I had a great time in New Orleans. Here is my slide deck below. Continue reading
SharePoint Saturday New Orleans Presentation
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Category Archives: SharePoint 2007
San Antonio SPUG Presentation
Another great session at the San Antonio SharePoint User group
SharePoint Create Calendar with a Custom Column
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. Continue reading
SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010 Comparison
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. Continue reading
How to customize SharePoint My Sites search site
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 mind is that each My Site is it’s own separate site collection. This means that if you create a new search center subsite then point the search settings to that My Site it will only be for that one My Site. Other My Sites will still be pointed back to the default.
Adding Active Directory Accounts to SharePoint
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 and controlled. You can have hundreds of user accounts in AD but they won’t be in your SharePoint farm until you specifically add them.
As an example here we have our sharepoint.local domain with our demo users.
SharePoint admin URL Quick List
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 list for speedy reference as compared to tracking down links through the admin screens.
All links in this list reference the English language directory (1033). For other languages replace 1033 with the appropriate LCID. Continue reading
SharePoint Search not working
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 into their SharePoint farm. At the onset it seemed only content databases were migrated. This should not have prevented search service from working. At worst we could expect that search would not to be able to access the DBs. In this case the search just was not working and getting the following familiar message.
The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress.
Trouble Downloading large SharePoint files over Mapped Drives
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 in size.
When trying to move/copy the file it would site for while on ‘calculating’ but in the end it would return:
‘Cannot Copy FileName: Cannot read from the source file or disk’ Continue reading
What is SharePoint?
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 can be used to host web sites that access shared workspaces, information stores and documents, as well as host defined applications such as wikis and blogs. All users can manipulate proprietary controls called “web parts” or interact with pieces of content such as lists and document libraries.
Wikipedia: Microsoft SharePoint
In this brief explanation you might scratch your head and say ‘well that really doesn’t tell me much’. Continue reading