Role-based security in web parts and SharePoint Security
Barry shares an article on programming role-based security in web parts and mentions Jay Nathan’s article on SharePoint Security and .NET Impersonation
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Articles
Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
Utility to get reports for MCMS 2002 resource gallery items
Stefan Gossner posted a nice utility that displays the items using a specific resource: MCMS 2002 does not provide a mechanism to identify if a resource gallery item is currently being used by a …
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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server
By some of the best and brightest: Mei, Joel, Stefan. Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server is an end-to-end guide to creating a Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) …
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What's next for Microsoft's Content Management Server?
Via Angus & Mei Mark tips some info about MCMS vNext and it’s integration with SharePoint. Goes along some of the stuff I’ve heard. There is one HUGE thing I am begging the folks in …
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Future of web part development and using SmartPart
Maurice’s SharePoint Thoughts post discusses the future of web part development and using SmartPart to achieve it. Check it out
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CustomPropertyDbEx: Simplify MCMS 2002 Custom Prop Upgrades
Just finished updating the CustomPropertyDbEx replacement for MCMS 2002 custom properties as well as a few extra apps to help with the transition and management. These tools include a migration …
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CustomPropertyDbEx - Enhanced Custom Properties for MCMS2002
Microsoft’s Content Management Server 2002 (hereafter MCMS) contains many types of assets such as Channels, Postings, Templates, & Resources that are used to store data for a CMS site. One …
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Introducing the CustomPropertyDbEx for MCMS 2002 Develoeprs
Simply put, CustomPropertyDbEx takes the custom properties you can create and assign to channels, templates, and postings and moves from from the CMS environment out to a database while maintaining a …
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Challenges with Creating Channels On-the-Fly in CMS Project
A project I’m currently on involves hundreds of channels, many of them nested, and some complex requirements where channels and sub channels will need to be created on the fly. A quick search on …
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Choosing a Primary Point of Entry for SharePoint and CMS
In part 1, I detailed the different complementing features of both SharePoint Technologies & Content Management Server. In part 2, I’ll address the different types of solutions as well as …
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Differences Between SharePoint and Content Management Server
SharePoint Technologies and Content Management Server are two very different products, each providing unique features. SharePoint provides an environment that facilitates online collaboration and …
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Combine SharePoint & MCMS as a solution (CMS-SPT): Part 1
About a month ago I posted an open question for two reasons: I was looking for help as I was having a very hard time finding any resources about integrating MCMS 2002 and SharePoint I had no idea what …
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Overcoming Documentation Scarcity: Combining MCMS 2002 & SPS
I’m considering writing about combining MCMS 2002 & SPS due to a lack of documentation. They’ve had some success with implementation.
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Adding User Controls and Customizing Sites in SharePoint
I need a theoretical part 4: adding your own user controls/web parts to libraries. Part 1 Part 2: Using Templates and Site Definitions Part 3: Style Sheet Class Reference Tables valuable style sheet …
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When SharePoint's navigation doesn't cut the mustard
I’m in the midst of a big SharePoint implementation project. It involves multiple portals, WSS sites, non SharePoint sites, and integration with MCMS 2002. The whole project is for a single …
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Using SharePoint search in an ASP.NET application with noise filtering
Most content site owners want to be able to search the content in their sites. If you have access to MicrosoftSharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS 2003), you can use the advanced searching features to …
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Implement search on a content website with SharePoint
Recently we needed to implement search functionality into a content web site. This has always been a pain for me, but with SharePoint, it was very simple. I had a hard time working with the full text …
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Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 SP1 Resources
I found these to be the most beneficial resources around for MCMS. »no particular order«: GotDotNet User Samples Stefan Gobner’s blog (Microsoft Escalation Engineer for MCMS) MS public MCMS …
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Microsoft Content Managemen Server Implementations
Today is the date our site’s DNS is cutting over from the old site to the new site. We’ve worked on the old site for about 5-6 months and implemented it using Microsoft’s Content …
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Author sets up blog using .Text v0.94 on home server
I’ve just finished setting up my blog engine using .Text v0.94…not terribly hard. In the coming days (which could turn into weeks), I’ll modify the UI with my own colors and layout …