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How to Use SharePoint Discussion Boards in Outlook 2007
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Understanding Calendar Columns in a SharePoint List Calendar View
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A SharePoint Conference for $100! Wow!
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InfoPath Pattern matching - “Email” field
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Task Escalation using Workflows
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Understanding Calendar Columns in a SharePoint List Calendar View
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Software Engineer Position Available
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Our new website is powered by MOSS!
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How to Use SharePoint Discussion Boards in Outlook 2007
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SharePoint and Office 14: Looks like I may have guessed right for once
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SharePoint Connections Booth #626 - See You There!
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Announcing Workflow Essentials for SharePoint
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PowerShell for Flexible Iterative SharePoint-based Development
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Does the !New tag annoy you?
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Looping Through Items in a SharePoint List with SharePoint Designer Workflows
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New Release of Extranet Collaboration Manager 
Mon, Dec 15th 2008 7:55p Sharepoint Solutions
Our software team is continuously working to improve and enrich the feature set of our Extranet Collaboration Manager product. This latest release ExCM is no exception, containing a long list of improvements which further establish ExCM as the premiere solution available today for managing your SharePoint-based extranet. Just take a look at these new features:Feature: User Defined Invitation Expiration Length The expiration length of an invitation can now be set by an administrator. Possibly va [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Announcing Workflow Essentials for SharePoint
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 7:59p Sharepoint Solutions
Nearly all organizations which implement SharePoint® seek to automate business processes by taking advantage of its workflow capabilities. Many of these same companies quickly discover that although the plumbing is there to create robust workflows in SharePoint Designer, more tools are needed to effectively automate their processes. At that point a few options come to mind: companies can either pay programmers to author custom workflow activities, or they can purchase an expensive third party a [read] Keywords: designer
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How to Use SharePoint Discussion Boards in Outlook 2007 
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 12:53a Sharepoint Solutions
As you can imagine, we are heavy SharePoint users here at SharePoint Solutions. Much of the work we all do every day is done with SharePoint. Unlike our instructors, consultants, and developers, everyone isn't a SharePoint expert. Just like in your own organization, we have many Information Workers. Recently, we've been utilizing SharePoint Discussion Boards more. So I sent an email to our internal staff letting them know they may find these discussion boards easier to use if they connect them t [read] Keywords: email
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Understanding Calendar Columns in a SharePoint List Calendar View
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 7:55p Sharepoint Solutions
Last week, one of my students asked me about the Calendar Columns when creating a Calendar View on a SharePoint list. In the particular exercise we were doing, all the columns were set exactly the same. Although this was a good choice for the task at hand, it didn't demonstrate how the different options show up differently in the monthly, weekly, and daily views. To understand this, you really need to see it with screenshots, so here is an example. On my SharePoint site, I've created a custom li [read] Keywords: formula
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A SharePoint Conference for $100! Wow!
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 12:52a Sharepoint Solutions
I just finished recording three sessions for the SharePoint Virtual Conference hosted by the SSWUG November 5, 6, and 7. You're really going to love this conference! I think this is the third virtual conference SSWUG has presented, but it is their first with a SharePoint track. The other tracks include SQL Server, Business Intelligence, and .NET Developer. When you register, you'll be able to attend sessions from all four tracks and even watch sessions again after the conference. There are over [read] Keywords: designer
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InfoPath Pattern matching - “Email” field
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 12:53a Sharepoint Solutions
While teaching the InfoPath/Workflow class last week, I had the need to restrict a textbox control in an InfoPath form to only contain emails. If an invalid email is inserted, it should throw a validation error. Out of the box, the patterns provided by InfoPath are very limited. It only provides patterns for Phone Number, SSN, and Zip code: I thought surely somewhere out on the web I would find the pattern needed for this, but to my surprise, I couldn't find "a working one" (doesn't mean that i [read] Keywords: workflow
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Task Escalation using Workflows
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 12:58a Sharepoint Solutions
I was recently showing one of the students in my class (who, by the way, was one of four students that traveled all the way from Ghana to attend four different SharePoint Solutions classes) how to assign tasks and escalate the tasks using a SharePoint Designer workflow. Before we started, he was convinced that they needed to do this in Visual Studio. I quickly told him "that's completely doable with a SharePoint Designer workflow" and began showing him a quick demo of how to do it. When you crea [read] Keywords: designer
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The Only 100% SharePoint Training Center in Texas is Now Open!
