Many of my customers asked me about some kind of basic guidelines for their end users for using SharePoint designer in a large enterprise farm. Unfortunately, there is not much out there except scattered information, so I decided to put one myself to...

Lot of people waiting for final announcement for SharePoint vNEXT (2010) and it finally annouced today over at SPC 2009 in Las Vegas. Tons of content, great sessions, exciting new features for SharePoint 2010. My top 5 favorite features: 1. Web...

  Colleague of mine asked me to research this issue and thought of sharing the solution as this is not clearly discussed anywhere on the Internet. Problem: Accessing local SharePoint site (with Windows Integrated Authentication) works fine using...

This is mostly for my quick go to place to get some quick copy/paste when I am not around my machine! How to extract Public key token using Visual Studio? Add a custom tool in Visual Studio as C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\Sn.exe ...

Why to hide and check " Sign me in automatically " button? Main reason is to facilitate smooth user experience, especially with respect to Microsoft Office Integration with SharePoint . This integration issue is extensively covered by Steve Peschka...

This toolkit help reduce some of the pains for SharePoint administrators, especially managing ever growing Site collections. It contains two important functionality: Batch Site Manager, which can be used by an administrator to manage and administrate...

Wrote a little Console application to kick start incremental crawl in MOSS 2007. Here's how it can be used. Usage: StartIncrementalCrawl.exe SiteURL "Content SourceName" (Example: StartIncrementalCrawl.exe http://MyMOSSSite "Local Office Sharepoint...

It’s very easy to upload Word template to Microsoft Office SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 document library. However, it’s not that straight forward to setup and deploy Word template with VSTO code behind in MOSS 2007 document Library. Following guidelines...

Found a cool tool to quickly generate CRUD (CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE) stored procedure. It seemlesly adds a Context menu inside SQL Server Management Studio. http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2006/12/28/55599.aspx

Last night I was playing with Live.com and found cool stuffs to add to my Live.com page ( http://gallery.live.com/home.aspx ).

This morning, someone asked that he was having difficulty getting dynamic count on column when Column Name is passed as parameter. Ahha...! Looks like he ran into same issue, once I came across. Problem: How to get a dynamic count of a column by passing...