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SharePoint Präsentationen auf Slideshare

Michael Greth — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:55:53 GMT

Zwei interessante Präsentationen zum Thema “Email und SharePoint” und “Anpassung und Design von SharePoint” von Kathy Hughes habe ich auf Slideshrae gefungen: Emailing MOSS View more presentations from Kathy Hughes. Blooming SharePoint Design View more presentations from Kathy Hughes. Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePoint 2007, SharePointCommunity, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, Michael Greth, Office 2010

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SharePoint und Barrierefreiheit

Michael Greth — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:12:00 GMT

ContentandCode hat bei der Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) ein Portal mit einem hohen Grad an barrierefreiem Zugang umgesetzt und dazu ein Video online gestellt. (Please visit the site to view this media) Die Website dazu gibt es hier Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePoint 2007, SharePointCommunity, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, Michael Greth, Office 2010

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SPPD126 SharePointPodcast

Michael Greth — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:02:00 GMT

Direkter Download: SPPD-126-2009-09-28 (Please visit the site to view this media) Veranstaltungen Call For Papers ppedv SharePoint konferenz 24.+25.2.2010 SharePointUserGroups QuestConnect 2009 TechEd 2009 in Berlin iX SharePoint Day Thema Aktuell DMS EXPO 2009 in Köln Nachlese Interview mit Patrick Püntener von itsystems ShareConnect Vorträge Interview mit Rainer Ganser und Chris Müller Buchtipp: Erfolgreiche Portalprojekte mit Microsoft SharePoint: Praxishandbuch für die erfolgreiche Steuerung von SharePoint-Projekten von Reiner Ganser und Christoph Müller Tipps Entwicklung+ Design Fantastic 40 Demos auf MSDN CodeClips Fragen und Antworten zur Vorlage Websiteverzeichnis (Site Directory) Tools Woodys Free SharePoint Twitter Integration Components Dies und Das SharePoint is nice nice baby Webparts von Bamboosolutions (Please visit the site to view this media) Technorati:...

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SharePoint – Meeting Workspace Scenarios

Sean Wallbridge — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:59:00 GMT

I've been asked to put together some SharePoint 'Meeting Initiation' scenarios, so here they are, presented as 'business requirements' and the techniques necessary to get rolling. Once you have created a meeting workspace, keep in mind that they are full, SharePoint sites that you can tune, custom ... (More)

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Comparing myself to Uncle Bob Martin

Andrew Woodward — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:00:38 GMT

Before last week, I attended Roy Osherove’s TDD Masterclass, I do not think I would have had the “you know what’s” to be able to put up an alternative solution to one of Uncle Bobs (aka Robert Martin) examples of doing Test Driven Development, but here I am publishing the the solution I arrived at and suggesting that my solution better servers the values of Readability, Maintainability and trustworthiness. In Uncle Bobs defence his post is dated Apr 2006 and the art of Test Driven Development has moved on leaps and bounds in the past few years. The Problem Write a class named “PrimeFactors” that has one static method: generate. The generate method takes an integer argument and returns a List<Integer>. That list contains the prime factors in numerical sequence. To see the details and how it was previously solved. My Solution Although the original is coded in Java and mine in C#, there is enough similarities for you to be able to...

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Daily TDD Kata - now I’m doing what Jack does

Andrew Woodward — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:40:12 GMT

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Roy Osherove’s Test Driven Development Masterclass, I will post in a few days more on this but can say this is one of the best training courses I have ever attended. During the course I got to learn about the Kata technique, something I had heard about but had never investigated. Kata is a Japanese word describing detailed choreographed patterns of movements practiced either solo or in pairs. most commonly known for the presence in the martial arts. The theory is that if you practice a common technique regularly (every day) over time the actions will become natural and automatic, you will have muscle memory. During the course Roy introduced the idea of coding a reasonably detailed solution, using all of the good TDD practices (Red, Green, Refactor), every day so that the techniques used become second nature, the act of coding something using TDD is natural. Over the course of the week the class went from being unable to code half...

