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I recently created a sharepoint designer workflow and only site collection administrators could start it. Other users, even those that had full control on a site could not start it and would get an ''access denied'' message if they tried. To fix it I opened the site in SharePoint designer right clicked on the workflow in the folder list and ...

http://www.sharepointgroups.org/wsug/default.aspx Sponsored By:Zoom OfficeCollaborative InnovationsMicrosoft The first Winnipeg SharePoint User Group event will be happening this month!  D'Arcy Lussier, Gérald Danais, Juan Larios, Jason Miller and myself all put our heads together to bring this group to life very quickly.  Come ...

There's finally a load of guidance material for SharePoint architecture and development - jump over to SharePoint Guidance at the Microsoft patterns & practices Developer Center and take a gander. Also of interest is the Learning Plan for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Developers – Part 1, part of MSDN Ramp Up - a free, online, ...

If you're a SharePoint administrator, you might be asking yourself if there is any reason to upgrade from SQL Server 2005 to 2008. Actually, there 10+ great reasons to rush out and do this today! Check out this blog post by Joel Oleson. There are some very good SQL Server 2008 features and enhancements that were planned with SharePoint in mind. ...

SharePoint designer provides some often overlooked reports on SharePoint sites, they are accessible through the reports button on the bottom toolbar. Summary information is provided on:   Usage Data - advanced usage reports that are site and item specific, including hits and visits  Pictures Unlinked files Linked files Slow Pages ...

Metadata can be incredibly useful for organizing files within a document library. However the process for filling out the metadata on individual documents can often be time-consuming even using things such as the data-view to apply the metadata to a large number of files. Not to mention the process of checking in and approving those files if those ...

I am building some web parts that include some AJAX functionality and found out that any inline scripts I was outputting in my updatepanel were not being executed.  The blog post below offers a great explanation on this... basically, use ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript with your updatepanel control to add scripts that should be executed ...

A new version of the MOSS and WSS SDK was released on August 29th. Amongst other things it includes updated documentation for the records management APIs as well as several completely new articles on utilizing remote BLOB storage with SharePoint. The APIs for remote BLOB storage were added with SP1 but in my opinion have not been very well ...

Recently I was asked how we could show and hide things based on user permission, without writing a custom MOSS feature with c# code.  There are a couple ways to do this and rather than me spending type typing up a how to or show examples, I've looked up a couple examples other people have provided on the net: SPSecurityTrimmedControl - ...

For all those interested in SharePoint best practices, there is a conference Sept. 15-17 devoted to it. Looks like they'll have some good sessions. More info can be found here: https://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/