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November 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:34 AM

Uploading Local Files to a SPS 2003 Document Library

Sorry for the radio silence with the blog the last several weeks! We're into crunch time on our MOSS 2007 book and I am writing (hopefully!) my last chapters this week. Anyway, here's a quick SPS 2003 tip on uploading a local document into a document
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:37 AM

Justifying ROI on a Corporate Portal

I have been helping a customer build a SharePoint-based prototype for a big Partner demo in their company. The goal is to justify the value of a collaborative platform and get approval for moving forward with a SharePoint implementation. In these types
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:46 AM

Adding Extranet Users in Batches

A few weeks ago I posted some code to create an Active Directory user using a web service. If you try it, the code works great... once. After the first call, all subsequent calls fail. It turns out that there is a known bug in the .Invoke (associated
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Monday, November 06, 2006 2:52 PM

Lessons Learned from a Real Excel Services Deployment

We pushed out a production instance of a MOSS 2007 portal recently and used Excel Services for the dashboard piece. To say the least, it was an interesting experience. In theory, Excel Services simplifies the dashboard development process. In reality
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Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:56 AM

Great Article on Real-World Dashboard Usage

A friend directed me to an article in The Chronicle of Philanthropy entitled “ Checking the Dashboard ”. It is a very interesting look at a real-world implementation of a performance dashboard in the non-profit sector. I find some of the user
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