I had a colleague ask me yesterday: “Microsoft probably made Designer free for general HTML editing purposes, not just as a utility for SharePoint…what do you think?” I actually don’t think that Microsoft released SharePoint Designer for free for general purposes, but to expand what people are doing with SharePoint. I think that most organizations do far…
A client sent this one to me today as good blog fodder. I agreed, so here it is! When he went to Site Settings / Site Settings / Content and Structure from the root site, he got the “Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow” error: After some sleuthing, they realized that there were two lists…
I found a nice standalone link checker today called Xenu Link Sleuth. I’ve previously posted about dead-links.com, but it was giving me too many false dead links, so I thought I’d look for something a little better. Xenu Link Sleuth is a little Windows app that will crawl your site and report on the validity…
I was finding that the new WordPress Twitter Widget was giving me the “No response from Twitter.” error the majority of the time, so I thought I’d try switching to the RSS method for a while until they work out the kinks with the new widget. Turns out that the RSS option isn’t much better. …
So, now that SharePoint Designer is free, your first question is going to be how to prevent people from using it, right? Well, first, take a deep breath and sit back. It’s time to think about what you actually want to accomplish. SharePoint Designer is indeed totally free now. What this means is that any…