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 12:52a Sharepoint Solutions
We think we are safe in saying this :). We've opened the only full-time training facility in Texas that is 100% dedicated to SharePoint. It is in Richardson, TX which is a suburb of Dallas. We are having an official Grand Opening party on Friday, October 24 from 11:00 a.m. - 7:00p.m. There will be food, drinks and giveaways - plus, lots of SharePoint camaraderie. The party is open to the public, so anyone in the area is welcomed to stop by. We also are offering a special on the Appl [read] Keywords: office
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Our new website is powered by MOSS!
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 12:51a Sharepoint Solutions
We've been working hard for several months on a completely new public website for SharePoint Solutions. And, since MOSS 2007 now does such an admirable job of providing the tools needed to create highly-polished, publishing-oriented sites, it was just natural for us to make the new site powered by MOSS! We have been extremely pleased with how the new website turned out with MOSS as the platform. The features provided really make it easy to set standards for branding and page layouts. The conten [read] Keywords: consulting
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New Course on Business Data Catalog and Enterprise Application Integration
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 1:53a Sharepoint Solutions
We have a new course in development that is scheduled to launch to the public on September 30. The course, Objective: Integration - Using MOSS and the Business Data Catalog (BDC) for Enterprise Application Integration, is targeted at MOSS Solution Designers and Administrators who have caught the vision that MOSS 2007 can be an excellent "hub of integration" for pulling together disparate enterprise data into a common user experience - namely MOSS. This course sprang out of A) our experience wi [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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EXACTLY where SharePoint documents are stored
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 11:52p Sharepoint Solutions
Ever wonder EXACTLY where SharePoint stores documents? This isn't going to be news to developers or others that have followed SharePoint for a good while, but if you are relatively new to SharePoint it might be somewhat eye-opening. Every time you hit "Save" on a Microsoft Office document and the path for the save is a SharePoint document library on a SharePoint site, the entire contents of the document is saved in binary format in a single image-type field in the SharePoint database. That's ri [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Microsoft Sharepoint “Tips of the Day”
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 8:53p Sharepoint Solutions
Want a great place to get general Sharepoint tips and tricks? How about your Outlook mailbox? Microsoft has made available a list of tips and how-tos for SharePoint, Sharepoint Designer, and InfoPath and of course, all the other Office products as well. Best of all, they are available by RSS feed, so you can have them delivered right to your Outlook mailbox. You can choose which feeds you would like to subscribe to. Some of the most recent posts have included: · How to Design an InfoPath Fo [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint Pod Show
Wed, Jul 30th 2008 2:53p Sharepoint Solutions
I'd like to turn you on to a new SharePoint-related podcast which a few friends of mine have recently started producing. Fellow SharePoint MVPs Rob Foster and Nick Swan have just finished recording Episode #1 of the SharePoint Pod Show. Along with Brett Lonsdale, Rob and Nick will be producing biweekly episodes about current SharePoint topics. You can also send your questions to feedback@sharepointspodshow.com and these guys will answers them on air! Good luck with your new show Rob, Nick and [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Problem with SharePoint Infrastructure Update can affect your extranet
Tue, Jul 29th 2008 8:53p Sharepoint Solutions
This WSS KB article (KBID 951695, Last Review : July 23, 2008, Revision : 4.0) from Microsoft includes an acknowledgment of a known issue after installing the Infrastructure Update (32-bit, 64-bit). Applying the upgrade in a SharePoint farm that uses Alternate Access Mapping with a reverse proxy or a network load balancer, such as in an extranet deployment, may cause some public URLs to become unresponsive. "Microsoft is aware of this issue and is developing a solution. Before installing the Inf [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Create a Site Template from a Publishing Site
