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Cool. Been looking for how to blog reliably to SharePoint from my iphone and ipad for a while now. Turns out it was right under my nose in SharePlus. More on the how in my next post…

Don’t mind me, just preparing questions for some SharePoint (existing) business analysis we are going to be doing at a customer tomorrow and I figured this would be useful to share to help get some dialogue going in case you need to do the same.     Name: Department: Role:         What …

The Goal Add a favicon to a site collection (note this only works on one site collection at a time). How To Do It Prerequisites You need to start with a favicon file. This must be an ICO file, not a PNG, or GIF, or other graphics format file. These other types tend to work …

Hey folks, I’m honoured and humbled to have been awarded with the Microsoft MVP award in SharePoint for a 3rd year. It truly is a privilege to be part of this fine group of individuals, some of the smartest and most dedicated folks I’ve ever met. I’d like to thank my wife, my kids, my …

Yo, while I have generated a wildcard cert before (more expensive, supports any prefix such as www.itgroove.net, portal.itgroove.net, mail.itgroove.net) it has been a long while and I figured while it may seem obvious after the fact, the scary bit is wanting to make sure you have the CSR (request) format correct before you submit it …

I think Question/Answer blog posts are valuable as someone might stumble across this page and find the following layman’s info interesting or useful. This was a question I got from a customer today and my response to him. We’ll refer to him as Barney” 😉   Barney’s Email   From: Barney Sent: Wednesday, March 09, …

Ran into this the other day (And thanks to Darren M. for sharing his solution with me). Here’s the deal:   Problem When running SharePoint workflows (for example, the built in SharePoint 2010 Collect Feedback, Approval, Collect Signatures workflows), the edit task” ribbon button does not appear in the Word, Excel or other Office application …

What can I say? I prefer nice blue event logs when I check the health of my servers. This helps draw my attention (eyes) to the reds and yellows that might appear. And because I, like most others, connect to these servers via RDP (Remote Desktop), I end up with a bunch of clutter in …

Publish InfoPath forms as anonymous in SharePoint 2010 I had a customer request today that had the following business requirements:     SharePoint 2010 InfoPath Web Based Forms Anonymous posting/submission of forms         By the way, this is not recommended of course. But sometimes you have to do what you have to …

As is often the case for me in the SMB area, many of my customers don’t have access to the Enterprise Edition of SharePoint and thus we need to get ‘creative’. Well, there are two web parts in SharePoint Enterprise that are very useful and as such, I’ve had to find workarounds. Luckily, some nice …