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Monday, March 27, 2006 10:53 AM

What are Content Types?

For me, one of the coolest new features of SharePoint Server 2007 (or MOSS) is Content Types. In this article, I’ll aim to give a brief overview of what they are and why you should be getting excited about them (especially if you are from a SharePoint
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 31 Comments
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Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:30 AM

SPProfileUpdate - A free tool for updating SharePoint user profiles

I've spent a little time recently developing a Windows Form utility that allows you to update SharePoint 2003 user profiles (in a profile database) from values in a CSV file. The tool allows you to map up to 12 profile properties to colums in a CSV file.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:23 AM

How do you fancy a 51% performance increase in SPS 2003?

Sounds too good to be true does'nt it? Microsoft have just released some test results that compare the performance of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on SQL 2000 vs. SQL 2005. Using SQL 2005 improves performance on every type of SharePoint farm configuration,
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Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:15 PM

.net 1.1 in Visual Studio 2005?

I spent a little while looking at this so I thought I'd share my findings.... Currently, if you want to write an application that runs on .net 1.1, then you have to use Visual Studio 2003. Equally, if you want to write an application that uses .net 2.0
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 2 Comments
 
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