One more method using SQL query

SELECT Version FROM Versions WHERE VersionId = ‘00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000′

Also you can find Sharepoint version programmatically using API

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(“<Central Administration Site URL…..>”))
{
SPFarm farm = site.WebApplication.Farm;
Console.WriteLine(SPWebService.ContentService.Farm.BuildVersion.ToString());
}
Console.WriteLine(“Press any key to continue…..”);
Console.ReadLine();

The main advantage of this scenario is to copy document library files from one Sharepoint site to another very easily

Steps:

• Select My Network Places, right click and Open

Open My Network Places generally located on desktop

• In the windows of My NetWork Places, you can seen an icon Add Network Place, double click on that to open Add Network Place Wizard Click Next

Open Add Network Place

In the Add Network Place Wizard, Click Next

• Under Service Providers Select Choose another network location, then click Next

Select 'Choose another network location' and click 'Next'

• Under Internet or network address Type the Sharepoint Site url, then click Next

Type Sharepoint site url and click 'Next'

• Under Type a name for this network place provide some name to identify the network place, then click Next

Type a name for the network place and click 'Next'

• Finally click Finish

Almost done, click 'Finish'

you can see Sharepoint site in windows explorer

Sharepoint site in windows explorer

Copy document library files to another Sharepoint site

Now, you are done, you can see all the file(s)/folder(s), subsite(s), list(s), document librarie(s) etc, in the windows explorer

If you want to copy the files of document library, double click on the particular document library then you can see all the files which are already existed, just select the file to copy and paste where ever you want, even you can copy and paste to the file system.

If you want to copy the document library files to another Sharepoint site, you should follow the above steps to open the another Sharepoint site in windows explorer, so that you can easily copy and paste files from one Sharepoint site to another.

Download WSS SP2

Download MOSS SP2

To enjoy reading, please follow the link http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/07/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-requirements.aspx

On Site Content Type Gallery page click on Create, then redirects to new site content type page.

In the Name and Description section, fill the text boxes Name and Description.

From the drop down list Select parent content type from: select Document Content Types option

From the drop down list Parent Content type: select Document option

Under Group Section:
From the Existing group: select any one of the group (I prefer to select Custom Content Types becuase it is easy to identify the custom content types)

else we can create a new group by selecting the ‘New group: radio button option and give the name to the group

Click OK

Creating Content Type

Now the Content Type is created and ready to use.

Go to document library, where you want to use the newly created content type.

Click Settings > Document Library Settings

Under General Settings Section click Advanced settings

Make sure Allow management of content types is selected to Yes, if not select Yes option and click OK

Allow management of content types

You will be redirected to the document library settings page, there under Content Types section, Click on the link Add from existing site content types, so that we can add the newly created content type to make use in the document library.

In the Add content types page select the newly created content type from the list box and click on Add button which will be populates in the right side list box, then click OK

Again, you will be redirected to document library settings page, there under Content Types section click on the newly added content type

In the content type page, under Settings section click on Advanced Settings, in Advanced Settings page, Enter the URL of an existing document template or upload a new document template by selecting option Upload a new document template and click Browse button locate the file.

Note: If you want to upload a document template you should have a template before (Example: word template files like .dot or word document files .doc)

Click OK

Set the template location

We are almost done, go to document library Click on New menu, now you can see the newly document template as a menu item.

Word, Excel, Powerpoint template by using site content types

Repeat the above steps if you want to show the templates like Excel, Powerpoint, Infopath etc.

• Creating the SQL database
• Creating the users in SQL database
• Creating two sharepoint sites (one is web application and other extending the web application)
• Configure membership, role provider and connection string in both web.config files of the Sharepoint site
• Configure authentication type in central administration

We will discuss all the above point in detail

Creating the SQL database

To create SQL database Microsoft has provided a utility called  aspnet_regsql.exe, browse to the location C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727

aspnet_regsql utility for creating SQL database

Creating SQL database

Creating SQL database

Creating SQL database

Creating the users in SQL database

To create users in SQL database first of all create one ASP.NET web application using Visual Studio 2005, open Visual Studio 2005, then click on.

