Wow, it's been a looooong time since I've blogged here - a lot on my plate I guess. Anyway, on with the show. I recently attended a customer, here in Sydney, with a number of SharePoint issues. One of these was an inability to delete old, defunct SSPs...

Like many of you out there, I have a Windows Mobile Smartphone. The one in my case is an i-Mate SP5, and I really like it. Recently though, it developed a problem which was really annoying me. By default, it offers quick access to menu items using...

I've been rooting round in SharePoint internals today, mostly out of curiosity, after a fellow engineer here at the GTSC mentioned changing the port number on which Central Admin is published. We have a supported way, and some unsupported ways, and some...

Having recently spent some time in India attending training on Microsoft Search Server 2008 , and having been quite sick as a result, I've got a bit of a backlog of SharePoint blogging to catch up with. First of all, to comment on Search Server: This...

No, I really, really love sushi. Quite often you'll find me dining out at Hamachi-Ya, Sushi Train, Sapporo or Sushi Club, four of my favourite japanese restaurants in Sydney. So imagine my joy when I found SharePoint Sushi , a neat UI utility to carry...

This post has been snatched from the headlines of Premier Support. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Now read on... Imagine for a moment you're creating a new InfoPath form t recieve user input. Imagine furthermore that you're pre...

My long-time colleague and soon-to-be defector to Premier Field Engineering Andrew Purdon has joined us on planet blog with the opening of " The Office Sharepoint Server Experience ". His opening post deals with customising Access Request emails and...

We (Microsoft) have lots published guidance on customising SharePoint for your own specific needs. We provide lots of built-in site definitions for various purposes, but sometimes you need to tweak those to suit your own scenario. But are your tweaks...

The subject of today's post: running code in sharepoint with elevated rights, an operation sometimes required, sometimes abused and often misunderstood. The WSS Object Model provides a huge number of classes, some of which can carry-out potentially...

The Sharepoint SDK (officially, the "SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit") is downloadable from microsoft.com . If you develop .NET applications for SharePoint, or support said applications...

I can't make it tonight, unfortunately, but I feel duty bound to publisise the Sydney SharePoint User Group , which usually meets at Uniqueworld, Campbell Street Sydney. Check the site for full details, but it's open to all interested parties and includes...

Here at CSS (formerly PSS), our bread-and-butter is the support incident . One recent incident (hereafter referred to as 'the case') allowed me the rare opportunity to blog on what goes on here at CSS when an issue is raised by one of our customers, and...

I'm called upon to troubleshoot numerous errors with SharePoint on a day-to-day basis, and some of the most frustrating are "Unexpected Error" messages which occasionally crop up on web-part pages. This is worst for administrators when they occur on hitting...

kthx OK, so the nod to Lolcats is extremely cheesy and trite, but I'm in one of those moods, OK? To put it sensibly, the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is now available from MSDN as a ClickOnce Application, designed with the creamy goodness...

It is written: All blogs must begin with an awkward introductory post from the blogger, explaining in stilted terms who the blogger is, and what he or she intends to do with the blog. This stated direction will then turn out to be anything but the direction...