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January 2005 - Posts

Monday, January 31, 2005 7:19 AM

SharePoint and PDF Full-Text Searching

Recently, a friend told me about some problems he has had with SharePoint doing full-text searches on Adobe PDF files. Specifically, pdf documents in WSS sites appear to show up in search results but are not matching on full-text strings. I did some research
Posted by Mauro | 10 Comments
Friday, January 28, 2005 10:57 AM

Personal Insights on SharePoint Portal Server V3

I don't pretend to be well connected and I don't believe much of what I read but I am comfortable offering my opinion... Several of my clients have asked about the next version of SharePoint Portal Server. When will it be released? Will it be very different
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:34 AM

I'm speaking at the New England Code Camp III in March

For those of you in New England, Thom Robbins from Microsoft has been running a developer's Code Camp over the past few months. It is a free, weekend-based collection of technical sessions on all things Microsoft. Thom does a great job of collecting experts
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Monday, January 24, 2005 5:27 PM

When Do Companies Outgrow Their Spreadsheets

I saw an interesting article in a year-end review newsletter from CFO magazine entitled “When Do Companies Outgrow Their Spreadsheets” ( http://www.cfo.com/printable/article.cfm/3014023?f=options ). It is interesting to note that in companies
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:55 PM

Reporting Services SP2 Now in Beta

I saw that Reporting Services Service Pack 2 is now available as a beta. I signed up for beta participation right away. While SP2 has some nice bug fixes and enhancements (like client-side printing), the big attraction for me is the availability of SharePoint
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:43 AM

What Every Microsoft Developer Needs to Know

About a year and a half ago, I wrote an article ( http://www.knowledge-management.com/news/v3n10/msdev.html ) making the statement that to be a Microsoft-based developer you need to have three core skills: C#, XML, and SQL Server. Since then, I've soften
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:05 PM

Adding Custom Help to SharePoint Portal Server

I was working with a client this week that had a request to add custom help to their SharePoint-based corporate intranet. In effect, they wanted to “take over” the Help link on all Area AND Site pages. I did a little research and found a very
Posted by Mauro | 2 Comments
Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:21 AM

Explaining "Business Intelligence" to a CEO

One of the big buzzwords out there in the world of portals is “Executive Dashboards”. Executive Dashboards are typically centered around a senior management team's view of organizational data. Ever try to explain what one is to a business
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:22 PM

Looking forward to my session on Smart Documents

On February 1st, I have the opportunity to lead a session on Smart Documents at the local (New England) C# Users Group. I submitted my session description today. I will post my slides here on February 2nd. Feedback is welcomed and encouraged! Topic: “Smart
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:25 AM

Extending SharePoint Portal Server's Search Results

I wrote an article for our corporate newsletter last month on some work I have been doing with SharePoint's search results ( http://www.knowledge-management.com/news/v4n11/spssearch.html ). I had seen a lot of articles on writing custom interfaces to
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments