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New version of Visual Studio Extensions for WSS available

2008-02-12T11:20:00Z

Good news: Lots of bug fixes and some new features Bad news: Still does not work with VS 2008 (but the next version should!) Get more information here...(read more)

So long and thanks for all the fish!

2008-02-06T17:22:00Z

It is with mixed emotions that I announce I am taking a position with Microsoft soon. I am happy because I feel that Microsoft is a great place to work and has many great opportunities (not to mention benefits!) but I am sad because I will no longer be a MVP and will not be posting to this blog anymore. I have been a SharePoint MVP for the last 7 years (and if memory serves I am the only one of the original 6 left) and it has been a great 7 years. Meeting my fellow MVPs, not only in SharePoint, has...(read more)

New video describing workflows for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008

2008-01-18T11:00:00Z

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-tools-video-interview-with-john-durant.aspx...(read more)

Microsoft to acquire Fast Search and Transfer

2008-01-08T12:59:00Z

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 products to a wider audience, it said Tuesday. " You can find out more about Fast's products at http://www.fastsearch.com/ Overall it looks like good news for SharePoint searching....(read more)

Required fields and linking to other lists

2007-12-29T14:18:00Z

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 one of the entries was missing a field. I could not figure out how an entry was being created that did not have all the required fields. I tried the SharePoint UI and the dataview and both would not let me create the entry without having the required...(read more)

Hope to see you at the MS Office SharePoint Conference in March

2007-12-28T12:28:00Z

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 booth. Stop by to check us out!...(read more)

Create a web part to show sites and sub-sites

2007-12-28T12:20:00Z

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 or a specified location (which may or may not be the site you are on). It will then add all the sites and sub-sites to a treeview control, security trimmed of course. Note that it uses recursion to view all the sub-sites so depending on how your...(read more)

Process appears hung when deploying/retracting solutions

2007-12-27T12:47:00Z

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 this is an indication of some error on one of the front-end servers (for example I have run into a memory issue quite a bit using when running 64bit) and that issue needs to be taken care of, once the issue is resolved how do you get rid of this...(read more)

SharePoint is taking over the world!

2007-12-24T18:41:00Z

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...(read more)

Recruiters, get a clue

2007-12-20T11:24:00Z

Update: Had another call from a recruiter yesterday. It was night and day difference! He was very professional, knew what he was going to say, and even though I turned him down he asked.....let me say that again, HE ASKED....if it would be alright to contact me again in the future. I do not think I have ever had a recruiter ask that before. Normally they just call again in 3 months unless I tell them not to contact me again. So I guess there are good recruiters out there as well as bad ones. Of course...(read more)

Time to go 64bit

2007-12-19T14:09:00Z

As a follow-up to yesterday's post let me restate that the next version of SharePoint is set to be 64bit only. This means that if you have the option any new SharePoint 2007 install should be done using the 64bit version otherwise you will not have an easy upgrade path (not saying that upgrading from 2003 to 2007 is easy but hopefully from 2007 to the next version will be). If you do not run 64bit Windows you would basically have to wipe your system completely and redo the installation. As there...(read more)

Capacity planning beta and hardware recommendations

2007-12-18T14:01:00Z

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 a big surprise seeing how most of the other server software world is heading to 64bit. A few other tidbits there as well. Worth your time to check it out. I have been using the capacity planning program for a while and I am quite impressed with it...(read more)

...and now that SharePoint SP1 has been released the SDKs have been updated

2007-12-13T12:29:00Z

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/11/SharePointSDKsLiveForSP1.aspx...(read more)

MOSS SP1 now available

2007-12-11T17:31:00Z

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/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad59175c-ad6a-4027-8c2f-db25322f791b&DisplayLang=en WSS 3.0 (required before you install MOSS SP1) can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang...(read more)

SharePoint Developer Document Blog now live

2007-12-05T12:39:00Z

These are the people responsible for the SharePoint SDK among other things. Check them out! http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/...(read more)

How to become a MVP?

2007-11-16T11:26:00Z

Most likely if you are reading this post you already know what a MVP is. If not, a MVP is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. What does that mean? To quote Microsoft's MVP home page "Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents...(read more)

Information Rights Management in MOSS

2007-11-14T12:55:00Z

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 viable and what to do with it when it expires. However there are other features of IRM that are as useful as well. Other features that are part of IRM include Labels, Auditing, and Barcodes. Labels allow you to add important information to a...(read more)

SharePointPedia now live!

2007-11-05T15:19:00Z

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/11/05/announcing-sharepointpedia-community-driven-content-recommendations-and-requests.aspx...(read more)

Setting the title of the page to the site title

2007-10-02T02:50:00Z

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 within the page. Just add a Content Editor Web part (which has saved me quite a few times!), mark it as hidden and add the following through the "Source Editor..." button <script language="javascript"> document.title = document...(read more)

No default view == unable to upload documents

2007-09-21T14:42:00Z

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 on the name of the list in the breadcrumb trail would take them back to the main page. Turns out (and I wish I could take credit for figuring this out but Stacy Draper, fellow MPV and co-worker told me about it) that the list in question did not...(read more)