New Zealand SharePoint User Groups

There are lots of books about SharePoint on the market. If we customise our SharePoint user interface will these books still be useful to my users?

I know there is the reusable snippets library which is great for small pieces of content. But how can I reuse whole pages so they appear in different parts of my website without sending the user to another part of the site?

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Can you describe some of the challenges of setting up kerberos authentication in load balanced environments

When is SharePoint not the right tool for the job?

What is the easiest way to make the results of a search more useful, i.e. so that you have the context menu option for performing actions rather than just a link to the item.

What is the best way to update everyone's existing My Sites e.g. remove their My Mail webpart and add a My Calendar web part into the same location

If I customise a New Item form, with Business Data Catalog (BDC) information included, how can I get the BDC lookup to populate the list.  Only works when you use the standard New Item form.

In a SharePoint server farm, it appears the Site Usage Reports do not work. Can access the data with SharePoint Designer, but the Usage Reports when sitting on the secondary farm server, the Site Sertting options fail.

If you're using content deployment to push out published content to a read-only site, but want to add interactivity (e.g. comments on a blog),  what's the best way to combine the read-only deployed content, and the read/write interactive content?

What do you recommend for creating a test envireonment? How do you replicate everything that is required such as AD and the DB servers, and keep them as closer match to production as possible.

Is there an easy way to restrict the user lookup lists that are used for assigning tasks etc, to the people that have access to the site?

What is the best tool to use to report on data stored in SharePoint lists? Can the data be easily queried using parameters to restrict the records being returned?

Is the biggest challenge in implementing a records management system the technology or the users (ie. getting users to understand the concepts)?

Would you recommend using SharePoint as a data store as opposed to a relational database such as SQL Server? Do you have any advice regarding gotchas or best practices if your organisation is using SharePoint in this way?

My users need to being able to create new documents from multiple templates in a document library e.g. pick from two or more word documents (not just between different new file tyes like a word doc or a spreadsheet). Is this possible or is my structure wrong?

 

Example: A document library for Roading Permits might need a *new* application form and a *new* correspondence letter.