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ShareConnect 2009 in Mainz Nachlese

Michael Greth — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:56:00 GMT

Montag bis Mittwoch letzter Woche war ich auf der ShareConnect in Mainz und habe u.a. dort zwei Vorträge gehalten, dazu gibt es hier die Präsentationsfolien Session SharePoint und Enterprise 2.0 Session NoCode Lösungen mit SharePoint Designer Fabian hat seine Präsentationen auch schon online gestellt Alles in allem fand ich die Veranstaltung recht gelungen, auch wenn der SharePoint-Teil in der Basta vergleichsweise klein ist – aber das kommt noch :-). Es war wie immer super, viele bekannte Gesichter zu sehen und auch neue Kontakte auf der Konferenz zu knüpfen. Ich bin jetzt Besitzer eines intelliBOOKs, der digitalen Variante der dot.NET Magazins und mehr. Ein Netbook mit eine AIR-Applikation, die den Zugriff auf das Online Archives des dot.NET Magazins ermöglicht. Und wie mir Masoud Kamali, CEO von S&S Media, saget, ist damit noch viel mehr geplant. Sicher ein spannendes Konzept. Wer mehr dazu lesen möchte dem empfehle ich den...

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Renaming Server core

Daniel Brown — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:06:08 GMT

Body: With my use of Server core as domain controllers in all my SharePoint environments (Various demo, development, test, hosted, etc), I get pretty sick of the lengthy way I used to rename freshly installed Windows Server 2008 Core Servers. You see, when you install Server Core, it gives you same default generated computer name and it is pretty much the first task I want to perform with a new installation. But How? The traditional process I used was to type “hostname” into the cmd window, copy and then type out the netdom line and paste the hostname into it. Well that was the process I used up until tonight when I finally got sick of it! Instead I have developed a scripted way to do this instead using environment variables and promoting you for a name, here is the batch file: Computer name as an Argument (RenameServerCLI.cmd NEWSERVERNAME01) @echo off IF "%1" == "" GOTO Error netdom renamecomputer %COMPUTERNAME% /newname:%1 goto Exit :Error echo...

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If you are using SharePoint 2007 + Windows 7 and getting SLOW transfer rates within document libraries…

shane — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:36:02 GMT

If you are using windows 7 and moss 2007 you may find things get REALLY SLOW while moving files in document libraries. This rather obscure fix worked for me, maybe it will help you as well. I spent some time today doing some work on a site whereby I needed to add a large amount of images to the style library of a SharePoint Site Collection. To speed up the process of course I would select the Open with Windows Explorer option so I could just paste the required files in with ease. Instantly I would notice a significant freeze and then subsequently extremely low speeds when uploading. Since this was my first time experiencing this, I immediately tried a different server to see if the problem had to do with network settings on the server. I experienced the same thing on multiple servers. We then tried to replicate on other desktops and it turned out everything was fine on Vista running IE7 or IE8 connecting to the same document libraries. Finally in the end, a little searching...

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SharePoint Shop Talk Recap (09/24/09 edition)

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:23:04 GMT

We finished our 8th SharePoint Shop Talk open Q&A session yesterday. During that session, we covered the following topics: How to send out a highly formatted email from a workflow created using SharePoint Designer. Check out this link for a treasure trove of great SPD info and email: http://tinyurl.com/cssworkflow Where to find information on the differences between SharePoint 2010 and especially Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (the free version of SharePoint). We discussed jQuery maintenance and management. More specifically, “where should the jQuery go?” We had a great discussion around this topic and one interesting new ideas (to me) is the idea of a content delivery network. This bing search pulls up a lot of interesting data on the subject: http://www.bing.com/search?q=microsoft+content+delivery+network&FORM=DLSDF7&pc=MDDS&src=IE-SearchBox Special mention to Jan Tielens’ CodePlex project on installing jQuery to an internal network as a feature that...

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Fantastic 40 Demos auf MSDN CodeClips

Michael Greth — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:57:16 GMT

Gerade gefunden: auf MSDN Solve CodeClip gibt es einige Videos zu den Fantastic 40 Templates (was das ist findet man ausführlich mit weiteren Tipps im Wiki) Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects Funktion, Installation, Einrichtung und Anpassung des Server Admin Templates: Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects Projektmanagement in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Teil 1 Video dazu Projektmanagement in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Teil 1 Video dazu Projektmanagement in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Teil 2 Call Center Funktionsweise, Installation, Einrichtung und Anpassung des Server Admin Templates: Call Center Call Center in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Teil 1 Video dazu Call Center in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Teil 1 Business Performance Reporting Funktion, Installation, Einrichtung und Anpassung des Server Admin Templates:...

