IFilters released for Office 2007 formats
So how many of you thought that MOSS2007 was already indexing your Office 2007 documents correctly? Microsoft have just (17 Dec 2007) released an updated Microsoft Filter Pack which provides...
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User Profiles: Why do my changes not show in other sites?
A detailed look at how the Sync works I was asked recently to advise on how to configure a MOSS 2007 installation to allow end users to update their display name as they had previously been able to do...
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SharePoint ate all my memory! – dealing with memory pressures in SharePoint
One of the areas covered during the training I do on WSS Development is how to correctly dispose of objects, specifically the the ones that have a reference to SPRequest like SPSite and SPWeb. We talk...
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Scripted SharePoint Farm deployment
I normally do not cross post from other people blogs, but had to make an exception for this post by Ben Curry – because it mentions me Scripted SharePoint Farm Installation using PSConfig.exe and...
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Low mic volume in Vista 64bit
Having previously been an avid Skype user I decided to reinstall on my Vista ultimate 64bit laptop build. Download and software installation (version 3.6) went without issue, but making a Skype test...
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Windows Server 2008 developing SharePoint – Can’t connect from Office clients
Now that Windows 2008 Server is out SharePoint developers (and I’m sure lots of others as well) will start to move their development machines onto the new platform. For SharePoint developers tend to...
View ArticleCreate Custom Policy programmatically
Answering a forum thread I had to do a bit of digging into how to create new Policies in code. This post from Ethan helped point me in the right direction. The requirement was to programmatically...
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Top Tool Tips
Do you write proposals? do bug testing? or write books? post blogs? or just need screen shots to help explain what you mean? If Yes then you need the latest version of SnagIt by TechSmith. In...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 – Have to Extend to have Multiple URLs
I think this was a best practice in SharePoint 2007, but was one that you could get away with. You have internal and external URLs that will be used to access the same web application. Internally...
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SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 Tip
There are some great articles out about setting up SharePoint 2010 to work on Windows 7. Spence has a few great tips as always. MSDN has a good post which actually gets you up and running. One things...
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