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• Has Your SharePoint Search Committee Met This Month?

  It's the beginning of the month and now is as good a time as any for your company's search committee to get together and analyze Best Bets, successful and not so successful searches, etc. You don't have a search committee? Then form one :) WSS and especially Read More... Posted 05 August 2008 08:08 by paul.galvin | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint

• The Trouble With Tribbles ... err .. KPIs

  This past week I finished off a proof of concept project for a client in Manhattan. While implementing the solution, I ran into another shortcoming of MOSS KPIs ( see here for a previous KPI issue and my workaround ). Background : We used SharePoint Designer Read More... Posted 17 May 2008 10:39 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint

• Quick and Simple: Make an InfoPath Form Read Only (InfoPath Forms Services in MOSS)

  There's a common business scenario like this: User fills out an InfoPath form. Submits form. Long-running workflow process kicks off. While the workflow is running, we don't want anyone to change the content of the form. This office.microsoft.com example Read More... Posted 25 April 2008 09:10 by paul.galvin | 2 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow, InfoPath

• Developers: How Do I Learn SharePoint?

  In the last several months, a dozen or more folks from across the planet have been emailing me and asking the general question, "How do I learn SharePoint?" I'm hardly authoritative, but I've had some success (and trying to get better all the time) so Read More... Posted 22 April 2008 09:35 by paul.galvin | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint

• Data Protection Manager: Seems Like a Great SharePoint Backup/Restore Solution

  At the New Jersey SharePoint User Group meeting last night, Microsoft Sr. product specialist DuWayne Harrison presented Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 . DuWayne was great (and he was supported by one or two colleagues from the audience whose names Read More... Posted 17 April 2008 07:52 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Backup/Restore

• Walk-through: Fix Employee Training Template Available Seats Unregister Bug

  As many people know , the Employee Training template provided by Microsoft here has a bug that we can reproduce following these steps: Create a class with a max size of 10 students. Register --> Total available seats properly decrements by one. Result: Read More... Posted 16 April 2008 13:04 by paul.galvin | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow

• Content Query Web Part: Speaking at New York SharePoint Users Group

  I will be speaking with my colleague, Natalya Voskresenskaya , at the New York SharePoint Users Group meeting Wednesday May 7th. Thanks to Bob Fox for throwing our names into the hat and helping us get this opportunity! Our overall topic is the Content Read More... Posted 10 April 2008 08:36 by paul.galvin | 2 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, Public Speaking

• FAST SharePoint Integration: Execute a Simple Query

  This is a continuation in my FAST coding mini-series for SharePoint folk. The bit of code below executes a search for the term "test" in FAST via a Console application. Obviously, it's a hop, skip and jump away to wrap this logic inside a web part or Read More... Posted 08 April 2008 17:06 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, FAST

• FAST SharePoint Integration: Sample Code to Display All Available FAST Views

  Here is some code that shows all available views from a FAST server based on the named QRServer (the server process with which we communicate). I offer this up to give you all a taste of what it's like to use the provided FAST API. using System; using Read More... Posted 07 April 2008 19:13 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, FAST

• FAST and SharePoint Integration First Look

  I've been lucky to have an opportunity to work on a FAST <--> SharePoint integration project and thought I'd continue to share my limited experience with the community. Microsoft is in the process of purchasing FAST. I don't know anything about Read More... Posted 04 April 2008 15:34 by paul.galvin | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, FAST

• Observed Behavior: Moving SPD Workflows Within a Site Collection

  I'm giving this post a slightly oddball "Observed Behavior" lead since I'm a little leery of drawing conclusions from it. SPD workflows are ... temperamental. People are often asking / wondering / fretting over moving SPD workflows from one place to another. Read More... Posted 18 March 2008 09:55 by paul.galvin | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow

• Quick and Simple: Workflow-only Update Field

  It's often useful to store status information in a custom list such as an approval code which should never be directly manipulated by end users. This is a common business scenario. I have been working on a project this year that generates various status Read More... Posted 17 March 2008 08:21 by paul.galvin | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow

• Create Sites (SPWeb) via SharePoint Designer Workflow

  This blog entry is more of an "in the real of the possible" entry vs. concrete info. We have a technical design that calls for us to create a site in a site collection via a manually launched workflow process. Basically, users enter data into a "new customer" Read More... Posted 13 March 2008 07:37 by paul.galvin | 3 Comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint Workflow

• Quick and Simple: Provision a Web Site Using SharePoint Object Model In C#

  I tried searching for a little snippet code that would show how I can create a new SPWeb in a site collection. I didn't find it as quickly or easily as I expected so I thought I'd slap together a little entry on the subject. This code creates a new Wiki Read More... Posted 11 March 2008 18:50 by paul.galvin | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint

• Walk-through: Use People Search for Department Contacts

  Overview This article describes how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) People Search to display department-level contacts in a simple-to-read grid format. This solution arose from a consulting engagement. The client’s portal taxonomy included Read More... Posted 10 March 2008 20:04 by paul.galvin | 12 Comments Filed under: SharePoint