Between native and 3rd party options there are probably 86 ways to backup SharePoint. However sometimes you want something simple and guarenteed. The Export to Spreadsheet option is an example – its basic but works – kind of cosey. So I wrote a console app that lets me quickly dump the contents of a Site to a series of CSV files and zips them.
Yearly Archive
for: ‘2011’
Im Pretty Comfortable Bigfoot Doesnt Exist
Now the believers say 400 years is an indication of how real they are, but Im thinking if you haven’t found one of 2,000 – 6,000 seven to nine foot hair covered things in America, it doesn’t exist. Australia? Maybe – there’s 20 million people in Australia and only 3 don’t live on the coast; Jen, Liz and Trevor – whose a great guy.
Validate Url in SQL Server via a Function
My current private project involves work with Url’s supplied by the user. No doubt I will have some higher validation occurring at the web front end but I also wanted to have some basic checking at the backend – SQL Server. I checked around and there were some examples, including this one from Adam Machanic …
Using a Console Application to perform SharePoint Tasks
Often it is forgotten that you can also access SharePoint via a standard console application. This can be very handy when making bulk changes to a list that are a one off event, as you can make the change without negotiating the UI or you can schedule the job as a Task rather than working through a Timer job. Console apps can also be very handy in testing complicated logic prior to binding to an event, such as a button OnClick.
AmateurMatch & Online Dating – its all icky…
I’ve been getting these emails saying that my account has been created but I have forgotten to log on. So begins a naive look at one Online Dating site. I know we all want to make a billion dollars, but aren’t there nicer ways?
Running WordPress on SQL Server
For some time I have been looking at running WordPress on Microsoft SQL Server. Why do I want to go this way? Well it allows me to unify my backup / restoration strategies, reduce the services I have to provide, reduce my security exposure and leverage all my data in products I am more familiar with. This Step-By-Step Guide shows it can be done – but is it worth the risk?
SharePoint 2007 AJAX Timer Fires Only Once?
When I punched the solution into SharePoint 2007 I found that the UpdateTimer_Tick method would only run once. I must admit I spent some time on it, rebuilding, tweaking, debugging – I even built the solution in a new stock ASP site – everything looked ok but in SharePoint 2007 it still only run once. After some research on I found references to the issue being the _spFormOnSubmitWrapper method on the SharePoint init.js file. I dont like editing the out-of-the-box files in SharePoint, so I continued my research into ways the method could be overridden locally.
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