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SharePoint Kaffeetasse 127

Michael Greth — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:24:36 GMT

Administration Configure a server farm for minimal downtime during software updates How To: Change the MOSS Site Port to Port 80 Accessing SharePoint Document Libraries via Webdav with Windows 7 Suche Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator Wildcard Search for MOSS 2007 Webcast TechNet Webcast: Projekt Gemini in SQL Server 2008 R2 ? Teil 1: Die Clientseite - Self Service BI in Excel (Level 200) Office 2010 – Office Web Apps Kostenlos und ohne Einladung Office 2010 WebApps als Test für alle Anpassung How I simplified the Users and Group UI – Intro How to Display a list of users How to Find the MembershipGroupId How to Add Users How to Remove Users Conclusion Tipps Metadata, Default Values and Required Columns Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePoint 2007, SharePointCommunity, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, Michael Greth, Office 2010

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SharePoint Saturday Melbourne Australia

Kathy Hughes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:46:00 GMT

It's happening again! This time in Melbourne, to the South of Sydney, and expected to be a huge event with the focus on 2010. When: Saturday November 14th, 2009. Where: Melbourne, City Details: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/melbourne/default.aspx The registration site has just been opened up. It's free to attend but you'll need to register to guarantee your spot. Look forward to seeing you there on the 14th to share some SharePoint (2010) goodness.

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Presentations uploaded email in MOSS and design in MOSS

Kathy Hughes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:34:00 GMT

I've uploaded the following two presentations to Slideshare: MOSS has mail! Integration, storage and management of e-mail in MOSS - http://www.slideshare.net/kathyhughes/emailing-moss This is the presentation I delivered at the Quest community event in Sydney back in July, along with Joel Oleson and others. It is a substantial slide deck - the title is self explanatory. Blooming SharePoint - http://www.slideshare.net/kathyhughes/blooming-sharepoint-design This is the presentation I delivered at the first Australian SharePoint Saturday held in Sydney back on August 8th. A couple of people recently pointed out that the presentation hadn't been uploaded to the SharePoint Saturday Sydney site so I've added it to Slideshare where it can be accessed. It covers aspects of design and consideration around design best practices in SharePoint sites.

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Announcing Office Devcon 2009 Australia

Kathy Hughes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:11:00 GMT

This year's Australian Office Devcon will be held at the Queensland University. That's right! We're changing from our regular Sydney location and heading up to the sunny North of the country. When: Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November, 2009 For details and registration please go to www.officedevcon.com.au. It's free to attend but we do ask that you register so we can organise other essentials - like food! The focus of this year's event is around both the 2010 client and 2010 server, including SharePoint Server 2010, InfoPath 2010, Visio 2010 and the rest of the 2010 Office suite of products. You'll get a solid overview of the new products and how you can use them to solve everyday business requirements. You'll also get to see some of the rich integration features between the varioius products. Plus you'll get to speak to the presenters who've been heavily involved in beta testing and are keen to receive your questions. Looking forward to the event!

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InfoPath SharePoint integration videos now online

Kathy Hughes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:39:00 GMT

As mentioned, I've recorded and uploaded the InfoPath / SharePoint integration demos I did at both TechEd Australia and the Sydney Windows User Group last week. You can view them either at You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F2DC3FFE979EBF89 or at Screencast at http://www.screencast.com/t/mdkzlORRD (note, I think you'll need the TechSmith codec in order to view the videos on Screencast). The demos show various OOB tips 'n tricks including how to leverage SharePoint views in an InfoPath form, and also how to configure and switch views so that InfoPath will switch between either a browser only view or a rich client view depending on whether the user has the IP rich client installed. Also, in conjunction with the videos, check out the SharePoint views technique on the InfoPath team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/01/15/populating-form-data-from-sharepoint-list-views.aspx and also details for the configurable view startup options...

