Internal 500 Error When Changing the URL to a Badly-Formed Value

Interesting issue we had to troubleshoot today. This issue is related to SharePoint 2007.  Say you have a sub-site in a SharePoint site collection (let’s call it “Subsite A”) and the user/admin changes the URL of the site to something malformed, what happens? We start “Subsite A” like the following: Then, we change the URL … Read more

Microsoft’s SharePoint Strategy

The SharePoint conference just concluded in Vegas. So many things being discussed right now with the upcoming SharePoint 2010. My friend Russell emailed me this article about SharePoint: SharePoint is Microsoft’s Real Window of Opportunity. The article couldn’t have explained it better about the strategic importance of SharePoint. People think SharePoint is all about Web 2.0, … Read more