Nov26

Getting around SharePoint 2007 not allowing database Integrated Security

Categories: SharePoint 2007
The problem is becuase of a line in web.config in WSS root folder which is:   <tagMapping> <add tagType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.SqlDataSource, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ...
 
Nov26

Enabling security trimming using role attribute in web.sitemap

Categories: SharePoint 2007
I have figured out how to trim the menu items on the web page.I need to add the following element to the web.config file <siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true"> <providers> <add name=&quo...
 
Nov26

Download tracking with WSS 3.0

Categories: SharePoint 2007
WSS 3.0 does not have a mechanism for tracking who downloads which files with authenticated users. When I got confronted with this task, I decided to create a web user control that reads all the files in a document library and subsequently display...