PointBridge Blogs

Internet Explorer 7 allows you to add multiple search providers in the search toolbar. This allows you to quickly search a specific repository without having to navigate to the specific site to do so. For example, if I wanted to search the PointBridge blogs, I’d have to go to https://blogs.pointbridge.com and enter the search criteria. […]

I came across an interesting issue with the MOSS beta 2 installation ISO when using ISOBuster. ISOBuster allows you to extract the files from and ISO file. It’s a free download. For the MOSS beta 2 ISO in particular, you have three choices when extracting as seen in the picture. ISO The Chevrons UDF I […]

Been running Vista, different builds for a while and I thought I would start a tips thread. Running Vista RC1 since the weekend build 5600. Overall getting better with each build. Tip #1 Cd burning software: ImgBurn. Burns iso’s and files, plus free. http://www.imgburn.com/

The two documents below walk you through the installation and initual setup of MOSS in a single computer. The documents are two PDFs inside a Zip file. I couldn’t upload a PDF file. https://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/meszar_oscar/Lists/Attachments/Attachments/1/MOSSSetup.zip

Custom Document Library: This blog is a follow on from the previous ‘Custom Content Type’ where we look at the ability to create and deploy a custom document library as a feature. The custom document library can also include custom columns and views which will be covered in future blogs. The basic steps are: 1. […]

Summary: PermCalc a useful utility. Code Access Security is powerful. How do you know what permissions your code needs? This utility can help. A Review of Minimal PermissionsThe PermCalc Utility, an essential tool In other blogs (APTC and LinkDemand) I have written about how certain aspects of the .NET Framework can be used to address […]

Capacity Planning: Capacity planning is very critical to the deployment of an Exchange server/ cluster. It is very important that we understand the capacity requirements of the business versus the capacity available to an Exchange server. Capacity planning affects many areas. For instance, positioning to many users on a server can create multiple risks. Those […]

In Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, search is implemented by using a Windows SharePoint Services search engine. That means Windows SharePoint Services are no longer dependent on SQL Server full text search. With Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 you can use Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) to deploy SharePoint for testing and/or proof of concept projects […]

Whenever we need to write an aspx page that needs to be invoked in the context of a sharepoint site, we can put them in the ‘_layouts’ virtual.To make the page look like the other sharepoint ‘_layouts’ pages (e.g. Site Settings etc), our custom aspx page will need to use the master page just like […]

A few weeks ago I was setting up an additional forest in my virutal environment so I could test some scripts that needed a functional forest trust. My virtual environment consisted of VMware workstation 5.5.1 and several guest Windows Server 2003 SP1 servers in a single domain. I followed my usual procedure for prepping Windows […]

Summary: Code Access Security, LinkDemand and AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers. How they can make your application secure. Building a Defensive Chain Using LinkDemand More on .NET Security Classes In April of 1778 a chain 1500 feet long made of 800 links weighing 125 pounds each was strung across the wide Hudson River at the tiny town of West […]

Suppose you are done with a migration and want to clean up user accounts and remove some security holes like having SIDHistory on the accounts. There are tools that some commercial products provide to automate this process, but there is also a published script from Microsoft that could be modified to do the same thing. […]