By default, a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) My Site page does not contain a link back to the portal it serves. This leaves users confused about how to get back to the main portal other than using the Back button in their browsers. There is a simple fix for this. From the My Site page, choose…
I found a nice white paper today that outlines the steps required to enable incoming email for lists in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). Thanks to Steve Smith at Combined Knowledge for this excellent information! Technorati tags: SharePoint, MOSS, incoming email
There are times when you want to upload multiple documents to a SharePoint Document Library. There are two places where you can specify this; one works, the other doesn’t (at least for me)… If you choose Upload Document, and then click the "Upload Multiple Files…" link (see below), you get the browser to specify the…
All of us SharePoint junkies want to see more SharePoint usage out there. I had the chance this week to use the Tzunami Deployer to move content from an EMC eRoom environment into SharePoint. It’s a slick tool that allows you to move entire structures, content, and security from one environment to the other. The Deployer also can…
The Discussion Web Part in SharePoint has always been a bit quirky. It doesn’t act like most other discussion applications and can often confuse users. One specific confusing "feature" is this. When you start a discussion, the Subject is visible as a link in the Web Part. If you click on the Subject, the same site will…
Following the tip that my colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted in his blog, I still wasn’t seeing any flyouts on the navigation tabs. I fiddled with things for a while and finally figured out why. I needed to change a single navigation option to make things work. Say you have a site hierarchy like: Home |…
The Windows Live Writer team has released Beta 2 of the writer with the new features below. Of specific interest is support for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) blogs. In fact, I’m using it to write this post! New Authoring Capabilities Inline spell checking Table editing Ability to add categories Page authoring for WordPress and TypePad Support…
UPDATE: I missed the fact that the Virtual Earth Recenter block allows me to set the zoom and altitude. Using that, there was no need to write any JavaScript at all to enable this mashup! I got access to the Popfly site and just built my first mashup. This is a very cool development platform,…
Very interesting blog post over at the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog from Mike Gannotti, a Microsoft Technology Specialist for SharePoint based in Raleigh, NC. entitled SharePoint and Popfly integration — yes, really! When I first heard about Popfly I wondered how it might work with SharePoint. The answer, as explained by Mike: very well! …
This may be a fairly obscure issue, but it seemed worth mentioning. If you use the Cisco VPN Client to access any networks and are planning to upgrade your PC from Windows XP to Windows Vista, you shouldn’t. As of version 5.0.00.0340, the VPN Client isn’t supported if you’ve done the upgrade. In my case,…