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Monday, April 30, 2007 11:24 PM

Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0

I'm pleased to announce the availability of a tool coming out of Microsoft IT. Over the past few weeks I've ( Joel Oleson ) been working with Bill Baer to pull together a tool that started as a simple example of an event receiver to show that someone
Posted by joelo | 6 Comments
Friday, April 27, 2007 3:38 PM

What’s new in the April update of the WSS 3.0 Online SDK

[Cross-posted from Andrew May’s blog entry at http://blogs.msdn.com/andrew_may/archive/2007/04/26/SharePointWSS3SDKAprilUpdateNowLive.aspx ] I’m happy to announce that the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK has been updated online on MSDN! What’s new
Posted by LLiu | 4 Comments
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Friday, April 27, 2007 9:57 AM

Additional information about WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Language Packs

Answers to some FAQs about WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Language Packs. What are MOSS Language Packs? MOSS Language packs enable site owners and site collection administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring
Posted by LLiu | 32 Comments
Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:49 PM

Customizing the Quick Launch menu: Adding fly-out menus to SharePoint navigation

In this post, I’ll show you how to customize the Quick Launch menu to display several levels of data in a dynamic way and use this customized menu for quick access to all Views within a List without consuming space on the Quick Launch. First, let’s add
Posted by sptblog | 37 Comments
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:25 PM

WSS 3.0 for Hosters Solution Kit now available on CodePlex

At the Microsoft Hosting Summit about a month ago, the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for Hosters Solution Kit was announced. This kit would include the following custom components: Forms-based authentication module that extends the SQL Server membership
Posted by sptblog | 7 Comments
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:52 AM

Consuming Shared Services Across the WAN

To dispel the rumor... A customer recently asked if their latency was less than 80 ms could they have a farm consume shared services from a farm across the WAN. There is no magic latency at which it's supported. We do support more than one deployment
Posted by joelo | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:54 PM

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 3 of 3)

In Part 1 of my blog series on Alternate Access Mappings, I gave a brief introduction to the feature and an example of how it can be used. In Part 2 , I described some of the common AAM-related problems people run into when deploying SharePoint and how
Posted by LLiu | 27 Comments
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:34 AM

2007 update to Microsoft Office and SharePoint Integration "Good, Better, Best" white paper now (finally!) published

I'm very proud to announce that the "Microsoft Office Programs and SharePoint Products and Technologies Integration – Fair, Good, Better, Best" white paper is now available for public download here . I'm also very sorry that it has taken so long (about
Posted by sptblog | 17 Comments
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:43 PM

TDM and BDM datasheets for the "Fantastic 40" Application Templates now available

Since the Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 were released a couple of months ago, many people have asked, "Is there any documentation on what each of the templates does or is designed for?" Well, in response, we have just posted
Posted by sptblog | 7 Comments
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:42 AM

20 sample Master Pages for the "Fantastic 40" Application Templates for WSS 3.0

These Master Pages were originally scheduled to be released with the Applications Templates a couple of months ago, but we needed a bit more time to get the "fit and finish" just right. For an overview of the sample Master Pages, go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102223711033.aspx
Posted by sptblog | 21 Comments
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:13 PM

How we did it: Mission critical HawaiianAir.com website powered by MOSS 2007

The following guest blog entry is written by Jeffrey Hong and Avneesh Kaushik , who are Architect and Senior Consultant, respectively, in Microsoft Consulting Services , and who were the Technical Lead and SharePoint Lead, respectively, for the MOSS-based
Posted by sptblog | 44 Comments
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:29 PM

Update on availability of non-English SKUs and Language Packs for MOSS 2007

“Where’s the [fill in your favorite language here] version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" and "Where's the [fill in your favorite language here] version of the MOSS 2007 Language Pack" are two of the most frequently asked questions that I've
Posted by sptblog | 10 Comments
Friday, April 13, 2007 11:26 PM

STSADM operations published

The command line tool stsadm.exe is the IT Pro tool for doing a few things that aren't exposed through the web UI. It's also great for scripting operations that are repetitive. There are a number of commands, and lots to do. Kirk Stark from the Tech Writing
Posted by joelo | 7 Comments
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:02 AM

Debugger "Feature" for SharePoint

While Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides an excellent platform for developing Web applications, debugging them can be a bit of a pain. It's often a case of finding the process ID (PID), attach the debugger, navigate to the error, rinse, and repeat,
Posted by sptblog | 26 Comments
Monday, April 09, 2007 8:30 PM

Investing in Logical Architecture Design Samples

Investing in logical architecture design samples Greetings, my name is Brenda Carter. I am a technical writer who writes content for the IT Pro audience about Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The purpose of this blog entry is
Posted by joelo | 19 Comments
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Monday, April 02, 2007 6:37 PM

Best Practices Analyzer

“Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft® Office System” has Shipped! The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best
Posted by joelo | 17 Comments
 
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