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August 2005 - Posts

Pint2Share: Tel Aviv Week of 21/8

Pint2Share call for SharePointers in Tel Aviv! Anyone interested in trying to outdo the very successful Amsterdam Point2Share should contact me.

Pint2Share Amsterdam Report

Well, just back from a great Pint2Share (actually it was more like Pints2Share). The picture below captures the evening very nicely: From left we see Margriet Bruggeman, Nikander Bruggeman, Me (Daniel McPherson) and Andre Kieft (Microsoft Support, soon

SharePoint Best Practice: Reserving "Friendly" Top-Level URL's in the Portal

One of the first questions people ask after playing around with a SharePoint Portal for a while is “Why do my URLs suddenly have ‘Cx’ in them?”. Well, it’s a long story, and it was one of the first topics I decided to tackle on this blog. Rather than

Stramit has posted a Best Practice on using SharePoint Web Services

Some good information and resource pulled together, an excellent addition to the “Best Practice” toolkit. Best Practive: Access to SharePoint Web Services

Pint2Share: Amsterdam - Monday 15/8

Back in Amsterdam again, let me know if I can buy anyone a beer!

Well I didn't know these were coming..."Windows SharePoint Services Applications Templates"

Just found these on Microsoft Downloads: Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Room And Equipment Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Expense Report Portal Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Event Planning Windows

SharePoint Best Practice: Locking down the Portal Database

This next “Best Practice” proposal involves what I’m calling “Locking down the Portal Database”. All this means is that immediately after creating a new Portal we restrict the content database so that it can store only Portal content. We do this using
 
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