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Symptom:

When performing a search on a WSS page that has been customized, the standard WSS error page displays with the message "Unable to validate data"

Cause:

The search box is rendered via the <SharePoint:ViewSearchForm> tag. In the customized pages, this tag was inside the <form runat="server"> tag

A new Technical Article is online discussing the cases in which Dispose() should be called.  A must read for all SharePoint developers.

Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

One of the patches on June 13, 2006 is causing problems on some pages. A few pages to review to get up to speed and the work-around:

InfoWorld's article

KBase Article

MSDN Technical Article with the work-around

InfoWorld posted an article describing some of the things that cause visitors to leave. One of those things -- flashing ads that distract the reader.

On the page, I'm sure you can guess what I saw...

How would you address this scenario:

I have a web part that displays information from a legacy system. The information is very important to that system's user community -- so much so that it deserves to be displayed on the home page (WSS, not SPS). However, the legacy system user community is about 25% of the organizations employees. This 25% is influential, and mostly technology averse.

If the information applied to 100% (or somthing close to it) of the employees, then I would update the Shared View. But I would rather not subject 75% to an empty web part. And forcing the 25% to manually add the web part to their Personal View is a nonstarter.

I encourage comments/questions on my blog site.