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Quick and Easy: Email Enabled Libraries in SharePoint

Posted by: Rai Umair on: August 17, 2009

I only get a chance to setup email enabled libraries once every 4 months or so. My last setup was a couple of weeks back. This was for one of our customer who wanted to use incoming email functionality to support some reports coming from external sources; this particular customer was running Microsoft Exchange 2007.
Before [...]

A client of mine did not want parts of their Intranet based on MOSS 2007 to be searched; now that’s quite easy to do with Crawl rules. As they wanted strict control over the content that can be crawled I trained them on how to control ‘the crawl’ behaviour for content within SharePoint.
There are three [...]

Security Trim Contents of a Data View Web Part

Posted by: Rai Umair on: August 17, 2009

I recently blogged about how to security trim contents of a page using the Security Trim Control, it works great for content on the page but what about contents within a web part I was asked, for example that of a DataView web part. Well that’s easy too, all you need is a little less [...]

Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint – Experience

Posted by: Rai Umair on: July 8, 2009

I recently had the opportunity to attend rotation 3 (R3) or the first public offering of the Microsoft Certified Master program for SharePoint 2007.  This without doubt will be one of the most intense, humbling and gratifying experiences of my life.
After a gruelling three weeks of SharePoint expert training and intense peer discussions, three difficult [...]

SharePoint Designer is a Free Download Now

Posted by: Rai Umair on: March 13, 2009

SPD is officially free download from 1st of April 2009, We got official confirmation from Microsoft on that one. Current SPD license holders will be upgraded to Expression Web.
 You can download it at  http://www.microsoft.com/spd. 
Through MOSSIG and Stargate Global Consulting we thought this was a good reason to offer a free introduction training for Stargate Designer, [...]