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Virtualization schmackdown post-mortem

Kathy Hughes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:56:00 GMT

Back in August, Sydney Business and Technology User Group (we / SBTUG) held a virtualization schmackdown evening at Microsoft in Sydney. We were fortunate to have representatives from VMWare, Citrix and Microsoft at the event to each represent their virtualization technologies. It was one of those 'we just had to do it' nights. We'd received a number of questions from people at our earlier SBTUG meetings, mostly around what they should/could use to virtualize their enterprise and development environments. More specifically, we received questions from peole about which product they should use and also which product/s were supported for running particular Microsoft servers. Some had heard conflicting reports that SharePoint Server 2007 was not supported if running on VMWare ESX. So the schmackdown evening was the ideal opportunity for people to come along to have those kinds of questions addressed and to also gain a better understanding of the various options around both desktop and...

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Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 2 Moving the Databases

Chandima Kulathilake — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:49:16 GMT

Body: Please read Part 1 of this post series before you continue. In this post I will highlight how to move your (32 bit) SQL Server tier to 64 bit. In the case of moving your data tier there are few prerequisites that you should consider. In this case we have the assumption that your new 64bit SQL server deployment has followed best practice guidelines for SQL server. From a SharePoint point of view you should consider the following to enable effective management of your existing content databases or any new databases you are creating. SQL Server 2008 or 2005 (64bit) are both supported when moving to SP2010. Details about preparing your database server can be found here (TechNet). This may be a good time to also plan what your SQL maintenance regime would look like for your new data tier. Start with Database maintenance guidance for SharePoint Server on TechNet. Most important though is that you should read up about Kimberly L. Tripp’s extended blog post series on these tasks...

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Column limits for SharePoint lists

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:24:08 GMT

Body: <<<WSS 2.0 / SPS 2003 ONLY>>> FYI, there are limits to the number of columns you can create in a SharePoint list. See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823555 Later C Category: SharePoint Published: 9/24/2009 1:22 PM

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Recovering files from blue screened Windows XP

jopx (noreply@blogger.com) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:15:00 GMT

Today my Windows XP showed me a very unwelcome BSOD… booting in safe mode, last known configuration, nothing helped. Unfortunately I still had some files on the machine which I definitely needed to recover – Hirens Boot CD to the rescue – amazing tool… definitely a lifesaver. Technorati Tags: windows+xp,boot+cd,recovery,microsoft

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SharePoint Shop Talk Thursday 09/24 @ 12:30 PM EDT

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:20:54 GMT

Registration is up and ready for tomorrow’s SharePoint Shop Talk at 12:30 PM. During these conference calls, a panel of experienced SharePoint pro’s take your questions via email, via live meeting or directly over the phone. We do our best to provide independent expert advice on all topics related to SharePoint. Email your questions to “questions@sharepointshoptalk.com”, twitter them to me, leave a comment here or just show up on the call and ask. We also welcome and seek insight from audience members. You can read some recaps on previous SharePoint Shop Talk sessions on my blog. This week we already know we’ll be addressing questions relating to workflow (a constant favorite) and search to name a few. Register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=dv3m7cl30sxkq2n1 </end> Subscribe to my blog. Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/pagalvin Technorati Tags: SharePoint Shop Talk

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Capacity Planning.

Stephen (noreply@blogger.com) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:04:00 GMT

Definitive article on MOSS 2007 capacity planning, well worth another look since it has been updated: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

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I'm super Xcited about Xceed Datagrid for WPF 3.5

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:48:59 GMT

Body: OK, so the title of this post is a bit of a pun on the Xceed component, but nevertheless, I'm really excited about the possibilities of this component for some of the tools I'm building. Just look at this silent demo to see for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAE8UGwHwUA I want to thank the crew over at Xceed for participating in the MVP 3rd Party Offers program. Look for my review of the Xceed component in the near future. Later C Category: Programming Published: 9/23/2009 6:52 AM

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Low impact text changing in SharePoint with jQuery

Bil Simser — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Mike Smith over at Tech Training Notes had a nice simple post a few weeks back on changing the default text displayed at the bottom of stock web parts in SharePoint. For example discussion boards show this text when it's blank: "There are no items to show in this view of the "Test" discussion board. To create a new item, click "New" above. That's great but what if the "New" link isn't avaiable (if you turn off the full toolbar and put a discussion list on a page this would happen). Or what if you don't like calling it a discussion board (for various reasons) and want to say forum. Or want to provide additional information. His solution is a little bit of JavaScript and then pushing his function into an array _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames (which is a list of scripts SharePoint will run when the page loads). Here's the original version: .csharpcode { FONT-SIZE: x-small; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR:...

