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Exporting SharePoint People & Groups

You can export the “People & Groups” section to an XL spreadsheet by hinging through the owssvr DLL. However, you’re going to need the SSID for both your ‘List’ and whichever ‘View’ also to get it to work.

To obtain both of these:

List SSID – Goto the “People & …

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Sharepoint. Need I say more? Shared drive, website, what?!

From a quick scan of the blogosphere its become pretty apparent I’m not the only one questioning what exactly Microsoft have been up to with Sharepoint?!? Have their software architects been sitting completely siloed and at the last moment bolted together various ‘bits’ to make the overall “Sharepoint” product.

Don’t get me …

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Ownership of Intranets? Information Architecture.

I was passed a fantastic link to Joel Olesons’s blog post on the Microsoft Developer Network at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/03/16/information-architecture-and-the-information-architect.aspx

Though Joel’s post is essentially discussing the deployment of Microsoft Sharepoint in an Enterprise environment its essentially questioning the very core of what is an Intranet environment for any content management! Not …

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