Sharepoint Daily WTF – Datasheet View

This one stumped me…

At a particular client site, they have mixed versions of Office (2003 and 2007) on their desktops, and have just recently embraced Sharepoint’s datasheet view for bulk editing lists of client, suppliers etc.

Well, today one of them mentioned that certain columns weren't appearing in their datasheet view, but they were on other computers.

As it turns out, it appears that Lookup Fields and People Picker columns don't work in the datasheet view of the Office 2003 install.
A real bummer, so my only workaround was to use the choice fields (drop down list)

I’m on the Office 2010 Technical Preview

Yesterday I received my first email from Microsoft with a welcome to the Office 2010 Technical Preview.

Currently we can download and evaluate the client side (Outlook,word,excel etc) software with the server bits (SharePoint, Project Server etc) coming soon.

Exciting times ahead and my colleagues and I at Stargate will have some fantastic learning's we’ll share with the community.
more on that later.

Operation Deep Throat

Twas heading out to a pre-sales meeting today with a colleague, Justin. When we decided we had plenty of time for a sit down lunch and a chat about the upcoming meeting.
Ordering the Roast of the Day wouldn't usually raise alarm bells as a time consuming dish, but by the time it finally arrived we were looking at a 2 minute window so I began to woof this down like I hadn't eaten in weeks. - This is where things undoubtedly took a turn for the worst as I found I was having problems digesting the food, even with a pint of water by my side.

It didn't stop there, I made my way to the meeting having thrown up twice on the way and found myself mid-sentence when I had another fit. Quite a sight for Justin and the 2 poor gentlemen opposite me!

The whole experience was like a bad case of indigestion of which no amount of mylanta or water was going to fix.

It was a few hours later that I managed to throw up again and this time, a large (and last) part of my lunch finally came up – and with it, the offending obstruction.

How I managed to swallow this piece of tasty lamb I dont know. But it obviously didnt make it the whole way down.

Rai’s a SharePoint Master

One of my Stargate colleagues, Rai Umair has just returned from Redmond after completing his SharePoint Masters course & a few days later he had the great news that he’d passed the gruelling 3 week course.

What makes this achievement even more impressive is that Rai is currently the only SharePoint master in the asia/pacific region and will no doubt be highly sort after.

Well done Rai… and you look good in the robe and lightsaber we gave him to mark the occasion.

Daily WTF - IE 64 bit & SharePoint

I booted up IE 8 64-bit version to test it on a SharePoint site and thought I was going crazy when the following options appeared on the actions menu of a document library.

In my 32-bit IE 8 it looks like this.

Seems all the Office/SharePoint integration goodies are not supported in the 64-bit environment or its due to my Office client only being 32-bit.