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This post includes a quick video for how to Email Enable a SharePoint Calendar and manually add an Exchange Contact Alias. Ok, the video is a little sloppy, but what do you expect for quick, fast and free? 🙂 Basically another one of those posts where I get asked enough, it was time to quickly …

SharePoint is Awesome – Whether it be Hosted or In House.   The following Pro/Con list has been created to give our customers what we believe to be the essential details to make an informed choice about whether to implement SharePoint In House” on new or existing server equipment, or to implement SharePoint with a …

We get asked just what is SharePoint?” a lot.  While it is difficult to encapsulate the vast framework that SharePoint is (and can be, if done properly), the folks at Microsoft have done a great job of giving a quick, visual primer, in 3 short minutes.   Check it out.  And then contact us, to …

This seemed worthy of sharing. Someone on Experts-Exchange asked about modifying/extending one of the SharePoint 40 Fantastic templates, to add their own column (Business Units) and then modify the ‘New Request’ form. So, here was my response to him/her including the related YouTube/Screencast video, showing how it is done. This should prove useful/valuable to anyone …

This question came up on Experts-Exchange.com today and after a few minutes of consideration, here’s my suggestion to the problem – simple, effective and customizable … and better yet, no code! More importantly, I hope this helps inspire ideas and creativity, by demonstrating how simple this really was, to implement.   The Business Requirement   …

Internally, we are using SharePoint blogs very effectively, to replace common sharing of information (in our case, typically about technology like ‘how I fixed this or that’. Using Microsoft Word 2007 as our blogging tool (and if you don’t have Microsoft Word 2007, you could use Windows Live Writer, which is free), and SharePoint (MOSS …

I was enabling some 3rd party web server statistics software today (Smarterstats by www.smartertools.com) on a SharePoint server and it was necessary to make sure all the appropriate fields necessary for returning all information, in all reports were set. For Smarterstats (and in general this can apply to all webstatistics software), the following are necessary …

Ok, here’s the situation (my parents went away on a week’s vacation… no wait, that’s the Fresh Prince)…   I have a MOSS 2007 Server. The maximum upload size was long set to larger than the default 50MB (100MB) in Central Administration. The base OS is Windows Server 2008.   I was working away happily …

Well, I’m not allowed to say much, being under NDA. But, it is important to write *something* right? So, here it is, nice and short.     A Sneak Peak of SharePoint 2010 has been released at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com, including an overview and brief demonstration of what to expect for the IT Support and Development Professional. …

Here’s another one that comes up now and then…   Did you know you could save emails directly into a Document library (such as in our business case, our Clients Documentation library)? While it may not be necessary all the time, if something was said (technical details) or stated (warnings to the client), it may …