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January 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:13 AM

Two Great SharePoint 2007 Resources

If you're just starting to get your hands around SharePoint 2007, here are two great resources to add to your learning kit. SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit - ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:06 PM

It's January... Have You Checked Your Dashboards?

We're a couple of weeks into the new year. It's a good time to check your dashboards! The new year brings a clean slate for data... and, often times, trouble. Here are some application errors you should think about while building dashboards that are time
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:11 PM

MOSS 2007 Code Camp for New England SharePoint Users

Save the date! We just received confirmation. Robert Holmes and I will be leading a full day MOSS 2007 Code Camp on February 24th. Registration is now available at http://www.thedevcommunity.org/Events/EventSummary.aspx?id=3 . This should be a great session
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:22 PM

MOSS 2007 Web Part Chrome Types

After you drag and drop a web part onto a SharePoint site, you have the ability to modify the look and feel via the shared web part properties. One such property is Chrome Type. It allows you to set the appearance of a specific web part to have Title
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:17 AM

InfoPath 2007 and Workflow Status

I've been doing a lot with InfoPath 2007 and workflow this week. I hit an interesting problem where I was trying to reference the workflow status associated with the form from within the form (basically, I wanted to lock down some fields when the workflow
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:51 PM

PerformancePoint Article in TechNet Magazine

One of the big deliveries from Microsoft in 2007 will be PerformancePoint Server. I'm proud to say that I'm co-authoring an article on PerformancePoint with Patrick Husting ( www.bimvp.com ). We'll lay out some of the basics and provide good detail on
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 3:38 AM

MOSS 2007: Standard versus Enterprise

I've seen some misleading statements about functionality available with MOSS 2007. Things like "the InfoPath client is no longer needed". Well, that's right... or wrong... depending on the version of MOSS 2007 you're running. There's Standard and there's
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:11 AM

KM and the Law

There is a great read in the January KMWorld on knowledge management in the legal profession. Greta Rusanow wrote " Combining business and practice: KM and the law " ( http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=18866 ) where she details
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:29 AM

WSS V3, MOSS 2007, and Non-IE Browsers

For those who use non-Internet Explorer (IE) browsers, you may have noticed that the user experience with WSS V2 or SPS 2003 was "less than ideal". Functionally, things worked but the lack of context menu support made the use of SharePoint clunky. Because
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Monday, January 01, 2007 11:40 AM

Wiki While You Work - TechNet Magazine

The January issue of Microsoft's TechNet Magazine is online. The cover article, “Wiki While You Work”, was written by yours truly. The issue is available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Wiki/default.aspx . What's cooler than
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Monday, January 01, 2007 11:38 AM

Is "Knowledge Management" Dead?

From Wikipedia: Knowledge Management (KM) refers to a range of practices used by organisations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning across the organisation. Ever try to sell a KM solution? It's not
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