MySite Personalization site links

When user view MySite the don’t have way to come back to Corporate Portal Site. So we thought of adding link to MySite.

Under Shared Services you can add Personalization site link.

http://yourserver.com/

The system will show URL on MySite as displayed below

When you click “Corporate Home” the URL display as http://yourserver.com/ default.aspx?MySiteView=1 and Page Display as below

If you nice there is a person image icon embedded in to Navigation bar, its happen because of the MySiteView=1, which automatically appended by system.

To overcome above issue you need added # at end of the URL (i.e. http://yourserver.com/# which will display pages as normal.

Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable

Today when we try to deploy webpart to SharePoint site, System display following error

“Service Unavailable  HTTP Error 503.  The service is unavailable”

When I research online come across that the error cause due to following reasons

1. Application Pools Identity account password may changed

2. The administrator has stopped the application pool

To Enable Service

1. Open up IIS Manager and

2. Go to Connection and Expand click on Application Pools

3. Select Application Pools and Start (if Services stopped)

If changed Identity account password

4. Locate your App Pool account and right-click on it and select ‘Advanced Settings’.

5. Click on the right of the Identity box to change it (A window will pop up).

6.  Click on Set and simply retype your App Pool Identity in there with the new password.

SharePoint Hit Counter

Today i received request from customer to add Hit counter on SharePoint site homepage.

Let's go through how to insert "Hit Counter"

1. SharePoint Designer Open Site and Page that you need insert "Hit Counter"

2. Open Page in Edit Mode and place the cursor where you want to insert the hit counter.

3. Go to Insert - Web Component

4. Select Hit counter and System display different types styles that readily available.

5. Click on Finish, system will open the below Hit Counter Properties window

6. To start the counter on given number Select Reset counter to option and give number to star.

7. Once you click OK, The counter will be inserted to your page.

8. Preview on Web browser and start refresh your page the counter will increase count.

A Manager's Guide to SharePoint

A Manager's Guide to SharePoint is a non-technical white paper explaining concepts of deploying and maintaining a SharePoint implementation. This free, thirty-six page eBook gives a broad overview, covering critical topics when planning your SharePoint implementation.

• Why SharePoint?
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• Organizational Change Management
• Governance
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Thank you to Noble Acuff of the Acuff Group for allowing us to offer of free download.

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Pattern and Practices for SharePoint Guidance

Summary

The Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scaleable. It shows developers how to provide IT professionals with the information they need to maintain those applications and diagnose problems when they arise. The two reference implementations illustrate how to solve many of the common challenges developers encounter. One reference implementation addresses basic issues such as creating lists and content types. The other addresses more advanced problems such as how to integrate line of business services, how to create collaboration sites programmatically, and how to customize aspects of publishing and navigation. A library of reusable components helps you adopt techniques used in the reference implementations. The guidance discusses approaches for testing SharePoint applications, such as how to create unit tests, and documents experiences with stress and scale testing one of the reference implementations.

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SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT)

SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT) is a windows based utility aimed at simplifying and accelerating the creation and testing of SharePoint Solutions. With a whole host of time saving capabilities and planned integration with Universal SharePoint Manager 2007, you'll never want to take on SharePoint without it again.

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SharePoint 2010 Developer Documentation download

SharePoint Products and Technologies: 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation

Now you can download the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation that is in PDF form.

This document contain a White paper on Customizing the Ribbon in Windows SharePoint Services “14”, and Technical Preview for SharePoint Products and Technologies 2010 Managed Reference SDK available.

To download visit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=94afe886-3b20-4bc9-9a0d-acd8cd232c24#tm