SharePoint Use Cases

I made a custom search web part for SharePoint as described at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms551453.aspx While developing, in number of occasions, I received an error: „Cannot import this web part”. The error seemed to appear randomly. As usual, the solution was simple. My SharePoint portal was extended to two sites. Simple rule: If you are deploying web [...]

A client of mine approached me with the following request: We would like to change name format in our CRM. Currently name format is „firstname lastname”, and we would like to change it to „lastname, firstname”. Microsoft CRM 3.0 allows you to change the name format. However when you change this setting, CRM will inform [...]

While editing pages on your SharePoint you probably encountered a situation when Edit page command in Site actions menu is disabled (see figure 1). Figure 1- Edit page disabled This is not an error. Edit page command will be disabled when another user has checked-out that particular page. To see which user has done so [...]

When presenting Microsoft products to potential customers I use my laptop and virtual machines stored on an external hard drive. Currently I am using Western Digital MyBook 500 GB. It’s a good hard disk and I’m very satisfied with it. Every time you arrive at your customer’s location you need to power up your virtual [...]

As you all know SharePoint comes with a Blog site template. The template is very nice, although it misses some standard blog features. The biggest advantage of this blog template is the ability to use MS Word 2007 as you primary blog editor. You can do everything, even upload pictures, from standard Word 2007 interface. [...]

Last week I was busy setting up BDC, Search and Excel services for my company intranet site. I will be posting a series of posts on these topics but today I will put a few notes on SSO. You will definitely need SSO for BDC and BDC Search; for Excel services there are some workarounds. [...]

I was eager to see what Microsoft has done with reports in new SharePoint. But when I tried to enable and see these reports, I got an error 403 saying this page is forbidden. (I’m SharePoint administrator.) This problem is known and is explained here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913384. The article references a patch for solving this problem. [...]

My company is in process of upgrading our intranet site to SharePoint 2007. We are looking forward to new search features. We want to make our SharePoint a central place that will allow our employees to search for all business information. Therefore we are going to crawl: Old intranet site Our CRM (MS Dynamics 3.0) [...]

Every once in a while I run into a customer who wants to have an ability to compare different versions of a Word document. Any developer that worked with Source Safe or similar tools knows how such a feature can be very helpful. I’m not sure if it existed in Word 2003, but with Word [...]

Recently I got a very nice book: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by Bill English and others. I did not have the time the whole book (it has 1200 pages), but parts I read were really great. Anyone working with SharePoint should have a copy of this book. (The only downside is its [...]