Furuknap's SharePoint Corner

I get this question a lot: Are you using out-of-the-box features in SharePoint? The answer is always the same: No. And then the client cries out in pain. Before you cry out, however, let me instead explain to you why the term out-of-the-box makes no sense in a SharePoint context. In a traditional software setting, [...]

Features are cheap! Features are good for you! Use features whenever you can! As SharePoint developers, we hear this mantra all the time and of course, we create tons of features. This is a good thing, as it affords you control and functionality isolation. In USP Journal Issue 8, I teach a method that relies [...]

Somehow, there always seems to be a struggle between developers and administrators. When creating a new project, the developers focus on creating great new features that the administrators hate because developers never think about how the damn thing works in real life. Developers are always the first on the field of battle. They need to [...]