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291 posts from: SharePoint User Group UK

SharePoint 2010 + OCR + Tiff + iFilters

(Indexed 2010-07-23):

Wow, long time no post; not that there wasnt anything to blog about just a serious amount of 2010 work out there :) Well some good news here; the TIFF iFilter available in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 allow you to search the text in .tiff scanned documents; this is because it does OCR on the fly. How to get it working: Add the TIFF feature to your indexing server. Add the Windows 2003 indexing role to your indexing server. Start the indexing service on your indexing server. Enable TIFF OC...(truncated)...

Recommended configurations for Microsoft SharePoint 2010: HP ProLiant DL300 G7 supporting SMB solutions

(Indexed 2010-07-09):

This paper presents recommended configurations for deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in SMB environments using the HP ProLiant DL300 G7 server platform.http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docna...(truncated)...

Learning Gateway SharePoint Conference - London 14th July

(Indexed 2010-07-06):

For those who didn't know there is a 1 day SharePoint conference in London on July 14 with a mixture of Education and general SharePoint content ran by our own Alex Pearce, so a great chance to meet up and learn. More info can be found here - http://www.learninggatewayconference.comSteve[Image]

HP Supports the SharePoint 2010 Launch With Whitepapers and Tools

(Indexed 2010-05-14):

HP has released the following items for SharePoint 2010.Recommended configurations for Microsoft SharePoint 2010: HP ProLiant DL300 G7 supporting SMB solutionshttp://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-2650ENW.pdfHP performance and configuration guide for Microsoft SharePoint 2010http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-4068ENW.pdfThe HP Sizer Tool for SharePoint 2010http://h71028.www7.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/548230-0-...(truncated)...

Best practices for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SMB solutions using AMD-based HP ProLiant G6 servers

(Indexed 2010-04-16):

This paper describes HP ProLiant G6 server and storage configurations for SMB solutions. It discusses best practice recommendations for G6 server deployments, and highlights the increased processing performance of AMD-based HP ProLiant G6 servers.http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/getdocument.aspx?docnam...(truncated)...

Error when creating an SSP - "Unable to Create SSP - Provisioning failed: Windows NT user or group 'XXXX' not found

(Indexed 2010-04-14):

A colleague of mine encountered this error when attempting to configure a new SharePoint install from scripts.After some soul-searching and much swearing, we found the error to be caused by SharePoint not liking its accounts to contain Fully Qualified Domain Names. He had specified all of the accounts (farm creation acc, search accounts, app pools etc.) to be something like "Domain.QualifierAccountName".The resolution was to specify the accounts like "DomainAccountName".As this was scripted, we...(truncated)...

13th April SUGUK / UKTechdays Cinema Nights

(Indexed 2010-03-31):

Were very excited to announce a SUGUK event with a twist this month as we team up with Microsoft to celebrate the imminent launch of SharePoint 2010 and MS Office 2010. As official fringe events to the MS UK Tech Days week, we will be gathering in various cinemas up and down the country to mix SharePoint 2010 discussion with the Easter blockbuster movie Clash of the Titans 2010!! This is jointly funded by Microsoft and Combined Knowledge and, as per usual SUGUK events it wont cost you a penn...(truncated)...

Creating a Kerberos-authenticated MOSS Farm by Script

(Indexed 2010-03-29):

I recently had a requirement to use a scripted approach to create a SharePoint farm that used Kerberos authentication.A quick bit of research pointed me towards the excellent resources made available by Gary Lapointe (see his blog at http://stsadm.blogspot.com/).Gary has created and made freely available a huge number of really useful custom STSADM commands and Powershell commandlets, as well as going through the code used to create them. It really is an excellent resource he has created, and w...(truncated)...

Squashing the SharePoint's SPHttpApplication Memory Leak

(Indexed 2010-02-17):

A (rather major) memory leak has been found in SharePoint, caused by the failure of SPHttpApplication objects to be properly cleaned up - read all about it in Todd Carter's great post The Sharepoint Sasquatch Memory LeakI have quickly whipped up a WSP that implements Todd's fix and thought I would attach it here for anyone else who might find it useful. It simply deploys a DLL to the GAC which implements the classs he describes in his post. I have done it as a WSP so that the DLL will be auto ...(truncated)...

Free, hosted, evaluation SharePoint 2010 Beta sites

(Indexed 2010-02-12):

Hi,Want instant (almost) access to your very own SharePoint 2010 Beta site collection? Plus access to tons of the latest SharePoint 2010 articles, training materials, blogs and technical information?Sign up for free at http://www.DipIntoSharePoint2010.co.uk Only 2000 site collections available so hurry.S:)[Image]

Setting up Dev VM wuth Mail

(Indexed 2010-02-07):

Another really short bog entry - another pointer to someone elses blog! This is a great little walkthrough re: creating a development vm with DNS and AD and Mail - http://blogs.msdn.com/johnwpowell/archive/2008/07/07/walkthr...(truncated)...

Setting up Dev VM with Mail

(Indexed 2010-02-07):

SharePoint and VMWare

(Indexed 2010-01-04):

In this white paper, HP outlines the best practices for using VMware ESXi 4.0 Server for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA2-9...(truncated)... [Image]

Best practices for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SMB solutions using Intel-based HP ProLiant G6 servers

(Indexed 2010-01-04):

This paper describes HP ProLiant G6 server and storage configurations for SMB solutions. It discusses best practice recommendations for G6 server deployments, and highlights the increased processing performance of Intel-based HP ProLiant G6 servers.http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/getdocument.aspx?docnam...(truncated)...

Let the Fun begin

(Indexed 2009-12-09):

Well, I've been with my new employer for three weeks now. It turns out that they are one step further forward than my previous employer, but they have made some of the 'mistakes' that I was trying to avoid at my old place already.For example, the intranet is being migrated (from a lovely( - not!) InterWoven CMS) with a completely free hand. No concepts of IM or DM are being implemented - it's a complete free-for all. The search isn't even being tweaked from what comes OOB. If I've learnt any...(truncated)...

Call for User Group Speakers for SharePoint Evolution Conference 6th Track

(Indexed 2009-12-01):

Hi Everyone, I have an exciting opportunity for the user group. I have managed to get another room for the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in April and basically I want to make it a community driven tales from the trenches session room with people from the user group giving sessions on how they have worked / learnt and implimented the product. This is a call for speakers from our user group to submit sessions to me with a title and brief abstract of what you would like to share.Topics can b...(truncated)...

Nice blog on setting up FBA

(Indexed 2009-11-30):

Havent blogged for ages - must get back into it soon. Anyways, here is a nice blog entry on setting up FBA for SharePoint 2007 using IIS7: http://blog.summitcloud.com/2009/10/enable-forms-based-authe...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2007: RSS Viewer Web Part and Kerberos

(Indexed 2009-11-02):

Went to a customer who had setup Kerberos but the RSS Viewer Web Part was still throwing the does not support authenticated lists message, even though Kerberos was setup 100% correctly. Turns out the issue was with the FQDN of the sites, they had http://portal.company.co.za as their default mapping which RSS does not seem to like, once I added an internal default mapping to point to http://portal the RSS Viewer worked 100%. So the customer still access SharePoint using http://portal.company.co....(truncated)...

The Mystery of the 1 to 30 Usage Log Files

(Indexed 2009-10-27):

*insert spooky music* Ok so here is one that truly shows that I have no social life: a customer once asked me why can we specify 1 30 usage log files, when configuring usage analysis processing?, the answer to which at that time was not entirely sure, but I know if you hit 30 it will stop recording usage data" at least that is what the docs say :) So, I left it for a while but then a mate asked the same question and days of working with WSS 2.0 started itching in my brain, this is what I found...(truncated)...

The sneaky content deployment job

(Indexed 2009-10-19):

The other day I ran into an issue where the admins were seeing an Event ID in the application log that indicated that a content deployment job had failed. Well the actual details were something like this: content was copied successfully to the destination server, but could not find the web app to import into. Now, content deployment jobs in this scenario had been stopped and deleted a few months back and the admins did not know why this was happening, what I found was the following: There was s...(truncated)...

Change the location of MOSS user account environmental

(Indexed 2009-10-19):

A couple of things I have been noticing is that a lot of content ends up in the TEMP directory of the MOSS service accounts (think content deployment, workflow etc.) We all know that the default TEMP directory (if unchanged) is in the %userprofile%AppDataLocalTemp directory which lies on the %system% directory, what I have been doing during setup of MOSS is to ensure that this variable is changed so that any TEMP data is stored on a separate disk. You will be surprised at how big the TEMP direct...(truncated)...

Kerberos, DCOM and Windows Server 2008

(Indexed 2009-10-19):

Here is an interesting little issue I came across the other day while setting up Kerberos on Windows Server 2008 R2: Everything went fine until I wanted to allow local activation permissions on the DCOM objects for the SharePoint service accounts, much to my surprise everything was disabled; it did not matter what account I was running with. Turns out you need to make a registry change to enable you to change DCOM permissions: Open RegEdit and locate: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesAppID{CLSI...(truncated)...

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Blank Central Admin Sites, IIS_IUSRS

(Indexed 2009-10-19):

So got another interesting issue where a mate of mine said that after installing SharePoint 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 that they were unable to see the CA site. The interesting part is that there were no errors and viewing the source of the site showed ony beginning and ending HTML tags. I recalled that this environment was installed using "Least Privileged" account mode (no local admin access being one section). So away I go and boot my 2008 R2 VM, configure the same security setting, and w...(truncated)...

More 2008 and Kerberos: Authentication Denied, app pool account being ingnored

(Indexed 2009-10-19):

Wow, what a day for Windows Server 2008 and Kerberos. There is a new step now that needs to be performed in order to get Kerberos working correctly. One of the major changes incorporated into IIS 7.0 is that Kernel mode authentication for Windows Authentication is performed by default. So what does this mean? Well, HTTP.sys (which by default runs as the local system account) is now being used to handle the authentication, this essentially means that application pool account used for your SharePo...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference Announced - London April 19th - 21st 2010

(Indexed 2009-10-16):

Hi all, well for those of you that cannot make it to Vegas next week don't worry we are bringing the conference to you. http://www.sharepointevolutionconference.com. In April 2010 we are running our second SharePoint conference in London for the SharePoint community with over 55 sessions and some great speakers coming back. The site is up and live and I will keep you updated when sessions get updated etc. Can we make it better than last year !! You bet we can.Steve Smith[Image]

SUGUK new regional leaders

(Indexed 2009-10-15):

Here's a quick intro to the regional leaders for the future SUGUK events:London - Matt Taylor:My name is Matt Taylor and Im an independent SharePoint consultant based in Maidstone. My wife and I have two young boys who keep us very busy but when I do make a little time I like nothing more than a round of golf with friends. I started my career training to be an accountant but got sidetracked by automating Excel spreadsheets which turned me towards a much more interesting career in IT. Once I d...(truncated)...

UK's first SharePoint 2010 events

(Indexed 2009-10-13):

Hi, I'll be presenting what I believe are the first SharePoint 2010 seminars in the UK starting on November 3rd. The events are free and open to anyone, but places are limited and are going fast. I'll also be doing weekly Webinars from the following week.That's if I make it back from SPC09 in Vegas :)more info and registration details http://www.ics.net S:)[Image]

SharePoint 2010 Beta Training dates announced for Administrator and Developer

(Indexed 2009-10-12):

Hi all , for those of you who are looking to skill up on SharePoint 2010 beta we are running our popular beta series again starting in November. For those who attended the 2007 ones you will rememeber what a blast we had. More information can be found here - http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Flyers/SP2010.htmlSteve[Image]

Wave Goodbye and Say Hello

(Indexed 2009-10-05):

Odd as it is, after all the whining and 'umming' and 'ahhing' I've done on here about my current employers inertia with SharePoint, I shall soon be swapping employer and working to implement SharePoint to replace another Intranet. I'm hoping, as I was needed for 1st Nov for delivery of SharePoint, that it is a done deal, and that there is a plan for its deployment that I don't have to be responsible for. It will be great if I'm just an Admin straight away and can get on with using SP rather th...(truncated)...

IMPORTANT UPDATE - LONDON MEETING

(Indexed 2009-08-26):

I'm afraid that Dux hasn't got his UK visa returned on time for Thursdays meeting so we are having to move it to a virtual event. You can now watch the presentations from the confort of your own home or office starting at 7pm. For details please check here:Title: Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint ProjectsTime: 7pm GMTLivemeeting Details:1. Copy this address and paste it into your web browser: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/iec/join2. Copy and paste the required information:...(truncated)...

SUGUK - request for new organizers

(Indexed 2009-08-20):

Steve Smith and I have been running SUGUK for over three years now. We've seen the group grow from a few members meeting at a pub in Paddington to around 200 people attending meetings in London and sessions organized around the country. We've thoroughly enjoyed running the group, and the friends we've made doing so. We've decided however with the release of SharePoint 2010 in the near future now is a good time to step down from our roles as organizers and give some other people the chance to get...(truncated)...

Performance of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 vs Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005

(Indexed 2009-08-04):

This paper describes the performance differences observed when comparing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 versus current deployments running Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005.http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4...(truncated)...

HP BladeSystem Matrix

(Indexed 2009-08-04):

This paper describes how the HP BladeSystem Matrix can simplify and streamline building out a flexible and dynamic Adaptive Infrastructure for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA2-6...(truncated)...

Share and Share Alike - Pointless or what?

(Indexed 2009-07-20):

Well, it's been a while since I last blogged, it's been a busy old time at work and I've also had a bit of a holiday in amongst it all.The Intranet Replacement project (using SharePoint) has been put on ice until January 2010, pending the creation of a stronger business case, but meanwhile, the pilot SharePoint sites that were set up are going to be (wait for it.....) operationalised...... whatever that means. :-SOur SharePoint partner has made it quite plain that a full review of the pilot site...(truncated)...

July 23rd - User Group Meeting - Ullesthorpe - Leicestershire

(Indexed 2009-07-05):

Following the Golf day we will be hosting a user group event in the evening. Whats exciting for me is that I will also be officially launching our new end user adotion content for SharePoint. Details for the evening and to sign up can be found here - http://suguk.org/forums/thread/19650.aspxSteve Smith[Image]

Beware Application Pool Changes and the IIS Metabase.XML

(Indexed 2009-07-01):

Woohoo! So here was a weird one (I love these). I recently came across an issue where all the images for SharePoint 2007 were not being displayed (little x instead of image). After much investigation it turned out that the problem was with the IIS Metabase file, what had happened was that the web application pool for the web application had been changed (not just the account) and although the metabase.xml file was updated with the new web application pool not ALL of the settings in the metabase....(truncated)...

AD property changes not synchronizing in SharePoint 2007?

(Indexed 2009-05-29):

Here is a nice one: Problem: User has a property changed in AD (like surname when married) Changes do not reflect in SharePoint 2007 when you view the user Troubleshooting and Solution: First check that none of your content databases are in offline mode, if they are then changes will not be able to be written to them. Check that you are not having any synchronization events in the event log, this can happen if you previously moved a content database to another Web Application / moved SSPs wi...(truncated)...

