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SharePoint Conference 2008

The SharePoint Conference 2008 event is underway. Things started up tonight with registration and an opening night reception in the exhibition hall with all the vendors. Many of the usual suspects were already in attendance, speaking at booths or mingling...

Published 03-03-2008 1:40 AM by wpreston

Filed under: General, MNSPUG, SharePoint, SharePoint Conference 2008

Minnesota SharePoint User Group Announcements

A few annoucements posted on the Minnesota SharePoint User Group ( MNSPUG ) site today (yes, I'm cross-posting myself): February MNSPUG Meeting : SharePoint Development Overview Neil Iversen will be presenting. Lunch and Learn (post MNSPUG): KnowledgeLake...

Published 01-28-2008 4:35 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, Information Worker, General, MNSPUG, Inetium, SharePoint

January MNSPUG Recap

We had over 70 attendees at this morning's Minnesota SharePoint Users Group meeting and had vendor presentations from CommVault and Barracuda Tools (DeliverPoint 2007). Special thanks to Jim Holthaus from CommVault and Bill Kuhn from Barracuda for their...

Published 01-09-2008 4:05 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, MNSPUG, SharePoint

SharePoint 2007 SP1 Released

Service Pack 1 for the following 2007 SharePoint Products and Technologies has been released: WSS 3.0 MOSS SharePoint Designer More information can be found HERE . This is NOT a double-click install - which is why I'm not going to link directly to the...

Published 12-11-2007 6:37 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, SharePoint

SharePoint 2007 SP1: Coming soon!

News and details for WSS and MOSS SP1 are heating up. More details recently from the SharePoint Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/11/29/preview-into-wss-3-0-sp1-and-sharepoint-server-2007-sp1.aspx Thanks Joel!

Published 11-30-2007 10:09 AM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, SharePoint

MOSS: Deleting webs with sub webs

Another interesting little trivia point: When attempting to delete a web from its own Site Settings page, the delete action will fail if the web has sub webs. If the same web is deleted from the Site Content and Structure page (MOSS only), the site and...

Published 11-28-2007 5:03 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, SharePoint

MOSS 2007 Site Navigation Settings: Tips and Tricks

Having the ability to manage the Quick Links (left navigation) and top tabbed navigation in MOSS is a fine step forward from v2. However, in some circumstances when trying to manage these items, the list can get long (especially when showing subsites...

Published 11-26-2007 1:36 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, SharePoint, Easy Stuff

MNSPUG November Meeting Recap

We had a nice turn out at this morning's Minnesota SharePoint User's Group meeting on SharePoint Collaboration and Unified Communications with over 120 people attending. We did a quick review of the latest news and blog posts from the last month or so...

Published 11-14-2007 3:57 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, Information Worker, General, MNSPUG, SharePoint

WSS v3: Important Security Hotfix MS07-059

Be sure to check out this hotfix for WSS v3 as posted on the SharePoint Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/10/09/important-security-hotfix-ms07-059.aspx KB Article also available here (coming soon if not working): http://www.microsoft...

Published 10-09-2007 8:53 AM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, Daylight Savings, SharePoint

0k SharePoint Logs

So here's a new one to me. I've seen SharePoint logging creating 0k log files in the past - due to a variety of reasons like service account permissions being out of wack and the timer job somehow getting 'stuck'. Usually when I come across these 0k files...

Published 10-05-2007 10:59 AM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, SharePoint

Daylight Savings and SharePoint - again...

As was mentioned this past spring, with the 'recent' changes to Daylight Savings time, updates need to be made to both 2003 and 2007 SharePoint systems. The SharePoint Team blog has a posting covering these changes and can be found here: http://blogs...

Published 09-30-2007 5:10 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, SharePoint 2003, General, Daylight Savings, DST, SharePoint

SharePoint User Group updates

Uff-da. Its been far too long since my last post. Last month's MNSPUG meeting on SharePoint Branding finally overflowed the room. We've been close before, but this was definitely over the edge. This coming month (Ocbober) Raymond is going to be touring...

Published 09-30-2007 3:04 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, MNSPUG, SharePoint

Cross Post - Backup Best Practices

Yet another must-see post by Joel - this one covering backup details for SharePoint 2007. Interesting format as it is a recap of an e-mail thread. Two items stood out for me as I was reading the post: Another good STSADM command to note for part of your...

Published 07-10-2007 11:17 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, General, SharePoint

Eric Raarup - SharePoint MVP

Yep, you heard it here. After being nominated for a second time, Eric Raarup - Inetium V.P. just received his MVP for SharePoint award. Congrats Eric!!

Published 07-02-2007 5:28 PM by wpreston

Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, Information Worker, General, MNSPUG, Inetium, SharePoint

Shuttle Launch Posts

I keep forgetting to cross post this - so here is a link to my Shuttle Launch post with pictures. http://www.prestonweb.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=7 Joel had some links to other pictures and posts as well. Last Tuesday night ( thanks to a call from...

Published 06-25-2007 9:40 PM by wpreston

Filed under: General, Fun, Tech Ed 2007

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