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Examples of Recent Work from Trinkit

Zac Smith — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:37:00 GMT

We've been pretty busy over the last 6 months working on a variety of projects and I would like to share a few of these with you today. Some of the projects have been for clients, some for friends; a few have been big, most have been small. All of them were fun to make. Environment Canterbury Environment Canterbury is the regional council working with the people of Canterbury to manage the region's land, water and air. This site was released just a week ago and was built using SharePoint Server 2007 (of course!). Was a super fun project and we are really happy with the final result. Kinloch Golf Club The Kinloch Club was voted one of the Top 10 new golf courses in the world for 2007 by the prestigious U.S. Travel and Leisure golf magazine - making it the only course outside of North America to be included in that Top 10. This site was built using asp.net and CMS functionality was provided by Umbraco (http://umbraco.org/). New Zealand Garden Sheds New Zealands top...

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Netcast #24 - Most Fun You Can Have With Your Pants On

Todd O. Klindt — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:55:13 GMT

Body: In this episode I discuss what patch level your SharePoint farm should be at, and some free SharePoint training for your company. No animals were harmed in the filming of this netcast, honest. MP3 File (Subscribe) WMV File (Subscribe) iPod File (Subscribe) Running Time: 28:07 Links: Issues with August 2009 CU Use the June 2009 CU for now Free (as in beer) SharePoint Training As always, bandwidth for my netcast downloads is generously provided by the rock stars at RackSpace. Check them out. Next week I'll be doing viewer mail. tk Published: 9/22/2009 1:55 PM

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Netcast #23 – Special Holiday Show

Todd O. Klindt — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:52:55 GMT

Body: In this week's netcast I talk about the Admin Toolkit that really came out. I also discuss some of the public information about SharePoint 2010. Finally I cover why it always seems one leg of a card table is shorter than the rest. MP3 File (Subscribe) WMV File (Subscribe) iPod File (Subscribe) Running Time: 37:26 Links: SharePoint Admin Toolkit SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peak Bandwidth for my netcast downloads is generously provided by RackSpace. Check them out. See you next week, where my topic may very well be SharePoint Training. I'll be at the Microsoft Project Conference next week, so I may or may not be broadcasting at my regular time. tk Published: 9/22/2009 1:52 PM

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Custom Field Type: Site Reference (part 1)

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:53:15 GMT

For the last few weeks I’ve been working on a project that strongly relied on meta data. The project is all about finding the right information in a strongly fragmented collaboration environment. One of the parts of the project was publishing news messages related to specific collaboration areas. The background The project I mentioned is an Intranet environment meant to support the organization’s collaboration process. It consists of many different areas like Topics, Projects, Departments, etc. Any of these areas can contain a number of sub areas which facilitate many other items like projects, trainings, etc. Organizing the information wasn’t the only challenge. Next to being able to store the knowledge in a logical way, the customer wanted to improved the awareness of the progress of all the different projects. In order to do that the customer wanted to be able to publish news messages which would contain the updates. Every news message should be related to the specific area so...

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The New Efficiency Launch Event

Daniel Brown — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:48:24 GMT

Body: Just a quick note about www.TheNewEfficiency.com, a new online event which is taking place on September the 30th at 1:30AM Adelaide Time (GMT:+9:30). Should be some cool highlights with Windows 7, Windows Server, Exchange and various other technologies form Global Leaders, such as Ford and Intel. See you online at 1:30AM on September 30th!! Category: Event Published: 23/09/2009 12:18 AM Attachments: http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Attachments/340/image_2_69BFD2B6.png http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Attachments/340/image_thumb_69BFD2B6.png

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Windows 7 Launch Party

Daniel Brown — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:12:18 GMT

Body: Howdy all, I just registered for a Windows 7 Launch Party, I figure its a good excuse to get together and talk Windows 7 for a bit. If you are interested in attending the Windows 7 Launch Party, Click here to register your interest. More details to come as they come to hand, Im hoping to get some freebies out to attendee’s! Stay tuned or drop me an email if your interested! Category: Event Published: 22/09/2009 11:42 PM

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itgroove - Server Best Practice - If it ain't an Application Terminal Server, turn off all the damned noise!

