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Simple Trick for making an existing web part async
Friday, February 05, 2010 3:10 PM
This is one of my favorite stupid SharePoint tricks. If you have a situation where there is a web part (or any web page component) that is slow, and it is slowing the page render time for your page this is a handy trick. Here is the summary: Create another web part page and add the slow loading web part. Look at the source code for the render page and get the... Read More...
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External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint (ECTS) Installation Notes
Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:40 PM
These notes are in addition to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296362.aspx These are the notes I generated that I used in overlay with the installation instructions.  Make sure Cert Server is installed and available Configure a certificate for ADAM Run ADAM setup from internet · Add/Remove only works if you have the OS disk Create DNS entries... Read More...
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Search Your Internal Site From Internet Explorer
Monday, February 04, 2008 3:05 PM
You can use Internet Explorer 7's search box to search almost anything, and you can enable visitors to your site to do the same. Here's how: Create an OpenSearch XML Document such as the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"> <ShortName>Search Westin's Technical... Read More...
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Using SharePoint and AJAX to Gather Website Feedback
Tuesday, December 27, 2005 6:54 PM
When building intranet web applications, I recommend making it very easy to allow your users to tell you what they think. If you are reading this blog, you know how important instant simple feedback is to web sites, their value, and the trust of their community. I’ve been using SharePoint lists for this quite a bit. I often put a “Click Here to Submit Feedback... Read More...
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Using the Messenger API in HTML
Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:44 PM
I was curious if this was possible. A lot of people want to be able to show presence information in web pages, but don't want to have deploy lots of server controls. Here is an example showing how to show a count of unread email in your inbox: <object id="objMessenger" classid="clsid:B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28" VIEWASTEXT></object> <script... Read More...
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How To Create a Hyperlink to SharePoint's List Export to Spreadsheet
Monday, August 22, 2005 1:27 PM
Because you can't copy the hyperlink on the "Export to spreadsheet" link on SharePoint lists, here is how you can create your own hyperlink. http:// [Server] / [Site] /( [Subsite] /)_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=109&Using=_layouts/query.iqy&List= [ListGUID] &View= [ViewGUID] &CacheControl=1 Replace the [Placeholders] with your environment's information... Read More...
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Syndicating Exchange Public Folders in Web Pages
Monday, July 11, 2005 8:00 PM
Matej writes, "How is it possible to display data in public folders on a web page!" Matej, this is not likely going to be as nice as you would expect, but there are a couple of ways to do this. If you use SharePoint, there are Exchange Web Parts that render Exchange data nicely. The other alternative is to display Outlook Web Access and specify a few handy query... Read More...
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MSDN: Add a Recycle Bin to Windows SharePoint Services for Easy Document Recovery
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:53 PM
A great article and download on how to " Add a Recycle Bin to Windows SharePoint Services for Easy Document Recovery " Read More...
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Using InfoPath and SharePoint to Create Personalized Views
Monday, January 24, 2005 2:12 PM
Systems know who you are, but SharePoint and/or InfoPath solutions rarely take advantage of that awareness. Here is an easy way to create a more personalized experience for your users using built-in functionality of InfoPath and SharePoint . This approach will let you create a form that is aware of a user's identity (login name, phone number, display name, etc... Read More...
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Display an Exchange Public Folder in a SharePoint Web Part
Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:58 PM
Exchange public folders are not dead. There are still a lot of uses for them. For instance, it is a great way for a team to have a place to collect email by using drag and drop. You can have "favorite" public folders that are easy to locate if your company has a large public folder collection. You can use LookOut to search them. They can use all of the great... Read More...
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