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Well it’s been a while since I have done a blog entry so I thought I would ease myself back into them with a small post about how to debug a hidden feature. As everyone knows in SharePoint you have the ability to make a feature hidden which means it doesn’t show up via the UI. This is useful if you don’t want users deactivating or activating a ...

Now, I may be a little slow on the uptake here but I have just found out that as of the 1st of April this year Microsoft released SharePoint Designer as a free download to all SharePoint customers.  This is great news for the businesses who have invested in SharePoint over the last few years and will save a great deal on licence fees I'm ...

A few support queries and tweets have come up recently about our support for 64-bit Sharepoint (WSS or MOSS) with Scrum for Team System v2.2 and TFS.  The crux of the issue seems to be the ability of the installer to detect the location of WSS as it is not looking in the correct place in the registry to support both 32 and 64-bit installers, ...

The latest release of the Accessibility kit for SharePoint has been released today. AKS v2.0 introduces updates that allow MOSS users to create and implement sites that conform to the WCAG 2.0 Level AA candidate recommendation in the United States. This is done through a series of updated and or different Master Pages, CSS and Control Adapters ...

Gartner have highlighted mashups as a growth area for 2009 and predict that ''by 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups'' in the Five Predictions report. I have been looking at harnessing the power of mixing geographic visualisation techniques with ...

I heard rumours earlier in the week that PerformancePoint was going to be changing and colleagues had found various snippets of news online, but there are now details on the The Microsoft BI Blog - it looks like Planning is going to be discontinued (after SP3) and  Monitoring will be included in MOSS - makes sense with the new strategy / road ...

This is my first post on this blog. My colleagues told me I found something worth blogging about. So here goes: I wanted to make cascading events over multiple web part connections work. I’ll use the typical ‘Hello World’ example of cascading DropDownLists. But this time each DropDownList is in its own WebPart. For example I have three ...

Technorati Tags: MOSS,User Adoption,Usage Stats,Reporting Services,PPS,PerformancePoint,IIS,User Statistics You have created an awesome new BI solution it is superior to the incumbent system and it is full of cool new features, good job? But what if no one uses it... Regardless of whether you are going for a Big Bang, Parallel, Phased or other ...

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 MOSS search benefit from some human oversight.  Investing a few hours a month ...

  So I have been meaning to write a blog entry for some time now and at last I have finally manage to drag together a few coherent sentences and get the ball rolling. So what topic have I picked to start my blogging experience with at Conchango? Well Sharepoint of course!Anyway down to business and the reason for the post is that the other ...