This page has encountered a critical error. Contact your system administrator if this problem persists.

ERROR:"An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately. "

Do you get this error in your sharepoint site ?

Just one bad day you come in to see that your main page is bombing due to this error with no proper clue .Well it happened to me and i had no idea what went wrong.After lot of research i found something.

I had "?" marks all over my web.config file , which even erased some of characters.

Solution :

Search for "?" in web.config and start fixing the character in the file. I would suggest replace the web.config (obviously retain the custom entry ) with working one , i replaced my web .config with a working one and Volla!!! it worked for me .

In short the culprit is web.config and not SharePoint installation.

Cheers!!!

If this helps do leave comments , i would like to know how many SharePointeers got into this issue. :-)

Exporting Custom User Profile Between MOSS 2007 Servers

Check out the too :

http://www.codeplex.com/MOSSProfileReplicate/

Enable Anonymous Access in MOSS

Steps to be followed for enabling Anonymous Access to site with Forms/Windows Authentication .

Records Management using Record Center Site

A great article on implementation of Records Management in MOSS

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/271017e8-7f23-4166-9501-140ad2fc555d1033.mspx?mfr=true

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/CH101824451033.aspx

Interactive Media Manager

I always thought about Microsoft product for media industy and here it's on the way , that too well integrated with MOSS.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/mediaandentertainment/solutions_imm.mspx

User Profile Import is not importing updated Manager Information from Active Directory in MOSS

Scenario:

User profile is imported and everything seems to work fine , later there is a change in organization structure for eg there is a manager change for person "x" .In order to reflect this information in sharepoint , you update the information in Active Directory and run import .

Issue :

SharePoint still showing the old manager for person"x" and doesn't seemed to be updated with profile import

Resolution :

Install WSS /MOSS SP1 and you are good to go ....

Printing SharePoint Web Part

Ever thought of printing a content of web part rather than complete page in sharepoint ?

Follow the Steps:

• Create Print Button : Add content Editor web part to your page and paste the following script as Source Text

<>
< type="button" onclick="javascript:void(PrintWebPart())" value="Print Web Part">

< language="JavaScript">
//Controls which Web Part or zone to print
var WebPartElementID = "WebPartWPQ6";

//Function to print Web Part

function PrintWebPart()
{
var bolWebPartFound = false;
if (document.getElementById != null)
{
//Create html to print in new window var PrintingHTML = '\n\n';
//Take data from Head Tag if (document.getElementsByTagName != null)
{
var HeadData= document.getElementsByTagName("HEAD");
if (HeadData.length > 0)
PrintingHTML += HeadData[0].innerHTML;
}
PrintingHTML += '\n\n\n';
var WebPartData = document.getElementById(WebPartElementID);
if (WebPartData != null)
{
PrintingHTML += WebPartData.innerHTML;
bolWebPartFound = true;
}
else
{ bolWebPartFound = false; alert ('Cannot Find Web Part'); } } PrintingHTML += '\n\n'; //Open new window to print if (bolWebPartFound)
{
var PrintingWindow = window.open("","PrintWebPart", "toolbar,width=800,height=600,scrollbars,resizable,menubar"); PrintingWindow.document.open(); PrintingWindow.document.write(PrintingHTML); // Open Print Window PrintingWindow.print(); }}< /script>

• In order to print content from web part you need to connect the desired web part to the print button
• Get the Div Id of web part from the Page Source and assign it to the variable in Button

Well you would like to check this for simpler explanation :

http://www.imakenews.com/mernstmann/e_article000435389.cfm

MOSS /WSS SP1 Released

MOSS SP1 :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en

WSS SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=875da47e-89d5-4621-a319-a1f5bfedf497&displaylang=en

Note before starting upgrade :

• Take complete back up of farm before upgrading
• Read complete upgrade instruction
• Keep Fingures Crossed :-) for success

Determine whether the MOSS / WSS service packs are installed and there Version

Wondering weather you have SP1 installed in your server and if yes which version ...?

Well here is the answer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936984

Granular Level Export/Import of data MOSS

Have you ever wondered what if u have to migrate just a list between servers ,do you need to buy third party tool . Nopes...

Just create a tool using API from Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment Namespace and it's not as complex as you might think .


Check this great article with samples :

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/08/30/deep-dive-into-the-sharepoint-content-deployment-and-migration-api-part-1.aspx

Happy Coding and New Year!!!

Content Deployment MOSS Hurdles

Collection of hurdles which you might encounter while setting up content deployment in SharePoint 2007

http://soerennielsen.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-long-path-to-content-deployment/

Content Deployment in Three Steps ........

Step 1:
Allow Incoming Content Deployment Jobs on the Production Site

Step 2 :
Create Content Deployment Path and Job from Staging to Production

Step 3 :
Run Content Deployment Job


For step by step instruction check out the following article :
http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/26/content-deployment-step-by-step-tutorial.aspx