Archive for March, 2009

The difference between “Future Creep” and writing good code

A couple of weeks back I read a good post from Andrew Woodward (a MVP from the UK) about the concept of “Future Creep” (read it here). Basically he discusses this idea that when a developer puts in a piece of code that isn’t actually required but is easier to put in right away and [ READ MORE ]

Problems with the start time field and the content query web part

This is one that I came across today when I was trying to use the content query web part to show a list of events in calendars and getting it to include the start date of the event. As always, I used Heather Solomon’s blog post on customising the CQWP as a point of reference, [ READ MORE ]

Planning AD migrations – the SharePoint part

I say ‘the SharePoint part’ here because that’s all I’m going to cover here, seeing as I’m a SharePoint guy :-) If your organisation is planning to migrate users from one domain to another and you have SharePoint (be it WSS or MOSS) in there, then you really need to sit down and plan out [ READ MORE ]

Stopping SharePoint Designer from accessing a SharePoint site

I came across this interesting little piece of information through the guys on Twitter the other day – apparently you can stop SharePoint designer from being able to access a SharePoint site totally through making a change to the site definition. The full KB article is over at the MS Support website, but the gist of [ READ MORE ]

Changing list forms through code

Have you ever had one of those problems that you look at and say “I have no idea how to do that” and then when you figure it out you realise that you already knew, you just forgot about it, and when it turns out to be something really easy you feel like a bit of [ READ MORE ]

Tonight: Canberra SharePoint User Group

I need to smack myself up the side of the head for not blogging about this one earlier, but you get that sometimes! As anyone on our mailing list will already know tonight is the March meeting of the Canberra user group. I won’t be able to make it, but it sounds like it will [ READ MORE ]

The difference between WSS and MOSS user profiles

This is something that a few people know about but a lot of people don’t so I thought I would take a few minutes to explain it. As most of you will know, WSS and MOSS are two seperate products, with MOSS extending WSS. User profile management is a MOSS feature that you get in your [ READ MORE ]

Happy birthday blog – celebrating one year of my SharePoint blog!

Was just flicking through some of the stats and stuff I get with this new word press blog (so much happier with it than I was with Live Spaces, no offence Microsoft:-P) and it came to my attention that I have been doing this SharePoint blogging thing for just on a year now, so happy [ READ MORE ]

Planning crawl schedules for MOSS search

I have been implementing some SharePoint stuff with a client we have and one of the feedback items we have been getting back from tester’s and UAT users is “Why doesn’t search show me any results?” Well the simple answer when you look at it is because the SSP hasn’t been told to crawl anything. [ READ MORE ]

Issues running stsadm -o migrateuser: Part two

So today I’ll continue on with my post from yesterday about the hell I was having trying to do a user migration test. you should have a read of the original post first if you haven’t already. So after some more looking at the farm we were trying to test in I came to the [ READ MORE ]

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