Connect.Collaborate.SharePoint
Oct
23

I've been working behind the scenes on my SharePoint Resources taxonomy. Using a combination of Content Types and standard list columns makes it much easier to collect and use metadata effectively (although I'm still a long way off getting it right for this list).

The http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/usergroups.aspx resource page is now published. Next will be the blog and web part pages. These all derive their content from one rather large list. SharePoint lists are so much better for managing this type of information compared to wiki's or blog's.

Oh, and I'm just loving posting directly from Word 2007…

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Oct
22

 Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse

Both, it's a Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse.

Not yet released but you can pre-order on Amazon.

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Oct
21
The Data View web part is the most powerfull web part that ships with WSS but in v2 it would render all items in the data source in FrontPage designer view. This used to be a real pain when there were hundreds or thousands of records.
 
Now you have control over how the DVWP previews data at design time.
SharePoint Data View design time filter
I was just fixing up my list/details page so that I could use it for another project I’m working on and it really helps when you have multiple connected web parts on the page.
Demo http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/Lists.aspx

While we are on the subject of Web Part Pages, anyone else notice that it takes a lot more clicks and screen refreshes to build a web part page with more than one web part on the page?
 
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Oct
16

Excuse the audio quality, partly caused by sinus problems and partly because I had to use the microphones in the laptop (plural, spot the stereo).

http://www.wssdemo.com/Shared%20Documents/wssdemo.asx

(trying to catch up to Mike...)
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Oct
14

WSSv2 and SPS 2003 allowed end users to create simple connections between List View web parts to enable master/detail type views or simple filters of list items. In WSS 3.0 there is a now support for a lookup column to be multi-selectable which provides a UI like this…

Multi-select, lookup field pick box
http://www.wssdemo.com/v3Images/multiselect.jpg

You can now use the values in the lookup to filter the list view if there are multiple selections.

Demo page J
http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/technologyresources.aspx

Note: I did find a bug if the detail part is grouped by a content type, the page will error (may happen for any group by view).

Oh, and one of the best pieces of .Net opensource used to edit the image.  Paint.Net http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/PaintNET/1096481993/1

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Oct
11

11/10/2006 - Don’t have the time to get the next version of SharePoint products and technologies up and running? Consider attending a Hot LAB where you can get access to a machine with a virtual 2007 Office System for a day. Labs cover collaboration, portals, search, enterprise content management, forms processing, business intelligence and deployment.

http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/hotlabs/default.mspx

There is also a free overview day for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch you can register for at the bottom of the page.

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Oct
7

I used to be a big fan of Public Folders back in the Exchange 4-5.5 days. That was before SharePoint Team Services v1 came along. Since then I have been designing collaboration solutions entirely in SharePoint products and technologies. The only thing that was missing in providing an end to end solution was archiving email discussions (3rd parties solved the offline requirements). So now that WSS can archive emails, there was talk of Exchange dropping support for Public Folders. This blog http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/02/20/419994.aspx

from the Exchange team indicates that PF’s are here to stay which will be a relief for people with legacy PF applications, but moving forward, it is pretty clear that WSS is the platform for new collaboration applications.
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Oct
6
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Oct
3

1. Don’t try and crawl the Internet, you will run out of disk space.

Don’t laugh. I did this accidentally which led to some of my other performance investigations once I managed to get some disk space back.

2. SQL Server is a memory hog. If this is installed on the same server as MOSS then on the properties of the server name, limit the maximum server memory used by SQL to about ½ the physical memory (it seems to default to 100% physical memory which causes an excessive amount of swapping)

3. Crawling overhead. MOSS provides 3 levels of throttling for the crawler.
From Central Administration > Operations > Services on Server > Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings  , Select “Reduced” Indexer Performance. This is important if you are going to drag and drop thousands of documents into a document library via the Explorer interface.

4. Content Database size (especially if you are going to drag and drop thousands of documents into SharePoint). Extend your content database to a decent size to cope with content you plan on storing in it. SQL Server 2005 seems to be faster at extending the DB than 2000 but if you check the defaults on your DB you will find that it starts at 10Mb and extends 1Mb at a time. SqharePoint content DB’s are not like traditional transaction databases, if they are storing documents, the transactions are MUCH bigger than normal.

5. Transaction Logs. Set your recovery mode to simple or you may run out of disk space if you don’t do regular backups which is the only thing that will truncate the log. Especially important before doing a restore from stsadm or Central Admin restore.

6. Don’t use virtualization. SharePoint is not a single exe, there is a lot going on, especially if you enable every feature (WSS, Forms Server, Excel Services, Document Conversion, Indexing, Searching, Job Server, Single sign-on, BDC, Web Services etc).

Any more tips to add to the list?

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