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Shortcut URLs in MOSS 2007

Link to Heather Solomon's MOSS URL matrix I am a newbie in SharePoint. As what I've discovered so fat the product may be good for intranet use for medium and large organizations with out of box features, to facilitate cooperation between employees. The internet site developers, however, will immediately facing branding issue which requires master pages, page layouts, CSS, images, almost all Web Parts to be rewritten to fit "in-house" styles. C# programming is essential. Not to mention the development have to be carried on windows server family. The speed of virtual machine, compilation, deployment of features, testing loop will drive you mad. It's not impossible to re-branding, just even a medium organization won't have so much resources to feed the black hole. When I'm working on SharePoint, I couldn't stop thinking about alternative approaches... yes, Drupal, django, pure ASP.NET, even the good old LAMP. What if I could work on things like the op

Force to delete SharePoint items

“This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages” When you see this message when you are trying to delete MasterPage or Page Layout, use SharePoint Designer to create a new folder and move the locked item to it and then delete the folder in whole. It's the simplest work around to "unlock" the bizarre dead lock.