Bradley M. Law

While attempting to install a trial solution for SharePoint I ran into an issue using stsadm where I wasn’t able to remove a solution.

A quick google search brought me to an excellent article by Alex Thissen titled “Removing malfunctioning Windows SharePoint Services solutions” details the entire process. I my case withe a new SharePoint installation the WSS Administration service had not started and isn’t started from what I can tell by default.

I am working with a government client and instituting some best practices around document management including metadata content management and site structure. The following are a few good posts that outline these topics.

SharePoint Metadata Best Practices

Determine subsites and top-level sites (site collections) in SharePoint Solution

Great way to display the common name in a SharePoint workflow rather than the domain/userid @ HERE.

Excellent tool for pulling CAML from a SharePoint site, especially the elusive GUIDs which can be used for many purposes (SRS).

http://www.codeplex.com/SPCamlViewer