File > New > Website

Select the ASP.NET website and click OK

Creating ASP.NET web application

To add the web.config file, right click on the project name in solution explorer select add new item, select web configuration file and then Add

or

Press F5 to automatically adding the web.config file to the project

Add the connection string in the web.config file

<!–Connection String Starts–>
<connectionStrings>
<add name=”Fbadb_sqlConnectionString”
connectionString=”uid=sa;pwd=sa;
Initial Catalog=FBADB;
Data Source=fivenumber” />
</connectionStrings>
<!–Connection String Ends–>

<system.web>

<!–Membership Provider Starts–>
<membership defaultProvider=”Fbadb_ASPNETSqlMembershipProvider”>
<providers>
<add name=”Fbadb_ASPNETSqlMembershipProvider”
type=”System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider,
System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”
connectionStringName=”Fbadb_sqlConnectionString”
enablePasswordRetrieval=”false”
enablePasswordReset=”true”
requiresQuestionAndAnswer=”true”
applicationName=”/”
requiresUniqueEmail=”false”
passwordFormat=”Hashed”
maxInvalidPasswordAttempts=”5″
minRequiredPasswordLength=”1″
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters=”0″
passwordAttemptWindow=”10″
passwordStrengthRegularExpression=”"/>
</providers>
</membership>
<!–Membership Provider Ends–>

<!–Role Provider Starts–>
<roleManager enabled=”true” defaultProvider=”Fbadb_ASPNETSqlRoleProvider”>
<providers>
<add name=”Fbadb_ASPNETSqlRoleProvider”
connectionStringName=”Fbadb_sqlConnectionString”
applicationName=”/”
type=”System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider,
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”/>
</providers>
</roleManager>
<!–Role Provider Ends–>

As show in the below image

Web configuration file

Save the web.config file and run ASP.NET configuration wizard by clicking on Website menu and click ASP.NET Configuration

ASP.NET Configuration wizard

ASP.NET Configuration wizard

To test the Membership and Role provider click provider tab and then click on Select a different provider for each feature (advanced)

Select your Membership provider name and click on Test link

ASP.NET Configuration wizard - Testing the Membership and Role Provider

If you can see the message like ‘Successfully established a connection to the database’ think that the communication between the interface and database is successfull

Now go on to create the user

Click on the Security tab of ASP.NET web site administration tool, under Users section click the link Select authentication type and select the radio button From the internet click Done

Then, again click on Security tab click on Create user fill the appropriate fields

Creating the user

Creating two sharepoint sites (one is web application and other extending the web application)

Go to Central Administration > Application Management > Create or Extend Web Application > Create New Web Application

Fill the appropriate fields

Creating the web application

Create a site collection by choosing a template (team site, collaboration portal etc)

After creating the Top Level Site Successfully

Now, Extend the web application

Go to Central Administration > Application Management > Create or Extend Web Application > Extend Web Application to Another IIS Web Site

Extending web application

After Extending the web application, now we should configure connection string in web.config file’s of sharepoint site (web application and extended application) by adding the connecton string tag exactly below the </configSections> tag and above the <sharepoint> tag (Note: Change the Data Source name according to your database servername)

<connectionStrings>
<add name=”FBA_sqlConnectionString” connectionString=”uid=sa;pwd=sa;Initial Catalog=FBADB;Data Source=fivenumber” />
</connectionStrings>

See the image below:

Web Configuration File of web application

Confiure Membership and Role provider in both the sharepoint sites (web application and extended application)

Search for the machinekey tag (<machineKey validationKey=”79DDCD075B91C0B088FA25244D65D0745641F91E8A823392″
decryptionKey=”C855BB4C77B455A6706638B8A9D1439B5BB0F3612F2F9DCA” validation=”SHA1″ />)

