I have observed a fundamental pattern in software design – a polarity with what I shall call ‘Task Oriented’ designs and ‘Domain Oriented’ designs. One or the other emphasis may be more appropriate to one kind of application or another. But usually a balanced approach utilizing a measure of each gives us the best results. …
Windows 7 introduces support for search federation to remote data stores using OpenSearch technologies that enable users to access and interact with their remote data from within Windows Explorer. The picture below shows an example of searching an existing SharePoint 2007 site from within Windows Explorer. The user selects the SharePoint site search connector in…
For years, the PMI has teased me with mentions of a Schedule Management Plan in the PMBOK. It obviously existed, and even was listed as an input to one of the Time Management processes, but it never got called out as its own separate artifact with its own planning process. Obviously, this implied some sort…
If you want to add a control to your InfoPath form to do an active directory lookup, then the Contact Selector Control will work for you. In order to add this control to your form, there are some certain guidelines that need to be followed. DOs: To add the control to your form, you first…
I recently posted about how to take advantage of the new Group Policy features in Windows 7. Because many organizations decided to skip Windows Vista, they may not be aware of a feature introduced in that time frame called Group Policy Preferences. In contrast to Group Policy settings, Group Policy does not strictly enforce preferences.…
Several of the new features in Windows 7 are enabled exclusively through Group Policy. For example, AppLocker, location aware printing, the new federated search feature that allows Windows Search to point to a SharePoint document library. Another example is the new Branch Cache feature – this too can only be enabled through Group Policy.…
The Response Group feature is new to R2 (released Feb 3rd, 2009) and provides basic call routing capabilities within the Office Communications Server environment. At Catapult, we are using the basic hunt group feature to provide an easy way for our employees to reach our IT Department. Before you can create a Response Group workflow,…
I have been spending quite a bit of time lately working with Silverlight 3 and SharePoint. One of the first big shifts for me is that Silverlight Development is Client development. Silverlight runs in the browser, but it runs on the client, so no SharePoint Object Model code. You have to access all of the…
While Peter and I were busy working out our business plan for an Irish-Mexican fusion cantina (corned beef & cabbage tacos), real bloggers were apparently busy being productive. I was recently introduced to Rolly Perreaux’s blog, and check this out, he’s already posted screenshots of 2010: http://rperreaux.spaces.live.com/Blog/
When I was doing PMP training in Central Ohio, I used to have a lot of students from the Honda plant in Marysville, and from a lot of the Honda suppliers. I don’t know how true this is, but several of them told me the following story, which is a great illustrative anecdote: At Honda,…
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