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Daniel McPherson's Blog for Casual Comment on SharePoint

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    The End.

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    This is it, the end. Point2Share has moved permanently, and there is a very, very good reason. Yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life And of course this is it's new home, without adjusting your feedreaders you will not hear from me again....
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    REPOST: SharePoint 2003, Permissions and Robins Blog

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    I have moved: http://www.point2share.com Repost from: http://www.point2share.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=15 A mate of mine has been putting a lot of effort into his blog of late, and it’s worth following: Robin's Sharepoint Blog http://glorix.blogspot...
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    REPOST: “Upping the Grade” or Upgrading to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)

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    I've moved: http://www.point2share.com Repost from: “Upping the Grade” or Upgrading to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) - Blog Recently I was lucky enough to be one of the presenters at a Microsoft EMEA training offsite, however, I was unlucky...
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    REPOST: The biggest SharePoint implmentation in the world?

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    I've moved: http://www.point2share.com REPUBLISHED FROM: http://www.point2share.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=13 Caught this on Channel 9 today: Office SharePoint Server at Microsoft: 12TB and counting http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid...
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    REPOST: The “Name ActiveX Control” problem

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    I've moved: http://www.point2share.com REPUBLISHED FROM: http://www.point2share.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=10 I received a comment earlier this week regarding an issue a reader had found with the new Point2Share site. It's something that I had...
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    SharePoint Community Kit

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    II've moved: http://www.point2share.com REPUBLISHED FROM: http://www.point2share.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=8 Arno Nel (2.0) quietly made mention of the fact that the SharePoint Community Kit: User Group Edition has hit RC1. What is it? Well the...
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    Released: Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System

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    II've moved: http://www.point2share.com REPUBLISHED FROM: http://www.point2share.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=7 Typical, the minute I leave Premier Field Engineering, is the minute we decide to release the tool that would have transformed my life...
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    I've Moved!

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    I've never felt particularly comfortable blogging about SharePoint on a platform other than SharePoint, but I've just never been in a position to put all the pieces together. Well, now I think I have. I'm running MOSS here at home, I've fired up MOSS...
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    Dont let moss grow on em....Trial versions released

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    Rush to download the newly released trial versions of the next wave of SharePoint products: Download details: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2e6e5a9c-ebf6-4f7f-8467-f4de6bd6b831&DisplayLang...
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    Microsoft gets into Social Bookmarking

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    I really like the social bookmarking/tagging approach to keeping track of stuff on the internet that Del.icio.us championed. While "Live Favourites" has been Microsofts online Bookmark Manager, its never really been able to offer me the features I need...
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    Tony McIntyre and Crawl Performance and a quick comment on Incremental Crawls

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    Keith just pointed out that another "SharePoint Legend" at Microsoft has started blogging, Tony , welcome to the SharePoint Blogosphere! His opening post is a good one, and an excellent compliment to a post Keith did earlier here . One thing I will just...
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    New Content: Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View

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    Oh Bliss, Oh Joy! Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c523ac7a-5724-48be-b973-641e805588f4&displaylang=en I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for just this...
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    How to avoid a CritSit. An important Coding Best Practice

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    What is a CritSit? It’s short for “Critical Situation”, and basically, it's when my red phone rings. It means I have to drop everything and jump on a plane because there is a SharePoint server somewhere in Europe, Middle East or Africa that needs my help...
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    Want to be a Rapid Response Engineer?

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    Just got back from a fantastic trip to Peru, trekked the Inca Trail and spent some time completely disconnected in the rainforests of Manu Biosphere. Would recommend it to anyone, especially the Inca Trail which finishes with the amazing Macchu Picchu...
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    Taking a break

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    I'm taking a break. This week I'm heading off to Peru with my 4 best mates, no small achievement since we all live in different places. We are going to walk the Machu Picchu trail, which is something I have wanted to do for a very long time, as well as...
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    Happy Anniversary Point2Share!

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    Well, it's been 2 years of Point2Share! I'm a little late with the Anniversary, but it seems I started on 1st April, 2004. (quite fitting that I started it on April Fools day!) Lots has happened since then, a job change, visits to over 20 different countries...
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    How Bill Gates uses SharePoint

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    http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/gates_howiwork_fortune/ “SharePoint puts me in touch with lots of people deep in the organization. It's like having a super-website that lets many people edit and discuss—far more than the standard...
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    Daylight Savings in Australia

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    My first project at Microsoft (way back in 1998), led by the (in)famous Mike “Fang” Seyfang , was to work out why all the ministers in the state government were turning up one hour late to meetings (especially embarrassing for the Minister of Punctuality...
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    "Living the Beta life" or "How I learned to love Dogfood"

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    One of the reasons I really love working at Microsoft is the opportunity to “eat your own dogfood”. This means trying out our software, and thereby finding problems, before our customers do. I always try to be one of the edge cases, chowing...
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    FAQ: Indexing Acrobat files on a Small Farm or higher

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    This one comes up quite a bit, and causes one of those “wait, I know, I know, of course!” moments every time I’m about 85% through explaining the solution. The Issue You want to index Adobe Acrobat files. You have installed the Adobe...
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    FAQ: Creating a Site Context Search Box that Uses Portal Search Results

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    Going to start posting up a few Frequently Asked Questions I tend to get as I travel around meeting customers. The first one? “How can I use SharePoint Portal Server Search from within a WSS team site” Here is the article: Sample: Creating...
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    Next SharePoint User Group UK Meeting

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    Nick has just announced the details for the next SharePoint User Group in the UK, for more information head on over to here: http://suguk.org/forums/thread/360.aspx I was there at the first meeting and the numbers were fantastic, really great to see....
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    Couple of new blogs in the SharePoint Blogosphere!

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    A couple of new blogs have come online in the SharePoint blogosphere, just thought it might be useful to point them out: http://offlinesharepoint.com/ – Offline SharePoint This blog is by the Colligo Gang who have some expertise to share in the...
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    Active Directory and SharePoint User Tables

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    Thorough and detail blog post by Mr Keith Richie on how to cure the pain that is email and display name maintenance in SharePoint. Like Keith I have found that “ most enterprise customers I have worked with find this feature really annoying ”...
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    Unwanted Authentication Prompts

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    I’m often bumping into customers who complain they are getting “Too many authentication prompts” when using SharePoint. So, I thought it would be useful to throw together a quick post outlining some of the common causes I have found...
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