So today I ran into a disaster scenario at a client where we needed to restore a SharePoint backup because the SQL instance got hosed. Turns out all the SQL database logins were deleted by accident and nobody could connect or login to the database s ...[Read more]

Thanks to everyone at today's SharePoint Saturday Charlotte event! It was a really fun day, and I got to meet a lot of really nice people. I was quite surprised at the hospitality at this event – lots of people approached me afterward and I had so ...[Read more]

From a publisher's perspective, I've always thought Google AdSense is a great tool. It's really easy to setup, and thereafter there's NOTHING needed to maintain. Even better is your checks come on time every month J. Well, ever since SharePointAds ...[Read more]

Some exciting news is that I'll be speaking at the upcoming SharePoint Saturday event in Charlotte North Carolina! The event is next Saturday, June 20. If you're from out of town, it is worth noting that the Microsoft office in Charlotte is only 1 ...[Read more]

Ever want to use some reusable content, but you don't have one of those handy Page Content field controls to consume it with? Well that was my situation because I was in a publishing site, but I was on a generic web part page with no page content ...[Read more]

I was getting another obnoxious error message with a reporting services report in my SharePoint site. This one won't win me a Nobel prize, but figured I'd type it up anyhow…   This is the error I was getting:   An error occurred during c ...[Read more]

WOW – integrating Reporting Services into SharePoint will get the blood pressure up! I just spent a morning diagnosing some aggravating errors with reporting services and I figured I'd blog about the solution. The only problem is I think everybody ...[Read more]

Groove is no more – or should I say it has been assimilated into the SharePoint hive mind and now goes by SharePoint Workspace 2010.   Pro-Clarity Performance Point has fallen, now Groove SharePoint Workspace 2010 has as well… What's next, the ...[Read more]

    Exciting news! I'll be speaking at June's cloud computing user group meeting on June 11th. My topic is as follows:   SharePoint, Online Services, and Windows Azure – What does it mean for my business? Come learn the basics of SharePo ...[Read more]

For some reason I've been having troubles getting the SharePoint add on for Reporting Services 2008 installed. Seems like the 2005 one was easier, but it's been many months since I've gone through the install so maybe I'm coming down with amnesia ...[Read more]

I couple days ago I was in Atlanta and gave a presentation at the SharePoint Saturday event there on how to build the next generation of SharePoint web parts by using jQuery and Silverlight. I must say that I thought this Atlanta event was INCREDI ...[Read more]

Table of Contents: Business Reason behind this Post Think "Filter" = "Search" = "End user won't know the Difference"! Connecting your Data View to a Form Web Part Clearing, or Resetting the Search Results ...[Read more]

I'm pleased to announce I've publish a new, and MUCH improved version of my polling web part. The best new feature of the web part is that it now uses a nice looking doughnut chart to render the poll results. Much more presentable!     Othe ...[Read more]

I was getting this WSSSpWebAlreadyLinkedToProject error in the SharePoint error logs. It occurred when publishing a Project plan to Project Server from the Office Project client. The publish action would correctly provision a new workspace, but pr ...[Read more]

Now that the Facebook Kit for SharePoint (FKS) has been RTM for a few weeks, I wanted to take a quick opportunity to discuss some of the business value I see an organization can gain by using the kit. In particular, I want to call out the embedde ...[Read more]