Prevent users from seeing members of other site collections

Scenario:
A user decides to give his colleague access to a document. He clicks the Add Users button to select his colleague, clicks the address book icon and types in John in the Select people and groups dialog box. On clicking the search icon he’s presented with a list of 50 different John’s – of which [...]

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 fixes to SPD and WSS 3.0

So Office 2007 SP2 is being released today. Surprisingly, there is really not too thorough information out there. Even the MVPs who are normally the first to get a details about new updates and releases seem to be very quiet.
Well, let’s wait and see. In the meantime below is a list of SPD and [...]

IE8 Datasheet issue workaround

While I’ve been generally happy with IE8. However, the IE8 Datasheet View issues are really annoying – the datasheet view is really useful for bulk data entry/edits and I do use it almost every day. 
Up till recently I’ve been running IE8 on my desktop but I’ve kept one of my servers running IE7 just [...]

Keep Firefox as your default browser and still use it to work with Sharepoint.

Firefox compatibility with Sharepoint is not ideal. While pages will generally display fine there are little issues and quirks (e.g. lack of rich text editing for CEWP) that make Firefox rather unusable for your daily Sharepoint customization.
Using Firefox as your primary browser and launching IE for any Sharepoint-related tasks is an option. A rather [...]

Get list of all Sharepoint sub-sites

As I mentioned yesterday I’ve decided to give blogging another chance. I’ve also decided I’d try posting relatively often by simply blogging about the different Sharepoint issues I run into everyday. Issues small and big. Most often small ones that nonetheless take quite a bit of time. An example of such an issue today:

Scenario:
We’ve got [...]

Useless calculated column today trick – XSL today() to the rescue.

So after a long break I’ve decided to get back to blogging
 
Yesterday a new requirement was made that forced me to look at XSL to achieve my goal. I’d looked at some seemingly cryptic XSL code snippets before and found it to be very unappealing (to put it mildly). Turns out it can [...]

Check version of SharePoint without navigating to central administration pages.

Was really sick for two weeks – hence the lack of posts. While I definitely didn’t enjoy the experience it was a good thing – made me really realize I need to change my lifestyle (exercise, diet etc.) if I want to enjoy plenty of energy and general health. Funny how sometimes you need a [...]

First Post

Welcome to my first post!
Working with SharePoint every day I keep learning new things – techniques, tricks and hacks, great new resources in the blogosphere as well as the various issues and gotchas everyone familiar with SharePoint has become to expect . I intend to post my findings on this blog with the intention [...]