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Copying files from Desktop to a CE device

So I have this problem, where I need to create a tool that creates a folder with a bunch of files on the PC and then copies all these files over to a CE device. The method of choice here was via ActiveSync over USB. One of the design goals was to be able

Shifting Gears

Last year I moved over from supporting developers on SharePoint to testing software for Windows Mobile. This was the driver for my move from India over to Redmond last July. There have been a lot of developments in both the Office Server space as well

GlobeTrotter

It's been quite a while since I have posted here. There have been lots of things going around. As some of you know, I was working in the SharePoint Developer Support team, and some amongst you, who have called in might know that there were huge volumes

Rendezvous with C/C++

/* PROBLEM ======= Given 2*N boxes in line side by side (N<=5). Two adjacent boxes are empty, and the other boxes contain N-1 symbols "A" and N-1 symbols "B". Example for N=5: | A | B | B | A | | | A | B | A | B | Exchanging rule: The content of any

SharePoint 2007 Maximum Limitations

Following is a list of names and other parameters with the maximum allowable size on each. Entity Max Permissible Size Site Name 128 characters Site URL 255 characters Display name 128 characters Connection string 384 characters Email address 128 characters

Single SignOn Error codes and what they mean

Error Code Meaning When Thrown Bubbled Behavior How To Overcome -2140993974 SSO is not configured Failure when SSO has not been setup via Central Administration Critical error logged in ULS with error code. If SSO is not configured then configure from
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MOSS, SSO, FBA

Single Sign On does not work with Forms Based Authentication SingleSignonException caught. Exception Code: 0x8062fffc Source: Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.SingleSignon StackTrace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.SingleSignon.Credentials.SetUserCredentials(String
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IRM and the Object Model

A couple of weeks earlier, I saw an interesting issue. It was a normal day as far as days go in support and in comes this issue, where the person in question wants to investigate or rather should I say automate the process of creating IRM settings on

TechReady4

I am attending TechReady 4 at the moment. If you are there as well, I would really like meeting up with you. Reaching Seattle from India, was one heck of a journey. With more than 30 hours spent looking at the insides of a plane, we were lucky we didn't

Updates, updates, updates...

Right of the bat! All SKU's of Office 2007 client and server have shipped. Also, at the same time, the greatest and bestest OS ever has been shipped as well. This is aptly enabled with the "WOW" campaign for both the Office2007 suite as well as Vista.

Custom Search and URL zones

It's a very common task with SharePoint to create a custom Search web part. The objective ranges from the very intuitive – need to change the search results display - to the very complex perform some complex queries that are not possible Out of the Box.
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Forms Based Authentication in MOSS

There have been a lot of great posts in the blogosphere on how to setup forms based authentication. Some of them: SharePoint Product Group Blog by Steve Peschka Nick Swan [non-MS] What I want to put forth in this post, is a reference on the web.config
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Some random issues with Beta 2 Technical Refresh of MOSS 2007

Its been quite some time since the B2TR builds for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 were released. The builds have been released as patches and the general upgrade experience has been something that has helped us learn a lot about upgrades and

Adding a List Item inside a folder

As with v2, v3 also has seen its fair share of requests on how you can add an item to a folder in a list. Now, there are two types of lists that we are dealing with, lists that store documents and lists that store items. Internally they are identified

Copying publishing site pages

Publishing sites are just WSS sites with a special template. Though there is a separate namespace to help with the feature light-up specific to publishing sites. A very trivial scenario would be copying a page from a library, say the Pages library in
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