PointBridge Blogs

Today I accidentally stumbled upon a very cool piece of software, the Secunia Personal Software Inspector. It performs in-depth analysis of your system and reports possible software vulnerabilities and end-of-life software. It is similar in concept to the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, but reports on a wide range software programs. I’m pretty paranoid about security […]

At my most recent engagement my client, a forward thinker, wanted to deploy MOSS to Windows Server 2008. Obviously there is much to be said about Server 08: higher security, better performance, and built for the web. This is also the first exposure to IIS 7 on the server edition to Windows. Even still being […]

I got a query from a colleague today about how to edit custom AD attributes. The default ADUC (dsa.msc) will not display these attributes. A small caveat here; if you have the new Vista compatible Server 2008 based Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) you can edit these properties, and any other property in the directory […]

While working in SharepPoint I needed, from an UserControl in my WebPart, find a control in the page. Of course, I tried, different level at which to apply the FindControl(). The first thing I tried was this.Parent.Page.FindControl(“controlID”). That didn’t work. Then I tried different permutations. Finally I gave up with the FindControl and decided that […]

As you probably know Office Communication Server 2007 from Microsoft supports and can very easily be seutp for federation with the public IM providers. Yahoo, MSN and AOL are the supported protocols. Microsoft kindly provides the intial setup and it works. For MSN connectivity, you can add any "Live Enabled" email address to your contact […]

At one of my clients I needed to create a flexible CSV import to update the user profiles in SharePoint. In this blog I’m not going to walk through the entire process. I’m going to demonstrate the basic of accessing the user profile information and updating it. I developed a console application to accomplish my […]

You created your VS 2008 SharePoint workflow but now you want to change some of the wizard settings you chose. For instance, you want to change the site or library. Choose the properties of the workflow project. Do not use the content menu to choose the properties. You want to go to the property sheet […]

As you probably heard by now, VS 2008, out of the box, comes with templates for creating SharePoint workflows. As you can see from the image above, the templates are available if you choose 3.5 as your target assembly. If you don’t choose 3.5 you will not see the templates. However, it is possible your […]

We recently installed Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 in our SharePoint Office Server 2007 farm. Forefront Security for SharePoint protects the SharePoint servers from viruses, unwanted files, and inappropriate content. With the default settings we had a couple interesting issues during our first manual scan. We had documents quarantined based on the following incidents: […]

This is a common scenario: someone calls you, and wants to speak to a co-worker of yours. Since you know that the co-worker is not in, you would like to transfer the caller to your co-worker’s VoiceMail. But you don’t want to transfer, have it ring 4 times, then go to VM. You want to […]

I had occasion recently to publish our OCS Addressbook service through ISA server 2006. This works, and now allows our users to fire up Communicator anywhere, and always be able to download a fresh copy of the OCS Offline Address book. The write-up provided by Microsoft helps with the setup of this. It walks you […]

I wanted to take a few minutes to provide an incomplete review of a couple of the new OCS-compatible IP phones. I’ve been using 2 different ones here at PointBridge: The "Tanjay" – aka the Polycom CX400 / Nortel 8540 The "Catalina" – aka the Polycom CX200 I’m not going to rehash all the bells […]