Sean Wallbridge — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:20:06 GMT

One of the things I often do, to avoid a whole bunch of noise (and extra 'busy-ness' on my servers) is turn off the automatic connection of printers, etc. in RDP. I mean, if I'm just managing the Server via an RDP connection, do I really need COM ports, printers, default printers and other crapola t ... (More)

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SharePoint Training Hub

Sean Wallbridge — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:04:00 GMT

Microsoft has produced a SharePoint Site Collection (that you can integrate into your SharePoint site, if you have MOSS - not WSS, sorry), called the "Productivity Hub", which can help with the adoption and education of SharePoint and the other standard Microsoft Office Products (and in ... (More)

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SharePoint Event Receivers ListTemplateId Values

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Body: If, like me, you write custom event receivers against SharePoint lists on a regular basis, then you no doubt have had a run in with trying to locate the proper ListTemplateId value to use in your Elements.xml in order to properly register your new event receiver. Anyway, if you dig deep enough through the WSS 3.0 SDK, you'll find it in the "General Reference/Features and Templates/Working with Features/Feature Schemas/Event Registrations/Receivers Element" section... or you could just click here: :-P http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms431081.aspx Anyway, I'm always digging for this one, so I thought's I'd just put it out on my blog for quick future reference for anyone (including myself) looking for it! Later C Category: Programming;SharePoint Published: 9/21/2009 4:56 AM

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Setting Back Connection Host Names for SharePoint 2007 Using STSADM

noreply@blogger.com (Gary Lapointe) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:15:00 GMT

Not too long ago Microsoft introduced a security fix which addresses a possible attack vector in which malicious software tries to impersonate a local request, thereby bypassing certain constraints. The problem with this fix is that it introduces some issues for SharePoint servers, effectively resulting in 401.1 Access Denied errors. Spence Harbar does a great write-up of the fix and the options available to get your SharePoint environment working again so I won't re-hash all that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Office Devcon 09 is just around the corner!

Daniel Brown — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:23:42 GMT

Body: Website: http://www.officedevcon.com.au/ Office DevCon is an annual community-driven conference that allows Microsoft Office developers and power users to come together in one location to hear expert speakers present on a wide range of Microsoft Office-related topics. Come along and discover how to do things you never knew you could do with the Microsoft Office suite of products. What's covered? We have Microsoft and industry experts from around the world who will present advanced topics the following products. Access Word Excel PowerPoint InfoPath Groove SharePoint This year Ill see you in Brisbane as I will be attending and with a little bit of luck, presenting on some cool SharePoint things! -DB Published: 20/09/2009 2:53 PM Attachments: http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Attachments/338/image_2_1E29A958.png http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Attachments/338/image_thumb_1E29A958.png

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Patching a mirrored farm with minimal downtime

sptblog — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:01:15 GMT

For administrators of large SharePoint server farms, a newly-published article describes how to update server farms that use database mirroring, while incurring minimal perceived downtime for users. This solution is for enterprise customers who have high-availability needs and infrastructure. The article describes a step-by-step process for Office SharePoint Server farms that incorporate SQL Server mirroring. You can achieve similar results on Office SharePoint Server farms that are set up in a clustered server environment. In brief, the solution requires that you: · Disable mirroring and set the mirror databases to read-only · Route network and database traffic to the read-only databases · Apply software updates to the offline servers · Route network and database traffic to the updated servers · Apply software updates to the secondary farm · Re-enable mirroring and set the mirrored databases to read/write To read the full solution, see Configure a server farm...

