Preparation of components or SharePoint itself for use.
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5answers
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Organizing WebParts in Visual Studio - Best Practices
My team is responsible for maintaining a SharePoint 2010 site that was developed by another group. This maintenance includes updates to existing web parts (approximately 20). Currently, all of these ...
13
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2answers
3k views
Multiple Sharepoint projects in one solution - how to package correctly?
I have multiple Sharepoint projects in a solution:
MySolution.WF
MySolution.Webparts
MySolution.UI
I also have some common code in a
MySolution.Common
project. All of the aboe projects ...
12
votes
2answers
766 views
sharepoint designer 2010 workflow lifecycle
I've build a workflow with SharePoint Designer 2010 on a dev computer. Let's say it's in V1.
Now I want to move the workflow to the production environment. What is the correct way to do that ?
I've ...
10
votes
4answers
872 views
Mutliple solutions using shared dlls can cause havoc when individual solutions are retracted
Problem: Multiple solutions using shared dll's can cause havoc when individual solutions are retracted.
Example: You have a web part helper dll used by all your web part code. If you retract a ...
8
votes
2answers
2k views
Deployed Timer Job not taking new code when deployed
I've realized recently that, when re-deploying (either manually or through vs2010) my timer job feature package, the updated execute code is not being deployed. Strange yea. Essentially, I'll ...
8
votes
5answers
2k views
How do I deploy the new version of a webpart?
As stated here (and as i checked), to upload a new version of an installed webpart, uninstalling the assembly from the GAC and installing the new version would suffice. I've tried it and it worked.
...
7
votes
3answers
3k views
Problem with HTTP Handler deployed on Sharepoint 2010
I've developed a Visual Web Part for Sharepoint 2010. I've used VS2010 to do that and tested the Webpart in a testing server using VS to do the deployment.
But to deploy it on the production server I ...
7
votes
2answers
3k views
What permissions are needed to deploy a WSP to SharePoint 2010?
In an attempt to make sure that developers have the appropriate rights, I'm trying to find documentation on what rights are needed to deploy WSP files to SharePoint 2010 (via stsadm or otherwise).
...
7
votes
1answer
907 views
Best practices for creating a shared code library for SharePoint projects
I have several projects for SharePoint 2010 (mostly they are separate solutions built each to separate wsp's) in active development. And I have a similar tasks in these projects (logging, ...
6
votes
2answers
624 views
When Would Install-SPSolution -Local be used
The use case for Install-SPSolution -Local is not clear to me.
This TechNet article Deploy solution packages (SharePoint Server 2010) suggests that I can use -Local to install solutions manually 1 ...
6
votes
1answer
2k views
Problem installing web part using Powershell
We've developed a custom Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010 for Sharepoint 2010 Server.
The webpart gets deployed when executed from VS (F5), so we can add it wherever we want using Sharepoint ...
6
votes
2answers
158 views
What is a good way to build/install/provision a full web application?
I have a fairly simple SharePoint web application, with a publishing front end, an extranet for customers and an intranet portal.
I want this web app to be easily redeployable -- pretty much a ...
5
votes
7answers
1k views
Is using SharePoint as a intranet/extranet portal a good idea?
I work for a fortune 500 company in IT and we have developed many systems/applications to do a variety of things. We are in need of some commonality of these applications and a better ...
5
votes
6answers
831 views
Please suggest a practice to deploy a sharepoint site collection from test to production server
This is the current scenario:
Sharepoint 2010 on MachineA with SQL Server. Site collection SCa on web app WAa.
Now I need to "deploy" my site collection on MachineB.
What are the suggested ways ...
5
votes
3answers
104 views
SharePoint Admin and Developer Roles [closed]
Currently in our organization we have a three man SharePoint development team where we do everything other than SharePoint admin.
Our organization has development, test, and production servers.
We, ...
5
votes
2answers
494 views
How to make SharePoint simpler for end users?
We are going to use SharePoint for our intranet. The perception at my office is that SharePoint is too complicated for average users to learn. There are many different ways to do any given task, and ...
