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I am an avid SharePoint enthusiast who works as an Independent SharePoint Consultant based in Leeds, United Kingdom. I am one of the organisers of the Yorkshire SharePoint User Group in the United Kingdom. I have been designing and building SharePoint solutions since 2006.
by Simon Doy

>SharePoint Overflow


>Whilst listening to the latest installments of the SharePoint Pod Show, Nick Swan mentioned a new site that they have started called SharePoint Overflow, borrowing some key ideas from Stack Overflow they have created a really simple and neat site which allows you to post and answer questions.

As you answer questions you gain more reputation and this allows you to do more on the site. As some of you maybe aware I am a bit of a Playstation, gaming nut and I love the idea that you can score points.

There seem to be all the top SharePoint dogs there so you are sure to get your questions answered quickly and learn a few things as well. I learnt a new way to handle the SPWebConfigurationModificiation object thanks to Andrew Woodward and The Kid

One thing that I havent seen before is the OpenId authentication piece. OpenId is similar to Microsoft’s passport along users to login via a single sign on username/password. Therefore  I can log in via my blogger/Google account.

Although Microsoft have been trying to do this for a while this does seem like a nice alternative and I am guessing it was selected because it gave the broadest choice.

Anyway sign up and take a look.
Nice work chaps!

http://www.sharepointoverflow.com

by Simon Doy

>Pages is not a valid document library


>Had an problem at a client’s site where when you created a new layout page using the New->Welcome Page content type an error would display saying that “Pages is not a valid document library”.

Looking into the issue further, Layout pages within the library could be accessed properly and using Manage Site and Content you could copy files into the library.

One thing that I did notice is that the Modify Navigation link from Site Actions->Site Settings was greyed out.

First thing was to check the web’s Publishing Feature, the Standard feature was enabled but this had no effect.

The solution was to deactivate and then reactivate the web’s publishing feature.

The client has recently applied June 2009 cumulative update to the server farm the previous day, wondering if this caused the problem.

Thank you to Myryama for a helping hand! in finding a solution.

Simon