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There are couple items to consider before upgrading your Beta 2 installation of Office 2007 clients to beta 2 Technical Refresh. The first deals with Office files saved in the 2007 format. These files are not guaranteed to open in the TR version. Microsoft has stated this is due to schema changes in TR. Some […]

(This blog article is also saved as an attachment here – including all figures and graphics. Below, a copy of the same article without the figures. For access to this attachment, look for the link called "Blog Topics 3.doc" below.) Remotely Enabling Remote Desktop As consultants, we are constantly using remote desktop to connect to […]

It’s September 10 and no sign of Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh bits. However, the instructions are out. Hopefully, this is a positive sign that the TR will be released this week. Project Server 2007 TR instructions SharePoint Server 2007 TR instructions Office Forms Server 2007 instructions

Before I start with my articles, I would like to explain why I have named my blog as Axon. The nervous system consists of a large number of cells, called neurons. Each neuron has numerous extensions called dendrites. These extensions receive chemical signals from other neurons. An Axon is a little different from dendrites. It […]

Hersh, in this post /Blogs/ajgaonkar_hersh/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=9, has a link to a site that is very good. I did find another one. Some of the resources might be the same, but there cannot be too many. http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2006/05/25/7570.aspx I especially liked this free book. I’ll be reading that in detail. It will be good plane reading for me […]

To avoid looking this up everytime I need something – thought this would be the best place to keep this link and share it: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/MossWcmResources.aspx

In case you’ve noticed that the sIDHistory attribute isn’t very user friendly when viewing it with ADSI Edit, here’s a way to reverse-engineer the value to compare it with how we are normally used to seeing it displayed: Find the SID for the source domain user or group by using the getsid.exe command: Command Usage: […]

I’ve had to look this up so many times because we don’t do it that often and the articles Microsoft provides us aren’t as great as they should be. So I’ve decided to write up a little how-to when searching for committed transaction logs within Exchange. Why would you look for committed transaction logs? Mostly […]

Sometimes it is necessary to permit certain groups of people access to event logs on domain controllers or other servers in the domain. The most common request is read-only access to various event logs, so delegated administrators can monitor the logs. A good example is giving DNSAdmins read-only access to the DNS event logs. Adding […]

This is not your father’s InfoPath: MOSS 2007 InfoPath form integration For anyone who has developed InfoPath forms with the 2003 client and SharePoint server code base needs to be aware of a completely different mechanism for the 2007 versions. Probably the biggest change and the one with the most ramifications is the ability of […]

Today Jeff Raikes (President, MS Business Division) and Anoop Gupta (Corp VP, Unified Communications Group) officially revealed the next step in Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) Roadmap. Jeff spent alot of time talking about the challenges in how people work today. A few informational tidbits he threw out included the average company has 6.4 communication devices […]

Here is a useful script I found on the web when trying to find a way to report on SIDs for a number of user objects. There is the free "getsid.exe" from the Microsoft Support Tools add-on located on the Windows XP/2000/2003 install CD and that is useful for performing a quick comparison of two […]