Category: SharePoint

SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part III: FAQ

In Part III in this mini-series on SharePoint 2007 licensing, I’m merely answering some of the questions that I’ve been emailed over the past couple of months. As I’ve stated in previous posts, you absolutely should work with either a Microsoft Licensing Specialist or with your VAR (Dell, CDW, etc.) to ensure that you are… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part III: FAQ

SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part II: Scenarios

For Part II in the SharePoint Licensing Update series, I have put together eight different licensing scenarios and detailed the requisite licensing for each. Again, I’ve updated an old posting that I did shortly after the product first came out. As you may or may not know, the product originally did not allow an internal… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part II: Scenarios

SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part I: Products

Licensing is a huge topic.  So huge, in fact, that Microsoft has licensing specialists.  VARs have licensing specialists.  Consulting companies have licensing specialists.  In Part I of this multi-post blog entry, I will describe the SharePoint products that are available.  I am not listing prices with these products for several reasons, the most obvious one… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part I: Products

Search within a search, or Faceted Search, or Search Refinements

Thanks to Roberto D’Angelo and Mark Harrison for pointing out http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch. Pulled directly from the CodePlex Faceted Search landing page… MOSS Faceted Search is a set of web parts that provide intuitive way to refine search results by category (facet). The facets are implemented using SharePoint API and stored within native SharePoint METADATA store. The… Continue reading Search within a search, or Faceted Search, or Search Refinements

Microsoft Case Study: SusQtech – Maximize ROI and Build a Better Solution with SharePoint

Companies around the world are discovering Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. At the same time, many of them—particularly the small and midsize companies—are discovering that they don’t know how to realize the benefits that they know SharePoint products and technologies can offer. That’s where Susquehanna Technologies comes in. Susquehanna Technologies has parlayed its expertise in… Continue reading Microsoft Case Study: SusQtech – Maximize ROI and Build a Better Solution with SharePoint

SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) or WSS 3.0 Unknown Error Occurred

If you have done any MOSS or WSS 3.0 customization at all, then you have definitely seen the painfully worthless "Unknown error occurred". I highly recommend that these couple of minor web.config changes be added to all development sites and temporarily added to any live sites that you are seeing this wonderful message.As with any… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) or WSS 3.0 Unknown Error Occurred

SharePoint 2007 errors when user creates MySite

There are various MySite issues after performing an installation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that uses distinct service accounts for the different components, such as a farm account, SSP application pool account, SSP timer and web service account, search account, distinct application pool accounts for each SharePoint Application, etc. Many of our previous installs… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 errors when user creates MySite

Deploying Microsoft Access 2007 Application

Our team recently built a solution in Access 2007 some of the end users did not have Office 2007 and only had Office 2003.  Of course, the one feature that we used was not supported in Access 2003 and having everyone upgrade was not an option. Download the Access 2007 Developer Extensions: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D96A8358-ECE4-4BEE-A844-F81856DCEB67&displaylang=en This will… Continue reading Deploying Microsoft Access 2007 Application