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RoundTable Changes Hands Many of you may have heard this already: the Microsoft Roundtable is now the Polycom CX5000. All production, support, etc is now handed over to Polycom. I’m reading this as a signal for the months to come: MS will not be looking to get into the hardware game at all. The less […]

Here’s a quick tip with a few ways to locate and identify wheter an installation of the Office Communicator client on a workstation originally came from an Evaluation, Volume License, or MSDN version. To determine which flavor of the client software is installed on the computer, locate the Product ID in the Help > About […]

While I have never professed to be a SharePoint or web anything, I was able to help one of my peers get mail delivery between Exchange and SharePoint working in a lab. The SharePoint person was looking at a published article and wanted to see it in action in our lab. I was tasked with […]

I do a lot of email migration work so I’m always looking for new ways (and hopefully better ways) to do some common tasks. For example, I regularly have to add new aliases from the old mail system to the new mailboxes. Normally I would use the migration tool to perform this task, but once […]

While I am no Excel expert, I do have to use this application a lot for my job. My wife laughs when I suggest using technology to resolve her problems in her job as a journalist and insists on doing things longhand. Anyway, I’ll keep trying. Most of my time is spent migrating various mail […]

Find your SharePoint power users. They can make your SharePoint implementation a continued success. They know how to create most of the lists, views, columns and so on that you are being asked about by so many people. They also know where and how to find answers to the questions that are new to them. […]

It is well known that unfortunately SharePoint 2007 does not support transactional access. This is very unfortunate since in many cases having transactional access is very important. For example, It is common to have data stored in SQL Server referring to some documemnts stored in SharePoint. In such cases, inserting or updating records in both […]

Probably about once every three months or so I’m asked about using stored procedures to access the SharePoint databases. Sometimes the question is exactly that, just an innocent question. Sometimes it’s in effect a statement implying that our design should include queries that access the SharePoint databases directly. The view is that performace could be […]

A wonderful thing has come to light. Microsoft has taken a burden away from the lowly IT Admin running the Virtual hosting environment for his company. How would you like the ability to, on a per user or per group basis, with a reasonable level of granularity, let users power on, power off, do minor […]

Sometimes it’s the tiniest of things that makes a difference. You might recall seeing an interesting change in the shape of passenger jet wings about eight years ago. The ends of wings with these modifications curve upward. Boeing introduced these modifications to 737s after receiving FAA approval to retrofit jets then in service. Today there […]

There is no easy way to deploy a SharePoint Designer workflow and manually creating a workflow from scratch when wanting to move it from one environement to the other is definitly not a solution either. Though web packages are part of the solution, I will show you additional tricks you will need to know in […]

SharePoint lists and libraries (document, form, picture, etc.) make use of Microsoft Office code libraries to provide some of their more powerful features. If you have never used the datasheet view of a document library or list to paste metadata into columns you have been missing out on one of the most powerful features of […]