Jan25

SharePoint Folders vs. Metadata

There are many posts out there extolling the virtues of using metadata over folders for organizing information in SharePoint 2007. I certainly believe that metadata is a great tool for for classifying information, but it is incorrect to ask whethe ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-25-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan07

Identity and Access Management Simplified, Part 1

I’ve talked to many customers who were looking to make the various applications in their organizations behave as a single system to their end users. This is a great goal as it leads to many benefits from higher user productivity to lower training ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-07-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan07

Free Blog Importer: Blogger to SharePoint blog

Black Blade Associates (my company) has released a free tool that will let you import your Blogger blog into a SharePoint blog site. This is the tool I used to import this blog to the company SharePoint blog site. Here’s some info about the tool ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-07-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jan05

HOW TO: Add web parts to SharePoint Item pages

I was thrilled when I first started working with WSS V3 and saw that the list item pages for creating, viewing, and editing list items were actual web part pages. This opened up a way to customize these pages for various lists in a way that was ve ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-05-10 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post