After you have been working with SharePoint for awhile, is there anything that can help you quickly become more of a Power User? Check out this toolset and see if there is anything there for you.
SharePoint Explorer
One of the most useful tools you can have in your arsenal. It displays your entire SharePoint site in [...]
The major topic in the EndUserSharePoint.com Shanghai workshops this week has been structuring information. The tip of the week is this: Consider creating “buckets” (libraries) for each of your major content areas and utilize views to recreate the feeling of hierarchical structure.
Here’s an example…
The Power User group yesterday was trying to manage all of the [...]
The weather in China continues to be of major concern. There are now over 70 million people without power and hundreds of thousands stranded at train stations throughout the country. It’s hard to comprehend the affect it is having on the country.
This is supposed to be one of the busiest travel weeks of the year [...]
The question of the day comes from Rudy:
Is it feasable to use SharePoint as a document management system with several terrabytes of documents and less than 50 concurrent users?
Is it possible… yeah, I guess so. But my real question would be “Why?” Is your current data storage system working for you? Could you access it [...]
If you’ve been reading the news, China is having one of the worst snow storms in fifty years. There are over 60 million people without power and up to 100,000 people stranded at train stations. With the New Years holiday quickly approaching, the forcast is for more of the same. I still walked from the hotel to [...]
The question of the day comes from Carol:
How do I display a calendar on multiple sub sites so that they are linked to the parent site? I have used a Content Query Web Part but that only gives me a Link to the Title of the Meeting. I want to display a filtered view of [...]
After a 20 hour flight from New York City, I landed in Shanghai last night at 6:00pm. There is a 13 hour time difference. I was determined to stay awake the entire flight so I could get to sleep immediately without too much jet lag. It seems to have worked, since I’ve been able to [...]
The question of the day is from Jeroen on SharePointU:
“Can a list in SharePoint be used as a source for a mail merge in Word 2007?”
Here’s how I’ve been able to accomplish it. It requires the use of Access 2007 and can only be done on the Office 2007 platform.
Open Access 2007 and create a [...]
Sometimes questions come up too fast to just post one a day. Here is a set that came from the last set of workshops.
Can a site be shut down for 1 hour while changes are being implemented?
The only way that this could be done is to remove group rights and then add them back. The SharePoint [...]
I spend WAY too much time tracking what people are saying about using SharePoint. I save so much, I’ve finally created a folder structure in my Favorites list that organizes the SharePoint sites saved by week. Here’s the highlights of the past week’s favorites.
How to Migrate a SharePoint List and Preserve the Properties
Not much can surprise [...]
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