This has come up a number of times, both internally and with customers I have worked with, so what do you do when you have deleted one of the standard SharePoint Areas? The first thing to say is that it is not a really a good idea. Instead of deleting...

On the Public view of the "My Site" page you will notice there is a web part called "My Recent Documents". This is generally liked however people often have concerns about the following: 1. It "can" display sensitive documents to end users 2. It is difficult...

The SharePoint Products and Technologies SDK has bee updated again, get your fresh copy here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa3e7fe5-daee-4d10-980f-789b827967b0&DisplayLang=en

What a coincidence! John West just pointed out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/johnwe/archive/2004/05/24/140632.aspx That a new article had just been released in technet about customising the SharePoint "My Site". This is just the sort of content I was referring...

I made the following statement in yesterdays post: "....much like you can enable on any area of the Portal if you like ( Hmmm...idea for another post! )" So how do I give someone in the "Portal Members" group rights to create a personal view of a given...

I know there are a number of people out there customising SharePoint Portal sites via the "Templates" (love to hear of your experience). This basically involves changing the files stored here: Local_Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web...

I started to reply to a comment from Giles in one of my previous posts and then figured it was probably worth a post on it's own. So here is the original comment from Giles: "As a consultant, what do you tell clients looking for a collabration solution...

Visit our updated home page at http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX010909721033&CTT=6&Origin=ES790020011033 , and click the link to the new technical library page at http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX011209761033&CTT...

Automated Installation of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/sps2003/deploy/autoinst.mspx Using SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with SharePoint Portal Server 2001: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol...

I'm always asked this question, so thought it might be useful to provide a quick one liner for each.: *_ Prof - This is the is the profiles database. It contains all the information relating to peoples profiles, including those imported from the AD. ...

Learn to use the Payroll Receipt sample application, which has both a data cache version and an SAP version, to display a user’s payroll data within Web Parts on a Microsoft® Office SharePoint™ Portal Server 2003 page, for example, on a user's MySite...

Looks like Jan ( http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/ ) has been doing some interesting stuff....going to keep my eys on this GotDotNet workspace and see what drops in.... Workflow Lite for SharePoint Generic configurable document library event handler that can...

Customizing SharePoint Sites and Portals , Part 1 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_SP2003_ta/html/ODC_SPSCustomizingSharePointSites1.asp Summary : The first of three companion articles. Learn ways you can customize...

You all out there may be a little sharper than me, but one thing that took me some time to work out is exactly how to create a new Portal listing with HTML content. In the end I worked this out, thought it might be useful to share the code with you: Sub...

Looks like a great set of SharePoint web casts are on the way, everything from migration to enterprise integration, take a look here for more details: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/webcasts/default.mspx