Moving Lists from Hosted WSS 3.0 to Office365 – The Manual Way

It’s a long holiday weekend here in the U.S., I’ve been sick with some sort of flu for all of it, and it’s really nice and sunny outside. So what am I doing? Trying to migrate my Sympraxis Consulting demo site from my FPWeb-hosted WSS 3.0 site (yeah, I’m a little behind) to my Office365…

SPServices v0.7.1 Has Hit 6000 Downloads In Just Three Months

There have been many milestones in the SPServices saga, but this one sort of caught my eye and since I got a screen grab, I figured I’d do a quick post.. Even with over 48,000 total downloads of all of the versions I’ve released, this version seems to have really taken off, hitting 6,000 downloads…

Using SPFilterDropdown to Reorder Options in a Dropdown on a SharePoint Form

Many times when you have a dropdown column in your lists, you’d like to show the values sorted in a different order than alphabetically. Sure, you can use a Choice column and order the choices in any way you’d like. However, in the cases where you want the dopdown to be based on a Site…

But Is jQuery Already Loaded?

Many end users are taking advantage of all of the goodness that jQuery provides, whether by adding simple effects like a sliding Quick Launch, more sophisticated form enhancements like SPCascadeDropdowns from SPServices, or even writing their own scripts for more complex solutions. More than ever, the distinction between “end user” and “developer” is blurring. IMO,…

Configuring Lync Public IM Connectivity on Office365: But Can I Really Use It?

I use Office365 on an E1 plan to run my massive business of one. With that plan, I get Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. It’s a fantastic deal for about $10 a month and works great for me. I’ve sort of ignored the Lync component since there are so many other (somewhat better) options out there….

SharePoint Designer Error When Saving a Page with Multiple Data View Web Parts

I could probably write an entire book on the strange things that SharePoint Designer does, but I don’t have time for that. Instead, it’s yet another blog post. Today I was adding some Data View Web Parts (DWVPs) to a page, and I took the shortcut of copying and pasting the code of one to…

SharePoint Saturday Boston and SharePoint Conference .ORG

I’ve had a wonderful time over the last four days as an attendee and speaker at two great SharePoint events. The first one was SharePoint Saturday Boston, right in my own backyard at Microsoft’s offices in Waltham, MA. Helping Pradeepa Siva, Talbott Crowell (@talbott), and Geoff Varosky (@gvaro) with the organizing a bit certainly gave…