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NULL SID Error (Event ID: 4625) and Application Pool Identity

Reza Alirezaei — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:46:20 GMT

Issue: Environment:A medium server farm. Identity:A brand new custom domain account with no special permissions assigned. Action : Assigning the domain account as the application pool identity when creating a new Web application. Error Message: Invalid Username or password. Point of confusion: The same credentials work like a champ when logging to a test box in the domain. I can also add the user to a SharePoint group. Event Log and ULS Log : Nope,nothing! Googling (mmmm...Binging) : No dice! Steps to find the real error: Tried a simpler password by taking out the "!" because I was aware of some issues with usual culprits -%,&,$ etc used in app pool password. Added the user to a test site and tried to login - Yup... the user can NOT login to any SharePoint sites ; so there was something wrong! DUH! Checked the Event log and that was where the following nasty little error rears its ugly head all over.This event was generated when actual logon request of the last step failed...

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Accessing SharePoint Document Libraries via Webdav with Windows 7

Amanda Murphy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:40:25 GMT

I spent some time today doing some work on a site whereby I needed to add a large amount of images to the style library of a SharePoint Site Collection. To speed up the process of course I would select the Open with Windows Explorer option so I could just paste the required files in with ease. Instantly I would notice a significant freeze and then subsequently extremely low speeds when uploading. Since this was my first time experiencing this, I immediately tried a different server to see if the problem had to do with network settings on the server. I experienced the same thing on multiple servers. We then tried to replicate on other desktops and it turned out everything was fine on Vista running IE7 or IE8 connecting to the same document libraries. Finally in the end, a little searching lead me to the forums where a user had pointed out that this issue can be resolved by going into your IE Settings and turning off Automatically Detect Settings. So if you run into extremely...

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My new favourite iPhone App

Sean Wallbridge — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:24:00 GMT

I guess it's been out a few weeks now, but tonight I was introduced to WYSE PocketCloud for the iPhone. At the moment (sale?) is it a $20 app (looks to be $30 in October) and for that price, I had to have it and try it. So, I did. And gosh darned it, it worked right away. Brilliant. Here's a quick ... (More)

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Did you know 2.0

Andrew Woodward — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:18:19 GMT

A while ago I posted a link to what I regarded as a great Power Point presentation (Shift Happens), but more importantly it was a really eye opening message. In keeping with the Shift Happens theme, this has been updated and is now on You Tube as ‘Did you know 2.0?’ Always worth showing people just to get get them to really think about the future. And a further update to this in the Did you know 4.0. They have also started a Wiki page to discuss this further http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/ - join the debate.

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Easier Silverlight Development against SharePoint

Matthew McDermott — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:55:36 GMT

I have been spending quite a bit of time lately working with Silverlight 3 and SharePoint. One of the first big shifts for me is that Silverlight Development is Client development. Silverlight runs in the browser, but it runs on the client, so no SharePoint Object Model code. You have to access all of the goodness that is SharePoint through its web services. Once you get started on your project you add a Service Reference and point at your desired SharePoint Web service. You will immediately run into the Visual Studio Warning: Could not locate cross-domain policy at 'intranet.doghousetoys.com': Web services might not be accessible at runtime by your Silverlight application. This is the desired behavior for a production Silverlight app. You don’t want a Silverlight application running on one domain calling malicious code from another domain. Yet in development that means that to run against (under, whatever) SharePoint you need to host your whole test harness inside of a...

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Planning for SharePoint 2010 - Upgrade Planning and Guidance OFC306 TechED NZ Session Notes

Chandima Kulathilake — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:29:27 GMT

Body: Here is a detailed outline of what I discussed and presented at my TechEd session on Wednesday 16th September in Auckland – New Zealand titled Planning for SharePoint 2010 - Upgrade Planning and Guidance OFC306. Thanks to all of you who came along to the session. This is a first in a series of posts and White Papers that I will publish as part of an ongoing series on planning to upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010. Needless to say that I will only cover planning aspects and will NOT be talking about any new features or functionality of SharePoint 2010. Please visit the SharePoint team blog for details of SharePoint 2010. System Requirements for SharePoint 2010 This has been common knowledge for a while and the SharePoint product team announced that SharePoint 2010 will only be available in x64 (64bit) versions. Therefore the first step is to plan to move, migrate or upgrade your SharePoint infrastructure to 64bit. SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only SharePoint Server...

