Steve Caravajal's Ramblings
SharePoint, .NET, + just about anything else
Creating and Installing Workflow Activities for SPD
Three good references to get you started: HOW TO: Create a custom Windows Workflow Activity and make...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 04/04/2007
MOSS Indexing and SSPs
During recent search discussions and POCs, a number of questions have surfaced as well as some key...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 04/04/2007
SharePoint Designer Training
6 different videos can be found here. </steve>
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 04/03/2007
Migrating CMS Content to MOSS
An excellent white paper, check it out. [Updated May 11, 07 - more great stuff, check out the two...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 04/03/2007
MOSS Internet and Extranet Collaboration
For those thinking or planning on this kind of a deployment, there is a new tool you should check...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 04/02/2007
MOSS Public Internet Sites: check'em out
These two sites (1 and 2) are pretty cool looking, and yes the are MOSS sites. </steve>
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 04/02/2007
Windows Workflow Foundation Performance
If you're planninig to utilize workflows pretty heavily then you might want to check this out....
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/31/2007
MOSS Resources
Title Description Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server, part 1 Covers topics such...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/29/2007
Get into the Groove...
Several new white papers have just been released on TechNet. Microsoft Office Groove: Backup Options...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/29/2007
MOSS and Documentum Integration
Vorsite Announces the Release of their MOSS 2007 Search Connector for Documentum Seattle, WA -...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/26/2007
MOSS and FileNet Integration
VORSITE®Announces the Release of their MOSS 2007 Search Connector for FileNet Seattle, WA - April 2,...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/26/2007
STSADM Reference
This will come in handy so keep it bookmarked. </steve>
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/24/2007
Visual Studio Extensions for WSS v3
The RTM version has just been released and you can get it here. Overview This release of the Visual...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/23/2007
MOSS Search Deep Dive Content
Some really good videos and content here. Put it on your list of things to do... </steve>
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/23/2007
SharePoint MSDN Forums
A number of folks have asked me for the location of the MSDN forum so here it is. If you like more...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/23/2007
Document Library Content Management
Q: What are some best practices for managing several thousand items or more in a SharePoint document...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/22/2007
MOSS Intranet and Extranet Case Study
If you're considering MOSS for either internal or external use, or both you might want to check out...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/19/2007
MOSS and BI Integration Whitepaper
Worth a read... This paper is divided into two main sections. The first shows an overview of the...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/18/2007
Enterprise Search at Microsoft
You should check out this Web cast if you're interested in how we do this internally. Enterprise...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/17/2007
SPS2003 Document Library Migration to MOSS
A number of folks have asked about doing this without buying any third party tools. Obviously, you...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/17/2007
Preview PDFs in Outlook 2007
File preview capability can become addicting once you expect it. Since I've been using Vista and...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/17/2007
Database Files in SharePoint Document Libraries
A common question but in general not recommended. See a previous post. ....Database Storage - (.mdb,...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/15/2007
SharePoint Branding and Application.Master
A number of folks have asked about editing the master page called application.master. They know that...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/13/2007
Shortcut Functionality with Start++
A cool tool from Brandon Paddock worth checking out. ... Users of WDS on XP may recall the “Deskbar...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/10/2007
2000 Item Limits for SharePoint Libraries
I continue to get a lot of questions regarding the document limits per document library. There is a...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/09/2007
Deploying VSTO and VSTO SE Solutions
Two good articles that have been updated to include the most recent VSTO version. </steve>
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/09/2007
The MOSS Pie
Sweeeeet!!! This is a great site! </steve>
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/08/2007
MOSS: HTML Editor and Content Creation Control
As you create page layouts for content creation, keep in mind that the HTML editor can be customized...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/08/2007
SharePoint as a Application Development Platform vs Standalone ASP.NET
There were too many gaps in SP2003, but the world is changing..........A good discussion of the pros...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/08/2007
SharePoint and Database Mirroring
Using database mirroring with Office SharePoint Server [Note: this whitepaper was recently updated,...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/08/2007
SQL Server 2005 SP2
For those running 2005, SP2 is available for download from here. If you downloaded SP2 prior to...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/07/2007
Tracking ASP.NET ViewState
I was working on some custom Web parts and needed to monitor the viewstate of some of my pages. I...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/05/2007
Refreshing Excel Services Data from an External Source
For those of you using Excel Services and need to refresh the data from an external data source you...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/05/2007
MOSS and Commerce Server 2007
This download provides setup and configuration information for solutions that are based on Microsoft...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/05/2007
Windows Desktop Search v3.01 Released
Go get it here. WDS v3.01 now includes support for group policy and the UNC protocol handler to...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 03/05/2007
SharePoint Content Migration
If you are utilizing the WCM features of MOSS, you MUST check out this post. Good job Jackie!!...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/26/2007
WebDAV and FrontPage RPCs
I was working on a problem recently with a customer who was needed to utilize WebDAV and FrontPage...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/26/2007
SharePoint Audiences
This article provides an introduction to audiences and targeting users for those that might be...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/26/2007
ALL 40 !! Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates
This download package includes all forty of the Application Templates for Microsoft Windows...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/22/2007
MOSS Upgrade, Deployment, Configuration, Planning, etc.
A couple of useful resources you should check out: Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/22/2007
SharePoint Viewers and ADDons
You have to check this out: Colligo Reader for SharePoint Colligo Reader enables you to easily...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/22/2007
Office 2007 and BI Tools
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 Brief Description Download...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/22/2007
SharePoint 2007 Development and AJAX
Have a look here and here; these 2 posts will definitely be helpful if you are involved in doing...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/21/2007
Daylight Savings Time Patches for SharePoint
Go here for the update and here for the manual editing of the timezone.xml file. Note: both of these...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/21/2007
SharePoint Localization
Good article by Robert Bogue worth your time if this is something you need to do. </steve>
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/20/2007
WSS v3 Application Templates: Want to see what they look like?
See my earlier post for a summary of the new templates. I get asked a lot what the new templates...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/20/2007
XAML Schema for WF Workflows
This sample schema submitted here will allow you to get XML intellisense inside of Visual Studio...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007
Creating Custom MOSS Policies
I've been working lately on creating some custom policies just to demo for customers to illustrate...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007
MOSS Search
Well written, objective summary of the strengths and areas for improvement for MOSS search....
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007
SharePoint 2007 and ADFS
Installing MOSS as a claims aware application in ADFS The content of this blog is being turned into...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007