Installing update (hotfixes, public updates, service packs) for WSS and MOSS can be a challenging tasks. Especially as a rollback in case that a problem occurs can be very expensive as it requires the restore of a backup as uninstall of hotfixes or service packs is not possible. To help administrators plan such a task Microsoft […]
A common question I receive is the following: I have tried to save my site as a template using "Site Action" – "Save site as template" but this option is not available as soon as I enable the publishing feature. After some tries I managed to save the site as a template my adding "_layouts/savetmpl.aspx" behind […]
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Beside the WCM book Andrew Connell is working on he also provides a MOSS WCM training for developers. The training is available as well as a 4-days hands on training and a 5-days live meeting training (which might be especially interesting for international attendees): Hands On 4-days 12 modules Lecture+demos + hands-on labs Next class: […]
Those of you who have worked with MCMS previously will surely know Andrew and Spence. These two MVPs are great Content Management experts and they are currently in a project to write a book on Developers book for Web Content Management using the features in MOSS 2007! A must have book for everyone interested in […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Advanced content deployment scenarios Till now we have covered export and import of single list items or documents containers like folders, lists or webs complete site collection What we haven’t covered is how to use this method […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Providing some real world samples for import After we managed to export content in part 2 lets now focus on the importing side. Import actually has two different ways to work: Import by preserving the object identity […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Providing some real world samples for export To demonstrate how powerful the Content Deployment and Migration API is I will now provide some real world examples: Export a complete Site Collection Export a specific sub web Exporting other […]
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Introduction Today I would like to start an article series on an interesting new feature in WSS 3.0: the Content Deployment and Migration API. A similar API has previously been provided in MCMS 2002 and was also […]
In the past I have heard lots of complaints that it is required to open a support case just to receive a hotfix from Microsoft. A colleague just pointed me to a new webform which allows customers to request a hotfix without calling Microsoft support: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1410&WS=hotfix
For the regular readers of my blog and the public MCMS newsgroup: I’m out-of-office for the next 6 weeks.
When developing a public facing website using the publishing features of MOSS it might be required to emit a ROBOTS meta tag that prevents internet search engines from indexing specific pages. The standard RobotsMetaTag control included in WSS generates the following tag: <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOHTMLINDEX”> Unfortunatelly most search engines do not understand the NOHTMLINDEX content […]
