Amol Ghuge's SharePoint Blog

08 December, 2012

Migrating From SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013, Part 1 & Part 2

Migrating From SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013, Part 1

Business and technical reasons for skipping SharePoint 2010 by SharePoint expert Dan Holme who shares tips, how-to's, ideas, and news about all things SharePoint, and more

Migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013, Part 2

Skipping 2013? You might want to reconsider that strategy by SharePoint expert Dan Holme shares tips, how-to's, ideas, and news about all things SharePoint, and more.

Upgrading to SharePoint 2013: The Planning Starts Now by Dan Home.

ü Microsoft planning SharePoint version 15

ü Reduce the pain of upgrading

ü Aim for a logical architecture

The Essential Guide to Achieving High Availability for SharePoint Data: Download Now:

Q: Can I set my newly created custom page in my SharePoint site as the home page?

Reference: SharePointpromag.

07 December, 2012

Webpart Chrome type is not working or Webpart Title is not working: SharePoint

Issue:

Today one of my user complained that she was not able to set the title of her web parts on various pages on her site. When setting the chrome type to ‘Title’ it set it back to none, when we hit apply and Ok o the web part page. Hence leading to a problem of Webpart Chrome type is not working as expected.

Troubleshooting:

- We tried setting chrome type to other types. No luck.

- We tried changing the various properties of the Webpart, but no luck.

- While researching on the internet I came across an article which says that forcibly changing the

we implemented the same on the effected page and it doesn’t correct the problem.

- One of the article talks about the problem with the webpart zone, when comparing the webpart zone of the webpart with other webpart on the other sites, it was showing only one webpart zone= main.

Resolution:

This article talks about the resolution but doesn’t show how to do it. http://www.novolocus.com/2009/05/29/webpart-titles-not-shown-in-webpartzone

To do this, Open the site in SPD, go to faulty page, and open the page in the coding mode. Look for the webpart page main property.

Change the ID of the webpart to anything other than “Main”. It would bring back the tittles on the webpart. I am not sure why this issue problem had occurred but now it has corrected the problem.

Another Post which talks about the same issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5455893/override-chrome-type-webpart

If you have questions/queries, do let me know. I would be more happy to help you.

06 December, 2012

Restore customizations in SharePoint Server 2010

I assume that you must have read the content of Back up customizations in SharePoint Server 2010.

Reference: technet.microsoft.com

05 December, 2012

Back up customizations in SharePoint Server 2010

Customizations are of different kinds when it comes to SharePoint, below is small descriptions.

Customizations packaged as solutions (.wsp files). Solutions contain developed site elements, and are typically created by developers. Developed site elements include the following:

Web Parts
Workflows
Site and list definitions
Document converters
Event receivers
Timer jobs
Assemblies

Authored site elements, which are typically created by Web designers, are not explicitly compiled and reside in a content database. Authored site elements include the following:

Master pages
Cascading style sheets
Forms
Layout page

Changes to the Web.config file
Third-party solutions and their associated binary files and registry keys, such as IFilters
Changes to sites created by direct editing through the browser
Developed customizations that are not packaged as solutions

Each of these kinds of customizations requires a different type of backup.

In this article: