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June 2008 - Posts

Friday, June 27, 2008 1:30 AM

Best Practices for Using SharePoint for Public Websites

I recently received a copy of a new analyst report entitled "Best Practices for Using SharePoint for Public Websites - A Business Person's Guide" (I was interviewed as part of the research). It's an interesting piece for those considering using MOSS for
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:35 AM

Limiting the SharePoint People Picker List

Found another goodie in MOSS SP1... By default, a web application that is tied to Windows Authentication will search the entire Active Directory to resolve user names. This is great for a corporate intranet but what if you are building something smaller
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:11 AM

SharePoint and Web 2.0

There is a big Enterprise Web 2.0 conference here in Boston this week. One of the sessions is on how Wachovia is using SharePoint collaboration and social networking tools. There is an interesting article in InformationWeek this week that covers this
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:03 AM

Calculating an Aging Column in SharePoint 2007

Here's an interesting problem... with a more interesting solution! Let's say you want to create an Aging column in your document library (i.e. the number of days since the document was last changed). Since SharePoint supports calculated fields, this should
Posted by Mauro | 5 Comments
Monday, June 02, 2008 3:55 AM

Web Service to Query Active Directory Attributes

Been on a coding kick lately... My colleagues and I are working on some custom SharePoint workflows and one of them requires obtaining some user data from Active Directory. A great way to handle this is through the use of a web service. Once implemented,
Posted by Mauro | 1 Comments