RE: Best way to move SP designer workflows between dev, stage and Prod.

2014-12-01 Thread Wes MacDonald
I think this article will help you. You did not specify which version of SP you were on so I assumed 2013. Understanding how to package and deploy workflow in SharePoint 2013 with SharePoint Designer 2013 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj819316(v=office.15).aspx Wes From:

RE: Managed Metadata Fields

2013-09-12 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, In the past I used these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2012/04/16/programmatically-create-a-managed-metadata-list-column-mohammed-faizan.aspx http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/How-to-provision-SharePoint-2010-Managed-Metadata-columns.aspx They both use a

RE: Managed Metadata Fields

2013-09-12 Thread Wes MacDonald
these attributes and properties Sent from my iPad On 13/09/2013, at 1:46 AM, Wes MacDonald wmacdon...@like10.commailto:wmacdon...@like10.com wrote: Hi, In the past I used these two blog posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2012/04/16/programmatically-create-a-managed-metadata-list

RE: SharePoint Demo 2013

2013-03-01 Thread Wes MacDonald
The Test Lab Guides might be what you're looking for http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh872914.aspx Intranet Collaboration, Social Features and BI features can be demonstrated using these guides. Microsoft also has a whitepaper titled How to build a social media-sharing site in

RE: Info Architecture -- Sub-sites

2012-12-05 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, If you want the SharePoint 2013 managed navigation for SharePoint 2010 take a look at Archetonomy we use Mega Drop Down Professionalhttp://www.archetonomy.com/products/mega-drop-down-professional currently at one of our clients. They offer two editions: http://www.archetonomy.com/

RE: Transaction Log is full

2012-11-09 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, If the database is set to Full recovery mode (SharePoint Default) then you have to make sure you've configured backups for your database and transaction log files. If you're already doing that then this article will help you determine a course of action to deal with a full transaction

RE: Document Encryption in SharePoint 2007

2012-10-16 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, If the customer has SQL Enterprise you could use Transparent Data Encryptionhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb934049.aspx (TDE) which protects the database itself. Another option is AD RMS, while it does not encrypt documents in the document library itself, if the documents are

RE: [SP2010] Windows Updates and WSS

2012-09-18 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, My guess is you never uninstalled WSS 2.0 after upgrading to WSS 3.0 and the binaries are still installed on the server. It was optional to uninstall Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 after the upgrade, you can safely uninstall it if you wish. Regards, Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com

Windows Server 2012 does not support SharePoint Server 2010

2012-09-04 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, Just in case anyone is curious, Microsoft has a KB article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2724471 Wes ___ ozmoss mailing list ozmoss@ozmoss.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss

RE: SharePoint 2010 in VM

2012-05-31 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, You cannot install more than 1 instance (farm) of SharePoint Server 2010 on a single server/VM. For testing purposes you can have a SQL VM with more than one instance of SQL Server (one for each SharePoint Farm) or use a single instance to host multiple farms. For DEV and TEST

RE: SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

2012-03-11 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi Ajay, Are you doing an in-place upgrade or a side-by-side upgrade? If you are building a new SharePoint 2010 Farm you can attach your 2007 Content Database (SP2 or higher required) to the new Web Application. You don't need to create the site collections as they are in the content

RE: MOSS 2007 SP3 Failed

2012-03-04 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, The SharePoint Servers in the farm must be at the same service level. You are currently running an unsupported configuration. You must install updated binaries on all of the servers starting with the server hosting Central Administration (Don’t run PSConfig yet). Once all servers have

RE: Multitenancy

2012-03-01 Thread Wes MacDonald
This blog post has some great references: http://blogs.technet.com/b/provtest/archive/2010/08/06/sharepoint-2010-multi-tenancy-support-for-hosters-it-is-there-if-you-want-it.aspx specifically this whitepaper Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters

RE: Idea Management Solution

2012-02-27 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, If you already have TFS 2010 for your development you may want to have a look at TeamPulse by Telerik, it is not integrated with SharePoint but is still worth considering the Ideas and Feedback Portal extension. http://www.telerik.com/agile-project-management-tools/extensions.aspx Wes

RE: Virtualization preferences for a new SharePoint Farm

2012-02-24 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, No these are from the SharePoint 2010 documentation “Storage and SQL Server capacity planning and configuration (SharePoint Server 2010)”. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Chris

RE: Virtualization preferences for a new SharePoint Farm

2012-02-24 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, I work with organizations that use both, properly configured both hypervisors perform well. From a cost perspective ESX is more expensivehttp://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/hyper-v-benefits.aspx to license, you get live migration and clustering for free with Hyper-V

RE: Upgrading SQL Server 2008 R2 to latest Service Pack and Cumulative Update

2012-02-07 Thread Wes MacDonald
Here is the original page from TechNet for SharePoint 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx PowerPivot for SharePoint (SQL 2008 R2): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210640.aspx PowerPivot for SharePoint and SSRS in SharePoint Mode (SQL 2012 requires

RE: problem customising library editform

2012-02-04 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, Is it possible the permissions are different on this particular list (broken inheritance) and you don't have permission? Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Maxine Harwood Sent: February-03-12 8:01 PM To: ozMOSS Subject: problem customising

RE: problem customising library editform

2012-02-04 Thread Wes MacDonald
To: ozMOSS Subject: Re: problem customising library editform Don't think so, I'm farm administrator. Sent from Max's iPad On 04/02/2012, at 9:54 PM, Wes MacDonald wmacdon...@like10.commailto:wmacdon...@like10.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible the permissions are different on this particular list

RE: 2010 CUs and SPs

2012-02-01 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, I do not think the CA server must be run last but you must run the configuration wizard on all servers in the farm. Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: February-01-12 4:33 PM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: 2010 CUs and SPs OK.

