Matthew Knott - Blog

Last year, we hit a huge breakthrough in work where we got Single-sign on to Google apps working through our SharePoint based Learning Platform, and began looking at ways to integrate the functionality of SharePoint and Google Apps. My first instinct was to share how we did it and how we forsee this being used in the future. 

SharePoint and Google Apps aren't naturally great bedfellows but with some development, they can be amazing. Google Apps for education provide a number of excellent services for free. Among others this includes Document storage and editing, Groups, Calendar, Chat and Email.

On Tuesday, I met with my counterparts in Neath Port Talbot council, to discuss our SharePoint portals, shared experiences, challenges and hopes.

One of the pre-requisites was to look at whether collaboration was a viable option, I think it is, but rather that inter-authority collaboration, is there a bigger picture waiting to be painted?

Today I was asked to create a design for the homepage of out authority wide SharePoint site that was radically different to what we have there at the minute.

The design was rejected so I'm posting it here incase it inspires anyone else.

I've created several mock ups of a design I'm working on that lists the contents of a SharePoint document library. The webpart is public facing and doesn't have to serve any functional purpose beyond linking to the document.

Take a look at the designs and let me know what you think.

Ever tried to use the DispEx javascript function in SharePoint to edit a codument, but it causes a page refresh after? Here's how to stop the nonsense!

If you don't want to put passwords into your web.config for the proxy, you can do so programatically and beat error 407 in SharePoint. Here's how.