Paul Devenney

Configuring MySites under your main portal

If, like the rest of the work, you'd prefer people to access their MOSS 2007 Mysites as https://portal.enterprise.com/personal/username rather than https://mysites.enterprise.com (which requires a different url, possibly new certificates, and probably mass con Read More

Site Collection Administrators and Adding Workflows to Sites with Broken Inheritance

Another gotcha in the SharePoint world. You would think that Site Collection Administrators could do anything on any site inside the collection. Being an administrator and all. Not so. If you've broken inheritance you will find that you no longer have the corr Read More

Fear and Surprise and Permissions in MOSS Central Admin

Access denied when selecting "User profiles and properties"? Can't access your shared services provider? Can't get to the "Import Application Definition" page of the BDC? No one expects the MOSS administration, and certainly - if you are looking at the Central Read More

"fun" adding Webparts to SharePoint 2003

We're doing a bit of "retro" SP 2003 work for a client, and having written several webparts for 2003 I thought 1 more couldn't cause a problem. ha! how wrong could I be. We'll I created my webpart (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms948909.aspx if Read More

Access 2007 is useful! Stop Press!!!

Access has generally been the whipping boy of database products, mostly scorned by "real database developers" due to the fact that it allows users to think they can create databases. However, for the first time, I think I have seen a glimpse of something truel Read More