[Update] Please note that this solution does not quite get to a full address book search. When Microsoft says ‘Sort by name’, they actually only sort by first name. Daft I know but go complain to them. The best approach is to add a note for people – add at least the first letter of [...]
Read more »Note: This post is relevant to both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. One of the features that SharePoint has had for a while now is the Meeting Workspace site template. It’s a template to help co-ordinate content and activities relating to meetings. Used well, it can be a great time-saver and/or help improve the management [...]
Read more »In February 2011 I did a presentation at a Records Management (RM) seminar on SharePoint 2010. Specifically, exploring what SharePoint 2010 has to offer in the field of EDRMS – Electronic Document and Records Management. The presentation is embedded below and a brief summary of the talk follows: SharePoint 2010 for Records Management First things [...]
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[Update] Following comments to this post, please note that this refers to using the Enterprise Wiki template when creating a site collection. The Enterprise Wiki template is the only one that will create a root site with all features available. All other templates limit the features for the site collection and the Publishing Portal template [...]
Read more »SharePoint has always had some form of metadata capabilities. However the latest version includes the first attempt at managing metadata. This post is a brief overview of the different types of metadata and why/when to use them…
Read more »In SharePoint 2010, PerformancePoint runs as a service application. Having been configuring it recently for a demo, I stumbled across a couple of steps that needed to be completed to get the demo up and running. The environment is a single server virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, SharePoint [...]
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