Sharepoint Interview Questions

http://sharepointfaqs.blogspot.com/2008/08/microsoft-sharepoint-services-interview.html

Adding a New Item to a SharePoint Calendar

We created a Sharepoint Calender ,Now we're going to look at the next phase of my sharepoint Calendar which involves adding a recurring event to the newly created calendar, and inserting a hook into that event which will associate it with a Meeting Workspace.

The first step in creating the new recurring event is to select the New Item option from the New dropdown menu on the calendar itself:





Once the New Item option has been selected, the resulting page presents standard event scheduling options (that will be familiar to Outlook users), along with the SharePoint-specific Workspace option:














Required fields for the new calendar event are Title, Start Time, and End Time, each of which I trust is self-explanatory.

Recurrence is where you'd indicate a repeating event, and since the question under investigation requires Recurrence, I checked that checkbox in creating my event. Clicking that checkbox refreshes the page, presenting you with your Recurrence options:







The final optional decision in creating a new calendar event is the Workspace option.I will post when I get time to spend on it........

Create a New SharePoint Calendar

First, while in the site where you want to create your calendar (and, ultimately, your Meeting Workspace), select the Create option from the Site Actions dropdown menu. Then, on the resulting Create page, select the Calendar hyperlink under the Tracking heading:









After clicking that Calendar hyperlink, you may be surprised to discover that there isn't anything calendar-centric on the resulting New page:









As you can see in the above image, all that's necessary to create your calendar is to give it a Name and (optional) Description, decide whether or not to include it in your Quick Launch Navigation, and determine if you'd like to allow users to add items to the list/calendar by sending email (and, if yes, assigning the calendar an email address here). Once you've sailed through that process, click the Create button and your browser will automatically refresh with the calendar view of your new list.

How to Auto Refresh the page using Javascript?

function timedRefresh(timeoutPeriod) {
setTimeout("location.reload(true);",timeoutPeriod);

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Migrating SharePoint Sites

SMIGRATE is a tool that can restore sites and move them from SharePoint Team Services (STS) into the new 2003 versions. It can also help you migrate sites from one server to another (or to the same server) in 2003 directly. This blog talks about using it for migration from a development environment to your production one (or test if you prefer).

SMIGRATE works wonders because a) it migrates all your data, including security and subsites b) you can execute it from any SharePoint server and restore to any server (you have to be SPS/WSS admin on both) c) is simple for moving all your hard work in development into acceptance or production. Using SMIGRATE is pretty straight forward.

To backup a website:

1. Enter the following at the command line:
   smigrate -w http://server[/site] -f filename.fwp -u domain\id -pw *
2. This will prompt you for your NT password. Enter it at the prompt.
3. Grab a coffee and wait.

To restore a site:

1. Create a new site through the portal site creation wizard. Note what the site url is.
2. When you get to the point of applying a template, stop and close the browser.
3. Enter the following at the command line from any SharePoint server (where siteurl is the url you used in step #1):
   smigrate -r -w siteurl -f filename.fwp -u domain\id -pw *
4. Enter your password.