One of the first things I have students do in an End User SharePoint Workshop is to create a test environment so they can play in a sandbox without blowing away their production environment. (”Who, me?” I know, I know. YOU would never implement untested changes in a production environment, but I guarantee you the person sitting [...]

This post originally posted as a reply to a question on the SharePoint University forums. 
Change log implementation is essential, but there might be a better way to do it than the traditional change log management. Let’s think of blogs and wikis as tools for administration and project management, not just applications for team collaboration.
One of the [...]

I check in to my feedburner stats each day to make sure I’m not talking to a void. Today was a real kick! I’m posting a screen shot of the cloud of visitors from today’s logs. It’s a blast to see how far a couple of simple blog posts will go. A sincere thanks to those [...]

One of my main issues with SharePoint 2007 is the poor implementation for the management of Alerts… no central admin panel to manage all users and all alerts. It looks as if the SharePoint Solutions Team had the same problem and is doing something about it.
Check out one of their latest projects, Alert Manager 2007. [...]

One of the column types used when creating new columns for a list or library is the Choice (menu to choose from) type. This is OK to use when there is a short list that will never change, but if the list is long or something that’s going to changed and be updated over time, you’ll [...]

Bob Fox is moving his blog to another location, so I was flipping through the archive section on his old site when I ran across a screencast called SP Administrators Desktop Shortcuts. Really simple, easy stuff: add an application to your environment variable path, create your own toolbar to point to applications on your harddrive… Stop right [...]

I was in the middle of presenting a four hour SharePoint workshop this week when, during the final hour, the OS on my laptop decided it had had enough and came to an unceremonious halt. (If you’ve been there, you know why the flowery language… it represents a lot of hand waving, nothing up my sleeve, here’s [...]

If you haven’t subscribed to Bob Mixon’s blog, today’s post is worth the price of admission alone. He demos a step-by-step process for creating a rollup using the Content Query Web Part across multiple libraries. It’s not hard, it’s available out of the box, and is one of the most requested features as sites and document [...]

For the workshops I’m delivering this week, I have created a sandbox environment so each participant can crash and burn at my expense instead of on their production server. I display their site in the Quick Launch bar so they can have easy access.
As we got started tonight, one of the students pointed out that [...]

I love teaching! I learn something everyday through questions asked in the workshops. One of the participants today in the Beginning SharePoint 2007 – The Basics workshop said that he had to update ten documents everyday, each in a different library. He dove down into the first library, connected to the document, did the update [...]