I’ve been getting hammered with hundreds of personal requests for the Quote of the Day web part. It was included as part of the Tricks and Traps Newsletter a couple weeks ago. There have been so many requests, I’ve added it to the newsletter confirmation process.
But that’s not all! Yep… just like the Ginsu Knife commercial [...]
The question of the day comes from Linda:
I’m having an ‘urban sprawl’ problem with my permission groups. As it stands now, I have 70 (yeah 70) groups in ADUC for 7 pages of Sharepoint content. Oy vey. My security guys have me using ADUC, but you need to use Domain Local groups in Sharepoint, and [...]
Paul Grenier and I were exchanging messages about the growth of SharePoint a couple days ago. We were laughing about the comparison between the search results of Lotus Notes vs SharePoint. He sent me an email with some links that make interesting viewing. There is a definite paradigm shift going on. Check these results:
Trends (web)http://www.google.com/trends?q=sharepoint%2C+lotus+notes&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
blogsphere [...]
The first installment of the free SharePoint 101: Tricks and Traps ebook was sent in the weekly newsletter this morning. For those of you who have received it, please scroll to the bottom of this page to leave your comments, feedback, suggestions, rants, raves, etc.
Below is the outline of what was covered in this installment. If [...]
The question of the day is short and simple from Pamela:
I’m desperately seeking examples of how content types can be used . . .
Pamela – Here’s a quick one that will give you a running start. Setup a Finance Library that will hold four different types of content: Budgets, Expense Reports, POs and Contracts. Each [...]
As you might have guessed, after last week’s announcement that I was giving away my new book to anyone who asks, I was inundated with subscriptions for the weekly email newsletter. I will be sending out the first installment of SharePoint 101 – Tricks and Traps on Wednesday morning. Signup for the newsletter and check [...]
The question of the day comes from Gwen:
The Quote of the Day is very cool. We would like to do something similar but aren’t sure how to do it. For our Kick Off Meeting, I created a PowerPoint slide show that has a slide for each of our employees. Each slide has two pictures of [...]
The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users
Robert L. Bogue
Availtek Press, 2008
377 pages
I do not know Robert L. Bogue, but I admire what he has done. It takes a lot to write a book; time, mental energy, knowledge transfer. One of the most difficult types of books to write is for beginners because the author usually has [...]
The question of the day comes from Liz:
I’m having trouble with a content type at the library level that seems to have stopped inheriting changes made at the site collection level. I defined a content type at site collection level, added site columns, then attached it to my library. I then made some modifications (to [...]
Starting next week, I will be including sections of my “SharePoint 101: Tricks and Traps” book in the weekly email newsletter. Over the next 10 weeks or so, email subscribers will receive the entire book of 101 SharePoint Tricks and Traps for free.
My goal is to give away 5000 ebooks in the coming weeks.
This is my way [...]
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