The Sanity Point

A Peek Under the Hood, and More...

Hi guys! For those of you who still have this site on your feeds, here's the latest stuff that I've written: A Peek Under the Hood - What Makes The Sanity Point run? I talk about selecting and setting up a dedicated server. (Which, by the way...

Published 06-19-2009 6:39 AM by WoodyW

On Babies, Bathwater, and SharePoint Designer

On April 2nd, as has been rumored for quite some time, Microsoft announced that SharePoint Designer is available as a free download. ( Get it Here... ) Reaction to even the rumors of this has ranged from very positive, to downright horrified. So, what's...

Published 04-03-2009 10:16 AM by WoodyW

TheSanityPoint.com Server Temporarily Offline

My new blog site, http://www.thesanitypoint.com , is temporarily offline as I change some dedicated hosting options. Fear not - I haven't vanished for good. I may transfer my full articles and my feedburner over to here if it looks like I'll be...

Published 02-15-2009 7:19 PM by WoodyW

Professional SharePoint Designer Book Excerpt, and Chicago SP UserGroup

Configuring Page Sizes and Browser Preview in SharePoint Designer One of the most frustrating things about designing for the Web is the wide array of browsers and screen formats in which your site may be displayed. SharePoint Designer helps mitigate this...

Published 01-27-2009 6:17 AM by WoodyW

SharePoint and the Laws of Physics

You mean there are limits?!? I had an interesting Twitter conversation recently. @mtony75 was shocked when told that a single SharePoint server could handle tens of thousands of users. As an isolated point of fact, this is true. But, there is a "but"...

Published 01-23-2009 8:54 AM by WoodyW

Press F1 - SharePoint Help is on the Way

Giving Your SharePoint Users Site-Specific Online Help "Press F1 for Help" has been ingrained into the psyche's of PC users since even before Windows. OK, WordPerfect users originally had to press F3 instead, but the concept is the same...

Published 01-14-2009 10:55 AM by WoodyW

A Brief Look Back

Hi all! While I've already done my retrospective of the year 2008 in SharePoint, a lot of you have only recently started reading my blog. Because of paging, RSS limits, or other reasons, you may have missed some of the articles I've posted since...

Published 01-10-2009 2:37 PM by WoodyW

Selecting Editors in SharePoint Designer

Human beings are creatures of habit. Once we become accustomed to certain ways of doing things, we want to keep doing them, even if "something better" comes along. Read about how you can continue to use your favorite editors from within SharePoint...

Published 01-08-2009 2:54 PM by WoodyW

Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference - My Sessions and More

You probably know by now that I'm presenting at the Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference next month. But there are plenty of reasons to attend this conference beyond my own presentations. Check out my session abstracts and some thoughts on ROI on...

Published 01-03-2009 10:49 AM by WoodyW

The Book is Here!

The title says it all! Well Most of it. I got home from lunch yesterday and found two big boxes on my doorstep. You guessed it - my author copies of the book I spent so many months working on - Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 ,...

Published 12-30-2008 7:57 AM by WoodyW

A Fresh Coat of Paint

I've freshened the look of my new blog site ! Why not check it out? And while you're there, don't forget to update your links and feeds... Thanks for your continuing support!

Published 12-27-2008 6:39 AM by WoodyW

SharePoint in 2008 – An Interesting Road

Driving Through Flyover Country 2008 should theoretically have been a boring year for SharePoint. The current version (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) was released in 2006. The next version wouldn’t be out until 2009, if not later. The software equivalent of flyover...

Published 12-26-2008 9:26 AM by WoodyW

A Page in a Box - The Easiest SharePoint Integration

Gift-wrapping Web Applications with the Page Viewer Web Part With the Holidays upon us, everyone is putting things in boxes. Boxes are very convenient – they let you just drop something into them without having to change anything about the item being...

Published 12-23-2008 3:41 PM by WoodyW

The Myth of the Windows Vista Downgrade Fee

Dell has caused a big stir recently by publicizing a “cost” to have Windows XP installed when purchasing systems that might otherwise include Windows Vista. The media has picked this up and spun it as Microsoft charging a fee (they typically say $150...

Published 12-19-2008 6:30 AM by WoodyW

Best Bets and Keywords in SharePoint and Search Server

"When it Absolutely, Positively, has to be Found." One of the key features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), and Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS) - including Express (MSSX), is Enterprise Search. What you may not realize is...

Published 12-15-2008 1:45 PM by WoodyW

Cross-browser Rich Text Editing and More in SharePoint

"It's not just for Firefox anymore" Today I'm going to talk about one of the earliest enhancements that was available for the current release of SharePoint. It has been around for so long, that it has either fallen off folks' radar...

Published 12-08-2008 11:59 AM by WoodyW

Backseat Driving with Michael Gannotti

I would like to thank Mike Gannotti for allowing me to be the first guest on his "Backseat Driving with Michael" video blog series. In this episode, I demonstrate one of the samples from my new book - Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Published 12-07-2008 2:34 PM by WoodyW

Presenting at the Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference

I am pleased and honored to announce that I have been selected to present at the Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference in San Diego, California next February! Here's the obligatory link back to my new site for the details...

Published 12-05-2008 8:30 AM by WoodyW

Professional SharePoint Designer - A Few Steps Closer to the Shelf

Happy December! I hope all of you had as great of a November as possible, and everyone in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend! As I've noted before, the process of writing and publishing a book is a lot more complicated, and takes...

Published 12-01-2008 8:47 AM by WoodyW

Twitter SharePoint Federated Location Definitions - Ready to Serve

"Is it Soup Yet?" My last two blog posts on SharePoint and Search Server Federated Locations ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) have been very popular, but some of you have just wanted to download the location definitions without having to read through all...

Published 11-25-2008 2:32 PM by WoodyW

Search Federation Part 2 - Customizing Results with SharePoint Designer

Welcome back! This post will be the conclusion of my Search Federation article. In Part 1, I talked about Federation in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Microsoft Search Server (MSS/X), and showed you how to create a basic Federated Location...

Published 11-22-2008 4:58 PM by WoodyW

Search Federation with SharePoint - Part 1

Today I'm going to walk you through setting up a Federated Location in Search Server and post-Infrastructure Update SharePoint. (Twitter fans, pay attention, as that's the service I'm using in these examples...) While that certainly qualifies...

Published 11-18-2008 4:30 PM by WoodyW

It's in There - Automatically Maintained System Columns in SharePoint Lists

Over the last few weeks, I have veered a bit "off topic". But now that TechEd is over, it is about time to bring things back on track. So today, I'm getting back down to the business of helping you to understand SharePoint with another "Back...

Published 11-15-2008 2:43 PM by WoodyW

On Being a SharePoint Master

In my summary post on TechEd EMEA 2008, IT Pro Week, I mentioned that I felt one of the most significant announcements is the addition of a SharePoint discipline to the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect programs. That is now being borne...

Published 11-11-2008 7:07 AM by WoodyW

Happy Birthday, Search Server!

Here's something worth celebrating: Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS) and Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 (MSSX) were announced almost exactly 1 year ago - November 7th, 2007 - and the release candidate of MSSX made available for download.....

Published 11-10-2008 4:29 PM by WoodyW

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