I wish you all a very happy new year. Keeping up with all the MS blogs and bloggers can be hard. If you’re facing this challenge. Here’s a great way to resolve it. http://blogs.technet.com/blogms/

Hey all, look what turned up on Codeplex! http://www.codeplex.com/MZakiCustomActions Download Zipped List Items Feature Project Description This Custom UI Actions for Sharepoint extends the lists action menu to allow users to zip document library items...

Today was educational. One of my colleagues came to me with a question about customizing the help files in MS Office. I told him to look for CHM files. Turns out I was wrong. Help's a bit different these days J Here's what I found: More info on Microsoft...

Found this great site where you can search for readiness resources online. Includes courses, webcasts and more. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/readiness/pages/search.aspx

I wonder how many people have seen this article on Technet? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262834.aspx It's an excellent resource on hardening your SharePoint environment. Also shows you some commands to use when running PSConfig to...

I was playing Rise of Legends over the last few days. After a late night session the day before, I woke up to find that my DVD drive had disappeared. It was physically present, but for some reason it just wouldn't play a movie, a cd and certainly not...

Almost forgot to write about Audacity . If you're into podcasting – of the audio sort – then you can surely use this free tool. I was somewhat overwhelmed by it at first, but after locating the Record button, I felt a lot better. Generally most of...

Wow, my last post was on the 12 th of May! That's a reflection of year-end madness we get infected with at MS. So, now that that's done with, I can return to posting again. Update. I've been reallocated as an SSP. So now I'm SSP Biz Productivity. Translation...

http://officelabs.com Check out he website to find some interesting tools and ideas that we're trying out. Concept testing is what this site is all about.  The projects you find here are not products or beta versions. They don't even pretend to be...

SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Best Practices This section describes best practices for many common types of customizations and whether they are supported in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Customization , as used...

Repost from the SharePoint team blog: Three recent additions to the SharePoint Features project: Toolbar Manager : This Feature allows you to selectively show and hide menu items on the standard list/library toolbar. The feature adds a new web part...

So SharePoint was the front-end view for quite a few apps, but now, here's one step further. Why not build your application logic using InfoPath. So I recently read two articles about it and putting them together, you may see more solutions. Here goes...

More positive news from the Open Standards front – we've got the Open Specifications Promise from MS dated 2006 and it looks like we also have freed up the Office binary formats – so you don't need to move to Office 2007 formats to rest easy that your...

We've got an interesting bit of news for you. When competing with most Doc Mgmt products a key requirement is external file storage (or storage on file system). SharePoint's key failing was that SQL is the default and only store. With the following article...

From Brian Jones' blog: The availability of the compatibility pack has been an interesting discussion. Today, the compatibility pack is only available as a manual download . In other words, Microsoft does not "push" the compatibility pack to users using...

I met Mike Gannotti in Seattle in July last year. He presented at a small team gathering and told us of the work he'd done around Knowledge Centers. That idea stuck with me and here's the complete series he's posted on getting them up and running. ...

We released our Filter Pack for SharePoint this week. A must have for everyone! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60c92a37-719c-4077-b5c6-cac34f4227cc&DisplayLang=en Since many products are built on the underlying SharePoint...

A customer issue again – I'm learning more and more from my customers these days! So, said customer has a MOSS internet site and does the publishing from an internal staging server. Of course the site on the internet is enabled for anonymous users...

June 7, 2007— Today, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Stratature. This announcement builds on the relationship Microsoft and Stratature have already established, and will accelerate Microsoft's delivery of technology in the MDM market; it represents...

6071AE: Developing Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 In this online collection composed of six courses, developers will learn how to develop customized Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions. Topics...

One of my customers recently faced 2 issues with content deployment. We were both unaware of the hotfixes that were posted to resolve them. Here's a quick summary of the issues. Issue #1: Some special characters show up in the Published site: Â and...

I ran into this issue when I got a new HP laptop. After going through the setup of the brand new PC, I found that I couldn't run updates. After some escalations, I recieved this fix reg delete HKLM\Components /v AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving  ...

I'm sure at one point or another, you've wondered about this and probably came up with some ideas. Probably before you thought of hiring someone, or probably when you wanted to do some Knowledge-Transfer. Looks like your thinking may be done for you...

Excellent post on how to configure Forms Based Authentication (FBA) in MOSS: http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/02/23/Office_SharePoint_Server_2007_Forms_Based_Authentication_FBA_Walkthrough_Part_1.aspx http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive...

You may recall my previous email regarding this topic. In response to my blog post, here's something I found. Please check out this website and let's get working on bridging SharePoint and Java! http://www.jnbridge.com/ Where do you need Java and...