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Friday, February 03, 2012 10:58 AM

Search: are you willing to manage it as an application?

The question was asked, "how hard is it to configure FAST and what does that effort give you?" The none-too-helpful answer is that with every search product you get what you give. FAST happens to have more substance so logically there will be more to...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:14 PM

SharePoint 2010 Workflow for Multiple Items (Architecture)

I had the question today of whether SharePoint 2010 supports workflow on multiple items, since Groove's workflow apparently supported multiple items and that model disappeared when Groove Workspaces were amalgamated into SharePoint Sites and SharePoint...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:04 PM

Fix available to protect SharePoint servers from ASP.NET vulnerability

Today the fix shipped to remedy a cryptographic ASP.NET vulnerability. The update is listed as Important , and it is strongly recommended that this security update be applied to all IIS servers including those hosting SharePoint and other ASP.NET applications...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:57 AM

How to protect SharePoint servers from the ASP.NET vulnerability

On Friday an ASP.NET vulnerability was announced at an Argentine security conference, Microsoft posted Security Advisory 2416728 within a few hours, and by early Saturday morning Scott Guthrie described steps to mitigate ASP.NET sites against the vulnerability...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:12 PM

The relative effort of SharePoint 2010 vs. 2007

SharePoint 2007 was the best demo-ware ever. It’s like going to the pet store and seeing a great dog that does backflips all kinds of tricks – and it really is a smart dog and it does all those tricks – but when you get it home you realize that what you...
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Friday, March 05, 2010 10:35 AM

Register Today for the Toronto SharePoint Camp: Saturday, March 20

The third annual Toronto SharePoint Camp will deliver over 20 sessions by the best Canadian and international SharePoint experts on a wealth of topics. Whether you're a developer, server administrator, architect, power user, or business sponsor; whether...
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Monday, January 18, 2010 11:29 AM

Toronto SharePoint Camp 2010 - Call for Speakers

The third annual Toronto SharePoint Camp is scheduled for March 20, 2010 . To be considered, please read the Call for Speakers ( attached to this post , below) and submit your abstract(s) using the form provided by midnight on Friday, February 12. This...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:14 PM

SharePoint Testing Strategies

Someone recently asked about test plans and how to test components during development so you can be comfortable they'll perform well when hosted on large farms. The short answer is that you want to create the best simulation you can, and that means creating...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:04 PM

Upcoming SharePoint events and conferences

Thanks to everyone in the terrific crowd at my TechDays session in Toronto, and to everyone who stopped by to chat throughout the day. While attendees will be able to get the deck, the source code and a recording of the presentation in a few weeks (steps...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 6:08 PM

SharePoint Web Part Error: "Could not load the required type"

Solution: Declare the class public. I mean seriously, you missed that? More surprising than not getting any hits for this message on Bing or Google is not catching the problem myself for the past [insert embarrassing amount of time here]. Serves me right...
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