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New video describing workflows for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008
Explains some of the enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. Can you say debugging? =) Also some talk about a new power tool that can take a SPD workflow and pull it into Visual Studio!!!! http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/archive/2008/01/17/sharepoint-workflow...
Posted: Jan 18 2008, 06:00 AM by gary | with no comments
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Microsoft to acquire Fast Search and Transfer
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/08/Microsoft-bids-for-Fast-Search-and-Transfer_1.html "By integrating Fast Search's products with SharePoint, and drawing on its worldwide network of partners, Microsoft hopes to bring Fast Search's...
Posted: Jan 08 2008, 07:59 AM by gary | with 1 comment(s)
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Required fields and linking to other lists
Had an interesting problem come up at work the other day. I had written some custom code that reads from ListA (which has 3 required fields one of which is a lookup into ListB) and outputs them. Every so often the web part would come back saying that...
Posted: Dec 29 2007, 09:18 AM by gary | with no comments
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Hope to see you at the MS Office SharePoint Conference in March
I just got the confirmation from my company ( MicroLink) that I will be attending the conference in March. If you are not familiar with it, check out the the confernece's homepage . We are also an exhibitor so I will be spending a lot of time in our...
Posted: Dec 28 2007, 07:28 AM by gary | with no comments
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Create a web part to show sites and sub-sites
Saw a newgroup question the other day about how to do this in SharePoint 2007. While the solution posted works quite well here is some code that I wrote that should accomplish what the user needs. This will either start at the root of your site collection...
Posted: Dec 28 2007, 07:20 AM by gary | with 3 comment(s)
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Process appears hung when deploying/retracting solutions
I have noticed from time to time that when I deploy solutions (using the Central Administrations, Operations, Solution Management) the Status field is stopped on either "Deploying" or "Retracting" for quite a long time. While normally...
Posted: Dec 27 2007, 07:47 AM by gary | with no comments
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SharePoint is taking over the world!
Well, maybe not the entire world, but at least according to this Network world article it is becoming the de-facto collaboration platform! http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2007/1217msg1.html
Posted: Dec 24 2007, 01:41 PM by gary | with 1 comment(s)
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Capacity planning beta and hardware recommendations
The SharePoint team blog has posted a great entry about the beta of the SharePoint capacity planning program as well as information about hardware recommendations. Basically you will need 64bit machines for the future versions of SharePoint. Not really...
Posted: Dec 18 2007, 09:01 AM by gary | with no comments
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...and now that SharePoint SP1 has been released the SDKs have been updated
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/11/SharePointSDKsLiveForSP1.aspx
Posted: Dec 13 2007, 07:29 AM by gary | with no comments
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MOSS SP1 now available
This update applies to the following programs: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Forms Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Groove® Server 2007, 64-Bit Edition http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...
Posted: Dec 11 2007, 12:31 PM by gary | with 3 comment(s)
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Information Rights Management in MOSS
Based on the number of questions I see in the newsgroups and forums regarding Information Rights Management (IRM) I figure a quick overview post is in order. Most people know that IRM allows you to setup rules that determines how long a document is considered...
Posted: Nov 14 2007, 07:55 AM by gary | with no comments
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SharePointPedia now live!
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/11/05/announcing-sharepointpedia-community-driven-content-recommendations-and-requests.aspx
Posted: Nov 05 2007, 10:19 AM by gary | with no comments
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Setting the title of the page to the site title
Not sure why by MOSS does not like to change the title of the page you are on. I would think the title would be the logical choice, which is exactly what my customer asked for. Lucky for me MOSS does output the title in a nice, easy to get to location...
Posted: Oct 01 2007, 10:50 PM by gary | with no comments
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No default view == unable to upload documents
Ran into an interesting issue at my customer's site today. They went into "View All Site" content and saw all the lists. However wheneven they clicked on one of the lists they would be taken directly into the list's settings and clicking...
Posted: Sep 21 2007, 10:42 AM by gary | with no comments
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An Issue with Folder Level Security and Anonymous access.
Found this one by accident and according to Microsoft it is working by design, although no one has explained why it was designed that way. In any case the issue involves folder level security and anonymous access. Seems that if you break inheritance at...
Posted: Aug 19 2007, 11:59 AM by gary | with 1 comment(s)
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Reading folder level security in MOSS (at least in a Document Library)
One nice new feature in MOSS is the ability to set folder level security...well I guess "nice" is a relative term. In any case if you need to figure out what the security on a folder is you can use the following code (this assumes that "thisFolder"...
Posted: Aug 02 2007, 08:38 AM by gary | with 1 comment(s)
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Weird SPS Document Library issue
Found this while trying to get some code I wrote to work correctly and it is confirmed by MS. If you have a site structure like Company Directorates IT And create a document library called “GaryTest” (my favorite document library name ) and then create...
Posted: Jul 26 2007, 12:52 PM by gary | with no comments
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Contributors can edit pages in a multipage meeting
Since I have not posted anything in quite a while and since certain people I work with were bugging me about it (JB!), I will post about an issue I ran into recently. I ran into this on my current contract. We are using the multipage meeting template...
Posted: Feb 22 2007, 10:55 AM by gary | with 1 comment(s)
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Antoehr great SharePoint related interview on Channel 9
In this one SharePoint Templates are discussed. Go check it out! http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=274641
Posted: Jan 24 2007, 01:04 PM by gary | with no comments
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Announcing the RTW of WSS and Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Evaluation!
Check out the official announcment on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog
Posted: Nov 16 2006, 12:35 PM by gary | with no comments
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