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March 2005 - Posts

Friday, March 25, 2005 8:24 AM

Increasing Site Storage for SharePoint Portal Personal Sites

SharePoint Portal users can use their 'My Site' sites to manage and share personal content. SharePoint has a limit on the amount of disk space associated with each personal site; I think the default is set to 100MB. You can change this quota through the
Posted by Mauro | 4 Comments
Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:46 AM

Unchecking the "Items are changed" checkbox on SharePoint alerts

In the spirit of my post yesterday, I bring you a similar tip on how to customize the Alerts page to force the 'Items are changed” checkbox to default to unchecked... When you select 'Alert Me' on any SharePoint page, you are brought to the “Add
Posted by Mauro | 3 Comments
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:59 AM

Disabling SharePoint Portal's "add a listing for this document" checkbox

I've had a few folks ask for a way to disable that annoying second page on a document upload that deals with adding a listing. If you remember, there's a checkbox at the bottom of the Upload page that asks whether to add a listing for that document. That
Posted by Mauro | 15 Comments
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:45 AM

SQL '05 and VS'05 to ship at year end

Saw the news this morning ( http://www.gameshout.com/news/032005/article638.htm )... It looks like Microsoft is pushing out the release dates for both Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 to “end of year”. This delay pushes the “end
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:47 AM

SQL Server 2005 - The Death of the Traditional DBA?

I did a presentation this weekend at the New England Microsoft Developers Code Camp. The topic was “Building Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2005”. It was a combination of slides and live demos. One of the things that struck
Posted by Mauro | 2 Comments
Monday, March 14, 2005 12:19 PM

List of SharePoint Site Collection Users

I had a client ask for a way to manage Site Collection Users. Interestingly, there is a page that SharePoint provides to view and manage this data; however, it is not exposed through the SharePoint administrative interface. Go to http://ServerName/_layouts/1033/siteusrs.aspx
Posted by Mauro | 2 Comments
Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:56 PM

Great article on Yahoo's new CDO (Chief Data Officer)

Saw a great article on Yahoo's new CDO. For those of us who do Microsoft programming, CDO means something totally different... this is not their email guru. CDO is Chief Data Officer and his role is to analyze data and, more importantly, derive direction
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments