On my SharePoint server, I have a media directory (i.e. c:\media) full of media files that I needed to stream on the web via a SharePoint Media Player Web Part that I created (similar to [1]). At first, I just pointed an IIS virtual directory to that directory (i.e. http://<myserver>/media) and...

On my current SharePoint/InfoPath project, we’re using NAnt to deploy absolutely everything. NAnt creates SharePoint pages, imports web parts to pages, activates SharePoint features, deploys assemblies, creates SharePoint lists, creates/updates SQL databases (via DBDeploy ), packages and deploys InfoPath...

I'm sitting at a chain coffee shop in my home town of Edmonton, the day after doing a technical presentation to a large enterprise client about SharePoint technology and best practices. Whenever I find myself in such a situation, I feel a little apprehensive at first because I never know what level...

imason's Ivan Neganov recently presented at the Toronto SharePoint Camp . In his session, he talked about automated deployments of SharePoint/MOSS-based solutions. Deployment with SharePoint/MOSS is among the least-understood areas, and it is not trivial. Most people resort to the first option (the...

Why you would deploy custom ASPX pages SharePoint lets you do a lot out of the box, but as we all know, sometimes the need arises to deploy custom pages within your SharePoint environment. Custom wizards, dashboards, and administration pages are just a few examples where you would like your web pages...

I've been using NAnt a lot lately for deploying components to development and integration machines. The common misconception that I've heard from reluctant SharePoint folks around here is that we should be packaging SharePoint solutions in WSP (SharePoint solution files) instead of deploying...