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What's this tagging about!!
So, thankyou Liam , I have been tagged, whatever that really means. The task being to write 5 things about myself that others may not know. The most important one for me is that I am most definately a family man. I am married with 3 kids. Currently, the Read More...
SharePoint Product Team Blog
The SharePoint Product team has recently launched their own blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/ This is a must read with articles initially from Kurt Delbene, Corporate VP of the Office Servers group, and Jeff Teper, General Manager of SharePoint Read More...
80-20 Software - Retention Server for SharePoint
A great add-on for SharePoint and it is free. Retention Server from 80-20 Software has just been formally released! For organizations using Microsoft SharePoint that need to manage the retention lifecycle of electronic documents and email, 80-20 Retention Read More...
Updated Search WebPart (Document Details)
My previous post supplied a webpart to customise the Search Results . Thanks to some feedback, we discovered that the search results for Documents stored in a Portal Area was not working correctly, so I have updated the ZIP with the new code that seems Read More...
Another Custom Search Result WebPart. Document Details page in WSS!
I was recently asked how to change the search results for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 so that when a user selected a document from the search results, instead of actually opening the document which is the current default behaviour of SPS, that the user Read More...
Cell Connections, Row Connections and Filter Connections Samples
I said previously that I would post the sample web parts that show the ICellProvider , ICellConsumer , IRowProvider , IRowConsumer, IFilterProvider and IFilterConsumer in action so here they are. Just click below for the appropriate Visual Studio Porject Read More...
Custom Search Results
For the fully built CAB and source files, the Visual Studio Project directory, please go here . Extract the files to your machine. Drill down through the "/Deploy/Debug" directory and there you will find the built CAB. Modify the BAT file and run it or Read More...
SharePoint Portal Search Results Demystified (Well starting to)
Recently, I presented at the UK Office Developers Conference at Heathrow. One of the subjects I spoke about was enhancing and extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Search and I did say that I would post some of that information, Read More...
SPUM2003 X1.1 - (V1.0 will be SPUser.EXE)
Made some progress on SPUM2003 and I have now decided to release version X1.1 for you guys to look at. Please be aware of the following: Whats in over version X1.0 Ability to add users to a WSS site Ability to delete users from a WSS site Ability to edit Read More...
SharePoint Branding
Dan has just managed to get a couple of new articles published on MSDN that are concerned with branding SharePoint Sites. This is a must read for anyone who is serious about customising the look'n'feel of SharePoint. http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_SP2003_ta/html/Office_SharePointApplyingCorporateBrand.asp Read More...
SPUM2003 (was "SharePoint User Manager")
Just an update on this tool for people interested and also because I am off to New York for a few days :-) I got laughed at by a good friend of mine due to its boring name so I had a think and now call the tool SPUM2003 Along the lines of SPIN/SPOUT for Read More...
SharePoint User Manager (Version: X1.0)
Not sure about other people, but I find it quite time consuming when trying to manage users inside of Windows SharePoint Services sites, especially when the sites in the hierarchy have their security inheritance broken. A number of customers end up breaking Read More...
Writing Windows SharePoint Services Server-Side controls
Overview This post tries to describe the process of writing a .NET server-side control for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services There are a number of ways to write add-in code for SharePoint Technologies, the most notable being web parts. However, these Read More...
Changing Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Search Results
Overview This article intends how to use the override functionality to deliver up your own rendered search results. Typical Problem I see lots of people asking questions on how to customise the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 search results Read More...
What are the SharePoint Databases used for?
Microsoft Office Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services use a number of different databases for different tasks. These databases are: <...>_PROF This is the profile database and contains SharePoint profile information for the Read More...
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