Over the last week or so, I’ve had the opportunity to work with the reports available in Quest’s Site Administrator for SharePoint toolset. The out of the box reports that it provides can help you greatly in administering your farm. See this PDF document for a list of all of the out of the box…
The documentation for this process on the Microsoft Web site explains the basic steps for this. To create and publish KPIs in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you must follow four procedures: create a KPI list, add the KPI to the list, add a Web Part (Web Part: A modular unit of information that consists of…
My client is considering using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor their SharePoint Farm. Coming out of a meeting with Microsoft, we got this set of links from the rep to give us an overview of what SCOM is and how it might help us with SharePoint monitoring. Seemed like a useful set of…
Because I usually can’t find these details when I look for them, I thought I’d post the links. Note that if you go to the top level reference page for STSADM at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261956.aspx, not all of the commands are listed (e.g., Adduser), whereas the links below seem to contain everything, including operations that were added…
If you try to make changes to your site’s navigation settings and get the error ‘The page has been modified by another author on…’ with the date and time that you just tried to make the changes, there’s a fairly quick fix. Apparently this is a known issue that Microsoft has on its list to…
There is an neat article in today’s Sunday Boston Globe entitled Click here…You just captured a book (or Click to Translate in the online version). It describes the way that the reCAPTCHA project takes advantage of the typing that we all do in those little windows that ask us the type the characters we see…
While researching the issue I mentioned in my previous post, I ran across this neat thing at CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/lookupwithpicker/Wiki/View.aspx. Here’s the brief description: Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 lookup control with element picker for custom list.This control is useful if you need to choose lookup data from large lists. This control supports single and multi select…
I’ve seen lots of posts discussing this, but no workarounds. Here’s the situation: One list (List 1) contains a list of values that are calculated (say ColumnC = ColumnA & ColumnB) Another list (List 2) uses ColumnC above as a lookup for one of its columns If you go into Datasheet view for List 2,…
I’ve posted about this application before. It helps my client manage their inventory of sports tickets which they can use with their clients and vendors. They have a regulatory reporting requirement to maintain information about who uses the tickets and what their relationship is. In this case, we wanted to be able to count the…
This is one of those things that I can never find — I know it’s there somewhere, but it isn’t where I expect it. Formatting your code ensures standardized usage of indentations and spaces. It also adds and removes lines near the brace characters that delimit code blocks. This is especially useful if you find…