I often help prospective customers decide whether or not they should implement SharePoint or an alternate product. Not long ago the choice was fairly simple, but now there are many options: Drupal, DotNetNuke, Oracle Web Center, Web Logic, Alfresc ...[Read More]

When creating web parts, event receivers, timer jobs and other SharePoint code, I often find that I need to temporarily grant the code more permissions than the current user has. I’ve found that many developers either don’t know what options they ha ...[Read More]

Presence in the SharePoint UI is rendered very simply, as an image tag (WSS V2) or anchor tag (WSS V3) tag that calls into JavaScript functions that actually render the presence info SmartTag (ActiveX object) on the page. In each case, the user's em ...[Read More]

I wanted to re-link to an article I published on MSD2D a couple of years ago that many people found helpful. The article described steps to add searching capability to the help system in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. I was on the fence about re-lin ...[Read More]

IntroductionA very cool aspect of SharePoint’s implementation is the mechanism by which it ghosts pages, that is, stores pages altered with FrontPage in the _site database so they are available to all of the web servers in the server farm.The Proble ...[Read More]