Want to allow users to search / lookup employees through the Active Directory? The Employee Lookup webpart, for a SharePoint 2007 publishing portal, does not work right out of the box - as it needs to be configured. As I continue learning and start sharing my experiences with the SharePoint community, I thought [...]
One of the most commonly asked questions I get is ‘how do I get anonymous access to work’. Usually, a person has enabled anonymous access in Central Administration, but not in the site collection. Here, I will try to reduce the process to the bare minimum required to enable anonymous access for a single document [...]
Andrew Connell, one of the grandmasters of SharePoint has a lenghty post, deserving of a bookmark, that outlines how to configure a Publishing Site (aka: WCM site) in MOSS 2007. The goal is to provide an experience that achieves three requirements:
Allow content owners/authors to authenticate on the site using their corporate Active Directory credentials in [...]
Here is a quick links for SharePoint documents that were just newly published content for Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Deploy using DBA-created databases (Office SharePoint Server) In many IT environments, database creation and management are handled by the database administrator (DBA). In your organization, security policies and other policies might require that the DBA create the [...]
With the different authentication provider support for MOSS, there are more and more free applications that will provide user management tools integrated in the SharePoint environment.
One very good example is the Forms Based User Administration Feature, which can be downloaded from codeplex.
Feature [...]
Here’s a very decent virtual lab for using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to design a custom workflow that is triggered on file creation or change. Within the workflow designer, you will use out-of-the-box actions such as assigning a task or sending an e-mail message based on promoted values in your form data. In addition
Did you know that in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can define workflow tasks as bulk editable? You do that and provide a custom InfoPath form view to enable users to edit workflow tasks as a group?
Well Andrew May tackles this exact topic in his latest post titled Bulk Editing Workflow Tasks In MOSS [...]
