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Move along, there’s nothing to see here. I’ve given up on Community Server as my blog engine and have moved to WordPress. The new blog is located here: http://blog.randomdust.com . I’ve moved over all current posts to the new site, so if you’ve...
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When upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, one of the areas you need to look at is any custom code that was written for the 2007 environment. Depending on what that code is doing, the effort to upgrade it may be larger than initially thought. ...
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For those folks who skip to the end of the book to see how things finish, I’ll jump to the point. Doesn’t look like Microsoft is releasing any of the Application Templates (i.e. Fabulous 40) for SharePoint 2010. So says To the SharePoint blog...
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On a recent project, we had a requirement to use a SharePoint Designer workflow to call an external web service. Instead of writing my own custom Activity, I did a search to see what was out there and found the iLove SharePoint Designer Actions . One...
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Look up the word “governance” in wikipedia and you’ll find sentences such as “It relates to decisions that define expectations , grant power, or verify performance. It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership...
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I'm reaching out to you (if anyone still reads this blog) looking for some support with a charity. For those of you that are hockey fans, you're familiar with the NHL tradition of the players growing beards as long as their team is in the playoffs. If...
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I'm currently working on a SharePoint project involving a requirement to embed the current version into each document. Not an uncommon requirement, but at the end of the day it required an uncommon solution due to various issues I hope to post about....
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Ok, ok...I didn't write it. But I was in the room when it was written!! My co-worker Gary Lapointe presented last week to the Colorado Springs SharePoint User Group on customizing STSADM and his "demo" was actually writing a new, functional STSADM command....
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It took him a while, but Sameer Surve finally has a blog ! He's been my MCS counterpart at my current client for the last year and a half (give or take), and he definitely has lots of SharePoint and BizTalk info worth sharing. I guarantee you'll have...
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After my previous post outlining my custom Feature Receiver used to update any section of a web.config file, I had some follow up email conversations with Mike about his post and us possibly collaborating on a combined CodePlex solution. Well, that...
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I picked up some InfoPath requirements after one of our consultants had to leave so this one had to be done after dusting off the InfoPath brain cells. I’m still not convinced this is the best way to get this done so please leave a comment if there’s...
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Trying out the Twitter Notifier using Live Writer. Found in the Live Writer SDK for Technical Preview . This should show up on my Twitter feed ....
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Tim just put together a new release for his FeedReader web part which includes the code contributions I made a few months ago. He details some installation steps on his blog here . Thanks again for the opportunity to contribute, Tim!...
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I guess if you sit and wait long enough, someone will do something to solve a problem. In my eyes, the problem is our dependency on foreign oil. There are two angles of attack to solve the problem. First, reduce our dependency on oil...
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As I was reading through my SharePoint feeds I came across a post that struck a cord with me. The post is by Mike Stringfellow and is about updating sections of the web.config through a SPFeatureReceiver . It struck a cord because I had developed...
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SharePoint auditing came up this past week so I thought it would be good to pull up my VPC and review the options. I went in to Site Settings and ensured the feature was Active, then clicked on the "Audit Log Reports" under Site Settings...
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A couple weeks ago the family went to Orlando for a couple days and then took a cruise out of Canaveral down to the Caribbean. While in Orlando we visited SeaWorld in about 45 degree weather, but it was still a good visit. My girls hadn't been there before...
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This isn't good for my marriage. I already get in trouble for spending hours messing with photos I or other family members have taken. Now The Library of Congress is publishing photos on Flickr for our viewing pleasure. With no copyright...
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I recently made some changes to Tim Heuer's FeedReader to help fulfill some client requirements and made some time to contribute the changes to the CodePlex project for others to use. We have been happily using it ever since. Tim's done a...
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Apparently Microsoft and I are on the same schedule. I've had an outstanding task to write some deployment guidelines for my current client and we've finally been able to give it a priority where I can focus on it. I still have some finishing...
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We had to go to Microsoft for this solution so I can't take credit for it but I wanted to post the info here for others who may run into it. Issue: We have a couple lists that have many columns (70 - 90, roughly) with various data types. At least...
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As I mentioned in my previous post on my SP1 issues, my Designer workflows stopped working after the service pack. Specifically, it would no longer start workflows automatically. I still don't have the answer (bad news first), but I got another...
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Sorry Rich , things didn't go so well on this end. The install of SP1 went smoothly, and I liked how clean it was so that was nice. After checking a few things out, though, I noticed two issues. First, for some reason it decided to retract all of my custom...
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The Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training was finally released recently. We've been playing with the pre-release version in our MOSS environments for a couple months and were happy to see an update with more training content. Since we already had...
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Background : There was a business requirement to customize a NewForm.aspx page for a list to remove some of the fields shown to a user when they enter a new item into a list. To fulfill this requirement, SharePoint Designer was used to open the NewForm.aspx...
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