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SASUG Search Presentation

Thanks again to my hosts at the San Antonio SharePoint User Group. I had a great time. You can download my deck and the samples that I demonstrated from my SharePoint Conference post. I have not added the information on image search that I presented last night. I am working on a three part post…

Another EBE Blog in the Wild

The folks over at AMD have been busy getting their message out and they are using the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition to do it! The team developed an EBE theme that goes with their corporate brand. No customizations beyond the XSL that you have to write to complete your concept.

SDPS and Microsoft RoundTable

I have been spending this week delivering a Microsoft sponsored SharePoint Delivery Planning Services session. If you are a Partner and you don’t know about SDPS you should check it out. If you are a customer and have Software Assurance you should talk to your Partner or Microsoft about taking advantage of this great benefit.…

My Site Availability

I struggled with how to title this post because readers may not know that you have this issue (and if they do, how do you search for the issue?) On the My Site profile page just below the default profile information there is a web part that displays the users availability from Exchange. This web…

AAM and SSL Termination

Scenario A few days ago I knew nothing about SSL Termination, the Cisco ACE load balancer or Alternate Access Mapping. (OK, I lied, I knew enough about AAM to hate it. Mostly because I just don’t get it.) I was struggling with the following scenario. Spencer Harbar and Shane Young lead me down the right…

SharePoint IT Pro Documentation Team Blog

There is a new TechNet blog specifically focused on IT Pro Content for SharePoint. http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/ provides notification and updates for the SharePoint related TechNet content and a vehicle for you to request topics and provide feedback to the Documentation Team. Next time you find yourself struggling to find content you can bounce to this blog…

KB952698 and KB952704 Released

For those of you attempting to use Content Deployment in MOSS there has been a significant effort on the part of the folks at Microsoft to fix the many, many issues with the feature set. Content Deployment or Prime, is primarily used for publishing content from one site to another but has many other uses.…

Is it a go button or a magnifying glass

This post is for the folks who want to deploy MOSS without changing the default master page for Blue Band. Please change just one thing…the search button hover state: Normally it looks like this: …and when you hover… Somebody forgot to set the GoImageActiveUrl on the SearchBoxEx control…set it like this: GoImageActiveUrl="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/Images/Search_Arrow.jpg %>"…