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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:50 AM

Review of the SharePoint Scalability White Paper

A SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper was recently released "to provide strategic information about designing a high-volume, high-availability enterprise solution that can easily grow." it was announced yesterday in the SharePoint...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:39 PM

"How to build a SharePoint dev box" updated

I've updated the article on how to build a development machine for SharePoint 2007 . The best tool I've discovered is the SharePoint Manager 2007 which takes over from the SharePoint Inspector as the object model browser of choice. Notable tools not yet...
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Monday, January 14, 2008 11:11 AM

Translated solution to SPListItem CopyTo bug

Problem: The SPListItem.CopyTo() method doesn't seem to work on a custom list or custom properties. When called, CopyTo() returns the error "Source item cannot be found. Verify that the item exists and that you have permission to read it." Solution: Dorrit...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:21 AM

Patch WSS 2.0 (and SPS 2003) for Daylight Savings Time changes

This was just brought to my attention this week and if that's the case, I'll bet this arbitrary change in DST rules causes more ripples than Y2K ever did. If you're running WSS 2.0 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (which in dependent upon...
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Friday, February 09, 2007 3:39 PM

Five Things You Don't Know About Me

In blog tag you get tagged, you write five little-known things about yourself. As in... Wally , Bil , and Plip . Kate and Liam tagged me long ago. This week I have something to say so here goes... 1. I listen to and play a lot of music. Some people know...
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Monday, October 30, 2006 3:23 PM

Great series on building a public website with MOSS 2007

Liam Cleary has a fantastic in-depth series running on rebuilding a corporate website with the new WCM features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We're talking deep practical dives into CSS, master pages, navigation, and content types. Highly...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:52 AM

SharePoint 2007 Beta 2 Released Today!

Today BillG publicly announced MOSS B2 at WinHEC , along with Vista Beta 2 (wow, nice page!) and a slew of virtualization goodies. And with that, the servers in Redmond sprang to life and bits flew across the land. My favourite bits so far? OneNote 2007...
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:55 AM

Great article on Site Definitions

Ameet Phandis wrote a terrific article on writing custom site definitions that somehow slipped under the radar when it was published on ASPAlliance in January. In the article, Ameet copies an SPS definition (SPSTOC) as his starting point, most articles...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:04 PM

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out: Excerpts

MS Press has another SharePoint book, and like the Resource Kit they've posted a few chapters online for your convenience. Chapter 18: Advanced Design Techniques Chapter 19: Beginning Web Part Development Chapter 21: Creating Custom Administration Tools...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:47 PM

Free CorasWorks training on February 28

CorasWorks holds free workshops in many cities ( see the complete schedule ), and Toronto is again on the list for February 28th. In Toronto, workshops are hosted at CTC from 8:30am to 5:00pm on February 28th. To register, please e-mail jprets@corasworks...
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