SharePoint Thinks, Links and Clinks

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...

A Good Clink and a Link about a neat little open source SharePoint Utility out on CodePlex.com. I highly recommend you take a look at this FREE tool and even the source code to get a better understanding of SharePoint Innards. Run from your SharePoint...

I can not take credit for pulling this together, however, copy and paste can be a blogs best and worst tool. All of the information is publicly available. In summary, links to blogs of the various Microsoft product teams that will provide you insights...

Place holder so I remember to come back to this. Running into some fun for moving sites around on same server to new content databases.   STSADM Custom Extensions: Move a Site Collection How to move/migrate SharePoint list items/documents and preserve...

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...

Quick Outline for more detailed items on STSADM, especially with PowerShell goodness TechNet Powerful Command Line Administration for SharePoint http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc162513.aspx Stsadm command-line tool (Office SharePoint Server...

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 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 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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 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...

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 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 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...

  Prior to joining Microsoft I was a happy customer of the Intranet Roadmap that is available from Step Two Designs Home Page . I wanted to make sure that I took a brief moment to give it a Link with a Clink as a Good Clink. Check them out as part...