When you create a site collection using the Collaboration Portal template in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you get an extra web part not available in any of the other templates. It’s called ‘I need to…’ and displays a list of options, starting with ‘Set up MySite’. It starts life on the home page of the top-level site in the site collection…

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This is part 1 in a series of posts about how to create your own SharePoint theme. When you install SharePoint, it comes with a range of themes to pick from. Each theme determines the style and formatting of pages within a site. Themes are applied per site. Navigate to a site, click on Site [...]

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Alerts are a feature within SharePoint to automatically notify you about new and/or updated information. Instead of having to keep checking to find out if content has changed, SharePoint will tell you when it happens. You can create alerts on any list, library or even the results of a search query. For lists and libraries, [...]

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If you have ever played with the wiki libray in SharePoint, you may have noticed that clicking on the title of the library in the Quick Launch menu (sidebar on the left) automatically opens the home page within the library. That’s great if you go to the trouble of creating a home page and linking [...]

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You’re in the UK, your server knows it’s in the UK, yet all the dates in SharePoint are listing in the US format of month/day/year. SharePoint ignores the regional settings of the server and watches the time in its own little world. To change, go to the top level site in the site collection, click [...]

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