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You cannot edit list or document library items on existing SharePoint sites

GUID's, anyone?

"complete PPT of Dux Raymond Sy's "7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success," as presented at the PMI Global Congress on 10/19/08."

"This is to explain what the ULS logs are, why they exist, and how to read and write 'em. In a nutshell, the Unified Logging Service (ULS) writes WSS 3.0 and MOSS events to SharePoint's Trace Logs, and these are stored in the file system in ...\12\LOGS. Collectively this location and its files are commonly referred to as the "ULS Logs" though MSDN calls them the Trace Logs. "

"ULSViewer allows users to open a ULS log file and display its contents in a user friendly format. Users can then perform advanced functions such as filtering, sorting, highlighting, loading logs, appending logs, etc in order to single out the data that is important to the user. This information can be used to diagnose problems with machines running ULS services, or to monitor machines and the events they create in realtime. "

"When released, Office Web Apps will be free to consumers, but organizations wanting to use them may need to consider beefing up their infrastructure to support SharePoint 2010." Apparently, Microsoft's answer to Google Apps will be front-ended by SharePoint 2010 for "Active Directory integration, auditing, compliance, etc." [Consumer-level access will be via Windows Live on the Web.]

code fix for permmask problem for doclibs (and lists) and templates

"SharePoint ClientSide Extensions makes it easy to develop JavaScript within the confines of SharePoint. A simple feature allows site admins to add JQuery, JQuery UI, Prototype, Scriptaculous and Ext JS to their site. "

"This article looks at the basics of locking features in SQL Server 2008, and peeks into the inner workings to learn how SQL Server implements locking."

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See the "Taming the Elusive Calculated Column" series

code examples

"XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page."

"a running configuration of things I have learned over the years in performing physical-to-virtual (P2V) as well as virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions. The Visio diagram in Fig. 1 shows what can be a wonderful springboard for you to customize in your organization to collect lessons learned, avoid pitfalls with conversions and implement your own procedures, such as change controls and support contacts. "

"A little playing and guessing and the issue turned out to be permissions. For some reason WSS_Admin_WPG and WSS_WPG did not have the any rights to c:\windows\temp on the central admin server."

"When provisioning virtual machines, either from a new build or during a physical-to-virtual conversion, questions will always come up on how many virtual processors to assign to the host. "

"To extend the possibilities of calculated columns, my idea is to use them to write HTML instead of just text, thus allowing some additional formatting. In this post I am going to show how to achieve this result through a generic method, combining calculated columns and the Content Editor Web Part."

"I contacted Microsoft support to obtain an executable (not publically available) that would fix the existing sites"