gotta toot your own horn once in a while... :-) Solution Name: Major Change:  A web-based application designed to allow small and medium-sized businesses to easily implement and coordinate the change management process within their IT environmen ...[Read More]

Discovered today that something that was very familiar in WSS 2.0 (the necessity to exclude managed paths for directories that you don't want 'managed' by SharePoint, was done in Central Admin in WSS 2.0), is even easier in WSS 3.0.    In WSS 2 ...[Read More]

The following are useful instructions for anyone, but in particular for hosted Outlook users recently migrated.  This procedure makes it simple to take your existing (probably POP3) Outlook client PST and post all of that data on your new, hosted ...[Read More]

CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) is the markup used to specify search queries using the SPQuery class. The schema can be found here. Another useful link is the value types allowed in the <Value> tag, here.One might infer that ...[Read More]

Got this? Administrator has detected a problem with the Microsoft Windows Vista installation on this. Do you want Administrator to fix the problem now?     Administrator could not fix the problem with the Microsoft Windows Vista installat ...[Read More]

I'll continue to compile some sample documents for SharePoint searching purposes.  At this writing, I've put up some various versions of Word, Excel and PDF files, with sample (and safe, nothing confidential) data, so that you can simply 'plug and ...[Read More]

So, I have the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition working (CKS:EBE - if you are reading this now, you are looking at EBE).   However, with the 'default' Theme included (I actually preferred it over all the others), I noticed the ...[Read More]

  Beer Me! Ok, I've been told I've helped a number of people, over the years, with my postings (in newsgroups and such) and my blog (blog.brainlitter.com). And people always tell me "oh, I owe you a beer", or "if you were nearby, ...[Read More]

Saw this asked in a forum, and knew I'd need the answer some day... so figured it was worth storing here amongst the litter.   If you need to calculate the TOTAL time difference between two date time fields in a custom list, in SharePoint (such as ...[Read More]

First off, hats off to the Petri site for a really good 'single server/SBS Server' RPC/HTTPS documentation resource at: http://www.petri.co.il/configure_rpc_over_https_on_a_single_server.htm   Note that it will work, without the following (back ...[Read More]