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The greatest benefit to packaging your functionality into a SharePoint solution is for ease and speed of deployment. Without a solution, deploying a feature involves copying the feature and its files into the 12 hive from the command line followed by the execution of stsadm commands to install the feature. If the feature already exists, […]

Forms Based Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 has a nice feature that allows you to control whether or not your authentication ticket is stored in an HTTP cookie, or on the URL. In order to force the ticket to be transported on the URL, you simply add the attribute cookieless="UseUri" to the configurationsystem.webauthenticationforms node in your […]

After a conversation with Travis recently about the home lab environment he built for hosting virtual machines, I got a serious itch to build a new machine myself. With RAM prices as low as they are, it’s actually not too expensive to put together a machine that can easily host eight VMs simultaneously with perfectly […]

Summary: SharePoint user adoption doesn’t just happen; below is a list of actions you can take to ensure user adoption and a successful SharePoint implementation. Long ago in graduate school I took a few courses in the application of systems theory to social organizations. This was before I changed career paths. The only programs I […]

If you have Microsoft Outlook deployed in your organization or are planning a deployment, I am sure there have been conversations about PST (Personal Folder Storage) files: Should we allow creation of Outlook PST files? If so, how do we control the type (Unicode vs. ANSI), size, or default location What do we do with […]

While preparing a test environment (virtual machines) for migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange Server 2007, I came across an interesting issue: All messages sent to recipients internally (within Exchange) or externally (Lotus Notes or Internet), would end up in the Drafts Folder. No warnings, error messages, or NDR was generated in the UI. This […]

Feature Comparison of LCS and OCS With the recent release of Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS), I thought it might be a good idea to compare it with its predecessor, Live Communications Server 2005. As with my Exchange UM vs. Unity matrix, I can’t find many good comparative studies out there, so I figured this […]

Nothing new or exciting here, but I had to do this recently, and I couldn’t find out how to do it quickly… I needed to set the text in the browser’s title bar based on some data that is being pulled from a database and displayed in a web part. This would be completely trivial […]

In SharePoint, the content type is one of the most important components to any project that you may work on. Every artifact that exists in a SharePoint site has a content type; whether you specify one or not. Content Types provide artifacts with a variety of functional elements beyond meta-data. They also provide a platform […]

Microsoft released the "Fantastic" 40 earlier this year for WSS 3.0 which also works for Office SharePoint Server 2007. I had trouble implementing a few of these templates given the sparse instructions provided by Microsoft. Here are the steps I used to successfully deploy the templates and create a site using the templates. I’m going […]

…or so it seems, judging by the excessive noise coming from my laptop’s fan recently. My Dell Latitude D820 is only a little over six months old, but in the past few weeks it has been running noticeably hotter, regardless of CPU load. Within 5-10 minutes of a cold-boot the measured CPU temperature would steadily […]

There is a lot of chatter about QoS and how you "don’t need it" to effectively use OCS as a voice platform. The logic behind that seemingly crazy statement is that MS has commissioned a test by Psytechnics (http://www.psytechnics.com/page.php?id=060307&section=newsandevents) that showed voice calls using Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 were of a higher quality than […]