Article: http://www.crsw.com/mark/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=36

Summary
This article covers how to hide (remove) the View All Site Content link and/or the Recycle Bin link from the quick launch navigation without having to customize the master page.  Additionally, I cover how I accomplished along with other options, all using the standard functionality provided in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Important:  This solution is not an answer for security.  The user will still have access to the View All Site Content page.  The View All Site Content link is simply removed or hidden from the page.

- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Downloads

Hide View All Site Content - Solution Package
Hide View All Site Content - Solution Package and Source Code

Installation and Activation
(Very easy, no coding required)

For those interested in how to install this solution, it is very easy and does not require any coding, compiling, or editing.

Basic Install Steps:

Note: This command must be executed on the (only one) SharePoint web server, and you must be a local administrator.

Using (Activating) the new feature:

1. Navigate to the site you want to hide the View All Site Content link.
2. Go to the Site Settings for that site (Site Actions > Site Settings).
3. Click the Site Features (not the Site Collection Features) link under the Site Administration section. 
4. Activate the new feature named "Hide the View All Site Content link".

• List and Site Permissions
  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101001491033.aspx#2

The AspMenu class that ships with WSS 3.0 (and by extension MOSS 2007) is nearly identical in behavior to ASP.NET 2.0’s Menu class (as the name implies). AspMenu derives from Menu and adds tweaks to work around a few reasonably well known annoyances and provides improved highlighting support.

 

Unfortunately, this class was marked sealed and is therefore not eligible to be used as the base class for derived types. Effectively, this means that customers cannot inherit the additional functionality of the AspMenu class when trying to provide further customization of the menu.

 

We realized this problem too late in the release process and were unable to remove the sealed marker from the AspMenu class that ships with WSS. However, we are instead providing the source code for that class here (as an attachment to this blog entry) under the name MossMenu.

 

Note: MossMenu is provided as is and will only work on sites built with WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007. MossMenu relies on some JavaScript which has been included along with the C# source. This is really just for completeness’ sake [aside: some trival about the use of the apostrophe for the possessive forms of nouns] as this script is automatically included on most pages through the core.js script include reference.

 

Issues with the ASP.NET 2.0 menu, which have been worked around:

1)     If the mouse pointer happens to be hovering over a menu item that exposes a fly-out as the page is loading, it is possible that an error dialog will appear stating: "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site, Operation aborted" and a blank page will be shown upon clicking OK. It seems that the problem arises from attempting to append to the DOM before it is properly initialized.

2)     If SSL termination is employed on a site with a menu, users will be greeted with “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?” when hovering over a menu item which exposes fly-outs. (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910444)

3)     In right-to-left locales, the fly-out indicator arrow still points from left-to-right.

 

Improvements to default highlighting behavior of ASP.NET 2.0 menu:

·         When hooking the menu up to a SiteMapProvider through a SiteMapDataSource, the menu automatically highlights the node that matches that returned by the provider’s CurrentNode property. However, if the particular node returned by CurrentNode is not shown by the menu nothing will be highlighted at all. The improved behavior determines if there is an ancestor of the current node which is displayed in the menu and highlights this node instead.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Chris Richard, Software Design Engineer, WCM Features

If you are a project manager who wants to create a project using Project Server 2007, you have two ways of connecting to it. You can connect directly using a Web browser and a URL given to you by an administrator, or you can connect through Project Professional 2007 on your desktop, which is explained explain in this video.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project/HA102910371033.aspx?pid=CH100948801033

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Waqas Sarwar

Posted by Heather O'Cull at Friday, November 07, 2008 11:09 PM

Hey Guys!

Just launched today: Security Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies

This page provides IT pros with security resources for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. 

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Waqas Sarwar

Special thanks to  chrisfie for this entry at Christophe Fiessinger’s Blog on November 13, 2008, 8:35pm

 

Hi Guys!

 

If you're new to Project 2007, or even new to project management in general, the Up to speed with Project 2007 video series might be the basic training you're looking for. This six-part series covers the basic elements of project management and the Project 2007 interface, as well as how to start a new project, create relationships between tasks, use calendars, build a team, identify project costs, check project progress, and generate reports. The entire series can be viewed in less than an hour, providing a quick way to ramp up and get started managing your projects using Project 2007.

 

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Waqas

Special thanks to Heather O’Cull this entry at Microsoft Office Project 2007 on November 12, 2008, 6:55pm

Hey Guys!

 

Michael Jordan, a Lead Architect at Microsoft, has been delivering a great series on Project Server 2007. In the series, he presents on the aspects to consider when you evaluate, plan, deploy, and operate Project Server 2007. You can register for the upcoming webcasts and catch up on the ones you have missed at the Microsoft Project Webcasts page.

