I’m not much of a conference goer these days, since I usually have to pay for the conferences myself. As an advocate for training I find myself rather selective in spending my own training dollars. But this past year I have become immersed in SharePoint. Now, it’s not a new technology – and I had [...]

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There is a lot to talk about when it comes to Content Deployment in MOSS 2007, but there are many, many blogs and articles coving all the background information you need to know in regards to content deployment in general. In this blog I’m going to streamline the process by outlining the five simple steps to configuring [...]

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I was at a meeting a few weeks ago and for some reason PowerShell kept coming up in conversation. Although I was familiar with PowerShell in a rudimentary way, I was not up to speed as far as actually programming with this powerful replacement to wsh. So after a little research I stumbled across this [...]

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Microsoft Infopath is a revolutionary new application for the development of XML based data entry forms. One of its main features is its ability to both author and view XML documents with support for custom defined XML schemas. Since Infopath documents are raw XML, you can directly repurpose your data for use in other XML [...]

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I’ve been working with Visual Studio for years and I totally forget how many little tweaks I’ve done to my environment during that time. Every once in a while when I am looking over someone’s shoulder debugging code I notice they don’t have line numbers turned on, or they’re not taking full advantage of the [...]

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Many times when I go into a client site to discuss their anticipated upgrade to MOSS 2007 they are looking to me to guide them through their Proof of Concept, especially when it comes to search configuration. We typically discuss what their current SharePoint search is doing, where is the majority of their content, what [...]

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After having performed dozens of installations of MOSS, uninstalling, reinstalling, repairing, etc., I thought it was time to talk about some of the troubleshooting you can do after the installation. So first of all you can determine if the failure was one that SharePoint told you about (for example, a message in Central Administration) or [...]

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Search in WSS, MOSS 2007 for Search, and Enterprise Search in MOSS 2007 are all based on the same Microsoft Search core indexing engine, making sure search is consistent across MOSS and WSS. However, there are differences among the SharePoint search versions. The following table provides a comparison of features among Search in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Office SharePoint [...]

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As a developer I thoroughly enjoy taking on a challenge of developing a piece of code that truly solves a problem for my clients. However, not all situations are cause to reinvent the wheel, especially if you can get the wheel off of the Internet for free. I was recently looking for a free Web part that [...]

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So, with all of the buzz going on around Windows 2008 I thought it would be appropriate to talk about Windows 2008 and SharePoint. I stumbled across a whitepaper today called “How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32Bit environment to a 64Bit environment on Windows 2008” written by Steve Smith and Penny Conventry. It [...]

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