I'm a big fan of delegation and accountability when it comes to governance strategies, and the SharePoint development lifecycle stands for no exception to my tendency to be firm with my management style in that regard. If any of you remember, I le ...[Read More]

10 thousand plus unique visits in 6 months, from which the guy in Tanzania is easily my favorite!     Let me know if you start a user group, because I'd love to come speak at it for you! (Actually, it could be pretty convenient for me if I ...[Read More]

KWizCom has a neat calendar rollup webpart that I figured is worth showcasing. It can rollup multiple calendars across multiple sites, into one central calendar. Also, it can access exchange calendars as well, making it a pretty powerful tool. That ...[Read More]

Have you ever gotten an out of memory exception on your SharePoint web front ends and wondered why? Or how to prevent it? I started getting this error periodically, and through such experiences have drawn several best practices for managing the me ...[Read More]

The Problem  A problem that I have often seen in the SharePoint world is the common request to have a consistent brand across your entire farm, but therein it is required to have minor variations of that brand for various sites within the farm. A f ...[Read More]

My next two best practices that are a part of my 10 part series, are going to be combined in one post because they are closely related. What's more is that I've already blogged about them, so it doesn't make sense to labor over something twice. ...[Read More]

Many hoped that version three (V3) of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) would help bring companies closer to compliance with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and/or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). I know from personal experience ...[Read More]

This next best practice in my top 10 list is definitely a matter of opinion on my part. The best practice revolves around SharePoint themes, and my inability to understand how they can be a benefit to someone. The reason why I struggle to see the ...[Read More]

Here's a consolidated list of my top 10. This post will be updated as I go through the series…    Best Practice 1: Only use SharePoint designer to brand SharePoint sites when the scope of the customizations will never need to grow beyond a single s ...[Read More]

As you may have heard, Silverlight 2 beta 2 came out. This post for me is necessary because I wrote a two part series on getting a Silverlight application to work in SharePoint, and since beta 2 came out, a few things need to be updated in that wa ...[Read More]