Unknown Error - Revealing the true source of the error

SharePoint has the production friendly, but definetely developer unfriendly page - Unknown error when an error is thrown. My usual way to finding the error was to look at the Logs found in the 12 hive, however it looks like there is an easier way to do this:The Sharepoint web.config is abstracting this message from the user. Find the web.config for the site you normally use as your development

Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Good read:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428899.aspx

Migration Hassles - made easy(ier)

I stumbled across the following while struggling with some migrations, haven't had time to try it out though it looks promising!Migrating implementations has been one of my greatest headaches since day 1, and anything which helps with this is always welcome.Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard. The tool provides a wizard-like approach to deploying content between SharePoint sites.

WSS - Search Indexer

If you get the following error when trying to run a search on a WSS site:Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer. Contact your administrator for more information.You'll need to set the indexer on the content database of the site collection. This is done by going to the Central Adminstration > Application Management > Content Databases.In the Search Server

Customizing Alert Emails

You need to create a copy of AlertTemplates.xmlhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/07/customizing-alert-notifications-and-alert-templates-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

Create a Custom Site Definition - Link Dump

Intro: How to create your own custom site definition (Todd)http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2007/08/16/creating-a-custom-site-definition-in-wss-v3-moss.aspxCreating a Site Definition from an Existing Site Definition (MSDN)http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms868598.aspxand more generically Customizing Templateshttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa151982.aspxCreating a

File not found error when creating Site from Template

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2367212&SiteID=1

Filter Views based on Approval / Workflow Status

You need to create the filter based on the integer representation of the status value you are looking for, like this:Not Started 0Failed on Start 1In Progress 2Error Occurred 3Canceled 4Completed 5Failed on Start (retrying) 6Error Occurred (retrying) 7Canceled 15Approved 16Rejected 17

More Branding stuff ...

How to remove the SharePoint blue!Joel once again to the rescue. This is quite a nice solution...http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/04/12/master-page-and-themes-on-wss-sites-in-moss.aspx