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Issue to be aware of upgrading Windows Server 2008 to R2 with MOSS

gary — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

In defense of the MVP program

gary — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:19:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Best SharePoint site ever!!!

gary — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:38:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Make sure to check out the Microsoft Incentives web site

gary — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Great news in the world of Business Intelligence and SharePoint

gary — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:02:00 GMT

"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...(read more)

Limiting who can create a MySite

gary — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:48:00 GMT

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"...(read more)

New video describing workflows for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008

gary — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft to acquire Fast Search and Transfer

gary — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Required fields and linking to other lists

gary — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:18:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Hope to see you at the MS Office SharePoint Conference in March

gary — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Create a web part to show sites and sub-sites

gary — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:20:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Process appears hung when deploying/retracting solutions

gary — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint is taking over the world!

gary — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:41:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Capacity planning beta and hardware recommendations

gary — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

...and now that SharePoint SP1 has been released the SDKs have been updated

gary — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:29:00 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/11/SharePointSDKsLiveForSP1.aspx...(read more)

MOSS SP1 now available

gary — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Information Rights Management in MOSS

gary — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePointPedia now live!

gary — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:19:00 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/11/05/announcing-sharepointpedia-community-driven-content-recommendations-and-requests.aspx...(read more)

Setting the title of the page to the site title

gary — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

No default view == unable to upload documents

gary — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:42:00 GMT

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...(read more)