Microsoft has the "Beta 2 Technical Refresh" of Office 2007 available. To install this build, go to the Office Preview site. The Beta2TR build is available there at no cost. Please read the information found on Office Preview and on the Office Online readme pages carefully before taking action.
You should also check out the Sharepoint Developers blog before upgrading any Sharepoint installations.
September 20, 2006
September 19, 2006
Avast, me hearties!
Ahoy! Be welcome today to the International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which is every September 19th.
What.. get back to work? Aye Aye!
What.. get back to work? Aye Aye!
September 17, 2006
XML Paper Specification
The XML Paper Specification describes the XPS Document format. A document in XPS Document format (XPS Document) is a paginated representation of electronic paper described in an XML-based format. The XPS Document format is an open, cross-platform document format that allows customers to effortlessly create, share, print, and archive paginated documents.
September 11, 2006
Moving WSS (sub)sites
Today, I was asked at the company I work for, "is it possible to move a site from one location in the Sharepoint hierarchy to another".
For example, say a site is at http://server/sites/sales/cars, would it be (easily) possible to move it to (say) http://server/sites/sales/products/cars.
Some searching of the documentation and the web later, I've come to the conclusion that yes, it is possible. But it's not all that easy, as you cannot easily drag-and-drop a site from one location to another.
So, what you do, is:
For example, say a site is at http://server/sites/sales/cars, would it be (easily) possible to move it to (say) http://server/sites/sales/products/cars.
Some searching of the documentation and the web later, I've come to the conclusion that yes, it is possible. But it's not all that easy, as you cannot easily drag-and-drop a site from one location to another.
So, what you do, is:
- make sure no-one is using the site.
- create a new (sub)site at the new location, but make sure not to initialise it (i.e. cancel creation at the point where you would usually choose and apply the template).
- back-up the original site, using smigrate.exe (use -h to get all the options).
- restore the site to the new location, using either smigrate or stsadm.
- delete the original (I personally would make it read-only, or admin-only, until it's certain the new one is working correctly).
Of course, there are other ways to do the same (using Frontpage 2003, for example).
An even easier way is to acquire SMove for SharePoint, a utility that takes the pain out of backing up, restoring and rearranging SharePoint Sites. Features include a UI for backup/restore, modifying SharePoint properties and other common SharePoint administration tasks. SharePoint sites can be moved and your taxonomy rearranged using Drag and Drop in a rich context sensitive TreeView. And at GBP 90, it's a steal.
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