PointBridge Blogs

I’ve been looking around for a feature comparison between Cisco Unity Unified Messaging and Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging. There doesn’t seem to be one out there, so I put together an incomplete matrix comparing the two UM platforms. There are a lot of features to add to the list, but I figured I should at […]

I’m writing a three part blog which concentrates on developing some simple Silverlight Alpha 1.1 applications using managed c# code. The first application will just be an introduction Hello World to get you familiar with the environment. The other two applications will concentrate on using web services to get data. The first web service application […]

This is the second part of my three part blog introducing Silverlight Alpha 1.1. This part will concentrate on getting “data” from a web service in the same domain. I will be enhancing the application I created in Part 1 of this series. As a refresher this is where we left off with Part 1. […]

As you may have noticed, I am on a content query web part (CQWP) kick these days… J Here is one more installment in the saga… I have a requirement to create a CQWP that shows the pages in a pages library that have a custom date field that is between today and a week […]

There is a cool feature of Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging that allows you to click on a voicemail message in your outlook inbox and have it played to your cell phone /desk phone /home phone. This comes in handy if you want to listen to the message but you don’t want to play it over […]

I was in the process of customizing the itemstyle.xsl style sheet to implement some custom content query web part (CQWP) layouts when I ran across the following error: This "unexpected error" was occurring when I tried to edit the properties of a CQWP. I couldn’t find anything useful in the SharePoint error logs in the […]

In my continuing journey down the path of custom site definitions, have found another nugget of knowledge that I wanted to share. This nugget is how to define the different types of multi-line text fields in a custom list. The first type of field I will show is a multi-line plain text field: <Field Name="devNotes" […]

Active Directory has undergone a number of changes in Server 2008, but none of them are earth shattering. But Microsoft has addressed a number of pain points, which should make installing and maintaining AD easier. Enhancements include: *DCpromo is smarter – Rewritten to provide more advanced options to specify whether the server is a GC, […]

Last week I was at TechED 2007 in Orlando, and had a great time learning about the new wave of Microsoft products. One of the big releases this year is Windows Server 2008 it. Vista and WS2008 share the same code base, for better or worse. So I was expecting some changes from server 2003, […]

= I am currently working on a custom site definition for some internal systems here at PointBridge and I wanted to share with you some of the "gotchas" and other observations that I am learned during this process that will hopefully help others avoid some of the pitfalls that I have encountered. These may not […]

I am working on a custom site definition and let me tell you that while it is a cool experience in CAML, it is a tedious one. My biggest problem is that the development cycle is not a quick one. When you make a change to one of your files, you have to upload them […]

Ah the content query web part (CQWP)… what a great web part. There are some great articles here and here about how to customize the web part look and feel. My only problem with these approaches is that they use SharePoint designer 2007 to interact with the itemstyle.xsl stylesheet. What happens if you want to […]