SharePoint Config

This post shows how you can easily view the XML that is used in an XSL transform, so you can see the elements that you can use in the display. Continue reading Viewing XML data from XSLT »

I was having a look at some of the many SharePoint related projects on CodePlex and the MetaTagGenerator control caught my eye. This is a very simple but useful control for creating tags for pages within a content managed MOSS site. Continue reading Meta Tag Generator »

Telerik’s RadEditor for MOSS 2007 is a great cross-browser substitute for the default rich-text editor provided by MOSS. They are now offering two versions, a Lite (free) edition that provides similar functionality to the default rich-text editor, and a full version that provides additional features such as in-line AJAX spellchecking and pasting rich-text formatted content from Word. Continue reading Telerik RadEditor for MOSS 2007 »

I’ve been busy over the last few weeks working on the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 Enhanced Blog Edition. We have now released the first version on CodePlex which contains many enhancements for SharePoint blogs. These enhancements include friendly URLs (i.e. archive/2007/06/19/enhanced-blog-edition-beta-1.aspx vs. Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=26), tag cloud support, post trimming, Akismet integration for spam prevention and custom RSS URLS. The most significant feature in my opinion, however, is the ‘Modular Theme Framework’ (MTF). Continue reading Enhanced Blog Edition Beta 1 »

The recently released SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Policy 2007 White Paper provides a great starting point for implementing and managing customisations in a SharePoint based environment. The paper contains a list of customisations that are possible with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 and provides guidance on how and when to use each type of customisation. It also contains information on what is and isn’t supported. Continue reading SharePoint Customisation Policy 2007 White Paper »

This post shows how you can update the RSS feed for your SharePoint blog. This is useful if you want to take advantage of services such as feedburner that provide statistics on the number and type of subscribers a blog has. Continue reading Changing the RSS feed for a SharePoint Blog »

Something that I wasn’t aware of until now is the fact that if you save a site template in MOSS 2007 it will not work in WSS 3.0. Continue reading MOSS Site Templates Not Compatible With WSS »

If you are using the out of the box SharePoint blog site and want to change the look and feel away from the ‘boxy’ SharePoint look this post is for you. Continue reading Custom Blog Site Template »

Saving a list as a template is an easy way of transferring data from one place to another in SharePoint. By default, however, the maximum size of list templates in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 is 10MB. Continue reading Increasing the maximum size of list templates »

So what is the difference between the standard and enterprise licenses for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server? The short answer is business intelligence and forms (or business process if you are a pie person). Continue reading Standard vs Enterprise MOSS »