WSS 3.0 vs MOSS 2007

The Following Article has comparisons in component level in WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007

WSS 3.0 vs MOSS 2007

How to Install IIS 7.0 in Windows Server 2008

How to Install IIS 7.0 in Windows Server 2008

Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Server Manager

Click Roles

Click Add Roles

Click Next

Select Web Server (IIS) and Click Next

Click Next

Select Additional Components to be installed

Click ASP .Net in Application Development

Popup will be shown, Select Click Add Required Role Services

Confirmation Screen will show the list of roles and features to be installed.

Then Click Install to start Installing Features.

Result will be displayed with the status of features and roles installtion

Click Close.

Start -> Run -> InetMgr to open IIS admin Console

MOSS 2007 Administration Toolkit

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. This toolkit contains two new functions – the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and an Stsadm operation to update alert e-mails after the URL for a Web application has been changed.

Download it here……

How to Enable Anonymous Access in MOSS 2007

To Enable anonymous access in MOSS 2007 Site.
Select the Allow Anonymous option while creating new web application in creation screen.

Now the web application is enabled to allow anonymous users.
Now the permission set for the anonymous users has to be defined.
Next we need to provide site level permission for the anonymous users.

Open the Site
Site Action ->
Site Settings ->
(Users and Permissions) Advanced Permission

In permission page
click Settings -> Anonymous Access

choose the permission for the anonymous users at lists/library level or Entire web site or Nothing

How to Debug Feature Receiver Assemblies in Visual Studio – MOSS 2007

If you try to activate the feature using stsadm command you will not be able to debug the feature receiver assemblies.

Open the Site collection features in

Site Actions ->

Site Settings ->

Modify All Site Settings ->

Site Collection Administration -> Site Collection features

  • Attach the w3wp.exe process in visual studio.
  • Place breakpoints.
  • Then Activate the feature in site collection features

Set Default Text for RichHtmlField in MOSS 2007

In WCM most of you guys may use RichHtmlField in publishing Layout.
To set default text property to RichHtmlField using HTML property to pass your default text.

Example:
[PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField FieldName=”CountrySectionTitle3″ runat=”server” id=”RichHtmlField5″ AllowExternalUrls=”true” AllowFonts=”true” AllowHeadings=”false” AllowHtmlSourceEditing=”false” AllowHyperlinks=”true” AllowImages=”false” AllowLists=”false” AllowReusableContent=”false” AllowTables=”false” AllowTextMarkup=”false” Html=”[html][body][p]–Default Text–[/p][/body][/html]”] [/PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField]

Note:
Sorry Guyz, Still i am not able to post the tags pls replace ‘[‘ with ‘<' and ']' with '>‘

MOSS 2007 Patches after SP1

Some of the Patches released by microsoft for MOSS 2007 after SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941274
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942819
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948945
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948947
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948957
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949402/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949955/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950280/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950292/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950487/en-us

How to Change the Background Color of WebPart Title

Hey Guys,
I got a requirement from the business to change the Background color of the webpart title for Out of Box webparts. Then i started looking on CSS I found the following CSS class which overrides the style of WebPart Title.

.ms-WPHeader TD
{
border-bottom:0px solid #4e7cb7;
border-collapse:collapse;
}

Change this class as per your requirement then you are done….

.ms-WPHeader TD{
height:40px;
background-color: #0174DF;
font-size: larger;
font-weight: bold;
border-bottom:0px solid #4e7cb7;
border-collapse:collapse;
}

ADFS Error : The AD FS auditing subsystem could not register itself with the system. The auditing privilege is not held.

The issue will araise the account doesnt have audit permission to log audit events.

To Resolve
To grant a domain principal the Generate Security Audits privilege:

After you identify this account,
click Start, point to Administrative Tools, click
Local Security Policy, and then click Local Policies.
Click User Rights Assignment.
In the details pane, right-click Generate Security Audits, and then click Properties.
Add the account.

Refer TechNet Article

How to Deploy Solution Package in MOSS 2007

To deploy the solution package like *.wsp or *.cab in SharePoint FARM.
first we need to add the solution package file to the solution store, then it can be deployed at web application level or in FARM level(Global Deployment).
Use the following stsadm command to add the solution to the deployment store.
stsadm -0 addsolution -filename solutionpackage.wsp

Now the solution is successfully added to solution store, then deploy the solution to web app/global deployment

To deploy the solution execute the following stsadm command

stsadm -o deploysolution -name -immediate
(To Deploy the solution Immediately, if required particular time can be specified to deploy the solution)

Done…..Now the solution file succesfully deployed globally.
If the solution package is specific to web application -url parameter can be specified.