April 2005 - Angus Logan

How Microsoft is using Virtual Server

Via virtualization.info Quoting from Megan Davis blog : Many of you would like to know how Virtual Server is being used at Microsoft. Here's a response from Jeff Woolsey, Lead Program Manager for virtualization. Thanks Jeff! Virtual Server is being used...

Published Fri, Apr 29 2005 12:06 PM by anguslogan

LCS 2005 Service Pack 1 Released

Get it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3508860C-2616-4B5A-BA00-353BE599A7B1&displaylang=en Live Communications Server 2005 Service Pack 1 for Standard and Enterprise Editions Microsoft Office Live Communications Server...

Published Fri, Apr 29 2005 5:45 AM by anguslogan

Team Foundation Installation Guide - v1.0.50428

Via Rob Caron I just posted a new version (1.0.50428) of the Team Foundation Installation Guide for Beta 2. This version supersedes the version you’ll see on the Team Foundation Server DVD/CD. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2005 2:48 AM by anguslogan

The BizTalk Wiki

Via Mike Gunderloy The BizTalk Wiki - A new site for resources of all types on BizTalk, hosted by PluralSight.

Published Tue, Apr 26 2005 10:09 PM by anguslogan

Australian Webcast Recording Available

The webcast I presented on for CMS.RAPID is now available. But firstly I must say: SORRY! For the nasty audio quality. For some reason the conference call didn’t mute everyone except the presenter (or the incoming/outgoing participant announcements...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2005 10:04 PM by anguslogan

New KB Articles At Microsoft 25 Apr 2005 on KBAlertz.com

Via KBAlertz.com IMPORTANT -- Please Read This !!! (April 25, 2005) This last weekend was a great weekend for KBAlertz.com. We discovered a plethora of Microsoft KB Articles, that KBAlertz had never received before. After a little digging we figured out...

Published Sun, Apr 24 2005 8:24 PM by anguslogan

Enhanced authorization module for MCMS

Via GotDotNet: Samples The CmsAuthorizationModule shipped with MCMS does not work properly when using a MCMS posting as login page. This module can be used as replacement for the out-of-the-box control and solves this problem. Get it Here

Published Sun, Apr 24 2005 1:42 AM by anguslogan

SharePoint/BPM - K2.net Selected as #1 Product for Our Project

Via SPS, WSS and BPM - Bob Mixon's Blog It has been almost two weeks since I have posted in my blog; how time flies. I returned from the DCI Portals, Collaboration and Content Management Conference in Phoenix with a fresh look at where this industry was...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2005 2:50 AM by anguslogan

Service Pack 2 of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Released

I just got this email from Beta Mail announcing the release of SQL 20000 Reporting Services SP 2. --- Hi Everyone, The Reporting Services team has just released Service Pack 2 of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services! The service pack is available for download...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2005 12:24 AM by anguslogan

Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server

Gotta get a blogging shirt!

Check them out here . Its a shirt about blogging not a shirt to wear blogging (thats if you wear clothes when blogging)

Published Tue, Apr 19 2005 11:35 PM by anguslogan

RAPID:Workflow

Via Mark Harrison Yesterday we hosted the UK RAPID partner community meeting and had some great discussions on both the current version and future developments. Great to get some demos of early developments of RAPID Membership and SharePoint integration...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2005 11:38 AM by anguslogan

WOW - Cameron Reilly gets some serious media coverage - "This man wants to kill your radio"

Cameron Reilly of The Podcast Network (TPN) has just gotten some serious airplay (misquoted and all!) They are doing extremely well, I think they had something like 60,000 podcast downloads in 1 month ( that may not be the latest stats ). Go Hard! Via...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 12:09 PM by anguslogan

So much Visual Studio.NET 2005 Beta 2 Goodness!

Love it! – Downloadable from MSDN subscriber downloads - http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions ---- Visual SourceSafe 2005 Beta 2 (English) Date Posted 4/12/2005 10:34:00 AM File en_vss_2005_beta2.iso, ISO-9660 CD Image Size 172.97 MB Visual Studio...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 4:49 AM by anguslogan

SPS 2003 Search Web Service Tester : a new query tool

Don’t you just love writing SPS queries in Notepad? No – check out the tool below. Anyway – there is so much great stuff coming out of the SPS/WSS community lately. It’s very exciting! --- After the SharePoint Query Builder Tool...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2005 10:12 AM by anguslogan

Why I'm falling in love with BizTalk

Via Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard The top 5 reasons why I'm falling in love with BizTalk: BizTalk == XML messaging. BizTalk is the only shipping Microsoft technology that is truly built on an XML messaging foundation through and through. Even its...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2005 10:00 AM by anguslogan

MCMS Site Deployment via DB restore - Tips & 404 errors when importing Large SDO's

Cool – Dave’s second post! He didn't mention what was causing the 404's on large imports It was URLScan 's rules blocking large requests from making their way to the MCMS server. This was found by checking the URLScan log file (that isn't...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2005 9:48 AM by anguslogan

MCMS 2002 SDK major update

Cool – new MCMS SDK is out. Wouldn’t it be cool if they released a new demo! ( Arpan if your listening – new demos please – I’ll even build them for you :) ) Via Mark Harrison The MCMS 2002 SDK has undergone a major update...

Published Wed, Apr 13 2005 9:20 AM by anguslogan

Christopher Walker (Microsoft Consulting Services Australia) is blogging!

Christopher is a guru! He knows lots and lots about SharePoin/WSS, BizTalk, .NET, MCMS and is an all round top bloke! Check out his blog – below is the first post :) Via cjwalker's WebLog Have you tried to create a new Custom List then wanted to...

Published Wed, Apr 13 2005 9:17 AM by anguslogan

r.a.d.editor 5 released

Can’t wait for the MCMS version to come out! Via telerik product updates New Features: New Features: Dockable and Floating toolbars Multilevel Undo/Redo with Word-like action trails Multiple Editors with a single toolbar at the top of the page Context...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2005 8:43 PM by anguslogan

SharePoint Backup & Recovery Test Plan

Written by Joe Schurman (SPS MVP) TOC is: Introduction .. 3 Purpose of this Document 3 Context 3 Test Objectives . 4 Test Strategy . 5 Approach .. 5 Responsibilities . 5 Schedule . 6 Test Environment 6 Hardware Environment 6 Software Environment 6 Test...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2005 8:09 AM by anguslogan