February 2005 - Angus Logan

New eForms blog by the guys @ UniqueWorld (aka authors of InfoView)

Cool – company spam – but its interesting anyway. --- A new blog has arrived! http://eforms.blogs.com Christophe Dumonet General Manager Unique World Software

Published Mon, Feb 28 2005 11:35 AM by anguslogan

Coveo Enterprise Search for Microsoft SharePoint?

Via Mart Muller's Yesterday, Coveo published a press release introducing Coveo Enterprise Search for Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Technologies . Customers recognized and requested the enhancements that CES can offer for the SPT user, including: Intelligent...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2005 9:37 AM by anguslogan

Rumors about CMS and SPS merging

Great article … wonder if it’s true :) Via JOPX Rumors on CMS and SPS merging on CRN : The company is moving toward converging SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) and Content Management Server (CMS) functionality into a single "server system,...

Published Sun, Feb 27 2005 10:25 AM by anguslogan

Microsoft CRM Framework

Cool – some guys are investigating frameworks for working with MS CRM – check it out on GotDotNet: Workspaces Working with MSCRM isn’t mega hard, but it isn’t very simple either – hopefully this will help!

Published Sat, Feb 26 2005 8:04 AM by anguslogan

IBF 1.5 Resource Kit

Via Patrick Tisseghem's Almost missed this one :-). The resource kit is a must for anyone going for IBF. The Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.5 Resource Kit includes tools, documentation, and sample solutions. The Resource Kit is a useful...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2005 6:19 AM by anguslogan

Code to easily create zip files on the fly

Via Darren Neimke The other day I posted about a free .NET library for creating zip files on the fly: http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke/archive/2005/02/23/378781.aspx Here's a little method that I wrote which wraps the functionality of the ICSharpCode library...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2005 9:11 AM by anguslogan

Getting around the lack of 'map channel'

Via Kevin Davis on the microsoft.public.cmserver.general newsgroup --- Greetings, I encountered the nasty shortcoming of there being no "Map Channel Names to Host Headers" option in the Standard Edition of CMS. To work around this, I found ISAPI_REWRITE...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2005 8:43 AM by anguslogan

Filed under: Content Management Server

MCMS Sample Code: Template Switch

Via GotDotNet: Samples Switch out templates for a posting ( by creating a new posting then copying data - it expires the old posting ) Check it out here

Published Wed, Feb 23 2005 8:31 AM by anguslogan

Is there some geek action after the Security Summit in Brisbane tomorrow?

Email me if there is :)

Published Tue, Feb 22 2005 10:20 AM by anguslogan

Wicked SharePoint Advanced Search Tools by Matthew Cosier

Bring it on! --- Via Matt Cosier I think it is about time I let you guys know about what I am currently working on, and how it can solve some of your current Sharepoint Portal Server advanced search problems/issues. Introducing my SPS Advanced Search...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2005 10:19 AM by anguslogan

MCMS WAE v2.0 Released

Cool – IT HIT’s WAE 2.0 is released. And the guys @ IT HIT are cool as well! --- Hi Angus, We have just released the final version of Web Author Enhancement v2.0 Please fill free to contact me any time. Regards, Vladimir

Published Tue, Feb 22 2005 10:15 AM by anguslogan

Who said linux dosen't get hacked/virused?

Nice ASCII Art (???) (I changed the url)

Published Mon, Feb 21 2005 3:03 PM by anguslogan

Greg Low joins Readify in Australia

Cool – Greg is joining Readify . They employ a ton of MS MVPs & a bunch of smart guys – I wonder if they just go through the MVP list on mvp.support.microsoft.com and shoot out a “ Come work for us ” email… Via Greg...

Published Sat, Feb 19 2005 5:10 AM by anguslogan

Community Server 1.0 Released!

Via Robert McLaws Rob , Scott , and team have FINALLY released CommunityServer 1.0 . Great job, guys! As Jayson Knight mentioned, I'm wrapping up a .Text -> CS conversion wizard. Should be finished soon, I'm having to deal with some limitations of...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2005 9:35 AM by anguslogan

Either technorati has a glitch or my profile has been hijacked… WEIRD!

Cat-tales & mewstings?

Published Fri, Feb 18 2005 6:12 AM by anguslogan

Another cool Microsoft CRM blog

MS CRM UK Reseller - check it out.

Published Fri, Feb 18 2005 6:08 AM by anguslogan

Filed under: CRM

Some useful Sharepoint webparts

Via Mart Muller's Sharepoint Weblog ..which can be downloaded at Teamcenter Community. http://www.ugs.ch/evis5/pub/ps/cs/wss/default.aspx Poll Used the Microsoft RateThisPage web part as a base to create a Poll web part. RateThisPage I have become cumbersome...

Published Wed, Feb 16 2005 9:22 AM by anguslogan