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Why the SharePoint ‘Site Deletion’ process is under a usability crisis?
My humble response after coming across two posts less then a week apart by two demanding SharePoint users. Please read the posts for context. 1. A Matter of Degree:...
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So what’s the best approach to SharePoint oriented infrastructure in my...
[This is a sneak preview to a whitepaper that I am writting] Short answer: It depends… Some reading to whet your appetite: With the eminent pervasion of SharePoint as the mainstream web application...
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Quick A to Z of SharePoint Logs
SharePoint generates multiple log types. Logs in SharePoint require three basic steps like all other logs: Logging, Processing and Reporting. The logging can take place to file locations on front-end...
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SharePoint Site Quota Web Part
In SharePoint all user content i.e. documents, list items etc is stored in the Content Database associated with a Site Collection. One question that administrators always ask is if they can restrict...
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On Taxononmy
Taxonomy is the art of putting classification into practice…. It’s essential to get this bit right for all self respecting Information\knowledge management experts. In the context of SharePoint (a...
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Using MOSS Search RSS Feeds for Clever Integration
I have had 20 visits to this post title just the very first day… I am in the process of writting a how to on this and will update this topic asap.
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Melbourne MOSSIG August User Group a Resounding Success!
It’s been ages since I wrote about the Melbourne SharePoint User Group and offlate MOSSIG. We had a very successful user group with over 30 attendees in Melbourne last night. Tim Wragg regaled us about...
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Do certs matter?
I have always found it interesting and wondered to observe the correlation between being certified and being a technical expert that is both knowledgable and productive. I believe vendor certs are...
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Who is a End User? (Updated)
An ‘end user’ is someone who uses SharePoint but is not involved in supporting or buying SharesPoint for a business. In our industry as far as I know we call individuals who support or buy SharePoint...
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200 (STSADM)
Did you know? OOTB STSADM has about 200 or so commands. STSADM.exe is one of the most frequently used (command line) tools for SharePoint, it’s designed to be an administrators\developers touch point...
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Quick and Easy way to Logging in SharePoint
I am a big fan of exhausting OOTB functionality at all levels in any platform. Simply put reuse saves a lot of time! SharePoint is no exception, in fact it has a really rich code base. I have seen a...
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See you at Unique World Impact 2007
Unique World will be hosting a client conference on October 30 & 31 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Sydney, Impact 2007:Innovation and your business. We have clients, Microsoft and many talented...
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WCM Pages – EditControlPanel – Case of Dual Personalities
I kicked my self today for forgetting a neat trick I learned earlier this year while working on a massive Intranet project in Jan, wasted almost a day and a half to achieve the same effect via client...
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3 Weeks 3 new WSS Features (Freebies)
WSS Base Field Types are great, each field type has a matching SQL type and you can pretty much do a lot with OOTB Field types, well almost. Custom validation and checking for uniqueness are two things...
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Finally SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool for SharePoint Architects
The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool is the latest prescriptive guidance tool from Microsoft. It’s free and allows architects and TDMs to plan SharePoint (WSS as well as MOSS) infrastructure...
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Welcome Microsoft Office Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Microsoft has released the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 (SP1). This service pack contains about 60 fixes for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. You can download it from:...
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An Easy way to get to the DLLs in the GAC
Every one who has ever developed a .NET project would know how to get to the GAC simply by: Start -> Run -> C:\windows\assembly\ But what most people don’t know (at least I din’t know until...
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Missing Site Columns and Content Types in a newly created site using OOTB...
This is a short and sweet tip for any one who comes up with blank Content Type and Site Column pages – simply recycle the app pool or reset IIS. Start > Run > IISReset My friend Joshua noticed it...
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Document Convertors in MOSS: Lessons Learnt
MOSS comes with a bunch of document converters (DC) and two DC services to convert a document’s content from one format to another. Before you can use DC functionality within your Site Collection you...
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Easy way to Redirect Users to an Error Page in SharePoint
We as developers catch exceptions and try to gracefully educate our users on what might have gone wrong and what they are supposed do in the case of an error. If and how we notify the user depends...
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When the web parts go missing…
I had a number of recent queries from people, asking me on what to do or where to look for web parts that have suddenly gone missing on thier site pages. In my experience there are two places one...
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Of Information Management Consulting and SharePoint [RePoint]
[Written early last year - only repointing to the old blog entry so that I can start the High Level Series, where I left it...] To read more, please click the link below:...
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SPD Workflows and Impersonation?
We had run into an issue with a workflow where my colleague Ben Walters and other site owners could submit a form and the workflow happily triggered off but not for users with lesser security...
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Who says you can’t change the url for a document library?
This came up in a discussion today. Well using the web UI, you won’t have a lot of luck other then changing the title of the library. But simply opening the parent site of the document library in...
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Access Denied error when trying to save\publish a new SPD workflow
One of my team mates was busy creating workflows when he hit a road block. He could not save a brand new SharePoint designer workflow. When trying to publish he got access denied errors. Quite odd as...
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Office Labs – Goes Live!
