Finding the document URL in MS Office

While working with SharePoint and Office 2007 you often want to locate the URL of the document you are working with. In Office 2003/WSS 2.0 that was much easier to find. If Office 2007 they tucked it away.

Here are the steps for adding it to your Quick Access Toolbar.

1. Locate the Quick Access Toolbar
2. Click the Customize Quick Access Toolbar
3. Click More Commands
4. On the Choose Commands from:
5. Choose All Commands
6. Scroll down to find Document Location
7. Click the Add button
8. Click Ok

Now you can copy and past the document URL Location.

Managing Change Requests with Content types

Your team can manage change requests with SharePoint by Using Office templates and Content Types. First learn how to enable and use content types with SharePoint:
Here is a good article on how to do that:

http://www.bobmixon.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=44

You can then add custom workflow to the document library so that every request that get made gets routed to the PMO and Project Server administrator.

Upgrading to SP1 in a medium farm and having a snapshot restored to an earlier instance

We recently had a situation where an environment we support was upgraded to SP1. Everything went as planned. The MOSS admin VM instance then became corrupted. After investigating the log files we got a message related to the Schema being "inconsistent". This told us that the snapshot that was restored was earlier then the one that had the SP applied to it.

The simple solution was to apply the Service pack to the MOSS instance and it worked perfectly. Just apply the SP the same way you applied it the first time.