Microsoft has released the first edition of SharePoint 2007 training. It comes in two flavors, the "Standalone Edition" for desktop playback and the "Portal Edition" for installation on your SharePoint Server. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102488011033.aspx The Portal Edition installs as a solution and comes a 30 page installation guide…read the guide before you begin your installation! The content…
Recently I was working on a method to get a Flash file to read from a SharePoint list (more on that later…). I had a working solution, so I created my solution package and deployed it to our test servers. Rather than seeing my spiffy new application page (_layouts/catapult/spiffy.aspx) I received the following error: "Could…
Topic: Show and Tell: A Guided Tour of a Successful SharePoint Installation Please join us for the third meeting on Wednesday, December 12th, for a Show and Tell: a guided tour of a successful SharePoint installation (whose installation to be disclosed at the meeting, but it is a place you’ve heard of if you live…
Fixing the RSS Feed You may or may not have noticed that the RSS feed for our rollup does not work the way RSS should. The Body and Author fields are missing. This post will address how to fix the RSS feed. All the work in this post is based on the post: How to:…
I hate spam, though I love getting comments on my blog. CKS:EBE has a feature for spam prevention using CAPTCHA which works well, though months ago I read this post and loved the concept that spam prevention could be socially beneficial. According to the reCAPTCHA site: "About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around…
In the previous post we created a web application to host our blog sites and built a Table of Contents with the TOC web part. We still have work to do to finish our home page. Our home page wireframe calls for a Recent Posts web part. In this post we’ll cover the configuration of…
In the previous post we created a web application to host our blog sites. We created the blog sites and have added a few posts to each to prepare for the creation of our blog host home page. Now our designer has provided the requirements for the home page and we are ready to go.…
Microsoft has announced the dates for the SharePoint Conference 2008. I know this is old news to many of you but just in case it is being held in Seattle March 3-6, 2008. More information is available through www.mssharepointconference.com . I will be attending along with many of my team mates. If this conference is…
Date: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Topic: Panel Discussion on Migration Please join us for our second meeting on Wednesday, November 14th, as industry executives and subject matter authorities join us to discuss best practices and expertise in migrating to MOSS 2007. Click here to register! A core group Austin companies has established this User Group…
There are many "patterns" in the SharePoint work that I do. Repeatable processes that change little from client to client. One of my favorite patterns is the "Blog Host". A site collection that contains many blog sites. Like many of our favorite blog locations, our corporate customers have fairly straight forward requirements for their blog…
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