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I recently came across a frustrating scenario in which my validator controls seemed to be set up properly but would not fire when expected. Here’s the background: The validators and the controls that they were meant to validate were children of a user control that allowed the user to edit billing address information for a […]

If you aren’t aware, Vista and Server 2008 have fully baked in support for IPv6 right out of the box. No amount of unchecking the IPv6 boxes on your NIC will fully disable all of the IPv6 features. Why would you want to disable IPv6? Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has many known issues with IPv6 […]

Recently I was working with a client that had a unique view on how to configure their Windows forest for time services. If you aren’t aware, Microsoft has designed a comprehensive time distribution service called w32time in Windows 2000 and later. It is designed to keep all computers in the forest within five minutes of […]

For you truly geeky Exchange and SQL administrators, you may be familiar with using diskpart on Windows 2000/2003 to manually configure the partition sector offset for your SAN based LUNs. Not a super geek and have no idea what I’m talking about? No fear, Server 2008 is here to the rescue. Yes, in this case […]

When working with InfoPath, a weird behavior can occur with SharePoint site columns where the columns may seem to disappear when editing their type. Recreating the Problem: Let’s say we create a simple form that will capture users’ comments with their first and last names as show here: The first and last name fields are […]

What goes up must come down. The same idea pertains to what is created, generally must be disposed of. The issue of garbage collection has always plagued programmers in just about every programming language. SharePoint has implemented automatic garbage disposal in a few ways. Still, a conscious effort for disposal must be made in many […]

In previous posts, I described a few different uses of the MSBUILD Copy task to gather files into the required locations for packaging or testing. While using this method over the last few months, I came across a quirky behavior of MSBUILD in which files added to a project after the build project was open […]

Microsoft recently updated KB 946517 which addresses the memory leak around the SharePoint OWStimer Process to include Windows Server 2008 as well as Windows Server 2003. This memory leak has been a problem with WSSv3 since it’s inception almost two years ago. Unfortunately this problem had plagued Windows Server 2008 since it has IIS6 compatibility […]

LCSKid brings good tidings: the management pack for OCS 2007 is now out. Hurray! This was a missing link in the case for Microsoft UC. I like that OCS gives you the ability to manage and provision users w/ several different feature (voice, video, conferencing, IM, presence, LiveMeeting) from a single place and a single […]

I am presently developing a large, complex SharePoint application whose deployment consists of about 10 SharePoint Solutions. Since functionality is still under development, I am very frequently rebuilding WSPs and upgrading them. My standard way of doing this was via the command shell: stsadm -o upgradesolution -name [solution name] -filename [solution path] -immediate -allowgacdeployment Less […]

According to Greek mythology, Kerberos is the three-headed hound that guards the gates of Hades. It is also the industry standard security protocol that allows a user’s security context must be passed from their workstation to multiple back-end server machines, otherwise known as the dreaded, but essential, “Double-Hop” scenario. The “Double-Hop” enables the combination of […]

I’m really happy that Microsoft now supports "Direct SIP" connectivity with CallManager v. 4.2, 5.1 & 6.1. What this means is that you do not need a 3rd party voice gateway to connect to CallManager. Whohoo! Although I’ve been running CCM 5.1 and OCS with Direct SIP for almost a year now, it’s nice that […]