(Brien Posey) Upgrading to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 can be a lot of work; especially if you have custom Web parts. SharePoint Server is designed to allow you to create portal sites based on Web parts. A Web part is simply an ASP.NET control that serves a specific purpose. (R)
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Creating Document Libraries from List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides a user interface (UI) for creating document libraries. However, there might be cases in which you want to create a document library from a list item—using list items to drive the creation of a file plan, maintaining metadata about a library, or allowing users
SharePoint Applied—Stsadm Is Your Friend
(Sahil Malik) In this article, I’ll introduce you to my best friend in SharePoint land, Stsadm.exe. No, this article is not a reference on Stsadm, neither is it an introduction to SharePoint. Instead, I introduce you to a few neat tricks using Stsadm that I like to keep in my back pocket.
Configuring SharePoint Virtual Machine LAN Connections
(Steven Barden) It is not uncommon for developers new to using Virtual Machines to use Microsoft Virtual PC LAN connectivity in a manner that inhibits their development goals. This practice can not only lead to personal frustration by forcing the developer to take more complicated steps than is nece
Batch Updating List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
In Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, sometimes it is necessary to update multiple items in a list. Creating a foreach loop to iterate through a list item collection and performing an Update on each list item can be very intensive. An alternative approach is to construct a CAML (Collaborative Applicat
Referencing and Linking: Using Secondary Lists to Maintain Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007
In this Microsoft Office Visual How To, you extend a custom Relationship field in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to enable users to select the type of relationship between two documents and store the information in a secondary table. Both documents in the relationship can then automatically
Referencing and Linking: Using Custom Fields to Display Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007
This Microsoft Office Visual How To demonstrates how you can extend a custom Relationship field in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to retrieve and display document relationships from a secondary list by using a field control.
Understanding and Creating Customized and Uncustomized Files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
(Andrew Connell) Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites, like typical ASP.NET 2.0 Web sites, consist of ASP.NET 2.0 pages. To meet the scalability and the high demands of dynamic customization on a site-by-site basis, Microsoft introduced the concepts of customized and uncustomized files. This articl
Create custom global search scopes in Microsoft SharePoint 2007
(Natalya Voskresenskaya) Custom global search scopes in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) allow more granular search results. Discover how to create custom global search scopes to enhance SharePoint 2007’s enterprise search functionality. In this tip, you’ll also learn how to targe
Beat SharePoint Into Shape
(Gustavo Velez) SharePoint is Microsoft’s collaboration tool that enables users to publish and share information.The tool provides the infrastructure required to authenticate users and regulate the authorization and access to each page, library, and element. Microsoft launched Microsoft Office Share