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SharePoint on the iPhone?
Categories: SharePoint, Office System 2007, iPhone, WSS
Yes that is correct; I did say SharePoint on the iPhone!! Recently I got an iPhone and since then I have been obsessed with it. It is a fantastic tool for work as well as looking sexy!! Since getting it I have been teaching myself how to write pro.....
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SharePoint Designer is now free!!! Did I say free!! Yes I did.
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
Everyone likes something that is free, now you can do all your customizations to SharePoint with a free product!! SharePoint Designer. Click the image below to get your copy!! .....
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HiSoftware aRTE
Categories: How To, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
Finally HiSoftware have released their version of an accessible rich text editor, so I decided to install it on my server and see how it goes. You will firstly need to visit the site, register if you have not already and then you can download the .....
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Is SharePoint really slow? Does it work?
Categories: Business, General, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
Now I have your attention, I wanted to talk about some of the mythical problems of SharePoint. I am sure you all know what I mean. I have had people say things like the following: Word loads slower now since we got SharePoint When I boot my .....
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Skype Status Field for SharePoint
Categories: Development, General, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
Hi, Just wanted to let you know about this pretty cool codeplex project that is available. It allows for your Skype presence information tobe available within SharePoint. You can read all about it here:   http://skypestatusfield.codeplex.com/  .....
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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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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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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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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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Weird Search Server Express Error
Categories: Errors, Fixes, Search Server, WSS, Administration
While working on a project yesterday we faced a weird error with our search. The system I am currently working on is a WSS v3 Only Farm with Search Server Express added in. Everything was working fine until we accessed the following URL: Depe.....
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CKS:EBE Secure Pages Problem
Categories: Business, CKS, SharePoint, WSS
Just a quick note to apologise for locking out some of the posts on my blog. After some investigation the issue seems to arise from using search to find content when the "enable secure system pages" option is checked in the CKS:EBE setti.....
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SharePoint Regional Settings STSADM Command [CODE]
Categories: Development, How To Code, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS
As promised here is the code breakdown of the custom STSADM command I have created. I am sure there are better and more elegant ways of enumerating sites etc but this works fine. So to begin with create a new Visual Studio 2008 project (can use Vis.....
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