SharePointers

This post is a fantastic starting place for building your own developer VM with SQL Server, AD, Email, MOSS, and Visual Studio. You should pretty much follow this verbatim, but here are a few points to make things go smoothly When Setting up SharePoint Search, make sure you include the Domain with the username (or you'll get a cryptic error ) After setting up SharePoint Search, if you're installing MOSS, turn on all the other services except for the document conversion related services. If installing MOSS, make sure you create an SSP. Don't delete the default web application, just stop it. Chances are deleting it won't hurt you but there are a few things that could get screwed up if you totally delete the default web application (for more info see this post ). Do yourself a favor and put STSDEV on there.

Just a quick post to document a problem that I was having. I was refreshing my memory on Event receivers and was following this tutorial: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-306329.html The only difference between my code and the example was that I put in a comment (<!--like this-->) between the <Receivers> opening tag and the <Receiver> opening tag just to document something....well, SP doesn't like this at all and I got this error: Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Name', table 'WSS_Content_Portal.dbo.EventReceivers'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails. The statement has been terminated. So I took out the comment and reran the install and activate commands (from the command line) and everything worked fine...or so it said (I got the operation completed successfully), message. However when trying to test the sample (after activating), I created a new announcements list and got an error. I checked the logs and lo and behold, the...