We have just launched the Microsoft UK SharePoint team blog! With many people contributing to the blog, we hope you will find great content being posted regularly. The focus will be on informative, useful articles based on all things SharePoint covering...

Here is a step by step guide (I had to write it up anyway J ) to configuring permissions for the search default content access account for NTFS folders that have many folders and files that don’t inherit permissions on your network. 1. Download...

Branding What is branding? Branding is how you apply an organization's identity to an existing software application through customization of a portal site. Business Drivers Establish corporate identity and ownership With the portal site home...

Web Parts When adding functionality to existing and new sites, it is important to be able to decide between “use Out of the Box”, buy 3 rd Party Web Parts, use Community Web Parts, or custom develop the webpart from scratch or by taking community Web...

Features Feature framework is an innovation to enhance modular provisioning. It works by grouping logical elements into scenario-driven “features”. l Features can be add to and reused across site definitions l New features can be activated in...

Fields A column template is a collection of well-known instances of particular fields—in other words, a shared field definition. A shared field includes settings for that field, such as the set of choices for a choice field, or whether rich text is...

List Definitions A list template Feature includes a Schema.xml file that serves as the base file for a list definition. The List element is the root element of a Schema.xml file, which contains default view definitions, definitions for special fields...

Site Definitions l A site definition is the core definition of what a site is in SharePoint. l A site definition is installed on file system of web front ends, located at ..\12\Template\SiteTemplates. This directory is language-neutral. l A site...

Hi, Here are the instructions to provide support for multiple languages in your SharePoint farm. 1) Pre-requisite: Install additional language file support 1. On your front-end Web server, click Start , point to Settings and then Control Panel...

One of the SharePoint product manager’s (I think it was Joel Oleson) mentioned at a conference: “If you create a bad database design, don’t blame SQL Server when it performs poorly. The same applies to SharePoint.” Coming from a developer background...

(Posted for your and my reference :) The latest MOSS SDK is available for download! Download it here: SharePoint Server 2007 SDK It includes: Documentation enhancements Installation Improvements: It now allows you to install to the...

This post is the third post of a 3 post series. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS Event Handlers Post 2: Developer Solution Starter Kit (Building and deploying event handlers to MOSS) Post 3: Registering Event Handlers plus Site...

This post is the second post of a 3 post series. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS Event Handlers Post 2: Developer Solution Starter Kit (Building and deploying event handlers to MOSS) Post 3: Registering Event Handlers plus Site...

This post is the first post of 3 posts. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS Event Handlers Post 2: Developer Solution Starter Kit (Building and deploying event handlers to MOSS) Post 3: Registering Event Handlers plus Site Settings...

Relevance is about how closely the search results match what the user wanted to find. To improve the search results that MOSS Search returns, we need to understand how search results are ranked: SharePoint performs two types of ranking, dynamic...

This is my first entry in my brand, shiny, new blog! I have just started working for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK in the collaboration team. I aim to blog about the following: Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007 Business...