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INFO: Recent Technical Articles
Here are some of my most recent technical articles that I wrote (and helped write) as part of the VSTS Ranger program as well as the SharePoint Ranger program.  As you may know, the ranger programs are essentially field extensions of the product Read More...
INFO: SharePoint 2007 VM’s NLTM Authentication Failure
I usually build a Virtual Machine that consists of the following for SharePoint development: Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 SP1 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with Team Explorer (and VSeWSS 1.3) Office 2007 SP2 Domain Controller and DNS Services I use host Read More...
Migrate SharePoint Workflows and Content Types
Here is a great utility to migrate SPD workflows and content types across site collections. http://spwflmigrator.codeplex.com/ Never used it myself, but it appears quite useful. Read More...
List Lookup Columns in Content Types
This codeplex project allows developers to package list lookup columns as a feature and as part of a content type.  This gets us around a challenge where developers try to deploy a content type that has a list lookup column which is dependent on Read More...
What’s your Social Networking IQ?
  What is the best way to judge social networking IQ?  In my mind its not necessarily your knowledge of social networking from an academic perspective, nor is it your knowledge of the technical implementation and networks of social networking Read More...
HOWTO: Enable Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugging
See this link for methods to enable Remote Debugging: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx Read More...
HOWTO: How Document Collaboration Works at Microsoft
While the title of this post might indicate that there is a sweeping document collaboration strategy that all teams and people use, that’s not the case necessarily.  We are big at dogfooding which is a made up verb indicating that we love to try Read More...
HOWTO: Complete a WF Workflow if a Task Replicator Activity’s Tasks Haven’t Been Completed Yet
Scenario: A Visual Studio Workflow Foundation Workflow needs to terminate with approval given the following circumstances: 1. At least one task has been completed out of the many tasks that were assigned via the workflow to approvers 2. A field on the Read More...
HOWTO: Get the field text from a SPFieldChoice
The SPFieldChoice usually holds the Int32 part of a choice field that is comprised of 2 values (the ID of the choice and the text of the field that is displayed).  Take the example of a workflow status column.  The ID 2 corresponds to the field Read More...
Great Visio Stencils for SharePoint
Just so I don’t forget, here is a link to some great MOSS Stencils for use in Visio.  This comes in great handy since most of what I do nowadays is to provide architectural diagrams for customers and to sketch out information architecture for SharePoint. Read More...
SharePoint Implementation Guidance
Here is a great post on how to conduct a large scale service-based SharePoint implementation. QUESTION - I am Program Manager Charged with Implementing SharePoint - Now What- The great thing about this post is that it goes over different stages of the Read More...
WSS and MOSS Service Pack Locations
So I don't forget where the links to the Service Packs are: Here are the links to the WSSS & MOSS hotfixes, and the rollups.  Thanks, Phil! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948945 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941274 Read More...
RELEASED: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit
The new SharePoint Administration Toolkit was recently released as reported here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/04/30/announcing-the-first-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx Two great areas of additional functionality Read More...
HOWTO: Change Content Types After Deployment
There are two methods to updating content types following deployment.  Everyone familiar with content types may know that after they are originally created and deployed and are being used, that changes to those content types can be challenging.  Read More...
HOWTO: Setup a MOSS Development Environment
Great MSDN article on how to setup a MOSS development environment that includes a fully capable development experience including Office, VS 2005 and VS 2008. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb330848.aspx Read More...
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