Chris Johnson

It is great to see movie companies stepping up and taking the steps to get their content delivered digitally in a secure manner. It seems they are realising that this is one of the new ways people will watch movies and that they want to be a part of that...

Lawrence has posted about the MOSS 2007 product guide. Good high level read about new functionality on MOSS 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/servers/sharepointserver/guide.mspx

Part 1 answering some of the comments on my previous post about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Q. "granularity of permissions on lists/doclibs?" A. We have item level permissions now! Wahoo. So down to a doucment, list item or folder. (you...

On the 21st the covers came off the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) at the Office Developers Conference. Along with this was the lifting of the NDA that stopped our TAP customers blogging about it etc... So ... let the flood gates...

This is a great new site definitions white paper by Patrick Tisseghem. This is the first thing people should read if they are looking at building a custom site definition. Creating Site Definitions for Windows SharePoint Services

As many of you might already know ... you can subscribe to a feed via IE7 and have it take care of updating the feed etc... But what is really nice is that Outlook 2007 also has the ability to read RSS feeds. What is even nicer than that is that you...

BillG talked about this site during the keynote at Office DevCon. All about open XML document formats etc.. : The Open XML Formats Developer Group is being formed as a community for developers to exchange information with each other regarding the usage...

When you join Microsoft one of the first things you end up getting really good at very quickly is dealing with truck loads of email and information. Microsoft runs on email. You get really good at using Outlook rules to organise your inbox. There are...

I recently had to make some changes/additions to a customers custom site definitions. As everyone should know, the way to go about this is to "hide" your V1 site definitions by using the Hidden="TRUE" attribute in the WebTemp.xml file, take a copy of...

A customer sent me a link to a page they found about using the Today field in calculated sharepoint fields. I don't know how you would fear with our support people ... but here is the note from Pete Blair on the workaround: It is possible to use "Today...

Have to say i totally feel for Rod . A couple of weeks back i travelled to Seoul from Singapore. Upon arrival i was the last person left standing at the baggage claim. Bugger. No matter what else is happening in the world ... if you are the last person...

A while back I noted how painful it still is to schedule appointments in another timezone when your computer is set to your local timezone. There have been a few people that i have spoken to about this, notably Rod . This is a huge problem for anyone...