If you try to create a new .NET Web project (ASP .NET Web Application or ASP .NET Web Service) on a server running MOSS (or, presumably, SharePoint v2), you will get the error: ‘Unable to create Web Project ‘WebApplication1’. The file ‘c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebApplication1’ does not correspond to the URL ‘http://localhost/WebApplication1’ where WebApplication1 is the name of…

Check out this blog post about the development of the Hawaiian Air Web site on MOSS from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog. If MOSS can support a mission-critical site like this, with highly specialized branding, e-commerce, dev/test/prod environments, etc., what can’t it do??? Technorati tags: MOSS, SharePoint, mission-critical

With blogs and wikis in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, a lot of business users are thinking about whether they should try to take advantages of the new capabilities.  Many are struggling with how to use them, not so much from a technology perspective, but from a governance perspective.  What should the rules be?  Who…

Several off-topic posts lately, but I wanted to mark the passing of Kurt Vonnegut somehow.  Vonnegut’s books always gave me: first, laughter (inside — you don’t want to look weird on public transportation); second, truly though-provoking insights into us as humans; and third (maybe most importantly), a zeal to get out into the world and…

The real quote is a Chinese proverb that says:  "Give me a fish and I eat today; teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime." It is always best, in my experience, to show someone how to do something, but not to do it for them. "Fish Slap" has become a metaphor in the…

I admit that since it’s just shipped, I haven’t taken a look.  However, the possibilities are intriguing.  Between analyzing site performance, scalability, and uptime using this new tool and doing analysis on the search logs to optimize search hits and best bets, SharePoint site collections are becoming more powerful than much of the competition for community…

When you use the Data View Web Part in SharePoint to display documents in a document library, the "File Type" field that is available is text (doc, pdf, gif, etc.) rather than an icon.  You’d really rather display the icon instead to be consistent with other document library views.  Here’s how you can make that…

I posted earlier about editing the default.aspx file in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\MPS directory to apply branding to your SharePoint 2003 sites.  I was focused on meeting sites at the time.  Today I realized that each of the directories under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\ contains a default.aspx for a different…

I recently had an opportunity to mirror some Access reports in SharePoint.  It reminded me how powerful Data View Web Parts in SharePoint really are.  Here’s what I did… The Access front end was using SQL Server as its back end data server, so I knew that I could get at the data from SharePoint. …

Very interesting article today from Microsoft Research about all of those annoying doorway pages that are all over the Internet these days.  These are the pages that you see often when you search for something, click on one of the links, and get a page full of links and ads.  The underlying report is worth a…