SPUserPoll – A new SharePoint poll Web Part in town

December 28, 2008   17:07


Today I released my first CodePlex project: the 0.1 version of my poll Web Part. I decided to develop this Web Part to improve my SharePoint skills and to learn more about SharePoint deployment.

SPUserPoll Screenshot

The Web Part is called SPUserPoll and it allows site users to quickly create polls anywhere in the Site Collection. The poll Web Part is designed to provide a user friendly interface: Important settings and actions are available from within the Web Part. There is no direct need to work with the SharePoint Web Part setting menu and poll data is managed from normal SharePoint lists. Administrators can manage and keep track of all created polls from a centralized list.
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Downgrade SharePoint Enterprise to a Standard edition

December 4, 2008   11:30


At my work we work with a pre-setup development environment, which always includes SharePoint Enterprise edition. But if you have a customer working with the Standard edition, you might be in some trouble during deployment.

To prevent trouble, you can downgrade your Enterprise installation by de-activating and de-installing some features. Below follows a small script to remove the Enterprise features from your environment. Replace the http://url with the correct url.

stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name PremiumSite
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name BizAppsSiteTemplates
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name BizAppsCTypes
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name IPFSSiteFeatures
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name BizAppsFields
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name ExcelServerSite
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name BizAppsListTemplates
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name PremiumWeb
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name ReportListTemplate
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name DataConnectionLibrary
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -force -url http://url -name IPFSWebFeatures
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name PremiumSite
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name BizAppsSiteTemplates
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name BizAppsCTypes
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name IPFSSiteFeatures
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name BizAppsFields
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name ExcelServerSite
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name BizAppsListTemplates
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name PremiumWeb
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name ReportListTemplate
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name DataConnectionLibrary
stsadm -o uninstallfeature -force -name IPFSWebFeatures

To activate the Enterprise features again, you can use the following script:

stsadm -o installfeature -name PremiumSite
stsadm -o installfeature -name PremiumWeb
stsadm -o installfeature -name BizAppsSiteTemplates
stsadm -o installfeature -name BizAppsCTypes
stsadm -o installfeature -name IPFSSiteFeatures
stsadm -o installfeature -name BizAppsFields
stsadm -o installfeature -name ExcelServerSite
stsadm -o installfeature -name BizAppsListTemplates
stsadm -o installfeature -name ReportListTemplate
stsadm -o installfeature -name DataConnectionLibrary
stsadm -o installfeature -name IPFSWebFeatures
stsadm -o activatefeature -url http://url -name PremiumSite
stsadm -o activatefeature -url http://url -name PremiumWeb
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