Hiding Lists & Libraries from the WebPartAdder in SharePoint 2010

One of our clients had a requirement to hide the Lists & Libraries web parts from the selection of web parts that the use can add to a page.

Looking at the master page, the control which displays the list of web parts available is the WebPartAdder.

This control has a property called ShowListsAndLibraries.Setting this property to false hides the Lists & Libraries category from the list.

ShowListsAndLibraries="false" runat="server" />

SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit V1 released

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=718447d8-0814-427a-81c3-c9c3d84c456e&displaylang=en

The documentation for the tool kit can be found at

SharePoint Foundation 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508986.aspx

SharePoint Server 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508851.aspx 

Windows update KB938444 & "Cannot connect to the configuration database"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/22/installing-kb938444.aspx?_sm_au_=iVV6RRM2W4q7rWZS

User Profile Synchronization & Standalone installation of Sharepoint 2010

If you want to configure User Profile Import from Active directory or any other secondary source please install SharePoint 2010 in “Farm Mode”.

The User Profile Synchronization service does not work with the Stand Alone installation mode of SharePoint.

Quoting a reference from technet :

“The farm is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of SharePoint Server 2010 and you have run the farm configuration wizard. Profile Synchronization does not work on a stand-alone installation for SharePoint Server 2010.”

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049(office.14).aspx