Important SharePoint Service pack 2 Announcement

(Indexed 2009-05-22):

Hi All , a serious bug has been discovered in SharePoint SP2 that sets the upgraded SharePoint product into an Evaluatin license key. A fix is expected within the next 48 hours but please go and read the latest announcement on this on the Team Blog and this is also where you will find the link for the hotfix when it is released. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attentio...(truncated)... Smith[Image]

Attaching content databases, where did my root site collection go?

(Indexed 2009-05-20):

Got to love SharePoint 2007, you learn / encounter something new everyday :) I recently got a request to help resolve an issue with a missing root site collection after a backed-up content database attach procedure. What happened was that the user had created a web application to attach the backed-up content database to, when they attached the content database and browsed to the root site they did not see the content they expected. What caused this is as follows: Person created site collection ...(truncated)...

Kerberos Checklist

(Indexed 2009-05-19):

So the other day I felt like a real chop as I assumed something was done while I was setting up Kerberos, we all know that assumption is mother of all youknowwhats. So here I have put together a Kerberos Checklist which should help to troubleshoot the main issues related to the setup of Kerberos in your SharePoint 2007 environment. Check list here Hope this helps :) Regards, Doug[Image]

Time to Share

(Indexed 2009-05-18):

Well we now have a Functional Spec for our SharePoint Portal deployment (to replace the intranet, integrate a knowledge repository, provide project sites....and one day be used to replace share drives on file servers) , and very interesting it is too. Already it seems that we aren't quite up scratch for SharePoint, and equally SharePoint isn't entirely up to scratch for us. Allow me to elaborate......Where SP isn't quite up to it:I already had the feeling that MOSS was 'jack-of-all-trades' rat...(truncated)...

Adding two forests with different authentication accounts to people-picker

(Indexed 2009-05-14):

from www.sharepointhack.net: Earlier I spoke about how you can tell the people-picker control to look up a list from a different domain. Now what happens if you need people-picker to look up users from two different domains and each domain has a separate account that needs to be used to view users? The answer is quite simple; you can append another domain with a separate user account to the "stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests" command: stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepic...(truncated)...

SharePoint.H@ck has a new (backup) home

(Indexed 2009-05-13):

Hi,I have registered www.sharepointhack.net where I will be posting new information (which will be copied here). Why? I need some more space to upload files and I like the domain ;)Regards,Doug[Image]

Infrastructure update and Kerberos (SP2 included)

(Indexed 2009-05-13):

Note to all of those out there that are using / planning to use Kerberos authentiction in your SharePoint 2007 environments: if you have applied the Infrastructure Update you will need to modify the registry to support new SPN naming conventions and then add these SPN accounts to the SSP service account. Details can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263449.aspx#section14 As if we did not need more steps to configure Kerberos ;) Regards, Doug[Image]

Microsoft Project User Group

(Indexed 2009-04-12):

The Microsoft Project User Group is holding a meeting in London on 28th April. If you'd like to learn a bit more about how MS Project, Project Server and SharePoint all live together make sure you get yourself to the event:http://www.mpug.com/Lists/Event%20Calendar/DispForm.as...(truncated)...

Pointless

(Indexed 2009-03-30):

Well it's even longer between this post and the previous two. Sorry. Time is just rolling away here and the work on this project is going slower than a dying snail. We will be having inital deep requirements workshops in April (yep only theee months after the original requirement workshops), but meanwhile the Head of IT here is giving little SharePoint sites to groups who can make use of them. It' worries me a bit as they aren't shown how to use them, and there isn't any corporate branding be...(truncated)...

Manchester Sharepint (beer) event - Tuesday 31st March

(Indexed 2009-03-27):

Work in the North West and fancy a quick drink and chat about SharePoint, then sign up for the Manchester SharePint Event:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/18165.aspx[Image]

sharepointjobsite.com

(Indexed 2009-03-26):

As some of you may have seen we are soon to be launching a new job site specifically for SharePoint - the site is already up at www.sharepointjobsite.com .We've had a few issues recently with recruitment consultants posting jobs that haven't existed to get people to submit CV's. Not a good practise and something we'd like to get rid of. What I am proposing is that we lock down the jobs area of the forums and redirect people to www.sharepointjobsite.com. Each posting of a job on the new site requ...(truncated)...

SharePoint by Day - SharePint by Night - SharePoint Best practices edition

(Indexed 2009-03-23):

Hi everyone , a date and event for your diary. London SharePoint by Day SharePint by NightGoing to the UK SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London, UK April 6-8, 2009? No? Well, are you a SharePoint person going to be in the greater London area? Well be doing another SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night in London on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 @ 7p-ish. Come join other SharePoint professionals for a good drink at The Old Star (66, Broadway, Westminster, London, SW1H 0DB).http://www.andrewcon...(truncated)...

Michael Noels Slides

(Indexed 2009-03-02):

Many thanks to everybody who came along to the meeting on Thursday - another great turnout. Especially a big thankyou to Michael for traveling over from San Fran to deliver a great session. Here are the slides he used:http://www.suguk.org/BuildingPerfectSharePointFarm.pptx[Image]

Crikey!

(Indexed 2009-02-05):

Well I can't believe that it has been so long since I last posted. Things have moved slowly here. The IT department has been 'playing' with SharePoint (and realised just how much they don't know, I think). We had our first design workshop yesterday - actually it was more like a requirements gathering exercise.....I'm gladdened to hear that we will be getting 2007, but a little sad that it will have to work with Office 2003 for a while, so it won't be quite as 'sexy' as it could be.I can see q...(truncated)...

people Picker not showing all domain users?

(Indexed 2009-02-05):

So you have successfully imported all the AD users into MOSS and can search them fine, now you have a problem where you are not able to see all of these users in the people-picker. One of the main causes of this is that when you specified the AD connection, you were required to use a separate account as the farm account did not have access to traverse the relevant AD forest / domain. Another reason this can happen is that your MOSS servers belong to a separate domain as the AD user domain. You w...(truncated)...

SharePoint user group meets OCS and Exchange community days - March 11th and 12th

(Indexed 2009-02-04):

Another great community event folks. This time I have teamed up with Nathan Winters from the messaging and mobility user group and we are doing a two day free community event as part of the upcoming OCS exhibition at the London Olympia on March 11th and 12th. Here is the format for the event.Day 1 - We are doing a full build demonstration of the latest available versions of OCS, Exchange and SharePoint. This day will be showing what the products can do together and how they can benefit a busines...(truncated)...

MS SharePoint Conference 2009 - registration open

(Indexed 2009-02-03):

http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/spc2009.aspxThe SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first and the best conference to get in depth training on SharePoint 14, from upgrade and migration to the business value of new platform features and functionality. Come and get early insight into what youll be able to do with SharePoint 14 and how youll be able to get there.S:)[Image]

Kerberos on Windows Server 2008 & SQL Server 2008 Gotcha

(Indexed 2009-02-03):

Ok, so setting up keberos for MOSS on Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008 is somewhat different from how you would set it up in earlier versions. This post lists the gotcha you should be aware of rather than step by step instructions on how to configure everything (if you set up Kerberos before you will know what to do). The Windows Server 2008 portion is from the brilliant mind behind harbar.net :) SQL Server 2008: If you are following the least privileged method for your MOSS accounts you will ne...(truncated)...

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 - The word on the street

(Indexed 2009-02-02):

Its rumour time.Word is that the Microsoft SharePoint Conference will be held in Las Vegas 18th 22nd October.MS usually hold SharePoint conferences in March and have recently held European event every two years. According to that pattern one could have expected an event in Europe this March. Perhaps the change indicates exciting new announcements to be made.....Keep up to date at http://www.mssharepointconference.comThe Best Practices Conference in April is still the place to be in Europe!SJ...(truncated)...

Skills to build up on - sharepoint survey results.

(Indexed 2009-01-28):

We've just posted the results of the SharePoint Survey - many thanks to those who completed it. Some interesting results - and as strange things are happening in the economy, some hints as to what skills may be worthwhile learning.Workflow got an amazing high result - both as a component being used and also customized. If you're a developer get open visual studio and start learning SharePoint workflow. This can also been seen on the forums as there are quite a lot of workflow questions there.50%...(truncated)...

SPUtility - worth a look

(Indexed 2009-01-14):

[Image] I'd seen references to SPUtility before, and probably even used the object when basing code of blog posts I'd found on the net, but inspiration struct me the other day, and I decided to look it up in the SDK. It is a static object that contains a number of useful functions - it also contains a number of obsolete functions, and some downright weird ones (like SPUtility.HideTaiwan and SPUtility.IsEastAsia strike me as ones that won't be widely used). To access the object, you need to add...(truncated)...

Belfast User Group Meeting - January 19th

(Indexed 2009-01-08):

Hi all and Happy New Year to everyone I hope you all had a good break. I am flying over to Belfast on January 19th for the first SharePoint user group meeting. The guys over in ireland have been busy getting this setup for more details and to register go here http://nimtug.org/events/62/default.aspxSteve Smith[Image]

A catch using SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges

(Indexed 2009-01-05):

[Image] In a Page Visitor Tracking web part I have been writing, I use the SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges function to add or update a line in a Visitor Tracking list on the current site. The idea being that not all visitors to the page will have the rights to write to this list, so some level of impersonation is needed. Frustratingly, even though I had used this function to elevate the privileges of the current user, I was still getting an "Access Denied" message when running the functio...(truncated)...

Creating a SharePoint Development Virtual Machine - Part II

(Indexed 2008-12-24):

[Image] The thought occured to me that my previous article on this subject detailed how I go about building a nice clean development environment, but not what the next steps were, i.e. getting a working copy of the production web application on that environment. Hopefully, this article will show you how. So, assuming you have got a vm which has SharePoint installed on it, but not really configured, and with no web apps (as it would be after following my previous article), the next steps I foll...(truncated)...

Creating a SharePoint Development Virtual Machine

(Indexed 2008-12-22):

[Image] Thought I would detail the steps I follow when creating a stand-alone development vm for SharePoint, and some of the software I like to have on one. I tend to use VMWare Workstation for my vm's as I like the interface, but Microsoft's Virtual PC works just as well, with the (huge) added advantage of being free. I've not tried MS Windows Server 2008 as yet as it is not used at any of the business locations I have worked at, so this guide covers using Server 2003 - though I expect the ...(truncated)...

European SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London announced

(Indexed 2008-12-08):

Hi all The European SharePoint best practice site is now live and ready for registrations. The dates are April 6th 8th 2009 in London and the site is http://www.sharepointbestpractices.co.uk The actual agenda will be uploaded once I have all the sessions confirmed but as I get speakers confirming they are being added and we already have some top SharePoint speakers confirmed. We are limited on numbers so book early to avoid disappointment. Any questions feel free to ask Steve Smith[Image]

Content Deployment and space

(Indexed 2008-12-07):

When deploying content through content deployment jobs you may want to check how much space you have available.Not so well documented is the fact that content deployment jobs will require you to have some space available on the drive where the account running the SharePoint Timer service has its local temp folder (in the user profile). I only realised this today when investigating a content deployment failure, what happens during a content deployment is the following:Timer collects the content d...(truncated)...

Slides available - SharePoint Search

(Indexed 2008-12-05):

The slides are now up from Ben's presentation the other week in Londonwww.suguk.org/sharepointsearch.pptx[Image]

Slides available - Large scale collaboration with MOSS

(Indexed 2008-12-02):

Rickard has made his slides from last Tuesdays presentation available:http://rickardlofberg.blogspot.com/2008/12/slides-...(truncated)... worth following his blog as he's promised to provide more information in the futurehttp://rickardlofberg.blogspot.com/[Image]

Wrox, Bible and Sybex book discounts for SUGUK members

(Indexed 2008-11-17):

The nice people at Wiley have organized a discount for SUGUK members on their books. For more info please visit the related forum post:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/15324.aspxAlso they've uploaded some sample chapters for us:www.suguk.org/professionalsharepoint 2007 design.pdfwww.suguk.org/Professional SharePoint 2007 Web ContentManagement Development.pdf www.suguk.org/ProfessionalSharePoint 2007 Workflow Programming.pdf[Image]

SharePoint licensing; confused? You will be.

(Indexed 2008-11-16):

Someone who shall remain nameless once told me that with regard to SharePoint licensing, If you dont get the answer you want, ask again. There is no doubt that there is (still) a huge amount of confusion on this subject. It is one of the most common issues that clients ask me to advise on. There are many blog entries which attempt to explain the various nuances and complexities of the subject, and I wont attempt to do that here. But here is an example of why this subject is so difficult. Fir...(truncated)...

Logging in Context

(Indexed 2008-11-10):

[Image] I think everyone agrees that proper error trapping and logging is a good idea - how else are you supposed to be able to work out what has gone wrong on a production system where you can't simply connect Visual Studio up and start debugging? But too many times I have seen logging calls where the developer simply captures an exception and logs its .Message - this is lazy, and in an environment which has multiple web-front ends and hundreds (maybe thousands) of users, next to useless for...(truncated)...

Adding a Tree Control column to SharePoint

(Indexed 2008-11-10):

[Image] One of the things that SharePoint is lacking out-of-the-box is a tree control field type. In a recent project, we required one, so that list items and document library items could be tagged appropriately using hierarchical in-house taxonomies. Additional requirements for this tree control included that multiple nodes in the tree were able to be selected, and that the data displayed in the tree could be maintained by non-IT Admin staff. Luckily, SharePoint allows you to define and create...(truncated)...

London Meeting - 25th November

(Indexed 2008-11-07):

Session 1- Customizing SharePoint Search - Ben RobbSharePointSearch is very powerful, and there are some key best practices whichshould be used to ensure that your search results are giving users theability to find information more quickly. In this session we will learnhow to customise search results and what search rules should be put inplace to make sure that system pages do not find their way into searchresults. Finally, we will explore how to apply Search EngineOptimisation (SEO) techniques ...(truncated)...

World Education Alliance announced

(Indexed 2008-11-03):

Hi all , I don't normally put work related content up here however this is big news in the SharePoint educational world so I hope you don't mind me sharing it. Last week Combined Knowledge Ltd , Mindsharp and Combined Knowledge Asia Pacific announced a formal Alliance for a global education strategy which includes our SharePoint education content and also our upcoming OCS training and other verticals beyond that such as Bi, online training and Dynamics. It is a big move and taken sometime to get...(truncated)...

Creating a Custom Action

(Indexed 2008-10-31):

[Image] SharePointlets you customize just about anything, and one of the things I haveused in various features a few times is a custom action in the dropdownmenu for list items. Here I will briefly go through how to define acustom action in a feature. [Image] Thisdropdown menu is known as the Edit Control Block (ECB), and it is oneof the many places SharePoint lets you define a custom action. Inthis example, my feature will create a document library, and associatea custom action with it. Tthe...(truncated)...

How to find out what alerts are queued to go by SharePoint

(Indexed 2008-10-31):

[Image] Sometimesit may not be possible to actually receive an alert email on yoursystem - maybe its a dev environment that doesn't support email, orexchange might be throwing a hissy fit, or maybe you just don't want towait for the email to filter through to you. A friend from Microsoft, Brendan Griffin, gave me the followingSQL that shows the alerts that web app currently has queued to go. This SQL needs to be run against the WSS_Content database for the webapp which is expected to be producin...(truncated)...

