Day 3. Feet healing, bought some sandals. Now my head hurts - open bar at the Huey Lewis concert was bad news for Sean. Great time, but forgot to hydrate. Owwweee     Enterprise Content Types and Managed Meta Data Tough focusing at first wi ...[Read More]

Day 2. Feet hurt, tired of eating *out* already (Wendy would be pleased to hear that. Looking forward to Huey tonight     SharePoint Sites Session Pretty basic session. Probably should have signed up for something more technical but… Note ...[Read More]

Yep, I'm in Vegas with the wife and kids and *sigh*, the Mother In Law (nah, she's not so bad but I'm required by law to complain about her). I hope to see them sometime this week. :-)     I saw the keynotes this morning and then attended the S ...[Read More]

Found this tip in an obscure place but felt it was worthy to show and explain in more detail. If you want to hide the Quick Launch Bar on a SharePoint page/site and would prefer not to customize pages in SharePoint Designer (i.e. this is quick and ...[Read More]

This is a common enough request that I thought I'd quickly create a video of it. Ignore my little typos as you see them. :-)   Business Requirement I want to be able to see at a glance on my SharePoint Dashboard, the 5 latest documents that m ...[Read More]

Sometimes, migrating user content will be most convenient while on the Windows 2003 Server console. The problem is, IE6, IE7, etc. do not allow this to happen by default. This may also apply to other older Windows OS's in certain situations. The ...[Read More]

For some reason, the August WSS 3.0 release was delayed for about 6 weeks. The August Cumulatives for SharePoint are now released (take time for pause, evaluate and then deploy of course).   August 2009 Cumulative Update for MOSS 2007: http:/ ...[Read More]

The Requirement A customer had quite the mess of a SharePoint farm. Efforts are being made to clean it up … but in the meantime, they required a backup of a SharePoint Content Database (from 5 days ago) to be restored into a new (temporary) Web ...[Read More]

I had a weird error today to address on a client SharePoint (WSS) Server. CAPI2 errors, indicating it couldn't get trusted root cert's from Microsoft for an application. In the end, it was a corrupt WSS search Index (go figure?) but digging into W ...[Read More]

Had an interesting scenario/question today. A customer asked how to disable a users account and incoming email/mailbox. Normally, if the account was going to be destroyed we would disconnect the mailbox and let it die. However, our scenario is dif ...[Read More]