The question of the day comes from Jenny:
What can I do to manage and/or set my column widths in a list? Whether I import an Excel spreadsheet for a list or create a list from scratch, there comes a time when the column widths go wacky. Sometimes the content does determine the width while at [...]

The question of the day comes from Shane:
My company upgraded to IE 7 and I have a couple site with the OWA accessing inboxes, cal, etc. With IE 7, when I go to the site the web part with Outlook, access is blocked and the following error is shown: “To help protect your security, IE [...]

Greg MacBeth has posted an interesting article with a point I think worth repeating:
PRIORITY FIVE – Training
Train your Admins
Train your Developers
Train your End Users (Some say 75 % of your Training Budget Goes here)
Train your Staff in Integration Troubleshooting
Greg… I love to hear it. Now if people will just believe it, we might start getting somewhere…

The question of the day comes from Dawn:
Do you have any case studies on companies who have implemented SharePoint as their central communication hub?
Dawn – I do have a white paper in draft form that I can make available to you. It documents the process of setting up SharePoint to manage AIDS Vaccine Research data, [...]

Anyone up for a SharePoint contest? Go to your entrance page and find out how many closed web parts you currently have. No cheating. Go ahead… I’ll wait.
In this contest, everyone is a winner because I bet you are going to be pretty surprised when you check things out.
It happened again today. I was looking at [...]

For the past month I’ve been spending a lot of time working with Content Types, trying to get the final installment done for the SharePoint 101 Tricks and Traps ebook. I was working on something this morning that might turn out to be useful for a basic End User just starting to get their hands [...]

Is there any discussion here? I never thought there would be but it looks like the case of HR vs IT.
Check with your IT department and I don’t think you’ll find any hesitation: Iron Man with no doubt. Then call up someone in HR and casually mention that you are considering going to a movie this [...]

The question of the day comes from Diane:
Is there a web part that would pull all tasks assigned to me from sites and sub-sites into one aggregated list?
Diane – Yes, you want to use the Content Query Web Part (CQWP).
 
Put the CQWP on your desired page. Configure the query to “Show items from the following [...]

For the past few weeks, the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter has been taking a look at Site Columns and Content Types.
This week’s installment includes two downloads: an expandable/collapsible map examining inheritance and hierarchy in Content Types, and a large poster of the map completely expanded (1379 x 5043 pixels).
If you would like a copy of the [...]

The question of the day comes from Tim:
You recently told me how to import a CSV from Exchange Public Folder Calendar’s into Sharepoint 2007. You stated that I “Import the spreadsheet using the Custom Lists:Import spreadsheet functionality. Create a new view, placing the Calendar view as your default.”
That was very helpful and much appreciated. However, [...]