SharePoint 2010 Branding – Master Page

As we all know that MOSS 2007 master page is not going to work properly with SharePoint 2010, in other way it is always good to create new master page for SharePoint 2010, there are some changes in placeholder name for 2010 master page and some new placeholder introduced in 2010 master page like ribbon tag, etc..

V4.Master is default master page for 2010; codeplex also has provided starter master pages for 2010 which will be very useful.

Here are some very good links to follow for starting creating master page for SharePoint 2010, links has detailed information regarding from where to start and how.

http://www.sharepointedutech.com/2011/01/24/sharepoint-2010-branding-series-part-two/ 

http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com/ (codeplex master pages)

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=386

Here is link for SharePoint 2010 CSS reference names: http://sharepointexperience.com/csschart/csschart.html

Good Luck with master page designing :)

MOSS Faceted Search

From last some time, I am working in Search Functionality in SharePoint, we have installed “Search 2.5” into our server, and it gives us more ready to use web part functionality like search facets, caching, stemming and many more.

You can download faceted search 2.5 from codeplex by below link.

http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch

We have also installed SharePoint Infrastructure Upgrade patch, it includes Federated Search like we can easily view and capture our search data from SharePoint SSP Screen.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx

Till now, I did all things from SharePoint GUI only, not SharePoint Search object model, it has also many search library through which we can code our own specific search functionality, through SharePoint GUI, we can also customize functionality by changing respective web part configuration XML file.

I will give you updates regarding same on regular basis.

SharePoint Manager 2007 – Administration Tool

SharePoint Manager 2007 - Administration tool which will give one window interface to see all our farms web application lists and object model data.

http://www.codeplex.com/spm

It’s not like Avepoint tool, because Avepoint is used for taking backup, restore and scheduling all things, SPM 2007 don’t have this type of facility, but it’s give inner details of all farm web application, list, site collection and features also.

We can also change any value and that will reflect into Central Admin or web application level from SPM 2007.

There is one loop hole or bug into SharePoint Manager 2007 tool, it will display plain text password.
We can see password by opening tool and going to

ENT Farm Configuration -> Administration Service -> Web Application -> Click on web application name -> SharePoint Central Administration v3

Check properties into right side of window, it will show username and plain password field.