I am going to be moving the site to a new location - http://wiki.threewill.com/display/is/ - for those of you subscribing through FeedBurner, I will update the feed to point to this new location. ...[Read More]

SharePoint applications are made up goodies such as custom web parts, lists, list event handlers, site definitions, site pages, application pages, and on and on. We package our SharePoint applications as features in order to maximize reusability an ...[Read More]

Yesterday I needed to have several instances of the same site collection available in a SharePoint farm. The purpose was to have the same SharePoint content available and then manually configuring each slightly differently for testing purposes. In ...[Read More]

If you have registered a search security trimmer with a crawl rule and then prevented SharePoint from accessing the security trimmer (such as removing it from the GAC), you will get a nasty error when trying to execute a search that has results that ...[Read More]

Recently I needed to disable a SharePoint Form's Submit button until a checkbox on the form was checked. Sounds pretty simple and straightforward, doesn't it? Well, here's a little description of why it was NOT so easy for me to do this. The form ...[Read More]

The SharePoint Connector for Confluence, a connector ThreeWill co-developed with Atlassian that integrates SharePoint and Confluence, has been in production for a few weeks, but not announced until yesterday.  See the announcement here. ...[Read More]

There are plenty of articles on the differences between MOSS 2007 and WSS v3, but I still get questions on this so here is a summary of what I have provided for clients in the past. Most of this is simply a compilation of data from different sourc ...[Read More]

  I recently researched the feasibility of using My Sites for sites using Forms Based Authentication.  We are seeing clients who want to leverage My Sites in an extranet scenario where users are not in Active Directory.  I thought I would share m ...[Read More]

First I wrote a VBScript to assist with backing up SharePoint then I improved this to a C# console application.  I decided to put the source code on CodePlex so that others can improve on this as they see fit.  Feel free to check this out and make s ...[Read More]

Have you ever been annoyed at how the default month view for SharePoint calendars seems to make horrible use of white space? Take a look at the following screen shot of the out of the box SharePoint calendar showing a few items scheduled on it. ...[Read More]