Steve Lombardi at Microsoft has sent out a call for "My Hood" collections in Live Maps. Apparently he is testing some cool new features for collections, and he needs about 1,000 of them to fiddle with. Check out his blog post: New feature in Live Maps needs your help Technorati tags: Live Maps, collections
I was invited into the Windows Live Beta today. If you are a member of http://connect.microsoft.com, you may also be eligible. The Windows Live Team invites you to be an extension of our development process by giving us feedback on our software before the rest of the world sees it. You’ll be helping us ensure…
There are two significant performance and reliability patches available for Vista that have not yet been released through Windows Update. You can go and grab them from Microsoft’s site, though. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194 I installed them today, and I think that I’m already seeing some improvements, specifically coming back from hibernation on my laptop. Some Office apps…
I ran across a neat trick today to get navigation from My Site back to the main Site Collection. From any Site Collection site, append the query string ?MySiteView=1 to the URL. This will take you to your My Site, with the previous site displayed as a tab. There is a drop down from that…
There is no way in native SharePoint to display all of the Site Collection’s users for a "FaceBook" type of application. However, there is a slightly messy trick you can use to accomplish this. Add a Content Editor Web Part wherever you want to provide a link to the FaceBook and add the following link…
I recently needed to create a Search Scope in MOSS that returned only sites that matched the search term. In this case, there was one site per customer account, and we wanted to be able to find each customer’s site quickly using search. After some poking about, I found this article on MSDN that explained what…
I recently went through the exercise of setting up a SharePoint Records Center site from scratch as part of a proof of concept exercise for a client. Since some of the bits and pieces of the process were scattered around the Web, I recorded all of the steps in case it might help someone out there. Create…
Having done branding (meaning applying custom CSS to change colors, fonts, etc.) to quite a few MOSS Site Collections, I wanted to offer a few tips and tricks to keep things clean and easy to maintain. I’ve mentioned some of these tips before, but I wanted to get them all into one post so that…
I continue to be intrigued by Popfly, Microsoft’s "mashup engine" (for lack of a better label): Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts: 1 Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups. 2 Popfly…
After a few weeks away in France and Spain, I’m back and trawling the Web for answers to unique and diverse questions from our clients. Today I read that one of the Microsoft Web sites that I’ve found useful over the years is being phased out: GotDotNet.com. You can read the details here. We are phasing…