SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 Service Account Requirements


What service accounts do you need for a SharePoint / MOSS Farm installation, or a simple single-server installation on your dev box? The answers are many and varied, and the documentation from Microsoft tends to be hard to read and convoluted to say the least – you really really really have to want to trawl … Continue reading SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 Service Account Requirements

SharePoint Feature for .NET 3.5 Web.config Changes


Leading on from this post, and this post, I created a SharePoint Solution/Feature combo to update Web Application web.config files with the changes neccesary to support; .NET 3.5 SP1 Ajax Control Toolkit Microsoft Data Vizualization Chart Controls The Web.config changes don’t require that you have Ajax and MSChart installed on your WFE’s so you can … Continue reading SharePoint Feature for .NET 3.5 Web.config Changes

Delete a Folder from a Sharepoint Document Library


This is an update to a post I wrote on deleting list items from document libraries, prompted by a comment made on that post asking how to delete Folder(s) from within a document library. Initially I replied by suggesting the use of the SharePoint object mode, as shown below; SPWeb web = new SPSite(“your site’s … Continue reading Delete a Folder from a Sharepoint Document Library

SharePoint / MOSS and (ASP.NET) Server Side Code


It’s well documented that ASP.NET pages when hosted in SharePoint / MOSS should not include server-side / inline code scripts such as shown below, for various security related reasons. More importantly, SharePoint does not allow such pages to be shown. If you try to run such a page you’ll get shown a “helpful” error messages … Continue reading SharePoint / MOSS and (ASP.NET) Server Side Code