Problems Deleting Content Types - finding out where a Content Type is in use

(Indexed 2008-10-31):

[Image]Thisis something that can really have you pulling your hair out, but hereis a great little trick I found on Tyler Holmes's blog (http://blog.tylerholmes.com/2008/02/deleting-content-types-...(truncated)... I always seem to have trouble finding his posting again, sothought I would stick it in here. Point being, all credit for thisgoes to Tyler. In order to delete a content type, it cannot be in use by anylists in the site collection. If it is, attempting to delete it willshow the incredi...(truncated)...

Creating an SPUser Object from a "Person" type list field

(Indexed 2008-10-31):

[Image] I was quite suprised that creating an SPUser object from theinformation contained in a "person" type list field is notstraight-forward. After trying a few ways myself, I decided it wastime to hit the search engine. I found the solution on this Microsoft Forum discussion: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3118673&SiteID=1 The trick is, you must use the SPFieldUser classes to return theobject. The code below shows how this is achieved (taken directly fromthe discuss...(truncated)...

Virtual Machine displaying "Cannot connect to the server at this time" when attempting to edit list data in Datasheet view

(Indexed 2008-10-31):

[Image] Sometimes, you just need to know the trick...... Recently was scratching my head over a problem I encounteredwhilst developing a solution on my virtual machine. I had to load a lotof data from spreadsheets in to custom lists within MOSS. No problems,just what the datasheet view is built for. So I created my list, switched to the datasheet view, and copiedand pasted the data in. I was then shown an error: "Cannot connect tothe server at this time". I checked a number of things around ...(truncated)...

SharePoint and Hyper-V

(Indexed 2008-10-10):

HP has published several white papers on the configuration of SharePoint in a Hyper-V environment, providing additional deployment options.These include:Utilizing the HP ProLiant DL585 G5 Server and Hyper-V to virtualize a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/49205-0-0-0-121.aspx?bod...(truncated)... the HP ProLiant DL580 G5 Server and Hyper-V to virtualize a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache...(truncated)...

October 16th - London meeting

(Indexed 2008-09-29):

The full session abstracts have now been posted up for the meeting on October 16th. The titles are:Session1 : Web Content Management in MOSS, real life case study Riaz AhmedSession 2 : Best practices/lessons learnt: building MOSS Content Management sites Chris OBrienFull more info and to sign up visit the following forum post:http://suguk.org/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=13880[Image]

New Scaling Out SharePoint 2007 Whitepaper and configuring NLB

(Indexed 2008-09-25):

Hi everyone I finally managed to publish my scaling out whitepaper following various sessions presenting it. The whitepaper covers taking a single sharepoint server farm to 3 server farm including configuring & testing Microsoft Network Load balancing on the two web front ends. You can find it to download here - http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads%202007.htmI hope you find it usefullSteve Smith [Image]

Add content query web part to page layout

(Indexed 2008-09-17):

This is something I have been wanting for a while and I finally managed to get it right :)Scenario:You want to be able to create a default publishing page that contains a pre-configured content query web part that rolls up information from the current web location. This is can be usefull for instance if you would like to display a summary rollup of specific pages within the site and mabye even have a list of all the pages in the site as a navigational item on each content page.Problem:The proble...(truncated)...

Adding people picker control to layout page

(Indexed 2008-09-09):

I feel bad, have not blogged for a while now; to friggin busy it seems.Anyway, I found quite a nice little "trick" the other day when looking at a CMS 2002 migration to MOSS 2007. Previously the all pages of a certain type had the contact details of the person who was responsible for the information on the page as indiviual controls:Name of PersonTelephone of PersonEmail Address of PersonAuthors had to type these details in individually, so I thought to myself "there has to be a way to include u...(truncated)...

SorePoint

(Indexed 2008-08-27):

Did I say later on in the week? Well what's a month between friends :blush: You might think that I haven't psoted as I've been so busy with SharePoint I haven't had time. I've been busy alright, but not because of SharePoint, that couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, nothing further has happened on the SharePoint front here apart from subterfuge and mis-informationI did discover that SharePoint Designer is just a tooled up version of MS FrontPage - what a relief. However, since then ...(truncated)...

London Round Up

(Indexed 2008-08-16):

What a great meeting - 2 great presentations, and a record attendance. Apologies again for the lack of pizza...we'll make sure there is a sufficient supply for the next time :-)Thanks to everyone who came along, and of course Matt and Eric for the presentations. You can pickup the slides/code/etc from their respective blogs:http://www.binarywave.com/blogs/eshupps/Lists/Posts/Po...(truncated)... also recorded an interview with Eric before the meeting where we cover some of the stuff he presented,...(truncated)...

HP Whitepaper: Best Practices for Deploying MOSS on HP Storage

(Indexed 2008-08-15):

HP has released Best practices for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server on HP storage technologies containing best practice examples of HP StorageWorks configurations for a range of solution needs. The whitepaper describes the workloads used, the results and analysis, the resultant strategy and best practice recommendations to deploy storage for a range of solutions. The performance of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 solution is in part dependent on the implementation of an app...(truncated)...

SharePoint Pod Show

(Indexed 2008-08-05):

Just a quick entry to point you to something Rob Foster, Brett Lonsdale and I have been working on, a SharePoint related PodCast.http://www.sharepointpodshow.com/The first episode is just an intro to the show and what we hope to cover in the future. The next episode should be up by the end of this week![Image]

London Meeting - Aug 14th

(Indexed 2008-08-04):

For those who aren't lucky enough to be on holiday we've got 2 great topics for the London Meeting. Eric - who has the record for longest distance traveled to attend a meeting, and Matt - who is only traveling from Coventry, will be your presenters. Arrive just after 6pm for a 630pm start:Session 1 - Eric Shrupps - SharePoint MVP Full Speed Ahead: Developing High Performance Applications for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Discover tips, techniques, tools and best practices for creating ...(truncated)...

SharePoint Best Practices Conference - Washington DC Sept. 15th to 17th

(Indexed 2008-07-19):

www.sharepointbestpractices.com , If you ever wanted to attend a conference that only deals wth recommended best practices for SharePoint then this is the one for you. In association with MS Press and the new best practices book this conference will have lots of sessions by some very well known speakers.Steve Smith[Image]

General Upgrade and Migration Troubleshooting

(Indexed 2008-07-15):

Thought I would post some general issues that I have encountered during SPS 2003 upgrades and MOSS 2007 migrations as well as their solutions:User ID does not existWhen importing a site from a recently upgraded SPS 2003 server into a new MOSS 2007 environment (done to split the content DBs), and you may get an this error when specifying the -includeusersecrutiy switch.The problem here was that SP1 was not installed on the MOSS 2007 upgraded environment, but was installed on the target MOSS 2007 ...(truncated)...

Shooting from the Hip

(Indexed 2008-07-14):

I feel ashamed to admit that six months ago I didn't even know of the existence of Sharepoint. Then we get a new head of IT and 'bang' my world comes back to life after years of being down-trodden by low IT support. The new IT head goes and buys Sharepoint licences and XP licences (yep, we're only on 2000 at the moment).I can still hear the IT department whimpering, and to me it sounds like a world of possibilties and a possible world of pain. The reasons for that will be clear if I tell you ...(truncated)...

Creating the .master page for the contextual search redirect

(Indexed 2008-07-01):

Here I talk about how to modify a new master page to include the contextual search redirect box (covered in my earlier post: Part 1).I thought it might be a good idea to display the contextual search box in left navigation bar, my reasoning being that a contextual search is like the other quick launch items in being "site specific" - but hey; it's really up to you.Modify the layout of your search boxIn order to display the search box correctly in the left navigation / quick launch area, we are g...(truncated)...

Redirect Contextual Search Results to Search Centre Results Page

(Indexed 2008-06-24):

You have implemented a wonderful search solution using MOSS and have built up all these wonderful scopes for use in all sites, now your users still want to use the This Site and This List contextual search scopes; problem is that the search result page for contextual search is the default _layouts/ossearchresults.aspx which looks completely different from your MOSS search centre pages.Most solutions to address this problem that are available on the web will either instruct you to add a redirect ...(truncated)...

First Edinburgh User Group Meeting round up

(Indexed 2008-06-23):

What a great first meeting in Edinburgh and a big thank you to Stephen Hynds and his team for helping to organise the meeting and for a tour of the new Scottish Parliament. It was a great venue for our first meeting in the city. We ended up with just under 30 people for the event and hopefully we can better that on the next one which we are hoefully going to arrange for August/September time so keep your eyes posted for more info. Thanks also to Spencer for speaking it was a great session.I hope...(truncated)...

London SharePoint A&E Roundup

(Indexed 2008-06-19):

Many thanks to everyone who attended the first of our SharePoint Q+A sessions. Hopefully everyone enjoyed it and got some useful information from the discussions that took place. It was great not to run out of questions! :-)A special thanks to Colin, Ben, Craig, Russel and Chris who let me bully them into sitting at the front. The format of the evening seemed to work well, but we're always trying to improve things for you so if you have any feedback or comments feel free to post them here or ema...(truncated)...

Essential resource for new SharePoint developers

(Indexed 2008-06-02):

Hi,Microsoft have just launched a new web site for new SharePoint developers. Here's the link;http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/ (Cool Silverlight looking site too!) S:) [Image]

Newcastle User Group Meeting - June 26th

(Indexed 2008-05-30):

Following on from the last Newcastle meeting lots of people were interested in a chalk and talk discussion evening on best practices around the architecture and setup of SharePoint. John Timney MVP is hosting this event and it will be a great evening for everyone attending I am sure. For more info and to sign up - http://suguk.org/forums/thread/11086.aspxSteve Smith[Image]

Newcastle User Group Meeting - July 3rd

(Indexed 2008-05-30):

Add a list view to a layout page

(Indexed 2008-05-05):

First of all, thanks to Andy Kinnear for writing this piece of code! What this control does is to allow you to add a list view to any layout or master page :)Notes:You only need to specify the name of the list (no GUID) You are able to type in the name of the view you would like displayed; if you dont specify a view name it will display the default view of this list. The custom control will only look for the frist list name as specified it can find in the current site, or any sites above the cu...(truncated)...

What's your strategy for using SharePoint?

(Indexed 2008-05-02):

Recently I read two articles in Computing which highlight the challenges which Executives face in understanding how to use SharePoint technologies to deliver business value.The first article claims that UK business are struggling with innovation. Accenture estimate that 58% of UK business Executives feel that innovation is essential to their companys long term success. Innovation should not be confined to the research and development function, or even just in the marketing function, in high pe...(truncated)...

Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 Event for SUGUK members and SBSC Partners - London

(Indexed 2008-04-21):

Hi all, on April 29th we are hosting some sessions at London Victoria Microsoft for the Small Business Server user group on WSS 3. Myself , Craig Carpenter and Bill English will be speaking. For more info on signing up visit here - http://www.iqubed.biz/blog/2008/03/20/windows-sharepoint-ser...(truncated)... will be covering Content Types and Document Management and Craig will be covering Search Server Express. Bill English willalso do a session on user management across your site collections wi...(truncated)...

Slides from Basingstoke meeting 27th march

(Indexed 2008-04-03):

Hi,Following links are for the two presentations given at the Basingstoke meeting at ICS Solutions on March 27th.1. "Planning for a high availability MOSS farm", Lewis Baldwin - Head of Infrastructure and Support: http://www.icssolutions.co.uk/images/SUG_HAF.pdf2. "Governance: Protect your SharePoint Investment", Symon Garfield - SharePoint Practice Lead http://www.icssolutions.co.uk/images/SUGUK%20-%20MOSS%20Gove...(truncated)...

April 10th - Accessibility event at Microsoft London

(Indexed 2008-04-01):

For those interested there is a good lineup of content being presented in the Accessibility arena around SharePoint next week at Microsoft London. Details on the event can be found here: http://suguk.org/forums/thread/9463.aspxSteve Smith [Image]

April 8th and 9th Community Day Reading - IT Hero Speakers needed

(Indexed 2008-04-01):

For those of you attending the Big 2 day User Group event next week, which if you have't signed up yet has some great SharePoint sessions as well as other products http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk we also have an oppurtunity for you to take part.At the end of each day we are running 5 minute slots for someone to get up and tell us about something you have done with SharePoint in your business / Job. The best 5 minute slot will win a cool prize. Once you have registered EMail me steve@combined-knowl...(truncated)...

Slidedeck from yesterdays Silverlight presentation

(Indexed 2008-03-28):

Thanks to Nick and Symon for organising yesterdays event.I've posted the slidedeck from my presentation on Silverlight yesterday here: http://blogs.flexnetconsult.co.uk/colinbyrne/2008/03/28/Slid...(truncated)...

The Biggest User Group Gathering is coming in April - Sign up Now !!

(Indexed 2008-03-18):

Hi everyone on April the 8th and 9th at Microsoft Campus in reading we are holding our annual User Group Community day but not just 1 day this year but 2 !! We have so many sessions and so many User Groups holding sessions that we are making it two full days of great content including some great SharePoint stuff. There is also an evening event on each day as well if you want to enjoy a more social side to the event.The really great part of this is that it is all FREE and hosted by the UK User Gr...(truncated)...

MOSS Tables | Usage Reporting

(Indexed 2008-03-17):

At the moment I am busy finding ways to create different types of usage reports for MOSS deployments. There are some good tools out there that help with this (Reporting Framework from Codeplex) and of course the default MOSS usage reports. None of these however quite fit my or most of my clients requirements, some examples of which are:We want to see how many documents were added in each month with a rolling total.This must EXCLUDE folders, lists and list items (they only want to see what has be...(truncated)...

MOSS Tables | Usage Reporting | Part 1

(Indexed 2008-03-17):

As this is going to be an ongoing exercise I am splitting this into parts.At the moment I am busy finding ways to create different types of usage reports for MOSS deployments. There are some good tools out there that help with this (Reporting Framework from Codeplex) and of course the default MOSS usage reports. None of these however quite fit my or most of my clients requirements, some examples of which are:We want to see how many documents were added in each month with a rolling total. This mu...(truncated)...

Basingstoke meeting - March 27th

(Indexed 2008-03-11):

A meeting slightly west of London this time which is kindly being hosted by ICS. 3 sessions to get your teeth into!1800 - arrive for tea and coffee1830 - Architecting a Highly Available MOSS Farm - by Lewis Baldwin, ICS, Head of Infrastructure and SupportThis 0.5 hour session will cover design considerations for architecting a highly available redundant MOSS environment.Overviewof MOSS server roles with regard to availability and in additionspecifics on how to use SQL Server 2005 Database mirr...(truncated)...

Reflections on the SharePoint Conference 2008

(Indexed 2008-03-06):

Just back from the final sessions at this years conference. For me this has been a week very well spent. My head is full of new information and ideas, I have made some great contacts, caught up with old friends and gained a two new MS certifications (MOSS dev and config). :)As I mentioned in an earlier post I noticed a shift in the content with a growing emphasis on the softer aspects of the technology; not just nuts and bolts but users and uses. I think that this is partly due to the growing...(truncated)...

Customization Planning and pre-emptive steps - Food for thought?