Copy and paste the below tags exactly after the machinekey tag

<!–Membership provider starts–>
<membership defaultProvider=”Fbadb_ASPNETSqlMembershipProvider”>
<providers>
<add name=”Fbadb_ASPNETSqlMembershipProvider”
type=”System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider,
System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”
connectionStringName=”FBA_sqlConnectionString”
enablePasswordRetrieval=”false”
enablePasswordReset=”true”
requiresQuestionAndAnswer=”true”
applicationName=”/”
requiresUniqueEmail=”false”
passwordFormat=”Hashed”
maxInvalidPasswordAttempts=”5″
minRequiredPasswordLength=”1″
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters=”0″
passwordAttemptWindow=”10″
passwordStrengthRegularExpression=”" />
</providers>
</membership>
<!–Membership provider starts–>
<!–Role provider starts–>
<roleManager enabled=”true” defaultProvider=”Fbadb_ASPNETSqlRoleProvider”>
<providers>
<add name=”Fbadb_ASPNETSqlRoleProvider”
connectionStringName=”FBA_sqlConnectionString”
applicationName=”/”
type=”System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider,
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a” />
</providers>
</roleManager>
<!–Role provider ends–>

See the below image:

Configuring Membership and Role Provider

Configure the authentication type in central administration

Go to Central Administration > Application Management > Authentication Providers

Click on the extended web application (2nd in the row) enter the Membership provider name and Role provider name as shown in the below image:

Configuring Authentication Type

Now, add the user in the web application  (which you have created in SQL database) in Site Settings > Permissions > Add Users

Try to access the extended form based authentic web application

Form based authentication - SQL login

Regional and Language Options

In Regional and Language Options box, under Supplemental language support section, check both check boxes
Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages
and
Install for East Asian languages
Click OK to install
Download language packs for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007:

Select the language from Change Language dropdownlist

Available language packs:

Arabic
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian (Latin)
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian

After downloading the Server Language Pack.img

Extract the ServerLanguagePack.img file (I prefer to extract using ISO Edit)

Extract the ServerLanguagePack.img

Run Setup

After installing the language pack

Rerun the Sharepoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard using default settings.(If you don’t run the language pack will not be installed properly)

To run the Sharepoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard:

Click Start > Programs > Administration Tools click sharepoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard

then click Next

Click Yes in the dialog box.

On the modify server farm settings, click Do not disconnect from this server farm, then Next

After configuration successful click Finish

After success installation, you will be find the language pack which you installed before in the dropdownlist while creating the site collection

Creating site collection

Result:

Sharepoint collaboration portal in German language

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• Go site action > Site Settings
• Click on Sites and Workspaces
• Create Search site using ‘Search Center’ template (which is under Enterprise tab)
• After creating the ‘Search Center’ site, browse to the site and copy the url
• Return back the main home page, then go to ‘Site Action’ > Site Settings
• Under ‘Site Collection Administration’ section click on ‘Search settings’
• Select the radio button ‘Use custom scopes’ and paste the url of ‘Search Center’ which should end with ‘/’ (slash) (for example: if the Search Center url is like http://fivenumber/searchcenter/default.aspx, you should write only /searchcenter/) in the custom scopes textbox and then click ‘OK’
• The search control acts dynamically depends upon the user input, when user want to search the content the results will be shown in results.aspx, when the user clicks on advanced search link it will redirects to advanced.aspx

Formatted date in sharepoint list

Formatted date in sharepoint list

First of all create a column with Date and Time column type, choose Date Only radio button under Date and Time Format provide the column name as ‘Date’

Then Create one more column with Calculated (calculation based on other columns) column type, provide the below said formulas in formula input fields and name the column as ‘Custom Date’

After creating the columns try to enter date from new item form and submit, then you can view the date formatted as shown in Output column below