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The thing with CAML to me, is that it is not well defined.  There are potholes everywhere, and sketchy information online, even from MSDN. I was trying to lookup a SPUser I have selected in another list.  In the source list, I have a field with a lookup for user named Employee, the rest is like a Contancts list. So normally, I break open U2U's CAML Query builder, build a query... but this is no good, the standard uses the display name? Here is the query that was generated:  <Where>       <Eq>          <FieldRef Name='Employee' />          <Value Type='User'>Daniel Keeling</Value>       </Eq>    </Where> That looks fine right? Well for small...

Date/Time:6:30 PM EST on September 21, 2009Location:Microsoft office in Alpharetta (1125 Sanctuary Pkwy., Suite 300) Atlanta SharePoint Users Group - http://www.atlspug.com/default.aspxI am going to speak on Configuration to support customizations, when to customize, when to use OOB features, show some examples on configuration of settings for the Site Collection and Central Administration. Pages and some neat tricks to getting things done. I will be posting all materials here before the meeting, so if you miss it, check out the site.

Recently I was configuring SharePoint Forms Based Authentication (FBA) to use a custom login screen, Active Directory Membership Provider, and my own Role Provider, when I received the following:Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied. …In the error, we can see that obviously we do not have permission, but who is trying to access the DLL?It is not the Application Pool account, but the Anonymous IIS account. Simple fix, check to see what account is running in Directory Security, give read permission to that user for the _app_bin...

After working on a project that had me write a custom Role Provider for WSS, I thought I would try and help explain some things about what Membership and Role Providers do, and more specifically in regards to SharePoint.First off, in my case, the user store was Active Directory. When working with MOSS, you can use the LDAP provider for both membership and roles. In WSS however, there is only a default Membership provider, which does not allow for groups to be used, say AllUsers or Domain Users. Membership Provider – Looks at a user store to find the specific...

I decided to go ahead and update my dev VM, since the next client will have everything updated, I thought it would be important to also have things up to date. WSS SP 2 installed without a problem, but of course Office Servers Service Pack 2 had issues. The base install just said, Installation Failed. Looking at the logs, "The extraction of the files failed" - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943589 Still not very helpful.  MSDN/Technet and MS Support sites mentioned that this is due to hard drive space.  In my case I have 16GB free still on my VM...

April 2009 – Microsoft released the Service Packs for WSS and MOSS, but also several other MS Office products. You can see the list here This includes SharePoint Designer, Office Products, Project, MOSS, WSS, etc.

I was working on a project for the past few months, involving an InfoPath form to collect data, with a SharePoint Designer workflow and reporting handled by SSRS. We are populating reporting tables from the InfoPath form library fields using SharePoint web services and accessing them from within SSIS.In business development studio, just add a script activity, modify the script (I chose c#) then add a reference to the web service, generate the proxy class, and make the call to get your list items.I did not use the view fields xml, just left it blank to return all the...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42 Thanks for the post: (Saw a tweet about it) http://sharepointblogs.com/marwantarek/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-is-free.aspx

So the code is about done, with the service running, allowing users who are in the SharePoint site to authenticate, and see other site users in their contact lists.  Conversations can be created, and sent across the wire, and other clients receive them! Logging is enabled and saves entries to a list, and that list is searchable, so you can find items from your previous conversations.  A couple bugs to fix on locking issues, but pretty much home free. Now to start going over how to present the code, WCF first, SharePoint, WPF?  I am thinking WCF, the basics,...

I am going to be speaking at the Atlanta Code Camp this March, www.atlantacodecamp.com March 14th 2009 I will be covering WCF, integration with SharePoint to build a messaging system.  It supports a contacts list, with online status, history is logged to a SharePoint list.  Search will be enabled to support finding older conversations.  The front end is written in WPF using the MVVM approach and will be explained by Michael Stone. It should be a great day of learning, and I will try to spend some free time after the speech to explain in more...