SharePoint User Group UK

Woohoo! So here was a weird one (I love these). I recently came across an issue where all the images for SharePoint 2007 were not being displayed (little ‘x’ instead of image). After much investigation it turned out that the problem was with the IIS Metabase...

I'm afraid the user group meeting for July 2nd has been cancelled due to a presenter dropping out and low sign ups.We'll look to reschedule it in September once the holiday period is over.Many thanksNick Swan...

Here is a nice one: Problem: User has a property changed in AD (like surname when married) Changes do not reflect in SharePoint 2007 when you view the user Troubleshooting and Solution: First check that none of your content databases are in “offline”...

Here is an interesting “gotcha!”: When migrating a user who also happens to be the sole site collection administrator for a site collection (this means that no secondary site collection owner has been specified), you may find that after migration you...

Hi All , a serious bug has been discovered in SharePoint SP2 that sets the upgraded SharePoint product into an Evaluatin license key. A fix is expected within the next 48 hours but please go and read the latest announcement on this on the Team Blog and...

Hi all , On July 23rd I have booked the 2nd Annual Golf day and User Group meeting at Ullesthorpe Hotel. http://www.bw-ullesthorpecourt.co.uk/GolfDaysattheCourt.asp . We have 25 spaces free for people wishing to take part in the event and I am...

Got to love SharePoint 2007, you learn / encounter something new everyday :) I recently got a request to help resolve an issue with a missing root site collection after a backed-up content database attach procedure. What happened was that the user had...

So the other day I felt like a real chop as I “assumed” something was done while I was setting up Kerberos, we all know that assumption is mother of all youknowwhats. So here I have put together a “Kerberos Checklist” which should help to troubleshoot...

Well we now have a Functional Spec for our SharePoint Portal deployment (to replace the intranet, integrate a knowledge repository, provide project sites....and one day be used to replace share drives on file servers) , and very interesting...

Hi everyone I am not normally one to post personal stuff on the user group in my Blog but I feel this is worth the cause. From June the 10th - 14th I am taking part in the Microsoft UK Challenger event as part of one of the Micrsoft teams. We are...

For those of us who like to play around with virtual machines and find ourselves unable to to load a guest 64-bit OS without the wonderful Hyper-V or some other costly solution, there is HOPE! I stumbled across VirtualBox, a FREE VM environment that...

from www.sharepointhack.net: Earlier I spoke about how you can tell the people-picker control to look up a list from a different domain. Now what happens if you need people-picker to look up users from two different domains and each domain has a separate...

We're looking at kick starting the community up in the North West of England so this will be the first meeting of many. Mark and Jamie are on board to help organize and grow the community so please get yourself along to the first meeting up there. To...

Hi, I have registered www.sharepointhack.net where I will be posting new information (which will be copied here). Why? I need some more space to upload files and I like the domain ;) Regards, Doug...

Note to all of those out there that are using / planning to use Kerberos authentiction in your SharePoint 2007 environments: if you have applied the Infrastructure Update you will need to modify the registry to support new SPN naming conventions and then...

following on from the user group meeting Start time to  be after SUGUK meeting so about 21:15.   Location:   The Broad Oak Main StStrelley, Nottingham, NG8 6PD 0115 929 3340‎ 0115 929 0303‎   For more information on the meeting...

Hi all , Here is the agenda and to sign up http://suguk.org/forums/thread/18475.aspx we are going to be having the first user group meeting in Nottingham at the end of this month on April 30th. I am just finalising the details for the venue and sessions...

The Microsoft Project User Group is holding a meeting in London on 28th April. If you'd like to learn a bit more about how MS Project, Project Server and SharePoint all live together make sure you get yourself to the event: http://www.mpug.com/Lists/Event%20Calendar/DispForm.aspx?ID=14...

Well it's even longer between this post and the previous two. Sorry.  Time is just rolling away here and the work on this project is going slower than a dying snail.  We will be having inital deep requirements workshops in April (yep only theee...

Work in the North West and fancy a quick drink and chat about SharePoint, then sign up for the Manchester SharePint Event:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/18165.aspx...

As some of you may have seen we are soon to be launching a new job site specifically for SharePoint - the site is already up at www.sharepointjobsite.com . We've had a few issues recently with recruitment consultants posting jobs that haven't existed...

Hi everyone , a date and event for your diary. London SharePoint by Day SharePint by Night Going to the UK SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London, UK April 6-8, 2009? No? Well, are you a SharePoint person going to be in the greater London area?...

Many thanks to everybody who came along to the meeting on Thursday - another great turnout. Especially a big thankyou to Michael for traveling over from San Fran to deliver a great session. Here are the slides he used:http://www.suguk.org/BuildingPerfectSharePointFarm.ppt...

Hi everyone , I know Nick won't post this so I will. Brett and Nick have got a BDC book coming out on Manning and Manning have given us permissions to put out an early bird offer to everyone in the User Group for their book. All you need to do is...

Well I can't believe that it has been so long since I last posted.  Things have moved slowly here.  The IT department has been 'playing' with SharePoint (and realised just how much they don't know, I think).  We had our first design workshop...