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Benefits of working with itgroove

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …

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New Content on the Get the Point Blog

Cool, the content the SharePoint Get the Point team asked me for has been posted on their sites home page. Check it out here…   Link: How SharePoint Saved my Business … and My Sanity

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SharePoint MVP – Year 2

Sweet. I’d like to thank the academy…   All of us at itgroove are very pleased to announce that Sean Wallbridge — our President, Principal consultant and resident SharePoint Jedi – has been awarded MVP for Microsoft SharePoint Server for the second year in a row. The MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award is given to …

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SharePoint – After Patching – A Simple Sample Test Script

Ok don’t get too excited, this is short and sweet and off the cuff for a customer. It is a test script (like an actor reads a script) of items that could/should be checked, to ensure SharePoint was healthy, after patching or major work. This isn’t everything one should do, but could be useful to …

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Dude, My SharePoint Site is Read Only All of a Sudden

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 …

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February 2010 SharePoint Cumulatives Are Here

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, …

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Drag and drop in MOSS 2007 Document Libraries?

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”, …

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