Becoming a popular blog gives you certain responsibilities and hopefully I can keep improving on my content. I wanted to thank you, loyal visitors, by giving something back to you. I'm holding a contest for all members of the SharePoint community. However, in order to decide the winner, your participation is required. For this contest, I wi ...[Read More]

Just browsing around at all the wonderful blogs that have started up and I have to say, its refreshing. SharePoint 2007 has definitely become one of the most welcomed versions of SharePoint. This might have been caused by the blogosphere, global community or just the great features that SharePoint 2007 offers; who knows and who cares why! Today ...[Read More]

I figure it'd be good to provide a list of links to some of the best articles around on SharePoint 2007's RSS Viewer Web Part. You will find that some of these posts are the best out there; however if you find I don't have all the links here, why not link to them here? Microsoft provides a simple walkthrough on how to set up the RSS Viewer in S ...[Read More]

The SharePoint 2007 Best Practices Analyzer will collect all the data from your database, registry, etc and apply a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules against the data set.  A detailed report listing is provided after the completion so you can make your SharePoint 2007 Portal faster and more flexible. Microsoft had recently released a Bes ...[Read More]

It is possible to manually change the SharePoint Timer Service account: From a command prompt change to the directory where the SharePoint Timer Service is running C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN Run the command stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype configurableid -userlogin domain\account - ...[Read More]

As many have already pointed out, the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions are available for download.   Web Part, team site definition, blank site defintions and list definitions are included.  Also including is the SharePoint Solution Generator: This stand-alone program generates a Site Definition project from an ...[Read More]

Andrew Connell wants everyone to be aware of the SharePoint Developers blog that has been running since January 2007.   As Andrew points out, there's very little information (4 posts altogether) but the content is good.  Lets hope they continue the quality content but pick up the pace as us SharePoint developers would love to see more. SharePoint ...[Read More]

Microsoft has released SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack providing you with an 104MB IMG file for download. The SharePoint 2007 Language packs enable creation of SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server 2007. Multiple language packs can be installed on the same se ...[Read More]

Last week the SharePoint MVP's were on a one week retreat for team building at MVP Summit 2007. MVP Daniel Larson has the MVP Summit Opening Video Canadian Developers have a Videocast from MVP Summit 2007 Videocast: Matthew Cassell MVP Ivan Wilson posts about what a crazy week it was with pictures from the MVP Summit Stacy Draper asks who the ...[Read More]

Here are the top posts for last week: SharePoint: The Next Big “Operating System” from Microsoft? There's spectulation on what Microsoft plans on doing with SharePoint. There's certainly a plausability of making SharePoint THE middle-tier platform. Installation Guide for SharePoint Application Templates using STSADM.exe Need a one stop place ...[Read More]