The Sanity Point

You probably know by now that I'm presenting at the Best PracticesT SharePoint Conference next month. But there are plenty of reasons to attend this conference beyond my own presentations.

Check out my session abstracts and some thoughts on ROI on my new site!

The title says it all! Well Most of it.

I got home from lunch yesterday and found two big boxes on my doorstep. You guessed it – my author copies of the book I spent so many months working on – Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, from Wrox.

Check out my new site for the details…

I've freshened the look of my new blog site! Why not check it out?

And while you're there, don't forget to update your links and feeds…

Thanks for your continuing support!

Driving Through Flyover Country

2008 should theoretically have been a boring year for SharePoint. The current version (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) was released in 2006. The next version wouldn't be out until 2009, if not later. The software equivalent of flyover country.

Take this trip with me on my new site!

Gift-wrapping Web Applications with the Page Viewer Web Part

With the Holidays upon us, everyone is putting things in boxes. Boxes are very convenient – they let you just drop something into them without having to change anything about the item being packaged.

Read all about SharePoint's neat little box for other pages on my new site!

Dell has caused a big stir recently by publicizing a “cost” to have Windows XP installed when purchasing systems that might otherwise include Windows Vista. The media has picked this up and spun it as Microsoft charging a fee (they typically say $150) to downgrade from Vista to Windows XP.

For the full analysis of this myth, see my new site….

"When it Absolutely, Positively, has to be Found."

One of the key features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), and Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS) – including Express (MSSX), is Enterprise Search. What you may not realize is that SharePoint actually includes two fundamentally different mechanisms for providing search results to your users. I'm not talking about WSS versus MOSS/MSS search. Rather, I'm talking about a second, parallel, system that returns results to user queries – often on the same page as the "regular" search engine.

So, what is this "shadow" search mechanism? Read all about it at my new site…

"It's not just for Firefox anymore"

Today I'm going to talk about one of the earliest enhancements that was available for the current release of SharePoint. It has been around for so long, that it has either fallen off folks' radar, or has never made it onto the screen for newer users. That's a little sad, because it has always been a very useful component, and in its latest release is even more so. What is this magic add-on?

Click through to my new site and get the whole story…

I am pleased and honored to announce that I have been selected to present at the Best PracticesT SharePoint Conference in San Diego, California next February!

Here's the obligatory link back to my new site for the details…