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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 error. Dubya seemingly uses Akamai technology for this less-open-information-approach.
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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.
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How about making WSS Search available in Microsoft Office 2003?
Mike commented on my last post and said
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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 a lot lately so I'd like to point out a very cool thing.
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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 availible in Sharepoint.
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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!
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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 of use. Some features are missing though, and it creates a certain degree of mistrust with customers. True enough, these things are not supported when using file shares either, but I'd like to see them in sharepoint.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Do NOT install WSS SP1 with Automatic Update
Be very careful when installing Windows Sharepoint Services Service Pack 1. Especially make sure it's not installed as an automatic update on the server. Doing it wrong might result in
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Sharepoint admin UI speaks many languages
For a while now we have experienced that the sharepoint administration pages suddenly changes language from norwegian (1044) to english (1033). We got a tip from MS support that seemed to have effect instantly. By increasing the number of worker threads for the application pool running Sharepoint Portal Server the language corrected itself.
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Watch the Sharepoint Crawler in integration scenarios!
We've just deployed a solution where teamsites are generated to work with data from Navision Axapta. The point-to-point integration delivered by axapta is somewhat fragile.
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Create a list in a portal area based on a list template
If you save a list as a template in a WSS team site and later on go to the create page, this listtemplate appears as one of the list types you can create new instances of on all subsites of the top-level website (sitecollection) that you've stored the template in.