(Indexed 2008-03-06):

We all know the pitfalls of messing around with default MOSS files and that the basic rules are always to create and modify your own rather than the defaults. One of the main reasons for this is ongoing support for the product from MS (they wont support cusomised changes to defaukt files) as well as the impact of service packs and hotfixes (they generally overwrite default files and hence any changes you made to them).Now in most cases we dont always know about changes we need to make, and when ...(truncated)...

SharePoint Conference 2008: A slight shift in focus and ideas for User Group sessions

(Indexed 2008-03-05):

This is the third SharePoint Conference that I have been to in the past 13 months; two offical Microsoft events and the DevConnections event in November last year. I have noticed a subtle shift in the content in this event. Microsoft is a technology based company so it's no real surprise that that events relating to their products are largely technical in nature. But, as I often argue, SharePoint is very different than any of their other products. 'Traditional' software products are focused ...(truncated)...

Day 1 of the SharePoint Conference 2008

(Indexed 2008-03-04):

SharePoint conference 2008 opened this morning with Keynote speeches from Bill Gates, Kurt Delbene Vice President of the Office Business Platform Group. Unfortunately I am having to spend far too much time sitting in my hotel room working on this trip, so I don't have time to give a detailed review; but here are a few headlines:First some info on the event its self:3,800 attendees at the conference500 people on the waiting list22 countries represented61 partners exhibiting - the partner sponso...(truncated)...

The excitement builds

(Indexed 2008-02-29):

The MS SharePoint conference 2008 kicks off in Seattle on Sunday night. The Great and Good, or should that be the Good, The Bad and the Ugly? From the SharePoint world are heading to the airports this weekend.Rumours abound that we may get a sneak preview of the next version of SharePoint which I hear is due for CTP release soon.There's a party for the UK delegates on Monday night - be there or be square!I cant wait for another free backpack and all those SharePoint branded goodies.More news...(truncated)...

Feb London meeting roundup

(Indexed 2008-02-29):

Many thanks to Ben, Spencer and everyone who attended Wednesdays meeting. It was great to see so many people down the pub afterwards as well. All the mentions of going to the pub during presentations etc people looking in to the session might think all SharePoint people are alcoholics! Or perhaps it is just that SharePoint drives you to drink! :-)Anyway, here's a link to Spencers slides:http://www.harbar.net/archive/2008/02/29/London-SUGUK...(truncated)... are also on the way.[Image]

Interesting side effects when playing with content types in a library

(Indexed 2008-02-28):

I thought I would start a page on some interseting side effects I come accross when playing with the content types in a document library feature:Try this:Create a document library feature and remove the content types from the schema.xml file.Now activate the feature on a site and browse to the new document library.Click the "New" dropdown and you will see that a content type with the same name as your document library is available :)If you create a instance of this document library that has cont...(truncated)...

Attaching content types to folders

(Indexed 2008-02-27):

This question has been asked many times: "Each folder in my document library must have a different content type, is this possible?"The only reason for me posting this is that MANY people think that you are unable to associate a content type to a specific folder, when in fact you can and is very easy to do:Add all the content types that you are going to use for each of your folders to the document library (dont panic, the users will not see all of them!). Create a new folder. Open the drop-down c...(truncated)...

Midlands Meeting - Ullesthorpe - March 13th

(Indexed 2008-02-26):

Hi all , another of my new style User Group meetings lined up with sessions on Design best practices for Shared Services and Web Applications plus a special session dedicated to the SharePoint Conference round up that some of us are attending next week in Seattle. Hopefully a few Vnext bits to pass on !! ?? http://suguk.org/forums/thread/8647.aspx Sign up here and more info on the event.Steve Smith[Image]

Adding the Content Editor web part to a site template

(Indexed 2008-02-25):

Most of you probably already know this, but I thought I would post about it for those who dont. I have had a couple of questions from people on how to add a content editor web part to a site template (site definition) that contains custom html / javascript code as its content. They have no problem with inserting normal text into the web part that they include in the site template, only when they add some html code.Lets say we want to add the following table code:My table in the Web PartThe probl...(truncated)...

Redeploying custom feature - you dont always need to retract the solution file

(Indexed 2008-02-25):

The other day I needed to make a change to one of my features (added a new site template to my custom sites feature, and changed an existing one) which I had already deployed through a solution file. Now the farm environment was quite large and I did not really want to retract the solution, remove it, add it and then redeploy it again as this was very time consuming.So this is what I did and it works like a charm (completely tested on my DEV environment before going to production):Made the chang...(truncated)...

London User Group Meeting - 27th Feb 2008

(Indexed 2008-02-15):

back in London for another user group meeting with two more fantastic topics with SharePoint MVPs Spencer Harbar and Ben Robb...Session 1Kerberos and SharePoint: no ticket touting here. Does SharePoint add another head? Overview of Kerberos and the benefits it offers in a SharePoint 2007 deployment. Discussion of whether your SharePoint deployment needs Kerberos. Tour of the required pre-requisites and configuration settings. Approaches to automating configuration...(truncated)...

Slides from Coventry meeting

(Indexed 2008-02-15):

Many thanks to everyone who attended, Matt for presenting and Trinity for hosting and providing the food. You can get the slides from Matts presentation at his blog:http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mattg/archive/2008/02/14...(truncated)...

Upcoming SharePoint Event on Capacity Planning in Manchester

(Indexed 2008-02-06):

For those of you interested in some knowledge on capacity planning our own Nick Swan is doing a Technet session on Capacity Planning around SharePoint in Manchester on February 19thTo sign up follow the link belowhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?Even...(truncated)... Smith[Image]

Office documents open read-only in Internet Explorer

(Indexed 2008-02-04):

There have been some issues with users that when they select a document link in SharePoint 2007 they do not get prompted to edit the document; instead the document opens directly in "Read Only" mode.This is a known issue with Office 2003 and MOSS 2007, the easiest way to fix this is to install any Office 2007 component / to modify the registry keys as outlined in this MS KB article:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870853[Image]

Showing and Hiding the QuickLaunch / Treeview

(Indexed 2008-01-29):

There are a few posts out there that tell you how you can show / hide the QuickLaunch / Treeview menus, but most of them did not really work out so well for me. So here is how I did it through cusomized master pages:Open your / a default master page (obviously better to have your own) i nyour favorite editor. Look for the tag and paste the following Java Script before the closing tag: Basically, this script allows us to show and hide the contents of any tags contained within the .master page...(truncated)...

Newcastle meeting Roundup

(Indexed 2008-01-26):

Thanks to everyone for attending the meeting at Newcastle last week. We had 40 people and I hope everyone found the sessions useful. I found it very interesting that out of all the attendees no company had yet installed an Anti Virus on their SharePoint system. I think I will repeat this session in London in the near future.A for Penny's talk we had the extra surprse of Penny giving away Her new MS Press SharePoint Designer Step by Step http://mindsharpblogs.com/penny/archive/2008/01/20/4184.asp...(truncated)...

Coventry User Group Meeting February 12th

(Indexed 2008-01-26):

Hi All , we are back in the Midlands with a great session On ISA Server and Extranets. Matt Groves will be doing the main session with a Q&A and discussion after. Sign up here for the event :http://suguk.org/forums/thread/8064.aspxSharePoint , Extranets and ISA, it's easier than you think.The presentation will be on configuring SharePoint for Extranet access in the real world and also how to work with ISA server as a SharePoint publishing toolEvent details18:00 18:30 registration Location Trini...(truncated)...

Setting the versioning options in a Document Library feature

(Indexed 2008-01-14):

Often companies have certain standards around version which they would like maintained when users work with documents, this post explains how to specify the document library versioning options in a document library feature.Lets take the following scenario: A client wants all document libraries that are created to have the following settings in place:Document library must allow multiple content types. Document library must force users to check the document out before changes are made. Document li...(truncated)...

Adding folder structure to document library feature / site definition

(Indexed 2008-01-14):

When creating custom Site Templates (features, definitions - whichever you prefer), one of the things most clients want is a document library included in the Site Template with a pre-defined folder structure. So I thought I would share my solution for creating a document library with a pre-populated folder structure as it is becoming more popular as of late.Now there are actually 3 different methods of doing this: Through the ONET.XML file in your custom Site Template Through the manifest.xml fi...(truncated)...

UPDATE: Setting the versioning options in a Document Library feature

(Indexed 2008-01-14):

London meeting roundup

(Indexed 2008-01-11):

Many thanks to everyone who attended the meeting last night and of course to Chris and Andrew for presenting two great sessions. Here are the links to the resources available from last night:Chris's workflow linkshttp://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2008/01/reso...(truncated)... links for Search Server 2008http://www.21apps.com/2008/01/suguk-jan-10th-2007-meetin...(truncated)... If anybody has any feedback on the evening feel free to leave a comment here or send me an email.[Image] [Image]...(truncated)...

Setting the Web Part display properties for a Document Library list in a site definition

(Indexed 2008-01-10):

Have you ever tried add a list web part (like "Shared Documents") to the default landing page of your site, but seem unable to to change the title of the webpart, frame type etc. as the code differs from that of a standard web part?Recently I had a requirement for a site template that should by default create a document library with 2 new views ("My Items" and "My Edited Items"), the landing page of the site should also display two web parts of the document library: one displaying the "My Items"...(truncated)...

Newcastle meeting - Jan 23rd - Back on - New Venue

(Indexed 2008-01-10):

Hi all we have re-arranged the user group meeting in Newcastle for this month. Same agenda , same speakers. Go here to sign up and get directions http://suguk.org/forums/thread/7684.aspx , The venue is also only 50 yards from the Metro station which is nice.Penny Coventry - SharePoint MVP SharePoint Designer for All - During this session, you'll see how SharePoint Designer can be used to customise SharePoint Team Sites, advanced data manipulation using the DataView Web Part, consume RSS feeds an...(truncated)...

London meeting - January 10th

(Indexed 2008-01-02):

hope everybody has had an enjoyable break over Christmas and New Year.We're back to meetings again quickly with an event in London on January 10th. Two great topics...Workflow: A deep dive into developing workflows for SharePoint using Visual Studio and Infopath - Chris O'BrienOf the three types of workflow available to the SharePoint developer, only Visual Studio workflows provide complete flexibility and power. Without the right information however, the learning curve can be steep for the unin...(truncated)...

64 bit only for VNext ; For those planning SharePoint Servers now

(Indexed 2007-12-18):

You may be interested to know that Microsoft have now made it official that the next version of SharePoint will be released on 64 bit only. So if you have the choice today and you think that upgrading may be something you would do in the lifespam of that server then you may want to test 64 bit now. The Devil is in the detail but look to step 5 http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/12/17/12-things-to-...(truncated)... Smith[Image]

Setting default custom master page in custom Site Template

(Indexed 2007-12-12):

Long title :)So here is what I want to do: Create a custom site template for a client that has a specific custom master page attached to it. One of the reasons I want to do this is that when the client creates a site based on the custom template they do not have to go and attach a master page manually.To attain this I have decided to store my master pages as "hard coded" pages (similar to the default.master located in the global folder...[Image]

Autosizing the TreeView according to contents

(Indexed 2007-12-06):

Long time no post, and I have plenty to post about! So lets get started with a simple one:Problem:You enable the tree view to be displayed on the page and the client loves it! Problem is though that the client does not like the vertical and horizontal scrollbars that are displayed as the width and height of the TreeView changes.Solution:Choose your master page where you would like to make the change and open it in your favorite editor (mine is notepad ++). Look for the following tag: SharePoint:...(truncated)...

Deploying F5 BIG-IP LTM and WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

(Indexed 2007-12-04):

Learn HP best practices for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a WAN environment using F5 Networks BIG-IP LTM and WebAccelerator. It will be of particular interest to customers planning on centralized data center deployments and want to understand the effect of F5 BIG-IP LTM and WebAccelerator impacts on performance. The whitepaper includes best-practice deployment examples and performance information.This white paper can be downloaded here:http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswe...(truncated)...

New Search Express Tool for WSS and Moss

(Indexed 2007-11-10):

A new free product called Search Server Express is launched. For those with only WSS this is a great download as it gives you a configurable search service at last including federated search connectors and Content Sources just like Moss. Although you do not get BDC connectors taht Moss has nor is it scalable. Either way it is a great free add on for Moss and WSS. You can get more info including how to Download and feature comparison here. http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/Steve Smith[Im...(truncated)...

Heading to Teched Barcelona Today

(Indexed 2007-11-10):

I will be hanging out around the SharePoint Booth area and helping out on the stand along with Penny Coventry and others. If you are going pop on over and say hello. We will be doing quite a few sessions and chalk and talks around the booth so should be fun. If I hear any good stuff I will post it up next week.Steve Smith[Image]

Reporting from DevConnections / SharePoint connections, Las Vegas: Closing thoughts and speculation on the next version of SharePoint

(Indexed 2007-11-08):

Just back from the final sessions here at the DevConnections / SharePoint Connections conference in Las Vegas.As with any event like this there were the Good, the Bad and the downright Ugly sessions. My personal favourites were from some of the usual suspects: Andrew Connell gave a great session on WCM which included one the clearest explanations of how SharePoint works under the bonnet which I have heard, Todd Baginski gave a good session on the BDC and one of my favourite sessions was from a...(truncated)...

Reporting from DevConnections / SharePoint Connections Conference: Opening Key note highlights

(Indexed 2007-11-06):

Just back from the opening Key Note Speech here at the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas. Steve Guggenheimer, General Manager Server & Tools Marketing at Microsoft, addressed an audience of 5000+ developers and IT professionals with an hour long presentation entitled "Dynamic IT and the 2008 Launch Wave". Tough audience!As the name suggests the focus of the speech was on the upcoming releases of MS technologies, and with the current SharePoint technologies a year old SharePoint hardly got...(truncated)...

Reporting from DevConnections / SharePoint Connections: SharePoint keynote + new MOSS Search product

(Indexed 2007-11-06):

The conference got underway this morning. Thousands of IT professionals resplendent in their Windows Mobile baseball caps, and free promotional t-shirts, all wearing different coloured backpacks to indicate which Connections track they were on flocked into the Mandalay Bay Convention centre. With an 08:00hr start many were bleary eyed following an evening of excess in the City of Lights.I started the day with the SharePoint keynote speech entitled "Driving the business with SharePoint" and pres...(truncated)...

