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Found this tip in an obscure place but felt it was worthy to show and explain in more detail. If you want to hide the Quick Launch Bar on a SharePoint page/site and would prefer not to customize pages in SharePoint Designer (i.e. this is quick and easy and tool free), this tip is for …

This is a common enough request that I thought I’d quickly create a video of it. Ignore my little typos as you see them. 🙂   Business Requirement I want to be able to see at a glance on my SharePoint Dashboard, the 5 latest documents that my department has worked on, in a particular …

Sometimes, migrating user content will be most convenient while on the Windows 2003 Server console. The problem is, IE6, IE7, etc. do not allow this to happen by default. This may also apply to other older Windows OS’s in certain situations. The Error   When trying to open this…   You get this… Your client …

For some reason, the August WSS 3.0 release was delayed for about 6 weeks. The August Cumulatives for SharePoint are now released (take time for pause, evaluate and then deploy of course).   August 2009 Cumulative Update for MOSS 2007: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973399 August 2009 Cumulative Update for WSS 3.0: http://support.microsoft.com/973400   The build number will be …

The Requirement A customer had quite the mess of a SharePoint farm. Efforts are being made to clean it up … but in the meantime, they required a backup of a SharePoint Content Database (from 5 days ago) to be restored into a new (temporary) Web Application to retrieve some old data. Typically, this would …

This comes up all the time and while I’ve blogged it before, I’ve never created a video of the fix. So if you are getting those Pesky 10016 Event ID’s in your System Event Logs on your SharePoint Servers, here’s how you resolve them (this video demonstrates in Windows Server 2008).       Enjoy. …

As a result of the Document Library Deep Dive presentation I did at the vSharePoint (Victoria SharePoint User’s Group) on Thursday, the following question came up (how do you map SharePoint list data to a Word document, generated as a report). The query: http://www.meetup.com/vSharePoint/messages/boards/thread/7787717   My response to that query can be found here (more …

I’ve been asked to put together some SharePoint ‘Meeting Initiation’ scenarios, so here they are, presented as ‘business requirements’ and the techniques necessary to get rolling. Once you have created a meeting workspace, keep in mind that they are full, SharePoint sites that you can tune, customize and leverage for as long as you need. …

Microsoft has produced a SharePoint Site Collection (that you can integrate into your SharePoint site, if you have MOSS – not WSS, sorry), called the “Productivity Hub”, which can help with the adoption and education of SharePoint and the other standard Microsoft Office Products (and in the near future, Windows 7, etc.).   Where to …

Someone asked on Experts Exchange today, how to manipulate the Cancel button on a SharePoint Survey ‘Newform.aspx’ form. Here’s one way, using SharePoint Designer. I created a quick YouTube video as there were far too many steps to document in a blog entry (or I’m just far too lazy).     Reference Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqiqxiJ8Xqc