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]

I learned something yesterday while trying to understand a client issue with MOSS search.  With the work we did with the SharePoint Connector for Confluence, we created functionality to let you search Confluence from SharePoint. A lot of this work ...[Read More]

The problem: You are developing a web service you want Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to host, but you have not completely finished the design of the web service.  Recently, I needed to create a web service hosted by WSS 3.0. The manual steps ...[Read More]

It's a simple problem with a simple solution, but sometimes the little things hit you when you are deploying from one environment to another and they can take a lot longer than you'd like.  So, hopefully this is a reminder and saves some people so ...[Read More]