Michael Blumenthal, Office 365 MVP
Microsoft 365 Collaboration and Teamwork Leader | Business Productivity Advisor | Employee Experience Architect | M365Chicago Co-Organizer
A colleague of mine asked me this recently. I realized that the links that I provided recently are great reference information, but if you are just getting started, it’s overwhelming. My suggestion is this: Get yourself access to a SharePoint Continue reading I want to teach myself SharePoint. Where do I start?
Here are some handy links to Records Management with Microsoft solutions, primarily MOSS 2007: Microsoft Records Management Team Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/recman/ TechNet Webcast: Compliance and Records Management with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) – http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032326664&CountryCode=US Whitepaper on Successful Records Continue reading Links to Information about Records Management with MOSS 2007
InfoPath I attended a class on Document and Records Management this last Thursday and Friday and the instructor recommended the following book for anyone interested in InfoPath Development: Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Continue reading Training/Learning Resources
From time to time, I get asked for recommendations for training and reference materials for SharePoint, so today I want to point out three books, in no particular order. The Big Blue Book of Farm Administration or rather “Microsoft Office Continue reading Book Recommendations
What is slip streaming? It’s adding the service pack files to the original media so that when you do the initial install, you are installing the service pack too, rather than doing two installs. Martin Kearn has a nice article Continue reading Slip streaming MOSS SP1
I was doing some research for tools to make list configuration across multiple sites easier and came across this bit of information about site collection backups: You should lock the site collection first, then do the backup, then unlock the Continue reading Lock a site collection before backup
Here are some examples of working with MOSS lists via PowerShell. All of these assume that Get-SPWeb() is defined. You can get that from http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/zach/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=90bbfd11%2Dc9a5%2D45cf%2Da77e%2D19559aae81ae&ID=7. Adding a Calendar list to an SPWeb function global:Add-Calendar($url,$title){ $destWeb = get-SPweb -url $url Continue reading More PowerShell Scripting for MOSS
An easy and cheap way to build a stock quote web part is to use the Data View Web Part and the apparently free Stock Quote Web Service from WebServiceX.Net [Update 6/29/2018: the stock quote service is no longer there]. Continue reading Free Stock Quote Web Part
I just passed 70-630 this morning! I got a 947 out of 1000. J 70-630 is the certification exam for MOSS installation and Configuration. I like using practice exams as the final part of my study efforts, but I found Continue reading I passed 70-630!
A client of mine came to me today pointing out that when he opened a document library in Windows Explorer, only a few pieces of metadata are displayed such as the filename and modified date. He wanted to see the Continue reading Exposing More Columns in Explorer View