Tuesday, July 27, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Master pages

(FYI... i am constatly updating this blog)

Here are some of the new master pages with description :

1. V4.Master : this is the default master page for V4
2. Default.master : this is the default master page that comes with WSS 3
3. Minimal.master : used for search
4. Simple.master : for login and errors

The relative location of the images folder /_layouts/images is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\

Absolute path of the sharepoint master pages is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS

MOSS to SharePoint 2010 Migration

This article breaks up the upgrade process into Database upgrade and Visual upgrade.

1. Database upgrade:
a. Create a new database with a copy of the old 2007 database ( just to make sure we don’t mess with the 2007 website)
b. Create a new SP 2010 site
c. Detach the database by going into Central Admin\ Manage Content Databases (under application management)
                i. Select the website whose database you want to detach
                ii. Click on the database
               iii. Select “Remove content database” and hit on ok.

d. Attach the database using the command below, even though the “Manage Content Databases” option can be used for attaching database but it cannot be used for attaching 2007 database, it has to be done through the command below :

                i. Run the following command to attach 2007 database to 2010

               C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN>stsadm -o addcontentdb -url -databasename -databaseserver

This will take some time depending on the database size; it will also show you in the progress in the command prompt.

2. Visual Upgrade :

Now that the database upgrade is successfully done you will see that the website looks just like 2007 even though it is on 2010, it does not show the ribbon or any of the new looks, reason being we still have to do the visual upgrade. This will give your website the new looks. This can be done using power shell also but I am doing it using the interface as a site owner.

a. Open up the site that you have just migrated.
b. Go to Site settings\ Title, navigation, icon
               i. There are 3 options here
                            1. Use the previous user interface
                            2. Preview the updated user interface
                            3. Update the user interface
                ii. Beauty of this is that you can do just a preview of the new looks before doing a final visual upgrade and if the looks don’t look good fell free to revert back to 2007 looks.
               iii. Selecting “Update the user interface” will do the final upgrade to 2010 looks.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Installing pdf Ifilter for SharePoint 2010

Got it done last night and verified that the crawling worked, process is pretty much the same as SharePoint 2007 and here is info :

1. there seems to be several pdf ifilters and below are the most popular ones

a.Adobe IFilter for 64 bit : http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025
( comes free of charge)

b.FOX IFilter : http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/
(Seems more optimized and so obviously there is a price to pay)

2. i used the Adobe ifilter and instead of retyping i will point to the blog that i followed:
http://nickgrattan.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/adobe-pdf-ifilter-indexing-with-sharepoint%C2%A02010/

Here is the pdf image!
enjoy!

SharePoint 2010 Outgoing email configuration

comming back to blogging again, entering something simple ...

go to Central admin\ System Settings\ Configure outgoing e-mail settings
enter the Outgoing SMTP server, From email, Reply-to-email.