Ben There, Done That

If you’ve installed SP2 into your SharePoint farm you’ll want to read this article to make sure you SharePoint license doesn’t expire on you:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

I was working with a client over the last few days on building a Project Workspace site template.  We were nearly finished and had to make a couple last edits to a web part when we hit the JavaScript error.  When expanding the details of the error it was similar to:

line: 2135
Char: 4
Error: ‘style.display’ is null or not an object
code: 0

This error was keeping us from adding web parts and modifying current web parts (we could still delete web parts, but only by using http://url/default.aspx?contents=1 to get to our web part maintenance page).

I did some researching and thanks to this thread, I found this solution:

1)  Place page in edit mode
2)  Edit the content of the content editor web part by selecting the
‘modify web part’ drop down menu
3)  Select the Rich Text Editor and copy the text if you do not want
to lose it.
4)  Select Source Editor button, this opens the HTML source code for
the CE Web Part
5)  Remove the source code.  Our source code had a conflicting ID.
6)  Update CE web part and make sure source code does not have auto
generated code, or just add a new content editor web part.

The thread varies on what web parts people had on the page, in our case, we only had one content editor web part and then several list web parts.  Once we removed our single content editor web part, everything worked beautifully.

Yesterday the Groove team announced on their blog the change to Groove.  They said, “The name makeover is in concert with the direction the product is going.  SharePoint Workspace will provide easy access to SharePoint content (or content from any server that implements the publicly documented protocols) in an effort to provide a seamless online/offline experience.”  It will also now be bundled with the Office Professional 2010 package.

I’ve used Groove some but ran into some limitations as I was running all 64 bit machines.  The post doesn’t mention anything specific about running on 64 bit, nor have I heard any other news about it, hopefully this is another thing that will be updated, the same functionality on 32 bit and 64 bit.  Stay tuned for more news about Office 2010 as it emerges.

With TechEd 2009 going on this week in LA, details of SharePoint 2010 are starting to emerge.  Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend this year, however, I was able to watch the keynote live streaming online.  Between that and twitter, I was able to gain the following details on SharePoint 2010.

1. SharePoint 2010 will be only 64 bit and will require Windows Server 2008
2. More preliminarily system requirements for SharePoint 2010 can be found on the SharePoint Team blog post.
3. The SharePoint Technical Preview will be available in July, however, it will be invitation only with TechEd attendees getting priority.

Those were the SharePoint highlights that I was able to pick up today.  I’ll continue to post updates as I get them.