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Ever wonder how to add entries to the Portal Log?  Well, you can do this the easy way by using Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString but there always seems to be those cases where you want more flexibility than just adding a basic message to the logfile.  For example, you may want to flag things as Information or maybe ...

To deploy IMM, one of the prereq's is to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1... we had done this on two different dev servers with no ill effects.  However, turns out in production, there is a slight side effect that was causing us some major problems.  The main difference between the two environments is that production has 3 front ends and is ...

I am building some web parts that include some AJAX functionality and found out that any inline scripts I was outputting in my updatepanel were not being executed.  The blog post below offers a great explanation on this... basically, use ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript with your updatepanel control to add scripts that should be executed ...

Something has been brought to my attention today that I wanted to share... most people use elevated privileges but don't pass the user token... check out this post for more info. Daniel Larson's Developer Blog: SharePoint Elevated Privilege without RunWithElevatedPrivelege

Recently I was asked how we could show and hide things based on user permission, without writing a custom MOSS feature with c# code.  There are a couple ways to do this and rather than me spending type typing up a how to or show examples, I've looked up a couple examples other people have provided on the net: SPSecurityTrimmedControl - ...

Some useful links that help guide a configuration of SharePoint when using Kerberos... How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication How to use SPNs when you configure Web applications that are hosted on IIS 6.0 How to ...

As yet I have not tested this, but it sounds good.  especially useful for large lookups, which in standard InfoPath are pretty painfully slow due to the massive amount of code that is produced by InfoPath Forms Services.  This method would mean that you could write your own code which is much more efficient.  Although to be honest ...

Looking at Mark Harrison's blog, he points out that version 2 of the MOSS faceted search is available. Not having seen this tool before I thought I would have a look.  It seems pretty useful, but probably I need to test a lot more with many documents before I can really tell.  But it seems to add an element of guided ...

There seem to be some people in the big world of blogging that have posted that the correct way to get Outlook messages to be correctly crawled and made searchable within Sharepoint is to edit the registry. They are now out of date, as Microsoft have released a Filter Pack that provides this functionality, albeit undocumented. The 3 blogs I have ...

Recently I have been customising MOSS search results pages using XSLT and am quite pleased with the results ;-). However, one requirement from our customer was to break up the document url into it's component parts and provide links to site and library and folder separately. In essence this is quite easy to do using Javascript splits and slices ...