Wes Preston

Wes's Blog has moved

My blog has moved to a new location! http://www.idubbs.com/blog Come and visit - all are welcome. :) I have moved all my 'historical' blog posts over and will no longer post to this location. At some point, the content from this location will be archived...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2008 12:32 AM by wpreston

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 Mon, Mar 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 Mon, Jan 01 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 Wed, Jan 01 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 Tue, Dec 12 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 Fri, Nov 11 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 Wed, Nov 11 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 Mon, Nov 11 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 Wed, Nov 11 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 Tue, Oct 10 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 Fri, Oct 10 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 Sun, Sep 09 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 Sun, Sep 09 2007 3:04 PM by wpreston

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

TIPS - SSP Profile Properties

Spending some time working with Profile Properties (MOSS SSP) lately, I came across a few tips that might save time for others: When reordering profile properties on the View Profile Properties page, you are only able to move fields up or down one position...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2007 12:53 AM by wpreston

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

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