Wahid's Blog

Sorry for the lack of updates and posts. I have some ideas that I just haven’t been able to work on. Unfortunately, I’m a bit busy at work and I have been working on my virtual environment.

There’s tons of activity on the blogs and twitter, everyone is excited about the upcoming SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas! I just picked up my (electronic) badge as I will be “Live Blogging” from the conference next week.

Besides the conference, I’m hoping to have my virtual environment up to test some best practices, add-ons (from CodePlex), and 3rd party products. EndUserSharePoint.com has some really exciting workshops coming up as well that extend the functionality of SharePoint. I’ve used some of these techniques at previous work sites and user’s are always amazed! Check ‘em out at EUSP Online Workshops.

Every week I learn more about SharePoint, I’m getting closer to having my virtual environment built (on my laptop) so I can try some of these things. This week, I was focused on branding.

• BrandingSharePoint.com – This site has some samples, downloads, and good posts on customizing SharePoint’s look and feel.
• SharePoint Branding Tool - CodePlex tool that has several features, mostly it can re-theme all webs in a site collection.
• MakingSharePointLookGood.com – Site which has 5 photoshop sets for simple master page designs; also has a few icon sets.
• WSSDemo.com Top 100 WCM Sites – Thumbnail views of the top 100 public SharePoint sites organized by industry.
• Installing MOSS on Server 2008 R2 – Describes how to properly slipstream SharePoint 2007 so it will install on Windows Server 2008 R2. I’m going to attempt it this week

• Make MOSS 2007 act like MOSS 2010 on EUSP - EndUserSharePoint.com just keeps coming out with great content!
• Collaboration Resource Center on TechNet - New resource center on TechNet.
• Automatically Resize Page Viewer Web Part to its Content - This would have come in handy! Requires modifying the source page though.
• SharePoint Internet Site: Calphalon (Kitchen Supplies) - I hadn’t seen this site before and I think it was just redesigned.
• Displaying SharePoint Fields By Permission Level on Laura Rogers Blog - This is really useful and I’ve had customers ask me about this many time. I’ve been able to find workarounds and mostly talk them out of it but Laura displays how to use SharePoint Designer to display or hide fields.
• Appointment Email Link on Laura Rogers Blog - Laura shows you how to send a link that will add an event to the users Outlook calendar. This done using SharePoint Designer workflows. Laura has several related screencasts as well.