I had been asked a question from a twitter follower if Microsoft Online Services product Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) supports Internet-Facing sites?   After a quick tweet, John Ferringer and Andrew Walmsley both stated the facts:   andrewwalmsley: @sharepointbuzz Don't think so.MSFT Online bus. model is Saas based ...[Read More]

Recently, a collegue and I were helping a client enable Forms Based Authentication.  He sent out an email on how you lose client integration functionality when you have Forms Based Authentication enabled. SharePoint Buzz Twitter Community is GreatI tweeted earlier today that I was working on a draft version of this post and the SharePoint Twitte ...[Read More]

There's a new SharePoint Webcasts For Internet Site Development Series starting today. Be sure to register! MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: Getting Started (Level 100) - Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time Set up an environment for developing Microsoft SharePoint Prod ...[Read More]

For more information on the next version of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, subscribe to our SharePoint Buzz RSS Feed.     UPDATE: Microsoft has just announced the SharePoint 2009 14 Conference in Las Vegas! Many of us are still trying to master SharePoint 2007 (version 12) but that does not mean we don't want to know what Microsoft ShareP ...[Read More]

This month's TSPUG Monthly Meeting (01.16.08) presentation is on authentication providers. In ASP.NET 2.0 , there is an important concept called authentication provider model which is used for many new features such as Membership/Role Management, Profiles, etc. Moss 2007 is built on the top WSS 3.0 which is in turn built on the top of ASP.NET 2.0. ...[Read More]

Want to allow users to search / lookup employees through the Active Directory? The Employee Lookup webpart, for a SharePoint 2007 publishing portal, does not work right out of the box - as it needs to be configured. As I continue learning and start sharing my experiences with the SharePoint community, I thought I'd share my notes on how to get the ...[Read More]

Here is a quick list of blog postings with introductory text by Joel Oleson. Why WSS 3.0 x64 and MOSS 2007 x64... What's the deal? Well the MOSS 2007 x64 downloads are available via MSDN and MVLS.  On MSDN, the ISO contains both x86 and x64.  The WSS x64 is on download center. Just last week I think I was asked when to use x64 over x86 at least 3- ...[Read More]