Page Centering.

A while ago… I commented on centered a pages content based on the ribbon structure in SharePoint.  Still, there seems to always be a better way.  Here is some CSS that can do just that: body { background-color: #000; overflow:auto; text-align:center; } #Container { position: relative; height: 411px; background:url(‘/images/LoginScreen.png’) no-repeat; } form { width:985px; margin-left:auto; …

SharePoint Dialog Box Adjustments

Love it when your master page edits appear on the dialog boxes as well?  Hide them the easy way: .ms-dialog #MyCustomElement, .ms-dialog .Header, .ms-dialog .Footer  { display:none; } Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBuzz it upSubscribe to the comments on this postPrint for laterTell a friend

“You must specify a value for this required field” error when hidding PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea

Another page editing gotcha!  Got to give full credit on this one to Travis Mathison: “You must specify a value for this required field” error when hidding PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea When customizing SharePoint 2010 MasterPages you often don’t want certain content placeholders to show up on the page.  You should not delete or comment these elements out …

Grrrr @ “A system restart from a previous installation or update is pending”

  During a SharePoint install… got the error that a pending update was requiring a reboot.  No problem, I rebooted.  But, same error.  Rebooted.  Same error.  Rebooted.  Same error. GRRRRR… Just rename the Pendiung Update registry value: Full instructions: To delete the orphaned PendingFileRenameOperations registry key Open a registry editor, such as Regedit.exe or Regedt32.exe. …

SSL and SharePoint Designer, Gotcha.

Getting this in SharePoint Designer after having just installed SSL?     Microsoft puts it this way: “This problem occurs because client integration is disabled on the Web application on which the Web site collection resides.” To resolve this problem, enable the client integration. To do this, follow these steps: Start SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, and …

?ToolPaneView=2

Interesting way to bring up the web part pane in SharePoint… just add this to the end of the URL: “?ToolPaneView=2″ Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBuzz it upSubscribe to the comments on this postPrint for laterTell a friend

Search Services, Access Denied? Whaa?

Discovered ANOTHER nice little gotcha.  If you use the addon to SharePoint 2010 Foundation, the SharePoint Search Services Express… you may get that Access Denied error, IF YOU’RE USING CLAIMS. Don’t know why exactly, other then to say I hear it’s because when you indicate claims the setup doesn’t properly apply the service account to …

SharePoint SP1 Gotcha… Search Crawl Error “Mount Operation for the Gatherer”

If you get this error in the Event Log after recently installing SP1: The mount operation for the gatherer application 28c08c8b-2c00-408c-8572-87638068e335-crawl-0 has failed because the schema version of the search gatherer database is less than the minimum backwards compatibility schema version supported for this gatherer application. The database might not have been upgraded Run this: …