I’ve been working with WCF and SharePoint 2007 and ran across an issue.  The scenario is an Account Registration process which allows the user to request access to “protected” sites within a portal.  This solution blends some jQuery and WCF using th ...[Read More]

In preparing for a demo I wanted to show just how easy and powerful Document Sets in SharePoint 2010 can be.  Using the Public Beta I followed Liam Cleary’s steps to enable documents sets, but realized that an empty Document Set really doesn’t hel ...[Read More]

I recently ran the SharePoint 2010 installer, still in Beta, and had no issues during the installation.  My system was configured as a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit with a separate Domain Controller.  This was a “clean” server so nothing else was ...[Read More]

SharePoint 2010 will not be the only new product to see when you attend the Microsoft Conference in Las Vegas. MicroLink will also take this opportunity to demonstrate the next phase of corporate information discovery. DiscoverPoint will be a new ...[Read More]

Recently I have been working on a Google Maps integration for SharePoint and one of the desired capabilities was to include items from SharePoint lists on the map.  The solution was not going to leverage the AJAX .NET capabilites and would instea ...[Read More]

Microsoft announced today a security Patch release for systems running Visual Studio.  The patch effects an issue in ATL that could allow remote code to execute.  This patch will be pushed using the standard Windows Updates to users with that servic ...[Read More]

I wrote a while ago about doing some testing with Windows 7 Beta and how I was excited about the new features, interface, etc.  I also expressed a concern as many other did about the “Versions” of Windows 7 Microsoft may make available.  Well, it ...[Read More]

Hmmm…that doesn’t sound quite as common as “I Google’d it”, but maybe the latest search engine from Microsoft will change this.  So have you tried Bing yet?  If you haven’t then you should, and here is why.   My company works a great deal with sea ...[Read More]

I was recently asked about how to determine when a SharePoint List Item should be transferred from one list to another.  Immediately two possible solutions came to mind, use a SharePoint Workflow or use a SharePoint Item Event Receiver.  I offered ...[Read More]

Microsoft recently released the latest service pack for SharePoint 2007 (SP2) which does provide a number of enhancements.  However, in their process of developing this Service Pack they happened to overlook the fact that SP2 resets your SharePoin ...[Read More]