APP DEV // SHAREPOINT // TIPS & TRICKS
During my preparations for the the MSDN Webcast I'm presenting tomorrow I realized the eSATA drive I purchased was not performing as fast as I thought it would. I decided to see exactly how fast my external hard drive runs a virtual machine when it is connected via USB 2.0 vs. the eSATA interface. I also threw in a test to see how the virtual machine runs on the host machine's C:. …
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Testing es algo que todos los desarrolladores deberamos hacer, y muy pocos hacen. Por no decir Testing intensivo y consecuente, pues los nmeros se reducen a prcticamente cero… si le da curiosidad, revise las estadsticas mostradas en http://www Read More……(read more)[Image]
Robert Foster, a SharePoint MVP, informally interviewed me a few weeks ago in Redmond. Rob asked me very interesting questions ranging from SharePoint in the cloud to SharePoint "14". You can listen to the podcast @ http://www.sharepointpodshow.com/archive/2008/11/24/sharepoi…(truncated)… [Image]
All SharePoint developers and administrators will be familiar with the Stsadm.exe command line tool in the bin folder of the "12 hive", normally located at: C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12BINSTSADM.EXE. This tool has many available operations and an extensibility model. For a nice poster on all available operations (Moss2007 SP1) and available properties, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120150. …
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Sometimes working with SharePoint feels like picking a lock. You know that if you get the right combination the lock will open and you’ll be able to get what you want — however, figuring out that critical combination is difficult. I’ve spent too many hours trying to do something simple — I wanted to look at the results of the query generated by the CQWP in its raw form. …
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[Image]Happy December! I hope all of you had as great of a November as possible, and everyone in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend!As I've noted before, the process of writing and publishing a book is a lot more complicated, and takes much longer, than I ever imagined. Although "my part" in the preparation has largely been done for a while now, the machinery of publication continues on behind the scenes. …
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El prximo da 18 de diciembre tendremos en el Grupo de Usuarios de Navarra la charla(de los huevos y de los CKarlos), Karlos G. Liberal y un servidorhablaremos de algunas de las bondades de nuestras herramientas de trabajo(Drupal y SharePoint).El magnifico cartel ha sido realizado por nuestros amigos de SistemaFormacin. …
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La scorsa settimana ho trovato di grande aiuto una risposta ad un mio post sul newsgorup dedidato al .Net Framewrork 3.5, ho pensato quindi di partecipare a quello su SharePoint di casa nostra, anche perch da tempo non scendo molto sul tecnicismo in questo blog!Dopo dite che non sono buono Technorati Tags: SharePoint,NewsGroup,Microsoft,Framework,Community
Well actually I've been back a few weeks but its been so busy since I got back. All positive though. We have had a lot of press coverage in Birmingham about Sierra Leone which is helping to raise more money. The trip was amazing - Sierra Leone is such a beautiful country with such bad poverty. …
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This article will highlight many issues organisations will experience as a consequence of lack of experience, poor decision making or expectation management with the business sponsors.
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The JSRequest class is a JavaScript object that lives on all SharePoint Pages, and allows us to simply and quickly get query string parameters using JavaScript. It has 3 fields: QueryString, FileName, and PathName. QueryString - is an array of keyvalue Read More……(read more)[Image]
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Scenario: You have given someone rights into SharePoint Central Administration but when she clicks on ‘User profiles and properties’ (see image below) she is prompted for credentials and is denied access. How do you allow her to manage user profiles?Answer: Click the ‘Personalization services permissions’ link and edit the rights for this person (or associated group). Make sure ‘Manage user profiles’ is selected.[Image] [Image] [Image] [Image]
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I wanted to install this configuration for my church office as it represents good value for money. They already had a W2K Server license + Windows CAL's but no SQL Server. So I installed the following: WSS SP1 in Basic mode provides unlimited storage Read More……(read more)[Image]
Solution provider takeaway: Advise your clients on how to choose among the proliferation of third-party products available for customizing SharePoint. As a powerful tool with document management capabilities and workflows that automate manual processes Read More……(read more)[Image]
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Well…here is 5 days of my life that I can't get back.The Setup…For a variety of reasons, I'm having to develop on Vista. Hold the grief…sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Additionally, I need to get IIS installed so that I can get the SharePoint extensions for Visual Studio 2008 working…The Problem…IIS will not install. Either through the control panel or by command line. …
With all the talk about Web 2.0, Social Computing and now the economic crisis, it is time to turn back to productivity and knowledge management. If you are an employee and as part of your job you start researching the Internet or Intranet for resources Read More……(read more)[Image]
These tables represent the license model as I understand it. I recommend that you take it as guidance and check it with your license provider or Microsoft representative. Products Product Public price Features CAL Requirements WSS Free. Included in W2K3 Read More……(read more)[Image]
This time around, let’s take care of the “reduce data entry” requirement, and leverage some of InfoPath’s useful features to make our form smarter.
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Yes I know, you already have it first hand from Jan's blog but still… How cool is that teaser ? Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs Read More……(read more)[Image]
Microsoft has just published this whitepaper to give you guidance on automating the installation of SharePoint. Although some might say "Others have already done this" or "I have a much better solution" it provides a good description Read More……(read more)[Image]
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Mis amigos del Blog del CIIN nos dejan un interesante regalo de Navidad, se trata de un documento en .PDF que recopila los mejores Posts sobre SharePoint publicados por ellos en casi 2 Years de arduo trabajo sobre la plataforma, en donde nos han compartido Read More……(read more)[Image]
Es ist schon erstaunlich, wie viele SharePoint Projekte auf CodePlex vorhanden sind und fast tglich werden neue gestartet. SharePoint PowerShell Deploy SharePoint PowerShell Deploy is a set of PowerShell files to help you build, deploy, upgrade and destroy Read More……(read more)[Image]
Es drfte sich ja mittlerweile herumgesprochen haben, dass es mit Alfresco eine Software Lsung gibt, die sich als SharePoint Alternative im Open Source Bereich positioniert und als eine der ersten das Office SharePoint Protocol implementiert hat. Auf Read More……(read more)[Image]
CenandoEl otro da paso Unai porPamplona y estuvimos cenando y departiendo sobre todas esas cosas frikis que nos gustan.Una suerte para los que habis podido asistir a los cursos que ha impartido de EntityFramework y WCF. …
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