Using a custom stylesheet in MOSS 2007

Lately I’m working a lot with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. To customize the look of a Sharepoint site you can achieve a lot by customizing the CSS. When you load this CSS in your site this CSS will overwrite the standard CSS. I wanted to make an article about how to do it, but why would I do this if there is already a great article out there written by Shane Perran. It’s called Kickstart to editing styles in MOSS 2007 and it describes perfectly how to do it. Here is a small excerpt:

Set up an Alternate CSS URL:

• Create a Publishing Site. Select Site Actions, Create Site. Then select the Publishing Tab and finally choose Publishing Site. It will take a few moments for your site to provision.
• Open your editor of choice and create a new file and add /* Custom Styles */ to it.
• Save it as “Custom.CSS”. If you are using notepad don’t forget to select “All Files” from the “Save as Type” drop down menu before saving, otherwise you will have a .txt extension.

Read the rest here at Kickstart to editing styles in MOSS 2007.

Installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008

When I was trying to install MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 I ran into an error stating that there is a known compatibility issue with this version and that I should install it with the latest service pack. After a quick search I ran into a blogpost from Matt Hester who ran into the same problem. He posted a really good screencast about installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008.

The solution is really simple. You just have to slipstream WSS 3.0 SP1 and MOSS 2007 SP1 into the install CD. The first step you take is copying the install CD onto your local hard drive. After you have done that you can download the service packs from the Microsoft website. When the downloads are finished you run both of the setups with the parameter /extract:[pathtoinstallcd] (replace [pathtoinstallcd] with the full path to the location you copied your MOSS 2007 install CD).

If you executed the steps correctly you can now run the setup and start installing MOSS 2007.