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 5:52p Sharepoint Solutions
So you finally designed a perfect publishing site. You have it just the way you want it and you want to make sure that everyone uses this template to create sub sites that look just as good. Excellent! Now just save that site as a template and….what’s that? No “Save site as template” option? Uh oh. Unfortunately, MOSS does not support saving publishing sites as templates. Never fear! There is a workaround! Simply turn off the publishing site features and you will have the ability to sav [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint TechNet Forums
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 11:56a Sharepoint Solutions
TechNet Forums SharePoint - Collaboration Topics about team sites, project tracking, document collaboration, extranets, etc. SharePoint - Community Advancement Topics about improving or expanding the worldwide SharePoint community through blogs, forums, social networking, conferences, user groups, code camps, etc. SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion General (typically presales oriented) questions and discussions. SharePoint - Search Topics about Search capabilities in Sha [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Take your Windows Vista compatibility issues to Microsoft
Fri, Jul 18th 2008 11:53a Sharepoint Solutions
Free, unlimited installation and compatibility support has been made available for all worldwide customers using Windows Vista SP1 until March 18, 2009. Telephone support is available worldwide. Chat and Email support is available in US and Canada only. Why mention this on a SharePoint blog?? Well, if you are having any compatibility issues with Vista and SharePoint, now is your chance to call up the vendor (Microsoft that is) and talk it out for FREE! Here is the link for more information: http [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Microsoft releases important updates for SharePoint
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 1:53a Sharepoint Solutions
This morning Microsoft released important updates for SharePoint. Microsoft strongly recommends that you install the updates that apply to you as soon as your patching and maintenance schedules permit. The updates can be downloaded from the links below: Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x86 Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x64 Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x86 Infrastructure Update for Windows [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Search across Site Collections
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 12:53a Sharepoint Solutions
Somewhat of an old news, but I realize that we don't have a blog entry about this, what I believe, very important topic that a lot of people have asked about in the past. So here it is… So the scenario is that you have deployed WSS in your company and you do not have a need for most of the MOSS features at this time (personalization, records management, My Sites, etc.). Using WSS, you have setup a separate site collection for each department in the company. The HR department wants to know why [read] Keywords: database
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How do I make our SharePoint site stop asking me to login? – Part III
Fri, Jul 11th 2008 7:52p Sharepoint Solutions
In my previous 2 posts, I explained the settings needed to allow Internet Explorer to automatically login to your SharePoint sites without presenting the popup login box. Even if you have addressed the issues I documented there however, you may still receive repetitive login boxes when opening files with the MS Office programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The problem occurs when you are working on Windows Vista, and has to do with the way Vista accesses SharePoint data locations when us [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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I've been presented with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award for Windows SharePoint Services
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 2:53p Sharepoint Solutions
I have received notification that I’ve been presented with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award for Windows Server - Windows SharePoint Services. This is my second consecutive year of being honored with this award, but I have to say that the amount of gratitude, appreciation, and personal satisfaction in being re-awarded has not diminished at all. In fact, the opposite case is true. This type of recognition from one's peers just doesn't get old. In truth, this award speaks volumes about the quality [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Living in Outlook all day long?
