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Unified Communications/UM has the best marketing :) with Devil Wears Prada spoof.

Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:16 PM by alogan
One of the hottest areas right now (aside from SharePoint) is Unified Communications/Unified Messaging. They have created a Devil Wears Prada spoof - my buddy Johann Kruse blogged about it . Technorati tags: Unified Communications , Unified Messaging Read More...
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Case Study: MTV Rocks on Office 2007

Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:22 AM by alogan
MTV Rocks on Office 2007 Media and entertainment powerhouse uses the 2007 Microsoft Office system to improve handling of internal concert ticket requests. Very Cool! Technorati tags: SharePoint , MTV , Case Study , Customer Evidence Read More...
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Coolest Web Usability thing of the day - Snap Preview Anywhere - just add JS and preview other sites.

Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:30 PM by alogan
I was cruising Alpesh's blog and as I moused over a link I saw a preview of the page. THIS IS AWESOME! So I checked it out and it was using Snap Preview anywhere - firstly - kudos on the domain name - www.snap.com - secondly - AWESOME TOOL! Sign up - Read More...
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MOSS Menu branding tip from Shane

Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:21 PM by alogan
Shane Perran has a great tip for fixing the MOSS menus when you are custimising them for WIDE items. The problem child: The *width and min-width seem to cause trouble when you have long items. .ms-topNavFlyOuts a { display:block; *width:120px; min-width:120px; Read More...
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Best Blog entry EVER! on MOSS 2007 custom Authentication Providers by Liam Cleary

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:20 PM by alogan
Liam Cleary (VSTO/SharePoint/Office/Vista) guru guy has posted a KILLER ENTRY on how to: "Write your own Custom Authentication Provider C#" for MOSS 2007. Check it out here . COMMUNITY CHALLENGE: Someone write a Membership/role/Custom Authentication provide Read More...
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If you are running a public website guage the load appropriately...

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:00 PM by alogan
I signed up to ClustrMaps today and added it to my blog on the left hand side. Sad thing is on my first visit it has been overloaded (I doubt by my blog). Lesson: If you are going to run a public website monitor and guage your load and appropriately plan Read More...
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Real world productivity with IE7

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:48 PM by alogan
IE7 is a major upgrade to IE6! The major killer feature is Security but to get a tangible productivity gain from security is hard to recognise... My killer producitivity gain is Searching History. I was working on an RFP a while ago and a colleague told Read More...
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Sahil's commentary on microsoft.com on MOSS 2007

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:13 PM by alogan
My buddy/code monkey/documentor, Sahil , has written a quick blog entry on MOSS 2007 and Microsoft.com . "Now, microsoft.com is one of the top 10, if not the top 5 sites in the world. If this isn't an endorsement on the capabilities of SharePoint 2007, Read More...
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Got STS (2001) and wanna migrate the files to MOSS (2007)?

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:31 AM by alogan
Bob Mixon has a quick blog entry on how to do a bit of a migration. The functionality from STS 2001 to WSS 3.0 has increased exponentially so it is definately worth doing an upgrade. Check it out here . Technorati tags: MOSS 2007 , STS 2001 , Upgrade Read More...
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Stephen Huen's MOSS samples on Code Project

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:27 AM by alogan
Stephen Huen has written some great articles/samples up on Code Project. Go and check them out now: MOSS 2007 Vertical Navigation For use in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Publishing web site, This custom control is an alternative to Read More...
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How to enable debugging in WSS 3.0

Posted Saturday, December 16, 2006 3:59 PM by alogan
Renaud Comte has a great tip on how to get the full ASP.NET errors appearing in WSS 3.0. The detail is to add the following item to your Web.Config: < SafeMode MaxControls ="200" CallStack ="false" ... > <!-- Becomes --> < SafeMode MaxControls Read More...
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Enterprise search - more than just in the browser – Windows Vista Screencast

Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 2:25 PM by alogan
Jeff Alexander – blogger dude and IT Pro Evangelist (and my co-presenter at the Ready Summit) has posted an AWESOME entry on Search within Windows Vista . That's right people – enterprise search doesn't just live in the browser. Check it out here . Read More...
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XML Notepad 2007

Posted Sunday, December 10, 2006 11:55 AM by alogan
I've been writing quite a bit of code lately and it all revolves around getting stuff into WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007. Namely pulling information out of XML files into either Wiki's or the Profile store. Anyway to edit the XML Files I use XML Notepad 2007 (or Read More...
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Biiiig websites on MOSS 2007… Yes we do big websites with MOSS.

Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 10:08 PM by alogan
With MCMS it was no secret we could build some rocking sites. Large accessible super high performance websites like: Commonwealth Games ( www.melbourne2006.com | case studies ) Rugby World Cup Ministry of Sound Joel Oleson has written a great post about Read More...
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Grand Son of SmartPart aka ‘SmartPart for SharePoint 2007’

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:11 AM by alogan
From Mark Harrison From Jan Tielens ... Finally the latest version of the SmartPart is here: the Return of the SmartPart , also know as SmartPart v3 , also know as SmartPart for SharePoint 2007 . The SmartPart allows you to create a Web User Control (ASCX) Read More...
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MikeTag’s great search resource links

Posted Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:33 PM by alogan
MikeTag has a bunch of great search resources on his blog – check them out! http://blogs.msdn.com/miketag/archive/2006/12/01/moss-enterprise-search.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/miketag/archive/2006/12/01/moss-related-search-links.aspx Read More...
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Wanna know all about iFilters – Check out Filter Central blog by Deb

Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:10 AM by alogan
Filter Central – everything about iFilters; searching files and all that other good stuff. Check it out here – since there isn't much content up there yet go leave a comment and demand more! Read More...
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Ishai from Unique World churns out MOSS 2007 Utility Pack

Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 12:36 AM by alogan
Ishai from Unique World (cool Gold Partner in Australia who are at the top of the list for number customer references ) has been working on a large MOSS 2007 deployment at an Australian Federal Government department. Along his journey Ishai built a few Read More...
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