Tag Archives: SharePoint 2007

Tracking Anonymous Access In SharePoint

I was in a Capture Server design meeting the other day and the discussion turned briefly to the topic of anonymous access[1] to web applications and web services.   The consensus of the conversation was that anything we install should not allow anonymous access by default, but the administrators would obviously set the permissions to whatever they wanted.

Of course if managing access control is pushed to the administrators, do the administrators have an easy way to see where anonymous access is enabled? Thankfully for SharePoint Administrators, Russ Maxwell at MSDN has written a PowerShell script that walks through you Site Collection and reports on which areas have anonymous access.

Improving SharePoint Adoption

Jonathan Collins at memeburn wrote a new blog post – 7 Top tips for getting your company rolling with Microsoft SharePoint.  In my mind, the first 3 points are key to a successful SharePoint implementation -

1. Top down support
Every SharePoint implementation requires support from the head honchoes. Their support is essential and must continue once SharePoint is live. Leaders need to walk the talk and lead by example and the organisations executive needs to use SharePoint in a very visible way.

Upgrading SharePoint 2007 to 2010

I blogged last week that I'd jump into ECM features that rock, but before I get deep into 2010 I want to pass on some information about upgrading from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) to Microsoft SharePoint Sever 2010 (MSS).  If you are a current KnowledgeLake user, please note that our Imaging for SharePoint 2.x and 3.x products will not work with SharePoint 2010, but the good news is that we are planning a release to be completed at launch that will work with MSS.  It's actually possible to make some of the current products work, such as the viewer, but rather than hacking everything I'd ask you to just wait, or contact us if it's imperative that you test now.  The "even better" news is that our MSS compatible software will allow you to use the same taxonomy features we had in 2007, while at the same time take advantage of the new Content Type and other taxonomy features of 2010.  Our basic goal is to make it an easy decision to continue to use 2007 after 2010 is released.  Some organizations upgrade policies requires administrators to wait, so we'll try to take the worry about your current solution working when you do decide it's time to move to 2010.