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July 2006 - Posts

Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:09 AM

Tips for Presenting Your Dashboard Prototype

I had to do a demo this week of a performance dashboard I'm building. The audience was the senior executive team (and primary users of the system). It's always a bit scary to design and build something then show it to the business users. You can go “from
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:41 AM

Problem Transferring Metadata Using SharePoint Explorer View

Scenario: You have two document libraries with (what appear to be) exact column matches. You use Explorer View to copy and paste a document from one library to the other. Most of the metadata comes with the document. One column does not. It appears that
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Monday, July 24, 2006 1:06 PM

Error Trying to Edit a Word Document from a Document Library

I had a user receive the following error every time he tried to edit a document from the portal (i.e. he selected 'Edit in Microsoft Word' in the context menu from the document library)... 'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible
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Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:26 AM

Speaking at the Western New York .NET User Group

In the classic “I resemble that statement!”, I direct you to the very clever advertisement for my presentation at next month's Western New York .NET User Group meeting... http://blogs.msdn.com/trobbins/archive/2006/07/20/673167.aspx . Sorry
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:31 PM

Great SharePoint Strategy Resource

In my last post I mentioned the importance of a good SharePoint strategy. Well, to help you define what that looks like I direct you to a white paper by Sue Hanley. Her content, entitled “Windows SharePoint Services Organizational Issues White Paper”,
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Sunday, July 16, 2006 6:16 AM

SharePoint: Technology Framework or Business Facilitator?

Within the last month, Microsoft has held its TechEd and World Wide Partner conferences (both in my hometown) and, I think, sufficiently convinced customers and partners that the hub of the MS universe in now SharePoint. Every Microsoft-focused services
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Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:09 AM

Interesting Read in CFO Magazine on RSS

RSS enablement is a very cool feature in SharePoint 2007. When I first saw it, I thought that it was a great way to do data aggregation for internal data (versus the traditional use for external news). Well, at leats one other person agrees... Yasmin
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Saturday, July 08, 2006 9:08 AM

Linking SharePoint Lists to BSM KPI's

One of the challenges with working with scorecards is that sometime you want to link KPI's with unstructured data. That data can be a physical file (or colelction of files) or a task list. BSM does not natively support this. Well, ExtendLabs just came
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:52 AM

Changes in the SharePoint Database Schema

I've been busy working on my first WSS 2007 deployment (yes, we are going live with Beta 2 software!). One of the things that I spent some time on yesterday was looking at the database schema changes. I found that understanding the schema helped a lot
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Saturday, July 01, 2006 5:21 AM

Wanring Message with SharePoint Explorer View

Had a customer ask... How do you disable the “Running a system command on this item might be unsafe. Do you wish to continue?” message when using Explorer View in SharePoint. Answer: Go to Tools > Internet options in Internet Explorer.
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