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All Zune'd up...

For those who have not heard about what a Zune is ... it is a portable music/video/picture player...

Author: chjohn Date: 12/04/2006

3 great new MSDN articles on MOSS branding...

Patrick Tisseghem has written 3 new awesome articles for MSDN on Web Content Management in MOSS....

Author: chjohn Date: 11/16/2006

Fully baked RTM bits for MOSS and WSS V3 are up...

I dont normally like to just post up stuff i find on others blogs ... but this is important :) The...

Author: chjohn Date: 11/16/2006

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

This is what people who are new to SharePoint development have been after for quite some time....

Author: chjohn Date: 11/08/2006

Feature Stapling in WSS V3

Background: New to the WSSv3 Platform is a concept called Features. These enable you to package...

Author: chjohn Date: 10/31/2006

ISO Recorder V3 out...

Just got word from Alex that the world famous ISO Recorder is now out for Vista! I have missed this...

Author: chjohn Date: 10/19/2006

MOSS Search Scopes Missing in Action?

Are you suffering from your custom search scopes not showing up in your scopes dropdown on your...

Author: chjohn Date: 10/19/2006

Scanning directly to WSS/SPS

Microsoft Partners never fail to amaze me with some of the coolest product add-ons out there. Today...

Author: chjohn Date: 10/18/2006

Wireless at 35,000 feet...

As I write this I am seat 23F on flight SQL 286 from Auckland, New Zealand to Singapore & am...

Author: chjohn Date: 10/01/2006

Vista ReadyBoost...

I have been using Vista for quite a while now. On the early betas I had my fair share of problems,...

Author: chjohn Date: 09/24/2006

Minimal SharePoint Master Page

I often get asked about how to go about customising a WSS/MOSS master page. Here is the advice I...

Author: chjohn Date: 09/21/2006

Moving your MySite location in MOSS

Background: When you install MOSS (not evaluation copy) part of that process is creating a Shared...

Author: chjohn Date: 09/14/2006

Using SharePoint XSDs in Visual Studio

One of the things that made SharePoint developers lose sleep and hair over was the lack of...

Author: chjohn Date: 09/13/2006

How solution deployment has changed development with SharePoint technologies

Background: Anyone who is familiar with development & deployment of custom solutions on...

Author: chjohn Date: 09/10/2006

Same same ... but different

Apparently the BB comes in a cool new form factor, has new navigation thingy & you can play...

Author: chjohn Date: 09/08/2006

Application Development on MOSS 2007 & WSS V3

UPDATED 15-March-2007UPDATED 16-November-2007 (Option 4 updated with steps) I have been fortunate...

Author: chjohn Date: 09/05/2006

MOSS 2007 Business Data Catalogue (BDC) generator

If you are freaked out at the thought of having to craft by hand the XML config for a BDC...

Author: chjohn Date: 08/30/2006

Office keeping you warm...

Gave away some of these at TechEd NZ and Aussie.

Author: chjohn Date: 08/28/2006

Post TechEd 2006 withdrawal

Arrived back from TechEd NZ and Aussie on Friday night. What a great week! So many great sessions in...

Author: chjohn Date: 08/28/2006

TechEd 2006 - New Zealand, MOSS Sessions & Rugby...

Monday marks the start of New Zealands biggest Microsoft focussed technical readyness event ......

Author: chjohn Date: 08/18/2006

Extranets and Intranet Planning Resources with WSS v3 & SharePoint Server 2007

Joel has just posted a really nice post on lots of extranet and intranet planning resources that are...

Author: chjohn Date: 08/08/2006

Long time no blog...

I tend to go through fits of posting ... then no posting for a while ... so i thought i would post...

Author: chjohn Date: 08/07/2006

Tech travel...

Something I get great satisfaction from is travelling smart. Rod leads the charge with this and his...

Author: chjohn Date: 06/19/2006

Content Management Server 2002 Migration information...

With the Microsoft Office Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) we have integrated Web Content Management...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/23/2006

2007 Office System reference material

Here is a list of content available on the 2007 Microsoft Office System. I can’t take any of the...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/23/2006

Windows SharePoint Services Developer Center

Great place for loads (more coming also) of information all about the WSS V3.. screen casts, blogs,...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/23/2006

2007 Microsoft Office System Beta 2 open for download

It has been a while coming now ... and we are over the moon at being able to let people download the...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/23/2006

More on WMP11 in the news...

“It's a Windows Media trifecta, and never before has the Windows music environment looked so...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/21/2006

Why WMP11 rules...

I plugged my Creative Zen Micro in WMP11 it picked it up ... asked me a couple of questions about...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/18/2006

Blog reader idea for someone with time...

Right now I am able to subscribe to feeds in IE7 and can read them in Outlook 2007. This is using...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/16/2006

Office 2007 Partner Technical Readiness Training Presentations

Earlier this year I did a tour of Asia delivering training to partners on Office SharePoint Server...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/15/2006

Search in Vista and Office 2007

Search is vastly improved in these two products ... no more waiting for the little dog to tell you...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/14/2006

Posting from Word 2007

I read here: https://blogs.msdn.com/joe_friend/archive/2006/05/12/595963.aspx about the new Blog...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/14/2006

Making the Vista and Office 2007 plunge...

I needed to do a laptop rebuild due to it running like pig. I treat my laptop builds badly ... i end...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/09/2006

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and timezones... solved.

Along with many others i have been frustrated at how Outlook does not have the ability to deal with...

Author: chjohn Date: 05/07/2006

Why Visual Studio targets only one version of the .NET Framework

Found this while reseaching how to build web parts using VS 2005 for SPS 2003 (framework 1.1) Why...

Author: chjohn Date: 04/17/2006

It is great to see movie companies stepping up and taking the steps to get their content delivered...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/29/2006

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Product Guide

Lawrence has posted about the MOSS 2007 product guide. Good high level read about new functionality...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/28/2006

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Q & A Part 1

Part 1 answering some of the comments on my previous post about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/28/2006

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 ...

On the 21st the covers came off the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) at the Office...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/27/2006

Great WSS site definitions 'how to'

This is a great new site definitions white paper by Patrick Tisseghem. This is the first thing...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/27/2006

Blogs, IE7 and Microsoft Outlook 2007

As many of you might already know ... you can subscribe to a feed via IE7 and have it take care of...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/21/2006

https://openxmldeveloper.org/

BillG talked about this site during the keynote at Office DevCon. All about open XML document...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/21/2006

Pet Peeve with BCC and email...

When you join Microsoft one of the first things you end up getting really good at very quickly is...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/21/2006

List 'Save as template' functionality & WSS Site Definitions...

I recently had to make some changes/additions to a customers custom site definitions. As everyone...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/16/2006

SharePoint TODAY field and calculated fields...

A customer sent me a link to a page they found about using the Today field in calculated sharepoint...

Author: chjohn Date: 03/15/2006

International Flying and Outlook appointments...

A while back I noted how painful it still is to schedule appointments in another timezone when your...

Author: chjohn Date: 02/28/2006

V.Next Office lineup announced....

Read all about it here:...

Author: chjohn Date: 02/16/2006

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