Whitepapers for sharepoint 2007

Combined knowledge has some handy looking white papers and a handy looking fix to make it possible to install MOSS 2007 on a DC.

Free sharepoint 2007 and WSS3 manual, (beta)

From those nice people at microsoft its a pdf.

According to Jan "(almost) nothing is impossible with InfoPath"

Assuming that you have Visual Studio and Infopath SP1

Jan's excellent "InfoPath: How To Populate a List Control With SharePoint Users" article

or you might want to create a custom web service for your info path docs here's how

import and export public folders and other to sharepoint

here you are a free tool to get stuff , for free, into sps2003

consume RSS in a web part using the friendly smiling goat and its free and it won an award

but also Matt Muller has written a thing to generate RSS feeds from sharepoint lists!

Nice Microsoft worked examples using CAML to tweak templates and such like without creating unghosts

Customizing (customising) your site.

I keep mentioning this link so here are the three handy white papers from MS that do the job of explaining how themes,css and such like are related

Jan Tielmans has done again, well infact he's just updated the breadcrumb and navigation web parts, and very good and easy they are too. Here's the link

Document libraries (2003) tips and tricks

Instead of having to train users in always checking documents out of document libraries those nice people at MSD2D have some code to tweak the template

If you're going to be uploading large documents,apart from changing the max file size, what else should you do? well 'the goldfish bowl' has the answers

Don't kick the web bucket

There is a max of 20 areas before you start to see c1 ...c2 the so called web buckets, so here is a nice article explaining it from that nice Daniel Macpherson

sharepoint 2007 books

Free microsoft books for Sharepoint 2007

logging bogging you down?

Yann de Champlain cool name, cool guy has a link to some tools for working with the gatherer log.

simple but handy intro to logs from M-soft

mysite tips

Those mysite pages there all very well in their way but they are prone to get unghosted if you not careful so try editing the underlying templates, here's a howto from Daniel Macpherson

dynamic dataview howto

Lisa Wollin, has the way to connect up dataviews to sql and thence to each other, saving the writing of any code.

multi languages

Have a read of KB article 817945

or try the language template pack from microsoft which lets you make up sites in multiple languages.

undeleters, recycle bins and such like

Mindshare has a free template change to document libraries which could do the trick.

Or to restore anything at all try Avepoint's trash bin, the demo looks pretty neat

or here is some code from microsoft that does a similar thing.

or lastly have a look at smart library from nintex which does a whole bunch of 'document management' type stuff.

enough with the recycle bins for now.

destroy all unghosts

Those nice people at Bluedog have a very clear explanation:

1. Go to Create | Web Part Page. The page you create is “ghosted”.
2. Open the page in FrontPage.
3. Make a change and hit save. Your page is now “unghosted”.

Difference between #1 and #3? Huge.

In #1, the ghosted page is basing its content from the template which exists on the file system. The asp.net parser renders the page.

In #3, the unghosted page content is taken from the database. When you saved the page in FP, the "template" contents from #1 were copied over to the database. All future versions of that page are now based off the database copy, not the file system copy. The page is now controlled by the SafeMode parser.

So how do I know which is which? use ghosthunter found as part of the handy webpart toolkit again from bluedog

and here is how to create those tasty ghosted pages programmatically

Don't miss out on what's new in MOSS 2007

Import and export content and associated metadata between sites as xml, which looks easier than doing battle with CAML, see for yourself

Here is a collection of articles about the new features of MOSS 2007 as I find them, in particular order:

Workflow : an article from microsoft

Mobile device support : from Jan Tielan's site

Blogs,Wikis and RSS support here's a groovy video from channel 9

XSD added to WSS 3:
A Schema used to validate whether the specified HTML file will render correctly in Outlook 2007
Business data catalog DC support

"The Business Data Catalog allows structured data from line-of-business applications to be integrated into SharePoint in multiple ways through Web Parts, lists, people profiles, and search. Centrally managed connections to back-end systems can be defined once and then reused by end users to access back-end data without writing any code—easily making business data part of portal content. The Business Data Catalog also provides the ability for SharePoint Enterprise Search to integrate back-end business data into the search experience, without having to write any protocol handlers, iFilters, or custom code."

from Mohamed Zaki
and here is an exciting looking app to write them with no code from Todd Baginski
the microsoft page about 'authoring metadata' looks quite enlightening too.

site definitions use .net 2 master pages here's some stuff from Todd Stegeman

Lots of accessibility and usability settings, Rizwan's site seem to have a handy list

The sharepoint tips and tricks site has some fantasic looking stuff, profiles now are user configurable and here is a description

Any other features are probably are in the boileroom

What's the fuss about workflow in MOSS 2007?

nice couple of articles, first one from Msoft and then building custom workflow stuff from the vb-tech weblog

instead of alert me what about alert them....

Its Jan the man again with his mighty sharepoint skills, here he provides a web part that allows admins to set alerts on users mysites....is there nothing this man can't do?

where have all the files gone?

From schema.xml to onet.xml this natty M/soft article should tell you where to look.

If you want to change the way surveys work in sharepoint, for example putting the submit button at the bottom, or for that matter changing the text of the button from save and close to something else....then why not try this, handy article from MSD2D

workflow lite for sharepoint

Jan Tielmans again amazes with this work flow beta

blogs for sharepoint

Steen Molberg's little blog web part is nice and seems to do the job.

If you want wiki's then Matt Muller looks like he has had made a start on the problem.

workflow, communications and similar

Microsoft have developed a template for marketing teams to coordinate marketing campaigns

Jan Theilans workflow lite, looks to be a good stop gap till 2007 or the purchase of something more 'enterprise'-ish

Useful list of webpart howto's and similar from Tony Bierman

Amazing searching without SPS not possible you cry...oh yes it is try, here is how

tabbed browsing in sharepoint

Heather Solomon tells us how to do it, without using much more than a .CSS. Thanks Heather.

THE list of sharepoint links

Eric Legault has a mighty list of links for everything you could ever want