Social computing in SharePoint

Tech Trek – 2011.01.22 Sunday I’ve recently had a conversation with a colleague on the appropriate platform to publish tribal knowledge that he would like to share. With this in mind, a couple of question arises on the social computing capabilities of SharePoint so that we can make better use of the technologies: What is [...]

InfoPath template publishing issues

Tech Trek – 2012.01.22 Sunday I’ve recently updated an InfoPath form template for a project and ran into the following Microsoft Support issue KB2554288. Columns published from InfoPath fields are recreated when the same InfoPath form template is re-published to more than one document libraries in a SharePoint site Unfortunately, I read this knowledge base [...]

Disable or hide SharePoint “Send To” and “Open with Explorer” menu options

Tech Trek – 2011.08.15 PROBLEM: I was building an InfoPath form that requires security from certain users of the solution. One of those involve preventing access to the following context menu and ribbon menu options: Send To … Download a Copy Open with Explorer Unfortunately, these options becomes a loophole if they are available for [...]

SharePoint 2010 admin workshop

Tech Trek – 2011.07.30 Just recently completed a four-day workshop for SharePoint 2010 Administration this past week. This blog post is part review and part recommendations for such training courses. What did I like about the workshop? I loved how the labs were structured since it gave a couple of scenarios where students have to [...]

FDA Part 11 compliance

Tech Trek – 2011.07.14 I’m conducting research on US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Part 11 compliance which deals with regulatory requirements for electronic records and signatures. It is an interesting topic especially with the today’s reliance in computer technology and transition of most enterprises from paper-based system into digital medium. I was able to [...]