Web Development

Have you ever come across a “File Not Found” error when accessing some part of your WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 portal? So have I. There are some modifications that the farm administrator can make to the web application’s web.config file to show more information about the error.

As may or may not know, Microsoft SharePoint is a massive development platform with more API’s than the .NET Framework. There are a number of blog entries and webcasts out there, but I thought I would share what has worked well for me in my experience developing solutions on top of the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Here are the tools and applications required prior to setting up your new SharePoint development environment.

Migrating SharePoint data seems like it should be a straightforward process but as with any task within SharePoint, planning is your greatest ally.

Any time you migrate SharePoint data from one server to another, additional applications, web parts, and features may need to be reinstalled.

Below I have listed several scenarios and the expectations you should have when performing each of them. In the coming weeks, we will expand on each of these with more detail on the process involved.

I’ve found a lot of stuff on URL canonicalization with Apache since Google’s Matt Cutts brought it up over 2 years ago, but it seems that very few discuss Canonizing URLs within an IIS7 environment.

Let’s first be sure we all know what “URL Canonicalization” is.  “Canonical” URLs are the authoritative URL for a specific page.  For instance, a homepage can be found a number of ways:

• http://domain.com
• http://www.domain.com
• http://www.domain.com/index.htm
• http://www.domain.com/default.htm
• http://www.domain.com/main.htm

…and so forth.  Although they all may look the same, we don’t want the search engines to find them all – we want them to find the one, the only, the official…. Canonical URL.

What a week. The Internet Retailers Web Design 2009 Conference is over, and I am left sitting back waiting to catch a flight back home, sweet home. At any conference, attendees like myself often get overwhelmed with the sheer number of keynote speakers, messages, and complex – cutting edge concepts that we are presented with. Lucky for me, and I suppose you if you’re reading this blog, there was one message that stuck out.

One message seemed to ring true no matter who was speaking, or what specialty they were representing on-stage. The message was, believe it or not,

Where’s the Cheese?