Nerds and CFO’s. If there is ever a group of people who don’t know how to talk to each other, it would be those two. Perhaps, I should write a book and call it “Nerds are From Mars, CFO’s are …
Learn to talk to your CFO in their language – Part 1 Read more »
I thought that I was getting pretty good at deciphering odd SharePoint errors. After all, most of the time they are not very friendly! After the subsite/site collection issue of yesterday, you would think I would be in for an …
I recently encountered an nasty, nasty error that threatened to cause me a lot of grief. I exported a site to a new site collection and initially things looked okay. However, I soon started to encounter strange errors such as:
Well, here we are! After delving into dark arts where everybody but metrosexual web designers fear to tread (HTML and CSS), we then delved into the areas that metrosexual web designers truly fear to tread (packaging, deployment and even some …
SharePoint Branding Part 7 -The ‘governance’ of it all.. Read more »
There has been a bit of a gap in this series between part 5 and 6 – and fortunately for the both of us, I think this is the penultimate post in my series on SharePoint branding. While it has …
SharePoint Branding Part 6 – A "solution" to all issues? Read more »
Just a really quick post – more event handler stuff to come… (*sigh* – I’m not a coder! Go and read my pal Sezai’s blog if you want a fix in that area). Situation: I created a list with 2 …
SharePoint Event Handlers – things to look out for Read more »
Pretty much since I started with MOSS2007 (and back in the pre 2007 days too), I’ve required smarter drop down choices for my columns. Basically, I needed a secondary drop down list filtered based on the choice from a primary …
This is an opinion piece, a different tack than a lot of my other topics. I’m going to attempt to use heavy metal music as my metaphor to get my point across. No idea if I will succeed :-). Opeth …
SharePoint sucks at document management – or does it? A metal perspective Read more »
So, here we are at the fifth article in my series on SharePoint branding. By now, we have left all the master page stuff way behind, and we have created a custom feature to install our branding to a server. …
SharePoint Branding Part 5 – Feature Improvements and Bugs Read more »
One thing you will first notice in planning a MOSS install is the sheer number of service accounts used. Without proper planning, it is only going to result in a poor set up and most likely be insecure. Despite the …