There are a number of posts about this in blogs out there about this trick and I’m not sure who posted first, so I’ll attribute it to the Ferrara Data Consulting | Company Blog. It’s certainly a useful trick, and worth repeating. By default, all SharePoint lists have a column called Title (@Title for you…
Dan Lewis has posted several funny comics about SharePoint in his Sharing the Point blog over the last few weeks. Thought this one about disaster recovery might give you a giggle. It’s one of those things that’s funny except that you know it’s probably really happening somewhere.
I exchanged a bunch of emails last week with someone named Chris who had found my blog and was just starting out with WSS. His goal was to do a proof of concept of sorts, based on some work he had read about which was done by Provoke (a Microsoft Gold Certified partner based in…
The official press release came out today and Tom Rizzo followed up on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog. The name itself doesn’t probably mean too much (except that the MOSS acronym will no longer work – MSP2kX anyone?). The other important piece of information in the release is the general release timeline: Exchange 2010 will…
I’ve written about iFilters a little before. As defined by Wikipedia, IFilters are plugins that allow the Windows Indexing Service and the newer Windows Desktop Search to index different various file formats so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate IFilter, contents of a file cannot be indexed. Surprisingly, for a long time the only…