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Waqas

 

Special thanks to Do More Than Manage for this entry, released on November 12, 2008, 12:00am

There are various posts around on setting up MOSS 2007 to use the PDF IFilter, and some stuff on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as well.  I’ve found a method which works for me, so I wanted to put this together in one place - not least of all so I can find it when out on site with a client. 

Out of the box neither WSS 3 nor MOSS 2007 will index content located in Acrobat PDF files, so you need to set up the IFilter.  I’ve also found that that PDF files loaded prior to the installation of the filter won’t be re-crawled automatically, so to be on the safe side you might want to kick off a full crawl.

Here is what I’ve found works for WSS 3.0:

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Waqas Sarwar

Special Thanks to Worker Thread

 

The Ramp Up program (www.MyRampUp.com)  has just launched a brand-new learning track: SharePoint for Developers, Part I today. This includes:

• Level 1: Web Parts
• Level 2: Data Lists
• Level 3: Event Handlers
• Level 4: Workflow
• Level 5: Silverlight Web Parts

Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based program that can help users save time in learning Microsoft technology. The easy-to-access content (provided by subject-matter gurus) is specifically tailored to the Ramp Up program, and offered in a variety of forms (whitepaper, v-lab, codecast and slidecast). This SharePoint track, along with the other currently offered tracks (eg, Visual Studio 2008), teaches the important skills in a guided path, making the learning process easier and more efficient. Currently, there are no assessments in the program, so it’s quicker than ever to graduate and receive the reward (25% off on certification and 50% off on e-Learning - only for graduates of Ramp Up).

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Waqas Sarwar

Originally by chrisfie from Christophe Fiessinger’s Blog on November 6, 2008, 3:58am

This is a great assets for all SharePoint and Project Server developers: http://microsoft.com/spg

Overview

This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation (RI) demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development and lifecycle management challenges.
This guidance discusses the following:

• Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring and packaging.
• Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter.
• Implementation examples demonstrated in the RI and in the QuickStarts.
• How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.
• Set up of development, build, test, staging, and production environments.
• Managing the application life cycle including upgrade.
• Team-based intranet application development.

Regards
Waqas

Originally by chrisfie from Christophe Fiessinger’s Blog on November 6, 2008, 3:58am

Microsoft have released new contents regarding using Active Directory GPO to enforce settings. The process can be used for Microsoft Project 2007 deployment to standardize the usage of the tool.

 In a MS Project Server 2007 EPM environment, there are settings your should check or uncheck based on how you are planning to use the system. Standardizing those settings make it easier from the user experience of the tool & make things easier for later issues.  

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Waqas Sarwar

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Originally from MS Project Server on November 3, 2008, 5:34pm

You manually create a Project Summary Task

25 Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks

The following is a collection of Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Project that we have accumulated over the years and teach in our training classes. Unless otherwise noted, these tips and tricks work with all versions of Microsoft Project.

1. In the Gantt Chart, doubleclick on the right edge of a column header to "best fit" the column.
   
   
2. To quickly change the name of a column, doubleclick in the column header and enter a new name for the field in the Title field. For example, you may want to abbreviate the Duration field name to Dur to allow the field to be narrower.
   
   
3. To quickly change the field in a column, doubleclick in the column header and select the new field from the Field Name list. While in the Field Name list, press the first letter of the desired field to go to that field.
   
   
4. In the Gantt Chart Table (or any table), to quickly hide a column, click on the right edge of the column header and drag it to the left until it disappears (becomes a 0 width column). To display this hidden column, place the cursor a little to the right of the column separator bar where the column used to be, click and drag to the right.
   
   
5. You can wrap text in the Gantt Chart to display text on multiple lines if you increase the row height. To increase the row height, place the cursor between any two row numbers (if the ID field is displayed in the first column and is "locked"), click and drag down to increase the row height. Only Text fields wrap and only if the column is narrower than the text in the field.
   
   
6. When printing Gantt Charts (or other timescaled charts) you can adjust the width of the timescale to fit the page without changing the timescale units. Doubleclick on the Timescale and increase the number in the % field (or Enlarge field in some versions of Project) to make the timescale take up more of the page or decrease the number in the % (or Enlarge) field to make the timescale narrower. The latter step is useful when a chart is just a little too wide to fit on a page.
   
   
7. To select two or more non-adjacent tasks, click on a task (in the table area), hold down the Ctrl Key and click on another task in the chart. Continue holding the Ctrl key to select other tasks. This is especially useful for linking or unlinking tasks that are not on consecutive rows.
   
   
8. To change information for a number of tasks at once, highlight the desired tasks (select non-adjacent tasks using the method described above) and select the Task Information button. Enter the common information in one of the fields displayed in the "Multiple Task Information" dialog box.
   
