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Issue to be aware of upgrading Windows Server 2008 to R2 with MOSS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962216/EN-US First you get a message telling you to look for KB article 962935, which canot be found. One MS employee on the forum (who is really very helpful) suggested it may not ready for public release yet. If you are...
Posted: Sun, Sep 6 2009 16:40 by gary | with no comments
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In defense of the MVP program
Some of you may have read Joel's recent blog posting regarding the MVP program in general, and it appears, the SharePoint MVP program specifically. While some of the point raised may be valid I do not think they tell the entire story. I am not sure...
Posted: Tue, May 5 2009 11:19 by gary | with no comments
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Best SharePoint site ever!!!
Well, maybe not the best technically....or graphically, but you have got to love the subject matter! http://www.ferrari.com/Pages/Country_selector.aspx
Posted: Mon, Mar 30 2009 7:38 by gary | with no comments
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Make sure to check out the Microsoft Incentives web site
Kind of like sales on Microsoft licenses: http://www.microsoftincentives.com/ For a limited time only! 15% off L&SA - Exchange Server Standard, Office Communication Server Standard, SQL Server Standard, Office SharePoint Server , Visual Studio Team...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13 2009 13:24 by gary | with no comments
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Great news in the world of Business Intelligence and SharePoint
"PerformancePoint scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL and available to customers who are on SharePoint SA. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do so today at no...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23 2009 14:02 by gary | with no comments
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Limiting who can create a MySite
I have had a few customers ask how they can control who can create a MySite, whether it was just for a trial run, to try to control hard drive usage, or for other reasons. In any case here is how you can do it Open the "Central Administration"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 20 2009 9:48 by gary | with no comments
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New video describing workflows for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008
Explains some of the enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. Can you say debugging? =) Also some talk about a new power tool that can take a SPD workflow and pull it into Visual Studio!!!! http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/archive/2008/01/17/sharepoint-workflow...
Posted: Fri, Jan 18 2008 6:00 by gary | with no comments
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Microsoft to acquire Fast Search and Transfer
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/08/Microsoft-bids-for-Fast-Search-and-Transfer_1.html "By integrating Fast Search's products with SharePoint, and drawing on its worldwide network of partners, Microsoft hopes to bring Fast Search's...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8 2008 7:59 by gary | with no comments
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Required fields and linking to other lists
Had an interesting problem come up at work the other day. I had written some custom code that reads from ListA (which has 3 required fields one of which is a lookup into ListB) and outputs them. Every so often the web part would come back saying that...
Posted: Sat, Dec 29 2007 9:18 by gary | with no comments
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Hope to see you at the MS Office SharePoint Conference in March
I just got the confirmation from my company ( MicroLink) that I will be attending the conference in March. If you are not familiar with it, check out the the confernece's homepage . We are also an exhibitor so I will be spending a lot of time in our...
Posted: Fri, Dec 28 2007 7:28 by gary | with no comments
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Create a web part to show sites and sub-sites
Saw a newgroup question the other day about how to do this in SharePoint 2007. While the solution posted works quite well here is some code that I wrote that should accomplish what the user needs. This will either start at the root of your site collection...
Posted: Fri, Dec 28 2007 7:20 by gary | with 1 comment(s)
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Process appears hung when deploying/retracting solutions
I have noticed from time to time that when I deploy solutions (using the Central Administrations, Operations, Solution Management) the Status field is stopped on either "Deploying" or "Retracting" for quite a long time. While normally...
Posted: Thu, Dec 27 2007 7:47 by gary | with no comments
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SharePoint is taking over the world!
Well, maybe not the entire world, but at least according to this Network world article it is becoming the de-facto collaboration platform! http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2007/1217msg1.html
Posted: Mon, Dec 24 2007 13:41 by gary | with no comments
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Capacity planning beta and hardware recommendations
The SharePoint team blog has posted a great entry about the beta of the SharePoint capacity planning program as well as information about hardware recommendations. Basically you will need 64bit machines for the future versions of SharePoint. Not really...
Posted: Tue, Dec 18 2007 9:01 by gary | with no comments
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...and now that SharePoint SP1 has been released the SDKs have been updated
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/11/SharePointSDKsLiveForSP1.aspx
Posted: Thu, Dec 13 2007 7:29 by gary | with no comments
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MOSS SP1 now available
This update applies to the following programs: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Forms Server 2007 Microsoft® Office Groove® Server 2007, 64-Bit Edition http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...
Posted: Tue, Dec 11 2007 12:31 by gary | with no comments
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Information Rights Management in MOSS
Based on the number of questions I see in the newsgroups and forums regarding Information Rights Management (IRM) I figure a quick overview post is in order. Most people know that IRM allows you to setup rules that determines how long a document is considered...
Posted: Wed, Nov 14 2007 7:55 by gary | with no comments
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SharePointPedia now live!
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/11/05/announcing-sharepointpedia-community-driven-content-recommendations-and-requests.aspx
Posted: Mon, Nov 5 2007 10:19 by gary | with no comments
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Setting the title of the page to the site title
Not sure why by MOSS does not like to change the title of the page you are on. I would think the title would be the logical choice, which is exactly what my customer asked for. Lucky for me MOSS does output the title in a nice, easy to get to location...
Posted: Mon, Oct 1 2007 22:50 by gary | with no comments
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No default view == unable to upload documents
Ran into an interesting issue at my customer's site today. They went into "View All Site" content and saw all the lists. However wheneven they clicked on one of the lists they would be taken directly into the list's settings and clicking...
Posted: Fri, Sep 21 2007 10:42 by gary | with no comments
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