Sunday, March 29, 2009

What to do to restore a closed web part?

I received a call from a client today asking me in panic what to do to get a web part that he closed by mistake.
Web parts closed using the close button (the x button) they are just hidden but not deleted, that means that the web part loads on the page but will not be visible to the user. To be able to view a closed web part and restore the functionality is to add (?content=1) to the page url as shown:
http://yoursite/whatever/default.aspx?contents=1

The best way to remove a web part is using the delete web part option after you put the page in the edit mode.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Microsoft released 10 new SharePoint themes


On March 19th, Micrsoft released a set of ten Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint projects containing designed themes for SharePoint. The themes looks great and i am sure many intranets will chnage their theme now that we have these new ones.
To downlooad the new theams click here

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Microsoft has announced the release of the February cumulative patches on their SharePoint team blog. Here is the information from the update notice:

February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Version: 12.0.6341.5002)


Detail description

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009

Description of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009

Installation Recommendation for a fresh SharePoint Server

The recommended installation sequence is:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1
The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1
February Cumulative Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
February Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

There is also a VISIO ifilter hotfix that is a seprate downloaded that you can get here

After applying the preceding updates, run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard or “psconfig –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b -wait” in command line. This needs to be done on every server in the farm with SharePoint installed.
The version of content databases should be 12.0.6341.5000 after successfully applying these updates.