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MOSS provides some very powerful features to enable the new buzzword "social networking." Discussions about these can be found pretty easily, and I give an overview of some tools near the end of this posting. But specifics about how some of the details
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I've worked with several companies who have between 100,000 and 200,000 employees. Naturally, they want to architect a solution for MySites that can accommodate everyone in the company. TechNet has information in the Plan for software boundaries
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When someone creates a MySite, they are automatically given full control of that site. More accurately: a MySite is a site collection; the creator becomes the first & only Site Collection Administrator; the creator is made a member of the Owners
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This is a topic near and dear to my heart. I've spent many hours helping customers plan and execute a wide range of customizations for MOSS 2007. Now, the ECM Team (Enterprise Content Management) has published an exhaustive paper on these
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When developing web parts and other components with code, it's important to remember that operations performed by code may require certain privileges. During development, the code runs in the security context of the developer, who is usually a server
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Wait.. A posting not about SharePoint? How can this be? Well, it's somewhat related to SharePoint, since so many people use Virtual PC to host a development SharePoint environment. Since SharePoint requires Windows Server 2003, that's the best choice
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Do you sometimes use a "reflector" program to examine SharePoint source code? This can be necessary to: Understand out how SharePoint is doing something, to find what elements can be customized. Understand what members to override in classes
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MySites are very interesting on many levels. When you start to think about how to architect, deploy or customize them, you may encounter some initial confusion and a lack of detailed information. For instance, did you know that your MySite's Home page
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Many times it helps to see an overall comparison of SharePoint 2007 permissions. I assembled a matrix that shows lots of useful information that helps you understand how permission levels are related, and how they affect security trimming of Site Actions
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So, I'm not one to just post what I read on other blogs... but if you're a MOSS developer, you should definitely know about the Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0, Version 1.1 . This add-on for Visual Studio turbocharges your creation & management
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Often, a request comes to customize some of the text that SharePoint displays. And often, that text is stored in one of SharePoint's resource files, so it's just a matter of finding the right one. But I've noticed that Windows explorer doesn't do a very
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You may know that SPList can return a DataTable type: SPList.Items.GetDataTable(). And if you've worked with this, you may know that the DataTable you get is not databound to the list. This means you can't update the List from changes you make to the
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Have you ever wanted to use stsadm to view or manipulate a site's master page? Unfortunately there are no default commands to do so. But stsadm is easy--and fun, some might even argue--to extend. I wrote a sample project that you can use to perform the
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I was still getting this error on one of my VPCs, and found some blog entries with a little difficulty. Thought I'd post another to make it easier to find. One thing is, there are two possible issues that are known to cause it. StandaloneDCWorkaround
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By default, in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (if you are using the Corporate Intranet Portal template as your default site) when you go to the “Sites” link and click the Create Site button…SharePoint creates a subsite as a member of your portal’s
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