PointBridge Blogs

In keeping with this month’s apparent theme of troubleshooting Live Meeting and Audio Conferencing problems for external users, I ran into yet another weird one. This time we have a pretty basic Office Communications Server 2007 R2 deployment with Enterprise Voice using a NET VX1200 media gateway with Cisco Call Manager 4.1. All OCS features […]

I have encountered a few issues when working with STSDEV under source control and if you are not aware of those issues, you might end up wasting a lot time trying to figure out what is going wrong. Updating the targets file When changing the target file, you would think the changes would instantly take […]

Today I ran into a problem getting SharePoint to flush the object cache via the UI or STSADM. Neither approach worked so I tried manually deleting the files from disk. This, however, resulted in an exception being thrown because SharePoint was still expecting to find the files at their previous location. Finally, I resorted to […]

One of the requirements on my last project was to have a tag cloud web part to link to various articles and blogs. I found a web part that does just that here. If you have to customize the html of those tags according to their weight, check out an updated version of the previous […]

Background One of the best tools to complement SharePoint’s security and usability is Microsoft’s Internet Security and Acceleration Server. ISA is a multipurpose server capable of providing Single Sign-On, object caching, robust firewall rules, and dozens of other features. It slices, it dices, and it makes Julienne fries. My colleague Travis recently posted about the […]

One of the biggest cost-saving benefits of Office Communications Server 2007 has been the integrated Web Conferencing features, a.k.a. Live Meeting. Many companies currently pay for off-site host conferencing services like Microsoft’s own hosted Live Meeting, or WebEx just to name a few. In the same way that R2’s Dial-In Conferencing can reduce costs by […]

Whether troubleshooting a problem or performing regular maintenance it is sometimes necessary to reset the passwords on the service accounts used by OCS. Best Practice Microsoft’s recommendation is to configure each service account to never have their passwords expire, but some organizations may have policies limiting or completely banning that type of approach. In most […]

(This article outlines a fix for the MOSS 2007 SP2 licensing bug. Its technique can also be used in general to recover Product ID.) Update 2009.06.25: Microsoft has published a hotfix. See Stefan Gossner’s post for download links and more information. As you may have heard, there is a bug in the installer for Microsoft […]

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Talking with a colleague of mine today, I was explaining how sites in SharePoint are lost once deleted. Meaning, a deleted site will not be saved to the recycle bin like a list/item/document would be for example. This is the expected behavior out-of-the-box. Now, you could use an event handler to override the WebDeleting method […]

I worked with event handlers on my last project and I wanted a quick and easy way to add/delete my event handlers. I found a pretty cool application on CodePlex that let you manage your own events. After enabling the feature, I was able to view all my events, add new ones, edit or delete […]

On a recent project, I had to programmatically work with the documents stored in SharePoint document library. Having done programming access to lists before, I was expecting something very similar to the way SharePoint lists store attachments. This expectation however did not turn to be true. Programmatic access to the documents in the document library […]