SharePoint Thinks, Links and Clinks

Thinks Not quite the new High Definition Quality action packed thriller of Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay, but more people will be able to learn from the web casts and develop at “light” speed. Uh, maybe a little faster than the...

Thinks A great analogy for this would be along the lines of don’t put your hands in the hive if you don’t want to get stung! In other words, be extremely careful in modifying the built-in SharePoint files. “From the MSDN site Link (emphasis...

Thinks Eric Stallworth put together a very nice blog post that DudesOnKill pointed to that goes into the nuts and bolts of building a solution pack (wsp), a DDF (diamond directive file), manifest file, deploying, activating and … (go read the post...

Thinks If you have been using Microsoft SharePoint technologies for a while, you are wise to the ways of the magical “12 hive” a.k.a. “12 folder” a.k.a. “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions...

Thinks A common question about Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies is “Can I run a production SharePoint environment in a virtual environment?” The answer is, "It depends.” From the first kb article in the links below...

Thinks The trip is worth it for the figures alone. I find myself drawing this kind of things on pieces of paper when helping out customers and people that just ask me because I work with SharePoint. Hint, if you are planning to take the Microsoft Certified...

Thinks I opened up the real mailbox today and there was the May 2008 TechNet magazine. I look forward to this magazine as I have found some great information and resources in the past. For those that are paper averse or just like to read on the screen...

Thinks Raise your hand if you have set up SharePoint using one account. Now, keep your hand up if it was this the “ADMINISTRATOR” account? Wow! I am having trouble typing now as I count the hands and try to type with the hand that is not raised...

Thinks As with most good things in life there are some limitations in maximum permissible size of items in Windows SharePoint Services and related items. The table below is from Harsh’s blog ( SharePoint 2007 Maximum Limitations ) and does an excellent...

Thinks Wouldn’t be great if there was one page that had the downloads for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? I agree! 233 results as of this blog post. Top on the list is Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1. And not to be forgotten...

Thinks I was very excited when I saw the SharePoint Community Portal announcement when it first came out. It was a wealth of information about the SharePoint Ecosystem AND it is running on SharePoint AND it is on the Internet. Then my excitement grew...

The “Thinks” I have heard this question a few times, “Isn’t this SilverLight just lipstick on the pig?” Well, pigs lips or not (I think the not part), integration of Silverlight and SharePoint has a lot of potential for a...

Thinks Bob Fox, a SharePoint MVP, shares a lesson learned on how to remove a site that appears in the Top Site tab. Hint cut from the image on Bob’s blog post. Links How to Remove Unwanted Top Sites - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog Clinks Thanks to Bob...

Chris gives the details on the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard that is out on CodePlex (Yea CodePlex!). Thanks to Chris for making this tool available. Chris O'Brien's blog: Introducing the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

More Codeplex goodness. I will be trying this with my test farms to see about transferring of SharePoint Designer Workflows. SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard - Home

I wanted to make sure that I gave a Link and Clink (Good one!) to the SharePoint 2007 features project out on CodePlex (Yea CodePlex, clap clap). ULS logs can be very helpful, when you can read them that is. One of my favorite features is the ULS viewer...

All this and more from the site at Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007: SharePoint Server Architecture, SharePoint Server Authentication, Interopability, SharePoint Services Security, SharePoint Disaster Recovery, and more | SharePoint Server 2007 Webcasts...

With Crash and PowerShell in the same title, wow! And FREE by Don Jones. Oh come on, what are you waiting on. You know you want to learn it, or you wouldn’t be reading here. TechNet Webcast: The Windows PowerShell Scripting Crash Course (Level 200...

I had to do a little ego-surfing (yeah, you know what it is! http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Logparser+SharePoint+Search+Tadd&src=IE-SearchBox ) to find an old LogParser Script that I wrote a while ago to parse out Search Query keywords from...

Enter Kasey Kasum (sp?), long distance dedication for the top of the charts. This goes out to all those heart broken by the fun and challenge of Alternate Access Mapping. Sorry for the sad trip to AM radio, wait, I hear Wolfman Jack! But, I digress. I...

Darrin Bishop has useful and informational post on 5 different PowerShell Functions/Filters for SharePoint. quick, click here - Five Simple But Powerful PowerShell Functions/Filters for SharePoint The image from his site is worth the trip alone and then...

I was listening to a .Net Rocks Podcast earlier this week and Kirk Munro of Poshoholic (Totally addicted to PowerShell) was on. I loved the name of his blog and had to share some of the goodies. I have been using PowerGui ( http://www.powergui.org , free...

Codeplex, again! With downloads available to assist you in governing and managing your SharePoint implementation. These are tools that are developed and used by Microsoft IT on their farm of over 500 servers. Check the site at http://www.codeplex.com...

Lots of dots, maybe even Morse code. However the page on Microsoft Office Online gives a great overview of the various features that are available for the different levels of SharePoint Technologies sets. From the site you should be able to find the right...

SQL Server Reporting Services (part of SQL Server 2005) is a very useful toolset to add to your tool kit as a SharePoint Developer, Engineer, Administrator, user, etc. SharePoint Web parts and the good old report center can leverage integration with SSRS...