, Thanks for the response. Just to clarify, When you say navigation
providers, do you mean writing a custom sitemap file and hooking that up
in the web.config file as per this example
http://blah.winsmarts.com/2008-1-Implementing_Consistent_Navigation_acro
ss_Site_Collections.aspx 

 

Or do you mean, writing a feature that implements SpNavigationProvider
and override methods like getchildnodesetc. Not sure pro's and cons
about either approach but i could only find these 2 ways of achieving
this.

 

kind regards

Tej

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ishai Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

Tej,

No need to write your own navigation control - you need to write your
own navigation provider and connect it to the built-in control.

 

There are many samples for navigation providers on the web - and it is
pretty easy to modify them to do what you want. I was thinking of
writing about this, but never got the time.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Kanwartej Singh Basrai
Sent: Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:01 PM
To: listserver@ozmoss.com
Subject: [OzMOSS] Multiple site collection navigation

 

Hi Guys,

 

We have a web application which has multiple site collections. The
client wants a navigation which shows consistent navigation on all the
site collections. So instead of having Home and sub sites in the
navigation they want to display all the site collections. Is there an
easy way to do this in moss or do you have to write your own navigation
control?

 

Would really appreciate any help i can get.

Thanks in advance

 

Tej

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RE: [OzMOSS] Create a SharePoint List from a Solution deployed ListTemplate

2008-02-26 Thread STRINGFELLOW Mike (Con) 
What's a type 115? If it's your own new list template type, I think they
recommend you use a unique number greater than 1.

 

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mossms 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Jeremy Thake
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2008 1:42 PM
To: listserver@ozmoss.com
Subject: [OzMOSS] Create a SharePoint List from a Solution deployed
ListTemplate

 

I've created a Solution with a feature file and an elements.xml file
with this definition:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
Elements xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/;

ListTemplate 
Name=CPMiningInvoiceList 
DisplayName=CP Mining Invoice List 
Type=115 
Description=This is the invoice list. 
BaseType=0 
OnQuickLaunch=FALSE 
SecurityBits=11 /

/Elements

and then created a schema.xml file. I did this by running an export from
the SharePoint Solution Generator pointing it at a brand new created
SharePoint Form Library.

I created the wsp from this and installed it on my site. I then manually
created the List based on the ListTemplate. When I did this I received
an error in the Web interface:

Cannot complete this action. 

Please try again.   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.CreateListFromFormPo
st(String bstrUrl, String pbstrGuid, String pbstrNextUrl) 
   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.CreateListFromFormPost(String
bstrUrl, String pbstrGuid, String pbstrNextUrl) 

Further investigation in the logs found an error:

Application error when access /_layouts/new.aspx, Error=Cannot complete
this action.  Please try again.   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.CreateListFromFormPo
st(String bstrUrl, Stringamp; pbstrGuid, Stringamp; pbstrNextUrl)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.CreateListFromFormPost(String
bstrUrl, Stringamp; pbstrGuid, Stringamp; pbstrNextUrl)

Searching Google there was hardly anything on this error!

Can anyone give me some advice here?

Thanks,
Jeremy Thake
http://wss.made4the.net/
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RE: [SPAM] RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS V-Motio

2008-02-06 Thread STRINGFELLOW Mike (Con) 
I vaguely remember that work Paul – but I’m amazed you’ve got all those figures 
in your head still!

 

I think Sezai might be able to attest to any general issues using a well set up 
SQL/SharePoint/SAN infrastructure. If funds allow, my experience has been that 
a well configured vmware solution is preferable given all the manageability 
benefits, with few issues arising.

 

Mike

 

MOSSuMS

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2008 2:50 PM
To: listserver@ozmoss.com
Subject: Re: [SPAM] RE: [OzMOSS] MOSS  V-Motio

 

(put my CIsco hat on for a sec)..  In terms of IO and bottlenecks I did some 
work on this a few years back when we contractually had to guarantee a minimim 
media streaming throughput on a gigabit network. 

Once you go beyond 100mbit (and any virtual server infrastructure likely uses 
several teamed gigabit adapters), the PCI bus kicks in as an IO constraint. But 
PCI-X specification took care of that as it at the time did 133MB/s or 
1064Mb/sec (gigabit speed - and this was 6 years ago so and is faster now).

So once you move past bus speeds, for us, disk IO constraints kicked in at 
around 5-600mbit/sec. Of course, there are lots of dependencies here, but we 
were testing on seriously good hardware (for its time) on large compaq raid 
arrays. If we streamed data from memory, we acheived 992mbit on a gigabit 
network. If we read from disk it went down to 600-650mbit.

Even based on figures from 6 years ago, 600mbit is plenty to handle a heavy 
load SQL server for most sites :-)

Now VM or no VM, if the disk infrastructure is on a SAN, we know that PCI 
bottlenecks are unlikely to become an issue and fibre channel is 2 or 4 
gigabit. You could still hit constraints if enough VM's worked hard enough at 
he same time, but for the most part, it all comes down to the disk 
infrastucture you have.

I do know of companies that run production VM's because they have all of the 
same advantages of using VM's for Dev, but they always put their data on a 
fast, redundant disk infrastructire. They planned things properly by estimating 
future peak I/O requirements of their VM's and ensured that the VM hardware was 
sized for those peak loads.

Thus I don't see a problem with SharePoint/SQL on production VM's when properly 
sized and planned for. In fact I know IBM engineers who swear by this 
arrangment for Exchange as well (and Microsoft definitely does not support 
exchange on VM's)

regards

Paul


On Wed Feb 6 13:26 , Dave Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Mainly networking issues and high proc and IO's that choke a virtual 
server.  You need one heck of a virtual environment for a SQL server. Since 
MOSS makes many more calls than the previous version of SharePoint, SQL 
utilization goes up.
Dave P.







Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:06:46 +0900
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: listserver@ozmoss.com
Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] MOSS  V-Motio

Dave is there any way you could elaborate more on not seen SQL do 
well just out of interest.

Thanks
Jeremy Thake
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On Feb 6, 2008 1:55 PM, Dave Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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I have seen several issues with MOSS when you virtualize SQL.  It is 
not recommended. You can virtualize the WFE's, but I have not seen SQL do well 
in a virtual environment.
What are the specs on the virtual environment?
 
Dave P.







Subject: [OzMOSS] MOSS  V-Motion
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:03:08 +1100
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Hi all,

We currently have a client who has a virtual SharePoint environment. 
Virtual Web/Application Server and a virtual SQL Server.

We are seeing, when the web/application server is v-motion, a whole 
stack of database connectivity errors appear in the event log, the SharePoint 
logs bloat to massive size and owstimer.exe is peaking out.

My initial investigation has revealed that while v-motion is happening, 
network connectivity between the web/application server and the SQL server is 
lost.

Has anyone encountered this before, as this seems like a common setup 
and if so, is there a work around for this (we have currently set the 
web/application and SQL server not to v-motion and be static).

Thanks,

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