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The “Open with Windows Explorer” action available for document libraries in SharePoint relies on a WebDav client service (i.e. WebClient) which isn’t installed by default on Windows Server 2008. To get this working you need to install the “Desktop...

For some reason certain1 SharePoint lists don’t have the handy “Edit in datasheet” option available to allow bulk editing of items. One of these lists is the MOSS Picture Library which means that although images can be uploaded in bulk, users have n...

On Wednesday this week I'll be presenting at the Melbourne MOSSIG (Microsoft Office System Special Interest Group = Office and SharePoint user group powers combined) meeting. The meeting is at 5.30pm, 27th August @ Microsoft’s Innovation Centre, Lev...

I’ve been involved in several public website projects that have involved using MOSS content deployment. While content deployment is easy to set up for simple scenarios, there are a number of things that can trip you up if you have a significantly cu...

I'm pleased to say that the article I wrote a few months ago on 'how we did it: tag driven IA for MOSS' was noticed and has been re-published on the SharePoint team blog.   Read the updated article - How We Did It - Tag Driven Information Archite...

Early last year I was involved in developing a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based Intranet for the Ministry of Transport. This post explains how we utilised the tagging capabilities provided by MOSS to create this award winning Intran...

In an earlier post I mentioned that the Intranet we designed for the Ministry of Transport won top prize at the Microsoft partner awards. Earlier this week the same Intranet was announced on Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox as being among the top 10 Intra...

Fly Buys is New Zealand’s leading loyalty programme and is managed by Loyalty New Zealand. Fly Buys members receive points for shopping at participating stores, which they can then use to redeem a variety of rewards from coffee machines to telev...

Following a busy few weeks the Fly Buys website I’ve been working on was launched last night. The site is built on MOSS and makes heavy use of the web content management features provided by the platform. Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting on...