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Recently, I was tasked with creating an internal Dashboard which allowed for Practice Leadership to track metrics related to sales pipeline change. The first thing that came to mind was a demo I had previously seen from someone at Microsoft. The functionality consisted of selecting a KPI in a Scorecard and having a Trend Chart […]

I recently visited a client who was having a miserable time getting the Lync Central Management Store database created during the Topology publishing process. They kept seeing errors similar to below: Error: Script failed (code “ERROR_CREATE_DB”) when installing “CentralMgmtStore” on “lyncserver.company.com”. For details, see the following log file: “C:UsersadminacctAppDataLocalTempCreate-CentralMgmtStore-lyncserver.company.com-[2011_01_03][10_32_38].log” 1/3/2011 10:32:38 AM Error Error: An […]

This is part 3 in a series of how to make a sites page and sub-site links show in a second row in the top nav. Here are links to part one and part two. My second post was a pure CSS solution for how to create the second row. It is by far the […]

Lync 2010 gives users the ability to record both peer-to-peer calls as well as conference calls. It’s a handy built-in feature in the Lync 2010 client: However – I’ve noticed that there isn’t a way to record PSTN calls: I’m not 100% why PSTN calls wouldn’t be able to be recorded. Maybe because they are […]

Adding CTS flows through the FSIS Admin UI is a tedious process which requires a lot of clicks through a wizard like workflow. Redeploying (updating a flow) is even more time consuming because you have to remove the flow first before adding it back. If you have a lot of flows there, you would have […]

For a custom application we’re building, we decided to use SSL to communicate between our .NET application and the FAST query server. Setting up SSL to enable secure communication between a .NET application and a FAST query server is fairly simple but the FAST documentation doesn’t exactly explain it a straightforward manner. These were the […]

SharePoint 2007 Permissions –Creating Permissions for New Sites Introduction Managing SharePoint permissions can be a tricky subject to fully grasp.On one hand, the ease of point and clicking your way to adding users to sites, lists, and even list items is quite easy to do perform in SharePoint 2007.On the other hand, understanding the implications […]

OOTB, Nintex Workflow 2010 requires activation of the site collection feature after installation of the product, and then activation of site features on each and every site within the applicable site collection. This is done such that the Nintex Workflow Designer is available on each of these sites. For small site collections this is fine, […]

Today, I had to come up with a way to return a value from one column in a SharePoint list based on finding an exact line match of a user’s query terms in an SPFieldMultiLineText field in the same list. To clarify, here’s an example of how the data looked like in the SharePoint list […]

I recently noticed an interesting behavior with the navigators in FAST ESP. Just as a refresher, navigators are used in FAST to allow users to quickly filter through results. Navigators facilitate that drill down/up mechanism on a set of search results. On a project I am currently working on, I have been using FAST navigators […]

Having used SharePoint Search for a while, I got into the habit of quickly updating the noise words list by just updating the noise words list on the server without giving it too much thought. While working on a FAST ESP project, dealing with noise words seemed to be a bit more involved and the […]

In custom SharePoint web parts, it is often useful to use the people editor control to add, edit, and surface users stored within the SPFieldType.User list fields.When using an ascx control as the child control to the web part, this is simply created by first adding the following assembly registration to the top of the […]