Robin's SharePoint and Website musings

Came across a great find that should help the SharePoint 2013 learning process greatly - a site where you can get a test environment for developing your proof of concept, just get familiar with SharePoint 2013, or test ideas.  Check it out for yourself:   http://www.sharepointpower.com/Pages/Default.aspx I signed up and had an account and environment a few hours later.  Looking forward to great learning.  

We'll start our SharePoint upgrade officially next month, so it's time to start learning all I can about SharePoint 2013 (long story, thought we were upgrading to 2010 and had been learning all I could there, now know we're going to 2013 instead). My Kindle has a couple of titles already: SharePoint 2013 First Look for Power Users by Asif Rehmani SharePoint 2013 Development Machine by Sahil Malik & Srini Sistla I also purchased: Beginning SharePoint 2013 Building Business Solutions by Amanda Perran, Shane Perran, Jennifer Mason, and Laura Rogers. Off to a good start! Have other recommended reading for me? Let me know!

Always more to learn about InfoPath... Glad I came across this! What can InfoPath do for you - Part 2 - End User - NothingButSharePoint.com

So you want to be able to keep multiple drafts of a document you and your team are working on without other people seeing it and when you've finally polished your policy manual (or whatever your document may be), post it for "everyone" to see? Well, SharePoint can let you do that! See my blog posting on creating a document library . Once your library is created, you'll want to turn on your versioning settings within the library (if you didn't do it when you created the library). To do so, click Settings from the Library's toolbar and select Document Library Settings . From the General Settings options, select Versioning Settings . From this screen, you will set whether or not the document requires approval before being made available to "everyone" to view. (Everyone being whomever has permissions to view the document library). Determine if you want major and minor versions and set the number of versions you need. Who should be ab

Recently had a comment made in a meeting that one of the things users didn't like in our current SharePoint 2007 environment is that there were so many documents that were outdated. This made me realize that I had failed to train our users in two very important "features": editing documents from SharePoint and using Versioning Settings. This blog post is to correct those two issues. A little about our environment: we are using MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) and Office 2010 Professional software. So to start out, how does one create a document library? Simple, assuming the user has adequate permissions, click the Site Actions tab on the right hand side of the page, and from the drop down, select Create. Under the Libraries grouping, select Document Library. Give your library a short, descriptive name. You can turn versioning on here by clicking Yes in the Create Versions options. In the next blog post , I discuss setting Versionin

Had someone ask me this today, so I thought I post a few quick steps. From the Home Tab in Outlook (I'm using Outlook 2010), click the Categorize icon in the ribbon. From the Color Categories pop up window, select NEW button. Here's the full details from Microsoft's site: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/create-a-new-color-category-HA010356463.aspx?CTT=3