Excel Services is a new feature introduced with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Enterprise Edition. It enables you to, amongst other things, display information from an Excel 2007 spreadsheet inside an Excel Web Access web part. Why is this useful? There are all sorts of reasons, but the best by far is to [...]
Read more »Microsoft Search Server 2008 is due to be released later this year. It is a subset of SharePoint Server 2007, containing Windows SharePoint Services (the free add-on to Windows Server 2003 or later) and Search Center (indexing and search). You can currently download a release candidate of Search Server Express Edition The release candidate includes [...]
Read more »If you’ve ever sat through a SharePoint Server 2007 presentation, chances are you have seen a slide with a circle divided into six segments. The slide is used to position SharePoint as a platform for six different types of solution: collaboration, portal, search, content management, business processes and business intelligence. What we are beginning to [...]
Read more »When running SharePoint workshops, one question inevitably crops up: ¨What doesn’t come out of the box?¨ The length of the answer depends on the circumstances but, when talking about optional extras, it seems that plenty of people don’t know about Codeplex. Codeplex is Microsoft’s Open Source Projects hosting site, where solutions are posted that typically [...]
Read more »I’ve just spent more time than I care to admit trying to kick a SharePoint server to life. The installation completed without a problem. Same too for the configuration wizard. But when it came to actually running SharePoint, the following error message appeared: I’ve never been hit by a runtime error before. At least, not [...]
Read more »[Update: Sept 2010] – For a more detailed explanation about the authentication issue, visit ‘RSS Viewer web part and authenticated feeds‘ (MSDN blog) Same issue applies to SharePoint 2010 but access to settings has changed slightly – Central Admin – Security (in sidebar on the left) —– original post —– SharePoint Server 2007 includes an [...]
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