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To Bracket or Not to Bracket (Field Element ID GUID)
When creating Fields, Content Types, solution packages, etc., in SharePoint, you'll make heavy use of GUIDs. However, it seems to be hit-or-miss as to whether SharePoint expects the curly brackets [...]
Lessons Learned on Getting Buy-in
Chapters 2 and 3 of the SharePoint Best Practices book I've been reading discuss the emotional aspect of getting people to "buy into" this new SharePoint solution you're building. I thought [...]
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Best Practices
I am in the process of reading the Microsoft Press book by Ben Curry and Bill English, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Best Practices. While there are numerous books on [...]
Quick Script for Uncustomizing Page Layouts
I ran into an issue where several of my Page Layouts had been customized using SharePoint Designer. I didn't want them to be customized, because I had deployed an upgraded [...]
September 2008 St. Louis User Group Meeting
I'll be presenting at the upcoming St. Louis Users Group meeting on September 9, at the Microsoft office at City Place. The topic of my presentation is "InfoPath and Web [...]
No More Kool-aid
For those of you who remember my "I drank the Kool-aid" post from last year, I feel like it's time I let the world know that I am no longer partaking [...]
Creating Custom List Forms for Creating, Editing, or Displaying a List Item
You might have noticed that when you create a new list or library in SharePoint, a set of forms get automatically created for creating a new list item, editing a [...]
The Trusted Advisor
I am going on my 10th year of consulting now, and as I progress in my career, I'm becoming increasingly aware that it's not just technical proficiency that makes me [...]
Custom Event Content Type
I was tasked with creating a custom Event List (i.e. Calendar) to be deployed as a feature. I was confused, because even though I had successfully added the additional fields [...]
Feature Dependency Order
I recently ran across a helpful blog entry by the Norwegian MCS Information Worker team, which succinctly outlines the relationships between features, in terms of activation dependencies across scopes and [...]
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