a site that has certain elements such as a task list, calendar, document libraries and some other out of the box functionality that SharePoint 2010 offers.

Following on the theme of common sense, I’d like to provide some additional guidance and best practices around jumpstarting your SharePoint governance.

When setting up your new SharePoint environment, one of the questions you’ll need to answer is centralized or de-centralized?

In this segment, I’ll document how I created a basic respository to hold the maps. Then, in the next installment, I’ll demonstrate how to integrate the SharePoint Map Repository into a training tracker in SharePoint.

The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is a pretty powerful beast. It allows you to do multiple site queries and aggregate the results.

“How many content types should you have?” This is the question that came up in a conference call on SharePoint architecture.

We’ve been doing a lot of work with SharePoint lately so I thought I’d put together a quick post on some approaches to implementing taxonomies in the new version

In SharePoint, there is a little known capability, called “per location views”. This means that you can create views that are only accessible from certain locations.

SharePoint supports document searching out-of-the box, but with some simple customizations, you can greatly improve the findability of documents.

In this screencast, Laura Rogers explains a unique way of using SharePoint content types to function as status levels for list items. This solution does not involve any custom code, and the concept is useful in WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010.