Monthly Archives: August 2009

w00t! A supported way of adding and removing themes from a Web Application!

One thing that’s always bothered me about theming SharePoint is that essentially you are modifying system files. While this is unsupported, it’s the accepted practice – Heck, the theming Queen herself, Heather Solomon takes you step by step through doing … Continue reading

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Talking about SharePoint in Plain English

  This is a good video to show at the start of a training course on using SharePoint. http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/5/6/A56BB856-74F5-4A6B-887B-876BAE88116F/SharePoint%20in%20Plain%20English.zip This is a short video that explains in simple terms what SharePoint is, and why/how people use it. – Click here … Continue reading

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Site dedicated to SharePoint and Reporting services integration

Just found this site which is dedicated to SharePoint and Reporting Services integration. A very useful resource in an area that has little available content – http://blogs.msdn.com/prash/default.aspx   Thanks Prash! Keep it up…

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Redirecting users to a File Share from within SharePoint

Just a quick note – you can use a dash of JavaScript and a splash of HTML to redirect users to a UNC path on a file share. We had an issue recently where a user wanted to load 400MB … Continue reading

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“Error: Class not registered” when trying to start WSS Search

Had a puzzling error recently where I was trying to set up a new farm. Single WFE, Separate SQL Server, simple config. So I installed MOSS 2007, then SP 2 for WSS and MOSS. Everything went fine until I started … Continue reading

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