Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

March 2007 - Posts

Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:07 PM

Tip: Using the Preview Pane to View Items in a Large List

Imagine a quick way to see all of the information from items in your list without having to navigate to every single one of them and without having to horizontally scroll the browser to navigate thru a list with many columns. Well, accomplishing that
Posted by sptblog | 11 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:15 PM

Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 to kick off with a boost from the Solution Sharing Network (SSN) templates and web parts

As I had hinted a month ago, the CKS 2.0 effort will be kicking off very soon – likely on April 16 th . Currently, there are several editions under consideration, but the three that will likely take priority are: · CKS: Corporate Intranet Edition · CKS:
Posted by sptblog | 11 Comments
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:35 PM

MS E-Learning releases Collection 5385: Developing Solutions with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Visual Studio 2005

This online learning collection provides a rich multimedia experience coupled with comprehensive technical labs for developers, who need to develop and customize Windows SharePoint Services 3.0-based solutions. This collection also helps developers prepare
Posted by sptblog | 2 Comments
Sunday, March 25, 2007 8:35 PM

Retrieving SharePoint List Items' Attachment URLs using Lists Web Service

Imagine a remote application that uses SharePoint Web Services to retrieve a list item’s attachments to perform some action on them or provide a link to them. This application could have been coded in WSS 2.0 using a mix of the GetListItems and GetAttachmentCollection
Posted by sptblog | 8 Comments
Filed under: ,
Sunday, March 25, 2007 8:16 PM

Recommended Reading for March and April, 2007

Recommended Reading for March and April (click here for previous recommendations). Lots of useful content (I can hardly keep up anymore!) and tools generated by the community: Complete MOSS licensing info by Cornelius J. van Dyk (SharePoint MVP) -- addresses
Posted by sptblog | 6 Comments
Friday, March 23, 2007 12:39 AM

Re-Announcing the Asia Pacific SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia!

[Update: The conference registration site is now live at http://www.microsoftsharepoint.com , so go register yourself today!] The Conference This exclusive Microsoft event is the third and final of three global SharePoint Conferences, following Seattle
Posted by sptblog | 9 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:16 PM

Customizing MOSS 2007 My Sites within the enterprise

Hi, this is Steve Peschka from the SharePoint Rangers team again, and in this blog entry I’ll discuss customizing My Sites across an organization. There’s a good deal of confusion out there about how best to achieve this, which is partly caused by functional
Posted by LLiu | 300 Comments
Monday, March 19, 2007 5:42 AM

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 2 of 3)

In Part 1 of my blog series on Alternate Access Mappings, I gave a brief introduction to the feature and an example of how it can be used. In this blog entry, I'd like to discuss some of the common AAM-related mistakes I've noticed people make when deploying
Posted by sptblog | 51 Comments
Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:40 AM

Thank you, SharePoint MVPs!

The Microsoft MVP Global Summit concluded this past Thursday, and on behalf of the SharePoint product teams, I’d like to thank the 45 SharePoint MVPs, a bunch of Excel MVPs, a few InfoPath MVPs, and a couple of special guests for sitting through many
Posted by sptblog | 8 Comments
Friday, March 16, 2007 6:54 PM

Status update re: DoD 5015.2 certification for MOSS 2007

Based on the growing number of questions about DoD 5015.2 certification that I've seen in the SharePoint community and heard from customers over the past few weeks, it's obvious that many people missed the announcement that had been posted on the Records
Posted by sptblog | 11 Comments
Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:17 PM

TechEd 2007 is in sunny Orlando and we have some great SharePoint content lined up!

There is a ton of new SharePoint Products and Technologies session content this year including; · .NET Development on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The WSS Object Model · Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Deploying, Managing, and Configuring
Posted by rriley | 3 Comments
Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:40 AM

Key US Daylight Savings Time Information

Just had got some great very complete information from product support about the upcoming Daylight Savings Time change and how it does or doesn't impact you. I did a post on DST previously, but this has much, much more info. (Thanks Dan and Bruce!) SHAREPOINT
Posted by joelo | 14 Comments
Filed under: ,
Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:57 PM

Scale Up... The Power of 64 bit

I wanted to make sure people understood that both WSS and MOSS have x64 versions of the products. As well the test team early on decided that those wanting to really scale their environments would be using x64 versions of the product, so all performance
Posted by joelo | 13 Comments
Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:19 PM

Scale, Performance, and Capacity Planning

The TechNet content has recently been updated and has a more complete set of capacity planning documentation across the platform and workloads. If you've been out there... NOW is the time to revisit. Below I've tried to put the relevant articles in an
Posted by joelo | 7 Comments
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:09 PM

New aggregated feeds for SharePoint MS team and individual blogs as well as SharePoint MVP blogs

A few months ago, with the help of the good folks at NewsGator , I was able setup and easily maintain an OPML file that included the feeds of the SharePoint oriented Microsoft team blogs and individual blogs as well as all of the SharePoint MVP blogs.
Posted by LLiu | 4 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:22 PM

How to Upgrade an Area based on a Custom Site Definition

[Updated: Added ImageUrl attribute for step 1b. Thanks, Michael!] This post outlines the extra steps needed to upgrade a Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) area. First, some background information which explains why these extra steps are needed. (For
Posted by joelo | 25 Comments
Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:19 PM

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 1 of 3)

Hi folks, this is Troy Starr again from the Windows SharePoint Services Test team. Today I'd like to talk about one of the most powerful, but often one of the least understood, features in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint
Posted by sptblog | 96 Comments
Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:24 AM

Configuring Database Mirroring for SharePoint Products & Technologies

Check out this new white paper which details how to configure Database Mirroring in SQL 2005 for SharePoint Server and WSS 3.0. (Includes T-SQL Commands) Using Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services if(typeof(IsPrinterFriendly)
Posted by joelo | 10 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, March 02, 2007 11:51 PM

Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint

[Cross-posting from Mike Ammerlaan's blog . I was going to include this as part of my upcoming "Recommended Reading for March" post, but since it's such an important and frequently asked about topic and because the info is coming from the "horse's mouth,"
Posted by LLiu | 23 Comments
Filed under: , ,
Friday, March 02, 2007 9:25 PM

Be wary when removing or replacing the My Site link

I've seen a recent trend where people are either removing or replacing the My Site link that's at the top of the page. Before doing this be sure that it is necessary because that link isn't really a link at all it's a server control; with functionality
Posted by sptblog | 11 Comments
Friday, March 02, 2007 10:16 AM

Useful and (free!) SharePoint "Features" available at http://www.CodePlex.com/Features

Occasionally, I ask SharePoint professionals, who have done interesting and useful work to post a guest blog entry here, so their contributions can deservedly get more exposure within the SharePoint community. This is certainly one such case. Scot Hillier
Posted by sptblog | 10 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, March 02, 2007 8:18 AM

Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) content for SharePoint Products and Technologies now available

Hi, I’m Patrick Hines, a Technologist with Microsoft Learning . I’d like to give everyone an overview of the Microsoft Learning products for SharePoint that are now available. Last Friday (02/23), we signed off on our new MOC (Microsoft Official Curriculum)
Posted by sptblog | 3 Comments
 
Page view tracker