SSWUpdate - Does your SharePoint site have favicon?
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A Favicon is a small image file included on nearly all professional developed SharePoint sites. The Favicon reflects the look and feel of the SharePoint site or the organizations logo.

Good Example
Figure: Good Example - Using the favicon gives your SharePoint site a very professional look and feel.

Internet Explorer ("IE") 5.0 and above has a function that, if someone bookmarks the page, it will look for favicon.ico from the directory of the web page, if not found it will look for it from the root directory of the SharePoint site. Otherwise it will use the default Icon.

To implement the favicon:

  1. Copy your company's .ico icon to the root of the site and rename it to favicon.ico
  2. Add the yellow code between the <HEAD> tags in your MasterPage.master (or regular HTML/ASPX page)

Note: If you put the icon with the default file name of favicon.ico in the root directory of your domain, you don't need to add the following code. Because each time your Web page is added to a user's favorites, Internet Explorer automatically searches for this file from the root directory and places the icon next to all the favorites and quick links originating from your site.

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Then see real world examples of:

  • Using SharePoint 2007 and Office 2007 together
  • Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like CRM 4 and TFS
  • Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then followed by
  • Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with SharePoint to improve visibility/searchability/versioning across the company
  • Overview of how data can be synchronised between the two (eg using Access and Excel)
  • Overview of what 'workflow' (really!) means
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  • Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be developed
  • Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations (eg the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Office Connector)

The session will be informal so there's plenty of opportunities for asking questions. This is a good chance for you to consider new ways of using Office in your company, along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this session because too often companies limit Office to just an email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business process.

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