SharePoint Use Cases

A customer recently approached me with a simple request: how to show total number of employees on his home page. They are using a SharePoint Contacts list as a central phone book for their company. It is an interesting use case and I will try to provide more details about it in future posts. Although [...]

An anonymous reader asked: Do i need cals for read-only users sharepoint server 2007? SharePoint does not recognize a read-only license. You will need to buy a CAL for each user that is accessing your data. Each client computer accessing Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Office Forms Server 2007 requires a valid CAL. There are [...]

In previous articles I wrote about configuring scopes in SharePoint and Search Server 2008 (Part 1 | Part 2). One additional question that I would like to explain is scopes dropwodn configuration. Configuring Scopes Scopes are controlled by Site Settings > Search Settings, here is the list of available options: Option Result Default Scope > [...]

A reader Ajay asked: I have a requirement where I need to send automatic emails to the submitter of the out of the box approval workflow once its finished. I tried to create SharePoint workflow for sending email in the item changed event, but no hit. Would be grateful if you can provide a solution [...]

Believe it or not, it is time for Microsoft CRM 5.0. It will probably be released as part of Office14 wave (target year 2010) but there is already some information about the new features. Simon Hutson a very nice post with information about new features, and from SharePoint perspective the most important feature is the [...]

I am sometimes really amazed with cool features of Google Applications. They have just released a new feature for GMail, that allows you to make voice and video calls from your GMail interface. Very cool )))

In every major project we are running, there is always a request to store some additional metadata to SharePoint. Usually this data describes : processes running on SharePoint platform document attributes users …or customer just wants to have the same, familiar web interface or a single web application for the end user. Few days ago [...]

A reader MCT asked: Does anyone know how to translate SharePoint’s site usage reports? For example, when you generate the report called monthly summary – page, it lists “total hits.” Does this mean the total number of visits to the page? Also, if you have headers or graphics on a page, they show up in [...]

In order to improve this blog I am constantly monitoring activity reports provided by Google Analytics. Few days ago I noticed that someone came to my blog by using the following keywords: add wikipedia searchbox webpart to sharepoint add google search bar to sharepoint The query seemed interesting and here are some possible solutions: Solution [...]

In Part 1 of this post I described how you can configure multiple site collections and different scopes, and in this article I will provide step-by-step guide on how to configure scopes for a site collection. As you might recall the part 1, if a user does not select a scop,e MSS will return results [...]