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 UK SharePoint Team ( http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint ). With many people...

In the first part of this series I gave a quick intro in to the tools and went through the initial planning stage about creating a site definition. Now the Next step… Step 2: Installing the Software Before any definitions can be created, you need to ensure...

SharePoint dev is a pretty new thing for me and feels pretty much like jumping into the ocean and being told to pull an ocean liner to New York (including all the pitfalls that may be encountered, like Icebergs!) One thing I've had to do recently is to...

There's a few ways of specify what users can and cannot do within SharePoint. The most blatent one is whether a user can actually access a site or not. Beyond that there are some very specific ways that Architects can control what users are allowed to...

The SharePoint team have been very busy over the past few weeks. Here's a quick run-down of the last two weeks in one handy place: Announcing-visual-studio-extensions-for-sharepoint-developer-user-guide.aspx - For all you Devs out there! Posters...

Each Site Template that is installed on SharePoint 2007 will have a unique name and number to allow for referencing when coding applications or using STSADM for site deployment (when using the -sitetemplate parameter, e.g. -sitetemplate STS#0 would apply...

Just a quick post to make you aware that the SharePoint Administrator toolkit is now available for download. There's loads over at: SharePoint Team Blog Some key highlights: Batch Site manager - schedule bulk operations against site collections...

Firstly this is my first blogpost up on this space so firstly let me say Hi and that I hope this content will be of some use! With SP1 for SharePoint 2007 and WSS v3 out in the wilds I thought it would be useful to share some info about finding the...