Author: Paul Galvin
Web site: Paul Galvin’s SharePoint Space 
As I wrote last week, there is something of a headwind blowing against SharePoint Designer.  I won’t rehash that discussion.   All I’ll add is that I am wearing my 2000 New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup Champions hat as I write this article.
Despite this headwind, SharePoint Designer is the [...]

Guest Author: Paul Culmsee
Website: CleverWorkarounds.com
Hi again. Sorry about the delay in continuing with this “how to think SharePoint” series, but in Australia, the month of June is the end of the financial year. I assume it works the same way in the rest of the world too.
What happens here is that IT Managers suddenly realise [...]

Bob Mixon is teaching an online version of his famous, or infamous as the case may be, Planning, Architecture and Design Workshop. He is trying a new delivery system by teaching it live, online.
If you haven’t worked with Bob or taken one of his workshops, his depth of understanding of the subject is phenomenal. You [...]

Dessie Lunsford
Points-of-Sharing
If you haven’t read through the previous article in this series and wish to follow along in the walkthrough, I encourage you to read it first, especially since we’ll be working with the Excel spreadsheet we created last time.
In the previous article on “Customizing a Task List“, we created a “Date Completed” column using [...]

This week’s screencast, A Beginner’s Guide to Content Types, walks through the process of creating Content Types to help manage a Documentation Library. This is a continuing series of screencasts that started with Doug Cornelius ‘ case study and another screencast, Overview of Content Types.
This week’s screencast should give you a basic idea of [...]

The question of the day comes from Shannon:
Can someone explain to me just how Custom Send To Destination option in the Advance Library Settings works and perhaps give me an example?
Shannon – The Custom Send To Destination allows you to create a link to a specific location for moving documents.
As an example, you might [...]

The question of the day comes from Joe K:
On my computer in office documents I have the option when I save to save directly to SharePoint. It is a button on the left side. I cannot replicate this for other users, and have no idea how I got it to show up on my machine. [...]

I’m teaching a site collection workshop in Neuchatel, Switzerland this week so I have plenty of time in the evenings to work on screencasts. Wednesday I’ll rollout a 50 minute screencast on how to create your first content type. This is part of a series made available through the Weekly Newsletter.
After Switzerland, I’m back in [...]

The question of the day comes from Chris P:
Is there anyway to connect a task list with custom columns to Outlook?
Chris Quick responds
I haven’t found any way to do this OOTB, but it might be possible for a developer. Project server has an add-in for Outlook that allows tasks from Project Server to be modified [...]

One of our regular readers, Mike in the Netherlands, sent me an email describing his trials and tribulations with Meeting Workspaces. I’ll quote the email here and look forward to your comments and war stories with Meeting Workspaces.
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From Mike:
In my effort to help users to step into “The new world of work”  I encourage them [...]