Latest article on SharePoint Magazine posted…
The second article in the tribute to the humble leave form series has just been posted at SharePoint Magazine. I eagerly await the "cease and desist" letter Matt Groenings legal team 🙂 Enjoy!
Month: July 2008
Got my MCT (blatant plug alert)
A really quick note: As of last month I am now a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and combined with being a certified MOSS07 technology specialist, hopefully means that my SharePoint bedside manner should be enough to charm and dazzle even your …
Darth Sidious reads the same books as me
Now, readers would know that I really lay on the pop culture references pretty thick. I find it works well and makes ordinary, sometimes mundane, topics much more interesting and easy to explain. I’ve used Brittany Spears, Ikea, Kung Fu, …
Thinking SharePoint Part 4 – Lessons from Kung Fu Panda
Article originally published for EndUserSharePoint.com reproduced here. Greetings, my cleverworkarounds kung-fu students. Paul here again to talk once more about Zen and the art of SharePoint. Now I don’t want to appear all arrogant and pretentious, but for this post …
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IT and the Corporate Immune Mechanism – the "Mother Hen" reflex
Recently, I came across the blog of Dux Raymond, a Project Manager, forthcoming author and trainer who looks at SharePoint from a project management perspective. Being rather interested in that area myself, I read his "Empowered by SharePoint" post. He …
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Thinking SharePoint Part 3 – A tale of two clients
My third post on "Thinking SharePoint" for www.endusersharepoint.com reproduced here. Hi all [Quick reference: Part 1 and Part 2] If you have followed the first two articles in this series, I have been attempting to talk about SharePoint "head-space". In …
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Using google to find potentially misconfigured SharePoint sites
Those in the security community who have ever performed vulnerability assessment/penetration testing will know of the Google Hacking database. Google is actually a very handy tool to look for potentially vulnerable sites, due to the fact that it will crawl …
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A neat trick with the publishing feature
As I mentioned in my last post, I always security trim SharePoint. A very common issue with a security trimmed SharePoint is the "access denied" message that you receive when trying to activate the "Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" site …
Good advice hidden in the Infrastructure Update
I guess the entire SharePoint world now is aware of the post SP1 "Infrastructure updates" put out by Microsoft recently. Probably the best thing about them are that the flaky "content deployment" feature has had some serious work done on …
Lots of writing (just not here)
Hi all My poor-old cleverworkarounds blog has been sadly neglected lately (and my numbers are reflecting that too dammit). But I have actually been doing a while lot of writing for other SharePoint online publications, namely EndUserSharePoint and SharePoint Magazine. …