Yet another SharePoint BLOG

Some time ago, one of our customers reported an odd problem. The support ticket went something like this: When a user tries to create an alert there is a long pause and is then prompted to login. They enter their credentials but they then receive the following error: "you are not authorised to view this [...]

A colleague of mine recently blogged about the difficulties of a managing SharePoint environment with a mixture of standard users enterprise. In short, he came to the conclusion that it isn’t a viable solution – a conclusion that I’d whole heartedly support given the grief it causes us both each day. If I had my [...]

Today hasn’t been a great day: I spent 45 minutes stood at the station only to find out that one inch of snow in enough to stop a train. Trains which of course run four inch above the ground on iron tracks. I’m in the middle of the project from hell where some developers have [...]

When I have a little spare time I like to look at my twitter feed for interesting BLOG posts. Often, if I find a well written article I’ll go back to see what the author has posted in the past. It was this process that caused me to stumble over this year old post by [...]

MCS UK have launched a blog http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/default.aspx I’ll be keeping my eye out for the guys I know. No slacking now fellas!

I’m interested in people’s opinions about automating Sharepoint installations. We aim to automate everything, in fact if someone needs to touch a key or mouse button we have to through a policy waiver process. In principal I think this is a great idea. It allows us to have a “self service” server provisioning system where [...]

I’ve been tinkering with running WSS on the Windows 7 beta over the weekend and was going to post the steps I had to take to make it work, but it appears I’m a little late to the party as Wictor Wilen posted this all the way back on Thursday. I felt like the only [...]

By now, you’ve probably read about the demise of Journalspace. For those that haven’t an entire blogging service with an Alexa page rank of 106,881 has been wiped out (allegedly) by a disgruntled, malicious employee. It turns out that their content was stored in a single database on a RAID1 array and wasn’t backed up. [...]

Microsoft and Sharepoint came quite late to the collaboartion party and so most organisations will have an existing Lotus based infrastructure. Prior to version 8 where IBM openly ripped off the look of MS office, sites like this were mostly justified, yet talk to anyone who’s administered it and they’ll sing it’s praises. I’m no [...]

It’s such an obvious point that I wasn’t sure if this was a good thing to put in one of my first blog posts but something that really frustrates me about vendors is that they don’t tell you the flaws in their product. Sure if you ask “does the Sharepoint O Tron 9000 eat small [...]