Thu, Jun 26th 2008 3:52p Sharepoint Solutions
If so, you might be interested in this tip about how to create a folder in your Outlook tree and assign its home page to a SharePoint site. When you do that, you will be able to click on the folder and the SharePoint site will come up in the viewing pane of Outlook. There will be no need to open up your browser and navigate to the site anymore: http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1318679,00.html?track=sy520&asrc=RSS_RSS-11_520 This is one of those small things that c [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Latest release of Extranet Collaboration Manager (ExCM) adds some nice features
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 1:53p Sharepoint Solutions
The latest release of Extranet Collaboration Manager (ExCM 1.8170.2) adds some nice features which have been commonly requested from our customers: Registration Approval Process Define a list of approvers to review invited and/or anonymous registrations. When a user registers the account will remain unapproved until reviewed by an approver. One or more approvers will be notified of the pending registration. After reviewing the account the approver can approve or deny the request. The registeri [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Great SharePoint development book
Thu, Jun 19th 2008 1:53p Sharepoint Solutions
I received a copy of Andrew Connell's new SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development book this week. As expected, Andrew's new book is excellent - well written with a ton of substantial content. I particularly like chapter 10 on Field Types and Field Controls. SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development is a must have for any serious SharePoint developer. Seriously, buy this book today. [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Help! I Can’t See New Documents Checked Out to Someone Else!
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 9:55p Sharepoint Solutions
OK. So here's a frustrating scenario. You have a document library with a required column on it. One of your users is about to leave for vacation and uploads some documents to the library. She is in a rush and forgets to enter the required metadata. The documents remain checked out to her. Unfortunately, no one else can see the documents because they have never been checked in. Even the site owner can't see the documents. Fortunately, there is an easy way to handle this situation. The site ow [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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How do I make our SharePoint site stop asking me to login? – Part II
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 5:53a Sharepoint Solutions
In most environments, SharePoint sites should automatically log you in via your existing Windows credentials without ever asking who you are. So, if you receive the little pop-up login box – it means you have one or more of three separate issues. The symptoms for these three issues are similar, but there are differences to help you figure out which specific issue you are having. Of course, you could have a combination of issues… In my previous post, I detailed how to set the Internet Explore [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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How do I make our SharePoint site stop asking me to login? – Part I
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 5:53a Sharepoint Solutions
This was one of the most common user requests I got during my system admin days. I was recently asked again by a student in one of my classes, so I thought it would be a good candidate for my first blog post here. In most environments, SharePoint sites should automatically log you in via your existing Windows credentials without ever asking who you are. So, if you receive the little pop-up login box – it means you have one or more of three separate issues. The symptoms for these three issues a [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Software Engineer Position Available
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 12:55p Sharepoint Solutions
Would you like to work with one of the best software engineering teams in the SharePoint industry? Would you like to gain invaluable experience and mentoring from industry-acknowledged experts? We are currently seeking to fill a mid-level software engineering position in our commercial software division. You will work with our expert development team to maintain, enhance, and augment SharePoint Solutions' award-winning portfolio of commercial software add-ons for Microsoft SharePoint. To be con [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Using Google Gadgets to add external content and boost user buy in.
Tue, Jun 3rd 2008 10:52p Sharepoint Solutions
As a SharePoint consultant, one question that I am asked frequently at the beginning of implementation projects is "How do you get users to buy in to SharePoint and start using it?" Getting users to switch to using any new application can be tough. To get your user's to visit your portal, there has to be content there that the user needs or wants. I recommend starting with content that everyone in the organization can use. Begin migrating the functional areas that all employees interact with, fo [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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PowerShell for Flexible Iterative SharePoint-based Development
Tue, May 20th 2008 5:00p Sharepoint Solutions
This post by David Mann is a good resource for 3rd-party and MS tools to help with SharePoint-based software development: Using Tools to make SharePoint Development Easier While we here at the SharePoint Solutions Software Division certainly use some of the tools mentioned in David’s post, I guess maybe our development requirements are a bit "heavier" than the typical IT project since we're developing packaged products for commercial redistribution. We need the fined-grained control of a fle [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Does the !New tag annoy you?
