Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Meeting 4/5/2012!

 

Update… 4/5, not 4/4!!!

 

This month we will have two presentations:

• Clint Richardson will be giving a presentation on SharePoint Security
   
• Bill Crider will be giving a presentation on customizing My Sites

 

And… I have a couple of new books to add to the door prizes.

 

http://www.CincinnatiSPUG.org

Twitter: @cincyspug

 

 

 

 

 

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SharePoint Saturday Call for Speakers and Sponsors is Open!

 

Our very first SharePoint Saturday Dayton is in the works! 

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint for the very first "SharePoint Saturday Dayton" event on June 30th.  SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. 

SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

Follow the event on twitter @spsdayton.

Save the date! June 30th, 2012

Sponsors

Looking to support the Dayton area SharePoint community and reach out to SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint? A SharePoint Saturday is one of the most effective way of reaching local SharePoint community!

Click here for sponsor information: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton/Pages/sponsors.aspx

 

Speakers

SPS Dayton is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experiences with the SharePoint community. We are seeking sessions that are educational, informative, and practical in nature. Abstracts that are submitted should fall into one of four general categories.

• Development. Sessions that address the SharePoint object model, custom code, interactions with SharePoint via its services, etc.
• IT Pro. Sessions that cover SharePoint administration, configuration, scalability, infrastructure implementation, and related topics
• Information Worker. Sessions that pertain to end-user SharePoint concerns such as site design, information organization, SharePoint Designer topics, user adoption, etc.
• Special Topic. Sessions such as case-studies, cross-disciplinary subjects, and any session that doesn’t fit well in one of the other three categories.

Go here to submit your proposals: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton/Pages/speakers.aspx

 

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Names you can’t use for a SharePoint subsite!

 

 

Try to create a subsite in a publishing site named "Workflowtasks"

Error

The Web site address "/workflowtasks" is already in use.

 

I checked and View All Site Content does not list this subsite. But... it does list a
list named "Workflow Tasks". That should not be a problem as the URL for
lists always include "/Lists/".

http://intranet.contoso.com/Lists/Workflowtasks

So why can’t I create a subsite named “workflowtasks”? When the publishing feature is enabled it creates a special list in the root of the site (i.e. no "/Lists/") named "workflowtasks".

(Why would you ever create a subsite named “Workflowlists”?  Because in one of my SharePoint workflow classes step one of the lab said “create a subsite named “Workflowlists”!)

 

Other root level list names that cannot be used for subsites

The following is a list of a few of the names that cannot be used as subsites of a Publishing template based site:

• Long Running Operation Status
• Notification Pages
• PublishedLinks
• Quick Deploy Items
• Relationships List
• Reports Lists
• ReusableContent
• Variation Labels 

 

Other root level folder names that cannot be used for subsites

The following are names used in almost every SharePoint site for folders. Some are found in every subsite while a few are only found in top level sites.

• _catalogs  ("Error: Site names cannot contain certain reserved words and
  cannot begin with an underscore.")
• _cts
• _private
• images
• Lists
• m

  

 

Library names that exist in a site cannot be used as a subsite name

 

Error

The Web site address "/Shared Documents" is already in use"

• Shared Documents
• SitePages
• etc...

Try to create a subsite named "Lists"...

Error

Cannot create a Web at "/lists" because a folder already exists at this
location.

 

To find names that are not valid as subsite names

Open your site in SharePoint Designer. In 2007 all of the folder and root level list and library names are displayed in the left panel. In 2010 click on “All Files”. (If you don’t see “All Files” then your Site Collection Administrator or you server administrator may have removed your “Allow Site Owners and Designers to See the Hidden URL structure of their Web Site” permission.)

 

A sample All Files in SharePoint Designer 2010:

 

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Last Chance to Sign Up for SharePoint Cincy 2012!

 

 

SharePoint Cincy – March 16th, 2012

Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Applied Informatics and MAX Technical Training are bringing a major SharePoint event to the Cincinnati area! SharePoint Cincy will be held at the METS Center located in Erlanger, KY. The METS center is near the Cincinnati airport (CVG) and has lots of free parking.

You’ve got to be registered to attend and it’s filling up fast. Last year was a sell out and this year is a bigger and better event!

See the site for the agenda, speakers and registration: http://www.sharepointcincy.com