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Hi, Do you remember my Astoria Blog Publishing post ? well now you can check that my crystal ball is up and running! Cool to see that any SharePoint Server 2010 acts as a Data Services Server So moving forward that vision would look like this...

Hi, Yesterday after my vacations, I was reviwing Scott posts and I found that we have announced the Microsoft Ajax CDN . A collegue then remembered me our activex.microsoft.com url. Don't you feel we are walking in a wonderful circle :D Bye!

Hi, Last week I was asked to create a sample to include in a SharePoint list rating functionality without any server code. That means only SharePoint Designer and client script. First was how to store those ratings. Based on experience the obvious...

Hi, Testing search in a development environment, I faced that after installation of MS Filter Pack you need to repair FoxIt ifilter installation. So it seems it behaves as a software update too ;) By the way, they got a success story in Microsoft...

Hi, When I was working to get powershell scripts from MSDN samples to get/set information, I created too one for reading the changelog. It was a bit tricky to build, but I manage to port Querying for specific changes to PowerShell. You can review...

To the point: can you point me to where it is stated that validity to the manifest schema is a ODF conformance requirement? No, I don't think you can, because such a requirement does not exist. Rob Weir - IBM / Chief ODF Architect Brilliant and...

Hola, Last week, I read in a DL a question about how to show something cool, provide value and without custom code. Well there are many scenarios in SharePoint that empower final users in order to do this. I instantly thought about WebSlices. As...

Hi, Yesterday I was asked about migration paths for Access applications. Yes, there are still a spread active group (usually at the department level). I have worked with several alternatives, however at the end you should consider four main requirements...

Hi again, Last months this has been one of our main tracks we have been working on. As useful reading in order to get previous concepts, you may start reading the Plan for redundancy guide. Here you will get the idea that there are several roles that...

Today I posted some samples about Search and Powershell integration. I mention about the supportability of querying sharepoint tables. I thought about it and I wanted to clarify my point of view and what is public & published. I have listed the...

Hi, If you have read my previous post you may think, why did you stop there? Well, that is what I thought too :), and started with this article from MSDN. We wanted to start managing the crawling of our content source more programmatically, as we...

Hi, When I came across the article at MSDN How to: Programmatically Export the Crawl History to a CSV File I thought I would never create such a tool just for that specific feature, as you end up with additional requirements in order to create an admin...

Hi, It is interesting to see JQuery growing in the SharePoint space. For sure client APIs will enrich the ecosystem of SharePoint applications. Some time ago, we needed a way to get some information we were storing in the property bag of our SPWebs...

Hi, These days I've been reviewing different ideas I wrote down in the last months. One of those was about how to extend mobile sharepoint features. So I started re-reading the SDK, landing at How to: Customize the Mobile Home Page through Redirection...

Hi, Today I needed to find which versions+SP were installed, so this maybe helpful for anyone else: Lookup in the registry: KeyName : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP and .NET Version http://support.microsoft.com...

Hi, I was reading today Stephen P. Anderson's book and then I realized that Information Architecture is to Findability what Information Design is to Understandability. We focus on the type of information we present to the user, in order to be completely...

Hi, There are two things you hear in your first deployment of a Publishing Site: XHTML validation Full URL customization Although there were some commercial solutions (I remember RAPID having developed an HTTPModule, buti t seems they had...

Hi, You may find this problem being arised by your customers. You can find the description in the KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953457/en-us As you can read in the BCL recommendations at http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/06/01/424012...

Hi, I though that it would be useful to include this as this has appeared many times: If you receive this message: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID...

Hi, There is an increased number of projects focusing on get MOSS being XHTML compliant (well sure it is one of the most requested features for Office14). So I wanted to start a list with all this solutions: Get SharePoint to Validate, http...

Hi, Imagine you have reached Ben Curry's article when searching for performance counters , but you don't know which thresholds to monitor! Some time ago I found PAL Tool , and I checked a good thing: it has MOSS2007 thresholds. So this should...

Hi, In the Web Office Wave, we need a new evolution in the way people share their ideas; improving how we use the technology we have, in our daily world. Thinking of PowerPoint, did you have last week any meeting trying to deliver your ideas to...

Hi, Did you try to consume data from webs.asmx into InfoPath Forms? I did, and found problems, as InfoPath was not able to generate the full schema (or SharePoint did not generate the expected WSDL). Although there are some limitations in the...

Hi, Did you get in trouble finding elements through OOB features with hundreds (or thousands) of hundreds of documents/pages? I think this is something everybody meet sooner or later in a SharePoint environment. I have several opportunities to improve...

Hi all, This is something I really wanted to start including in my public projects (and I will do), as certainly Search will need to improve in coming years. www.cuil.com www.powerset.com www.wikia.com Yahoo with BOSS and SearchMonkey...