Trinkit, Thinking Web Solutions

Been playing around with site definitions lately and came across the most random error. I had deployed a site definition solution to my test farm and then all of a sudden I couln't access central admin. The error was:

"Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))".

This didn't mean much to me and google suggested that I rebuild my site collection. In the end I fonud that there was a problem with my WEBTEMP.xml file.

I Had added a site template configuration like this:

<Configuration ID="1" Title="Base Publishing Site (Hidden)" Hidden="True" />

Which looks ok to me and I have seen a few samples that.

The missing element was the ImageUrl. So what I should have is:

<Configuration ID="1" Title="Base Publishing Site (Hidden)" Hidden="True" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/blankprev.png" />

I'm wondering if this is something that has changed since SP1. If you look in the SDK you can see that ImageUrl is specified as Optional (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms476942.aspx).

MOT's Intranet 'Discover' has been on quite a journey over the last two years. It began as one of the first MOSS implementations in NZ (during MOSS Beta) and it has picked up a few nifty awards along the way. I did quite a bit of work on it during the phase 2 release so it's something that I take a bit of pride in.

Well a few months ago Chan, Ari and I did a bit of a write up on how we approached some of the issues facing MOT and their MOSS deployment. You can read about our findings over at the SP Team Blog for yourself.