By default, SharePoint’s lists contain just one field – a title. Make a new list under a SharePoint site and that’s what you get. Make new list items and you can enter titles. Open the list view to ...

It has been well chronicled how pervasive Microsoft's SharePoint Server is becoming in all enterprises. Just look at the large pharmaceutical conglomerate Pfizer, which has 6,000 SharePoint sites used ...

Here's a step-by-step instruction on how to create a number of site collections, content databases and how to combine them. There are times when I like to have Site Collections in their own content ...

We have users who cook up little Excel sheets for simple things such as logging a bit of data or events (e.g. products received from suppliers that are non-conformant). It usually starts as 1 person's ...

ASP.NET developers can have trouble finding their way through the SharePoint maze, because much of what they know is wrong. Here's a baker's dozen of tips to lead you in the right direction. If you're ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

I have a Sharepoint db named WSS_<I>randomnumber</I>. I'd like to rename it to WSS_SiteName for sane management. What is the process to do this on WSSv3?