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…