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It’s hard being an IT guy sometimes (I won’t whimper or explain why but trust that It’s Not Easy Being Green… Anyways, when someone says something nice about your team and your work, you should share it – or at a minimum, I’m GOING to share it.  So good job Rob and team! Robert I …

I’m not saying go out and download it today, but SP3 is out for Office 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS). But, I think it is safe to say this will be the last major releases for Office 2007 and MOSS/WSS and if they address issues in …

Stumbled across this gem today.  The Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint from Acceleratio Ltd. As any SharePoint professional knows, SharePoint combines ease of use and the ability to change software to suit your business needs and requirements rapidly. That is the positive of SharePoint. The negative is the expectations that come on IT to be equally …

Those of know me know that I live by ‘a picture is worth a 1000 words’.  That said, my experience has been that if we provide a visual site map (diagram of sites/webs in your collection), folks appreciate it and understand where data should go. An example: Here’s how it’s done   First off, watch …

I’ve had this situation happen a few times and I don’t notice it right away, but in my case the cause was the same each time (Bootcamp for Windows – yes, I’m currently running Windows on a MAC) but I’ve seen this occur without Bootcamp as well. The Problem Whenever you try to edit text …

I pulled this from the old OneNote archives the other day and figured I’d share it with anyone that might need to do the same. The Challenge A customer had us upgrade them to SharePoint 2010.  However, they didn’t like that their site collection was at http://go.somewhere.com/sites/department and instead wanted a dedicated managed path (explicit …

Gasp! Your blog isn’t based on SharePoint anymore? Yep. But keep your shirt on. I haven’t found a new lover. I LOVE working with SharePoint. But sometimes, the Internet prefers to work with others. Basically, I made the switch because: SharePoint can be expensive to license for the Internet SharePoint is HUGE and can sometimes …

itgroove Recommendations from the Field The following are recommendations from itgroove for Server (virtual or physical plant) Best Practices. Customers may not always listen or have the budget, but it won’t stop us from trying to protect them… Redundant Power Supplies – protect yourself against a single point of failure UPS – (Uninterruptable Power Supply) …

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Grumble Grumble. Stooopid PDF. So I wanted to print a webpage to a PDF. But it came out like the below Figure 1 : But it came out like this… The fix was this… Figure 2 : turn off rely on system fonts “