The Toronto SharePoint Camp has been announced! Toronto's first SharePoint Camp will be held on Saturday October 20, 2007 at 200 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I urge everyone who will be within the Toronto to register ASAP as space will definitely be filling up. For more information on how to sponsor or volunteer, you can chec ...[Read More]

Microsoft has just released a new knowledge base article that everyone should be aware of KB826797 You cannot search for content, or you may receive unexpected results when you search for content in the portal site in SharePoint Server 2007 or in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 I wanted to share the information with you as you might not be aware of ...[Read More]

Some important SharePoint posts making the rounds in the last few days: Joel shares his thoughts on the 2 Stage Recycle Bin and recovery and some common misconceptions / mistakes Shane Young asks if Kerberos is case sensitive and the steps in setting up Kerberos Joel has another post on the latest info related to Hotfixes, service packs, and ...[Read More]

Microsoft has just provided a command line utility to assist in creating crawl rules for indexing Forms Authentication/Cookie-protected Web sites in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Input to the utility is provided via an XML file (sample). The XML file should contain the following: path - URL path for which this crawl rule applies, i ...[Read More]

Just a friendly reminder to everyone who has deployed Sharepoint 2007 to read this. Microsoft has just released hot fix roll-up for MOSS 2007 for Search. This Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Hotfix Roll-up fixes a problem in which case-sensitive Web content cannot be crawled. This update also fixes a problem in which sites tha ...[Read More]

There's been a huge discussion on whether SharePoint 2007 is a good or bad development platform. There are arguments against SharePoint: too much friction to develop on not enough developer shared developer databases slow down the team Andrew, Sahil and other SharePoint MVPs came in to defend us SharePoint developers. What's my take on th ...[Read More]

On the SharePoint Team blog, Tom Rizzo (Director of Product Management), has just announced changes to MOSS licensing. Since its launch, if you wanted to have a public facing site, then you needed to have two different servers: one for the internal site and one for the external site. Now if you'd like you can have both sites on the same server ( ...[Read More]

This is our second edition of Master Page Monday's. In our first edition, we shared some links that were useful to the SharePoint branding community. Today, we are going to provide a tip that will allow you to brand not just your default.master or application.master but also your admin.master. The admin.master takes care of the look and feel fo ...[Read More]

Today we have a SharePoint 2007 website to showcase. A leading operator re-brands in Jordan and decides to use SharePoint as their portal software. After you look at Zain, come back and check out the SharePoint Showcase section for more SharePoint 2007 implementation goodness. ...[Read More]

The error message that you receive resembles the following: Virus Found FileName contains the following virus:"". I thought that might get your attention. A friend of mine was running into this issue with a client and we both were trying to figure this out. Microsoft has recently released a knowledge base that suggests that you eithe ...[Read More]