Not too much time to blog today, but several folks have been asking about the slide deck from my metadata talk at SharePoint Saturday in Kansas City. Please download the slides from the link below. Metadata Briefing Slide Deck – SPSKC I should have some time coming up in the next week or two to [...]
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How to Display RSS Feeds in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Posted by Joe Mack on September 29th, 2009
I have had multiple clients over the past couple of years task me with getting external RSS feeds on their WSS sites. While MOSS comes with an RSS Feed web part, and while there are other RSS Feed web parts out there for free or a nominal fee, I though I would make a post [...]
Two Helpful Web Parts for FREE!!!
Posted by Joe Mack on June 23rd, 2009
Since the response was so great to our articles regarding using the QueryString to pass information to PageViewer web parts, I have decided to make both web parts available, as SharePoint features deployed at the Site Collection level. You can download the web parts at my company web site: www.theportalgroup.biz Just click on “Downloads”, register [...]
The Software You Need – AXIGEN Mail Server
Posted by Joe Mack on June 1st, 2009
If you are like me and do a lot of demos, especially ones that are running within a virtual environment (Virtual PC, VMWare Server, etc.) you have probably struggled with the best way to demonstrate the e-mail capabilities of whatever you are going to demo. In my case, Microsoft SharePoint is what I am [...]
Making a Dynamic PageViewer Web Part Using Request.QueryString Redux
Posted by Joe Mack on May 27th, 2009
So, as I was working away, setting up a Links list in SharePoint to take advantage of the QueryStringPageViewer Web Part discussed in my last blog post, I came upon a situation where I needed to do something slightly different. The QueryStringPageViewer Web Part allows a user to configure the Web Part with a Base [...]
Making a Dynamic PageViewer Web Part Using Request.QueryString
Posted by Joe Mack on May 27th, 2009
Hopefully, all of you have read and implemented my guide to installing a SharePoint development environment for free. If not, you can find the link here: http://www.themackpage.com/2009/05/26/how-to-build-your-totally-free-sharepoint-development-environment/ If you are lucky enough to have a development environment with even better tools, as I am sure most of you do, then please feel free to use [...]
How to Build Your Totally Free SharePoint Development Environment
Posted by Joe Mack on May 26th, 2009
I am not sure how much call there is for a post like this, but I was thinking recently that with the free development tools available now from Microsoft, it might be possible to build a SharePoint development environment for free. Lo and behold, not only is it possible, it is downright simple to do. [...]
How to Move a SharePoint Site
Posted by Joe Mack on May 14th, 2009
I had occasion to move a SharePoint site (technically, it was a sub site) from one location to another today. I am sure that there are several other folks that have put similar posts to this out in the blogosphere, but for those regular visitors to The Mack Page, I thought I would give you [...]
Implicit Documents – Knowledge Management Zen with Microsoft (Step 1 of 10)
Posted by Joe Mack on March 25th, 2009
First things first – I am fully aware that I wrote in my first post of this series that I would be putting out 2 of these per week…and here it is, like 6 weeks later, and I am just now getting to the second post. I have been sidetracked, at least for the purposes [...]
Implicit Documents – Knowledge Management Zen with Microsoft (Step 0 of 10)
Posted by Joe Mack on February 11th, 2009
This the first of several related posts I am going to use to start exploring a concept I have had for some time – implicit documents. Without getting too far down in the weeds yet regarding definitions (wait for Step 1 later this week), let’s just say that an implicit document represents the concept of [...]