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DMS EXPO 2009 Interviews Teil 2

Michael Greth — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:42:15 GMT

Wieder zurück von der DMSEXPO 2009 ist heute die Nachbearbeitung der Interviews auf der Tagesordnung, im 30 Minutentakt wird hier ein Interview nach dem anderen geschnitten, gerendert und auf YouTube hochgeladen. Und so folgen hier die Video3 (Harald Holz, NTEAM) und Video 4 (Lucas Piras, itfunction), beide Partner aus Berlin. Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePoint 2007, SharePointCommunity, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, Michael Greth, DMS EXPO 2009

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Evan and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Sean Wallbridge — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:10:00 GMT

Our son is a big ham and he had been practicing his Indiana Jones impersonation and we made it into a little movie this morning as well, I wasn't motivated to go to work yet. Enjoy :-) YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c32nN3skHEU

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Dear Google Mail – Will someone in Support please respond?

Sean Wallbridge — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:25:00 GMT

Dear Google Support – Is anyone home? Ok, this blog post is my next step in trying to get Google Support to respond to my requests for assistance. I'm on *BUSINESS DAY* "8" (yes, "Eight") with no response. And for all you Google lovers (excuse makers), this is for the ... (More)

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Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {3D42CCB1-4665-4620-92A3-478F47389230} failed

Ishai Sagi [SharePoint MVP] (noreply@blogger.com) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:24:00 GMT

A code I was running against user profiles failed with the error: "Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {3D42CCB1-4665-4620-92A3-478F47389230} failed due to the following error: 80070422." The reason was that the search service was disabled on the server, and since adding user profile properties that are indexed requires the search service, this error is understandable (although not very user friendly). solution is obvious - start the search service.

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Visual Sourcesafe 2005 setup fails

ssa — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:56:42 GMT

Scenario: To work on an old project, I need to setup SourceSafe 2005 on a machine that already has .NET Framework 3.5 installed. I start the installation but mistakenly unplug the power cable and system shuts down. Next time I start the installation, I get “Setup failed” error message. Setup fails because it cannot find Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 installed on the system. I found following link while searching for the solution: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/e59f8083-3ebc-4b90-ae35-c4e3fcd33606 It has some good suggestions but not valid in my case. I knew something went wrong because the computer was unplugged when setup was running. If you go to “Add and Remove Programs” in Control panel, you will see .NET framework installed. In my case, there were different versions installed. From .NET 1.1 to .NET 3.5, all versions were installed. There was one instance that did not have any version number shown next to it. I removed...

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Avoiding those “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” in IE8 when editing SharePoint Publishing sites

Andrew Connell — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:37:07 GMT

Just stumbled across this via Randy Drisgill’s blog. It’s nagged me forever, but never had a clue what was going on. People get this when they are editing their Content Editor Web Parts… not that they are good or anything. Basically IE8 acts a bit different when calling certain JavaScript methods. The quick and dirty fix is to uncheck the Enable native XMLHTTP support option in IE’s advanced options. Great find! Read the following post for all the details on the issue and a fix. » IE8 to SharePoint-‘Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?’ Technorati Tags: sharepoint,publishing,wcm,moss

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SQL Keywords Reference (RESERVED)

Sean Wallbridge — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:27:00 GMT

I ran into a situation today where I had a beautiful plan, diagrams and naming convention all set to go, for a new 4 FARM SharePoint Implementation. I had planned on having two SQL Instances created, one called INTERNAL (Intranet, etc.) and one called EXTERNAL (Internet/Public, etc.). The p ... (More)

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DMS EXPO 2009

Michael Greth — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:25:03 GMT

DMS EXPO 2009 in Köln ich bin 2 Tage auf der Dokumentenmanagementmesse und habe gestern hier am Microsoftstand 15 Interviews mit den einzelne Partnern geführt, die Lösungen rund um SharePoint anbieten. Ich habe wieder viele neue Anwendungen kennengelernt. Die ersten beiden Videos habe ich schon mal online gestellt, der Rest folgt bis zum Anfang der nächsten Woche zusammen mit den Partnerinfos auf SharePointPartner.de Gleich halte ich meine Vortrag 5 Tipps zum Kostensparen mit SharePoint – mal sehen wie viele Zuhörer sich um 9:15 Uhr schon im Auditorium einfinden. Immerhin ich verschenke ein Buch SharePoint Designer 2007 Das Handbuch – wenn das nicht zieht;-) Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePoint 2007, SharePointCommunity, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, Michael Greth, Office 2010

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