What Should Microsoft Do for the SharePoint Community – My Opinions

This post was cross-posted on NothingButSharePoint.com on 23 November, 2010. As with so many things these days, this post started off in a conversation on Twitter. Eric Ligman, Microsoft Global Partner Experience Lead, tweeted a question: “What would you like to see from #Microsoft from a social networking/community perspective? #socialmedia #mspartner“. Here’s the conversation from…

SharePoint and Your Mobile Strategy: Be Sure to Have One!

These days, if you have a site running in SharePoint the odds of someone coming to it with a mobile device are increasing extremely rapidly. This is certainly true if you have an Internet-facing site, but also highly likely even for corporate Intranets. For this post, I’m going to pick on my friends at the Boston…

A Trick with the Dreaded “Server Error in ‘/’ Application” Error

Have you ever tried to go to a SharePoint page in your browser and gotten an error like this? This screenshot is from SharePoint 2010, but this trick works in SharePoint 2007 as well. View Source on the page and you’ll see additional information down at the bottom, hidden inside a comment. sure, it’s still…

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) v0.5.8 Released

Earlier today I released SPServices v0.5.8. The headlines for this release are: more operations, including the first SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) only operation, and a new function, SPUpdateMultipleListItems. SocialDataService The Social Data Service Web Service is the first SP2010-only Web Service I’ve added to SPServices. This Web Service allows you to interact with the new social…