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Sharepoint 2010 Lists, Lookups and Columns – KEWL!

I have to say that I am impressed with the way Sharepoint 2010 handles lists, lookups and columns. It now has the concurrency ability whereby – if turned on/selected – if you perform a lookup on a data from another list and you try to delete that data, Sharepoint will not allow you to. See below […]

SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Taxonomy Management – Lookup on This Field Not Allowed

In regards to Metadata and Taxonomy Management, when you create a “Managed Metadata” column on your list, it is actually a lookup field to the central Metadata repository. You can’t further perform a lookup on this field from another list. Cheers, Tommy

Upgrading Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to Sharepoint 2010 BETA – Part 4 – Content Database Backup/Restore

At this point of time I’ve given up trying to upgrade MOSS 2007 to Sharepoint 2010 BETA using in-place upgrade approach. I now try it using Content Database backup/restore approach. It’s a very simple process that I was following: – Create a new VM and install Sharepoint 2010 clean-fresh farm – Install and […]

Upgrading Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to Sharepoint 2010 BETA – Part 3 – Another Retry

Hi everyone, I mentioned that I tried to upgrade a MOSS instance that wasn’t connected to AD. I have now changed this. I re-created my VM, connected that to AD, install MOSS 2007 then upgraded it to Sharepoint 2010 BETA. The result is THE SAME. The existing MOSS 2007 site wouldn’t load. It […]

Upgrading Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to Sharepoint 2010 BETA – Part 2 – What Did/Didn’t Work

I haven’t done another upgrade at the moment but from what I’ve done before , I found the following things that worked and didn’t (please read on my other article my current MOSS 2007 environment setup). Worked – DLLs are all working OK. – Few changes are needed on web.config (which are – in […]

Upgrading Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to Sharepoint 2010 BETA – Part 1

Yo everyone, I now want to upgrade my MOSS 2007 instance with Sharepoint 2010 BETA. I of course do it on a VM 🙂 Within my MOSS 2007 instance I’ve got the following running: – Custom site template of CompleteSharepoint.NET (Content Management System Built on-top-of Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0) – Custom field types and field […]

Sharepoint Designer 2010 BETA Reusable Workflow

I just played around with Reusable Workflow functionality in Sharepoint Designer 2010. It’s very-very cool I have to say. I really can see the potential with this functionality if all of the bugs are fixed. Basically what you can do with this is, you can create a Reusable Workflow on a particular site, export […]

Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 9 – Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications & InfoPath 2010 CRASH

I created an InfoPath 2010 BETA form then attached an EventChanged event on a drop-down-list. I did a bit of programming and I then tried to debug my code. Whenever VS hit a break-point or an error IT CRASHED! ARRGHGHGHGH…. See images below: Before Debugging During Debugging Killing the […]

InfoPath Development in Sharepoint 2010 BETA – No Changes

I tried to play around with InfoPath 2010 last night and to be honest, I didn’t see anything different from Office 2007. At this stage all I can say is, there is no improvement just yet in terms of InfoPath development. I’ll try to play around more and post more updates on this article. […]

Sharepoint 2010 Beta – What Can Be Improved – Part 7 – Save List as Template Including Content DOESN’T WORK

I tried to save a custom list as a list template (STP) and ticked “Include Content”. When I restored the list template on an another site collection, the content wasn’t there at all. Cheers, Tommy

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