5
votes
2answers
661 views
How to reproduce Visual Studio “Deploy” action?
It seems like whenever I am developing a web part and I "Deploy" it from Visual Studio, everything gets deployed and works exactly as I would expect.
When I take my WSP and try to install it to a ...
5
votes
4answers
504 views
Best practice for easy deployment of multiple solutions
One of our product will consist of multiple SharePoint solutions. Now we're wondering what would be the best way to provide an easy deployment to our customers? At the moment we deploy each solution ...
5
votes
3answers
2k views
Images and Css located in the _layouts folder
Is it wise to store images and css for the site in the layouts/1033 folder within a .wsp and then letting the deployment of the .wsp take care of location, i.e. dont use elements.xml etc.
I seem to ...
5
votes
1answer
4k views
Can't Activate Solution from Site Settings in SharePoint foundation 2010
I'm currently tasked with developing a branding solution for SharePoint Foundation sites. I've created a WSP file which can be deployed through my local machine through Visual Studios, but when I ...
5
votes
3answers
157 views
Managing Changes to SharePoint Configuration
We have 5 seperate environments which code needs to move through within the project lifecycle (6 if you count individual developer VMs.) This does not include the support enviornments which are used ...
5
votes
3answers
450 views
Upgrading list views without changing the underlying list
What is the best way of updating views on a production environment?
Assume you roll out a second version of your sharepoint solution and you want to add/modify the views on the list, but you can't ...
5
votes
1answer
372 views
Site Definition vs Web Template for product site
I'm getting ready to create a product for SharePoint, and I'd like it to be as easy as possible for people to deploy and use.
I was planning on using a Site Definition, since this seems like a great ...
5
votes
2answers
386 views
Can't deploy packaged page layouts because they are already in the content database
In our SP2010 publishing site we have a lot of content (publishing pages) which are associated with custom page layouts. These page layouts have previously been edited on the server using SharePoint ...
5
votes
3answers
3k views
Sandboxed web part failing with “No available sandboxed code execution server could be found”
I'm deploying a web part as a component of a sandboxed solution from Visual Studio 2010 to Windows 7 SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 on my development box, and I receive the following error when ...
5
votes
1answer
899 views
Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Index (zero based)
Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument.
Getting this error on deployment both from CA and ...
5
votes
2answers
645 views
Upgraded instances of a workflow become 'stuck' and do not pickup OnTaskChanged Activities
I have a very simple workflow as seen here:
When a user goes to act on a task, they are presented with an InfoPath form. The form displays some information. The user either selected 'Approve' or ...
5
votes
4answers
7k views
Custom web part deployment produces 'Cannot import this webpart' error
I have built an empty SharePoint project in Visual Studio 2010 with some custom web parts in it. When I've tested these on my local development machine they can be added to a page without any trouble.
...
4
votes
10answers
2k views
What technical skills do you use most when developing/deploying SharePoint?
(I think my question is sufficiently different from this question to justify asking it. My question is not about useful SharePoint resources, but what technical skills you actually need...)
I'm a ...
4
votes
2answers
1k views
Copy the whole production environment to staging
There is the following WSS solution deployment scenario:
Copy the whole production WSS to staging
Deploy new solution/update to staging
Run automated tests & human tests on staging
Deploy new ...
4
votes
3answers
1k views
Deploying a site template and instantiate it in the same PowerShell script?
I want to create a PowerShell script that :
add a farm solution that only contains a site template
deploy the solution globally
wait for the deploy job to finish
create a site collection based on ...
4
votes
3answers
477 views
Best practices for updating production site
I've a VM (#1) with installed SP 2010 and SQL Server 2008. It suites our needs in terms of load and capacity. In case of breaking down we can revert it to the snapshot.
The development process still ...
4
votes
2answers
141 views
Solution package for a specific webapplication
I have created a solution package using the makecab tool that contains a feature and a DLL which will be installed on the GAC. Its getting deployed globally however I want to deploy it for specific ...
4
votes
2answers
149 views
Any good open source tools for doing WSP installations for SharePoint 2010?
