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March 2007 - Posts

Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:37 AM

Information versus Knowledge

Scott Jamison wrote a blog entry on Information vs. Knowledge ( http://www.scottjamison.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,efcff5e0-d530-4daf-8d59-ae87796602ae.aspx ) that I found very interesting. It is a topic that is near and dear to me (and what I do). So, here's
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:31 AM

Quick Tidbit on SharePoint and 64-bit

I've had a couple of folks this week ask about steps for eventually upgrading their SharePoint 2007 environments from 32-bit to 64-bit. One of the challenges, from an infrastructure perspective, is to allow for hardware and software upgrades without adversely
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Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:12 AM

Random Thoughts on SharePoint-based Workflow

I'm doing a session for the New England Code Camp later this month (Code Camp 7: Deer in Headlights! - http://www.thedevcommunity.org/CodeCamps/ ) on workflow development with Visual Studio. See the abstract at the end of this blog. I've been working
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:18 PM

SharePoint 2007 Web Parts from Dundas

My friend Patrick Husting beat me to the bunch with his glowing review of the new Dundas SharePoint charting web parts ( http://bimvp.com/blogs/bsm/archive/2007/03/12/dundas-charts-for-sharepoint-very-cool-and-useful.aspx ). Check out his blog for screenshots
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:14 PM

Speaking at the New England SharePoint User Group

I'm doing a session on March 27th for the New England SharePoint User Group ( http://www.clearwaypartners.com/SUGHome.htm ) on the different MOSS user experiences with Office 2003 and Office 2007. See the session abstract below. Will MOSS 2007 work if
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 6:54 AM

Collaboration "Fix" in MOSS 2007

There were a few bugs in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 that bugged me. One of them was the inability to create a document workspace from a document stored in an Area document library. It worked with WSS; you saw the context menu item for it within an
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:19 PM

Getting the SharePoint Terminology Right

Years ago, when I was trying to figure out Excel VBA, I drew myself a picture of concentric circles to understand the relationships among cells, ranges, worksheets, and workbooks. It helped! I've tried to use this method recently with a few folks as I
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:13 PM

MOSS Reporting Services Add-in

Thanks to Liam Cleary for his three part blog posts on the new Reporting Services Add-in for MOSS. Check out his details in the links below... plenty of screenshots and step-by-step instructions on how to install, configure, and deploy. Good stuff! Post
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 3:29 AM

What is a SharePoint Governance Plan?

A few days ago I wrote a post on the need for a good governance plan in order to ensure the scalability of a SharePoint 2007 depoyment. Since then, a few folks have asked me about what a governance plan actually contains. I liken a governance plan to
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Friday, March 02, 2007 3:49 AM

Odd Behavior with Externally Facing SharePoint 2007 Portal

I have a client that took a MOSS 2007 portal and opened up external access to it. The new IP should allow authenticated users to get to the portal from anywhere. The network folks opened up the port but they saw some strange behavior... If they went to
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