Yippee! Easy Tabs 5 is out (in Beta, your mileage will vary) and looking good. I've actually deployed it in house, in production as I plan to simply replace the textfile holding the script with the final version when he has finished his masterpiec ...[Read More]

The Issue This was an interesting discovery today. A customer had a document library, complete with columns that they wanted to have appear in the Document Information Panel (DIP, ala the Ribbon). I guess for the most part, I've never had more t ...[Read More]

I made this slide/picture for a customer the other day to try and demonstrate visually how SharePoint could/should/would be the GO TO platform for all upcoming and future business processes (try it in SharePoint first, then look at other products ...[Read More]

Ok, this isn't for everybody. A third of you have sworn never to sign up for Facebook, a third of you are grumbling about getting off of Facebook (though I don't see it ;) and a third of you will be all over this…      But, the Facebook Social Conn ...[Read More]

As per the following link (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/17/live-chats-to-learn-more-about-sharepoint-with-the-mvp-experts.aspx), there will be an MVP expert chat that yours truly will be taking part of. Hope to see you there! ...[Read More]

Whew, look at that. 4 posts in June and this is the first for July. Tsk tsk… What can I say? It's summer, we took a family work/play trip to Bermuda and then celebrated our 15th Wedding Anniversary by taking a cruise to Alaska. Pile in-between bot ...[Read More]

Ok this one is kinda lame... but alas, the fix is simple.  My ultimate goal was to perform a backup of a SharePoint WSS database on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, with the intent of performing a database restore, to a new SharePoint 2010 Foundati ...[Read More]

Holy cow Microsoft…   While the placement does kind of make sense, this took me 10 minutes to find so clearly it isn't obvious or intuitive… So I figured I had better save others the time as well…   Figure 1 : How to find the Document Inf ...[Read More]

For some reason lately, we' ve been seeing a number of cases where User Profiles in Windows Server 2008 (seems to be mostly R2 but may be from SP1 of Windows Server 2008 as well) experiences cases where users cannot create local profiles. I've seen ...[Read More]

Nice, concise and works. This is relevant to SharePoint Server 2010. Note, at this writing, Foundation is not supported with PDF (see bullets below).   SharePoint 2010 PDF Setup Guide: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/PDFiFIlterSharePoi ...[Read More]