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The developers of Vista must have been chaneling Yoda on this one.

A short story – by Mark Myers Many Exchange consultants and administratators have often pondered why Microsoft names the temporary Routing Group connector the way it does. The situation is you are installing a new Exchange 2007 server into an existing Exchange 2000 or 2003 environment. A temporary Routing Group connector gets created from the […]

Getting Up To Speed On UM Basics In preparing for upcoming Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging engagements, PointBridge looked into making the transition into UM easier by designing and incorporating a small lab environment that allowed consultants to get the needed UM basic experience. This article will describe the lab PointBridge set up to facilitate these […]

Background Relatively new to Windows Server (starting with 2003 SP1) is a feature called Access-based Enumeration (ABE) which recursively hides files and folders in a share from user accounts that are not granted any permissions to those objects. Simply put, if a user doesn’t have at least Read access to it, they can’t even see […]

Global companies use different date formats depending on the employee’s home office location. SharePoint 2007 provides two methods of setting regional settings: Global and Local. Contrary to popular belief, SharePoint does not use the server regional settings. In fact, SharePoint 2007 provides fewer options than Windows 2003 and Windows XP. For example, the format DD-MMM-YYYY […]

I ran into a situation today where a remote employee needed to join his Vista laptop to the domain and then log in with is domain credentials. In the past on XP this took a good VPN software and effort on the part of both the information worker and the off-site user. With Vista and […]

The mysterious correlation token gave me some headaches for a bit when I first started developing WSS3.0 workflows but I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on it thanks to a couple of great articles from Microsoft. Every example I saw told me how to set the correlation token but really never told me […]

Nothing irritates me more than when my source code line-wraps when I output to a printer. A few years back, I did some J2EE work using the Eclipse IDE which sported a subtle pinkish-purple line down the right side of the page which deliniated the printing margin for the source code. Suddenly, I was able […]

While reading Todd Beeker’s WSS v3 book, I ran across a section that describes how to add the sn command to Visual Studio’s toolbar. I wish I had learned this trick back when I was writing Office Smart Doc applications at Zurich. Bleeker, Todd. (2007). Developer’s Guide to Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0. Charles River Media. […]

Our disk drives for the SharePoint indexes arrived after SharePoint was configured. I had to move the Indexes on the search and index servers. Here’s how I did it. Format the new drives on each server Create a new folder on each server to host the indexes I’m going from c:searchindexes to e:searchindexes for my […]

Last time we saw our hero, he was trying to figure out why an existing SharePoint2003 installation that had been upgraded to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 and finally Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 RTM could not create personal MySites. After much help from Microsoft Support, it looks like the problem is being […]

SSIS is a new feature of SQL Server 2005. It’s the next generation of the former DTS packages and has many similarities but at the same time have a lot of differences. In general, SSIS is more flexible, efficient and intuitive. Although Microsoft has many good examples of SSIS packages, it could be difficult for […]