Mon, May 19th 2008 8:53p Sharepoint Solutions
Are you a bit sick of that !New tag that appears beside a new item uploaded to a library? Well, you are not alone. I am repeatedly asked this question in our Applying SharePoint 2007 Core class: "How do I get rid of that annoying !New tag?" or "How long does an item really stays new?" J. Usually students ask these questions because they have uploaded/migrated a bunch of documents from their file share which are not really "new", but they get the !New tag assigned to them anyway. Ok, so here are [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Looping Through Items in a SharePoint List with SharePoint Designer Workflows
Tue, May 6th 2008 8:03p Sharepoint Solutions
One of the things that most frustrates me about SharePoint Designer workflows is that there is no convenient way to write loops. Not only can we not create For…Next, For…Each, Do…While, and Do…Until loops within our workflows, but there is no obvious way to loop through items in a list. The Scenario For example, assume you have a document library with 1,000 documents in it. You have just written a workflow with SharePoint Designer to e-mail the document creator and have him or her enter [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint Alerts—Activesync Synchronization Issues?
Mon, Apr 14th 2008 1:04a Sharepoint Solutions
I got a new toy about three weeks ago...an AT&T Tilt. A.K.A. the HTC 8925, the Tilt runs Windows Mobile 6 and is my first portable device on which I will receive email. Okay, so I'm a bit late jumping into the whole mobile email thing. I've never thought of email (or me) as being important enough to have to have in front of me 24x7. So now I have it. I'll let you know later if that's good…or bad. Learning curve engaged. I had to figure out this Activesync thing. You know, like Active X a [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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When Good Web Parts Go Bad
Sat, Apr 12th 2008 11:49a Sharepoint Solutions
Here's a quick tip for a Saturday morning. At some point it's bound to happen. You'll mess up a perfectly good SharePoint page by incorrectly configuring a web part. You may add some incorrect custom HTML, JavaScript, or style sheet code to a Content Editor Web Part, and then not be able to edit or close the web part. Or you may add a page viewer web part to frame an external web page and the webmaster controlling that external page writes some code to break it out of frames. When this happens, [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Close Individual SharePoint Blog Posts for Comments
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 11:29a Sharepoint Solutions
In a recent Extreme Makeover class, a student asked how they could close a Post in a SharePoint blog site for comments. They still wanted users to be able to read the blog post and read existing comments, but they didn't want them to be able to post comments on it. Kevin Pine and I worked together to create the following solution using some JavaScript in a Content Editor Web Part on the Posts.aspx page. Add a Custom Column to the Posts List to Allow Comments We needed some way for the blog owner [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Changing Host Header for the MySite Host
Sun, Mar 16th 2008 7:12p Sharepoint Solutions
I was playing around with SharePoint on my virtual machine and had set up a new installation of MOSS when I noticed I had entered a host header incorrectly (at least incorrectly from the standpoint of being consistent with my previous installations). I entered "MySite" instead of "MySites" as the first part of the host header. I know, I know, it's probably more correct to use the singular, but I was trying to be consistent with what others had done. All I wanted to do was to change the host head [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Get a Virtual PC image with SharePoint Solutions software pre-installed
Mon, Mar 10th 2008 12:44p Sharepoint Solutions
Now you can download a Virtual PC hard drive image (VHD) with a forms-based SharePoint Extranet AND our entire software product line already installed and pre-configured for your evaluation. This downloadable virtual hard-drive image is pre-installed with: SHAREPOINT SOLUTIONS EXTRANET COLLABORATION MANAGERSHAREPOINT SOLUTIONS SITE PROVISIONING ASSISTANT SHAREPOINT SOLUTIONS ALERT MANAGER 2007 MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2003 R2 ENTERPRISE EDITION MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 ENTERPRISE EDITION SERV [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Update from Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008
Tue, Mar 4th 2008 1:30p Sharepoint Solutions
By all accounts, Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 is a resounding success. There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm from both attendees and exhibitors alike. Here's a photo of our SharePoint Solutions' booth: Our session yesterday on SharePoint Extranets and FBA was standing-room-only. Here's a photo of myself presenting: [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint and Office 14: Looks like I may have guessed right for once
Mon, Mar 3rd 2008 11:26p Sharepoint Solutions
For once, it looks like I may have guessed correctly about some enhancements we can expect in the next version of Microsoft SharePoint and Office: Office 14. Three weeks ago, I was the keynote speaker at the SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008. In my keynote, I gave my best guess at some of the enhancements we might see in the next version of SharePoint (expected sometime in late 2009). Today, while listening to Bill Gates' Keynote address at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Se [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Hope to see you at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008
Fri, Feb 22nd 2008 3:17p Sharepoint Solutions
Well, it has kind of snuck-up on me, but we’re only about a week away from Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008! If you are going to make it over to Seattle for SPC2008, we hope that you’ll stop by our booth and take a moment to say hello. Our SharePoint Solutions’ booth number at SPC2008 is #810, right next to the meal area ;). We’ve gone big for SPC2008, with a voluminous 20x20 space and a brand new booth to boot! We’ll be giving away a few Zunes, so please come by and register to w [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Has Microsoft Redefined the Order of Operations in Workflow Designer?
