The SharePoint 2010 “List View Lookup Threshold” and Why We Don’t Change It

I’m a huge fan of Lookup columns in SharePoint. Choice columns just don’t give me enough oomph, and Managed Metadata Columns give me plenty of oomph, but not all that I need. With Lookup columns, I can lookup into the Title of a reference list, but also store additional information in that list which is…

Refreshing a Web Part Without a Postback Using jQuery’s AJAX Function

I’ve been working on several projects with good old SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). jQuery and jQueryUI sure can spice it up nicely. Recently, I decided I wanted to refresh the contents of a Data View Web Part (DVWP) based on a user selection – a simple click on one of a big set of links –…

Moving Lists from Hosted WSS 3.0 to Office365 – The Manual Way

It’s a long holiday weekend here in the U.S., I’ve been sick with some sort of flu for all of it, and it’s really nice and sunny outside. So what am I doing? Trying to migrate my Sympraxis Consulting demo site from my FPWeb-hosted WSS 3.0 site (yeah, I’m a little behind) to my Office365…

Managing Resources in SharePoint Online (Office365) Site Collections – "You are approaching the maximum storage limit"

Recently, I ran into a problem on my Office365-based SharePoint site. I’ve got an E1 account so that I can test how things work in the cloud. When I went to add a new Site Collection, I saw the message below in yellow. This message itself didn’t make sense to me, since I have only…