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Yesterday, the SharePoint Product Group announced the release of the December Cumulative Update Packages for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007. This post, as well as further information, installation instructions, and download links can be found here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/12/17/announcing-december-cumulative-update-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

Just received a notification that BA-Insight is offering a free AJAX based date picker extension for the Advanced Search web part in MOSS/WSS.

Go here for more information and to download: http://www.ba-insight.net/datepickerregistration.aspx

I’ve been asked this question a lot, and thought I would post a quick note about it. When you are editing a file within SharePoint, and asked if you want to save it in your local drafts folder, this is what it means – in your user profile directory, under your documents, there is a folder, or one that will automatically get created, called SharePoint Drafts. For example, my local drafts folder on my Vista machine is:

C:\Users\gvarosky\Documents\SharePoint Drafts

After prancing around Google for what has seemed like hours, trying to get a definitive list of all field types, so I can configure some additional fields within a Content Query Web Part, I finally found one. Kartic – you are my hero for the day.

http://kartickapur.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/content-query-web-part-customisation-and-adding-custom-fields/

The default size limit for the ‘Save as Template’ function in SharePoint is limited to 10MB. This however, can be changed easily using stsadm. To do so, go into the 12 Hive bin folder (Drive:\\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN\) and run the following command:

stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname max-template-document-size -propertyvalue 50000000

This command, exactly as entered above, will increase that limit to 50MB. If you would like to make this number higher, than just adjust the propertyvalue argument to the size that you need.

This morning I was working on an issue for a client, to track down why alerts were not being sent out to subscribers within their WSS v2 environment. I checked all of the well known issues, such as making sure the SharePoint Timer Service was running, and also restarted it just for kicks. And that the accounts were the same for the Timer Service as well as the content database for the WSS server as well, so that the Timer Service can actually connect to the database and process alerts… and everything was just fine, however, alerts were still not being sent out.

Since we have an external server here which we use to process mail, I added in a few rules to allow my client’s server to relay mail through, so I can control every aspect of the process, and that is when I found the issue.

When highlighting the server name in the Outbound SMTP server configuration box to remove and replace with our server, there was an extra space on the end of the server name. This was the case for both the virtual server and central configuration SMTP settings. I dropped the space from both, and alerts were finally making it out of SharePoint, and onto their subscribers.

The environment which this occurred in was WSS v2 running with SP2. I will look to see if I can find a hotfix for this issue or if this is fixed in WSS v2 SP3.

I have been looking into usage analysis processing options for a client, and thought I would share my findings with the rest of the world…so without further ado – below are some links that you may find useful for usage analysis processing in v2/v3 versions of SharePoint

http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=129

http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=8

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/09/28/sharepoint-reporting-solution.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/11/06/web-usage-reporting-tools.aspx

Just a quick code snippet on setting the Default Text Value of a Single Line of Text field in SharePoint to a specific value.

   1: // update Shared Documents list "Customer Name" field

   2: SPList repDocs = childWeb.Lists["Shared Documents"];

   3: SPField clientName = repDocs.Fields["Customer Name"];

   4: clientName.DefaultValue = "foo";

   5: clientName.Update();