Category Archives: Microsoft

Things We Have Learned About SharePoint

We heard back from a number of users on campus who tried out SharePoint after reading our initial announcement about it back in April.
Here are some important things we have learned:
1.) Staff members seemed to like the idea of being able to set up a team site in SharePoint as a place where their committee […]

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)

Stony Brook University’s Division of Information Technology recently issued its second edition of DoIT News. It is a newsletter geared towards faculty and staff that is currently being published once a semester. The big news item this spring was the announcement of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) being available on campus. For those who did […]

Displaying Full Path to file in Microsoft Office Products

Our department received a call from a user who wished to have the full path of the document they were working on displayed in the title bar of Word or Excel.
After struggling to find an answer, I turned to Google and came across several steps to achieve what the user asked for. To my dismay, […]

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 7

Here’s a helpful knowledge base post from Microsoft on uninstalling Internet Explorer 7 and restoring Internet Explorer 6. I suspect that you would only want to go back to the now dated IE 6 if your web apps are not behaving. This should probably only be attempted by those comfortable with installing and uninstalling programs.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927177