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Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:35 AM

Minor Public Announcement: Windows Live Security Settings and Contacting Space Owners

I receive a handful of messages from individuals via the built-in "send a message" function Microsoft provides with live spaces (which also hosts my blog) every month. About one third of the time, those users have secured their live spaces account Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, February 11, 2008 9:11 PM

Are "Unknown Error" Messages Really Better Than a Stack Trace?

I was reading Madhur's blog post on how to enable stack trace displays and now I'm wondering: why don't we always show a stack trace? Who came up with that rule and why do we follow it? End users will know something is wrong in either case Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, February 08, 2008 7:59 PM

Evil Microsoft URL

I do a Google search: I click on the link highlighted above ("Download details: Windows SharePoint..."). I get this: Note the URL. Looks pretty suspicious to me. I don't know if I should laugh, chuckle or call a priest. </end> Technorati Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, January 25, 2008 8:37 PM

Event ID 1023: "Windows cannot load extensible counter DLL MSSCNTRS"

I have noticed that lately, my desktop/server fan never turns off. I know it used to turn off. I took a moment to check it out noticed that the a VMware process was running a consistent 20% utilization on one of the CPU's. I checked the event log Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, January 25, 2008 7:37 AM

Forum Discussion: Enforcing Best Practices Compliance in Non-Trivial MOSS Environment

A fellow, "Mark", has started up a potentially interesting newsgroup discussion focusing on "establishing excellent SharePoint Governance from the start" for a 35,000 user environment. The discussion is here: http://groups.google.com Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:30 PM

Custom Action URL Won't Display for New Feature

I'm still in the habit of crafting my feature XML files by hand since it's all quite new to me. I don't want to rely on a front-end tool that does stuff I don't understand (he said as he wrote a blog entry using a tool he does not understand Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, November 26, 2007 8:52 PM

SharePoint Security Fundamentals Primer / Avoid Common Pitfalls

Overview: SharePoint security is easy to configure and manage. However, it has proven to be difficult for some first-time administrators to really wrap their hands around it. Not only that, I have seen some administrators come to a perfect understanding Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:21 PM

Quick & easy url Encoding desktop utility

I've been needing to url-encode some strings this week and slapped together a a little utility that I thought I'd put up on SkyDrive for the community. Get the binary here: http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint/WinUrlEncode Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:46 PM

SharePoint Designer -- Custom activity to execute user-defined C# functions

I've uploaded a visual studio project here: http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint/codeplex.zip This project provides a custom activity in SharePoint Designer. Use this custom activity to invoke (dispatch) any C# function Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Sunday, October 14, 2007 7:37 AM

Tell me about your blog!

If you maintain a blog that is at least minimally connected to SharePoint, please let me know in comments. I would love to add you to my blog list . If you maintain a blog that is not connected to SharePoint but want me to add it anyway, let me know. Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:25 AM

Give good news frequently; give bad news early

I've been a consultant for a lot of years now and as any experienced consultant knows, good communication is one of the key pillars to the successful delivery of a project. It's so obvious, it's really almost boring to talk about. This isn't Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 5:51 PM

MOSS/WSS Search results (and dataviews): view the raw XML data

This may be obvious to many, but while studying for my MOSS programming exam, I learned that it's pretty easy to get the actual XML from a search query via the user interface. One quick method is as follows: Access advanced search. Perform a search Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 2:52 PM

No CQWP for WSS? Try this...

I see that Eric Kraus was faced with a requirement normally met with a content query web part. The problem? He was in a pure WSS environment with no access to the CQWP. Rather than curling up in the fetal position (an urge I have to fight every day, it Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:41 PM

WSS, doc libs & lists, Calculated columns involving [Me]

Someone on the Internets was asking about how to create a calculated column on a list that would show a value formatted as "[User] - [Status] - [Location]" as in "Paul Galvin - Drinking [free] Beer - The Beach". Paul would go in and Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 11:38 AM

MOSS: Effective introduction to an Organization

Overview : This entry describes some background information on a large (3,000 users) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) rollout and what we did to get the project rolling in such a way that the client is happy and firmly down a path that ends with Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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