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October 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:45 AM

More Tips on Designing a Dashboard

I had another dashboard demo last week and thought I would share some additional tips that I found worked very well in the presentation... (1) One of the toughest challenges in designing a dashboard is knowing when you have all the “right”
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Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:23 AM

Building Your Own Scorecard From Scratch

I've deployed scorecards using Business Scorecard Manager (BSM). I've also used the new KPI list in MOSS 2007 to build pseudo-scorecards (yes, a KPI list and a scorecard are different). Recently, I needed to add a scorecard to a dashboard in an environment
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:02 AM

Great Post on MOSS 2007 Branding

Here's a great blog entry by Mike H. with step-by-step instructions on implementing branding through master page manipulation... http://geekswithblogs.net/mhamilton/archive/2006/07/15/85312.aspx . The notion of master pages is new to most folks. Mike
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Saturday, October 21, 2006 5:44 PM

More on Adding Extranet Users to AD

I've had several folks ask for more details on how I deal with SharePoint user security in an extranet environment. As we all know, WSS 2003 requires users to have AD credentials. This typically means setting up another AD environment in the DMZ and managing
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Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:56 PM

BSM 2005 and SharePoint 2007 Technical Refresh

I was catching up on some reading this afternoon and came across a post by Patrick Husting ( www.bimvp.com ), a BSM guru (and friend). This one saved me a few frustrating hours as it was on my next list of to-do's. Hopefully, this gets fixed real soon...
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Monday, October 09, 2006 2:39 PM

Can Microsoft Dominate the Portal Market?

Here's an interesting read... Aberdeen Group recently published a whitepaper entitled “ Can Microsoft Dominate the Portal Market?”. Their research findings lead you to believe that it can. Here's the link and abstract... http://www.aberdeen.com/summary/report/research_briefs/rb_sharepoint_rk_3399.asp
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:34 PM

Office BTR and Norton AntiVirus

This one bugged me for a few minutes so I felt the need to share the solution... I upgraded my laptop to Office 2007 BTR (did the standard install then applied the patch). Everything went smoothly... except, when finished, I could not open any Office
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:08 AM

Great Article in CIO Insight Magazine on Corporate Blogging

CIO Magazine recently did an interview with Robert Scoble ( http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=190067,00.asp ). One of the key takeaways from the piece (at least for me) is Scoble's justification for corporate blogging. By now, everyone
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