I think I’ve posted about this before, but it seems that every client I have asks me about how best to do backups with SharePoint. If you are just backing up the server, you have almost zero (repeat: ZERO) chance of restoring after a problem. Keep in mind that a backup strategy only works if…
Sometimes when you try to remove a Content Type’s association from a list, you will get the error "Content Type is still in use", even if you don’t seem to have any items in the list! Here are a few things to check: Make sure that the Content Type isn’t the default – Go to…
This is a little trick, but a useful one all the same. When you use the Publishing Site template for a site, you do not have the option in Site Settings to save the site as a template for reuse. There are probably good reasons for this due to the underlying structure of Publishing Sites,…
A great way to manage the values for a Site Column in SharePoint is to put the values into a list and then use the Lookup column type to grab the values. When you allow multiple selections in the lookup column, what is stored looks something like this: value1;value2;value3;value4 If you would like to then…
This one is a little embarrassing to report, because I’ve been frustrated with it and just living with it so long. However, maybe it will help a few of you out there. For a very long time, I’ve been getting regular script errors in IE7 on Vista. I assumed that it was some artifact of…
I love my iPhone. I mean I *really* love my iPhone. I’ve had it for about a month and a half now, and it is truly an amazing piece of technology and extremely well done. As most of us who are fundamentally Microsoft folks say, “Microsoft take note”! However, here’s a little bugaboo with SharePoint…
I’ve always been a lazy programmer and if you can believe it, I see this as a good thing. I never want to write anything more than once. (I’ve written an assembler-based keyboard handler for DOS. Do I need to do it again? As much fun as it was: no.) I also believe that the…
Lookup columns in SharePoint can be very useful as a way to standardize input values. One of the drawbacks of Lookup columns is that they violate the Rules of Data Normalization (see my previous post entitled “SharePoint Is Not a Database”). Specifically, by storing the text value of the lookup rather than the ID, we…
With Windows Vista and IE7, Microsoft introduced the Windows Common Feed List. This is a great facility that lets you share your RSS feeds between IE and Outlook (and any other Windows application that you want to use to access it). While I really like the capability, I’ve been frustrated that my feeds list is…
This is a simple enough task with a little JavaScript. Inserting the script below into your master page will output the date and time in the simplest way possible when the page is rendered: If your language is American English, you will see the following: Fri Oct 24 18:19:06 EDT 2008. Of course, if you’d…