Apr 19
I’ve decided to mvoe on from getting the info out of Excel using custom properties. It’s possible that I may be able to use infopath forms instead with workflows to do this, so to this end, I’m following a couple of blog posts written by Nick Swan (He who runs the SUGUK) on developing and …
Apr 16
What a busy few weeks this has been. Unfortunatley, not much of it has been spent on SharePoint as I’ve had some server deliveries to meet. I’m back on SharePoint this week now. Still trying to sort out how to get dates out of the Excel spreadsheets and then displaying this and other data in …
Apr 04
One of the problems that I’ve hit recently is how to pass customer properties from an Excel spreadsheet so that they become column entries in a document library. Now SharePoint allows you to pass text values quite happily as linked content, however it doesn’t like passing numbers or dates. Well, I’ve found a way round …
Mar 29
Been a bit quiet on here and the SUGUK forums this last week thanks to an almighty bout of man-flu.. Real strength sapping one this variation! All I’ve done is sleep and doze infront of the telly. Tried to go back to work this morning, but the temperature is still a little up and down. …
Mar 21
I’ll be attending the London meeting of the SharePoint User Group UK on Thursday evening. I believe there are still some places left, so take a look at SUGUK Mtg – London 22nd March @ LBi The evening will be covering an InDepth look at SharePoint Search, looking at Set-up, configuration, customisation and limitations. This …
Mar 15
During the installation process, there isn’t an option to select SSL for your Central administration pages. I would however advocate that even if you’re main SharePoint site isn’t going to use SSL, then your Admin pages should. There’s a very good Microsoft article on this subject and this can be found here. The basic process …
Mar 12
Is that a contradiction of words? Anyways.. I sorted the problem, it was the hosting server blocking outbound email. All new registrations will now receive their password.
Mar 10
Ok, for some reason the mail out isn’t working. I’ll get this sorted and post here when it is. Then any subscribers will actually get their emailed password.
Mar 08
I attended my first user group meeting last night since joining the SUGUK forums. The evening opened with a presentation on Excel services by Andrew Woodward, followed by Design decisions by Bill English and then after a very nice buffet meal, Dr Bleeker took over and gave a very animated presentation on the possibilities for …
Mar 02
10 hours!!!… Thats how long it took me to resolve a Kerberos issue. It all started with finishing the installation of MOSS 2007 and then running the SharePoint Configuration wizard. No major problems with this, I entered the SQL Server information, changed the default configuration database name and added the Service credentials. Click next, and …