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SharePoint brings more power than ever to the end user. As usual, this is a double-edged sword. Its utility as a development platform is unmatched, but since many of the development tools are accessible from the browser UI, the dividing lines can get...
During a remote SharePoint training session this morning, Live Meeting presented one of our instructors with the following gem: "An attendee email address is malformed". This was particularly troubling since a wizard took care of adding all the entries...
This conference was a big hit last time, and now it's better then ever. If you're wondering about how Agile applies to your daily business, or if you just want to see how it looks when it's done right, you owe it to yourself to check out AgileDotNet on...
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As with most of my blog discoveries, this one was born the hard way: on the ragged slopes of insanity, amid the dying cries of a thousand savage deadlines... much like the fabled Robot al'Thor. Many of you have created assemblies to be used in the Global...
Have you ever needed to back up a VHD with a script? If you have, then you've probably wanted to make sure it copied successfully. One simple test is to check the size of both the source file and the destination file; this sounds great until you bang...
We still don't have good SharePoint debugging, but today I came across a tool that gets us closer. Essentially it works off of the SP logging mechanism, and alerts you when messages come up that meet your predefined filters. This has the advantage of...
It's happened to everyone. You're supposed to be an expert in your field, and then you go and get tripped up by something insignificant. If you're like me, you think you've already eliminated the offending possibility, and it's only after the client ...
After yesterday's brush with covert crazy hyphens, a related tip seems in order. This isn't the first time I've been burned by non-standard characters. Several years back I created a small classic ASP utility (yes, it's THAT old) that analyzes a string...
Later this month I'll be speaking at the Dallas/Fort Worth SharePoint User Group, along with Pete Henehan -- long-time MCT and my distinguished colleague at Improving . Together, we'll be exploring simple ways to improve user experiences with SharePoint...
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