April 2007 - Posts
I recently was helping a client troubleshoot why they couldn't receive mail. The server was running fine, they were able to send out messages and even reboots on the server didn't seem to resolve the issue. After looking through the event logs, etc, we
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I thought I would enumerate the steps required to conduct debugging when developing an ASP.NET Web Part for WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007. Situation: Without debugging capabilities and the ability to step through code of a web part, developers are relegated
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This tip comes from Matt, who has done an amazing amount of detective work to find out the cause of the error below: Vista uses a larger MTU size than the older client. The new RDP client is set for do not fragment packets. If anyone is doing an RDP over
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Just so I don't forget (and for your benefit too), here is the method to use to rename a Windows 2003 domain controller: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/aad1169a-f0d2-47d5-b0ea-989081ce62be1033.mspx?mfr=true
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Here is a great resource on planning your BTS architecture and physical implementation. The following article guides administrators through design, planning and impementation of leveraging clustering at every level within the BTS architecture to provide
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Here is a quick way to disable blogs in SharePoint 2007. While many customers appplaud the function of blogs, many organizations fear inappropriate behavior or content being posted on company servers. Thus, this workaround is born. Go to the folder C:\Program
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Changed up the old blog banner. Amazingly, I saw how powerful PowerPoint 2007 has become in creating custom art and great images. The reflection you see in the image, as well as the gradient buttons with the highlights were created with about 3 clicks
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http://word.mvps.org/FAQS/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm So what was happening is that a badly behaving Word Add-in would not allow Word to shut down cleanly. I was getting the following error: Microsoft Office Word has stopped working. This is accompanied
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Recently a client wanted to change the content of the default blog post when a user creates a blog. There was some objectionable material in the existing text of the post. Without questioning this, the way to change that post's text is as follows and
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Great PDF Previewer courtesy of descapa's One Note blog: View PDF files from within Outlook 2007’s previewer
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Here is a great article on how to host and consume WCF Services. The great thing about this article is that provides prescriptive guidance on where to put the WCF Service once authored. Based on the establishment of enterprise environments, B2B and B2C
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