Here’s the nut of the question. SharePoint’s Web Services fall into two main classes: those that read (generally Get* methods) and those that write. Others don’t really make sense unless you are authorized, like the Users and Groups Web Service. In situations where you are allowing Anonymous Access, it makes perfect sense to be able…
In a post about a week and a half ago entitled Judging a Company in the Age of Social Media, I talked about a product called LastPass that I had been trying out. I had been having problems with it, and I tweeted about it. Not a minute had gone by (literally) when I got a…
If you are visiting for the first time in a while, yes, you are in the right place. WordPress came out with the new Neutra theme yesterday, and I decided that it was time for a facelift. I tried changing the theme once before, and ended up backing off on the change. This time, I think I’ll…
I’ve seen several people over the last few weeks tweet about getting the wrong version of Windows 7 on a new laptop. They then say that they will be formatting and reinstalling Windows. Don’t do it! With Anytime Upgrade, you can just enter the appropriate key for the version you have licensed and you’ll be…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… I’m going to go back to the XPath Math / Number functions for this article to cover a few of them. Most of these functions are fairly intuitive, but I’m a math guy. (Yup, I even majored in it in college back during the Renaissance.) However, I find that the “documentation” in…
Every once in a while, someone comes back to the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) site and shares something they have been doing with the library. I read through one today that was impressive, so I thought I’d post it here so more people can read it and see what neato stuff is…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… There are a few more XSL tags that I should briefly touch upon. They are used much less often than the others that I’ve covered, but more than the bunch that I’m not going to talk about at all. There’s a set of them that are really only going to make sense…
In a previous post entitled The jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services and SharePoint 2010, I talked about the fact that the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) basically works with SharePoint 2010. I also promised to pursue “certification” for SharePoint 2010 on a function by function basis so that users of the library could be sure…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… If you are using WSS or MOSS for a public-facing site, you may want to allow people to post content in a limited way. A great example of this is where you want to have a Contact Us form on your site. If you have serious concerns about security, then this article…
Over the last few days or so, Christina Wheeler (@cwheeler76) and I were trying to figure out why my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) wouldn’t work when SharePoint was enabled for anonymous access. I had always assumed that it was just one of those things. Even though I couldn’t find any definitive documentation…