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Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:32 AM

Excel 2007 Add-in for Synchronizing Tables with SharePoint Lists - now available!

In Excel 2003, you can connect to (read from) and update (write to) lists that reside on SharePoint (WSS 2.0 or WSS 3.0) sites. This allows you to keep the information in your Excel 2003 tables synchronized with the information that appears on the SharePoint
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:16 AM

Prescan.exe Download and Information

I have to thank Sean Livingston and Ambrose Treacy for following through. Prior to launch I pushed really hard to get prescan as a separate download. Neither of them was on the WSS team during my first attempt. After a number of fun hoops. Ambrose and
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Sunday, May 20, 2007 8:39 PM

May 2007 content on MSDN for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007

[Cross-posting of RandallI's blog entry .] Here is the rundown of Technical Articles, Visual How-to Screencasts, and their accompanying downloads published over the last couple of weeks on MSDN. Technical Articles Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office
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Friday, May 04, 2007 7:22 PM

Dell Case Study Showcase of Consolidation, Manageability, and Scale

This recently published case study on Dell's SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment showcases how Dell Computer is consolidating 300 SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Servers into a consolidated SharePoint Server 2007 environment with 16 SQL instances with over
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:31 AM

Good SharePoint Upgrade Articles and Posts

I wanted to point you to some recent content on upgrade and introduce you to some partners that otherwise you may not think of in the Upgrade/Migration space. Upgrading Large Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Intranet Portals to Microsoft
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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
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Sunday, March 25, 2007 8:16 PM

Recommended Reading for March and April, 2007

Recommended Reading for March and April (click here for previous recommendations). Lots of useful content (I can hardly keep up anymore!) and tools generated by the community: Complete MOSS licensing info by Cornelius J. van Dyk (SharePoint MVP) -- addresses
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:22 PM

How to Upgrade an Area based on a Custom Site Definition

[Updated: Added ImageUrl attribute for step 1b. Thanks, Michael!] This post outlines the extra steps needed to upgrade a Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) area. First, some background information which explains why these extra steps are needed. (For
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Sunday, February 04, 2007 1:40 AM

Running SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 and Encountered Expiration?

We love our beta testers and hope you listened to our advice about not running this in production environments. From an ease of use standpoint, if your environment is not very large you may just want to wipe and reload with RTM after you backup your server.
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:24 AM

Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services (2.0) Sites and Templates - final release now available

In a previous blog entry , we announced the beta availability of the Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services (2.0) Sites and Templates to which you responded by signing up in force. We appreciate the invaluable feedback you provided us through
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Friday, November 17, 2006 7:43 PM

Beta of the Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Sites and Templates now available

In the pre-announcement of the “Fab 40” Application Templates for WSS 3.0 , Lawrence alluded to the migration guidance documentation and tools to upgrade WSS 2.0 sites and templates to WSS 3.0 that my team has been working on. We, the Microsoft Solution
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:32 PM

Enterprise eval to Standard edition steps

We don't recommend you go from enterprise to standard edition. We would recommend that after your evaluation or pilot, you start with a fresh standard environment if that is your choice. Going from enterprise to Standard Edition of Microsoft Office SharePoint
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:49 AM

Build to Build Upgrade Path to RTM

We appreciate those of you who have participated in our Tech Beta and TAP (Technology Adoption Program). If you aren't planning to do a fresh/clean install of WSS 3.0 RTM or Office SharePoint Server 2007 and are planning to upgrade from an earlier beta,
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:36 AM

Version to Version Supported Upgrade Paths

With RTM recently being announced and code availability around the corner. I'm posting a series of upgrade articles to assist in planning your upgrades to the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) versions of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint
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