administrator isn’t necessarily ‘administrator’ anymore :-).  Even while being an administrator, Microsoft (smartly) has now incorporated additional controls to help prevent viruses and silly users from using elevated permissions, to run things th ...[Read More]

If you are attempting to upload a (default) blocked file type to a SharePoint document library, you will probably see this... Text error version: The following file(s) have been blocked by the administrator: Shared Documents/notepad.exe Howev ...[Read More]

Ok, this was a timely lesson learned.   If you are getting the following error trying to search a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS), you might be experiencing the same problem we did...   1: No results matching your search were f ...[Read More]

I believe firmly that if you are going to *play* in SharePoint, you should play in a sandbox, and ideally, with production *like* data.  To accomplish this for clients, I generally provide a 'sandbox' site, in addition to their production WSS site ...[Read More]

Read between the lines folks... It has probably been 3 years since we’ve seen a patch ‘out of band’ from the usual couple of updates every ‘Patch Tuesday’, from Microsoft. For Ballmer and Co (Bill is sitting at home now watching this from h ...[Read More]

Well this came in handy the other day…   Use this path, to connect to your local SharePoint Windows Internal Database (WID) using SQL Server Management Studio Express (2005), such as in cases where you need to move the databases (say from the de ...[Read More]

SharePoint vs. the File Server SharePoint offers... 1. Web based access to your files from anywhere (work, home, the airport and from anything (PC, MAC, mobile devices) - in a Web browser or familiar Explorer view   2. SharePoint offers a &q ...[Read More]

  Ran into this tonight, using CKS:EBE (Community Kit for SharePoint, Enhanced Blog Edition).  Basically, I get the ugly error below in certain themes and the page rendering gets all screwed up (and the blog post is ruined forever and results in ...[Read More]

Thanks to Louis for pointing this out. :-)   Ever have problems capturing drop down boxes with the snipping tool? (i.e. as soon as you move your mouse to select the snipping tool the drop down box disappears)   Here's how to capture the Contex ...[Read More]

Using the Community Kit for SharePoint : Enhanced Blog Edition, I missed an important detail in the User Guide, that recommends that you do not in fact select 'SharePoint' as your blogging provider, but rather the 'Metaweblog API' provider.  Being ...[Read More]