Monthly Archives: January 2009

Sitefinity vs MOSS as public CMS in small-medium business scenario

No doubt you’ve heard of SharePoint these days; whether you are involved in organization providing MOSS consulting services or organization implementing MOSS as a part of their information management solution.  Many are familiar with MOSS features and capabilities in intranet scenarios. … Continue reading

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Calculating SharePoint (and not only) Downtime Costs Per Hour

Cost Per Occurrence = (To + Td) x (Hr + Lr) To = Time / Length of Outage Td = Time Delta to Data Backup (How long since the last backup?) Hr = Hourly Rate of Personnel (Calculate by monthly … Continue reading

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Hiding SharePoint fields on specific forms (NewItem.aspx, EditItem.aspx …)

Recently I came across this awesome tool that I wish I was aware of it before. In some cases you have a list that defines fields your custom application uses for it’s own processing and you don’t necesarily want to expose … Continue reading

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Adding properties to user profile in Sitefinity 3

When you try to adapt Sitefinity to your specific scenario – one things that I found important is the ability to add extra properties to the user profile. For example we may want to add Employeed ID or Title.  We … Continue reading

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SharePoint BDC capability in free mashup beta

BDC is one of the Enterprise version features that allows bringing external data to SharePoint. Apart from being an enterprise version feature, there are few tricks to get it configured and tweaked in your particular scenario. Recently I came accross free … Continue reading

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How To Disable MySite link in SharePoint

In order to turn off or disable the MySite or MyLinks functionality you need to be an Sharepoint administrator. Go to the SharePoint Central Administration. Click on the link for Shared Services Administration. –If you have more than one SSP, … Continue reading

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Using Flash and Javascript to resolve SharePoint dynamic menus issue

If you have ever tried to make your SharePoint or non-SharePoint implementation of the site a little more dynamic you were probably thinking about rotating images or banners. And if you considered implementing them – you will know that because of the … Continue reading

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MOSS Usability Planning and Implementation

Recently I came across one of those scenarios where a client needed to implement MOSS as an Internet facing site. The platform decision was already made by the organization so there was not much room for debate. This is rather … Continue reading

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Sharepoint Incoming Mail issue – things stoped working?

Recently I came across a post where someone had a problem with SharePoint Incoming Mail feature .. basically emails where no longer picked up from the c:\Inetput\mailroot\Drop or wherever your drop box is and dropped to the document libraries. Considering … Continue reading

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