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Fill out a survey, win a chance for a SharePoint Conference 2009 pass by Bil Simser

Yeah, title says all. Mindsharp , Nintex , and Combined Knowledge are sponsoring a Global SharePoint Survey . This is an independent survey that you can fill out to let them know about your experience with adoption and usage of SharePoint from your perspective...
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TIFF fax images, picture libraries, incorrect thumbnail generation, and SharePoint by Bil Simser

A welcomed feature of SharePoint is the picture library. This is similar to a document library but rather than storing documents, you can store pictures. You can store pictures in a document library too, you just don't get as rich a UX from it as you...
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Account Names, SharePoint Setups, Server 2008 and Cheese by Bil Simser

Recently I got a brand, spanking new Dell Latitude E6400 for work outfitted with Server 2008 (you won’t believe how hard that corporate battle was) and 8GB of RAM. We wanted to run Server 2008 as our workstation which would allow us a) the ability to...
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Honey, Where Did I Put My Product Key? by Bil Simser

Microsoft has released this important announcement about the recent releases of Service Pack 2 for MOSS: We take product quality seriously and make every effort to avoid and resolve issues that adversely impact our customers. Unfortunately, we have recently...
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Internet Explorer Keyboard? Shortcuts by Bil Simser

I can’t say I’ve ever looked at the Internet Explorer help file (or any help file for that matter) but I turned to it when I wanted to see if there was a keyboard shortcut for switching between tabs. Here’s what I found: Okay, sure. If you’re using the...
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TechEd Day 1 via the BizTalk Blog by Bil Simser

My co-worker buddy Kent Weare (yes, a company where two, count them two MVPs sit side by side and don't beat the crap out of each other) is down at TechEd 2009 this week in Los Angeles. Hopefully he'll be giving a blow-by-blow report on the happenings...
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Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That by Bil Simser

When it comes to SharePoint surveys, there’s a lot to explore. And a lot missing. A survey can be for a variety of reasons. They can be there to collect quantitative information about something (like a census);  an opinion poll for an informal collection...
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The Knights who say I'm taking my toys and making my own sandbox by Bil Simser

Yesterday Joel Oleson, ex-MSFT SharePoint dude, posted an entry about a "new order" he wants to form called The SharePoint Knights . I seriously thought this was a joke and had to check my April Fools calendar. "An unique ranking Knight icon to put on...
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She Ought To Be In Pictures by Bil Simser

Shel Silverstein wrote he wanted to be famous by getting his picture on the cover of The Rolling Stone. How about getting a photo spread in Fortune Magazine before you’re two years old? This months Fortune Magazine is running a 12 page photo article called...
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Follow-up: The Girl Next Door (aka Laptop for Nat) by Bil Simser

Okay, second non-tech follow-up as I get caught up here in Real World 1.0 stuff. Last month I wrote a post called The Girl Next Door , about a 7 year old girl named Natalie. She was diagnosed with brain Cancer and the last year has been an uphill struggle...
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