After careful thought, I have decided to join forces with the rest of the SharePoint team in UK Microsoft Consulting Services to work collectively on a new team blog called The UK SharePoint Team ( http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/ ). With many people...

I recently made a nice looking Web Part (shown below) which shows a picture of my Xbox 360 avatar and those of my friends. I used Microsoft Popfly to make it look so great and I thought I’d explain how you could make your own. This is aimed at all those...

If you work in a healthcare organisation, or just want free Microsoft guidance and software to help you create a sophisticated SharePoint environment, the following maybe of interest..... Microsoft has recently posted lots of Microsoft Healthcare Platform...

The Quick Launch (a.k.a Current Navigation) is available on SharePoint sites to help users navigate to the appropriate lists, libraries and pages. However, on the rare occasion you are asked to hide the Quick Launch (shown in red) you can follow this...

A nice way of increasing adoption of SharePoint within your organisation is to make SharePoint Search available from within IE7’s Instant Search Box (as shown below): When a user enters a search term, clicks SharePoint and presses return, they will...

Aim This blog post aims to compare how Outlook 2007 , Groove 2007 and OneNote 2007 enable users to take files offline from SharePoint. Hopefully, this will be useful for those who work remotely (away from ‘the office’) but want to view, edit and update...

Codeplex has recently released the source code for the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint project —based on the Silverlight Beta 2 release. The Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint provide a way for developers to better understand how to integrate...

A few weeks ago a Tech Preview of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS) was made available on codeplex. The PKS is a free add-on for SharePoint Server 2007 which allows you to integrate Podcasts with SharePoint. The add-on enables you to: Find...

I recently came across a new product we are creating called SharePoint Online . As the name suggests, the product is web/cloud based and as a result is excellent for scenarios where you have people working remotely or in different geographic locations...

The SharePoint team has recently announced the release of an Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297). This update includes Enterprise Search improvements for SharePoint Server 2007. To me, the initial "wow factor" comes from the...

I have recently seen a very interesting blog post from Edward Wilde who has been able to integrate a SharePoint KPI list with a digital picture frame . This allows a CxO/Manager to track organisational performance very easily. I think this is a great...

If you are looking for a starting point when making Web Parts in the latest version of Visual Studio (2008) it could be worth visiting http://www.codeplex.com/smarttemplates . The SmartPart Web Part project is a great initiative and can be seen in use...

This post aims to describe how to easily copy several Outlook 2007 calendar entries to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 calendar. 1. Create a SharePoint Calendar 2. On the SharePoint Calendar, from the Actions menu, select Connect...

Following the recent questions from my last post I thought it would be useful to highlight what functions are available when creating a column in a list/library within MOSS 2007. This can be useful when creating a: Calculated column based on other...

This post will describe how to create a view of a SharePoint list or library which displays the items/documents that meet a custom date value. Scenario A 'New Employees' view is needed on an 'Employees' list to allow the Head of HR to see who has...

This post will describe how to create a v iew of a SharePoint list or library which displays the items/documents that have been added to a list or library in the last X number of days (X is a variable you define). Scenario A 'Recent Requests' view...

This posts follows on from Post 5 and is part of a 6 part series of posts. Conclusion After reviewing Posts 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 I have come to the conclusion that: · Groove 2007 is suitable for short-term projects in which teams are small, have...

This posts follows on from Post 4 and is part of a 6 part series of posts. It is best to use Groove 2007 : · In short-term projects when sharing information and creating documents quickly is important. · In small teams performing project-centric...

This posts follows on from Post 3 and is part of a 6 part series of posts. When to use each product The combination of features (described in Post 2 ) and implementation methods (described in Post 3 ) possessed by each product make them appropriate...

This posts follows on from Post 2 and is part of a 6 part series of posts. Product Implementation The matrix below aims to succinctly compare how Communicator 2007, Groove 2007, WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 are implemented architecturally. ...

This post follows on from Post 1 and is part of a 6 part series of posts. Collaborative Functionality The matrix below aims to succinctly compare Communicator 2007, Groove 2007, WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 in terms of collaborative functionality. ...

This is the first of a series of 6 posts. Aim of post series To compare Groove 2007, MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0 and Communicator 2007 and provide advice on when to use each product. Current Confusion There are several Microsoft collaborative products...

Hello and welcome! This blog has been created by James Kemp, a SharePoint consultant from Microsoft UK. Over the next few weeks I hope to post lots of useful information about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, Windows SharePoint Services...