Inaugural Meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group Tonight

I’m looking forward to the inaugural meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (BASPUG) tonight!  If you’re in the Boston area, register, and come and join us at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center in Cambridge.  With a name like NERD, I have to go just to see it. The speaker will be…

This IE8 Popup Drives Me Nuts: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”

I’ve fixed it on multiple machines, but I always forget where the setting is.  Here, for future me when he needs them, are the simple steps to make this annoying popup go away: Go to Tools->Internet Options->Security Select the ‘Security’ tab Click the ‘Custom Level’ button In the ‘Miscellaneous’ section change ‘Display mixed content’ to…

Bug in SharePoint’s Lists Web Service with GetListItems?

I was trying to track down some odd behavior in SharePoint’s Lists Web Service tonight, and I think I’ve found what I can only call a bug.  Here’s the scenario.  All of these conditions must apply::  Using the GetListItems operation Querying a list which has a required multi-select column Specifying columns to return in the…

A Codeplex-like Site for "End User SharePoint"-like Solutions?

Yesterday, I saw a tweet from Joel Ward which immediately got my attention:   Joel and I went back and forth on Twitter for a while. The gist of the conversation was: What is the best game in town for tools and tricks for end users (Obvious answer: EndUserSharePoint.com) and would a repository of the…