MOSS 2007
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William from Mississauga, Canada, posted a question which came my way via Aardvark.
William wrote:
We have both .ca (Canada) and .com domains. We were going to use the [...]
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I had a request today to create a link to a “Drop Folder” in SharePoint where people could drag their documents to for our Document Reviewers to review.
MSDN describes a solution (see “MSDN – About Web Folder Behaviors“) that is meant to work in browsers IE5 and later, but unfortunately it didn’t work in my [...]
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In a post last week I discussed some headaches I had experienced when using SharePoint Reporting Services, based on SQL Server Reporting Services, to create a report based on SharePoint lists. In this post I wanted to discuss how the goal posts move when you are working on a report derived from data in a [...]
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
A poorly documented area of SharePoint 2007 is the use of the SQL Server Reporting Services (in SharePoint Integrated mode of course) to create reports. I have been working with the Lists web service (find it at http://your_moss_server_name/[sites/][site_name /]_vti_bin/Lists.asmx) to create my reports. Here are my “Best SharePoint Reporting Services [...]
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Recently I have been working creating a series of Site Definitions for one of my employer’s client’s. The tool of choice (the best of a bad bunch?) for this is the SharePoint Solution Generator 2008, bundled with the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The tool comes fitted with a few ‘gotchas’ [...]
Microsoft patterns & practices have just released Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009. The goal of patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance is to help customers understand how to develop large scale, content-driven SharePoint applications that extend the value of existing line of business systems.
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, and test [...]
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Just a quick note to let you know that I will be attending the Australian Microsoft TechEd conference on September 9th to 11th. I will be providing updates throughout the day so be sure to keep posted, especially on all things SharePoint 2010 related. To make sure you don’t miss out on any news, be [...]
A few weeks back Microsoft provided a sneak peak of the Office 2010 suite and, more importantly, SharePoint 2010. Some of you may be salivating over some of the functionality presented in the SharePoint 2010 sneak peak. So why wait until SharePoint 2010 is released to get the new functionality when your MOSS 2007 implementation [...]