Update on Windows Server 2008 and Windows SharePoint Sertvices V3.0

(Indexed 2007-11-05):

I hear that Windows Server 2008 will not include WSS 3.0 by default. As with Windows Server 2003 (before R2) users of the new 2008 server system will be required to download WSS as an add on. WSS 3.0 will remain license free. Here's the link for more info...http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/1...(truncated)... [Image]

Reporting from the SharePoint Connections Conference, Las Vegas

(Indexed 2007-11-05):

Arrived in Las Vegas on Friday for the SharePoint Connections 2007 Conference. Conference kicks off on Monday night with opening Key note speeches, then three full days of conference sessions Tuesday through to Thursday. Heres the link to the event in case you missed it. http://www.devconnections.com/shows/FALL2007SP/default.asp?s=105 If anyone else from the UK is in town and would like to grab a networking drink then post a comment. More news as it breaks....S:) [Image]

SharePointPedia - A great new SharePoint / MOSS resource

(Indexed 2007-11-05):

A great new SharePoint resource from Microsoft, being championed by Lawrence Liu. As the 'About Us' section on the site explains this is not a Wiki, it's a 'Pedia' a compendium of useful SharePoint related content and it's hosted on SharePoint technologies. I like it.Here's the link..http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/pedia/Pages/Home.aspxRegards,S:) [Image]

Update on Windows Server 2008 and Windows SharePoint Services V3.0

(Indexed 2007-11-05):

User Group Meeting - Midlands - Ullesthorpe - 1st November

(Indexed 2007-10-25):

Hi All , You are all invited to an evening of Testing / Exploration and Discussion. http://suguk.org/forums/thread/6384.aspx .To make up for the Coventry cancellation I will be hosting a meeting with a new twist next Thursday. As well as having Dual screens for demo's I am also going to have 15 PC's setup for attendees to use with pre-configured SharePoint installations. I would like to try and have an evening where we can test new ideas out , or maybe you just want to try and set something up o...(truncated)...

Cancelled : User Group Meeting 29th October - Coventry - Extranets / SharePoint & ISA

(Indexed 2007-10-22):

Due to unforseen circumstances we've had to cancel this meeting. Thanks for bearing with us.Nick[Image]

User Group Meeting 29th October - Coventry - Extranets / SharePoint & ISA

(Indexed 2007-10-08):

Hi all again , we are back in the Midlands with a great meeting lined up at Trinity Systems in Coventry. Due to the depth of the topic we are just going to have one session with the remainder of the time dedicated to Q&A and general discussion.Session Title - SharePoint , Extranets and ISA it's easier than you think.Matt Groves will be presenting on configuring SharePoint for Extranet access in the real world and also how to work with ISA server as a SharePoint publishing tool.There will be snac...(truncated)...

User Group Meeting 18th October - London Microsoft Victoria - Vendor Night

(Indexed 2007-09-30):

Hi all , our first user group gathering that is dedicated to 3rd party sharepoint vendors showing off their latest products for SharePoint 2007. A great opportunity for those of you wanting to see technical only demo's of what is possible with these products plus lots of free prizes and giveaways such as branded ipods. Companies presenting include Bamboo - K2 - Syntergy - CorasWorks - Meridio. Should be a great night.Go here to sign up http://suguk.org/forums/thread/5826.aspxSteve Smith[Image]

Sizing and Configuration Tool for SharePoint 2007

(Indexed 2007-09-24):

As some may know, HP worked with Microsoft to produce a sizing and configuration tool for SharePoint 2003. We have been working long and hard to produce the SharePoint 2007 equivalent, and it is now ready and released! This version also supports the configuration of storage, as well as the server sizing support found in the previous version.The tool can be found here:http://h71019.www7.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/548230-0...(truncated)... [Image]

First Special Interest Group : Education

(Indexed 2007-09-24):

To support the growing use of SharePoint in Education we have created a Special Interest forum on the UK SharePoint User Group site specifically targeted at Education. This forum aims to cover all areas of SharePoint in Education from the Microsoft Learning Gateway, SharePoint Learning Kit, Community Kit for SharePoint : Schools Edition to 3rd Party VLE integration, best practice, general support and user wish lists.Andrew Woodward is the driving force behind this SIG as he's done a lot of wor...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2003 SP3 and Auto Update Warning

(Indexed 2007-09-22):

For those of you on SharePoint 2003 check to see if you have Auto update on your server for microsoft updates. What will happen is that WSS SP3 will have been downloaded and installed but not SharePoint Portal Server update. We noticed yesterday that those servers that had auto updated did not allow the template picker page to appear for example. After applying the SharePoint Portal Server Service pack 3 all was fine again. So you need to dowload WSS SP3 and SharePoint Portal Server SP3 install ...(truncated)...

Reading User Group Meeting - 17th September

(Indexed 2007-09-03):

We're back to Reading for another User Group meeting on September 17th. Patrick Tisseghem is stopping by on his worldwide travels to talk to us about Office Business Applications and Stephen Lamb from Microsoft is going to cover Security Fundamentals for SharePoint.For more information and to sign up please see the following link:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/5175.aspx[Image]

BDC - A simple view

(Indexed 2007-07-31):

As I'm sure is the case in most companies, one of the first hurdles we stumbled across was:"If we're replacing our existing Intranet systems entirely, how are we going to be able to see data in on the Intranet, like we can now?"Then we happened to stumble across the topic of the Business Data Catalog, which all the links to all the cook books, reviews and blogs that we came across said a few good things like "it's very powerful" and "you can access your legacy systems via database or Web Servic...(truncated)...

Microsoft release free Sharepoint configured Virtual Machine

(Indexed 2007-07-11):

For those of you who want to test SharePoint and find the whole setup process a pain and just want to test the darn thing , well this download is for you. you will need virtual server but that is free also and it is a ready to run tester box fully configured with SharePoint server 2007.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyI...(truncated)... Smith[Image]

Reading Meeting Roundup

(Indexed 2007-07-11):

Sorry everyone for taking so long to get this post up, especially Chris who emailed me his slides and code samples straight after the meeting. Hopefully you'll forgive me though as I'm sure you are as busy as I am being involved in SharePoint yourselves right now.All I really wanted to say was thanks to John and Clive for presenting and letting us know all about Groove. You can find more info at the Groove User Group web site over here:http://grooveuser.org/Default.aspxAnd of course thanks to Ch...(truncated)...

Training

(Indexed 2007-07-05):

Hi folks, After not having been able to find much in the way of training for some months, I'm pleased to say I've made it onto a MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 Developer training course in order to clear some of the fog. It's run by Combined Knowledge and is pretty awesome. You know you're being taught by professionals when they can happily venture "off piste" to help people understand. They also run courses targetted at Administrators, Designers, Trainers & even End Users!Check out this link for more info...(truncated)...

My Blog

(Indexed 2007-07-04):

Hi Folks, I've been trying to work out the best way of bloggin this, especially as it's my first post! but essentially, I'm looking to blog my companie's experiences as we go forward with a MOSS 2007 implementaion. This is due to a lack of communication "out there" in internet land. I hope that articles in this blog help ordinary folk like us!Thanks for reading SteveL [Image]

July 26th - Central London User Group Meeting at MS

(Indexed 2007-07-04):

Microsoft have allowed us to be one of the first to try out their new Central London venue for the July User Group Meeting and we have a great lineup planned for the evening with SharePoint MVP's speaking and hopefull a few more in the crowd. Snacks and drinks will be provided and we are limited to 100 spaces and I think we can fill it :) If you want to attend sign up here:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/4015.aspxSteve Smith [Image]

This Blog

(Indexed 2007-07-04):

Hi Folks, I've been trying to work out the best way of bloggin this, especially as it's my first post! Essentially, I'm looking to blog my company's experiences as we go forward with a MOSS 2007 implementaion. This is due to a lack of communication "out there" in internet land during the MOSS and WSS 3.0 early days.I hope that articles in this blog help ordinary folk like us!Thanks for reading, SteveL[Image]

Telford Roundup

(Indexed 2007-06-26):

Thanks to everyone who came along to Telford last week for the SUGUK meeting and especially Andrew Florendine for organising the venue and cattering.Brett did a great presentation on Access 2007 and SharePoint v3 working nicely together, and then after the break Andrew Woodward and Andrew Florendine showed us InfoPath and Forms Services.Thanks to everyone who asked questions and joined in with the answers. The meetings are always better when they are more interactive rather than just straight pr...(truncated)...

June 28th - session change, Customising MOSS the supported way from end-user to admin interfaces

(Indexed 2007-06-22):

The agenda has changed slightly for the meeting we are holding at Microsoft TVP on the 28th of June. The first hour we'll still cover Groove, but in the second hour Chris O'Brien from cScape is going to present on 'Customising MOSS the supported way'Here are the session blurbs in full:First Session:Groove: A powerful tool for collaboration, that is now part of Office 07.In this session, we review the basic functionality, and then show ,using the latest Microsoft templates (including issue tracki...(truncated)...

Dealing with duplicate links in the "Select View" drop-down list

(Indexed 2007-06-16):

Problem:You have made modifications / created a new page for a list / document library. When you open the "Select View" menu on the list you see duplicate entries for the same view; however, when looking at the details of the view you may see that it points to a completelly unrelated page - like the main default.aspx / dispform.aspx.One of the major problems with this is that you cannot delete those links - doing so will delete the page as well, obviously deleting the main dispform.asp / default...(truncated)...

Evo Day SharePoint breakout session details

(Indexed 2007-06-12):

For those of you who have not registered or undecided about the Evo Day at TVP Microsoft Campus reading on June 21st I thought I would let you know what my SharePoint Breakout session is all about.I will be covering all things to do with the Shared Service provider including why you need one and why it is required for a farm. so for those that have a need to know a bit more about this subject sign up for the event here http://ukusergroups.co.uk. plus you get to see other content on Exchange , Vi...(truncated)...

June SUGUK Meetings

(Indexed 2007-06-05):

Telford and Wrekin Council are kindly hosting a user group meeting for us on Tuesday 12th June. In this session we'll cover the following topics:1, SharePoint 2007 and Access 2007Brett Lonsdale will take us through how you can build online/offline applications using Access 2007 and SharePoint 2007 as a data store. We'll get to see how you can use workflows, InfoPath Forms and much more from Access 2007.2, InfoPath and Forms ServicesAndrew Woodward and Andrew Florendine will take us through how t...(truncated)...

Creating a custom site collection that automatically creates subsites

(Indexed 2007-06-03):

I know, my titles suck =)This post deals with creating a site definition that includes a couple of subsites by default; in essence we are creating our own "Collaboration Portal" similar to the default one you have at your disposal under the "Publishing" tab in MOSS 2007.When we create a "Collaboration Portal" the following subsites are automatically created with it:Document Centre Report Centre Search Centre Site Directory NewsThis is great, but not neccessarily what the client wants, which is w...(truncated)...

Forms Server | Session has exeeded the amount of allowable resorces

(Indexed 2007-05-30):

Problem:User loading an InfoPath web form gets an error message similar to the one below:"This session has exceeded the amount of allowable resources."Solution:As always, we visit out friend the "Application Event Log"You should see something similat to the error below around the same time the user got the error:Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Office SharePoint ServerEvent Category: Forms Services Runtime Event ID: 5737Date: 29/05/2007Time...(truncated)...

MOSS Performance Overview White Paper

(Indexed 2007-05-18):

Hi,The presentation I gave at the SUG on May 15th was based on the "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on HP ProLiant Servers - Performance Summary" white paper that you can find here: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-1793ENW.pdfAndy[Image]

Introduction

(Indexed 2007-05-18):

Hi all,As I promised at the SUG meeting held in the HP offices in Bracknell on May 15th 2007, I have an area where I will post links to SharePoint-related material added to the HP Active Answers site. This will mean that SUG members will not have to keep going back to Active Answers to see if new material has been added.The Active Answers Home Page can be found here:http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/cache/71108-0-0...(truncated)... those of you who are not familiar with Active Answers, it...(truncated)...

User Group EVO community Day June 21st

(Indexed 2007-05-11):

Hi everyone , we are running another joint user group event at Microsoft Campus in Reading on June 21st. Go here to register for the event http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk/ and this is the agenda for the day. We have the whole of Chicago plus breakout rooms for the day but spaces are limited so it is a first come first serve basis.09:30 Start09:30 10:00 Keynote10:00 10:25 Introductions to groups (Including LiveMeeting, Longhorn, Virtualisation)10:25 10:55 Vista10:55 11:10 Break11:10 12:40 Offi...(truncated)...

Forcing InfoPath forms to load in web browser view from form library web parts

(Indexed 2007-05-06):

Sorry about the title, but I dont really know what else to call it!Scenario and solution:You have a page that containd web part views into your forms library (that contains forms that can be filled out in a browser). The problem here is that if you or your client has InfoPath installed on their computer, everytime they click the link the form will try and open in their InfoPath client; prompting them for authentication.If the client goes to the forms library itself and clicks on a InfoPath form ...(truncated)...

Tip of the day | Anonymous user editing of a form library

(Indexed 2007-05-05):

So, long time no blog!Seriously busy at the moment (7 projects, 2 on the same timeline) but I just HAVE to share this bit of information!Problem:Created a "vacancy" module using web enabled InfoPath 2007 forms where managers could create vacancies, go through the approval process and finally sumit the form to an advertised vacancies form library. The problem here is that the public needs to interact with this form in order to respond...but...you are unable by default to allow any other permissio...(truncated)...

15th May - Bracknell User Group Meeting

(Indexed 2007-04-27):

15th May is the date for the next planned user group meeting. This is kindly being hosted by HP in Bracknell. Here's a run down of the topics that will be covered:Exchange 2007 and SharePoint 2007 Living Happily Ever After? this highlights all the integration points between E2K7 and MOSS and question how robust they are in real lifeKevin Laahs: Senior member of the Technology Leadership Group within HPs Consulting and Integration practice.A User Centred Approach to Designing Web Portals Given...(truncated)...

I Got New Digs

(Indexed 2007-04-13):

I'm now working as a Sharepoint Engineer for Microsoft Services and I've set up a Technet blog for my team called Tales from the Field. The whole team is involved in this one. We'll all be contributing our real world SharePoint stories about our experiences out at customer sites.Thanks to anyone who subscribed to this blog (I know there was at least one, thanks Mum). I hope it was useful. Come and join me on the new one: http://blogs.technet.com/sharepointdse/ [Image]

User Group Etiquette

(Indexed 2007-03-25):

As many people know, many members of this user group run SharePoint related businesses. We've tried hard to keep the user group forums and presentations to a high technical level over the past year or so, and not fall into the marketing outlets that have beset some other US based user groups.It's come to our attention that a number of companies have been posting events in the Third Party Products/Presentations area and have then been rating their own posts with 5 stars. We view this as very bad ...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 Search Presentations

(Indexed 2007-03-18):

Saw this on Steve Clayton's blogSix presentations that look into detail at different aspects of MOSS 2007 search.Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveA.exe) This session starts with an overview of Microsoft's enterprise search strategy, reviews the various products that it affects, and outlines what is new in SharePoint Search for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Lastly, it discusses opportunities for partners building on the platform.SharePoint Search...(truncated)...

Site Sync

(Indexed 2007-03-14):

Problem: After a database migration, from a MOSS 2007 Beta 2 TR Farm to RTM, SharePoint 2007 was writing errors to the event log every hour. These are the errors below (I have edited them): Source: Office Sharepoint serverCategory: Office server generalevent id: 7888 Description:A runtime exception was detected. A duplicate site ID was found.Cause: Restoring a content database from one farm to another without first deleting without first removing the Original database and then running stsadm -...(truncated)...

SharePoint Design

(Indexed 2007-03-08):

I worked as a consultant last year selling SharePoint solutions. I was involved in a lot of pre-sales demos of MOSS 2007. Usually feedback from customers was that they loved the features but wouldn't want their new intranet to look like SharePoint straight-out-of-the-box. They wanted to be sure that MOSS 2007 was easy to brand and enhance the look and feel. Usability was going to be one of the keys to a successful project. A little while ago I read Tom Peter's book 'Re-imagine'. Its ...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 and Commerce Server Integration

(Indexed 2007-03-04):

The Microsoft Commerce Server team have released a white paper on CS 2007 integration with MOSS 2007.http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce/archive/2007/03/03/using...(truncated)...

