SharePoint Use Cases

We are currently demonstrating Microsoft Search Server 2008 to a number of customers. In order the speed-up the this process, we deployed an evaluation version of MSS on our evaluation server. I wanted to configure MSS as testing environment for some customers but allowing each customer to have an independent site for testing. The sample [...]

If you decide to link a document from a document library using some of the built in SharePoint links web parts, you will encounter a strange behavior of Office clients. Your document will be opened as read-only and you will not be able to save it. There is an KB article which describes how you [...]

Ian has posted a nice link to a Visio model published by Microsoft. It gives a very good overview of SharePoint security.

I have been using Microsoft Messenger for a number of years (it’s name changed but I cannot recall the old one). Recently we deployed new Communicator 2007 into production and I must say I am very happy with its possibilities. Conversation History One of the most important features of the new Communicator is the ability [...]

A friend of mine has started his own company (MicroISV) and asked me to advise him on how to setup some basic collaboration and CRM. When you are starting a new company, you should focus on core business stuff, and having a dedicated SharePoint server (if that is not your core business) is not a [...]

I currently have 4 domain accounts in our company domain. I use one of them as my primary account and the other three when testing security of our SharePoint 2007 based intranet. If you are deploying SharePoint for a customer or as an internal solution, you should always have an end user account for testing. [...]

On each project, which involves CRM 4.0, we always encounter a new issue. We are usually installing CRM on a clean box but something new always comes up The latest error we encountered when we opened CRM from browser: Error on page Line: 194 Char: 1 Error: Object expected Code: 0 I found a very [...]

We are currently customizing a site for a customer, and while doing it, our top navigation bar suddenly stopped highlighting currently selected sites. The solution to my problem was simple: we modified top navigation manually and added some additional links to sites. If you are adding links to a subsite, it must be formated like [...]

Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood have started a new community site – StackOverflow. Their idea is to create a Q&A site for developers and IT pros for various topics. Here is how Joel describes it: Every question in Stack Overflow is like the Wikipedia article for some extremely narrow, specific programming question. More… I have [...]

I often hear questions from a number of customers on how to update their current SharePoint installation. There are numerous updates available for SharePoint, WSS, and other products from the Office servers product line. In this post I will try to share some links I found while I was trying to sum everything up. The [...]