   
9. To remove a date constraint from a task, select the task (or multiple tasks) and select the Task Information button. Click in the Advanced tab, change the Type field to As Soon As Possible and click OK. This removes any date constraint in the task and allows it to be scheduled based on the dependencies rather than a date entered (perhaps accidentally) by a user.
   
   
10. If a task does not move (reschedule) based on a dependency, it may contain a "fixed" date of some kind. A fixed date could be an Actual Start or a constraint such as Must Start On or Start No Earlier Than. Use the Tasks with Fixed Dates Filter to view only those tasks in a plan that contain fixed dates. You can then determine if these tasks should have these types of fixed dates. Use the previous tip to remove an unwanted constraint.
    
    
11. If after removing the Actual Start and any constraint (such as Must Start On or Start No Earlier Than) a task still does not reschedule based on a dependency, check the Resource Leveling feature. Make sure Automatic Leveling is turned off by selecting Resource Leveling from the Tools menu and choosing Manual. If a task still does not move, it may contain a delay based on a previous Resource Level. Select Resource Leveling again from the Tools menu and choose Clear Leveling. Select whether or not to remove Leveling from the selected tasks or for the entire project.
    
    
12. After applying a Filter in a Gantt chart press F3 to view all tasks again instead of applying the All Tasks filter.
    
    
13. Press Alt-Home in the Gantt chart to position the chart on the start of the project.
    
    
14. If you have indented tasks to create Summary Tasks and Detail Tasks, click the little box with the minus sign to the left of the Summary Task name to quickly hide the detail tasks below it. Click the box with the plus sign to display the detail tasks that were hidden.
    
    
15. In the Gantt chart, you can create dependencies by clicking on the Gantt bar of a task and dragging to another Gantt bar to create a Finish-to-Start dependency between the two tasks.
    
    
16. To quickly modify or delete a dependency, doubleclick on the dependency line between the two tasks to display the Task Dependency form (be sure to place your cursor directly on the dependency line).
    
    
17. In any drop down list such as the list of Resource Names or the list of Filters you can press the first letter of the item you are looking for to quickly go that item.
    
    
18. Use the Insert key on your keyboard to quickly insert rows and columns. In the Gantt chart, click on a row and press the Insert key to insert a blank row above the selected row. Click on a column header to highlight a column and press Insert to insert a column to the left of the selected column. You can also use the Delete key to reverse this process but be careful…
    
    
19. In the Network Diagram (or PERT Chart in some versions of Project), to move multiple task boxes, click in the chart area, drag the cursor to select any number of boxes and release the cursor. Then, click on the border of a box and drag the entire selection of boxes to a new location. In Project 2000, 2002 and 2003 you must first select the Format menu, Layout and then Manual Box Positioning to enable the ability to move task boxes around. 
    
    
20. An often overlooked but handy report is the Calendar view using a Resource Filter. Select Calendar from the View menu. Select the Using Resource… Filter and type in the name of the desired resource to display the Calendar for a particular resource. This produces a nice printout of a resource’s tasks with each month of a project on a separate page.
    
    
21. For Project 2000, 2002 and 2003, to prevent an item from appearing in the legend for the Gantt  chart, select the Format menu, Bar Styles and place an asterisk (*) before the name of the item that you do not want to appear. In Project 98 you can delete the bar styles you do not use to avoid displaying them in the legend.
    
    
22. Right click in the Toolbar area to display the list of available Toolbars. A check next to a Toolbar indicates that it is currently displayed. Click on a Toolbar to display or hide it.
    
    
23. In the Gantt Chart (or any chart with a table and a chart area) doubleclick the separator line between the table and chart to automatically push the separator line to the closest column edge.
    
    
24. To split the screen and place a specific View into the lower pane, hold the shift key while selecting an item from the View menu. You can also split the screen by selecting Split from the Window menu or doubleclick the small horizontal split bar in the lower right corner of the screen. Doubleclick it again to remove the split (or choose Remove Split from the Windows menu).
    
    
25. Just for fun - Create two 10 day tasks. Place the cursor in the Finish field of the first task and click the Copy button. Place the cursor in the Start field of the second task and select Paste Special-Paste Link from the Edit menu. Place the cursor on the Finish field of the second task and click the Copy button. Place the cursor on the Start field of the first task, select Paste Special-Paste Link and watch the tasks "walk" across the chart. Delete one of the tasks to stop.
    

We hope you have found these tips and tricks useful. If you have a tip that you would like to share, please send it to us and we will gladly add it to the above list the next time we update it. Send all Tips and Tricks to: info@criticaltools.com

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