Onsighting Microsoft products and technologies

Years ago using Internet Explorer was the only choice for my line of work. Sure, you had Netscape and several other browsers but no viable alternatives for working with Microsoft solutions, such as SharePoint. With the recent introduction of Google Chrome...

About People Picker One of the often used features of SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) is People Picker. This is the component responsible for providing a fancy user interface for finding users when provisioning access: By default, which in this context...

A company in Finland called Humeko Ltd, is now offering a free one month trial for OCS 2007 services for companies. See full announcement here: http://www.humeko.com/news_20071119.htm (in Finnish only, sorry). What they'll provide is an interesting...

See here: https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=137022 . Not free, but not expensive either.

I recently had a chance to participate in delivering a MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0 "Make It Real"-training in Germany (thanks for hosting us, guys). It was a great week of collaboration, finding solutions for technical issues and giving and receiving real life...

Ah, exciting times - see the article here: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single9494 .

Oftentimes when deploying OCS 2007 to complex environments something doesn't work as expected. Even more often the culprit is either a certificates issue or AD (and thus, often a DNS) issue. One of my colleagues had problems when connecting Office...

..and missing those fancy ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers) controls for enabling users to your pool? Fear not, just run this to get them visible: mmc /32 dsa.msc . Yeah, I'm a keyboard junkie amongst other vices, but this was something I really...

I, for one, have been struggling a bit when it comes down to understanding what's happening with OCS 2007 (Office Communications Server 2007, RTM'd some time ago). Having played with LCS 2005 (Live Communications Server 2005) quite a bit, I've been eagerly...

One of the 'perks' at Microsoft is the ability to dogfood things - i.e. installing every piece of alpha, beta, gamma and whatnot version of software that interests you. And then observing if your laptop still boots, or not. I was asked recently "What...

I just got a note that the following migration tools for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) have been released via CodePlex: SharePoint 2003 Data Extraction Tool: http://www.codeplex...

OCS 2007 will be officially launched October 16th - see details and link to webcast here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/aug07/08-21UCGVCFMA.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

It's possible to upgrade your existing Release Candidate installation of OCS 2007 to RTM. Alternatively you can do a clean installation (RTM bits here here and Office Communicator bits here ). Should you go ahead with upgrade, here's a few tips you should...

Recently I was working with a customer, where we had to deploy Office Communications Server 2007 (Release Candidate at the time) to their production environment. As it turned out when setting up Access Edge-role in their DMZ, remote Office Communicator...

OCS 2007 (Office Communications Server 2007), which was just released to RTM, finally has Live Meeting Conferencing built-in. You can use the Live Meeting client or the web frontend to attend your meetings. Because of the nature of OCS, you can deploy...

I've been waiting ages to get my existing Windows Server 2003 MCSE-certification upgraded to more recent technologies. Now that we have Windows Server 2008 in the horizon it's nice to see that Microsoft Learning has the following exam in beta: Upgrading...

I bumped into this error message with a customer MOSS + Forms Server installation, that had it's key recently upgraded to an enterprise RTM version from a Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) key. Upon opening InfoPath-forms via Forms Server users would get...

I needed to build up MOSS 2007 portal that would integrate some of the existing Line Of Business (LOB) applications. We also needed to use SSO, because some of the applications weren't AD-enabled. To use SSO, you can create your own custom web part and...