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June 25

Sample MOSS 2007 WCM site now available – Adventure Works Travel

Andrew Connell writes:

I like using this site for my demos as it is a real world Publishing site. There are custom Web Parts, custom styles for the Content Query Web Part, custom navigation, a custom Silverlight application that asynchronously calls back to a custom WCF service hosted in the SharePoint Web application, leverages FBA… you name it. It’s a great site to poke around!

and does so here:
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2009/06/23/Sample-MOSS-2007-WCM-site-now-available-ndash-Adventure-Works.aspx

 

June 23

I'm on Twitter now

I'm not really convinced of Twitter yet,
But i'm willing to give it a serious try: http://www.twitter.com/AdWeterings
 
June 22

Checklist for uptimizing SharePoint

I love a good checklist.
This seems to be one:
 
It mentions YSlow: is new to me.
I only used Fiddler so far.
 
June 18

SharePoint service accounts

Pretty big subject really: SharePoint service accounts.
What accounts do you need to install and run SharePoint.
Security has its drawbacks: it does become more complicated for the Admin.
Fortunately Microsoft has described it pretty well. Prepare for a lengthy piece though.
June 16

About Debategraph and SharePoint governance

Nice compilation of subjects,
about DebateGraph, SharePoint governance and the problems of Tom Cruise.
... but we knew about Tom already... the rest is interesting.
 
June 13

SharePoint Security Hardening.

Technet online magazine July 2007,
Pretty good, halfway June ;-)
Contains some stuff about SharePoint too: SharePoint Security Hardening.
 
June 11

Configuring Internet Explorer to Remember Your SharePoint Login Credentials

Sometimes a user may get tired of having to constantly enter their username/password when accessing a SharePoint site.  By adding the SharePoint site to your "Local Intranet" zone, one can have Internet Explorer remember login credentials.  Here are the steps:
  1. Go to Control Panel
  2. Go to Internet Options
  3. Click the "Security" tab
  4. Click "Local Intranet"
  5. Click "Sites"
  6. Click "Advanced"
  7. Add your SharePoint site into the "Local Intranet" zone.
  8. Click OK to confirm on all Internet Options screens.
  9. Open up Internet Explorer and go to your SharePoint site.  When prompted for username/password make sure you enter your credentials and check "Remember My Password".
  10. Your username/password should now be passed to the SharePoint site automatically.

 

Found here: http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=93

 

June 10

Alternate Access Mappings and Windows Powershell

I had a request this week on how to leverage Windows Powershell to add Alternate Access Mappings to the collection for a specific Web application.  Surprisingly after some searching I was unable to find anything existing on the topic, so for those curious see the attached script and corresponding source Xml.
 
Found here:
May 26

SCOM rules for MOSS

Here you can download the SCOM Management Pack for SharePoint.
If you do you get, besides the pack, the documentation that goes with it.
So you know what CAN be monitored.
Interesting stuff, even when you don't use SCOM yourself.

ISA 2006 does not run on Windows server 2008

This one bit us.
A customer with standard Windows server 2008, now wanting to use ISA 2006.
Won't work though. Darn.
April 08

SharePoint workflow basics

Workflow, perhaps not appreciated enough in SharePoint.
It's not difficult to setup & manage, here's some explanation for the beginner:
 
April 03

Microsoft Offering SharePoint Designer For Free

Microsoft Offering SharePoint Designer For Free

And i *did* check the date of the article first: it's april 2nd, not 1st.

http://www.crn.com/software/216402552

Here is the link of the SharePoint Designer Support team: it also gives a download link.

Seems the post of yesterday was very timely: how to limit SharePoint Designer access.

Because without proper governance in place using SharePoint Designer can make for a verry messy environment. The problem is quite simple really: Someone designs something very very nice on a test environment. Actually it is so good everybody wants to use it. Making the design etc etc. took about a thousand mousclicks ? Now that person may repeat those thousand mouseclicks on the production environment.

Where I work we want to move custom code from development to test, from there to production.
Via installation of a .wsp file. Not by copying lots of files from pete-knows-where.

So, it is nice all the developers get SharePoint designer for free. Just use it as a proof-of-concept tool, and nothin' else please.

Update april 4: interview with Product manager of SharePoint team about it here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2009/04/04/sharepoint-designer-for-free-interview-with-tom-rizzo.aspx