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# Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Just shaking off the dust after completing a project.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:14:36 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Amanda Murphy has started writing SharePoint articles for Intranet Journal. The SharePoint series over there has slowed down since I got too busy to contribute. But with Amanda and Rob, I look forward to more great stuff!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:59:21 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Shane is rallying the troops on WSSv3 customization.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:01:52 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Friday, July 07, 2006

I started the process on Friday afternoon, so you may need to adjust each days activities...

Day 1 (afternoon)

Create Virtual Machine and Virtual Disk; Install Windows 2003 Server R2; Download 32 patches from Windows Update.

Day 2

Watch A.J beat the Cubs in the ninth-inning sandwich by the World Cup semi-finals.

Day 3

Mow lawn; Buy new garage door opener; Pay for installation (It is a hardware problem!); Other honey-do's.

Day 4

Work on a setup project for the SharePoint Forums WebPart.

Day 5

Independance Day parade, cook-out and fireworks.

Day 6

Download and install WSS and its prerequisites. Ian Morrish has them summarized on his demo site.

Day 7 (morning)

Configure Forms Authentication using tips from Nick Swan and code from the ASP.Net Quick Start. (In an interesting intersection of old and new, I used Notepad to create an ASP.Net 2.0 application!)

The SharePoint Team has done a fantastic job! 

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Friday, July 07, 2006 2:31:51 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [1]  | 
# Thursday, June 29, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:22:38 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Symptom:

When performing a search on a WSS page that has been customized, the standard WSS error page displays with the message "Unable to validate data"

Cause:

The search box is rendered via the <SharePoint:ViewSearchForm> tag. In the customized pages, this tag was inside the <form runat="server"> tag

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:16:37 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Thursday, June 15, 2006

A new Technical Article is online discussing the cases in which Dispose() should be called.  A must read for all SharePoint developers.

Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

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Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:58:51 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 

One of the patches on June 13, 2006 is causing problems on some pages. A few pages to review to get up to speed and the work-around:

InfoWorld's article

KBase Article

MSDN Technical Article with the work-around

Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:59:49 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Wednesday, June 14, 2006

InfoWorld posted an article describing some of the things that cause visitors to leave. One of those things -- flashing ads that distract the reader.

On the page, I'm sure you can guess what I saw...

Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:52:50 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Wednesday, June 07, 2006

How would you address this scenario:

I have a web part that displays information from a legacy system. The information is very important to that system's user community -- so much so that it deserves to be displayed on the home page (WSS, not SPS). However, the legacy system user community is about 25% of the organizations employees. This 25% is influential, and mostly technology averse.

If the information applied to 100% (or somthing close to it) of the employees, then I would update the Shared View. But I would rather not subject 75% to an empty web part. And forcing the 25% to manually add the web part to their Personal View is a nonstarter.

I encourage comments/questions on my blog site.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006 1:11:29 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Comments [2]  | 
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