Hi!, I just wanted to share with you this new stage in my career, starting the past June 13 th I joined the office team as a Programming Writer in the Office team, specifically for the SharePoint group. I’m very excited for this and look forward...

I know there are several guides and fixes out there about this error, but I found a workaround that I couldn't find in any forum or article: Security Settings \ Local Policies \ Security Options - network security: LDAP client signing requirements...

Yes, “Creating Custom Business Connectivity Services Connectors Using SharePoint Server 2010” has finally been published; I’m really happy, this is my first article, it’s a great experience and, hopefully, I’ll write some more. If you find it interesting...

Ok, I’m limited on time but I still decided to publish this walkthrough for installing SharePoint Server 2010 farm in one server…   Install software rerequisites Install SharePoint Server Server Farm Configuration Wizard Note SQL Security Configuration...

Yes, I know its way too late to be presenting 2007 exams but I had this one committed with my manager. Actually I didn’t prepared more than 3 hours, since I have had some experience now. I just read some sections from the SDK. With this I have the...

Update: Just added an attachment with the xml file for your convenience. Yup, a little late but it’s here, I managed to find some time to connect MySQL’s Sakila DB to SharePoint via BDC. I used an ODBC connection by the way. There are four entities...

I just passed 70-542 and it's a short one, just 32 questions to challenge your knowledge; subjects I remember: BDC Search customization Audiences Membership Excel Services Policies I don't remember 70-631 details but it was not that difficult, I think...

I know, it’s nothing new, not that I’m going to win an award for this; just want to tell my story. Happened that I was into testing yesterday, prepared my data, test case, environment… and after 2 hours of processing the SSIS package failed… what happened...

Just a pair of hours ago a friend asked “how can I get rid of the ‘,’ (comma) in a list view for a numerical column?”. After giving it a couple of minutes I fired up SharePoint Designer and… Right click the list that holds the data and select New –>...

Sometimes I find this error when I’m creating Shared Service Provider (SSP). Provisioning failed: User cannot be found. Yes, it happens a lot and there are some places to look at, usually I find myself updating user accounts for: Search...

Well, there’s a lot of SharePoint information out there but how do I keep up with this ocean of information? Of course there are several ways but one that has worked for me is to use this technologies together. Ok, first you (and several other people...

I was digging into my current reading material “Testing Computer Software” by Cem Kaner and I ran through this phrase: “A test plan is a valuable tool to the extent that it helps you manage your testing project and find bugs. Beyond that, it is...

Recently a friend of mine asked if I could help him to setup a website with blogs, photos, calendar, and some other stuff. He is part of a growing group of mountain bikes aficionados who live in Mexico City and organize themselves to go test their bikes...

I just passed this exam and I have to say that it’s not that difficult, I studied with self-test software (I’m not going to say which one) and I have to say that the questions in this self-test suck… While I was studying I found some questions that I...

Quick post just to let you know that there's a new certification for SharePoint "Microsoft Certified Master" is a recognition given to those professionals in charge of large, complex implementations. The "Microsoft Certified Architect" builds on top...

The patterns and practices group just released their latest installment; it helps architects and developers to design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. Have I followed P&P's recommendations? Check for yourself! http...

First of all, I can't believe I'm still posting for SPS2003, but here we go... Ok, this happened a while ago, I tried to see the settings for a Virtual Server in SharePoint v2 farm and it kept displaying the help window to upgrade a virtual server (it...

I am supporting another consultant who is participating in a migration from SPS2003 to MOSS 2007 (yes, there are still many companies who have SPS2003, larger companies tend to move slower). So, customer applied SP3 and my friend scanned with prescan...

Recently I've had some discussions with some folks inside MS with this subject. So, I decided to write something around. I have to say... if you run the W3 Validator ( http://validator.w3.org/ ) against a known SharePoint site (I tried http://www.wssdemo...

You've heard about it, you've read about it... but exactly, what is this? how does this help/damage my business? What is this? To make long story short think of web social increase of the last 4-5 years. Think about Wikipedia, YouTube, Spaces... Well...

I am currently working with SLK and setup a basic site with Learning Features. I also configured this webapp to be available from the outside so I configured both default and external zones for this webapp. I could access the site from both the http:...

Office Labs is a group within Microsoft that tests ideas by building prototypes and gathering usage data. I downloaded Search Commands and it's great, you won't spend more time looking through ribbons and menus for your commands. Enjoy!

Microsoft is implementing four new interoperability principles and actions across some high volume products: Ensuring Open Connections. Promoting Data Portability. Enhancing Support for Industry Standards. Fostering more open engagement with customers...

ISO/IEC DIS 29500 received the necessary votes to be approved as an International Standard. http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123 I know this is not new but I thought I already had posted about this!

I was wondering, how are the computer science programs evolving in today's mexican universities? I did a little research and I couldn't find anything about 2 major subjects: Testing. Product Dev Lifecycle. These two are very valuable in today's organization...