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I’ve seen this enough times lately that it was time to blog it.   The Issue SharePoint Site that is normally accessible exhibits Read Only behavior and even for the site owner, could look a little like this…   Figure 1 : Dude, where’s my settings option?   Figure 2 : Dude, where’s my Owner …

We’ve got this up on a big ole LED sign outside of the arena here. Whatcha think?  

As always, test before deploying. But February 2010 Cumulative Updates (CU) are here. Note, if you are planning to upgrade to SharePoint 2010, you will want to have Service Pack 2 and at least the October Cumulatives. Once applied, your build number will be: 12.0.0.6529 (12.0.6529.5000)   February Cumulative Update (CU) – LATESTReleased February 23, …

Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx   Today Microsoft officially announced that May 12th, 2010 is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. RTM is April 2010.   Batten down the hatches, we’re gonna be busy.

Ok, stumbled across this today.  And I think I understand what happened…     I have a SP2010 Server that I’ve been exploring.  The related controls/components are in my IE client (IE8).     Since then, when I visit my production MOSS 2007 Server where my real data is, if I choose “Upload Multiple Documents”, …

Someone asked and I lifted the content from the source (reference, this isn’t original content – http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101541481033.aspx?mode=print) but after taking a moment to bring the key bit to their attention and making it pretty, I might as well cut and paste it here as well…   SharePoint IRM Can and Cannot’s…   IRM = Information …

Ok, this is something that comes along once in a while. Problem Site placed in a location the client doesn’t like. While there are better ways (that preserve timestamps, etc.), they are complicated (STSADM) and time consuming (see here for more on STSADM Export/Import – http://brainlitter.com/archive/2009/05/11/how-to-backup-and-restore-migrate-a-single-sub-site-of-a-sharepoint-site-collection-using-stsadm-%e2%80%93o-export-and-import.aspx) Solution But if the site is small enough, you …

Ok, this will be a short blog post as there really is nothing else here I need to add, besides directing folks to Easy Tabs as the fella there (Christophe) has covered all the bases. Great, free tool for SharePoint that allows you to have all web parts in a Web Part Zone appear together …

Thanks to Gerry for pointing out that the SharePoint 2010 diagrams have now arrived, for planning, migrating and scaling SharePoint 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199(office.14).aspx   And if you didn’t know they existed for MOSS 2007, well then, now you do: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx  

As you may have discovered, WSS 3.0 (Windows SharePoint Services) does not provide a Spell checking capability in lists when you input data. MOSS 2007 does however. So what do the rest of us do with smaller budgets?   I have two suggestions (and if others have more, please comment).   Google Toolbar – yep, …