The AKG Blog

Controlling Collaboration Technology?

jmuschamp — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:38:53 -0400

Organizations face a unique challenge when implementing SharePoint or any collaboration technology—how to encourage the viral, grass-roots participation and growth, yet keep it productive and not spiraling out of control. Learn more ›

Can You Make a Meeting Less Hassle?

Benjamin Hartley — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:35:33 -0400

Meetings. We all have them. We all hate spending time in them. But think of what it’s like for the meeting organizer! They have to book a conference room, find a projector, create an agenda, organize the participants… to call it a hassle is an understatement. Learn more ›

SharePoint API -- permissions bug (SPWeb.AllUsers)

Susan Hernandez — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:29:48 -0500

Custom Web Part Developer Post: We have found what appears to be a “bug” in the permissions model for the SPWeb object, or something which functions in a way contrary to what would logically be expected. Learn more ›

Always where you need it

Benjamin Hartley — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:59:13 -0500

I made a mistake last week. I accidently left my thumb drive at my office and so couldn’t access a couple of important files while I was at the client site. Forgetting my thumb drive wasn’t my mistake at all. My mistake was in having important files on my thumb drive in the first place! I should have been using the online document repositories I have at my disposal. Learn more ›

Understanding the Difference Between Forums, Blogs and Social Networks

jofarrell — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:02:03 -0500

I've been very interested in the growth of Social Networking and its business implications. The topic can be controversial due in large part to a high level of confusion surrounding the various types of tools. This post from Forrester Research's Jeremiah Owyang offers some clarification. Learn more ›

Enabling the Mobile Web View on MOSS Collaboration Site

Michael Perry — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:10:14 -0500

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

Benjamin Hartley — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:54:40 -0500

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)

Susan Hernandez — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:09:06 -0500

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?

Benjamin Hartley — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:12:05 -0500

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

jmeyers — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:09:07 -0500

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). Learn more ›