Welcome to my blog mainly about SharePoint
If you have used SharePoint 2007 and have moved to SharePoint 2010 you might have noticed that the toolbar is missing from the top of the asset picker. The user experience is horrible due to the fact that this toolbar is missing. A user needs to upload the image to the appropriate library first before [...]
In 2008 I made a post about the infamous “locked for editing” message many people experience while using Office with documents stored in SharePoint. This post addressed the issue that can occur outside the normal “locking” mechanism Office and SharePoint. I recently had a problem where I attempted to edit an Excel spreadsheet and I [...]
I ran into an issue attempting to get Project Sever 2007 working with SQL Sever 2008 Analysis Services and thought I would create a post about it in case other people are experiencing the same issue. The first thing to note is the article on TechNet are written as if everything is installed on the [...]
I would like to assume many people have heard of the SharePoint related site called SharePointMagazine.net, brought to us by Arno Nel (@arnonel). The SharePointMagazine.net site has a tremendous amount of great content from many guest authors and you should check it out of you have not already. So why this blog post? Well Arno [...]
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 (“SPC09”) has finally come to a close and I hope to wrap up my thoughts about what I saw at the conference in this post. I first need to say that this has by far been the best conference I have attended. This is not necessarily because of all the [...]
Generally speaking, most of what was shown during the keynote can be seen in the SharePoint 2010 Overview videos available on the website. However, here are a few things that caught my attention that I am not sure I knew: Full development support on Windows Vista/Windows 7 Development Sandbox environments I am also really excited [...]
I have decided to shutdown http://www.wsswiki.com and all traffic will now be directed to SharePoint Dev Wiki (http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com) – a site maintained by Jeremy Thake (@jthake). This weekend, I plan on publishing some of my articles from WSSWiki on SharePoint Dev Wiki. I believe the SharePoint Dev Wiki has good content that all SharePoint developers [...]
My fellow co-workers and I have been dealing with an extremely slow build > render process when we are developing SharePoint solutions that are deployed to the BIN folder for over a year now. We are all using are own Windows Server 2003 image hosted on a VMware ESX Server farm with tons of other [...]
There is a feature in my SharePoint URL Shortener solution that was not included in the video I posted on YouTube recently. I thought I would take the time to spotlight this feature because it may not be too obvious. The video highlights the ability to generate a short URL by using the drop down [...]
The SharePoint URL Shortener Codeplex site has been published and is now publically available (as promised from yesterdays post). As a reminder, the URL is http://spurlshortener.codeplex.com. If you have any problems, please post something on the Codeplex site and/or hit me up on Twitter (@PaulLiebrand). Thank you and please be gentle!
