Steve Caravajal's Ramblings
SharePoint, .NET, + just about anything else
Want to start a SharePoint user's group?
If you are planning to do this, then check out the Community Kit for Sharepoint. The Community Kit...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007
Mobile Devices and SharePoint 2007
Mobile browsers and devices that are supported in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007
SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007
Site Template Questions
While teaching a class this week, several questions came up re: saving sites as templates so I...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007
Converting a Team Site to a Publishing Site
Q: Can an already provisioned team site be converted to a publishing site? A: No, but as long as you...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/18/2007
Upgrading WSS v2 FrontPage-Modified Pages to Sharepoint 2007
Q: How do you upgrade WSS v2 pages customized with FrontPage 2003 to WSS v3 (or MOSS)? A:...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/14/2007
Host Header Mode and WSS v3
Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use forms authentication Prepare to crawl host-named sites...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/13/2007
Integrating MOSS Search and SAP
Building Custom Search WebParts with Integrated SAP NetWeaver Portal Search for Microsoft Office...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/13/2007
SharePoint 2007 Virtualization Supported
This is a common question I get from customers... Q: Does Microsoft support running WSS v3 and MOSS...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/09/2007
SharePoint 2007 CSS Reference Chart
This is an excellent reference. If you are customizing 2007 sites,.......duh??... and who won't be,...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/09/2007
Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM)
... The Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) is a collection of tools that enables you to...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/06/2007
Office 2007 Document Converters
Gartner discusses the need to deploy document converters so employees can collaborate using Office...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/06/2007
Visual Studio 2005 Products Comparison
I continue to get a lot of questions re: which of the VS2005 products have which features and do...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/05/2007
Improving Relevance in Custom Search Queries
If you are writing or customizing your own search queries, you might want to check out this article....
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/05/2007
New Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Well, they're heeere.......well 20 of the 40 anyway. Go check them out. Plus, there is...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/03/2007
Office 2007 Development
Go check out the new Office Space column on MSDN Mag authored by Ted Pattison. This column is...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 02/03/2007
Searching Lotus Notes Content from SharePoint
Are you interested? Well, there is an excellent post by Ed Hild that goes into a soup to nuts...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 01/25/2007
MOSS Search, Desktop Search, Live Search...
During several recent search demos over the past few weeks, customers have asked a number of good...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 01/25/2007
WSS and MOSS SDKs
The RTM versions of the WSS v3 SDK and MOSS SDK are now available for download. The MOSS SDK and ECM...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 01/23/2007
Intranet Design Annual 2007: Year's Ten Best Intranets
Go check out the report here. Here is some excerpts from the landing page..... ...This report...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 01/17/2007
MOSS Workflow and Records Management
Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 WorkflowThe Microsoft Legal and...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 01/16/2007
MOSS Compliance and Custom Auditing
Previously, I talked about the excellent doc that's available that discusses compliance for the...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 01/12/2007
Office 2007 and Web 2.0
2007 Office System Document: Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise with the 2007 Office System Brief...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 01/09/2007
Upgrade WSS v2 Sites and Templates to WSS v3
Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services Sites and Templates Guide Brief DescriptionGuidance...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 01/08/2007
MOSS Administration : STSADM
If you've never used STSADM then go check this out: Powerful Command Line Administration for...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/29/2006
MOSS Search Intro
A brief, to the point introductory article on MOSS search recently posted to TechNet: Find It All...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/29/2006
Introduction to Wikis
What, you've never heard of Wikis? Well, push very hard on the rock you're under and once you are...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/29/2006
SharePoint 2007 Internet Facing Sites : Part 5
The list continues to grow rapidly. See my last blog for references and a very recent blog by...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/25/2006
ASP.NET v2 Web Part Development and SharePoint Web Part Development
If you are a .NET developer and considering jumping into Web Part development, then you should check...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/23/2006
MOSS Case Study: MTV Networks International
Make sure to check this out!! Problem ...handling internal ticket orders is very time-consuming and...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/23/2006
MOSS Search vs SharePoint Standalone Search
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search feature comparison Office SharePoint Server 2007...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/21/2006
SharePoint 2007 Internet Facing Sites : Part 4
Microsoft.com a SharePoint 2007 site?? If you've keeping up with the previous parts, then you'll...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/17/2006
SmartPart v3: Building Custom Web Parts from User Controls (.ascx)
For those of us writing Web Parts for WSS v3, we know that we have 2 choices. We can create an...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/15/2006
MOSS Search Details
Good resource for those interested in MOSS search. Planning and architecture, deployment, and...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/15/2006
MOSS and Multilingual Capability
The white paper below provides information and guidelines for using Microsoft Office SharePoint...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/13/2006
MOSS and InfoPath 2007: Automating Business Processes
I usually get asked for “real world” examples of how SharePoint technology is being utilized to...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/13/2006
Windows Workflow Activities
A very good MSDN Mag article on the activities that are available OOTB in WinWF. A Tour of Windows...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/12/2006
Excel Services and Data Connections
If you are using or plan to use Excel Services then you need to check out this article. Plan...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/05/2006
SharePoint 2007 SDKs
The RTM versions of MOSS and WSS have been released and are on MSDN. The download versions are...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/05/2006
MOSS and WSS v3 Capacity Planning
Some new information on performance and capacity planning just posted for MOSS and WSS v3....
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/05/2006
Information Rights Management in SharePoint 2007
Previously, I posted on IRM in MOSS. I continue to get a number of questions so I thought I would...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 12/01/2006
Office 2007 Versions: Standard vs Professional Plus vs Enterprise
2007 Microsoft Office suites comparison white paper With the 2007 Microsoft Office system, you and...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/30/2006
MOSS and Compliance
MOSS: Compliance Features in the 2007 Microsoft Office System This white paper showcases...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/30/2006
SharePoint 2007 Internet Facing Sites : Part 3
Yep, more are popping up all the time. Part 2 and Part 1 also show other sites, which definitely...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/30/2006
SharePoint 2007 Application Templates
Returning by popular demand but with more new capability, 40 new application templates will be...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/27/2006
MOSS WCM Authoring with non-IE browsers
Telerik is providing MOSS Web authoring capability using non-IE browsers. From their Web site……...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/21/2006
Office 2007: Save as PDF and XPS
This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/20/2006
WSS v3 Demo
For those 1 or 2 people that haven't yet seen a demo of WSS v3, you can go check it out here....
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/20/2006
Feature Comparison: Office 2007 vs 2003
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Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/19/2006
New Reporting Features for MOSS and WSS v3 from SQL 2005 SP2
Make sure to check out the Reporting Services features in SP2 from the 2nd link below specific to...
Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/19/2006