I've heard that SharePoint Solution Installer is a good one, but it only works for 2007 and the 2010 version only appears to be in the planning phase.
Does anyone know of any existing tools out ...
4
votes
2answers
2k views
Changing project from GAC to Bin deployment
I have a third party dll that I have reference in my sharepoint webpart project. The provider of the dll didn't sign it and will not recompile it for me. So I have to change my project to from a GAC ...
4
votes
2answers
1k views
Has the deployment of resource files and site maps been improved in SharePoint 2010
All the SharePoint applications I work on use resource files to allow localisation and sitemap files to integrate with breadcrumbs.
It has always been a problem to deploy and process these files as ...
4
votes
2answers
252 views
How can I compare WFEs to ensure a WSP was deployed succesfully?
I'm a sharepoint 2007 administrator.
We are running with two WFE and deployed a wsp package recently, we suspect that the deployment was not completely successful.
we would like to compare the WSPs ...
4
votes
3answers
766 views
Error while adding Sandbox WebPart
I created a simple "Hello World" sandbox webpart in VS.NET 2010. After uploading the .wsp file to SharePoint site, I activated the webpart. But while trying to add it to a page, I was getting this ...
3
votes
4answers
6k views
Explain it to me: SharePoint deployment scope, solution and features
There are different levels of scope for deployment, but I have not been able to find a definitive explaination of when each applies and what the restrictions are that require loosening (or tightening) ...
3
votes
3answers
2k views
How to deploy web part solution to multi-server farm?
I am having a heck of a time deploying a simple web part to a multi-server farm. The error I receive when deploying is: Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature with Id ...
3
votes
3answers
9k views
How to change deploy server in visual studio 2010 for web part?
I have a web part that I have been deploying to Server A. I now have a new SharePoint environment I would like to deploy my web part to (Server B). How can I set the web part solution to deploy to ...
3
votes
2answers
521 views
Deploying .dlls to the web application bin folder using .wsp fails with feature recevier
When deploying .dlls to the bin directory using a .wsp my feature receivers seem to blow at the deploysolution stage as they cannot find the related code for my feature receivers.
How can I handle ...
3
votes
3answers
2k views
How to create a package to deploy (everything)?
I've a Sharepoint site which have custom Theme, Layout, WebParts (third-party - no source code), custom user controls (with source code), and the site backup (.dat) which we took from command prompt ...
3
votes
3answers
686 views
Maintenance Page/Downtime
I have an IF site that will be undergoing a fairly large deployment. There will be a few hours of downtime, and I want to put a maintenance page at the front of the site, and prevent any traffic from ...
3
votes
1answer
2k views
Adding Features during Solution Update
Is there a supported method to add features during a solution update.
We call Update-SPSolution and then upgrade our old features using SPFeature.Upgrade
but any new features in the solution do not ...
3
votes
3answers
242 views
What's the best way to install SharePoint?
I've heard of people doing scripted installs of SharePoint. Is this common and how far can you take it? Can you actually build your web apps and site collections? I would like to see some examples.
3
votes
2answers
100 views
Visual studio retracts and reinstalls my features, can I tell it to just update?
It appears Visual Studio 2010's out of the box functionality for Deploy retracts and installs my features. Can I tell it instead to perform an update-spsolution instead of removing the entire thing?
...
3
votes
1answer
238 views
SharePoint 2010 development practices
We are a group of ASP.NET developers who are new to SharePoint and we are starting fresh from SP 2010 with no prior experience with 2007. I am trying to figure out how to implement the SW development ...
3
votes
2answers
6k views
Setting up SharePoint 2010 Excel Services
How do you set up Excel Services for SharePoint 2010?
I’ve installed the Office Web Apps (wcsetup.exe) and created a new Excel service in central administration.
But I’m now stuck on what to do ...
3
votes
1answer
2k views
Error when deploying module with GhostableInLibrary files
Here is the module which I want to deploy on the server and the files which should be shown in the Style Library, when deploying them without type ghostale in library,
all go good and well, no errors, ...
