Making the Title column required in Document / Picture Libraries

Ever wanted to make the "Title" column in a document / picture library required? This is how you can do it the easy way as usual from SharePoint Gurus.

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MOSS Limitations List

Are you planning for a big SharePoint implementation: Intranet, Exrtanet, Web Portal, Document Management ...etc? Well you definitely chose the right technology. Just keep in mind these limitations and guidelines for the best SharePoint 2007 implementation. Good luck!

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Hide "Site Actions" for the anonymous users (The easy way)

Many times you need to give your anonymous users an access to add information to a part of your site. All will be fine except that when the users will have the “Site Actions” dropdown enabled with the action “View All Site Content”. Do not worry, here's the easy way to solve this out.

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Server Variables in DataForm Web Part

What you might not know about the Data Form Web Part is it can use the server variables as parameters. You only have to store your parameters with your own names then choose the parameter type as "Server Variable" and fill in the "Server Variable Name" field with any of these listed below. The function of each variable is mentioned beside the name of it.

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Installing Arabic Language Pack for MOSS 2007 over Windows Server 2008

Installing MOSS 2007 language pack should be straight forawrd. You install the language pack, you run the SharePoint Technologies Wizard and you are done. Right away you can create multilingual sites easily. But the problem happens when you insall MOSS over Windows 2008 Server, while Windows 2008 Server does not accept installing the MOSS 2008 unless it is loaded with SP1, it is also obvious that the same thing goes for the Language Pack.

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Event about Business Automation in MOSS

Afkar is planning for an event about Business Automation in the first week of January 2009. The event will feature the implementation of two major sites in Qatar: The Qatari Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft website and the Qatar Science and Technology Park (Qatar Foundation) website.

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mytrip@GITEX.2008

One of the biggest technology exhibitions in the world is GITEX. It amazes you with the technologies you see every year both on hardware and software levels. The last year 2007 was a big failure for many reasons, but this year it was much better. Still I think it did not really recover from the “2007 disastrous fail”, but there were fair ups against downs in it.

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