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Planning for a MOSS2007 to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

Tom Castiglia — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:43:59 GMT

This blog post is based on a white paper that I authored last year after assisting my team with a few SharePoint 2010 upgrades. For some reason, I forgot to post this last year, and just came across this document again, so I decided to post it now. I realize that many organizations have already completed upgrades to SharePoint 2010. However, many companies are still running on MOSS (or even SharePoint 2003) and planning an upgrade to SharePoint 2010, so I believe this information will be helpful to some you. SharePoint is really not a “product”, but rather a sophisticated platform for building and hosting a variety of complex business applications. This makes SharePoint a powerful and flexible system that organizations rely upon as a mission-critical part of their IT infrastructure. It also makes the process of upgrading an existing MOSS or WSS farm to SharePoint 2010 more complex than most applications or other server products from Microsoft. Purpose The purpose of this ...

Changing the Item-Level Permissions Settings for a Document Library requires PowerShell

Tom Castiglia — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:36:00 GMT

Today I decided that I needed to change the Item-Level Permissions settings for a document library so that users could only read the items that they had created. For SharePoint lists, the Item-Level Permissions setting is easily configured under the list’s Advanced Settings section, like this: However, when I went to the Advanced Settings section for my document library, there was no section for Item-Level Permissions. I checked a few other lists and document libraries and confirmed that apparently most list types support this configuration, except for document libraries! So my next question was whether Item-Level Permissions settings could not be changed in a document library at all, or whether these options were simply not displayed in the browser for the Advanced Settings in a library. I figured the easiest way to determine this would be to attempt it with PowerShell in a test environment… if it was not supported, the PowerShell commands would simply fail to execute ...

The right way and wrong way to use the “Rating (0-5)” field in a SharePoint list or library

Tom Castiglia — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:47:00 GMT

If you wish to utilize Ratings on a SharePoint list or library, you might think that you can do so by simply adding the “Rating (0-5)” site column to your existing list, library or content type. In fact, SharePoint will allow you to do that, however doing so may or may not provide the intended results.

Problem with Web Service URL for SSRS 2008 R2 deployed in SharePoint Integrated Mode

Tom Castiglia — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:29:00 GMT

I recently solved a seemingly obscure problem configuring SQL Server Report Services (SSRS) 2008 R2 using SharePoint Integrated Mode. However, perhaps this problem isn't as obscure as it seems and maybe this article will help others.

Recap of SharePoint Saturday LA (SPSLA)

Tom Castiglia — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:29:00 GMT

On September 18th 2010, a few members from the San Diego SharePoint Users Group (Tony Rockwell, Chris Givens and Galen Keene) and I trekked to the Hilton Los Angeles Airport for SharePoint Saturday LA.

SharePoint 2010 Admin Service must be running to retract a solution

Tom Castiglia — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:27:00 GMT

I found a minor issue today when trying to retract a simple, custom solution from a new SharePoint 2010 test server.

Deploying a solution – STSADM vs. PowerShell

Tom Castiglia — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:22:00 GMT

Today, a co-worker created a custom web part for me in C# and packaged it as a solution (.wsp file) for deployment on my local test server. The deployment steps for this solution included a simple STSADM script to assist in the deployment. However, since I have not played around with PowerShell much yet, I decided to translate this STSADM script into PowerShell and use that instead.

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