SharePoint provides support for mobile devices by providing for List Views designated for mobile devices, automatic page redirect if the site is accessed by a mobile device, and the ability to render column data in a format suitable for mobile devices.  By default Windows SharePoint Services ships with a “Mobility Redirect” feature that creates a [...]

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So this is one of my “in the trenches” blogs. I’ve been setting up a new server to run WSS 3.0, which I’ve done a dozen times. I have several SharePoint 2007 servers I am currently running, and WSS is a prerequisite, so this shouldn’t have been an all weekend project. But, for some reason, [...]

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I wrote a post on installing the Adobe iFilter for .pdf files several months back, but one of my colleagues said he could not get it to work with the 64-bit server. Since my little home network is not a 64-bit server I had no ability to try and solve the issue. Finally my colleague [...]

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I was working on a client’s environment this week when all of a sudden the Central Admin and Shared Service Provider sites stopped working. Requesting any URL from these sites returned a “Service Unavailable” message. The main content Web site kept responding though.
When I checked IIS I noticed that the Application Pools for these Web [...]

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The auditing policy feature helps organizations analyze how their content management systems are used by logging events and operations that are performed on documents and list items. Organizations can configure the Auditing policy feature to log events such as when a document or item is edited, viewed, checked in, checked out, deleted, or has its permissions [...]

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There are many different reasons to create policies in SharePoint. One of the main reasons my clients are looking to implement policies is for auditing purposes. They want to know what their users are doing and they want to be able to track that information over a period of time. This is a perfect reason [...]

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Previously I blogged about site templates types but I thought it might also be useful to find the list template types.

Navigate to the list and view the all items view. Each list is different but all lists come with an all items view by default. However in publihsing sites there is a Pages Library which is typically found at http://ServerName/Pages/Forms/AllItems.aspx, and for [...]

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I had a student send me a questions several weeks ago “is there a way to definitively determine if it a site is based on a WSS or a MOSS template?” I’ve been searching, e-mailing, and posting in order to find the answer, to no avail. So, with enough persistence I was able to figure [...]

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