Monthly Archives: January 2010

How to Hide a SharePoint Document Library

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I had a recent question on not only how to remove permissions to a particular SharePoint Library, but hide it as well without deleting any content. This same steps can also hide any other list within SharePoint.

In essence SharePoint wants to not only want to share everything, but show you everything as well. This is just an inherent trait within SharePoint that makes it so great. If you need to not only remove permissions and hide the Document Library you will need to take the following steps.

As we can see below we have an existing document library called ‘HideMe’ Continue reading →

Using a DotNetNuke auth database for a SharePoint FBA database

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While there are a fair number of sites outline how to set up a Forms based authentication (FBA) front end using an new empty SQL database. An excellent one by my co-worker Corey Burke at Rackspace is SharePoint Voodoo: Easy-Bake Forms Based Authentication. There are none that outline the process of using a new FBA with an existing DotNetNuke authentication database.

1. Create your FBA site with a new blank FBA database back-end. For this purposes I will call the FBA database ‘FBA-DB’ and the DotNetNuke database as ‘DNN-DB’.

In this instance we were lucky because both database bases use a standard authentication database from Microsoft when the aspnet_regsql command is used. When we create a blank FBA database it will have the standard database structure like the one pictured below. Continue reading →

SharePoint Site Prompts for Multiple Authentications while Opening a Document

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Recently I had a customer who when they tried to open a Word document in their Shared Documents they received multiple prompts from Internet Explorer and Word. This seems to typically happen when the SharePoint site/server is remotely hosted.

What happens is that IE will force this behavior because it does not believe that the SharePoint site is to be trusted. We can work around this designed behavior.

First we have to check to make sure Client Integration is turned on. Go to the following site within SharePoint Central Admin. Continue reading →

SharePoint Site Prompts for Multiple Authentications while Opening a Document

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Recently I had a customer who when they tried to open a Word document in their Shared Documents they received multiple prompts from Internet Explorer and Word. This seems to typically happen when the SharePoint site/server is remotely hosted.

What happens is that IE will force this behavior because it does not believe that the SharePoint site is to be trusted. We can work around this designed behavior.

First we have to check to make sure Client Integration is turned on. Go to the following site within SharePoint Central Admin. Continue reading →

Setup SharePoint Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with Active Directory

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This Article will explain how to set up Forms Based Authentication using an Active Directory backend.

Your default site is required to be a Windows Authentication provider. This is due to the fact that you the search and backup process will break if the default is anything other than a standard Windows provider.  This will require you to extend the existing site. Here is an example.

portal.domain.com —> extended to —> fba.domain.com

Windows login: portal.domain.com
FBA login: fba.domain.com

In our example we will be using the following typical variables which you will have to change to suit your particular needs in the appropriate web.config files.

Membership Provider name=”ENIGMA”
Role manager name=”ENIGMAROLE”
server=”domain.com”
userContainer=”DC=Domain,DC=com”

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How to add a STP template for a new SharePoint site collection

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To  add STP template for a new SharePoint site collection you will need to take the following steps in command line using the stsadm.exe command. These type of tempales are called ‘Server Admin Tempalates’.

The command is as follows. Note that the description is optional.

stsadm -o addtemplate -filename <template filename> -title <template title> [-description <template description>]

You will be prompted to do an iisreset to complete the template installation. Once iisreset is complete login to a web site create a new site and under “Custom” tab for “Template Selection” you should see your new template as an option. You can find greate Microsoft tempales from here Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Once this is completed the template will be avaliable from the SharePoint Central Admin or the self-service creation if avaliable. If you need to add a STP template to an existing SharePoint site try this entry I wrote up at How to add a STP template to an existing SharePoint site.

Source: Addtemplate: Stsadm operation (office SharePoint Server)

–Javi

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How to add a STP template to an existing SharePoint site

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This is a fairly easy process depending on where you are intending to add the template. These type of templates are called ‘Site Admin Templates’.The template is going to be part of an existing site collection take the following steps in the existing SharePoint site.

  1. Open the ‘Site Actions’
  2. Click ‘Site Settings’
  3. Click ‘Site Templates’ listed under the ‘Galleries’ section
  4. Click ‘Upload’
  5. Click ‘Browse…’ to select your local STP file
  6. Select ‘Open’
  7. Click ‘OK’
  8. Fill our the relevant information for the Name, Title, and Description (only Name field is required)
  9. Click ‘OK’

Once this is complete you can use the template for your new sub-sites with the existing SharePoint sites. The will be listed under the ‘Custom’ tab of the ‘Template Selection’ in the ‘New SharePoint Site’ page. You can find a great selection of Microsoft templates here Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

-Javi

Changing Service Accounts in SharePoint

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One of the most common mistakes I see people making in SharePoint is attempting to change SharePoint Application Pool identities incorrectly. The proper way to change SharePoint Application Pool identities is as follows:

 

  1. Open SharePoint Central Administration
  2. Go to Operations > Security Configuration > Services Accounts
  3. Select ‘Web application pool’ > set ‘Web service’ to ‘Windows SharePoint Services Web Application’ > set ‘Application pool’ to the appropriate Application Pool.
  4. Enter in your appropriate information for ‘Select an account for this component’
  5. Click ‘OK’

–Javi

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1st tech posting of the year – My iPhones apps

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Well since I spend most of my ‘work’ time on SharePoint I wanted to deviate a bit at least for this post. As it turns out I’m a bit of an Apple fanboy. I’m convinced you should use the best tools for what ever that task.

For my personal phone I use the iPhone. Here are some of apps I use and would recommend. I’ll skip the standard apps that come with the phone. They are like most Apple applications and best in class.

My favorite 3rd party iPhone apps:

  • TweetDeck (free, Twitter app)
  • Facebook (free, Facebook app)
  • OrbMedia (Pay, media stream app)
  • AppBox Pro (pay, swiss army app)
  • Evernote (free, note keeping app)
  • ScoreCenter (free, sports tracking app)
  • GPS Drive (free/pay, GPS app)
  • Demotivation (free, funny pics app)
  • Epic Fail (free, funny pics app)

While this is not a complete listing of all my iPhone apps these are the ones I use on a fairly regular basis. Take a look at them in iTunes.

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