Brian Wilson
Best Practices, advice and guidance on all things related to SharePoint Technologies.
Check out our new team blog for MCS SharePoint Guru's in the UK!
We have just launched the Microsoft UK SharePoint team blog! With many people contributing to the...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 01/06/2009
Office SharePoint Server 2007 : Search : Configuring NTFS permissions for NTFS file share/ folders (that don't inherit permissions) for the search default content access account (xCacls)
Here is a step by step guide (I had to write it up anyway J ) to configuring permissions for the...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 07/17/2008
Branding Office SharePoint Server 2007
Branding What is branding? Branding is how you apply an organization's identity to an existing...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 07/13/2008
Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007
Web Parts When adding functionality to existing and new sites, it is important to be able to decide...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 07/13/2008
Features in Office SharePoint Server 2007
Features Feature framework is an innovation to enhance modular provisioning. It works by grouping...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 07/13/2008
Field Definitions in SharePoint Server 2007
Fields A column template is a collection of well-known instances of particular fields—in other...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 07/13/2008
List Definitions versus List Templates and deciding on the correct customization approach
List Definitions A list template Feature includes a Schema.xml file that serves as the base file for...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 07/13/2008
Site Definitions versus Site Templates and deciding on the correct customization approach
Site Definitions l A site definition is the core definition of what a site is in SharePoint. l A...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 07/13/2008
How to install multiple language packs for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Hi, Here are the instructions to provide support for multiple languages in your SharePoint farm. 1)...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 07/12/2008
Understanding the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 containment hierarchy to design efficient information architectures
One of the SharePoint product manager’s (I think it was Joel Oleson) mentioned at a conference: “If...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 02/23/2008
MOSS SDK
(Posted for your and my reference :) The latest MOSS SDK is available for download! Download it...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 08/23/2007
Event Handlers - Part 3: Register Event Handlers plus free Site Settings – Manage Event Handlers Add-on solution
This post is the third post of a 3 post series. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS Event...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 03/18/2007
Event Handlers - Part 2: Building and Deploying Event Handlers (Including Event Handler Starter Solution Kit)
This post is the second post of a 3 post series. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 03/18/2007
Event Handlers - Part 1: Everything you need to know about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Event Handlers.
This post is the first post of 3 posts. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS Event...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 03/05/2007
Search: Fine Tuning search relevancy in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007: Getting the search results your user expects
Relevance is about how closely the search results match what the user wanted to find. To improve the...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 02/26/2007
Introduction
This is my first entry in my brand, shiny, new blog! I have just started working for Microsoft...
Author: Brian Wilson Date: 01/10/2007