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July 2005 - Posts

LA, Phoenix, Seattle for a bit
I have just left NZ for the next week and a half to go to Seattle for an internal technical conference. On the way ... decided to meet up with my friend Jezz from MS finland ... and do some more skydiving at Eloy in Arizona. Should be a blast. Anyway Read More...
Wireless Notebook Mouse...
Received one of these little guys today ... what a great mouse! Small, wireless, optical, roller ... sweet. Killer feature: The small wireless receiver snaps into the bottom of the mouse for transport! AND turns the mouse off to conserve battery life. Read More...
SharePoint Advisor Mag Arrived ... finally.
Got my first printed copy of issue 1 of the SharePoint Advisor magazine yesterday. It took a while to come ... but is looking pretty good. I have yet to read all of it ... but there are articles in there by all you favorite sharepoint personallities ... Read More...
GhostDoc for C#
Really handy tool for C# developers. It fills in the C# XML comments for methods etc... with the name of the method and params etc... saves a bit of copy and pasting. Thanks Geoff! " Roland Weigelt's GhostDoc " Read More...
SPS Outlook addin
This looks really good. Many clients are looking for ways of storing email in SharePoint. Another solution to the email archive problem is AfterMail . Single instance storeage of attachments ... and SQL based store for email. Growing fast and a really Read More...
Tech Ed New Zealand and Windows SharePoint Services
For all the kiwis out there ... if you dont know already New Zealand TechEd 2005 is coming up on the 28th August (get registered! it will be the biggest and best TechEd yet!) There is also an early schedule out here . This year I am presenting on a great Read More...
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1
"Failed to connect to the database server. Verify connectivity and rights for the configuration account and try again." On a project I was recently working on we ran into this error message when configuring SSO in SPS. Well ... after much hair pulling Read More...
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