Thu, Feb 21st 2008 7:31a Sharepoint Solutions
We were recently reviewing the content for a new InfoPath workflow course (Mission: Automation) here at SharePoint Solutions when it was brought to my attention that the Workflow Designer in SharePoint Designer appears to have redefined the order of operations for Boolean expressions. If you take a look at the conditions in the Workflow Designer for a simple case where we're creating a condition on the title field, you'll notice we have the Boolean expression: title field contains "meeting" OR t [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Integrating Community Server with SharePoint
Mon, Feb 18th 2008 1:09p Sharepoint Solutions
Since Community Server™ was first released, SharePoint™ administrators and users have looked towards its rich forums and blogging functionality with envy. Even with the latest release of SharePoint, its built-in discussion and blog capabilities have been a disappointment to all but the least demanding users. The scalable, feature-rich forums and flexible blogging functionality of Community Server are what users really want. Our engineers here at SharePoint Solutions have spent some time and [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Our Newest Class – Mission: Automation – SharePoint Workflow and InfoPath
Mon, Jan 21st 2008 11:30a Sharepoint Solutions
For the past year, students have been telling me they wanted more information on how to use Workflow Designer in SharePoint Designer to write workflows to automate their business processes. I hear this after they use the out-of-the-box workflows in our MOSS Core Features class. When I wrote the MOSS Advanced Features class, I included an entire module dedicated to SharePoint Designer Workflows and InfoPath. Students continue to tell me that was great, but they still want more about workflows and [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Checking for a NULL Date Field in SharePoint Designer Workflow
Sun, Jan 20th 2008 1:37p Sharepoint Solutions
I was recently teaching an Advanced SharePoint class in Richardson, TX and a student was expressing his frustration over Microsoft's apparent oversight within the SharePoint Designer workflow wizard. One of the "IF" conditions is a simple testing of the value of a field…"If this equals that." He wanted to test a date field in SharePoint to see if it was empty or not. Problem is, when you select a field that is typed as DATE in SharePoint Designer, there is no test for the empty or null conditi [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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VMs Disappearing from Microsoft Virtual Server
Sun, Jan 13th 2008 6:41p Sharepoint Solutions
I know this isn't specifically a SharePoint issue, but... Problem: I use Microsoft Virtual Server to run all the SharePoint VMs that I use. At any given time, I may have 4-6 VMs on my notebook computer. Recently I ran into a problem where I kept losing my VMs that I set up on Virtual Server. Each time I came back into the Virtual Server administration web site (after restarting my notebook) my VMs that I set up from the last time would be missing. This caused me to have to go into the directory [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Presenting at Information Worker Conference 2008 (IWC08)
Tue, Jan 8th 2008 12:15p Sharepoint Solutions
I'm looking forward to presenting at this year's upcoming Information Worker Conference. Along with SharePoint Solutions' president Jeff Cate and fellow software engineer Jeremy Luerkens, I'll be presenting a session on how we use SharePoint and Extranet Collaboration Manager to facilitate and automate our customer-facing business processes. Here is the title and description of our session: Real-world case study: Collaborating with Customers on the Extranet with SharePoint In January, 2007, Sh [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Single Server RMS and MOSS 2007 Installation from a SharePoint Perspective
Mon, Jan 7th 2008 12:17a Sharepoint Solutions
Howdy from Texas! Russell Wright here, from SharePoint Solutions (Dallas office). Thought some of y'all might want to see what I've gone through recently getting Windows Rights Management Server installed on my virtual SharePoint box.Overview We're going to install Windows Rights Management Server on a server with MOSS. I've found several documents and blogs where multiple server installations are discussed, but I wanted something that would be easy to carry around for demonstration purposes. I [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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User Comments and Ratings web parts are now FREE!
