Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 for a Standalone server and Server farm

Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 for a standalone server and server farm options differ when you do perform in-place upgrade,

1) If its an in-place upgrade for a Standalone Server, the SharePoint Products Configuration wizard doesn't provide the visual upgrade feature. you can avail of this feature only using Psconfig command-line tool to perform the upgrade.

psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade [-preserveolduserexperience ]

2) If its for a Server Farm, you can activate a visual upgrade option by using the visual upgrade page of the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0

The Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administer and manage Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010 and Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010.


Link to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0

SharePoint 2010 VHD

Wondering what to do with SharePoint installation and setting up,
here is link to the SharePoint 2010 VHD

Configure reporting for Project Server 2010

Watch Technet Video - How to Configure reporting for Project Server 2010

Read Technet Article- How to Configure reporting for Project Server 2010

Hiding System/Application Pages in SharePoint for Anonymous Users

In Publishing Sites for anonymous audiences you may have comes across the interesting artifact of Forms pages being visible to anonymous users. An example of this might be a site which allows anonymous access to the Entire Site, anonymous users will be able to navigate (and may get redirected to) URLs like http://domain/Pages/Forms/AllItems.aspx, or http://domain/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx. AllItems.aspx could really be any view on the list.

There's actually an out of the box feature that ships with MOSS. It's called the "ViewFormPagesLockdown" feature and it's already installed, it just needs to be activated.

To activate the feature you need to use the STSADM utility like below:

stsadm.exe –o activatefeature –url [Site Collection URL] -filename ViewFormPagesLockdown\feature.xml

To deactivate run:

stsadm.exe –o deactivatefeature –url [Site Collection URL] -filename ViewFormPagesLockdown\feature.xml

What Does ViewFormPagesLockdown Actually Do?

There's no real easy way to say hide AllItems.aspx or similar views from users if you're running anonymous access on your site. These users run under the Limited Access privilege set, a default set of permissions that you can't change through the UI, which is why we have this Lockdown feature to assist you.

When you activate this feature you change the permissions of the Limited Access privilege group removing the following permissions: View Application Pages (List permission), and Use Remote Interfaces (Site permission). Here's a table of what that privilege set looks like before and after running the lock down feature. It's from the Microsoft article.

Permission	Limited access — default	Limited access — lockdown mode
List permissions: View Application Pages	●
Site permissions: Browse User Information	●	●
Site permissions: Use Remote Interfaces	●
Site permissions: Use Client Integration Features	●	●
Site permissions: Open	●	●

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Playing Videos in SharePoint

How to Play videos in SharePoint 2007 ?


Using Content Editor web Part we can play videos in SharePoint,

Add Content Editor Web Part to the page and add the following code

Example Code

WMA Audio Files

<OBJECT ID="MMPlayer1" WIDTH=280 HEIGHT=45 classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="$thisfolderurl$YourSongName.wma">
<PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0">

<PARAM NAME="DefaultFrame" VALUE="Slide">
<PARAM NAME="Autostart" VALUE="0">
<Embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/download/default.asp" src="$thisfolderurl$YourSongName.wma" Name=MMPlayer1 Autostart=0 ShowControls=1 ShowDisplay=0 ShowStatusBar=0 DefaultFrame="Slide" width=280 height=45>
</embed>
</OBJECT> 

Example Code

WMV Video Files

<OBJECT ID="MMPlayer1" WIDTH=280 HEIGHT=200 classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="$thisfolderurl$YourVideoName.wmv">
<PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0">

<PARAM NAME="DefaultFrame" VALUE="Slide">
<PARAM NAME="Autostart" VALUE="0">
<Embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/download/default.asp" src="$thisfolderurl$YourVideoName.wmv" Name=MMPlayer1 Autostart=0 ShowControls=1 ShowDisplay=0 ShowStatusBar=0 DefaultFrame="Slide" width=280 height=200>
</embed>
</OBJECT> 

Example Code

Flash 4

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
ID=Movie1 WIDTH=550 HEIGHT=400>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="$thisfolderurl$FlashFileName.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="$thisfolderurl$FlashFileName.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=550 HEIGHT=400 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>

</OBJECT> 

Example Code

Flash 6 (MX)

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="Untitled-1" ALIGN="">

<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="$thisfolderurl$FlashFileName.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="$thisfolderurl$FlashFileName.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" NAME="Untitled-1" ALIGN=""
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT> 

Example Code

Flash 7 (MX Pro 2004)

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="Untitled-1" align="middle"> 
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="$thisfolderurl$FlashFileName.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />

<embed src="$thisfolderurl$FlashFileName.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="Untitled-1" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

Example Code

Flash 8 (MX Pro 2004)

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="300" height="200" id="Untitled" align="middle"> 
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="$thisfolderurl$moviename.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="$thisfolderurl$moviename.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="300" height="200" name="Untitled" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

Example Code

FLV (Flash Video)

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="350" wmode="transparent" data="flvplayer.swf?file=FILENAME.flv&autoStart=true"> 
<param name="movie" value="flvplayer.swf?file=FILENAME.flv&autoStart=true" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />

</object>

Change FILENAME.flv to the name of your own .flv file and set the width and height.

Download the zip file below, extract the .swf player file and attach it with your .flv file in Website Properties > Attached Files.

Click here to download. DjMixMan_flvplayer.zip

Example Code

Mov (Quicktime Movie)

<embed src="$thisfolderurl$MovieName.mov" width="200" height="240" autoplay="true"> 

Example Code

AVI (Audio Video Interleave)

<object data="$thisfolderurl$VideoFileName.avi" type="video/avi">
</object> 

Example Code

MPG

<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" id="MediaPlayer1" width="286" height="225">
<param name="Filename" value="$thisfolderurl$MyVideo.mpg">

<param name="AutoStart" value="-1">
<param name="ShowAudioControls" value="-1">
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="-1">
</object> 

Example Code

DivX

<object classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616" width="400" height="200" codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab">
<param name="src" value="$thisfolderurl$moviename.divx>
<embed type="video/divx" src="$thisfolderurl$moviename.divx" width="400" height="200" pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/">
</embed>
</object> 

Divx embed code generator.

SharePoint 2010 WCM new look

Part 1 – Improvements to the Core SharePoint Platform & How the Benefit SharePoint 2010 Web Content Management
Part 2 – What’s Improved with SharePoint Server 2010 Web Content Management
Part 3 – What’s New with SharePoint Server 2010 Web Content Management