The more you use SharePoint, the more potential you see. I know because I’ve been working with it for years. You see past simple collaboration. You see workflow, document routing and approval features. You envision drastic improvements to efficiency.But as your vision take shape and your needs get more sophisticated you begin to realize that yo ...[Read More]

One piece of the Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System due April 28th announcement from the Microsoft Update Blog is the information on the STSADM upgrade scanning tool. The Office Sustained Engineering Team Blog preannounced this Service Pack back in October. That post and this update are a part of their effort “to increase transparency ...[Read More]

Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow ProjectThis is the 3rd part of our Beginners Guide to SharePoint 2007 Workflow Development.   You understand the workflow development scenario and how to create an InfoPath web-based form.  Now in this part of the series, we will be Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow Project for workflow develop ...[Read More]

The SharePoint Workflow History maintains a record of each step within a workflow.  Everything from approval activity (approve, denial), updates to a workflow, comments and even workflow errors. Workflow history list is created / deployed when you create or consume an out-of-box workflow or custom workflow. the workflow history list is not viewabl ...[Read More]

Check out the following posts by Waldek Mastykarz on using tables for layouts and other resources that give more information on this subject better way to obtain field values of an SPListItem using TryGetValue extension method tool to help SharePoint developers to deal with disposable objects in custom code Google has published Search Engin ...[Read More]

Both Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Nintex Workflow 2007 are powerful tools that can be used to create, design, and publish custom workflows to your Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Farm.  They are both generally geared toward the SharePoint Power User.  Although a beginner should be able to pick it up fairly easy.  They both use a ...[Read More]

Introduction to InfoPath FormsInfoPath 2007 is included as part of Office 2007 (trail / test drive) and forms generated by InfoPath 2007 are great for gathering information from end users. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, you can also use the InfoPath Forms Services capabilities to deliver forms as Microsoft Offic ...[Read More]

I will be walking you, a beginning developer, through a custom SharePoint 2007 workflow solution.  A few pieces of information before we get into the solution.  This scenario has been developed to assist developers (beginners) who are starting out in custom workflow development and to feel comfortable developing workflow solutions.  These techniqu ...[Read More]

The following Virtual Labs are available online and free of charge (Registration is required) through TechNet and MSDN. Each lab runs for 90 minutes. TechNet (click here): What's New in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Feature Walkthrough Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Installation and Configuration Microsoft Office SharePoin ...[Read More]