MOSS Branding

(Indexed 2007-03-04):

A couple of people recently asked me where you start if you want to teach yourself MOSS branding. Shane Perran and Heather Solomon are my favourite branding guru's. These two blog entries are essential: Shane's starter guide:http://www.graphicalwonder.com/?p=611 Heather's CSS Reference chart:http://www.heathersolomon.com/content/sp07cssreference...(truncated)...

UK SharePoint User Group tops 1,000 members

(Indexed 2007-03-01):

Well it didn't take us long and we are now on 1003 members in just over 15 months. So well done everyone and thanks for the support on the events and forums. Keep it up.And if memory serves me right Nick is going to host a party for us :)In fact for those attending on Wednesdays meeting we will have a mini celebration.Steve Smith[Image]

Get Rich

(Indexed 2007-02-28):

Just finished the phase one of a v. cool development project. I saw the future friends, and its bubble shaped. It took me a while to realise we were building one of these Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that I keep reading about. I was part of a team that was asked by a customer to build a web site, vista gadget and application. The gadget and app were supposed to round up the best information on the internet about their products, for staff and partners. Staff would update the web site ...(truncated)...

User Group Meeting London - 22nd March

(Indexed 2007-02-26):

Hosted and presented by LBi this is what we'll cover in this meeting:SharePoint Search an In depth look- Set up, configuration and server architecture- building custom search controls- extending people search- limitations to MOSS SearchBuilding an accessible Internet site with SharePoint 2007- From design to development- Server Environments, dev, qa, staging- Accessibility and solutions- Under the hood and codingArri...(truncated)...

Berlin SharePoint Conference Roundup - part 2

(Indexed 2007-02-23):

Colin Byrne has kindly written a summary of his thoughts from last week. Colin's usual blog can be found here.SharePoint European Conference This is the first SharePoint specific conference Ive been to and I was impressed by the amount of interest shown by the Europeans , with over 2000 attendees from 50 countries with the UK providing around 160 delegates it was very busy, it seems that even MS was taken by surprise at the amount of interest. The organisation was of a high standard as youd expe...(truncated)...

Berlin SharePoint Conference Round Up

(Indexed 2007-02-19):

SUGUK member Eric Shrupps has kindly done a write up on the Berlin conference. Eric can usually be found blogging at The SharingPoint================================================...(truncated)... European SharePoint Conference, held at the Hotel Estrel in Berlin, was a resounding success. More than 2,300 people attended from more than 50 countries with 100+ partners represented and 90 vendors displaying their wares. The organization of the event was quite good and the Microsoft EMEA team sh...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 Whitepaper

(Indexed 2007-02-12):

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Whitepaper The goal of this whitepaper is to offer knowledge and understanding to evaluate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Please find below the link to Content and Code's SharePoint 2007 Whitepaper: http://www.contentandcode.com/NR/rdonlyres/00DCEF91-A114-4EE...(truncated)... is a summary of the whitepaper. IntroductionMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps organisations gain better control and insight over their content, streamline...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 Product Sheet

(Indexed 2007-02-12):

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of easy-to-use server applications that provides a single platform to manage intranet, extranet and website applications across your organisation.Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will improve organisational effectiveness by offering one unified suite of enterprise effectiveness by offering one unified suite of critical needs such as managing content and business processes, enabling better informed decision making and simplifyi...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 vs SPS 2003 Comparison

(Indexed 2007-02-12):

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 vs SPS 2003 The MOSS 2007 and SPS 2003 comparison guide analyses the difference between SPS 2003, MOSS 2007 Standard CAL and Enterprise CAL product offerings. Please find below the full comparison between MOSS 2007 and SPS 2003. http://www.contentandcode.com/NR/rdonlyres/A719EC55-4741-45D...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 Upgrade Guide

(Indexed 2007-02-12):

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Upgrade GuideContent and Code are the leading Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (SharePoint) 2007 managed service provider in the UK. Content and Code have deployed more SharePoint 2007 projects within the UK than any other company and were the 1st UK Managed Service Provider to implement a live SharePoint 2007 solution. Using our knowledge gained through our extensive SharePoint 2007experience, we have developed an upgrade guide that we feel is the best ...(truncated)...

VIP Area for UK delegates at Berlin SharePoint Conference Party

(Indexed 2007-02-12):

Email from Rob Gray, Microsoft:Welcome to Berlin I trust that the next few days prove to be very useful and productive for you!You may have noticed on your agenda that on Tuesday night there is a surprise party perhaps its German efficiency but I thought that generally you dont let people know about surprise parties until they happen nonetheless the organizers have been very accommodating in arranging a special UK VIP area at the main party kindly sponsored by Artemis Corp, ONLY for UK delegate...(truncated)...

Feb 8th Slides

(Indexed 2007-02-12):

If anybody wants to download the slides Lawrence used on Feb 8th, here's the link:http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/templates/Do...(truncated)...

Feb 8th links + feedback plz!

(Indexed 2007-02-09):

Many thanks to everyone who braved the cold and snow to come to Reading last night for the user group meeting, and of course to Lawrence who gave a great presentation. A few links that were mentioned during the evening:SharePoint Community Portal:http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/MOSS 2007 SDK with MSDN wiki:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550992.aspxNew MSDN SharePoint forums:http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGr...(truncated)... anybody has any feedback abou...(truncated)...

20 of the Fab 40 SharePoint 2007 application templates released for download

(Indexed 2007-01-30):

Lawrence has posted on the SharePoint Team blog links to download 20 of the 40 Fab 40 application templates!http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/01/3...(truncated)...

SharePoint European Conference - UK Groove Workspace

(Indexed 2007-01-26):

Mark Harrison has created a Groove workspace for people from the UK attending the SharePoint conference to use to network, arrange drinks, exchange ideas etc; :-)If you wanna join in the fun send Mark an email at:blog 'AT' markharrison.co.uk[Image]

EVO User Group Launch Slides

(Indexed 2007-01-25):

Here are the slides for the SharePoint related sections of the EVO User Group Launch dayhttp://www.suguk.org/sharepointevougslides.zipThe other slides should be posted at the various user group sites sometime so keep an eye on them:http://www.mmmug.co.uk/blogs/nwab/archive/2007/01/25/66...(truncated)... also got a personal write up of the event with a few pictures.http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2007/01/25/2115.aspx Thanks to everyone who came along, it was a brilliant day![Image]

Performance tuning SharePoint servers

(Indexed 2007-01-25):

Joel Oleson published this great article on what performance counters to use when optimizing your SharePoint and SQL servers. You can use tools like the ACT Stress tool provided in Visual Studio to create multiple sharepoint connections and monitor these counters at the same time. This gives you a good indication of how well your servers will perform under stress.http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/16/good-l...(truncated)... [Image]

Anonymous Access | Pages not rendering properly on 'lists only' anonymous access setting

(Indexed 2007-01-24):

Scenario:I have created a WSS 3.0 website with all the bells and whistels when it comes to workflow, customized pages etc. Now the client requests that some of these lists be accessible to anonymous users so that they are able to submit some items and view others.So, off I go and enable anonymous access via the central administration and then enable it on the specific site collection where the lists are kept (this all according to official and unofficial documentation).Tests show that anonymous ...(truncated)...

SD | Limitation with content types

(Indexed 2007-01-22):

Crappy limitation I have found with SharePoint Designer and workflow: you are unable to instruct the workflow to create a new content type in any list - this would have solved my earlier problem quite nicely if it were able to. All you can do is modify fields that belong to the default content type selected for the list.If you feel I am mistaken - let me know![Image]

MOSS 2007 | "Access Denied" when trying to update a list item with workflow

(Indexed 2007-01-22):

Problem:When you have created a workflow with SharePoint Designer and it is activated when a user adds / changes and item, you receive and error that states that the workflow stopped because access was denied when trying to update a list item in another list.You find that this only happens when a user other than one belonging to the "Owners" group activates the workflow.Findings:In my scenario I was trying to create a list item with the workflow in a 'content approval' enabled list from a list t...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 | SharePoint Designer and adding webparts to the dispform.aspx

(Indexed 2007-01-16):

Interesting obersvation today:When you click 'site settings' from on a list view page in MOSS you will notice that there is no 'edit page' menu item, which makes sense, but there are some of us who like to add webparts to these pages and before this was a nightmare of schema files and site definitions in SPS 2003.Today I used SD to dump a 'content editor' webpart into the dispform.aspx page in a custom list, when I visited the site in the browser and clicked the 'site settings' menu the 'edit pa...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 | Excel Services data refresh hell

(Indexed 2007-01-15):

Problem:As talked about on http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=110...(truncated)... :

SPS 2003 | Simple email archiving solution (networked document libraries)

(Indexed 2007-01-11):

Problem:Client is a bit of a h@ck and wants users to be able to drag emails from their email client into a specified document library for archiving and prosperity purposes. Now the client does NOT want the system to be automated, rather the users need to be responsible for each email they want to archive.We know the client is currently running Office 2003 (this will work for any email client) and has SharePoint Portal Server 2003.Solution:Here I will describe the simple manual solution, but you ...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 | Saving a subsite as a template

(Indexed 2007-01-04):

Problem:Was looking to save a subsite as a template (never did this before in SPS 2003 as I always preferred site definition files) and could not find it anywhere on the 'look and feel' menu - looks like it is only available when you are on the top level site.Solution:No problem! Go to the top level site and from the 'look and feel' menu save the site as a template: check the URL: http://yoursite/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx, copy the _/layouts/savetmpl.aspx to your clipboard.Now go to your subsite an...(truncated)...

MOSS 2007 | Got my certification!

(Indexed 2006-12-31):

Wrote the BETA exams for MCTS: SharePoint Portal Server 2007 Configuration in November, switched the computer on for the first time in 3 weeks (been on leave!) an low an behold what should I see but an email from MS congratulating me on passing my exams!So there we go, I am officially certified for something in MOSS 2007 - although I must say that I would have preferred for a simulation exam rather then a multiple choice which anyone with a parrot memory could pass. Luckily though, there were no...(truncated)...

Merry Christmas!!!

(Indexed 2006-12-22):

Merry Christmas to everyone in SharePoint land! Hope you enjoy the time off and manage to get all the presents from Santa that you want.Thanks to everyone who's been involved with the user group this past year from meeting attendees + speakers to members of the forum. Hopefully you've got something out of the website and things that have been organised.Next year will be even better! Please keep any ideas for the group coming as it's the members that make it such a useful and fun thing![Image]

Authentication Problem with MOSS 2007/ISA 2006 Hosting

(Indexed 2006-12-16):

Problem:I built a MOSS 2007 site and published it through Microsoft ISA 2006. Straight away, everyone accessing from the internet gets authentication problems. They could log into the site ok, but as they clicked around they were constantly asked to login. Not every click asked for login and there didn't seem to be any consistency in the types of pages that required it. Login prompts every 5 seconds was upsetting the customer. They were all site owners so had access to everything. When ...(truncated)...

SharePoint and Web 2.0

(Indexed 2006-12-15):

Don't know if you ever saw the blog by Arpan Shah about SharePoint and Web 2.0 back in October. Microsoft have just released it as a white paper. It's a good primer if you're not familiar with what they are calling Web 2.0. If you are, it's handy to know where Microsoft think it applies in Office Server 2007.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyI...(truncated)...

Free to attend Excel Services Demonstration - Friday

(Indexed 2006-12-06):

Combined Knowledge are hosting another free seminar this friday. This weeks event is on Excel Services in MOSS. Attendees will be given the opportunity to ask lots of questions related to MOSS or Excel Services and SharePoint development.The seminar is being hosted at our normal venue Ullesthorpe Court Hotel, Ullesthorpe, Lutterworth, Leics.Details are available from www.combined-knowledge.comBrett[Image]

MOSS 2007 | Final release observation

(Indexed 2006-12-05):

Ok, today I had the pleasure of installing MOSS 2007 final release version at a client (albeit a QA environment) and happened upon a discovery: When creating a 'web application' there is now an option to select whether or not you would like MOSS to restart IIS automatically / restart it yourself - small feature but nice to see :)I am not sure if it was present in beta2tr as I stuck to beta2 beforehand (did not really feel like fixing stuff to work on stuff that now has been fixed).I swear, if yo...(truncated)...

Rant of the day | The lines have blured....

(Indexed 2006-12-04):

What once was clear in the world of SharePoint solutions is no longer so. Whereas before SharePoint could only really be sold as a collaborative solution (come on, it never was a real Document Management solution), now it can be sold as a complete Business Intelligence, Electronic Content Management, Document Management, Records Management and Web Content Management solution(s), not to mention more.So where does that leave a us poor SharePoint H@cks working for companies that offer all of these ...(truncated)...

New SharePoint 2007 RTM Whitepapers - How to Guides

(Indexed 2006-12-01):

Hi all , we have several new and updated whitepapers to download on SharePoint 2007 RTM version.In Place Upgrade from SharePoint 2003 Medium Farm to SharePoint 2007 ( this is a demo from our 2007 Upgrade Training Course but it works well as a whitepaper 'how to' guide as well )Configuring Incoming E-Mail for Exchange 2003 , SharePoint 2007 and Active DirectoryCode Access Security for Administratorshttp://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads%20...(truncated)...

December Xmas Drinks - Thursday 14th

(Indexed 2006-11-23):

No presentation this month, just a few friendly drinks at the Castle in Farringdon from 7pm onwardshttp://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/14/14118/Castl...(truncated)... good chance to discuss how we think the User Group meetings have gone, what lessons we've learned from MOSS 2007, and the kind of things we'd like to get from the user group next year.......or we can just talk about what's going to be on TV over Christmas!If you're coming along please post your name in the forum link below:http:...(truncated)...

RTM Versions of MOSS and WSS 3.0 available

(Indexed 2006-11-22):

Well they've actually been available for a few days now but just incase anybody missed them here's the link...http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/11/16/a...(truncated)... the trial product keys are available at the moment. One word of caution, if you use the MOSS 2007 Enterprise Trial Key, you'll have to purchase the Enterprise version one the trial is over to continue using it. You can't downgrade the trial to Standard.Sorry for it being a little quiet on here recently. I've been movi...(truncated)...

An evening of Business Inteligence

(Indexed 2006-11-20):

Just a quick reminder to you all about a user group meeting the SQL Server user group are running on Novemeber 29th in Reading entitiled 'An Evening of Business Inteligence'.With BI, KPI's, Dashboards and a load of other terminology that SharePointers will have to get used to using this should be a great evening. I'm most interested in seeing the stuff on PerformancePoint.Here's the link to sign up to attend:http://sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=83[Image]

Holy 50 Million !!

(Indexed 2006-11-10):

This is a recent team Blog by Joel Olsen at MS that they have now tested SharePoint Server indexing 50 Million documents in a single index.http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/10/25/mi...(truncated)... know some of you who have been on my Admin class mentioned that you would exceed the original thought of 7.5 million recorded docs , well that original number is well and truly smashed.Steve Smith[Image]

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions CTP

(Indexed 2006-11-08):

This download has just appeared on the MS site. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19f...(truncated)... Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (RTM build, Basic installation only)Visual Studio 2005 (Standard or Professional Edition)This Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications: Visual Studio 2005 Pro...(truncated)...

