Angus Logan

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Validating Sharepoint filenames on upload
This is Crazy! I was just talking with Joseph Mortimer @ Data#3 about building an application to clean file names before uploading to SharePoint. Funny! Via Mads Some characters are legal for FAT or NTFS files but illegal for files in Sharepoint documentlibraries...
reating a Site Definition from an Existing Site Definition (Custom Templates)
Via Alex's Blog about SharePoint I got a lot of questions of colleages regarding custom templates. Custom templates in SharePoint are...
CMSVNext and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - another braindump and a stroll through some blogs...
Via JOPX One of the pillars of Microsoft's new ECM (Enterprise Content Management Offering) is web content management, previously Microsoft had its own server product for it, Microsoft Content Management Server . At PDC05, Microsoft finally revealed some...
A look at SharePoint Version 3 Features
Via Heather Via Dustin : UI / UX WSS will have an entirely new user interface that includes better navigation controls and built-in breadcrumb trails. Pages will derive from “master pages“, meaning that you could re-skin an entire SharePoint...
SharePoint vNext has security trimming (ie. context based display)
So if you don't have the rights to delete a document you won't be able to see the delete link/action.
SharePoint vNext will ship with XSD's
WOW! - There will be XSD's to validate all the XML documents - YAY In Visual Studio 2005 you get some killer intellisense from the XSD's so editing the monster XML files shouldn't be too much of a drama anymore :)
SharePoint vNext has a built in scheduler
You Can use the SPSchedule object to setup some process to execute at a specified interval. YAY! - Say good bye to scheduled *.vbs files or windows services.
SharePoint v3 to support ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts
When v3 aka vNext ships you will be able to build your ASP.NET web parts and automagically use them.
WSS SP2 - shipping by end of month
Don't know if its true or not but it was in a PDC presentation... it must be true :) Bring on the .NET 2.0 webparts using Son of SmartPart which is being built in Jan of U2U.
Office 12 brain dump from the Keynote
Office Keynote Enterprise content management (all content in your organization) Server Investments Collab. Portal Search Content Management Forms with Workflow BI MCMS We will be seeing a "new content management server" which will be built on the foundation...
SyncToy 1.0 Released and you can use it with SharePoint
John Hodgson mentioned this in his TechEd Presentation - and you can use this to sync file system folders with SharePoint web folders Via Crig Pringle James Kendrick writes that SyncToy 1.0 has been released. New features( since beta) include: The ability...
Announcing the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit
Via Ryan Rogers The SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery kit – a set of 6 hands-on lab documents – just went live on Microsoft.com at the following location: SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit http://www...
SharePoint Portal Server Discovery Kit
Via Arpan Shah One of the pieces of feedback that I have received from partners and customers is that they don't immediately understand the value that SharePoint Portal Server provides over Windows SharePoint Services. We have several whitepapers that...
Announcing The SharePoint Template Project
Via Greg Hughes Bil Simser has taken the lead in creating a place for the community to create and share SharePoint templates . This is terrific - one of the more difficult things about getting people using SharePoint has always been the lack of templates...
Fixing InfoPath Forms in Application Templates
Via Bill Simser With the recent release of the 30 or so (have to be careful as the number seems to change everytime you look at it) WSS site templates that Microsoft has provided us, some people are scratching their heads wondering why these OOTB solutions...
Canberra SharePoint Community & any interest in a Microsoft Portals User Group in Brisbane?
I want to get something like this happening for Microsoft Portals (SPT/MCMS) in Brisbane... Who would be interested in it? We have quite a few Govt agencies running SharePoint Products & Technologies or Microsoft Content Management Server ... so Who is...
Wierd WSS Behaviour - Creating from Template as exceeding quota causes images to be dropped.
I was playing with all the new templates and I managed to max out the personal site quota (100mb by default). So the site was created with no images - very wierd - I've never seen that before. I had to increase the quota and then delete the site and recreat...
SPS/WSS password management
This solution should even make Spencer Harbar happy after his last rant about changing passwords without using IISADMPWD [Via Mart Muller's Sharepoint Weblog ] A very usefull tip by Maxim about how to provide self-serviced password management for SharePoint...
Mark Bower : Just how important is SharePoint to Microsoft?
[Via Erol ] Mark Bower : Just how important is SharePoint to Microsoft?: "In this morning's keynote session Steven Sinofsky told how BillG has personally taken the role of Lead PM on the Windows SharePoint Services v3 User Experience team . If you are...
Using iWay adapters for BizTalk to enable SharePoint integration
[Via Mart Muller's Sharepoint Weblog ] A whilo ago we’ve been doing a Proof of Concept for getting PeopleSoft data into SharePoint and back. In our case, we needed to get the data out of and old version of PeopleSoft, which was quite...
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