We are starting with more labs today. (not sure I can do it as for some reason I ordered decaf coffee)

Creating Controlled Documents

Note-Never Change anything on a built-in content type. Microsoft may make modifications to these via service packs and or other updates. Plus its just a bad idea.

Note- Do not modify or remove metadata columns that are associated with built-in content types. Its BAAAAD.

Note to self. Investigate “Labels” with regards to Information polices and content types. Looks like some neat stuff in there.

TIP. First create your lists and libraries without spaces in them such as “Documentsofstuff” then go to the lists and library settings and upadate the name “Documents of stuff” this will allow you to create the libraries and lists without all that %20 stuff

When creating a new Site Collection one of the best to use is the Collaboration Portal.

Limitation: You can only have 1 pages library per site. (I wonder why this is?)

Ahh the survey. I have done a lot of these. And I must say that I am relatively impressed with it. Especially with the branching logic.

http://office.microsfot.com/en-us/sharepointserver/ha102090651033.aspx

Wepart Zones;

I did not realize that zones really did anything. But I guess I never thought about the whole not displaying content to some audiences. So something has to adjust the web parts to take up the slack. Good points.

I also did not realize how you can set so many different zone setting you can change. You can setup different permissions for each zone. Allowing some people to not be able to change web parts in that zone.

CQWP

Content Query Web Part. Lots of people here kind of high on it. I guess I am one of the few who had issues with it and ended up not using it. Am I the only one?

Warning: With the CQWP if you have it doing all subsites for the Query. And you have a lot of those sites. It will delay the display of the entire page while it waits for the CQWP to finish its query. This can be a big problem.

LOTS of Labs today. I won’t walk you through the details. Needless to say I had to apply a great deal of what I was learning the last few days.

Then of course I got to get up and talk all about K2 and built a process from scratch, on the fly. I just wish I had a faster machine, because things were going SLOW!

That’s all for today.