Tech-Ed Africa 2006 Slides

(Indexed 2006-11-01):

The South African Information Worker User Group (http://www.informationworker.co.za) is hosting some of the slide decks used in the recent TechEd Africa 2006 Office track at http://www.informationworker.co.za/Technical/Event%20Decks/F...(truncated)... a list of some of the slides that might be of interestOFC203 The 2007 Microsoft Office System: Clients - Overview and What's NewOFC207 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Overview and What's NewOFC309 Connecting Portals to Line-of-Business Dat...(truncated)...

Presentation Slides and PowerShell code from User Group Meeting Thursday 26'th October

(Indexed 2006-10-30):

Hi,Just like to thank all those who attended the Presentation last Thursday on controlling SharePoint with PowerShell and Extending the Administration Object model.I know it was pretty fast paced and technical so I plan to follow it up with a series of blogs entries recapping the steps and scripts in greater detail. I've attached the PowerShell scripts and PowerPoint Slides.Some of the topics covered were: Powershell Basics Exchange 2007 producing PowerShell samples from the new UI console ...(truncated)...

SharePoint and PowerShell

(Indexed 2006-10-25):

Just starting a series of posts that will explore how to use PowerShell to manage SharePoint via its object model.I've added a starter entry just to lead in to the presentation tomorrow : http://blogs.flexnetconsult.co.uk/colinbyrne/PermaLink,guid,...(truncated)... 29th October meeting: http://suguk.org/forums/thread/1490.aspx [Image]

Ullesthorpe Court, meeting roundup

(Indexed 2006-10-20):

Thanks to everyone who came along to the user group meeting last night in Leicestershire, and especially to Steve and Gary for presenting.With regards the necessary content areas you'd need to define in a masterpage for a MOSS portal site, here's Ben's blog post:http://www.sharepointblogs.com/benrobb/archive/2006/08/...(truncated)... you have any more questions, comments or feedback about last night please leave a comment here, or send me an email.Remember the meeting next Thursday in London![Im...(truncated)...

Ullesthorpe Court, Leicestershire - 19th October

(Indexed 2006-10-05):

We're looking for suggestions on topics to present. Please leave your ideas here or send me a quick email. Even better if you want to present yourself! It doesn't have to be anything major, perhaps a quick 10 mins about what you've been doing recently with SharePoint 2003/2007, or any problems/ideas you'd like to discuss with the group and perhaps solve!To register to come along please post your full name to this forum topic:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/1471.aspx [Image]

Meeting Feedback

(Indexed 2006-09-29):

Many thanks to Gary, Ben, CSF and everyone who came along to the meeting yesterday. Hopefully you all went away eager to try out the new Web Content Management features of MOSS 2007.If you have any feedback on the evening, or you'd like to present or suggest a topic for a future event, please either post a comment here, or drop me an email.[Image]

Adding SPListItems in SharePoint 2007

(Indexed 2006-09-28):

OK, so for my first real post I'd like to do go through programatically adding an item to a SharePoint List. It's pretty simple, but there are some things that it took me quite some time to find out. Please excuse me if I'm going through easy stuff, its been a hectic three months finding out all this =). I'm using the Beta 2 with a MOSS on a VPC.Lets look at some C# code:___________________________________________ SPList myList = myWeb.Lists["My First List"]; SPListItem myNewItem = myList.Ite...(truncated)...

My first SharePoint blog!

(Indexed 2006-09-27):

Hello there, this is my first SharePoint blog. I'm a C# programmer working on a HelpDesk App for SharePoint 07 and I'd like to occasionally publish some of the things I've been finding out about the new SharePoint Object Model. Thomas =8)-DX[Image]

Technical Refresh is upon us

(Indexed 2006-09-14):

For all those waiting for WSS and Moss technical refresh here it isWSS - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e1e...(truncated)... :)[Image]

Adding a custom Resource file to use in your Sharepoint 2007 Feature

(Indexed 2006-09-13):

Well I have spent the last couple of days scratching my head and reading through non-existent documentation, to work out how you deploy a solution a custom resource file (resources.resx) to use in your Feature.xml and Solution (.wsp) file. In short here's how you do it. Create a sub folder below the directory where your Feature.xml file resides. Place your custom Resources file in that folder and call it Resources.en-US.resx change the "en-US" piece with your locale. Inside your feature add the ...(truncated)...

Some more B2TR Links!!!

(Indexed 2006-09-11):

Office SharePoint Server 2007Download Center information: Installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Beta 2 Technical Refresh Technet information: Installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Beta 2 Technical Refresh Office Forms Server 2007Download Center information: Installing Office Forms Server 2007 for Beta 2 Technical Refresh TechNet information: Installing Office Forms Server 2007 for Beta 2 Technical Refresh Office Project Server 2007Download Center information: Installing Office Proj...(truncated)...

Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for Beta 2 Technical Refresh

(Indexed 2006-09-11):

Hey everyone,Microsoft is starting to post installation documents and guidelines on their site. You know what that means... We are getting extremely close to the patch release date! Wooohooo! Updates are available for the Beta 2 Technical Refresh of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. This article addresses how to obtain and install the update for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2. This update will include two phases: a binary update and a database upgrade. This docume...(truncated)...

Presentation slides and example code on features from meeting held at Cap Gemini last week thursday.

(Indexed 2006-09-05):

Hi everyone , just wanted to thank all of you for attending last week thursday at Cap Gemini's Office in London. Thanks to Nick for making it happen!Here is the link to the slide deck i used which covers the following points:Overview of the importance of WSS 3.0Page Parsing and compilation in WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0How Page routing, parsing, and compilation in WSS 2.0 worksHow Page routing, parsing and compilation in WSS 3.0 worksDeveloping WSS Sites: Difference between Site Definition and Site Temp...(truncated)...

Incoming E-Mail for WSS V3

(Indexed 2006-08-30):

A question was asked last month ( I know sorry just remembered to post the answer up ) regarding my demonstration of configuring List and libraries in SharePoint 2007 to accept incoming E-Mail. The question was can WSS also be configured with the feature.The Answer is yes it can and it has the same full functionality as that of Moss.Sorry for the late reply whoever asked it.Steve Smith[Image]

SharePoint Links 01/08/2006

(Indexed 2006-08-01):

Office 2007 webcasts - some very interesting onces scheduled for August.Send me your MOSS 2007 MasterPages/Images/CSS Files - Angus Logan wants your pretty MOSS/WSS master page designs to show off to people! Patterns and practises for building webparts - Bill Simser writes a great article on using Model-View-Presenter pattern in webpart development.[Image]

SharePoint Links 31/07/2006

(Indexed 2006-07-31):

It's been a while so I've got another backlog of links! I'll try and drip a few to you every day!WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 Documentation for IT-Pros - Patrick Tisseghem has some great links about planning, deployment, operations and upgrades for 2007.Web Content Management Resources - Andrew Connell has started a list up of Web Content Management Resources. There's a ton of stuff already in there to get you started![Image]

July Feedback

(Indexed 2006-07-30):

Many thanks to everyone who attended the user group meetings in July at Ullesthorpe Court and HP in Reading. If you have any feedback on the meetings please feel free to leave a comment here, or send me an email at nick@dotnetsolutions.ltd.ukFor August we'll probably organise only one meeting in London as people will be away on Holiday. If you've any ideas on what you'd like to see presented them please let me know. I think most people have probably seen enough general demo's of SharePoint 2007 ...(truncated)...

User Group Meeting round up - HP, 26th July

(Indexed 2006-07-30):

Many thanks to HP and in particular Natasha for organising, hosting and presenting at the user group meeting last Wednesday. We had presentations on SharePoint 2003 with Live Communications Server, a presentation on managing change and benefit realisation from SharePoint projects, and a demo of Knowledge Network which is the free addin for MOSS 2007.Natashas presentation on managing change and benefits was the first ever presentation at a suguk event that didnt involve any SharePoint demos! It w...(truncated)...

Combined Knowledge/User Group Event.

(Indexed 2006-07-27):

Last Thursday Combined Knowledge hosted a joint company/user group meeting focusing solely on MOSS 2007. Bill English and Todd Bleeker were over from Mindsharp in the US as Combined Knowledge were teaching the first MOSS 2007 Mindsharp course that week. With those two over it would have been stupid not to have a meeting! Around 70 people came along to Ullesthorpe Court in South Leicestershire. We were lucky enough to have 2 rooms available and so split the evening into developer and administrati...(truncated)...

MSDN Invitation: An Evening of Office 2007 Development in Financial Markets - Tuesday 25th July 2006

(Indexed 2006-07-17):

An extra event for you in July, definitely worth checking out if you're in London:MSDN Invitation: An Evening of Office 2007 Development in FinancialMarketshttp://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetai...(truncated)... 25th July 200617:00 - 21:00Credit Suisse20 Columbus CourtyardLondon E14 4QJThe 2007 Microsoft Office system, available now as a beta and due to bereleased at the end of 2006, provides a host of new capabilities fordevelopers of financial systems, including server-based Excelspreads...(truncated)...

SharePoint Links 13/07/2006

(Indexed 2006-07-13):

Workflow Developer Kit Download for WSS v3 - I think this is the same as what's in the ECM starter kit?Developer Introduction to Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services V3 and SharePoint Server 2007Create a custom document information panel for Office AppsTest drive the Office 2007 system without having to do an install[Image]

Office 2007 Launch

(Indexed 2006-07-10):

Microsoft have got in contact with me as they are taking steps to prepare for the Exchange/Vista/Office launch. What they want to know, and of specific interest to people here, is what information, literature, handouts would you be interested in getting when attending one of the launch events or receiving in your inbox/postbox.What do you need to be able to sell Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to either your boss or your customers. One thing that's already been mentioned at user group me...(truncated)...

SharePoint Links 06/07/2006

(Indexed 2006-07-06):

Bit of a break between the last links post so plenty to give you, will split it up over a couple of days though:Smart Client Authoring for MOSS 2007Building an Internet Facing site using MOSS 2007The two stage recycle bin for MOSS 2007SharePoint Community Kit - open source project to create a community template/solution for MOSS 2007[Image]

July User Group Meetings

(Indexed 2006-07-04):

The full agenda is available for the Reading User Group meeting being hosted by HP on 26th July. To check it out and sign up please follow the link to the forum thread:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/878.aspxAlso another reminder about the meeting in South Leicestershire on Thursday 20th July with Combined Knowledge, Bill English and Todd Bleaker. For more info please click below:http://www.combined-knowledge.com/SharepointSeminars MOSS 2007.htm[Image]

Why i love Sharepoint

(Indexed 2006-06-28):

Here are some of the reasons i love working with Sharepoint: 1)The main reason why i love SharePoint: It go's a long way to solving business problems of effective collaboration and knowledge retention + retrieval + management in the workplace (and the next version will improve this even further).2) Sharepoint touches so many technologies and doesnt confine you to a limited space in your information department. You are always growing and learning. How many .Net Developers do you know that get to...(truncated)...

Combined Knowledge/SUGUK July events

(Indexed 2006-06-20):

Combined Knowledge are holding a SharePoint 2007 evening in South Leicestershire that all user group members are invited to. Bill English and Todd Bleaker (authors of the SharePoint Resource Kit) are over from the US and are presenting along with others on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The full agenda will be out soon, but just thought I'd give you a heads up for early registration. To register please go to the below link:http://www.combined-knowledge.com/SharepointSeminars%20...(trun...(truncated)...

SharePoint Links 19/06/2006

(Indexed 2006-06-19):

Hope everyone's enjoying the World Cup! Who's everyone's bet to win so far?Anyway, back to some SharePoint links:Slides from the SharePoint Conference 2006 in MayChannel 9 - In the Office - lots of great short dev type videos to get you started with SP 2007Free TechEd eBook - 7 Development Projects with MOSS 2007 - I don't think you can print it though?Getting Forms Authentication working for MOSS 2007 - written by me! Hope it helps someone out there!Group Policy Considerations for SharePoint Po...(truncated)...

Microsoft Office 2007 : User Experience : New Features (Ribbon, Live Preview, Galleries, Mini Bar "Floatie", Keyboard Navigation,Bottom Status Bar and the File Menu)

(Indexed 2006-06-18):

Remember the notorious paperclip in previous Microsoft Word versions? The reason Microsoft introduced this functionality was to HELP the user find functionality. It backfired. Most people found it annoying as it distracted the user from what they were doing. But the problem remained, how do you allow users to find functionality efficiently, especially when with the growing number of new features? Say hello to the Ribbon...THE RIBBONWell, according to Office 2007 pre release literature, it is:int...(truncated)...

SharePoint Links 12/06/2006

(Indexed 2006-06-12):

Tech Ed 2006 Webcasts - just coz you can't be there doesn't mean you have to miss out anymore! Quite a few SharePoint 2007 sessions for you to watch.Microsoft Office PerformancePoint 2007 - more business inteligence stuff!Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit - lots of goodies and stuff to get you started!I don't know about you lot but I'm kinda drowning in the flood of 2007 information![Image]

Some useful Sharepoint 2003 Links

(Indexed 2006-06-10):

http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/articles/SharePointResourc...(truncated)...

SharePoint Links 07/06/2006

(Indexed 2006-06-07):

Still all 2007 stuff and likely to be that way for a little while! All from the same place today as well, but some real crackers! Thanks Andrew May...What are Content Types anyway?Content Type Technical PostersSharePoint Object Model Maps for Download [Image]

New Sharepoint 2003 Enterprise Management tool available

(Indexed 2006-06-06):

For those of you who manage SharePoint installations and find managing users across your portal a pain then check out the new DeliverPoint tool from Barracudahttp://www.barracudatools.com/Products/DeliverPoint/The tool has the ability that if a user leaves the company it can remove all traces of the user from SharePoint including their alerts , their MySite and all their site groups throughout SharePoint. Alternatively if a new user joins to replace them you can just copy the old users rights ov...(truncated)...

SharePoint Links 05/06/2006

(Indexed 2006-06-05):

What was supposed to be a daily list failed after the first day! Still after a busy week last week I'm back on the ball now so expect lots of links to flow!Please read this before installing Beta2 - please please please!SharePoint Server Migration Centre - let us know your experiences and how well the migration process works for Beta2!DBMetadataGenerator - use this to add business data catalog applications. Open source so should be improved over timeTips to make sure your virtual machines are ru...(truncated)...

May Round Up

(Indexed 2006-05-31):

Yesterday evening saw the final regional user group meeting for May. This month has seen us try something a little different with smaller meetings hoping to get a lot more interaction between people attending. Over the 3 meetings around 40 people attended and hopefully now know a little bit more about SharePoint 2007. I know I've definitely learnt some new things.We're keen to get your feedback on the May meetings. Did you enjoy them, were the smaller meetings and discussion/presentation format ...(truncated)...

