SharePoint 2010 Tidbits

I wasn't lying before, I'm really going to start posting more. Here's a few things I've learned with the recent migration from 2007 to 2010.

Right-click to Add Solution

This is all thanks to Spencer Harbar's post on a Registry edit called: Right-click a .WSP to Add Solution.

• open notepad
• copy the code from Spencer's blog post (linked above). Change the 12 in the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\wspfile\shell\Add Solution\command] to 14.
• save as a .reg file
• open regedit
• import the file

14-Hive Environment Variable

Create a Windows Environment Variable for the 14 folder. I've been doing this since SharePoint 2003, but it makes things much easier. Instructions...

• Right-click Computer > Properties > Advanced System Settings > Environment Variables
• Click New
• Set Name to "14" and Value to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14"
• Click all the Ok buttons.
• Open Windows Explorer and navigate to %14%

Visually Upgrading Publishing Sites

Ran into an issue where I was getting a "One or more field types are not installed properly" error. Come to find out (in my case) that the hidden list "Relationship List" has a different field than in 2007 and it isn't added on migration or visual upgrade.

TechNet found the answer. I'm 95% tested on it, but looks like the answer.

Rollback Visual upgrade

Found out there is a way through code or PowerShell to do a visual upgrade rollback. Thankfully it exists because my dev environment had hard-coded links to production, so I accidentally upgraded there. Thanks to Dirk Van den Berghe for the post.