Brian Wilson

Best Practices, advice and guidance on all things related to SharePoint Technologies.

Check out our new team blog for MCS SharePoint Guru's in the UK!

We have just launched the Microsoft UK SharePoint team blog! With many people contributing to the...

Date: 01/06/2009

Office SharePoint Server 2007 : Search : Configuring NTFS permissions for NTFS file share/ folders (that don't inherit permissions) for the search default content access account (xCacls)

Here is a step by step guide (I had to write it up anyway J ) to configuring permissions for the...

Date: 07/17/2008

Branding Office SharePoint Server 2007

Branding What is branding? Branding is how you apply an organization's identity to an existing...

Date: 07/13/2008

Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007

Web Parts When adding functionality to existing and new sites, it is important to be able to decide...

Date: 07/13/2008

Features in Office SharePoint Server 2007

Features Feature framework is an innovation to enhance modular provisioning. It works by grouping...

Date: 07/13/2008

Field Definitions in SharePoint Server 2007

Fields A column template is a collection of well-known instances of particular fields—in other...

Date: 07/13/2008

List Definitions versus List Templates and deciding on the correct customization approach

List Definitions A list template Feature includes a Schema.xml file that serves as the base file for...

Date: 07/13/2008

Site Definitions versus Site Templates and deciding on the correct customization approach

Site Definitions l A site definition is the core definition of what a site is in SharePoint. l A...

Date: 07/13/2008

How to install multiple language packs for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Hi, Here are the instructions to provide support for multiple languages in your SharePoint farm. 1)...

Date: 07/12/2008

Understanding the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 containment hierarchy to design efficient information architectures

One of the SharePoint product manager’s (I think it was Joel Oleson) mentioned at a conference: “If...

Date: 02/23/2008

MOSS SDK

(Posted for your and my reference :) The latest MOSS SDK is available for download! Download it...

Date: 08/23/2007

Event Handlers - Part 3: Register Event Handlers plus free Site Settings – Manage Event Handlers Add-on solution

This post is the third post of a 3 post series. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS Event...

Date: 03/18/2007

Event Handlers - Part 2: Building and Deploying Event Handlers (Including Event Handler Starter Solution Kit)

This post is the second post of a 3 post series. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS...

Date: 03/18/2007

Event Handlers - Part 1: Everything you need to know about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Event Handlers.

This post is the first post of 3 posts. Post 1: Everything you need to know about MOSS Event...

Date: 03/05/2007

Search: Fine Tuning search relevancy in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007: Getting the search results your user expects

Relevance is about how closely the search results match what the user wanted to find. To improve the...

Date: 02/26/2007

Introduction

This is my first entry in my brand, shiny, new blog! I have just started working for Microsoft...

Date: 01/10/2007