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Happy New Year
Categories: All Me!! Baby!!, General
It is that time of year again, well the start of something new. After a very busy and hard year it is nice to look forward to something new, something fresh that can be molded into whatever I want it to be. As I spent the whole Christmas week in b.....
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STSADM Command – What is using my Content Types?
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
While working recently I was presented with the following query. Is there any way I can look at my site collections and see what documents are using them? I decided the best approach would be to create a custom STSADM command that would output.....
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Administrator, Specialist, Consultant, Architect or Guru
Categories: Business, General
Like most of you I would assume that you have had various job titles and sometimes they change with the times. I started life as an IT Trainer, progressed to an Internet Developer, had a few more in-between and am now a Principle Consultant. I rem.....
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Personal Web Part, ASP.NET Components within XSL
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS, XSL, Personal Projects
Over the past few months when I get five minutes here and there I have been working on my own web part that I would love to finish at some point. The purpose of the web part was really for the designer in me and the developer in me. I wanted a web.....
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Web Platform Installer
Categories: Groove
While at Tech Ed Europe this year I sat on an IIS7 session, learning about some of the high level functionality etc. It was a great session, during which we were told that a web platform installer would be available soon. This effectively is an inst.....
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Telerik RadEditor Control and MOSS 2007
Categories: Development, How To, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
So like me I am sure that you have installed and deployed the free replacement editor control from Telerik. This is great and works really well when working with Cross-Browsers. However maybe you knew or maybe you didn't there is another version o.....
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SharePoint – Ports and Protocols
Categories: Tech Ed 2008, Security, Office System 2007, SharePoint, How To
During Tech Ed last week, quite a few questions were about what TCP/IP ports and protocols and server traffic. After various conversations and realizing that there was not really a definitive document that covers what you need I thought I would tr.....
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Tech Ed EMEA IT Pro – Final Thoughts
Categories: Tech Ed 2008, General
So it has finished, I am back at home and glad to be going to bed at a normal time!! What can I say about Tech Ed IT Pro. This year's big topics were protecting your Data and Virtualisation. Most sessions contained some reference to either using H.....
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IT Forum Barcelona, I am here!!
Categories: General, Tech Ed 2008
Yesterday I arrived here in Barcelona. I left Manchester with it raining and landed here in Barcelona with it raining!! I was slightly upset. After checking into the hotel, attending the ATE meeting, I and my work colleagues headed out for food!.....
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Want MSN Messenger 2009 Beta on your Windows 2008 Server?
Categories: General
If like me you run your laptop as a Windows 2008 x64 Server, you find that lots of things can't be installed, like MSN, Live Writer etc. For the previous version you could copy the raw installation files from a normal workstation that had it insta.....
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The path specified is being used in a substitute
Categories: Duffer Moments, Development, XSL, SharePoint, Office System 2007, Errors
I got a very weird error this morning while working with some XML retrieval from SharePoint. I was getting the following error: The only reason I got this is have written an error handler for the web part that outputs the stack trace to the s.....
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Weird Error: SharePoint API List Items XML and Word
Categories: Development, XSL, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS, Errors
During some work I have been undertaking recently I hit a problem when trying to retrieve XML data from SharePoint Views of a List. For this work I simply connected to the views using a simple XMLTransform and render this out. Most lists worked we.....
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Caching Data in Web Parts
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, XSL, WSS
There have been a couple of posts published recently about caching data within web parts. http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2008/09/23/sharepoint-caching-and-cachedependency.aspx http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/10/07/web-part-caching-%E2.....
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Fantastic Framework Released
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, XSL, WSS
I have just been catching up on some blog reading and came across the new ARF (Alternative Rendering Framework for SharePoint) by Vince Rotherwell has been released. I suppose for those of you who have used the CKS:EBE then you will be know how usin.....
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Media Player Web Part *New*
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS, Personal Projects
A while ago I wrote a web part that allowed the playing of "WMV" files inside of SharePoint. Since then I have been playing with it again and have changed it slightly. It is not ready for anyone to use yet as it is in a very "rough .....
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