January, 2008

Enabling the Mobile Web View on MOSS Collaboration Site

To enable the mobile web URL of http://YourPortalSiteURL/m on a MOSS collaboration portal you must use the stsadm tool to activate this feature. Learn more ›

Faster, Better, Cheaper

In the technical support market, where billing is based on the number of minutes on the phone and contracts may be in the millions of dollars, it only makes sense to minimize the time a representative spends on each issue. There is a need for a faster, more accessible database which can be updated by any user – a wiki. Learn more ›

Why SharePoint Implementations Succeed (or Fail)

It has been proven time and again that simply introducing new technology to a business or a business/functional unit does not automatically solve their needs. This is particularly relevant with SharePoint technologies, which has been marketed as a "self-service" business solution. This gives the users direct involvement in setting up their sites; however, this can often back-fire if enough thought has not been put in to the content, layout, and usage of the sites. Learn more ›

What is Sharepoint made of?

Sharepoint can be a pretty scary thing at first. It’s full of a bewildering array of tools: sites, collections, web parts, lists, document libraries, calendars, wikis, meeting spaces…Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a simpler way to look at Sharepoint? A secret truth behind all the pieces, that puts them all together? Learn more ›

Building a Simple Web Part for MOSS 2007 using Visual Studio 2005

The purpose of this post is to show how to build a simple web part in Visual Studio 2005 and deploy it to a MOSS 2007 SharePoint site. The Hello World web part is a web part that displays simple text using ASP.Net 2.0 and the C# programming language.  View Tutorial (in PDF file format).