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  • SharePoint Meetup – 4.4.2009 – Wrap-up

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    The SharePoint Meetup on Saturday, 4 April 2009 at La Madeline’s in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia went very well, with a diverse crowd of SharePoint professionals from the community coming out to discuss certifications, training and career paths.  Additionally it was great to meet other individuals and hear about some of the training that they’ve taken,…

  • SharePoint Meetup DC – 4 April 2009

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    For those of you in the greater DC region, looking to steer clear of the congestion and traffic downtown at the Cherry Blossom Festival, interested in collaboration and technology, then come on out to the SharePoint Meetup at Tyson’s La Madeline’s at 4 PM today. It’s a pretty laid back group getting together for coffee,…

  • First Impressions on Balsamiq

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    So a few different folks in the SharePoint community have mentioned that they’re huge fans of Balsamiq, and we’re not talking about vinegar.  Balsamiq is an application built upon the Adobe AIR framework that allows for rapid development of mockups – typically of web based applications, but can be used for mockups of such technical…

  • SharePoint Saturday Boston Slides

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    It’s been two weeks and I’ve finally gotten a few minutes to come up for air and take care of some administrative things, which include posting these slides. Additionally available on SlideShare at:  http://www.slideshare.net/spdan/contextual-considerations-logical-architecture-and-taxonomy PDF Slides:  Contextual Considerations: Logical Architecture and Taxonomy

  • SharePoint Collaboration Service Governance Plan

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    Joel Oleson, John Ross Jr. Jennifer Mason and Paul Culmsee have developed a whitepaper on behalf of Microsoft on the topic of “SharePoint Collaboration Service Governance Plan”.  The document provides an outline of the administration, maintenance and support of an MOSS 2007 deployment. Great document that definitely gets at the heart of the matter with…

  • Outlook 2007 February 2009 Cumulative Update

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    Everyone’s getting in the game of cumulative updates… even the Outlook team, releasing patches pre-SP2.  Looks like the Outlook product team has been fairly busy with fixes and improvements with the Outlook client. Check out the Outlook Product team’s blog for more information in the article “Announce the February Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007”. I’ve…

  • February 2009 Cumulative Update… again.

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    So it would seem that the product team decided to release a second iteration of the February Cumulative Update “Uber” edition.  This time including some sweet functionality to address Document Lifecycle (DLC), Infopath Forms Services (IFS) and Excel Calculation Services (XLSRV). Fear not if you already installed the first iteration of the February Cumulative Update,…

  • The Document is going to be around for a while…

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    So I figured I’d throw my two cents in on the topic of documents and whether or not we’re going to see them sail off into the sunset.  So far the gauntlets have been thrown down by SharePoint Welterweights Joel Oleson and Spence Harbar. I’d have to disagree with the original thesis, I don’t think…

  • Migrating a site between domains

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    So I realize that this article is about two years too late, but the question still comes up from time to time, so I figured that I might as well post it. Situation:  You find yourself in a quandary without the use of a third party tool from AvePoint, Metalogix, Quest, Tzunami and your organization…

  • Indexing follies…

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    I was reading through Itay Shakury’s blog this evening, specifically his article pertaining to “Copied folders are not indexed bug”.  Definitely an eye opening article pertaining to the fact that when a folder is copied to a new location, it is no longer indexed by the index server without dumping the index and starting a…