RE: Sharepoint Foundations - Site Template Error

2011-11-30 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, What I usually do in that situation is edit the web.config and Enable Debugging so SharePoint shows me the detailed error message in the browser - sometimes that helps. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee231550.aspx You could also use PowerShell to lookup your Correlation ID.

RE: Dev Server Slow Down after Windows Update!

2011-09-29 Thread Wes MacDonald
Is it possible this is related to your problem? http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2011/09/19/update-on-september-security-bulletin-ms11-074-and-sharepoint-2010-issues.aspx Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 Microsoft

RE: Upgrade SQL server to Win2008/SQL2008 for MOSS farm

2011-08-10 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, We did the Move all databases to a different database serverhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725(office.12).aspx#Section1 (similar) procedure at a client approximately 2 years ago and we did not experience any issues in production. In regards to SQL performance

RE: Send Email

2011-07-01 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, Sorry no documentation hereI hope this is of some help. I have used this class in the past and here is a sample below: StringDictionary messageHeaders = new StringDictionary(); messageHeaders.Add(to, sTo); messageHeaders.Add(cc, sCc); messageHeaders.Add(bcc, sBcc); messageHeaders.Add(from,

RE: SharePoint capacity testing tool

2011-05-20 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, Visual Studio 2008 Ultimate or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate can do Load Testing/Web Performance Tests (500 and 250 simulated users respectively). The SharePoint Administration toolkit has a Load Testing Kit in it also: Load Testing Kit (SharePoint Server

RE: WSS 3.0 SQL Express 4GB limit

2011-02-08 Thread Wes MacDonald
Supported Upgrade Paths for SQL 2008 R2 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx How to Upgrade http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144267.aspx Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Uzma Naz Sent: Tuesday, February 08,

RE: WSS 3.0 SQL Express 4GB limit

2011-02-07 Thread Wes MacDonald
You could always upgrade to SQL 2008 R2 Express which has a limit of 10Gb. Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Uzma Naz Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 6:38 AM To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com Subject: WSS 3.0 SQL Express 4GB limit Hi there, I was

RE: SP2010 - October updates - Reissued

2010-12-01 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, If you applied the original October 2010 CUs, you will only need to apply the new replacement updates and your SharePoint installation will be updated. The same applies if you performed the work aroundhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/11/06/details-and-workaround.aspx.

RE: SharePoint 2010 Easy Setup Script

2010-10-28 Thread Wes MacDonald
Correct. Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:25 PM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: SharePoint 2010 Easy Setup Script Can I please get confirmation that when installing both updates synchronously I do not

RE: 32/64 bit SQL Server...issues?

2010-04-12 Thread Wes MacDonald
them to the 64-bit system. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966519.aspx Wes Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 Microsoft MVP: Visual Studio ALMhttps://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Wes.MacDonald | Bloghttp

RE: Event Handler Not Firing

2010-02-12 Thread Wes MacDonald
I have used this tool in the past to attach an assembly to a specific list and event for testing: http://www.entwicklungsgedanken.de/2008/02/29/tool-eventreceiver-installer-for-sharepoint/ Wes Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4

RE: outlook 2010 bloated messages

2010-02-11 Thread Wes MacDonald
Just in case here is the link to the fix: http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/02/11/fix-for-message-size-issue-in-outlook-2010-beta.aspx Wes From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: January-26-10 8:18 PM To: ozMOSS

RE: My SharePoint Sites

2010-02-02 Thread Wes MacDonald
Does the W7 PC have the Office Live Add-in installed? I have seen it cause issues accessing the site if the page name is not included in the Url. This was addressed in a CU after SP2 I think. Wes Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4

RE: My SharePoint Sites

2010-02-02 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, What zone does internet explorer show for the Url on W7, if is not Intranet integrated windows authentication won't work. Wes Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 Microsoft MVP: Visual Developer - Team Systemhttps

RE: Error when running config wizard

2009-11-03 Thread Wes MacDonald
: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Wes MacDonald Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 8:45 AM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: Error when running config wizard Hi Mike, Here is a extract of the web.config for my Central Admin Website, in the system.web tag you should have

RE: Content Types - Exporting and importing

2009-11-02 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, I am not sure it can be converted, but Gary Lapoint has some stsadm extensions like this one that might help you. http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2008/02/export-content-types.html Wes Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 Microsoft MVP

RE: Error when running config wizard

2009-10-30 Thread Wes MacDonald
=b03f5f7f11d50a3a / /httpHandlers customErrors mode=On / httpRuntime maxRequestLength=51200 / authentication mode=Windows / identity impersonate=true / authorization allow users=* / /authorization httpModules ... ... ... Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa

RE: Error when running config wizard

2009-10-23 Thread Wes MacDonald
Your CA web.config should also have Authentication mode=Windows / element set. Wes Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 Microsoft MVP: Visual Developer - Team Systemhttps://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Wes.MacDonald | Bloghttp

RE: Upgrading Farm to .NET Framework 3.5

2009-07-24 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, Just make sure you apply all the .NET updates afterwards, the .NET Family Updateshttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6C095BBA-6100-4EC9-9C54-6450B0212565displaylang=en

RE: Help

2009-05-19 Thread Wes MacDonald
Hi, You need to have copies (backups) of your web.config in order to avoid this message. Restore the web.config at the same time you restore the DB and all will be well. Wes Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 Microsoft MVP: Visual

RE: System.Runtime.Interopservices.COMException - Fresh install

2009-05-19 Thread Wes MacDonald
Are you doing an RTM, SP1 or SP2 install of MOSS, what is the version and patch level of your SQL Server? Wes Wes MacDonald LIKE 10 INC.http://www.like10.ca/ 1150 - 45 O'Connor Street Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 Microsoft MVP: Visual Developer - Team Systemhttps://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile