Edit “Outlook Today” – Set MySite as Outlook Landing Page
I came across a wonderful slide show a couple of days ago while I was sharpening up on my personalization knowledge for SharePoint.  In this presentation the author detailed nearly every conceivable feature within SharePoint related to personalization which obviously stems from the usage of MySites.  Something that caught my eye, although not fully documented in the presentation, was the setting of your Outlook Landing Page to your MySite home page.  After scratching around a bit I figured it out (pretty easy actually).  Just complete the following steps:

Enable Advanced Usage Processing – 403 Forbidden
Don’t you just love it when a native feature just stops working.  It is especially fun when trying to enable it simply gives you one of those “very descriptive” 403 Forbidden / Unknown Errors.  (Yes, trace gives you some more goodies, but it doesn’t always help). So here I was trying to “simply enable” advance usage reporting at a client (or was it at our company) in any event, it doesn’t matter.  When clicking “Ok” I simply received a 403 Forbidden error.  I stepped through my logical thoughts and couldn’t understand why this would be happening.  The solution, described here, 

Editing *.master pages – Page Cannot Be Found
Styling SharePoint 2007 is a challenge onto itself.  I know I haven’t been for any formal training (which I am now considering), but I recon my HTML, CSS et al is not too shabby so I decided to take a design, created by my colleague Lawrence and modify it for one of our clients.  Boy was I in for a surprise. Firstly, I have to say – IE8 “F12″ DOM Inspector is the absolute business.  You can make changes on the fly and without this I sincerely doubt I would have been able to get anywhere with the design. Secondly, Heather Solomon is “SCHWEETNEZZ”.  Her blog is absolutely littered with resources that are essential to

Moving SharePoint 2007 Databases
I completed a production database move two days ago and sadly the process didn’t go down as documented on various technet sites.  To cut a long story short, here are the steps I completed to successfully move the databases: - Make a complete backup of the Site Collection that needs to be moved.  This may be completed via the stsadm command:  STSADM -o backup -url http://portal.domain.com -filename c:\backups\backup.bak; - Disconnect all servers from the SharePoint farm using the SharePoint Configuration Wizard; - Recreate the farm on the Central Administration Host using SharePoint Configuration Wizard. At this point, be sure to enter the details of

OneNote Mobile – Gotta love it
I recently started using OneNote mobile again and just thought I need to rant about it online a little. I really enjoy the adhoc nature of OneNote especially for meetings / general thoughts and having this extension on my phone is fantastic. I haven’t been a huge fan of Windows Mobile (guess because I never used it) and ever since I started using it recently it’s open up other areas of usage for technology on the go, enter OneNote Mobile. I’m on the road a fairly large part of the day as I’ve moved in the business development department at my company. Keeping tabs of what I’m busy with and what I need to get to gets more and more t