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Console Application to Delete and/or Recycle File versions in a MOSS 2007 Publishing Site
A while back, I wrote a console application that helped me cleanup file versions in a publishing site collection just before we went live with the site. This console application was sitting on my laptop for the longest time till now. This application evolved into an STSADM Extension. This blog entry represents the work done…
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Themes in SharePoint 2010
I thought I’d leave a note on SharePoint 2010 Themes. Nothing too deep. In version 3 of SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007), to create and publish a Theme, you would have had to go through the following steps outlined here in the How To: Customize Themes (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979310.aspx). You needed access to the SharePoint Front…
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Purchase SPC 2009 Session Content
Hello folks – Look at this. I ran accross this resource that potentially will allow people to purchase and access SharePoint 2009 Conference session content. I haven’t tried it yet. I don’t need to, but let me know if it worked for you. Link to resource- https://spc2009.dynamiceventsreg.com/ Good luck!
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Why Windows is still the Big Dog out there
If you’re looking at market share of Desktop Operating Systems, you will find that Microsoft Windows owns the desktop market. Of course. I am not surprised. I say mission accomplished and great job! Keep going. Here are few links to resources on the subject Steve Ballmer (2007) – http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speech/FY07/BallmerFAM2007.mspx Linux.com – http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/25221?tid=19 Market Share –…
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SharePoint 2010 – Think Technology and You will miss the point
Have you seen the new SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform Map located here [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=04BA41FD-F088-4D7C-A86E-3855C16E23A2&displaylang=en]? Let me ask again… If you’ve seen it and you’re a bit creative, you know what I’m talking about. It fired me up personally. It confirmed to me that business and personal productivity is not all about technology. It has a relationship…
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SharePoint Adapts to Social and Business Behavior
With the release date of SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 closing in, I wonder what’s next for Microsoft. They’re probably already planning on the next release; the one that comes after 2010, may be 2014 or something like that 🙂 I say that because if you are building software today, you ought to think forward. What…
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Close the circle on your SharePoint Search Implementation by adding a custom IE Search Provider
How many times have you thought of ways that could help you bring people into your SharePoint portal. Ways that can help sell SharePoint internally. You want your users to really use SharePoint for everything they do. Well, if you’ve done or worked on search solutions, you probably seen or heard of custom IE search…
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SharePoint 2007 and Section 508 Accessibility – A brief look at what it takes to become compliant
SharePoint 2007 (SharePoint hereafter) and Section 508 Accessibility are not a very happy couple. They are happy, but not very much. The relationship still needs some work 🙂 Today, we still have to deal with how SharePoint renders its pages, web part zones, OOB web parts, and navigation. Out-Of-the-Box SharePoint sites are not very accessible.…
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World War III or SharePoint 2010 Now!
The actual phrase that makes up the title of this blog entry came from a couple of friends of mine. I thought this is awesome, and here we are. I’m currently attending the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. This past Monday and to my surprise, Microsoft announced that the Public Beta release of SharePoint…
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Fixing Error 1500 Another Installation is in process
A quick note here on options to fix MSI Installer error 1500. The other day, I spent a good chunk of my morning digging into this. I was really surprised as to why this is happening. My machine is brand new Windows 7 and everything else on it is, well, except for few 2010 programs…
Johnny Harbieh 