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• Be Vewy Vewy Quiet, We're Hunting Web Pawts...

  A while back a friend of mine was getting frustrated with a news site he was trying to get set up in MOSS and asked me for some help. His issue seemed pretty straight-forward, he wanted to add an Announcements web part to the main page of the site but... Posted May 30 2008, 04:13 PM by ferringer with | with no comments Filed under: WSS, End User, Lists, Web Parts

• Sample Questions for SharePoint Admin Certification Exams

  A while ago I mentioned in the MSDN forums that I had some sample questions for the 70-630 and 70-631 SharePoint Admin certification exams from Microsoft, and since that time I have gotten a few requests in my inbox for those files. So I've decided... Posted Apr 16 2008, 04:17 PM by ferringer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, Exams, Certification

• Book Review: The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users

  I recently received a free copy of " The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users ", by SharePoint MVP Robert Bogue, and I wanted to share my thoughts with you about the book. The lack of good end user resources for SharePoint like the... Posted Apr 14 2008, 03:23 PM by ferringer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, End User, Book Review

• Sharing Links: SharePoint Service Pack 1

  Thought I'd get up a quick post with some links to articles and postings I've seen this week about the new WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1 releases. From what I'm seeing, it looks like there's some good, some bad, right now. The Good... Posted Dec 14 2007, 04:22 PM by ferringer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, Updates, Sharing Links

• Free SharePoint eLearning classes available from Microsoft

  Please note that these classes are not completely targeted at SharePoint end users, but if you're at all curious about how to get started building your own custom web parts or applications using SharePoint these are worth taking a look at. My experience... Posted Dec 14 2007, 10:05 AM by ferringer with | with no comments Filed under: WSS, MOSS, Development, Training

• With Great Power: Beware the New Shiny Precious

  If you're like me and read over 100 SharePoint blog posts a day (and I hope you're not, because you need to get a life!), you're probably aware that Microsoft has released service packs for WSS v3, MOSS 2007, and Office 2007. So I'm not... Posted Dec 11 2007, 09:38 PM by ferringer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, End User, Great Power, Administration, Updates

• Two More Small Notes about Features with a Big F

  In the process of working on some other topics for posting, I've noticed a couple of small details that you'll want to keep in mind when working with Features in SharePoint. I realize they may be kind of nit-picky, but I work in a world where... Posted Dec 03 2007, 01:27 PM by ferringer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, End User, Sites, Administration, Features

• When a Feature Isn't the Same Thing as a feature

  Hopefully it isn't any sort of a great revelation to anyone that the latest versions of SharePoint (WSS v3 and MOSS 2007) have a lot of great new features, such as blogs, wikis, Excel Services, and many more. I also hope that almost a year after their... Posted Nov 15 2007, 03:00 PM by ferringer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, End User, functionality, Sites, Administration, Features

• Potential Tool for Updating SharePoint's UI

  I haven't gotten a chance to play with this yet, but if you're looking for something to help you change the look and feel of your SharePoint installation's user interface, you might want to take a look at the SharePoint Skinner: http://www... Posted Nov 13 2007, 02:00 PM by ferringer with | with no comments Filed under: WSS, MOSS, Sites, Site Templates, Tools, CSS

• New Tools for Anyone Who Uses SharePoint

  I've added yet another new section in the right-hand column of this blog titled " My Toolbox ," and added two initial links to it. I've found myself using both of them on a pretty regular basis recently, and highly recommend that you... Posted Nov 12 2007, 11:27 AM by ferringer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, End User, Search, Administration, Tools

• Wildcards? We're not playing poker!

  Lame title, I know. But I'm pressed for time, so please bear with me Anyways, I wanted to take a quick second to point out something that is missing from Search in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007: wildcards. If you already know what a search wildcard is, feel... Posted Nov 07 2007, 04:01 PM by ferringer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, End User, functionality, Search

• Seek and Ye Shall (Probably) Find...

  Search. It's definitely a big deal nowadays in this data-driven Information Age. I would guess that at 25% of my time on the Internet starts with a search of some sort, probably over at the Big G . And when you have a large number of documents, web... Posted Oct 31 2007, 10:20 AM by ferringer with | with no comments Filed under: WSS, versus, MOSS, Search

• With Great Power: SharePoint Search

  By now it shouldn't be a secret that SharePoint can be a very powerful and useful tool for your organization or business. Its features are highly touted, and I'm definitely a big fan of them. Sometimes we're not aware of how powerful SharePoint... Posted Oct 25 2007, 01:45 PM by ferringer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, MOSS, End User, Search, Great Power

• About SharePoint sites

  It probably shouldn't be all that surprising that the core component of SharePoint is the sites that can be created using it, right? After all, web sites are the basis for content throughout the Internet. But the great thing about SharePoint that... Posted Oct 19 2007, 03:44 PM by ferringer with | with no comments Filed under: WSS, MOSS, Sites, Site Templates, SharePoint Designer

• Understanding that "SharePoint" is a really broad label...

  So your company has just implemented SharePoint, and you're going to start using it on a daily basis. That's a good thing, definitely. You've heard about all the things you'll be able to do with it, and how its going to help you and your... Posted Oct 12 2007, 11:45 AM by ferringer with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, versus, MOSS

• SharePoint End-User training resources now available from Microsoft

  I haven't gotten a chance to take a look at this yet, but this is definitely great news: The SharePoint End User Training Kit is now available for download from Microsoft! The kit is built on top of the SharePoint Learning Kit tool, which is a free... Posted Oct 12 2007, 10:58 AM by ferringer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: WSS, End User, Training Kit, Microsoft