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eircom New World of Work Case Study
A Microsoft case study has been published about the New World of Work project at eircom in Ireland. This is a project that I'm very proud of. The Microsoft project team was Paul Mason, Paul Flavin, Phillip Fitzpatrick, David Nagle, Mark McCrory, Jussi Read More...
Podcast: Speech Server 2007 and Office Communications Server
Martha Rotter interviewed me on Speech Server and Office Communications Server and released the audio here . Enjoy it! Read More...
SharePoint Governance Part I
In this series, I would like to outline what's SharePoint governance, what happens if you don't think of it, what are the benefits of having a governance guide for your environment and I'll also give you a hint on how to start thinking about it. Microsoft Read More...
My New Speech Blog
Tadadaaaam! I've got a new blog where I'll blog only Speech Server and OCS topics - it's on Marshall Harrison's site at http://gotspeech.net site, the blog's URL is http://gotspeech.net/blogs/dszabospeaks . Enjoy it! Read More...
A Thought on Tools
A friend of mine (a Senior Developer in the Visual Studio/Nav product group) said this to me a year ago: You can do what your tools allow you to do. In other words, your tools are your best friends. I remember, Kalman told this to me in a better form, Read More...
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server Development - Introduction
Office Communications Server 2007 is Microsoft's IP communication solution and it allows companies to leverage their network infrastructure for voice, video communication, instant messaging, audio/video calls and for much more. You may ask what's the Read More...
TOC Web Part is Not Working
I did a search on the Internet about the problem and couldn't really find anything useful. Symptoms You navigate to the Team Sites page and click on the "Site Map" link, you get the following message: Unable to display this Web Part. The Table of Contents Read More...
Some More MOSS Gotchas
Happy New Year! I hope that you had fun during the holidays and you didn't eat too much - or at least you can balance it with some gym exercise in the upcoming days. :) A few weeks ago, I installed MOSS at a Customer here in Ireland and I had more difficulties Read More...
Microsoft NX-6000 webcam incompatibility with Office Communicator 2007
By working together with one of our favorite Customers, we realized that the Microsoft NX-6000 webcam doesn't work with Office Communicator 2007. I'll address this to the product groups and ask them to publish it officially if they haven't yet. By the Read More...
It's just a video driver!
Dear Colleagues at Intel Corporation! Would it be so hard to release a video driver for my Toshiba Portege M400 that doesn't flicker and restores back to 800x600 almost every time I unlock my laptop? :) It ruins my productivity and lifts my blood pressure Read More...
Do you have good eye for details?
My wife is seeking a job (by the way, aren't you looking for an experienced psychologist in Dublin, specialized for children? :) ) and we were going thru all these crazy expressions - like good eye for details, etc. So, I started thinking if I have a Read More...
Happy Days: OCS 2007 and Exchange 2007 Installation
During my demo environment installation (OCS and Exchange 2007), I got a few blockers that I couldn't find documented on the Internet. Maybe, it could be of your help. Here they are: OCS Deployment: Failure [0xC3EC7924] Schema definition for the requested Read More...
Performance issues with a list in MOSS 2007
Last week, I visited one of my favorite Customers in Belfast. They experienced performance issues in their Customer's MOSS 2007 production environment. Symptoms The symptoms were the followings: a list item takes 10-20 seconds to open, sometimes more. Read More...
Useful WSS 3.0 Samples
In Dublin it's always raining, so there's always some time to post a new article. Two useful code snippets for WSS3 developers: Smartly export a document from a WSS Document Library: // Set up the webclient with the correct credentials WebClient webClient Read More...
Playing with DLINQ
Today, I was playing with DLINQ and would like to share my findings with you. First of all, if you never heard of LINQ or want a basic intro, I suggest starting with the following 3 short videos (in order): C# 3.0 Language Enhancements in action C# 3.0 Read More...
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