February 2009 - Posts

Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2007 Series – Introduction
26 February 09 04:02 PM

Over the last 18 months we have been involved in a number of projects helping clients deploy SharePoint into virtualized environments. As a result of these projects we learnt a great deal about how to virtualize SharePoint, and during November 2008, Martin Read More...

Postedby UK SharePoint Team (MCS) | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Infrastructure, Virtualization, Hyper-V, SharePoint 2007, Brian Wilson

Taking SharePoint Server 2007 Files Offline – What are the options?
19 February 09 04:15 PM

This blog post aims to compare how Outlook 2007 , Groove 2007 and OneNote 2007 enable users to take files offline from SharePoint Server 2007. This is based on the Offline Working Strategy Guide which is available on Microsoft.com for free. This post Read More...

Postedby UK SharePoint Team (MCS) | 9 Comments    

Filed under: Outlook, Groove, Offline, OneNote, SharePoint 2007, James Kemp

Quick Tip: Using the SharePoint ‘Person or Group’ field in code
17 February 09 09:30 AM

One of the coolest types of site column (or field) in SharePoint is the ‘Person or Group’ field type. This allows you to select people from the GAL using a nice little picker control. When users are selected, you benefit from all of the presence capabilities Read More...

Postedby UK SharePoint Team (MCS) | 11 Comments    

Filed under: Development, InfoPath, Quick Tips, Features, SharePoint 2007, Martin Kearn

Quick Tip: Adding Documents from Document Libraries to a Quick Deploy job
13 February 09 06:29 PM

The content deployment jobs within SharePoint allow content from a source location to a distributed out to another location this could be another Site Collection\Web Application or even another farm. Jobs can be configured for paths, these jobs run at Read More...

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Filed under: Content Management, SharePoint 2007, Pete Mellish

Come see us at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference – 6-8th April 2009 in London
04 February 09 12:07 AM

It’s not often a SharePoint conference comes to Europe. Most of the SharePoint conferences are hosted in the States. Well, not any more! Steve Smith , from Combined Knowledge , is arranging a SharePoint Best Practices Conference in the heart of London. Read More...

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Filed under: SharePoint 2007, Community Conference, Brian Wilson

Top Tips for InfoPath form development with SharePoint: Part 1
03 February 09 11:00 AM

InfoPath is a great tool that allows you to quickly design and implement browser-based electronic forms which can be delivered as HTML via SharePoint Form Services. Historically there hasn’t been much information available around best practices for development Read More...

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Filed under: Development, InfoPath, Quick Tips, SharePoint 2007, Martin Kearn