Here is a great post from Spencer Harbar entitled SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes. In it, Spencer has gone to the immense effort of logging exactly what all of the post-SP1 hotfixes are and what version numbers they represent. If you need to figure out where your SharePoint farm stands in the update timeline, this…
I’ve followed Carsten Keutmann’s blog on and off over the last few years. When he writes, he writes great stuff. (Write more often, Carsten!) I had previously plugged Carsten’s SharePoint Manager 2007 tool, and he’s released updates to it since I’ve last looked at it. This is a must-have tool for serious developers. It lets…
OK, so you know how I’m going to come down on this, but I got your attention, right? In fact, at almost every large client I work with, the latter seems to be the opinion. The rules are usually: No SharePoint Designer use in staging and production. Period. This stems from a fundamental lack of…
I ran into an instance today where a column’s data contained the ampersand (&) character when I hadn’t expected it to. Since the ampersand is used to separate Query String name/value pairs in the URL, that ampersand was causing me problems. In general, you should always encode Query String values just in case they might…
I had seen the post on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog the other day about faceted search, but for some reason, it didn’t make an impression. Today, Scott Jamison posted about it, so I took another look. (I’ve worked with Scott, and I pay attention when he touts something.) This is really…