SharePoint User Group UK

  In a Page Visitor Tracking web part I have been writing, I use the SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges function to add or update a line in a Visitor Tracking list on the current site.  The idea being that not all visitors...

  The thought occured to me that my previous article on this subject detailed how I go about building a nice clean development environment, but not what the next steps were, i.e. getting a working copy of the production web application on that...

   Thought I would detail the steps I follow when creating a stand-alone development vm for SharePoint, and some of the software I like to have on one.   I tend to use VMWare Workstation for my vm's as I like the interface, but...

Hi all   The European SharePoint best practice site is now live and ready for registrations. The dates are April 6th – 8th 2009 in London and the site is http://www.sharepointbestpractices.co.uk The actual agenda will be uploaded once I have...

When deploying content through content deployment jobs you may want to check how much space you have available. Not so well documented is the fact that content deployment jobs will require you to have some space available on the drive where the account...

The slides are now up from Ben's presentation the other week in Londonwww.suguk.org/sharepointsearch.pptx...

Rickard has made his slides from last Tuesdays presentation available:http://rickardlofberg.blogspot.com/2008/12/slides-from-suguk-presentation.htmlAlso worth following his blog as he's promised to provide more information in the futurehttp://rickardlofberg.blogspot.com...

Hi All , one more meetings up in Newcaste before Christmas so would be great to see you there. Sign up and more details here http://suguk.org/forums/thread/15486.aspx Steve Smith...

The nice people at Wiley have organized a discount for SUGUK members on their books. For more info please visit the related forum post:http://suguk.org/forums/thread/15324.aspxAlso they've uploaded some sample chapters for us:www.suguk.org/professional...

Someone who shall remain nameless once told me that with regard to SharePoint licensing, “…If you don’t get the answer you want, ask again.”   There is no doubt that there is (still) a huge amount of confusion on this subject.  It is one of...

Hi everyone , we are back at the Scottish parliament for round 2 of the Edinburgh meetings with two great sessions. Please sign up with your full name here. http://suguk.org/forums/thread/15096.aspx Steve Smith...

    I think everyone agrees that proper error trapping and logging is a good idea - how else are you supposed to be able to work out what has gone wrong on a production system where you can't simply connect Visual Studio up and start debugging?...

 One of the things that SharePoint is lacking out-of-the-box is a tree control field type.  In a recent project, we required one, so that list items and document library items could be tagged appropriately using hierarchical in-house taxonomies....

Session 1- Customizing SharePoint Search - Ben RobbSharePoint Search is very powerful, and there are some key best practices which should be used to ensure that your search results are giving users the ability to find information more quickly. In this...

Hi all , I don't normally put work related content up here however this is big news in the SharePoint educational world so I hope you don't mind me sharing it. Last week Combined Knowledge Ltd , Mindsharp and Combined Knowledge...

  SharePoint lets you customize just about anything, and one of the things I have used in various features a few times is a custom action in the dropdown menu for list items.  Here I will briefly go through how to define a custom action...

 Sometimes it may not be possible to actually receive an alert email on your system - maybe its a dev environment that doesn't support email, or exchange might be throwing a hissy fit, or maybe you just don't want to wait for the email to filter...

This is something that can really have you pulling your hair out, but here is a great little trick I found on Tyler Holmes's blog (http://blog.tylerholmes.com/2008/02/deleting-content-types-in-sharepoint.html).   I always seem to have trouble...

   I was quite suprised that creating an SPUser object from the information contained in a "person" type list field is not straight-forward.  After trying a few ways myself, I decided it was time to hit the search engine.   I...

    Sometimes, you just need to know the trick......   Recently was scratching my head over a problem I encountered whilst developing a solution on my virtual machine. I had to load a lot of data from spreadsheets in to custom...

There area number of DLL's from Office 11 upwards that are required by MOSS to provide access to its full suite of functionality, from things like being able to edit lists in Datasheet view, to being able to upload multiple documents at once.  ...

   Microsoft’s Performance Monitor application makes a wealth of information about the components of your server available to you. In fact, there is probably too much information available, especially for the uninitiated!I like to use...

 You can see MOSS's out-of-the-box rendering of sharepoint pages for mobile devices by pointing your browser to something like http://[PortalUrl]/[site]/_layouts/mobile/default.aspx   Adding the MobilityRedirect feature to the portal allows...

Many thanks to everyone who came along to the SUGUK event at LBi last Thursday. 204 attendees is the new record to beat! I think we'll need to hire Earls Court in future.Many thanks to Riaz and Chris for their hard work putting the event and presentations...

Hi All , we have our first meeting at Birmingham on Thursday October 30th with myself and Sergey Zelenov from Microsoft presenting. 5 minutes walk from New Street station  More details here - http://suguk.org/forums/thread/14430.aspx Steve Smit...