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SharePoint Designer — Custom activity to execute user-defined C# functions

UPDATE: This has been released to CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/spdwfextensions UPDATE: See here for latest release notes: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!381.entry UPDATE: See here for my thoughts on commerci…

SPD Workflow custom action – get the <WorkflowInfo> tag right to avoid frustration

Part of the process for creating a custom action for SharePoint Designer involves create a ".actions" file. I’ve found and tried to use a sample template which starts off as: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>…

Quick and Simple: Configure MOSS to search a specific document library

See UPDATE (I) below (11/24/07) on How to Configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Index and Crawl Network Folders for Search Objective: I want to execute a search restricted to a specific document library. In this case, the document …

GUID of ContentTypes using SPContentType

The following code snippet can be used to retrieve the GUID of the Content Types used in SharePoint. using (SPSite site = new SPSite(“http://servername:9000/Pages/Default.aspx”)){ using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) { SPContentT…

No soup for you! Is Cisco the Soup Nazi of NLB products?

Today, I tried to access a document library via windows explorer. This doc lib is living inside a system that consists of two WFE’s load balanced by some kind of Cisco NLB solution. (If/when the network wizards tell me what it is, I’ll…

Managing MOSS / WSS Environments — keeping up with Microsoft’s knowledge base

Microsoft creates knowledge base articles day in and day out and some of those are darned important to know about if you live in the SharePoint world. I keep up to speed with them via a service provide by the good folks at www.kbalertz.com. KBAlertz…

Web Application Policy, Security Sites and Security Trimming — Know your configuration

(UPDATED 11/29 to explain how to access web application policy settings via the UI) I had one of those "why is MOSS doing this to me????" moments today. In the end, it’s all my fault. We have an enterprise MOSS project going on and we…

Quick and Simple: Use Fixed Keyword Query in Search Core Results

Quick and Simple Instructions: Edit a page and add a Search Core Results web part. Edit that web part and expand "Fixed Keyword Query". Add the fixed keyword query (e.g. ContentType:"Training invoice" TrainingInvoiceNumber:1111) Exp…

Tell me about your blog!

If you maintain a blog that is at least minimally connected to SharePoint, please let me know in comments. I would love to add you to my blog list. If you maintain a blog that is not connected to SharePoint but want me to add it anyway, let me know….

Employee Training Schedule and Materials Template — Decrement bug in the template

The client noticed a bug today with the above mentioned template. Course managers create courses. When creating a course, the manager specifies maximum number of available seats. The template provides for self-service enrollment. I enroll and …