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The blog of the SharePoint Guys from Microsoft Consulting Services, UK.

SharePoint Server 2007 and Records Management: Part 4 of 4

This is the fourth and final post in a series on Records Management using SharePoint Server 2007: 1....

Author: ukpoint Date: 10/23/2009

SharePoint 2010 – New Shared Services

With SharePoint 2010 around the corner, I thought I’d provide a brief overview of the NEW...

Author: ukpoint Date: 10/21/2009

The public beta of SharePoint 2010 was announced in Jeff Teper's speech yesterday. Sign up for it...

Author: ukpoint Date: 10/20/2009

SharePoint 2010 resources now available!

This is not a normal blog post, but the MCS Uk SharePoint team is very excited! The NDA has been...

Author: ukpoint Date: 10/20/2009

Using custom Event Log Sources on Least Privilege SharePoint Servers

As you will surely be aware, it is best practice to install production SharePoint farms using...

Author: ukpoint Date: 10/19/2009

How to include Document Template Files in Content Type Features

I recently spent longer than I should have done trying to create what I thought was a fairly simple...

Author: ukpoint Date: 10/15/2009

SharePoint Server 2007 and Records Management: Part 3 of 4

This is the third post in a series on Records Management in SharePoint: 1. Introduction to Records...

Author: ukpoint Date: 10/06/2009

SharePoint Server 2007 and Records Management: Part 2 of 4

This is the second post in a blog series on Records Management in SharePoint: 1. Introduction to...

Author: ukpoint Date: 09/29/2009

SharePoint Server 2007 and Records Management: Part 1 of 4

This blog series will address the role that SharePoint can play in Records Management within an...

Author: ukpoint Date: 08/27/2009

SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 – Sneak Peak…

Recently, the SharePoint Product Team released information regarding the next version of SharePoint;...

Author: ukpoint Date: 07/31/2009

How to incrementally deploy SharePoint Server 2007 MySites

A SharePoint MySite is a type of SharePoint site that can be created to allow a user to (a)...

Author: ukpoint Date: 06/23/2009

Modifying out-of-the-box SharePoint Server 2007 files

One of the most common and simple ways to customise SharePoint is to directly modify the files that...

Author: ukpoint Date: 06/19/2009

“Relative Links” Error Message when verifying an InfoPath Form Template

Data connections are very used n InfoPath to pull data in from many different sources. The data...

Author: ukpoint Date: 06/16/2009

Enabling an Information Policy for expiring content

This article relates to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and Microsoft Windows...

Author: ukpoint Date: 05/29/2009

SharePoint Server 2007 Master Page Content Place Holders

Introduction SharePoint solutions are shaped by business requirements and organizational needs, and...

Author: ukpoint Date: 05/20/2009

Developing Application Pages for SharePoint Server 2007

Developing application pages for SharePoint can be challenging. This blog post provides guidance on...

Author: ukpoint Date: 05/15/2009

SharePoint Server 2007 Search – How to create a fully functioning Search Center: Part 2

This post builds upon Part 1 of how to create a fully functioning SharePoint Search Center. In Part...

Author: ukpoint Date: 05/12/2009

SharePoint Server 2007 Search – How to create a fully functioning Search Center: Part 1

Within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, there exists the concept of a ‘Search...

Author: ukpoint Date: 05/08/2009

SharePoint Server 2007 Profile Properties and their default Active Directory mappings

A couple of weeks ago a question was raised about which profile properties available in SharePoint...

Author: ukpoint Date: 05/04/2009

Using multiple Contact Selector controls in a single InfoPath form

I know what you’re thinking ….”Wooohooo … yet another article from Martin about InfoPath and the...

Author: ukpoint Date: 04/29/2009

Drill through the Records Center structure using the DOD5015.2 add-on pack

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 DoD 5015.2 Add-On Pack has been around for sometime now....

Author: ukpoint Date: 04/23/2009

Quick Tip: Storing InfoPath Contact Selector values in SharePoint

Some time ago now, I published a post entitled Quick Tip: Using the SharePoint ‘Person or Group’...

Author: ukpoint Date: 04/17/2009

Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2007 Series - High availability and disaster recovery, deployment best practices, common mistakes and summary

An internal memo was sent to all employees by Steve Ballmer recently extolling the fact that we ALL...

Author: ukpoint Date: 03/23/2009

Kumar Subramanyam

I am a Consultant within Microsoft Services working for Microsoft from May 2007. Before Microsoft I...

Author: ukpoint Date: 03/13/2009

Parthasarathi Bhattacharjee

Hi! I am Parthasarathi (friends call me Partha). I have been working for Microsoft since May 2008...

Author: ukpoint Date: 03/13/2009

Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2007 Series - Monitoring and managing virtualized SharePoint environments

This topic provides guidance on the key physical and virtual performance counters you need to watch...

Author: ukpoint Date: 03/11/2009

Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2007 Series - SharePoint server role recommendations for virtualized environments

Each role in the SharePoint farm have finer nuances that need to be taken into account before...

Author: ukpoint Date: 03/08/2009

Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2007 Series - Optimizing the performance of a virtualized SharePoint environment

There are differences between physical hardware and the virtual implementation of hardware that host...

Author: ukpoint Date: 03/04/2009

Virtualizing SharePoint Server 2007 Series – Introduction

Over the last 18 months we have been involved in a number of projects helping clients deploy...

Author: ukpoint Date: 02/26/2009

Taking SharePoint Server 2007 Files Offline – What are the options?

This blog post aims to compare how Outlook 2007, Groove 2007 and OneNote 2007 enable users to take...

Author: ukpoint Date: 02/19/2009

Quick Tip: Using the SharePoint ‘Person or Group’ field in code

One of the coolest types of site column (or field) in SharePoint is the ‘Person or Group’ field...

Author: ukpoint Date: 02/17/2009

Quick Tip: Adding Documents from Document Libraries to a Quick Deploy job

The content deployment jobs within SharePoint allow content from a source location to a distributed...

Author: ukpoint Date: 02/13/2009

Come see us at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference – 6-8th April 2009 in London

It’s not often a SharePoint conference comes to Europe. Most of the SharePoint conferences are...

Author: ukpoint Date: 02/03/2009

Top Tips for InfoPath form development with SharePoint: Part 1

InfoPath is a great tool that allows you to quickly design and implement browser-based electronic...

Author: ukpoint Date: 02/03/2009

Quick Tip: Throwing SPExceptions

Just a quick note for developers. If you want normal code execution to be terminated and want a...

Author: ukpoint Date: 01/21/2009

SharePoint Ports, Proxies and Protocols .... Search Communication

Following on from the blog that Martin Kearn posted , I wanted to expand on some of the mysteries of...

Author: ukpoint Date: 01/12/2009

SharePoint Ports, Proxies and Protocols .... An overview of farm communications

During November 2008 Martin Kearn and Pete Reid worked on a session at the TechEd 2008 conference in...

Author: ukpoint Date: 01/05/2009

Nigel Bridport

Nigel is a Collaboration Consultant working for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK, where he...

Author: ukpoint Date: 12/17/2008