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Is it a go button or a magnifying glass

This post is for the folks who want to deploy MOSS without changing the default master page for Blue Band. Please change just one thing...the search button hover state: Normally it looks like this: ...and when you hover... Somebody forgot t ...[Read more]

Published: 6/27/2008 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Add Editor and Modified to a Publishing Page

I have often been asked how to add the name of the person who updated a page and the date to the footer. This is the first time I have had to do it. Though it is not obvious there is a control that helps with the display of any list column. The cont ...[Read more]

Published: 6/24/2008 | 8  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SharePoint Sync Job Failure

Recently I noticed on a situation where the sync jobs were failing on a MOSS implementation. Everything else was working great except for the features that surface the "Sites that you are a member of" and "My SharePoint Sites" ...[Read more]

Published: 6/16/2008 | 1  Comment | 0  Links to this post

How does he do it?

One of my favorite stories from the 2008 SharePoint Conference happened during Dustin's presentation "SharePoint Designer: I didn't know you could do THAT!". Dustin was running through his patter and zooming the screen in and out. Every ...[Read more]

Published: 6/14/2008 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Professional SharePoint 2007 WCM Development

I am very pleased to announce that Andrew Connell, MVP has released a book dedicated to the topic of Web Content Management Development. This book was a labor of love (you never hear that writing a book is easy…) by AC and a couple contributing aut ...[Read more]

Published: 6/4/2008 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Speaking at Austin SPUG

I'll be presenting my Social Networking talk at the Austin SharePoint User Group meeting June 11th, 2008 from 6 to 8 pm. Social Networking and User Profiles for Business SharePoint offers many features that facilitate personalization in the co ...[Read more]

Published: 6/2/2008 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

A better way to evaluate PreUpgrade scan results

Every time I review Preupgrade reports I wish that I had a better way to review the results. I finally wrote a stylesheet to help. The intent for this tool is to apply it to your upgrade reports after your first prescan run to test the results befor ...[Read more]

Published: 6/1/2008 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post