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SharePoint Saturday New Orleans Presentation

Feb

2011

I had a great time in New Orleans. Here is my slide deck below.

San Antonio SPUG Presentation

Feb

2011

Another great session at the San Antonio SharePoint User group

SharePoint Create Calendar with a Custom Column 9

Jan

2011

Hi All; I just had this question on how to create a new calendar with a custom column that I thought would make a good post. I’ll document the process in SharePoint 2010, and note any differences if you are trying to do this in SharePoint 2007. 1) Let us create the calendar.

SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010 Comparison

Jul

2010

This was such a great piece of complied work I wanted to post it here for informational purposes. All credit goes to Richard Harbridge at Richard Harbridge: Insights. The original link is: SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010.

How to customize SharePoint My Sites search site

Apr

2010

One custom request I haven’t ran across to often is to add a custom search center of the My Sites within SharePoint MOSS. Typically, when you do a search within My Sites it will default back to whatever search center, if any, you set up for the main site. The one thing to keep in ...

Adding Active Directory Accounts to SharePoint 2

Apr

2010

One of the most common questions when someone starts to use SharePoint is how to add users. What most people don’t understand is that SharePoint actually does not provide a way to authenticate or control password accounts. SharePoint will actually depends on Active Directory (AD) (or whatever methodology you provide) where that information is held ...

SharePoint admin URL Quick List 2

Mar

2010

I thought this was a great reference from Heather Solomon’s site. The following is a list of SharePoint URLs to get to commonly used administrative functions on a SharePoint site. The majority of the URLs require administrator permissions on the site and a few require administrator permissions on the SharePoint server. This is a quick ...

SharePoint Search not working 1

Mar

2010

Working in an environment where I maintain dedicated SharePoint environments ranging in size from one server to a hundred servers you can run into some odd issues. My latest happened when a customer noted that their search on a brand new SharePoint farm stopped working. After some investigation I found that they had migrated databases ...

Trouble Downloading large SharePoint files over Mapped Drives

Mar

2010

I recently ran into a problem where I have a SharePoint customer trying and downloading large files from mapped drive going to their shared documents. I could download the file directly from their site using a browser but I couldn’t download the same file from the mapped drive location. The file in question was 1.2GB ...

What is SharePoint?

Feb

2010

We from this we can start with the Wikipedia explanation of what SharePoint is: Microsoft SharePoint, also known as Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, is a collection of products and software elements that includes, among a growing selection of components, web browser based collaboration functions, process management modules, search modules and a document-management platform.[1] SharePoint ...