How I got into SharePoint…

[This post was originally published (by me) on the SharePoint365 blog, as part of the series “How I got into SharePoint” (http://sp365.co.uk)%5D How long have you been using SharePoint?: 4 years What’s your current role: In Flux 🙂 … see below. Your Story: My sister and I owned and operated a small custom precast concrete manufacturing business since…

SharePoint Review and Edit

Do you want to ensure that your written material projects a professional image, free of spelling and usage errors? I am now offering American English reviews and edits of: SharePoint blog posts and websites SharePoint presentations SharePoint books Other SharePoint (or other technical) written material Leave the spelling and grammar to me, so you can…

What happened to my formula?!?

[This post was originally published (by me) on the SharePoint365 blog (http://sp365.co.uk)%5D This issue arose several times in my company, so I imagine others have also run into it… [Note: this article applies to both MOSS and SharePoint 2010] Here’s the (simplified) scenario: I have a custom list called Jobs, containing basic information about the…

SharePoint for the (very) small business (Part 1)

SharePoint for a small business? Isn’t that overkill? As the (former) owner of a small precast stair manufacturing company with all of a dozen computer users, I’d like to share some of the ways we successfully used SharePoint (specifically MOSS) to run our business. A little case study, if you will. Why SharePoint? Most of…

O Happy Day

A weight has been lifted from me today… SharePoint is working again, after being down for nearly 5 weeks. While I’m ecstatic that my entire IT strategy for the past 6 months isn’t down the tubes after all, I’m very frustrated that Microsoft was unable to deal with this issue within the first few days…

Great day at work!

Today was a great day! Today was the monthly Pittsburgh SharePoint User Group meeting, where I discovered that we do have the ability to Search our intranet site without buying the mega Search license thing from Microsoft. It’s part of the standard MOSS 2007 CAL! I just didn’t know how to enable / configure it……