There is no dearth of opinion on this topic, whether it be from Microsoft or any of the many, many vendors out there who want to help you justify, plan, design, implement, or support (or paint, or count, or whatever) your SharePoint installation. So, I thought it would be absolutely critical for me to toss…
The idea of rolling up calendars across multiple SharePoint sites comes up very frequently in conversations with clients. We’ve always tried to think of a nice, elegant way to make it work, but haven’t ever really come up with the “right” answer. I saw a post on SharePointPedia today that looks to be that “right”…
One of the most powerful features of SharePoint 2007 (MOSS), in my opinion, seems to be one that doesn’t get a lot of attention in the blogosphere: Content Types. From a Knowledge Management or Content Management perspective, Content Types are a huge benefit. Not only do Content Types allow you to define metadata (columns) that…
I had seen the post on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog the other day about faceted search, but for some reason, it didn’t make an impression. Today, Scott Jamison posted about it, so I took another look. (I’ve worked with Scott, and I pay attention when he touts something.) This is really…
A client of ours was having trouble getting this idea to work based on a post he found on the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog. I took a look and got it to work nicely in a test situation. This is a nice trick, as it can help to pre-populate metadata that your users might…