Much of my job as a SharePoint consultant working in the Web Content Management discipline is the configuring of web parts. One of the most popular web parts has to be the Content Query Web Part. This web part allows you to roll up different kinds of content at the site collection, site, or list…
ConfigMgr SP2 is now available (and has been since Oct 22). Time to address the two commonly recurring questions I have seen in the forums and mailing lists? When will the full integrated installation media be available? This refers to a full install of ConfigMgr integrated with SP2 so that you do not have to…
The OCS Web Scheduler allows users to schedule conference calls and live meetings without the Outlook Add-in for Live Meeting. This is particularly helpful for users testing Office 2010, because there is no Live Meeting add-in for Outlook 2010 yet. Basically, setup.exe creates two virtual directories on the server hosting the web components role (usually…
There are so many roles within OCS that it can be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start. I recommend starting with the Front-End server, then proceeding to the Edge, followed by CWA, Mediation, Monitoring, and then Archiving. Microsoft has made the process easier with a new Update Resource Center http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/ee695846.aspx, and a…
Well, we’re half way through our 5 city tour with Catapult Systems “Best of SharePoint 2010”. My colleagues and I have delivered this great day long SharePoint 2010 overview in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL. Today is Dallas then Houston on Thursday and Denver next Thursday. There is still time to register if you are…
The publishing features of MOSS allow you to create tables on publishing pages. Out-of-the box, MOSS comes with a set of predefined table formats that control the style of the header row, first column, alternating line-styles, etc. Most likely though, none of these styles are what you are looking for. Customizing these styles is quite…
While trying to configure MOSS in a secure environment that will be used for a DOTCOM site where the WFEs are in a different subnet than that of the SQL Server, CA, and Indexer we ran into some trouble administering services running on the WFEs. It turns out there are some ports that need to…
Holy cow batman! The title says it all and is the conclusion of one Mark Russinovich – Windows Guru Guru Extraordinaire. Check out his blog post: The Machine SID Duplication Myth.
I’ll be delivering my spiel on Leveraging Technology to Build a PMIS (with a Special Preview of Project 2010) at the University of Houston chapter on 11/17. Hope to see some of you there. To my knowledge, this may be the first public demo of the Project 2010 features in Houston. The event is…
Matthew McDermott, Microsoft MVP, and Brad Freels, Microsoft Senior Technology Specialist, will provide a 2 hour overview of the great new features of SharePoint 2010. Including: Sites: UI Changes, Mobility Support, Office Client Support Communities: Social Improvements, My Sites, Activity Feeds Content: Enterprise Content Types, Metadata, Video Content Types Search: Phonetic Search, Navigation, Relevance Insights:…
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