Using authenticated RSS feed to Serve Public Data
I can only a little bit about this project now since we haven’t completed it but it’s really neat. Currently Departmental phone numbers are tracked on a Sharepoint list and then once a year, formatted and sent off to the printers for publication. Some people decided we should make this information publicly accessible in an online version. The problem is the Sharepoint data lies in an authenticated NTLM environment, how do we get it out there for the public? We, being Brian and I, created a simple AutoIT script that fetches the RSS feed of the list and saves it as an XML file. We added a service account to the Sharepoint site as a reader so it can access the i

Goodbye Zoe, you will be missed
I don’t normally post personal things on my professional blog, but many readers and Twitter followers have had a sincere interest in the happenings of our black lab Zoe. Last night my wife and I faced the inevitable. We had to put our black lab Zoe down. The below is a brief summary of our life with Zoe. Elissa and I decided to get a puppy right after we had purchased our first home in Toledo prior to getting married. We both agreed we should do the responsible thing and adopt a puppy. We turned to a local organization called Planned Pethood who rescue and foster pets and adopt them out. They take in the animals, take care of

Sharepoint Saturday Raleigh registration open
For all maybe 10 of my readers in the North Carolinas, registration for Sharepoint Saturday Raleigh is now open! If you’d like to attend, please go register, these events fill up quickly so be sure to sign up early. Some great speakers are lined up and am looking forward to meeting them. Some I have already met from SPS DC and Charlotte. Really looking forward to the Sharepoint 2010 session as the cover will have been blown off the NDA because of the Sharepoint Confer

Removing HTML Person Group Fields in Sharepoint
Over on Stump the Panel, Sasha wanted to change the message being displayed on a Tasks list when no one had a task assigned. The hyperlinks for the Assigned To user on the DispForm and EditForm.aspx pages should also be removed. First, the Disp/Edit forms. In order to make changes to these pages, we need to employ the tool pane URL hacking method. You’ll need to have a tasks list populated with some data or you won’t be able to see this in action. Click on one of the items to go to the DispForm page. Employ the tool pane hack by appending &PageView=Shared&Tool

Access 2007 and sharing data
It’s been a while since I’ve posted something. The last few weeks were extremely busy with your avergae run of the mill Sharepoint tasks, answering questions, provisioning sites, working in our new test environment. This week we had a data access problem to tackle. Someone wanted a database on a SQL server. This database was going to be linked to from Access and needed to be accessed by people off site and or not affiliated with us. No easy task with VPN and security concerns. We thought “What about Sharepoint?” My initial thought was ok, ya, maybe let’s see how it works. I knew accdb files could be uploaded unrestricted to Sharepoint, t