Many times when you are implementing a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) solution, it turns out that some of the many features that SharePoint provides aren’t needed or wanted. For instance, you might want to hide the default left-side navigation or the My Site link. There is a simple trick for doing this. Rather than removing the placeholder…
A while back I needed to figure out how to do this for a client project. Nothing in the MOSS documentation, and searching the Web proved fruitless until I ran across this post from Carsten Keutmann. Carsten has written a neat little SharePoint utility he calls SharePoint Manager 2007 that lets you get at many of…
Interesting post over at the Virtual Earth team’s blog about the launch today of Popfly. It’ll be fun to get my hands on the add-in for Visual Studio to take it for a spin. The tech world seems to be all caught up in Microsoft’s acquisition of aQuantive today. I hope the launch of Popfly…
When I’m working in SharePoint Designer, I frequently get the error messages below. In almost all cases, the list certainly still exists or the masterpage is still valid, and the error seems to mean nothing. I just click on OK and ignore it. Technorati tags: SharePoint Designer, error
Earlier this week, I was rebuilding a C# Web Service that I’ve been working on, and the changes that I was making weren’t "taking". That is, when I ran the new code, it was behaving like the old code. In addition, when I hovered over the breakpoints that I had set, I was getting the…
I recently upgraded my PC to Windows Vista. I was trying to do some debugging in Visual Studio, and no matter what I did, I couldn’t get breakpoints to hit. I did a little searching and found this post from Mike Ormond. He suggested either adding http://localhost to your trusted sites in IE or running…
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…