Can you restore a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 backup to a MOSS farm? No.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:57 PM

If you try to restore a SPD file from SharePoint 2003 to a MOSS instance, you will get this error:


Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version '6.0.2.8117' or later.

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SharePoint Training and Internal Communication
Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:38 AM

Note to self:

Here are some packaged solutions available to help make the user community aware, prepared, and excited.

PKS
 Office Online

Office Online SharePoint Help

 Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training built on SharePoint Learning Kit

Here is a screen capture video showing how it works.
The SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) is government SCORM compliant, and can be used to deliver and track any training that uses the SCORM XML course definition. The Office SharePoint Server 2007 training is skinned and contains courses for SharePoint users.

SharePoint Internal Buzz Kit

The Internal Buzz Kit is designed to help you generate demand for your newly deployed SharePoint Server 2007 sites, increasing your Return on Investment.
You may need to revise some of the pieces in the Kit, depending upon your particular deployment environment and company policies.
You may download all the materials in one file, or download them separately

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Official Blog Icon?
Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:11 AM

Interesting.  Is this the "official" blog icon?
Not terrible.

http://office.microsoft.com/global/images/default.aspx?assetid=ZA102499971033

blog

Bigger

blog

See it in action here: SharePoint 2007 Help and How-to

Locking Your Computer with a Script
Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:42 AM

For humans: ÿ-L

For computers: %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

So cool.

Command line source: Shutting Down Computers and Logging Off Users: TechNet

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Model Driven Development
Monday, June 30, 2008 1:31 PM

A great post by Gabriel: Valuing the Undervalued Solution Model

Interesting Read: The Next Revolution in Productivity
Friday, May 16, 2008 8:50 PM

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml;jsessionid=R13ZGBCSYGIIUAKRGWDSELQBKE0YIISW?id=R0806D&referral=2341


Link: Managing social networking with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:19 PM

Eric mentions an interesting document he co-authored about SharePoint as a social networking platform.

Here is a direct link to the Word doc.

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SharePoint for Squirrels
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:15 PM

Admittedly, I haven't read to far into this site, but I'm link blogging it because, hey, even Squirrels need a little SharePoint now and then:

SharePoint for Squirrels
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Conducting Estimation meetings with Project
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:21 PM

Often an engineering team is asked to predict the future amidst uncertainty.

One way to efficiently drive estimation meetings in this environment is to use the Program, Evaluation, and Review Technique (PERT).

Here is the official article that describes this: Use a PERT analysis to estimate task durations

You can expose the PERT Analysis Toolbar by right-clicking anywhere in the toolbar and enabling "Pert Analysis":

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You can then click on the PERT Table button PERT Entry Sheet and you get the resultant table:

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This is also available through the Tables menus: 

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Note: The PERT Table is using the fields Duration1, Duration2, and Duration3 and renaming them.  If you are also using these, your values will show up here, and changing the values in this table will change them wherever else you are using Duration1,2,3.

 

You can now quickly go through the meeting asking questions like: "How long do you think this is likely to take?" (expected)  and "If that obstacle or constraint is removed, then how long would it take?" (optimistic) and "If that assumption doesn't play out, then how long would it take?" (pessimistic).

When you are done with the session, click the Calculate PERT button Calculate Pert and using the default weights (1:4:1) Project will update the Duration field with a calculated duration.

I recommend having the notes field open and documenting the pivot points of the conversation for each task. Split the Window, the show the Notes pane:

  1. Window:Split
    Split
  2. Right-click in the entry pane, and select Notes
    Show the notes pane

See also:

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Project Summary Task Summing Incorrectly
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:51 PM

I was asked recently about summary tasks showing sums of work columns that were too large.

This is caused by summary tasks that have carried their resource assignments from when they were non-summary tasks.

Steps to Reproduce

Here is how it occurs.

  1. Create tasks and assign resources
    task list
  2. Insert a new task amidst the others and assign a resource
    new interim task
  3. Indent the new task using the image button
    indent to subtask 
    In the above shot, notice that the summary task is now larger than the sum of its children

Resolution

Remove the resource assignments from the summary task:

fixing it

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