I went to an interesting session of the Boston KM Forum last night. The presenter was Marc Solomon from PRTM, and the topic was Enterprise Deployment: Warts and All (A Working Session on Intranet Development). Marc talked about the journey it took to implement PRTM’s SharePoint 2003-based KM system. He had many insights on what…
We had been trying unsuccessfully to do a Sharepoint 2003 backup and restore from production to development for disaster recovery planning for one of our clients, and the restore kept failing with this message: The database schema is too old to perform this operation in this SharePoint cluster. Please upgrade the database and try again. We checked…
Most folks know all about Google’s research labs — they get a lot of press. Equally interesting (and many years more mature) is Microsoft Research. If you want to stay on top of what could or might happen in the future of computing (with a Microsoft bent), subscribe to the RSS feed at the Microsoft Research…
This may seem like a simple one, but it caused a bit of head scratching, so it seems worth a post. I was trying to use some JPG images in Content Editor Web Parts on a SharePoint site, so I put them into the Site Collection Images Library, which worked fine. I could see them…
I found a nice set of products from KWizCom today that help SharePoint developers enhance the SharePoint platform. I haven’t tried any of them myself yet, but they are things that I wish that I had built myself because they seem really useful! I’ll post again with real world experience with them as it happens,…