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Some organizations want to leverage the publish links to Office 2007 client feature that SharePoint 2007 offers without enabling My Sites. The publish links to Office 2007 relies on the same update mechanism that the My SharePoint Sites feature uses. If you have read any of my posts in the past on this topic you [...]

I have hit a strange problem today and I am trying to wrap my head around why this is happening.  Perhaps the SharePoint community has run into this before and has some insight as to what is causing it. I have some custom code that enumerates each list then items in the list to do [...]

This may seem obvious now but I through me for a loop for a few minutes yesterday when a co-worker asked me why he was getting redirected to the SharePoint access denied page when he attempted to add a new item to a list. I checked the permissions on the list and he had contribute [...]

If you receive the following error message when you attempt to access your SharePoint site from the server itself, "HTTP 401.1 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials” your environment most likely had Microsoft Security Update 957097 (MS08-068) installed. You can refer to the KB article 896861 to resolve the issue. It is [...]

Wow! What an interesting morning. I arrived at work today to discover that all our “My Site” profile information (and related information) has been deleted from our environment. I figured out what happened and thought I would share my findings with the community (I’ll most likely be opening a support case with Microsoft to try [...]

I’d like to take a moment to congratulate the Muhimbi for shipping MuSH; their version of the URL shortener for SharePoint. As many of you know I have been working on and off on my open sourced version for sometime now and it is good to finally see someone else attempting to tackle the same [...]

[Update – 9/2/2009] I have released the first public version of my SharePoint URL Shortener. Please read the following blog posts for more information: http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/28/sharepoint-url-shortener-its-finally-here/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/29/sharepoint-url-shortener-codeplex-site-has-been-published-and-is-live/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/09/01/sharepoint-url-shortener-feature-highlight/   I am still planning on releasing an open sourced version of the “TinyUrl" Feature for SharePoint later this year. However, until then you can also keep your [...]

I have previously explained how “My SharePoint Sites” works and how it gets propagated to the client. What happens if you want to disable this feature or adjust the frequency of when it occurs. From time to time I get asked this question so I figured I would write up a post about it. By [...]

[Update – 9/2/2009] I have released the first public version of my SharePoint URL Shortener. Please read the following blog posts for more information: http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/28/sharepoint-url-shortener-its-finally-here/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/08/29/sharepoint-url-shortener-codeplex-site-has-been-published-and-is-live/ http://paulliebrand.com/2009/09/01/sharepoint-url-shortener-feature-highlight/ I am soliciting feature requests on Twitter for the first version of the “TinyUrl” for SharePoint feature I’ll am developing. If you do not want to post them [...]

Update – 7/2/2009 The Office 2007 hotfix (KB970950) is now available to download: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970950 The specific bullet that resolves this problem states the following: “When you view folders that are listed under My SharePoint Sites in the Open dialog box or the Save As dialog box in a 2007 Office application, you are prompted for [...]