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…
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…
I had a colleague ask me yesterday: “Microsoft probably made Designer free for general HTML editing purposes, not just as a utility for SharePoint…what do you think?” I actually don’t think that Microsoft released SharePoint Designer for free for general purposes, but to expand what people are doing with SharePoint. I think that most organizations do far…