The data view Web Part I must say is probably my absolute favorite thing Microsoft included with SharePoint. It also has some really nice filtering capabilities built-in. Most of us are probably familiar with the Sort and Group dialog that is part of the Common Data View Tasks shown in the image below. What…
This weekend I made the 4 and a half hour drive up to Dallas for the SharePoint Saturday event. This was the first SharePoint Saturday that I have attended and overall, I was really impressed. I have to give Kudos to Eric Shupps for organizing the event. I also want to thank those who attended…
I noticed the yesterday that I had a HUGE number of duplicate contacts on my phone. I also noticed that I had all sorts of contacts that just did not belong. I sync my iPhone from our company Exchange Server from Outlook so of course I blamed my updated iPhone. Then I took a…
Uses of Custom Field Types WSS 3.0 and MOSS have a rich set of field types that ship from Microsoft which can probably handle all of your needs. There comes a time when you just want a little more though. Allow me to introduce you to custom field types. With custom field types you can…
Still working on documenting the instructions from the Houston MPUG event a couple of weeks ago. It’s amazing how much can be condensed into a one hour presentation. Today’s post is about formatting the Gantt chart, which is a popular topic in many of the sessions I teach. Note that this posting is meant…
I have been using Office 2010 for about a week now and here are some first impressions of Outlook 2010. Installation The installation was a breeze. You have the option to run 2010 along side 2007 as long as you use the 32 bit version of 2010. I opted for the 64 bit version so…
Challenge: A resource on my project is scheduled to work 5 hours on one particular day. MS Project is showing them as being over allocated for that day. Isn’t 8 hours a “normal” workday? Why would the resource be over allocated? Solution: Microsoft Project reports over allocations if a resource has to work for more…
I wanted to document this interesting issue. (Well, interesting to me at least). All credit goes to Ijaz Rasheed for identifying and researching this issue. The Problem Users attempt to export their My Tasks page to Excel. Excel throws an error: Clicking “Yes” only makes things worse… The Workaround Instead of using the menu…
One of the problems that Catapult Consultants has at times is the restrictions of outbound traffic while at a client site. Most clients allow all outbound traffic from their locations but there are a few clients that only allow certain outbound traffic. This has caused problems in the past with some application that use ports…
Working with a customer recently, they had an issue using SAN attached disks during Operating System Deployment. They could successfully create and format the SAN attached disk as the D drive during the WinPE portion of the task sequence, but the disk would go offline during the Windows 2008 mini-setup. This was causing a major…
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