When SharePoint 2003 was released, the biggest gripe of its champions was the the near-total lack of documentation. With MOSS 2007 we're just on Beta 2 and Microsoft already has a wealth of developer documentation , online training, and Virtual Labs . I completely recommend the Virtual Labs ; these...

When SharePoint 2003 was released, the biggest gripe of its champions was the the near-total lack of documentation. With MOSS 2007 we're just on Beta 2 and Microsoft already has a wealth of developer documentation , online training, and Virtual Labs . I completely recommend the Virtual Labs ; these...

or, "Everything you know about Word is wrong." With all the talk about the SharePoint 2007 beta , it would be easy to miss the fact that SharePoint and Office are now really two sides of the same product. Both were released for public trial yesterday with Beta 2. So what's different? Everything! All...

In this fascinating series , a dozen people talk about how they organize their work. For Bill Gates , it's Three monitors to organize the desktop, Outlook and SharePoint, a Tablet PC with OneNote, and a whiteboard. More in the series (click on a name to bring up the gallery, then use the navigation to...

Shane Young had a great post a few days ago on adding a preconfigured XML Web Part into a Site Definition . The pain is that all the examples in ONET.XML use the Image Viewer WP, so how do you figure out how to write the CAML for your own? And while Todd has posted about exporting his tricked out Content...

Start Here A wonderful summary of SharePoint Search and Index , how it works, how it is configured, and how WSS and SPS search differ. Reference Managing External Content . Excerpted from the SharePoint Resoure Kit, this is an excellent reference on all aspects of search, not just the crawling of external...

A number of companies with products for SharePoint were recently cited in a release from Kurt Delbene , the VP of Microsoft's Office Server group, including K2.net workflow (a product of SourceCode) and CorasWorks . Kurt's release highlights the great work done by third parties to make SharePoint a great...

In Canada, extranet sites are often provided in both of our distinct national languages -- en-ca (English-Canadian) and en-nf (English-Newfoundland). Occasionally, government sites are also presented in the less entertaining fr-ca (Québécois). SharePoint Products and Technologies simply aren't multi...

I'm trying to shake a cold, so what follows may be entirely the result of too much cough medicine. Someone asked what to expect from SPS in the Office 12 timeframe, and the fact is that not much was announced at PDC. There was OFF313: Web Content Management Application Development and Engine Extensibility...

Tonight's TSPUG meeting brings us the long-awaited SharePoint Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery presentation by Radu Vaduva. As usual we'll spend some time before the presentation talking about what's new and answering questions. And what's new? Lots. The Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Service...