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Are Recruiters Getting a Little Aggressive?

Or is it just me? I’ve received three or four calls at my house since late September looking for SharePoint work. I’m used to the email solicitations, but these phone calls are a little unnerving. I haven’t had an updated resume…

Just When I’m About to Disable Comments …

They pull me back in! Windows Live Spaces doesn’t do a good job protecting me from comment spam. I assume MSFT has good spam detection, but that the spammers are better. The fact remains, however, that I get far more spam comments than I get …

Social Computing Book for SharePoint 2007

In mid July, I was offered a chance to author two chapters for Brendon Schwartz’s and Matt Ranlett’s up-coming book, Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Implementing Applications for SharePoint to Enable Collaboration and Inter…

Exploring the 40 Application Templates – Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking

Template Name: MarketingCampaign.stp Description: Enable tracking of marketing campaign performance. Business Area: Sales / Marketing Document Libraries:

What is Limited Access Anyway?

UPDATE 11/03/08: Be sure to read the excellent and detailed comment from Dessie Lunsford to this post. I’ve been working on a secret tech editing project for an up-coming book and it references this blog entry by Tyler Butler on the MSDN ECM blo…

I Don’t Often Agree with Big George Will, But He’s Right About Dreary Outcomes

The closing thought on this otherwise dull article speaks well to problems we often face in the technical community: "Such dreary developments, anticipated with certainty, must be borne philosophically." This puts me in mind of one of the pre…

SharePoint Designer Workflow and Email Attachments — A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished

Sadly, it is not to be. We cannot send an email with attachments from a SharePoint Designer workflow using out of the box features. This wish comes up with increasing regularity on the MSDN forums. However, the SharePoint platform, as with so many …

Quick Tip: Configure Security to Allow Admins to Access any My Site in SharePoint

In a sign that Social Computing is beginning to take off with SharePoint, I see an increased number of My Site type questions. One common question goes something like this: "I am an administrator and I need to be able to access every My Site. H…

Quick Tip: Use “IsDocument:1″ to Trim Search Results

Update 11/03/08: Fellow MVP Mike Walsh correctly points out that this is a WSS 3.0 / MOSS feature. It does not work in WSS 2.0 or earlier. Updatte 11/03/08: (Second update in one day!): Be sure to read the excellent comment from "nowise" for…