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On a recent project that I have been doing I have discovered that certificate request for OCS have many of the headaches that LCS has had. I wanted to point out that there are two specific things worth noting. That the Client Web Access requires that the SAN cert (if you go that route) requires […]

My wife owns baskets; many baskets: baskets of every size and shape for every imaginable purpose. The purpose of some is purely decorative, but others serve much more pragmatic purposes: a variety of small ones to hold jelly, candy, or candle jars; a large flat one to dump the mail and other unsorted pamphlets and […]

The Title column is a required column because a Custom List inherits from Item in SharePoint base content type hierarchy. The Item content type has one required column – Title. So what to do? Ari Bakker has a great blog about creating a custom list, including xml structure for Site Columns, Content Type and Custom […]

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make” – Lennon/McCartney We all know the song. And it makes sense – what you can get out of life corresponds to what you put in. “You reap what you sow.” Certainly an uplifting mantra, but when I heard American English […]

Summary: SharePoint web parts and lists can easily allow users to adapt SharePoint to changing business needs if customizations are designed and developed properly. Specific examples are provided in the second half of this blog. I’ve been around the technology block a few times; I mean my first computer program was written on what really […]

When you try to open a folder in the document center using Windows explorer which has IE 7 installed, it gives an error, as shown in the picture below: You can fix this error by installing the software update from Microsoft. Please download the patch here and refer to Article # – KB907306 for more […]

A few days ago one of my coworkers asked me if I knew how to determine if SharePoint is running in 64 bit or 32 bit. This is a questions that I haven’t been asked before and have always assumed the install version is based on the architecture of the server the application is installed […]

At TechEd this year it was apparent that Microsoft had a clear focus and that was Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", now in beta 3. From Bob Muglia’s Keynote speech all the way down to the logo on my room key MSFT highlighted this product. Personally I never really thought much about the product; I have […]

I started my day with SharePoint breakout sessions. The first session I attended was on creating SharePoint Document Processing Engine. Document Processing Engine is essentially a .NET application that uses Microsoft Open XML Packaging API and SharePoint API to generate Office documents programmatically by using data from SharePoint lists and libraries. Microsoft Open XML Packaging […]

Yesterday was another busy day at TechEd. This is my third time attending TechEd and I must admit that this one is different than the last two I attended. The sessions this year are very technology focused (less PowerPoint, more code) and packed with tons of demo. Many of these sessions and demos will be […]

The TechEd North America 2008 Developer Conference started this morning. Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates, did his last public keynote speech. The keynote started with a very interesting video on Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft. The main stars of conference this year are SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, SharePoint 2007, SilverLight 2.0, and Windows […]

Although I might be one of just a few currently working on the bleeding-edge technology of synchronizing Lotus Domino/Notes directories with Microsoft Active Directory via Exchange 2003, I figure I’d share this little tidbit of information. According to Microsoft Product Support this is not documented anywhere in TechNet and I had to open a ticket […]