June 2008 - Posts

• Best of TechEd 2008 Winners Announced!

  Body: The folks at Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine recently announced the winners of the Best of Tech Awards. Here are the winners from the SharePoint-related categories... Best SharePoint Product The winner in this category is the AvePoint DocAve... Posted Jun 30 2008, 05:47 PM by RealSharePoint.com: Posts Filed under: Events & Happenings

• Model Driven Development

  A great post by Gabriel: Valuing the Undervalued Solution Model Read More... Posted Jun 30 2008, 01:31 PM by Westin's Technical Log Filed under: General Software Development

• New Microsoft White Paper on SharePoint Scalability & Search-ability Released

  Body: Microsoft Consulting Services just released a white paper analyzing issues surrounding large-scale content storage with search capabilities in SharePoint 2003/07 deployments. This is a great read, because it frames the issue using real-world case... Posted Jun 30 2008, 01:18 PM by RealSharePoint.com: Posts Filed under: Deployment Architecture

• Filtering around DateTime values in BDC

  We get asked about filtering around datetime fields quite a lot so decided the best thing to do was to create a wiki page entry on it....check it out here: http://support.lighteningtools.com/default.asp?W55 Read More... Posted Jun 30 2008, 12:21 PM by Lightning Tools Blog

• SharePoint Silverlight Forum - looking for a few beta testers

  After a ton of work to fix the breaking changes represented by Silverlight 2.0 beta 2 we've got the SharePoint Silverlight forums in a state where people can give them a try. As well as bugs we'd like to get, we're also after more general... Posted Jun 30 2008, 10:52 AM by Lightning Tools Blog

• Using STSADM -o migrateuser on a re-created account

  I see this come up quite a bit and thought I would show you how to work around the problem. I thought I had show this on my old blog a couple of years ago, but can’t seem to find it. Scenario A user in your organization is deleted, and re-created... Posted Jun 27 2008, 08:59 AM by Krichie - That SharePoint Guy Filed under: SharePoint

• Where have I disappeared?

  It’s been a while since I was blogging here. I haven’t disappeared from the face of the earth. I’ve made quite some progress and discoveries, so keep tuned in the future. Mainly I’ve been working on some projects.. 1. The Biggest... Posted Jun 27 2008, 05:04 AM by Boris Gomiunik Filed under: Personal

• How to Sabotage Your (SharePoint) Projects

  This post from the eLumenotion blog is clever and really tickled my sense of humour. He describes a declassified wartime era document called the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" and the content is pure gold "It gives advice on how to deliberately... Posted Jun 26 2008, 07:55 PM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Project Management, planning, Offbeat

• Thinking SharePoint Part 2 - The "Unconsciously Incompetent" Ikea Mecca

  My next post on "Thinking SharePoint" for www.endusersharepoint.com reproduced here. Hi again. Sorry about the delay in continuing with this "how to think SharePoint" series, but in Australia, the month of June is the end of the financial... Posted Jun 26 2008, 09:45 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: planning, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint

• SharePoint's hidden user-list - User Information List

  Okay, this might not come as news to most SharePoint developers who've been around a while, but lately I've been messing with the User Information List in SharePoint and it doesn't seem that many people know that it exists. Note: This list... Posted Jun 25 2008, 05:03 PM by Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development

• Do The Math: Third Party Add-Ons Are Your Friend

  Part of my job when I was in SharePoint Marketing at Microsoft, and most of my job when I was a competitive/technical subject matter expert for Microsoft’s field account teams, involved helping map product capabilities to customer requirements. ... Posted Jun 25 2008, 04:41 PM by FitzBlog 2.0 Filed under: Uncategorized

• Wow. Last-Minute Refactoring. Releases That Take Weeks or Months instead of Years. I’m Definitely Not in Kansas Anymore.

  One for the “things I don’t miss about Microsoft” list: having everyone acknowledge that a problem exists, having everyone agree that it’s serious and will result in customer dissatisfaction, that something must be done about it... Posted Jun 25 2008, 04:22 PM by FitzBlog 2.0 Filed under: Uncategorized

• FAST Search for SharePoint Server 2007 / Microsoft (MSFT) Acquires FAST Search

  FAST Search for SharePoint Server 2007 / Microsoft (MSFT) Acquires FAST Search The following links are provided to give you 1) more background on what this acquisition means, and 2) how to leverage it immediately in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS... Posted Jun 24 2008, 05:48 AM by Michael J. Hamilton, Sr.

• Custom List: Contact Details

  Contact Details Email Address Read More... Posted Jun 22 2008, 10:43 PM by Nick Porter - SharePoint & More

• Applying a User Filter to the SharePoint Profile Import Connection.

  I hadn't really paid much attention to the user profile information in MOSS 2007 after initially configuring the User Profiles and Properties. I thought it was about time to fine tune these settings and exclude all of those old disabled users and... Posted Jun 22 2008, 10:08 PM by Nick Porter - SharePoint & More Filed under: SharePoint