sharepointduffbert.com

What It Is

SharePoint Duffbert is a personal technical blog hosted on WordPress.com. Its author, Thomas Duff, writes from the perspective of “writing things down so I don’t forget,” documenting hands-on experience with SharePoint, InfoPath, OneNote, SSRS, and other collaboration software environments. It is not a commercial SaaS product, course platform, or official documentation site; it is closer to a knowledge notebook for internal enterprise SharePoint administration and support work.

Core Features

The site mainly consists of troubleshooting-oriented posts. Examples include issues such as “SOAP message cannot be parsed” when publishing InfoPath forms, SharePoint Wiki Content rendering failures, workflows failing to update items, fixes for a list’s AllowDeletion flag, and naming rules for Wiki Library home pages. Posts typically describe the problem context, the investigation process, and the final workaround. Some also include PowerShell snippets or configuration paths, making them useful for quickly comparing symptoms when you run into the same error.

Pricing

The crawled pages do not show any paid subscription, membership, consulting package, or course sales. The content is publicly readable and functions as a free technical blog. The site’s basic features come from WordPress.com, including comments, RSS, subscriptions, and Reader viewing.

Pros and Cons

The main strengths are that the cases are real and the writing is straightforward. Many issues come from enterprise production environments, making the blog especially useful for teams still maintaining SharePoint 2010 or InfoPath 2010. Compared with official documentation, it is more focused on “I ran into this pitfall, and this is how I solved it.” The downsides are also clear: many posts are quite old and revolve around legacy technology stacks that have become less mainstream; the knowledge is not organized systematically, so you need to rely on search or archives; and the author explicitly notes that this is not his primary support channel, so expectations for interaction and ongoing maintenance should be modest.

Who It’s For

It is suitable for SharePoint administrators, internal enterprise collaboration platform support staff, low-code/business developers, and teams that still need to maintain legacy SharePoint/InfoPath systems. It is not suitable as a structured beginner course for Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, or Power Platform.

Access from China

Because the site relies on WordPress.com, access from mainland China may be unstable, slow, or affected by partially blocked resources. It is best treated as “partially restricted.” If it cannot be opened, you can try RSS, search engine caches, or proxy network access.