Thu, Jan 3rd 2008 12:05p Sharepoint Solutions
Back in August of 2007 we released a beta version of our User Comments and Ratings web parts. This pair of web parts allow users to rate content and add rich HTML comments to SharePoint pages. Today, we have released an updated version of the User Comments and Ratings web parts, removed the beta restrictions, and made this application completely free! We are happy to contribute this free utility to the SharePoint community, and hope you will join the thousands of organizations who are already u [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Promote and recommend SharePoint content
Wed, Nov 14th 2007 11:06a Sharepoint Solutions
So where do you currently go to look for pointers on various SharePoint content…? There are so many sites which claim to provide links to "good" SharePoint content that it's hard to keep count. Why not have a central place where users can recommend various content on functionality related to SharePoint Products and Technologies and then other users can recommend that content if they find it useful... Kinda like how digg.com currently does it. Well, this concept is now a reality! SharePointPed [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008
Mon, Nov 12th 2007 5:35p Sharepoint Solutions
Early bird registration for the SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008 is available until December 1. $1,495 USD will get you full access to the world's only SharePoint Conference dedicated 100% to non-technical content.This conference is the business and power-user's dream conference. We will have numerous topics on features and functionality and how to apply them to solve business problems. We will also have several in-depth case studies from companies that have been wringing every bit [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint Connections Booth #626 - See You There!
Wed, Oct 31st 2007 11:29p Sharepoint Solutions
We'll be heading over to Las Vegas this weekend for the SharePoint Connections conference. Jeremy Luerkens and myself will be manning our SharePoint Solutions booth #626 in the exhibitor's hall, so please stop by. If your organization is thinking about setting up a SharePoint-based extranet, our team has done more SharePoint extranet implementations than just about anyone. Come to booth #626 and talk with our expert team about our award-winning Extranet Collaboration Manager add-on product. You [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint Designer Workflows: How to Tell Which Fields Have Changed
Wed, Oct 31st 2007 4:49p Sharepoint Solutions
If a workflow is set to start when an item is changed, you might think that it's impossible to determine exactly which field, or fields, have changed. This is because the workflow doesn't start until after the item has already changed. This can actually be accomplished though, using a SharePoint Designer workflow without too much pain. The Scenario For our scenario, we have a document library named "Documents". We have added a custom column named "Comments" to that library. If the Comments fiel [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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How do I add user ratings and rich HTML comments to my SharePoint pages? Extended Beta
Tue, Oct 30th 2007 11:52a Sharepoint Solutions
If you are one of the thousands of users who have downloaded our User Comments and Ratings Web parts, we're glad the solution is adding value for your organization. The current beta period for this solution had been set to expire on 10/31/2007, but we've extended it. If you are currently running the User Comments and Ratings web part and want to continue your evaluation, you will need to re-download and re-install the newer version which expires 12/31/2007. [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Sneak peak at Alert Manager 2007
Thu, Oct 25th 2007 2:15a Sharepoint Solutions
Our software team has been busy these past months working on Alert Manager 2007. Here's a sneak peak of some screen shots for the new product, which will be launched next month. Stay tuned for more details. [read] Keywords: application
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