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I needed to restore a site collection, so I found this resource and felt the need to book mark it. Restore Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using the Stsadm command-line tool Migrate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using the Stsadm command-line tool Powered by www.itgroove.net Sponsored by Major Change (.com) – The Online Change Register

SharePoint vs. the File Server SharePoint offers… Web based access to your files from anywhere (work, home, the airport and from anything (PC, MAC, mobile devices) – in a Web browser or familiar Explorer view SharePoint offers a Two Stage” recycle bin – if you delete a file in SharePoint, you can restore it from …

SharePoint vs. the File Server SharePoint offers… Web based access to your files from anywhere (work, home, the airport and from anything (PC, MAC, mobile devices) – in a Web browser or familiar Explorer view SharePoint offers a Two Stage” recycle bin – if you delete a file in SharePoint, you can restore it from …

My resume was horribly out of date. It still is less than I would like, but nonetheless, it was time to update it to at least a reasonable accuracy, so here it is… 🙂 In PDF: Sean_Wallbridge_Resume.pdf

I’ve been asked this enough times, it makes sense to blog my response. SharePoint vs Joomla A small subset of SharePoint is about publishing, however SharePoint is much more than just a CMS (though it does incorporate Microsoft’s first foray into CMS, the now-defunct Content Management Server). SharePoint is an application framework, Joomla is a …

Presence Information / Online Status won’t show unless … You have MSN Messenger (or Office Communicator) installed on the machine where you are accessing SharePoint. Other settings which might need your attention: You have setup Person Name Smart Tag and Presence Settings in Web Application General Settings in Central Administration Site being accessed is in …

Ran into this tonight and solved it in the only way I could sort out how. Issue:I imported/created a new master page that worked fine on all sites that inherited permissions from the top site collection (publishing collaboration portal). However, subsites with unique permissions would not display the master page properly (however, it would display …

I couldn’t find this information in one place, so decided to do it myself. Workflows built into MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/$$$) and WSS (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0/free): WSS 3.0 Only Three-state: The Three-state workflow is designed to track the status of a list item through three states (phases). It can be used to …

Ok, so by now, you’ve come to the realization that you can’t just ‘save’ to your SharePoint portal from Outlook, like you can from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. But wait, Colligo has an (expensive) app that will allow this to happen. It’s expensive (to me) because this should BE IN Outlook, but thanks to Colligo, …

Great resource/reference but assumes single server farm. When you have multiple servers, just make sure you do the Central Admin server first, stop when it tells you to, go to the other servers and run setup and stop at the same place, then go back to the first one and finish, then all the others. …