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January 2006 - Posts

Saturday, January 28, 2006 6:23 AM

So You Want to be a Dashboard/Scorecard Developer?

There's been lots of buzz in the business world over the last 12 months about scorecards and dashboards... although I'm not convinced enough people know the difference between the two. Anyway, Microsoft is starting to build a pretty impressive collection
Posted by Mauro | 4 Comments
Thursday, January 26, 2006 4:57 AM

Hiding 'Export results' Button on SharePoint Surveys

One of the nice features of SharePoint surveys is the ability to 'Export results to a spreadsheet'. This button is just to the right of 'Respond to survey'. It takes all of your survey results, per user, and dumps it to a spreadsheet. In cases where you
Posted by Mauro | 5 Comments
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:43 AM

Speaking at NEECOM Event in March

Just confirmed that I will be doing a session entitled 'Making Better Business Decisions with Dashboards and Scorecards” at the NEECOM (New England Electronic Commerce Users' Group [ www.neecom.org ]) event in March. My abstract is below and I will
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Monday, January 23, 2006 7:38 AM

Why is Your SharePoint Database So Big?

As your SharePoint Portal Server portal matures (and gains more content), the size of the main SharePoint database (*_SITE) can get pretty big. Ever wonder why? Here's a quick t-sql command that will give you some great insight into what tables are driving
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Friday, January 20, 2006 4:54 AM

Generating Active Directory Diagrams with Visio and .NET

Came across a great MSDN article yesterday entitled “Generating Active Directory Diagrams with Visio 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003” ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnofftalk/html/OfficeTalkActiveDirectoryVisioDiagrams.asp
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:23 AM

Beginner's Guide to SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Came across a great article on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) by SEOmoz. Here's the link... http://www.seomoz.org/articles/beginners-1-page.php#0 This article is offered as a resource to help individuals, organizations and companies inexperienced with
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:54 AM

Customizing Themes for Windows SharePoint Services

Had a user ask... I am creating a teamsite template (and subpages). I hope to create a look and feel that will extend to all the subpages (doclibraries, lists, detail pages etc..). How do I edit the .css files for that template so that all the headers/bullets/fonts
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 14, 2006 5:39 AM

Sneak Peak at Office 12 Desktop

One of the more popular questions I have received about Office 12 is “how different is it?”. Unfortunately, honoring the beta 1 rules has left me with giving very broad answers (with no pictures). Yesterday, I found an article on the ActiveWin
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:51 AM

Adding 'Insert Hpyerlink' Button to SharePoint Announcement Toolbar

Have you noticed that the SharePoint Announcement Rich Text Box does not include a toolbar option for inserting hyperlinks? It's the button with the green dot and chain link below. It seems like an obvious need to add hyperlinks to body text for Announcement
Posted by Mauro | 8 Comments
Monday, January 09, 2006 5:06 AM

Business Scorecard Manager Database Schema

Wondering what is happening “under the covers” with BSM? Curious where all the data goes? Well, the best place to look for answers is the database. When BSM server is installed a new database in created... ScorecardServer. It's pretty small
Posted by Mauro | 2 Comments
Friday, January 06, 2006 10:43 AM

Working with KPIUtil.exe and Business Scorecard Manager

For anyone working with Business Scorecard Manager (BSM), check out the KPIUtil.exe tool ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=556E01A4-49A2-4A61-BEC5-0260B42DCF1B&displaylang=en ). It allows you to export your KPIs from SQL Server
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:50 AM

Virtual PC 101 (or how I spent my holiday vacation)

I was fortunate to have a few days off at the end of 2005 and took advantage of it by building out some virtual environments. I must admit that I was a little late in embracing the VM experience... but now I'm an addict! I've been able to create some
Posted by Mauro | 0 Comments