October 2004 - Posts

31 October 2004
George W. blocks the world
Did you know that George W. Bush actually blocks access to his homepage http://www.georgewbush.com for a lot of european and asian based web users? Well he does, according to the danish ComputerWorld webusers from Norway, Great Britain, Austria and Taipei is effectively blocked and receives a 403 Forbidden... Read More...
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28 October 2004
Workaround for Document Library Change Request #4
I think I've might found a workaround for my 4th issue . The problem was that customers wanted to store several attachements in a mail into a Document Library located on a WSS site. Of course, the solution was right in front of my nose the whole time. We're already integrating with Exchange through Outlook... Read More...
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28 October 2004
How about making WSS Search available in Microsoft Office 2003?
Mike commented on my last post and said " I didn't read Patrick's article because he made it clear that it was for SPS 2003 only (and not for WSS). So thanks for pointing out this feature from it. Maybe SPS 2003 has its points after all ... " In my opinion SPS 2003 really have several good points, but... Read More...
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27 October 2004
Make Sharepoint Search available directly in Office 2003
Every day I find another little productivity enhancement through correct use of Sharepoint. There are a lot of little known integration points between Office 2003 Desktop applications and Sharepoint, and there are also a lot of well-known whoes and problems in the same sphere. I've focused on the problems... Read More...
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26 October 2004
Make Messenger presence information availible in WSS
When deploying corporate intranets with Sharepoint Portal Server all user information is replicated through profiles from Active Directory. For organisations without Live Communications Server, only users with Microsoft Passport accounts that match their Active Directory email will have presence information... Read More...
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21 October 2004
Sharepoint Document Library Change Request #4
Oh my god I keep getting deja vu when this scenario occurs with customers again and agan. Need to find workaround quick! Realizing that beeing able to access document libraries from Outlook (or File Open in general) is actually related to working with doclibs (dooh..) I felt the need to add it to my... Read More...
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20 October 2004
Sharepoint Document Library Change Request #3
We are progressing on effective document management with Sharepoint with our customers, and we're gaining more and more opportunitites using Sharepoint as a DMS-killer (heavyweight document management system killer). Customers want's a simpler cheaper solution and love the office integration and ease... Read More...
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19 October 2004
Common error using the Exception Management Application Block
I make extensive use of the Exception Management Application block from Microsoft PAG. A common error I usually get when starting up a new project is that I haven't configured the eventlog on the Windows 2003 Server to allow writing to the eventlog for all authenticated users. The error message is: ... Read More...
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12 October 2004
The gap called "included paths"
" How do I add two or more documents as an attachement to an email from Outlook " a user asked me. We're of course talking a pure Sharepoint document management solution, and of course we've locked down every single Z-drive factor (they've got no disks at all) in the network to force all content into... Read More...
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12 October 2004
Speeding up Sharepoint Immediate Alerts
Whenever a user has requested an alert for a list or another object i Sharepoint there is a default delay of 10 minutes. Users are puzzled by not having received an alert when other users tell them that updates have been made to a list or document library. These settings are not (as far as I know) available... Read More...
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