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How to implement a new CANCEL button to redirect elsewhere on a SharePoint Form
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
Read onHow to Email Enable a SharePoint Calendar and Manually add an Exchange Contact Alias
This post includes a quick video for how to Email Enable a SharePoint Calendar and manually add an Exchange Contact Alias. Ok, the video is a little sloppy, but what do you expect for quick, fast and free? 🙂 Basically another one of those posts where I get asked enough, it was time to quickly …
Read onYa, I’m a drummer
I used to say I was a drummer first and a technology guy second, but who am I kidding? I play probably 8-10 times a year and practice only when the band does, which is only slightly more than we actually gig … so I’m not improving, I’m just in maintenance mode. So, l guess …
Read onPatching Standalone ESX4 using vSphere CLI on Windows
Thanks to Robert from our office for this visual walkthrough of the ESX4 patching process, when you don’t have Virtual Center. ESXi 4 hosts can be patched using the GUI tool VMHostUpdate. ESX4 hosts, on the other hand, have to be patched manually if there is no vCenter involved in managing the host. There are …
Read onHosted SharePoint vs. SharePoint in House – One Perspective
SharePoint is Awesome – Whether it be Hosted or In House. The following Pro/Con list has been created to give our customers what we believe to be the essential details to make an informed choice about whether to implement SharePoint In House” on new or existing server equipment, or to implement SharePoint with a …
Read onMy Approach to Social Networking – One Small IT Business spreading out online and spending very little doing it
A customer asked me to summarize my approach to helping people find my business (www.itgroove.net) online. I used to do a fair amount of print advertising to build ‘brand’. But it was extremely expensive and had a short shelf life (before it hit the recycle bin). So, over the years, I’ve been bulking up …
Read onThis is so funny – I had to share it – Say it with me … “Alan! Alan! Al! Alan!”
Maybe I’m a little quirky, but I have watched this short video at least a dozen times and I still giggle when I think about it. It’s family friendly too… Guaranteed to turn a frown, upside down… Video Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMjsIVX8kWs
Read onHow to use Excel 2007 to separate a Column that has First Name and Last Name, separated by a space, into two separate columns
This seemed a worthy 30 second video/overview to share as I run into this enough that others must too. I needed to take an existing spreadsheet, that had several sheets of ‘users’ where the Username and Password were in the same column/field. I needed to separate them into separate columns, with minimal effort (read: lazy) …
Read onSharePoint in Plain English
We get asked just what is SharePoint?” a lot. While it is difficult to encapsulate the vast framework that SharePoint is (and can be, if done properly), the folks at Microsoft have done a great job of giving a quick, visual primer, in 3 short minutes. Check it out. And then contact us, to …
Read onHeads Up – Exchange 2007 cannot be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Note “R2”)
This is ridiculous actually but it is important to note, for any upcoming installs. At this writing, with Windows Server 2008 R2 due out in the next couple of months (it RTM’d July 22, 2009), Exchange 2007 is not supported and there are no plans to support it (so Exchange 2007 needs to be installed …
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