There are some limitations in WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 that are hurting the adoption of SharePoint 2007 at my company. I’m sure that this is pretty common. Many users are familiar with WordPress and Foswiki/TWiki. My users are looking for easy to use editors, plug-ins, and themes that they can use on their team sites and [...]
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OCR’ing all of the PDF files in a SharePoint Document Library using PowerShell and Solid PDF Tools
A recent review of the PDF Documents in our Document Control Library, revealed that most were “image only” PDF’s. We’ve run our document control system on different versions of SharePoint technologies since SharePoint Portal Server 2001. We are currently running SharePoint 2007. I’m surprised that someone did not previously notice that most of our PDF [...]
Using PowerShell to activate a feature across all Sharepoint 2007/WSS 3.0 sites and subsites
Recently, I was deploying a new feature to a WSS 3.0 site and needed to activate the feature on roughly 100 subsites. I did not want to do this manually with the web interface. I knew that I could write a C# program to do this, but I’d read a lot about the capabilities of [...]
Creating and registering a sitemap to Google for a WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 site.
If you develop or maintain internet facing websites, then you already know what a sitemap is and does. I create and maintain site maps for several sites. I recently added a sitemap to my WSS 3.0 site. With other web technologies this can be a 10 minute process. With SharePoint this turned out to have [...]
Customizing and enhancing the security of a WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 site
I wanted to compare the capabilities of WSS 3.0 (Sharepoint 2007) to host forum-like discussions, blogs and wiki’s. After I’d developed my site, there were items that were visible to anonymous and standard users that I felt were inappropriate. I wanted information to be visible or not based upon the users role. Such as the [...]