MCTS Certification

I have cleared one more exam as well
Sharepoint-Configuring (70-630)
Am able to complete my MCTS certification in Sharepoint-Application Developement (Exam 70-542).

Logging Errors in MOSS

Logging Errors in SharePoint 2007
The error will be logged into folder 12/logs/ write your custom message to easily identify the error
If you have this need, use something like the following line of code:
catch(Exception myException)
{
Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString("Exception Occurred: {0} || {1}", myException.Message, myException.StackTrace);
}

One more Important thing
The most popular error message is "An unexpected error has occured. Please contact your Administrator".
Am fed up with this generic error message, which gives no clue of error.
In order to see the real error messages as well as the stack trace of where the error happened within SharePoint, you have to do two simple things - in fact, this is mainly standard ASP.NET business:

In the web.config file of your SharePoint web application, edit these two entries:

1. Switch custom errors off
<system.web>
...
<customErrors mode="On" />
...
</system.web>


Set the value "On" to "Off" in a development or staging environment, or to "RemoteOnly" if you have to troubleshoot an issue in a productive environment (of course, the error has to be reproduced locally in this case).

2. Enable CallStack
<SharePoint>
...
<SafeMode MaxControls="50" CallStack="false" />
...
</SharePoint>

To make the CallStack visible, set the value to "true".

Please note that changing the web.config will cause SharePoint to restart the whole web application immediately after saving.

Happy D' ing.

MOSS WorkFlows : Failed on Start

In case the workflows fails on start--Keep a eye on Application Pool of the application and see that account on which the app pool runs has full priveleges over database and over the site-preferably admin priveleges are required.

MOSS Hard Limitations

SharePoint 2007 Maximum Limitations
Following is a list of names and other parameters with the maximum allowable size on each. If during your course of using the product, you inadvertently cross these limits, then you would end up with errors. These are hard limits

Site Name	128 characters
Site URL	255 characters
Display name	128 characters
Connection string	384 characters
Email address	128 characters
Version numbers	064 characters
Virtual Server Friendly Name	064 characters
SQL Database Name	123 characters
SQL Database Column	128 characters
SQL Database Table Name	128 characters
SQL Role Name	128 characters
Server Name	128 characters
Windows User Name	300 characters
Windows Password	300 characters
Dependencies per object	032 objects
Zone enumeration value	004 zones
Default SQL command timeout	300 seconds
Number of simultaneous workflows that can be run	* 015

For some more Limitations refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

Upload Multiple Documents from client to Sharepoint Library

Create a .aspx file in 12 hive-Layouts directory, and it can be opened through the URL http://Server_Name/_layouts/WebForm1.aspx.


Copy the code from the following location into the newly created WebForm1.aspx.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms456628.aspx

Difference between View and Read in Permissions in Sharepoint

Users with Read only permissions can view the content using Client side application like Excel or Infopath.
Users with View only permissions cannot.Like they can view only Server side rendering items.

Moss Profile Import Limitations

MOSS parser can import profiles only from Security group not from distribution groups.
Eventhough Active directory supports both the groups.

An application pool is a configurable entity that allows you to control how IIS maps IISWeb sites and virtual directories to instances of the IIS worker process.The routing architecture of IIS is controlled by a kernel-level device driver named http.sys.This listens to the HTTP requests and uses the information in IIS Metabase and routes the requests to the instance of W3WP.exe is associated application pool.
If http.sys determines that the target application pool doesn’t have a running instance of
w3wp.exe, it launches a new instance. When http.sys launches a new instance of w3wp.exe for a specific application pool,it uses the application pool identity to initialize a Windows security token that serves as the process token.
If we want to refresh the XML file as part of feature refresh, instead of IISRESET, Application pool restarting might help in saving some time.The main advantage of using this technique is that it is faster than a full IISRESET command, which restarts all processes associated with IIS. Using this command instead of an IISRESET command can save you a few seconds here and there.

Whenever the GAC disappears from server, restart the server and your GAC would be back