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Usually I blog without using any other tools on the OZ website. Today I try something different by using Windows Live Writer as blogging tool. So if you can read this LiveWriter was able to post my (obviously not so interesting) blog item.

Welcome back to part 2 of my blog on Database-Driven Excel Charting in SharePoint. If you followed the steps from the first part of this blog, you should have an Excel 2007 workbook with a pivot table calling a stored procedure in SQL Server. In this blog, we'll publish this workbook to Excel and configure SharePoint to allow the workbook to ...

As you may have noticed, OfficeZealot has changed. The speakTech team updated the Zealot site and moved things to SharePoint. All sorts of new stuff is used. Things like Silverlight, Flash Rotator, Community Server Integration and List Web Parts. I hope you like the new look and feel, enjoy!

Some useful links that help guide a configuration of SharePoint when using Kerberos... How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication How to use SPNs when you configure Web applications that are hosted on IIS 6.0 How to ...

So we finally have a product that we can show. Here is a screnshot:    And here is the original com:  So it is pretty close...  A few last minute challenges We faced a couple of challenges: - URL Rewriting does not want to work with query string parameters. - Some of the blogs that our site aggregate are down ...

  The new OfficeZealot home page contains a Flash Poster. The speakTECH Flash Poster is a small but  nifty Flash movie that displays a series of images in sequence with nice animations and a couple of other interesting features.   Adding a Flash element to a Sharepoint page is pretty simple, just create a new web part that writes ...

The new task for the team was making the URLs from SharePoint go friendly; basically remove the annoying “/Page/” string from the URL.  This has the added benefit that we’ll be able to keep our old URLs and keep Office Zealot rankings in search engines. While not complicated, Sharepoint cares a lot about handlers. In essence, we need to ...

Hello all, today we proudly announce that we have implemented on our future site our Community Server  viewer web part. This Web part is capable of rendering different types of content given by Community server, and can be styled with CSS. After adding the web part into our page, we open the options panel, and we must select what type of ...

It's been an exciting 4 days. We are finally starting to have every item come togeher to form the nice site this is supposed to be.In another post, we'll show you how the tag cloud from Community Server looks. This is how the Articles and News will look now: The joys of CAML and SPQuery Well, Sharepoint sure is fun! Much of its flexibility ...