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Don’t mind me. Just stumbled across this great reference tonight for Calculated Column syntax examples and had to bookmark it for myself (or maybe you too). http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA011609471033.aspx   And for a list of Calculation Operators: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA011608661033.aspx?pid=CH011711541033   Great examples in there for stuff like:   Conditional Formulas Data and Time Formulas Math Formulas Test Formulas …

Ran into this the other day, when upgrading (in Place) a SharePoint 2010 environment. The following was logged in Central admin and the screenshots below were the fix (you could also modify your web.config directly).   Title Web.config file has incorrect settings for the requestFiltering element. Severity 1 – Error Category Configuration Explanation The requestFiltering …

Don’t mind me. I’m just storing some Feature and other GUID’s that I had to reverse engineer during SharePoint 2007 to 2010 Upgrades. Perhaps, when someone is googling, they will stumble across these and be glad that I did (so they can use the appropriate uninstaller and/or find the missing pieces they need:   ID …

Getting this?     Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=177673   It may be because your environment is being upgraded right now from SharePoint 2007 (or WSS 3.0) to SharePoint 2010. I figured I’d take a second to post this. I know my environment is being upgraded (’cause I’m the one doing it) but I was surprised to …

    I have been preparing our itgroove Corporate MOSS 2007 environment for an upgrade to SharePoint 2010. Tonight was the night to complete the last little bits before the big (in place, I like to live dangerously) upgrade. I’ve done a few database attach upgrades already and those were too straightforward, so nothing like …

A friend asked for screenshots the other day. So, here they are as I had ’em on hand. Figure 1 – SP2010 Home Page with Wiki Home Page On   Figure 2 – Site Actions Figure 3 – Ribbon bar – love it!

While there are a number of techniques out there to present users with an alternate location to end up after submitting content to a SharePoint list, this one is quick and easy and effective and worthy of spending 10 minutes documenting on a Friday night (brew in hand).   The Business Problem   Upon entering …

  SharePoint 2010 is starting to appear on MSDN/Technet, etc. And publicly available components are now available for download. Links and info are below:   Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d88a1505-849b-4587-b854-a7054ee28d66   Reminder: SharePoint Designer 2010 only connects to SharePoint 2010 sites. You will want to continue to use SharePoint Designer 2007 to connect to your …

This is a very exciting time. SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 (and Visual Studio, etc.) have all been released to manufacturing. RTM for Office and SharePoint was April 16th, 2010. What this means going forward:   Important Dates April 16, 2010 – SharePoint/Office 2010 RTM (Release to Manufacturing/Media). April 27, 2010 – RTW (Release to …

Hey folks, I’ve seen this enough that it warranted blogging about it specifically. Here’s the deal… Problem When running an STSADM command in SharePoint, you get a result of command is invalid” following what you believe to be perfectly good syntax. And you know what, it might well be. But what you probably did is …