There is an incubation project group within Microsoft. They partner with product teams across the Microsoft Business Division to rapidly prototype concepts and act as a resource to further the...
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User Group Summit – 2009 in Sydney
The Aims and Objectives of the summit are: · Discuss current issues for User Groups · Network as a community of UG Leaders · Understand how best to work with Microsoft – our...
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Vista or Windows Server 2008 don’t have Run As by default
Any one who works with multiple servers and user accounts will find this very usefull. You can download the Run As Shell Utility for Vista and Windows Server 2008 from:...
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Reset SharePoint Servers Remotely
If you are like me, then you probably juggle with a number of shared development and UAT environments for SharePoint. Sometimes the servers just stop responding – and you can’t get them to hem even...
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RePost – SharePoint Licensing Explained
I usually don’t post or link to other blogs but this is going to be use full for a lot of my customers our pre-sales consultants. Licensing is a black art and I have not validated the accuracy of the...
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Goals for 2009
Each year I draw up a set of personal and professional goals for myself, in last few years I have shared them only with friends and family (with a moderate success rate I must add , this year I am...
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Counting Microsoft Certified Professionals?
Being a long time Microsoft Certified Trainer and having sat more MS exams then my two university degrees I have a running interest in the number of IT professionals out there in the Microsoft eco...
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One blog to rule then All, there is now a Microsoft Certified Master Program...
If you’re looking for the best high-end training in Microsoft technologies – specially SharePoint, then Microsoft Certified Masters program is where you want to be. The program’s website has always...
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Energy Net 1992 All over again – Juval Lowy
Just saw this video interview with Juval Lowy, I had the pleasure of attending his Architects Master Class last year. In this video he talks about an emerging paradigm ‘Energy Net’ as he sees it. He’s...
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Office System – Service Pack Blog
For all the news around the Office System (clients and servers) service packs visit: http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/default.aspx Posted in 1
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Stargate Global Consulting – New Web Site goes Live!
I am pleased to announce the launch of the new Stargate Global Consulting web site that adds to the growing list quality MOSS WCM based Websites. The web site has been developed by the SharePoint...
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Quince – UX Patterns for Experts and Novices
Usability and ease of use of any application is very important for user take up and adoptablity of any new appliction, I strive to get the best designs in and rely on experts to guide me and take...
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Identify site template used to create\provision a site
I am sitting and partially training the Combined Knowledge MOSS 2007 Administration course with Craig Carpenter, who is here in Melbourne this week all the way from UK delivering the training in a...
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SharePoint Designer is a Free Download Now
SPD is officially free download from 1st of April 2009, We got official confirmation from Microsoft on that one. Current SPD license holders will be upgraded to Expression Web. You can download it at...
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Publishing Blogs with Word 2007
One of the reasons I have been putting off blogging is the number of extra steps required to load word press and then write my posts. Lately I also wanted to upload code artifacts and start using more...
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Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint – Experience
I recently had the opportunity to attend rotation 3 (R3) or the first public offering of the Microsoft Certified Master program for SharePoint 2007. This without doubt will be one of the most intense,...
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SharePoint and Reporting Services Cheat Sheet
High Level Steps: Setup two domain accounts for SSRS – one for the SSRS Windows Service and the other for the App Pool running the SSRS Web Services Install SQL Server 2008 with all required advanced...
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Show All Items without Folders in SharePoint
Had this question pop up at work today, to show all items without folders in SharePoint you will need to add the Recursive attribute to the SPQuery object. Here is an example, This can be done in...
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Security Trim Contents of a Page
I get this question a lot of times, and yesterday I had this question come up again. One of my team mates asked me about a way to security trim content on the page rather then the entire page it self....
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Security Trim Contents of a Data View Web Part
I recently blogged about how to security trim contents of a page using the Security Trim Control, it works great for content on the page but what about contents within a web part I was asked, for...
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How to exclude content from being crawled within SharePoint Sites
A client of mine did not want parts of their Intranet based on MOSS 2007 to be searched; now that’s quite easy to do with Crawl rules. As they wanted strict control over the content that can be crawled...
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Quick and Easy: Email Enabled Libraries in SharePoint
I only get a chance to setup email enabled libraries once every 4 months or so. My last setup was a couple of weeks back. This was for one of our customer who wanted to use incoming email functionality...
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Announcing SharePoint 2010 Hands On Days Australia!
SharePoint 2010 Hands On Days come to Australia! Train with a Microsoft Certified Master and other MCTs to start building with and deploying SharePoint 2010. Hands On Day’s offer SharePoint 2010...
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Busy Weeks Ahead, Register to Attend SharePoint 2010 Events
A couple of months back started Maventor to focus on Training and Mentoring activities around SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 and it’s kept me really busy, here is my schedule for the next few months....
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FCPakistan.com – Pakistan’s First SharePoint Site!
Been ages since I blogged, but would like to share FCPakistan.com – which to my knowledge is Pakistan’s first SharePoint 2010 WCM site. So what is it? Food Connection Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd, Pakistan’s...
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