I’ve alluded to this in the past, but I had a client situation in the last few days that brought it top of mind again. One of the quirks of a Crosslist DVWP is that you *must* specify all columns you would like to display in the CAML for the Data Source. You can add…
There are a number of posts about this in blogs out there about this trick and I’m not sure who posted first, so I’ll attribute it to the Ferrara Data Consulting | Company Blog. It’s certainly a useful trick, and worth repeating. By default, all SharePoint lists have a column called Title (@Title for you…
Dan Lewis has posted several funny comics about SharePoint in his Sharing the Point blog over the last few weeks. Thought this one about disaster recovery might give you a giggle. It’s one of those things that’s funny except that you know it’s probably really happening somewhere.
I exchanged a bunch of emails last week with someone named Chris who had found my blog and was just starting out with WSS. His goal was to do a proof of concept of sorts, based on some work he had read about which was done by Provoke (a Microsoft Gold Certified partner based in…
The official press release came out today and Tom Rizzo followed up on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog. The name itself doesn’t probably mean too much (except that the MOSS acronym will no longer work – MSP2kX anyone?). The other important piece of information in the release is the general release timeline: Exchange 2010 will…
<UPDATE date=”2009-04-15”> Seems I was a day early, as Microsoft announced today that the public release date for SP2 will be April 28. From Gregg Keizer at Computerworld’s article Microsoft sets Office 2007 SP2 release for April 28: Microsoft Corp. has set April 28 as the release date for Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2),…
As I mentioned in my last post, Fun With My Blog Stats, the #1 post in my blog stats over the last three months has been IE8 and the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. If you’ve recently upgraded to IE8 and are wondering where the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (IEDT) has run off to, it has…
One of the great things about WordPress, and one of the main reasons I switched my blog over from Live Spaces, is the Dashboard. The statistics that it shows you are really helpful in understanding what you’re writing about that people actually find useful. (Or at least click on. There’s no beating comments for real…
I’ve written about iFilters a little before. As defined by Wikipedia, IFilters are plugins that allow the Windows Indexing Service and the newer Windows Desktop Search to index different various file formats so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate IFilter, contents of a file cannot be indexed. Surprisingly, for a long time the only…
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…