Service Pack 2 Issue and Admitting a Mistake

First of all, for anyone out there that doesn’t know Service Pack 2 for SharePoint causes the expiration date to be incorrectly activated so that it will expire in 180 days. Here is the announcement on the SharePoint team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx.You can check if you are effected by looking at the services enabled in your [...]

Updating Content Editor Content with Word

There are a number of reasons why users might be using content editors for page content in a SharePoint site. However this creates a fair amount of overhead when users can’t get the content to ‘look just right’. Often without HTML edit abilities users become frustrated and will give up or push content out that [...]

Imagine Interactive Visual SharePoint Wikis, and Discussion Boards

So earlier this morning I twittered at how terrific I thought http://debategraph.org/ was. This is one of those things where I expect it to become a normal thing in the future. As information continues to grow in organizations and across the world it becomes harder and harder to search and more importantly consumer that information. [...]

SharePoint Knights and Award/Recognition Programs

I decided to blog about this because I figured I might as well give my two cents on this and clearly illustrate why I completely and wholeheartedly would support almost any program such as the one called SharePoint Knights proposed by community members and Joel (http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=218#Comments). To me the concept represented by the SharePoint Knights [...]