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November 2005 - Posts

Sunday, November 27, 2005 4:54 PM

Great Blog Resources on Office 12

Not on the short list of Office 12 beta testers but interested in learning more? Here's the best I can do (short of showing you the “secret“ stuff that beta testers are seeing -- which I can't and won't do). Below is a short list of Office
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 5:52 PM

What's Searched in WSS Search?

A few folks have asked about WSS search; what's searched and what's not? The table below was taken from an MSDN article ( http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/stse08.mspx ). It details what content in a WSS site
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Monday, November 21, 2005 7:36 PM

So You Want to Build a Dashboard?

With the recent release of Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager, many SharePoint users have started to ask whether it is time to invest in performance dashboards. Dashboards are a very powerful AND challenging endeavor. The technology, like BSM, is only
Posted by Mauro | 2 Comments
Sunday, November 20, 2005 5:27 AM

RSS Syndication of SharePoint List Data

Recently, someone asked me for a good resource for syndicating SharePoint list data via RSS. What a great way to push SharePoint content to the growing community of RSS readers! Note, SharePoint (SPS or WSS) is natively suited to be a good consumer of
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:18 AM

SharePoint DR Story - Your search encountered an error...

Here's a great SharePoint disaster recovery story from a friend at a big law firm. It is an excellent example of the benefits of a good backup strategy. We had a major planned system outage in which we were replacing our network core switches. Therefore
Posted by Mauro | 2 Comments
Monday, November 14, 2005 12:33 PM

Production SharePoint Implementations on Virtual PC

Saw an interesting Microsoft KB article on WSS and SPS on Virtual PC... “neither Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services nor Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 supports the use of hardware virtualization software products for production
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:41 AM

Office 12 for Mobile Devices in the Works

As if the excitement around Office 12 isn't big enough already... Beta 1 is any day now and, trust me, you will be blown away!... I read an article this morning on microsoft-watch.com ( http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1885959,00.asp ) about
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:11 AM

Great Resource for Business Scorecard Manager Customizations

I've been working a lot recently with Business Scorecard Manager... very cool stuff! The challenge has been, as with all new things, there is very little information available on BSM (beyond the usual high-level documentation). I have found that the best
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Saturday, November 05, 2005 5:23 AM

Installing SQL'05 and VS'05 (For Real!)

No more CTP's! I spent a couple of hours this week loading the MSDN (final) versions of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005. I must admit I was bit nervous about how the installation would go... remember all the compatibility issues with the various
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:15 AM

How Do You Measure the Success of a Portal?

One of my clients launched their SPS-based corporate intranet this week. The “vision”, established many months ago, was to establish a single communication and collaboration medium for the 2000 geographically disbursed employees. As we went
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:02 AM

SharePoint Portal Server and Visio Files

I had someone ask me about the user experience accessing Visio files in a SharePoint document library. The question was: When I try to open a Visio document in a document library, it opens in Internet Explorer so the Visio toolbars are missing. This doesn't
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