Ullesthorpe Court User Group Meeting roundup

(Indexed 2006-05-31):

Last night saw the final user group meeting of May being hosted by Combined Knowledge at Ullesthorpe Court. Around 10 of us got together with a mixed range of SharePoint experience. Craig presented first giving the new SharePoint users a quick tour. He then did a walk through creating a new SharePoint base site first in 2003, and then in 2007, so that people could see the difference between the new version. We held the meeting in the same informal format with people asking questions and discussi...(truncated)...

SharePoint Links 26/05/2006

(Indexed 2006-05-26):

One of the things that came from the user group meeting last night was that people have trouble finding new SharePoint articles out there. I read a number of SharePoint blogs so suggested doing a (mostly) daily link drop of interesting SharePoint related articles out there. Let me know your feedback on this. You may feel it'll clutter up the front page, but if you find the links useful then I'll keep doing it. So to get us started here are todays! Office 2007 Beta 2 available - an obvious link t...(truncated)...

Windsor User Group meeting roundup

(Indexed 2006-05-26):

Hot on the tails of the London roundup post comes the round up of the Windsor meeting held yesterday evening. 8 of us including 2 from Dot Net Solutions (Tim and myself) met at our offices here in Windsor. This was always going to be a much smaller meeting with a limit of 10 as we were holding it in our board room. All the members attending hadn't seen much or used SharePoint 2007 so it was a good chance for them to have a close look at it and ask questions as they came up.It was only me present...(truncated)...

London User Group meeting roundup

(Indexed 2006-05-26):

Finally got round to post about the meeting we had on Monday. Many thanks to CSF who came to our rescue with a venue after a mix up with room bookings. Around 20 people attended which enabled us to have a good presentation/discussion/questions type session which is exactly what we were trying for. A two hour presentation with a couple of questions at the end is fine but that type of thing could be watched via a webcast. Getting people who are attending involved is what it's all about. Now Beta2 ...(truncated)...

Developer Course Outline now available

(Indexed 2006-05-24):

Here you go Dev people or those interested in becoming a developer in Office 2007 Server and WSS 2007 the course outlines for the V3 course in July is now available on our web site http://www.combined-knowledge.com/SharepointTraining.htm[Image]

Microsoft Office System Developer Conference

(Indexed 2006-05-23):

If you want to see lots of developer type stuff for Office 2007 get registered for the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference. This is a Microsoft organised event.Demand will be quite high so best to get your name down early if you want to go. There will be quite a few sessions on SharePoint 2007 although if youve been on the TAP or Beta1 program you may already have seen quite a lot of what will be presented.[Image]

How to Remove My Site Web Parts for all users

(Indexed 2006-05-18):

Someone recently asked me in class how to get rid of the recent documents web part from the public view of everyones my site ( and rightly so I say !! ) so here is how you do it.Go into the C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions60TEMPLATE1033SPSMSITEpublic.aspx page, open it with notepad or VS.NET and remove this line:Warning - Do a backup of your public.aspx page firstNote - if you are using a seperate language than the 1033 then edit the relevant language folder.Steve...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2007 on the road!

(Indexed 2006-05-08):

Now almost all of the Office 2007 stuff is out of NDA we are able to organise a number of 'Chalk and Talk' type meetings where 10-15 people can sit around a laptop and projector and demo and talk about SharePoint 2007 and other Office 2007 products. To get things going we've organised a number of meetings in May. If these go well and people are interested we can make these types of meetings a regular thing rather than the larger presentations.Please put your name down for the forum topic related...(truncated)...

Office Sharepoint Server 2007 Course Outlines

(Indexed 2006-05-05):

For those of you waiting for the course outlines for our Admin and Dev Summits in July with Bill English and Todd Bleeker on Moss 2007 we have finally got at least the Admin ones up. see on our site for more detail http://www.combined-knowledge.com/SharepointTraining.htm , you will see the link to the 2007 Outline for the Admin course and the Dev Outline should be up next week. If anyone wants any more info feel free to drop me a line and the more detailed course Outlines will be released by the...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2007 session from Mix06 online.

(Indexed 2006-05-04):

All the Mix06 sessions are online now. The one that will interest SharePointers is by Jackie Bodine Build Your Next Generation Internet Site Using SharePoint Technologies. Just go to http://sessions.mix06.com and search for SharePoint. There you can download the slides or actual presentation itself.Heres the link to stream it from the sitehttp://sessions.mix06.com/view.asp?sessionChoice=2000&di...(truncated)...

Interesting SharePoint 2007 Blog Posts

(Indexed 2006-05-03):

Just a couple of things for you to read that I picked out this evening...SharePoint 2007 -- Built on ASP.NET 2.0Sharepoint 2007 - Enabling Custom Authentication using a Custom Membership Provider On the final approach to Beta 2 and finally my first blog post on 2007 stuff...SharePoint 2007 and workflow Is everyone excited about Beta 2?!?![Image]

Collaboration Tour 2006 - 27th April

(Indexed 2006-04-18):

Microsoft are holding an event on Thursday 27th April in London, called the Microsoft Collaboration Tour 2006, where there will be some Microsoft people and others talking about SharePoint 2007, Exchange 2007 and the future (2007) vision for the platform. They've extended the invite to members of the user group, although spaces are extremely limited.Registration at: https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?cultu...(truncated)... The event starts at 13:45, with a cocktail receptio...(truncated)...

SharePoint 2007 Public Beta

(Indexed 2006-04-18):

Just a reminder to you all that the public beta for SharePoint v3 and Office 2007 is scheduled for late May. MSDN subscribers should be able to get it via their download link when it's available, and all others can sign up here:http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx[Image]

April Meeting

(Indexed 2006-04-06):

We were planning on organising a user group meeting for Monday 24th, but Microsoft already have an event planned for Tuesday 25th where you'll be able to get a look at SharePoint 2007 in action. Rather than try to organise two similar events so close to each other, we've decided to suggest that user group members attend the Microsoft meeting on the 25th.Although not an official user group meeting, I think there will be quite a few of us there. It will be a great chance to see SharePoint 2007 in ...(truncated)...

V2 Administrator & Developer Courses in London and Glasgow

(Indexed 2006-04-05):

Hi All , just to let you all know we are venturing out of the Midlands and running our 5 Day V2 SPS 2003 Administrator and Developer Courses in London and Glasgow During May and June , anyone interested please go and see our details on the web site or drop me a mail if you want more info.http://www.combined-knowledge.com/SharepointTraining.htm[Image]

Cross-Browser AJAX for SharePoint Lists

(Indexed 2006-04-02):

I've just posted a couple of blog entries that goes into detail on how to call SharePoint Web Services from client-side JavaScript code.The Web Part lets you browse all the Links type Lists on your SharePoint site and add a new item, all without a page refresh.Cross-Browser AJAX for SharePoint Lists Part 1 Cross-Browser AJAX for SharePoint Lists Part 2Colin Byrne.[Image][Image]

Meeting #2 feedback

(Indexed 2006-03-14):

Thanks to everyone who attended the second user group meeting yesterday. We had another great turnout. Thanks also to Infostrata Solutions for the two presentations on third party SharePoint addins. There's a post on the forum now for any feedback on the evening:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/513.aspxWe're considering changing the structure of future user group meetings. Focusing on certain groups ie topics for developers or administrators, shorter presentations, or a complete evening of questio...(truncated)...

SharePoint List Webservice

(Indexed 2006-03-03):

I've got a couple of examples of getting started with the SharePoint List webservice up on my personal blog. Hopefully they'll be of some use to people out there!http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/02/24/1453...(truncated)...

13th March - User Group Meeting #2

(Indexed 2006-02-20):

Being held on the evening of Monday 13th March, 2 talks/presentations will be given by InfoStrata Solutions on the topics of Rapid Application design environments for the SharePoint platform. The first session will focus on the development and integration of the user environment, the second on the integration and Workflow. Attendance is free, with Microsoft supplying refreshments and nibbles at half time. The event is taking place at Microsofts offices at Thames Valley Park in Reading.For a fu...(truncated)...

Free Workflow and Overview of Backup/Restore

(Indexed 2006-02-18):

I found these useful links recently. the first is from Jan Tielens free Workflow tool. It is in Beta at the minute but still worth checking out - http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=c07f64...(truncated)... - The Second is from a Microsoft article which has nice overview of Backup - Restore options in Sharepoint for those of you new to the disastor recovery element. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/11/B...(truncated)...

TechNet Virtual Labs

(Indexed 2006-02-15):

Fancy having a play around with SharePoint without having to install it?6 modules for you to have a go at?Creating a Custom Site Definition for Microsoft Windows SharePoint ServicesCreating Connectible Web Parts for Microsoft SharePoint Products and TechnologiesManaging Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Content and NavigationMicrosoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 People and PersonalizationUsing Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 to Customize Microsoft Windows SharePoint Service...(truncated)...

First SUGUK Meeting Done and Dusted!

(Indexed 2006-02-14):

Well the first SharePoint User Group UK meeting was held last night and we achieved a great turn out. Of about 65 names, I think there must have been around 60 people there. Unheard of turn out for a user group meeting, but long may it continue. Apologies to everyone who attended for the room change but we were only allowed 50 people in the first one!Steve and Brett from Combined Knowledge were the presenters yesterday and so far we've had nothing but praise for the topics and the way they were ...(truncated)...

The SharePoint Show.

(Indexed 2006-02-12):

Someones beaten me to it, a SharePoint podcast! (well at least not one in German!).Check out The SharePoint Show.Still we could do one with people in the UK for the User Group.[Image]

New Sharepoint Jobs

(Indexed 2006-02-09):

Every now and then a few Sharepoint Jobs appear in my inbox so I thought I would post them in the jobs section for any of you looking around. Check the Forum - Jobs for new posts , I have justed added the first one.[Image]

Retention Server for Microsoft SharePoint

(Indexed 2006-02-01):

Further to the release of Retention Server for Microsoft SharePoint - the free EDRM solution for SharePoint ... the guys at 80-20 will be doing a one hour webcast on 2nd Feb 2006 at (updated) 5:00pm UK time (9:00am US West Coast).Live Meeting URL :https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=RetentionS...(truncated)... Time LM Users: Check your system to make sure it is compatible with Microsoft Office Live Meeting.AgendaIntroduction to information retention policy / records management. Repl...(truncated)...

How to stop Zip Files from Corrupting out of Sharepoint

(Indexed 2006-01-25):

Another common question that I answer in the newsgroups is when zip files get corrupted when downloaded from Sharepoint document libraries. I have written a quick ' how to ' guide on this now and can be downloaded from our files section - http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads.htm .In principal though it is all to do with an incorrect setting in IIS that needs to be changed to stream the zip file rather than compress it when leaving IIS.[Image]

SharePoint User Group UK First Meeting!!!!

(Indexed 2006-01-17):

The SharePoint User Group UK would like to invite you to the first user group meeting hosted by Microsoft at Thames Valley Park in Reading.Held on the evening of Monday 13th February, talks will be given by Steve Smith and Brett Lonsdale of Combined Knowledge on the topics of Sharepoint Farm Design Best Practices, and Developing WebParts using UserControls. Attendance is free, with Microsoft supplying refreshments and nibbles at half time.Please check the forum for the full agenda, and post a re...(truncated)...

SharePoint Team Blogging

(Indexed 2006-01-15):

Another SharePoint feed to add to your RSS Aggregator:https://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/Expect a ton of information as we get closer to v3 time![Image]

The Difference between Embedded and Standalone Stite Collections

(Indexed 2006-01-13):

I answered a post the other day on the Microsoft Sharepoint Newsgroup and I thought the answer may be useful for some of you new to Sharepoint in understanding the reasons why you would create either a stand alone site collection or an embedded one , so here is my reply to that post.you have 2 types of site collections , embedded and standalone.Embedded means you go to the sites directory ( labelled ' sites ' ) on the portal home page and create top level team sites followed by child sites. By d...(truncated)...

The Difference between Embedded and Standalone Site Collections

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More info on Options for SharePoint User Interface Customization

(Indexed 2006-01-12):

Heather Solomon has an interesting post for everyone on customizing the user interface of SharePoint. If you are just starting out on SharePoint customization, this is an excellent read, and contains links to other useful articles for further investigation.Remember to test these kind of things on a test environment, and then backup before changing your live version![Image]

What can we do with all the 'Web 2.0' API's

(Indexed 2006-01-05):

Firstly I'd just like to say I hate the term Web 2.0. How can a group of marketing people who are after a quick buck give the web a new number as though they created version 2 of it! Apart from that there are a lot of useful API's out there that people are using to 'mashup' new sites. These sites can use the ebay API to display things in a different way, or mashup 2 api's to merge data, eg Amazon and ebay products. There's a list of all webservices and api's at Programmable Web.I'd be interested...(truncated)...

Top Ten Tricks for Customizing SharePoint

(Indexed 2006-01-05):

Continuing on from the period of giving, The SharingPoint blog has a nice lists of tips for people customizing Sharepoint.Check it out.[Image]

New STSADM Whitepaper released by Craig

(Indexed 2005-12-07):

Following Stephen's post on moving sites in Sharepoint Craig has written a whitepaper on how to do this - http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads.htm. We have created a new downloads section on our web site to access this and over the next couple of weeks we will add a few more on and continue to let it grow as people ask questions that we can help on.We would love to have feedback on the paper.[Image]

Universal SharePoint Manager

(Indexed 2005-12-05):

Seen a few people blogging about this the last few days and thought it may be useful for others here as well.Universal SharePoint Manager30 day trial, but it seems quite expensive to buy. Depends how good it is I suppose.[Image]

10 free themes to spice up your SharePoint sites.

(Indexed 2005-12-03):

The Theme Pack is courtesy of Infotech Canada's Team Tools.They look pretty!Link[Image]

Hi and Welcome to the Combined Knowledge Blog

(Indexed 2005-12-02):

We finally decided to have a Blog and rather by individual ie. Steve , Brett and Craig we thought we would Combined forces to a single Blog. That way you can get Dev stuff from brett , Infrastructure and Admin from me and Admin / Security from Craig.To get the ball rolling we are very excited about the presentations now being given at our Sharepoint Training courses. I have always been interested in what 3rd party companies can do on top of Sharepoint but rarely get the chance to see them in act...(truncated)...

Windows Folder web part

(Indexed 2005-12-01):

Graham Tyler has just posted a sample SharePoint web part to GotDotNet, which he's called the "Windows Folder web part". This is the result of a project I worked on some time ago which I'm now able to share. The Windows Folder web part allows users to store files within a standard Windows (NTFS) folder in a shared network location and display a list of those files in a SharePoint page via a consistent document library-style interface. Click here for more...[Image]

SharePoint Tools

(Indexed 2005-12-01):

Four SharePoint tools that Bill Simser says he can't go without:SharePoint Explorer. The best thing since sliced bread as you can look at sites, see what is there and dig around in the properties that you can't get at through the Web UI. Invaluable. Best of all, it's free! InstallAssemblies. Great tool from Blue Dog that you can launch and just add your SafeControl entries for your Web Parts and copy the files to the bin directory. Beats the heck out of running a CAB project and doing things by ...(truncated)...

Welcome one and all

(Indexed 2005-11-24):

Hi everybody,welcome to the SharePoint User Group UK. If you'd like a blog set up please let me know.Many of you may already have a blog, but if you'd like another to cross post SharePoint stuff that's cool.[Image]

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