PointBridge Blogs

Good news: OCS can now federate with lots of other vendors, including Google and IBM Sametime. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/oct09/10-01ucinterop.mspx This is great news for the UC world in general. More info to follow on how it actually works in production…

Setting up SharePoint 2010 in a single server environment is even easier than it was on MOSS. The Microsoft SharePoint Product and Technologies 14 Preparation Tool (or as I like to call it the prep tool) takes a wizard approach to checking for and then setting up perquisites for SharePoint’s installation. The prep tool (packaged […]

One of the major improvements in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to centrally manage your farm health directly from SharePoint Central Administration. The Health Status menu gives you an at-a-glance view of services and issues on the farm as well as a place to fix these issues. Located in the Monitoring section of Central Administration, […]

In version 2.0, PowerShell includes the capability to execute commands on remote computers via the WinRM service. WinRM is Microsoft’s implementation of the WS-Management protocol. We recently took advantage of this capability to automate SharePoint solution upgrades to our integration environment from our build server. This can be accomplished in four easy steps: 1) Upgrade […]

In SharePoint 2010, there is a new social collaboration feature on a person’s MySite called "Interests". SharePoint matches content that is tagged by other people with tags you enter in your profile. In the technical preview, the only way to edit the Interests profile property is through Central Administration. The profiles screen is no longer […]

There are a pair of related Office Communications Server 2007 topics I wanted to expand on from previous blog articles that I’m still seeing come up quite often in both day-to-day projects and in the Microsoft discussion forums. One of them is centered around adding and supporting additional SIP domains. And because the two most […]

SharePoint 2010 uses the “sprite” technique in some of its default layouts. Sprite is a method of showing multiple images on your site that are really just a portion of one larger image. A benefit is that it reduces HTTP traffic since you are downloading more images in one request. You can read more about […]

Working with the Content Editor Web Part quite a bit lately I noticed a frequent (and annoying) error when committing changes to that web part. After making changes and clicking OK in the Web Part Properties Window IE would freeze and about 15-30 seconds later display the error below. Are you sure you want to […]

Designer workflows can be great but I certainly ran into some major frustrations working with them with Designer 2007. One of those frustrations was not being able to associate a Workflow with a specific Tasks list. SharePoint will, be default, take the first Task list available and associate the workflow to that list. Fine you […]

SharePoint Search 2010 offers new query capabilities that were not available in SharePoint 2007. Some of the new capabilities added are not ground breaking as most of them can be found right now somewhere on CodePlex or are available for sale by third parties. But, it’s exciting to have those new functionalities finally as part […]

Microsoft has just released a new white paper on using certificates with Office Communications Server. Although entitled “OCS 2007 R2 Deploying Certificates” it actually covers both 2007 and 2007 R2 versions of OCS. This is a very comprehensive document (just short of 100 pages) that covers everything from basic requirements down to specific scenarios like […]

One of the nice features of Live Meeting 2007 is to be able to record your meeting and play it back at a later time. One disadvantage is that you cannot play that video if you are running a 64-Bit version of Windows. A way to remedy that is to convert the file to Windows […]