3
Jul
Posted by Jag in SharePoint 2007, SharePoint Designer, Tip. Tagged: SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Tip. Leave a Comment
Use the SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl WebControl to wrap the Site Actions menu in your master page. The control allows you to hide the contents if the currently logged user doesn’t have the required permissions.
3
Jul
Posted by Jag in Guidelines, Intranet. Leave a Comment
It is very important to name your Intranet properly or else your employees find it less interesting and might result in low user acceptance. FAIL
Sometimes it is hard for the Intranet Owners to come up with a suitable name. The purpose of this post is to help you come up with a right name for your Intranet. It is important for an intranet name to have following attributes.
- Relevance
- Interesting and Unique
- Clarity
Relevance
The Intranet name should be directly connected to the content/purpose of the Intranet. It should be relevant to the mission and vision of the company. Remember in most cases the name of the Intranet will be used as its URL.
Interesting/Unique
Boring Intranet names (like Intranet, InternalNet, InnerNet, Knowledge Base etc) won’t go well with users. Please stay away from abbreviations like IMS (Information Management System) etc. They are not unique and users feel less connected to abbreviations than words. Remember all your employees are not geeks like me to love abbreviations!!
Clarity
For the sake of being interesting and unique don’t come up with names that sound weird and have no clarity whatsoever. The Intranet name should have clarity and a concise meaning to it.
Stephan Schillerwein of http://Intranet-matters.de has put together a nice list of Intranet names. Out of the list, I recommend the following names for Stephan’s list;
The People Link
Horizon
Connect
The Hub
One Place
Gateway
The Wave
Inside
Guys, we you can think of someother important guidelines to help in naming your Intranets, please feel free to SharePoint in comments sections.
Upadate: This post has been in my drafts for so long and I did not realise till date!
12
May
Posted by Jag in SharePoint 2007, Tip. Tagged: How to, SharePoint 2007 SP2. 2 Comments
Chris Givens has put together a great post on how to upgarde your SharePoint 2007 farm with the latest service pack SP2. Thanks Chris, for putting this great post and helping us big time!
Checkout his blog for a complete step by step article.
30
Apr
Posted by Jag in Microsoft, SharePoint 2007, Web Browsers. Tagged: Browser Support, Firefox, IE 6, IE 7.0, IE 8.0, Mozilla, Netscape, Safari, SharePoint. 4 Comments
With the release of SharePoint SP2 this week. There is much talk about the SharePoint 2007 browser support. So I like to refresh on what browsers SharePoint support and the level of support.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides rendering support for browsers that are commonly used. The support is distributed across two levels.
Level 1 Web Browsers:
- IE 6
- IE 7
- IE 8 (SP2)
Levle 2 Web Browsers:
- Firefox 1.5
- Firefox 2.0 /3.0 (SP2)
- Mozilla 1.7
- Netscape 8.1
- Unix/Linus with Firefox 1.5 or Netscape 7.2
- Mac OS-X with Firefox 1.5 or Safari 2.0/3.0
What is Level 1 and 2?
Good you asked!
Level 1 Web browsers take advantage of advanced features provided by ActiveX controls and provide the most complete user experience. Level 1 browsers offer full functionality on all SharePoint sites, including the Central Administration Web site.
Level 2 Web browsers provide basic functionality, so that users can both read and write in SharePoint sites and perform site administration. However, because ActiveX controls are not supported level 2 browsers and due to the functionality differences within different browsers, a different user experience might be provided and there could be some variances from the user experience from the level 1 browsers.
13
Mar
Posted by Jag in SharePoint 2007. Tagged: Ebook, Security, SharePoint. 1 Comment
Came across this great resource little late! The timing is not bad at all because I am about to do a review of SharePoint Security of an existing SharePoint based Intranet portal for a non-profit organisation. It is not a fun ride reviewing security guidelines.
I recommend this ebook ‘SharePoint Security Guide‘ for anyone involved in putting together a great SharePoint Solution. Folks this is a good weekend reading!
Download SharePoint Security Guide @ http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=94375
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