SharePoint 2007: Issues / problems found (and ideally their solutions)

This post will contain problems I have found during the implementation of SharePoint, and hopefully eventually, a solution / workaround.Permissions - Creating a hybird between unique and inherited permissions.Let's say you have a parent site which has a Site Owners group. You want that members of the group Site Owners to have full rights to all child sites. So what you do is create a child site,

Favourites icon and Favicon Maker

With the advent of IE7, the favourite icon on your website is much more important than it used to be... whereas before you would rarely see a favourite icon, with IE7 it is now visible immediately on each tab that you open.To create a favicon in your website there are various ways of doing this:Easiest: create a 16 * 16 pixel ICON image, name it favicon.ico and put it in the root of your

Google Tools I Love

Since my first discovery of Google quite a few years back, I've had a serious love affair with the search engine.I have quite a few philosophical ideas about the company, but its late, I've had a long day and I don't really feel like being very philosophical. Therefore, just a few links to the tools I love best from Google.Google Search - the power of the search should never be underestimated ...

SharePoint 2007: Permissions, permissions, permissions.

Update: Joel Olsen has a great post about permissions:http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/06/29/sharepoint-groups-permissions-site-security-and-depreciated-site-groups.aspxSharePoint 2007 permissions functionality has increased so much (granularity / SharePoint groups / permission inheritance), that it is quite easy to get confused when trying to setup your permissions. As usual, Ton

SharePoint 2007: Content Deployment - Moving your content from Server to Server

The last cool feature that seems (up to now) to work like a charm in 2007 is Content Deployment. Basically, you can use content deployment to migrate your build from development to production. If you search for content deployment, I'm sure you'll find the nice MSDN blog which states how wonderful the content deployment is ... well, it is!Ton Stegemen has a good blog about this: http://

SharePoint 2007: Web Capture Web Part

If you have experience with SharePoint 2003, you are most probably in love with the Web Capture Web Part.To install this Web Part on WSS 3.0 you need to fiddle around a little. You can't just download the Office Web Parts and Component from MS, because it will complain that you need WSS 2.0 installed to be able to install the file...Thanks to this post on Shane Young's blog, you can get the Web