November 2006 Entries
This is a great little time saving tip form Heather Solomon. When working with files in the style library for example, it's a tidious process of publishing them. You got to check in, approve and publish. Well the way to circumvent that proces is to navigate to Site Settings -> Manage Content and Structure. Navigate to the file(s) in question and chose Publish from the Actions meny.
It's actually a great timesaver. Read the original tip here.
Remember all those application templates you could download for WSS v2? Well, soon there will be a bunch of them for v3 as well. To be exact 40 of them.
"Microsoft will release a new set of 40 application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Some of the previous scenarios, such as Help Desk, Project Site, Knowledge Base and the Employee/HR templates will be improved to incorporate and highlight new capabilities in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. New scenarios will also be added to address specific customer needs and business requirements."
So, keep your eys pealed at this site in the beginning of next...
I've used Telerik's r.a.d Editor Lite for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 before and I can say that it was not a dissapointment! I had to tweak it a little to get fully compliant xhtml, but that was due to a by design issue in MCMS 2002.
Now Telerik delivered thier r.a.d editor for SharePoint 2007. Which has a lot of nice features, such as:
Cross browser support
Accessibility - Section 508 compliant
Support for listings, list items and more
And what's more, it's free for all Microsoft Office SharePoint...
Lawrence Lui have set up a nice SharePoint Community Serach at Live.com. Nice going!
You can easely set up you own search engine at live.com if you like.
Finally we released Windows SharePoint Services extension for Visual Studio 2006. Templates available in this release is:
Team Site Definition
Blank Site Definition
ListDefinition
Web Part
Grab the bits here.
Starting a couple of days ago Microsoft supplies a set of vhd (Virtual Hard Drives) containing MS products for download. I really like this idea, this is something we use a lot internally for demo, test and poc purposes. Check it out here.
Is a small one. My brother was out traveling so I asked him to bye this USB stick. He didn't, instead he bought this one: It's 1 GB USB 2. I'm a little disappointed I didn't get a 2 GB but still I really like it. So, what do I use it for? Well, I'm going to take this opportunity to present a few tools that make my life easier. Synchronization Yeah, I synchronize files (namely my "my documents" folder) between my laptop and the USB-stick. That's right, synchronizing NOT backing up. The big difference being I can...
Ever felt like you wanted to extend SharePoint's administration utility stsadm.exe with some of your own commands? Well now in MOSS 2007 it's possible. Some xml configuration and implementation of the ISPStsadmCommand interface. Tony Bierman has an excellent post here on how to do this and Andrew Connell has written a few custom extensions.