March 2007 - Posts
For those that know me, you will know that I have a tendency of collecting all sorts of things, but my main collection fetish is all things M&M related. I have in my collection some 40 M&M chocolate dispensers, some are classic ones from the 80's
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I am heading north to sunning Queensland on Saturday morning to spend some well deserved holiday time with my lovely wife and two wonderful children. I am not taking my laptop with me and therefore blogging will be just a little bit difficult. So my blog
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When you create a new publishing site in MOSS it automatically gets a default page created using the WelcomeLinks.aspx page layout. How can you change this behavior and have it automatically create a page based on a content type and page layout of your
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Chris Johnson has posted a great article on using ASP.Net ASCX user controls in MOSS/WSSv3. I have been recently creating custom controls in Visual Studio (i.e. Control Classes not ASCX). To use these I add the controls to the GAC and then add an entry
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I recently had a client who wanted an AdRotator on their MOSS Internet site. The client wanted to randomly choose an image from a nominated Image Library and display it on the home page. Unfortunately there is no Moss AdRotator control out-of-the-box.
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I was looking through the Vista sidebar gadgets on live gallery and found this excellent gadget " Microsoft Office 2007 Recently Used Documents ". "Quick and easy access to your most recently used Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007,
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Just read that the new Groove developer portal on MSDN has gone live. This is a home for developers who want to learn more about Groove and how to develop solutions on the Groove platform. The site also links to relevant content on TechNet and Office
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I have created two new sections on my website MOSS Resources - A page that has links to bloggers, books that I recommend, etc... MOSS Bug List - Thanks to Alan Coulter for starting of my bug list page. As I discover or get told of issues I will post them
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This months MOSSIG meeting will again be at Microsoft Southbank, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place Southbank on 28 March 2007 at 5:30 (pizza, drinks and networking), 6:00pm (presentation starts). Show and Tell Session - Outlook Asset Management add-in At last
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Jose Barreto has posted an excellent reference for all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007. The reference includes 189 operational uses of STSADM.
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When developing with MOSS sometimes you come across a point in time where the page renders "Error: An unexpected error has occurred". This is absolutely pointless for a developer who really needs to know what has gone wrong. There is however
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I have been using Office 2007 since Beta 1 and have had no real issues with the product (stability at the start, but that is much better in the final release). I have been using the RSS features which are really cool but just this morning Outlook is not
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If you missed out last time, Microsoft are offerring Exam insurance plus TechNet Subscription once again. I might just take the plunge this time around and do an exam. "When you purchase Exam Insurance and take your initial exam by April 30, 2007,
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[via Angus Logan ] Angus has posted some great links to Microsoft Enterprise Search Deep Dive Training . I recently attended a Microsoft Enterprise Search partner briefing and can say that Microsoft are most definitely serious about their presence in
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Today is my tenth year Wedding anniversary. Ten years ago Nicole and I got married at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, this weekend we are going to return there with our two children Ethan and Jayde and show them were their Mum and Dad got married.
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Angus Logan has posted an excellent list of virtual labs for the office system, including Office 2007, WSSv3, MOSS 2007 and Groove. He also included a link to the virtual lab RSS feed so you can keep up to date as more virtual labs are released.
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This exclusive Microsoft event is the third and final of three global SharePoint Conferences, following Seattle and Berlin. This world-class, two-day conference, to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney from May 15-16, will showcase the latest innovations,
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The SharePoint Product Team have justed posted an excellent article on Alternative Access Mappings for MOSS. This is Part 1 of a three part series that is going to be excellent. I can't wait for the other 2 posts - keep the information coming guys.
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I have previously posted about the removal of customer support from Microsoft for MCMS SP1a on January 9th 2007. I highly recommend that customers that wish to maintain their support arrangements for their content management platform, upgrade MCMS to
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After lots of trouble with the RSS feeds under Blogger, I have made the move and relocated my blog to WordPress. My RSS feed will be the same as always http://feeds.feedburner.com/CodeJediNET . If you are reading this post via RSS, be sure to check out
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I just found this useful tool BDC Meta Man for managing metadata for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Business Data Catalog (BDC). BDC Meta Man provides the ability to create Application Definitions for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
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