Author Archives: jleung

Using JavaScript with SharePoint form fields

By jleung | March 6, 2009

Using JavaScript in SharePoint forms enables developers to quickly customize the “look and field” and the behavior of a SharePoint form (Display, New or Edit form). It’s quick because you will see the effect directly on the form and given that you are embedding the JavaScript properly (putting the script in a content editor web [...]

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Preview Pane in SharePoint list

By jleung | January 29, 2009

This Preview Pane function is OOTB and is always there, you go to “modify this view” in the list and at the view setting page, under the style section, select the “Preview Pane” option:

Open this view now and you will have an easy way to preview all your information by hovering on the list [...]

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More Business Intelligence for MOSS

By jleung | January 28, 2009

Microsoft has made an annoucement on its Business Intelligence strategy by adding Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 features (originally a separate product) into MOSS enterprise CAL this week.
Now there is one more reason to LOVE SharePoint!
Read the full press news here.

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Synchornize outlook 2007 contacts to MOSS

By jleung | January 28, 2009

Do you have a lot of outlook contacts that you want to share with other people? In particular, share it with users in MOSS/WSS 3.0? Do you want to be a power user of both MOSS and outlook 2007? Do you know that you can manage your files, documents and also contacts in outlook 2007 [...]

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Create new WSS web application at a default location other than C:\Inetpub\wwwroot

By jleung | October 23, 2008

This was a question popup about a year ago when the client SPS 2003 virtual directory is hosed on a drive other the default C:\Inetpub\wwwroot location.
It all began with a gradual migration, the new targeted web application for MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0 is created automatically at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\VirtualDirectories\
while the SPS 2003 site is at E:\Inetpub\wwwroot. At that [...]

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SharePoint Resource Center for Updates

By jleung | October 20, 2008

As a SharePoint administrator, keeping your SharePoint environment up-to-date is one of the important tasks. Since MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 went RTM in November 2006, there are 2 major updates: Service Pack 1 and Infrastructure Update.
The following link summerizes the deployment roadmap for these important updates and provides useful information in terms of [...]

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