http://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/atom.aspxCommunity Server2005-12-21T15:30:00Zhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2007/04/11/sharepoint-topics-at-chicago-user-groups.aspx2007-04-11T17:55:38Z2007-04-11T17:55:38Z<p>Todd Bleeker (who is alleged to be a cult figure in some circles) is speaking at two local events:</p> <p>Building SharePoint Web Parts <br />Wednesday, April 18th<br /><a href="http://www.cnug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=40">Chicago DotNet User Group</a> (RSVP requested)<br />Microsoft Office in Downers Grove, IL</p> <p>Ghosting, Master Pages, Themes, CSS, etc.<br />Thursday, April 19th<br /><a href="https://www.clicktoattend.com/register.aspx?eventid=117591">Chicago SharePoint User Group</a> (RSVP required)<br />Microsoft Technology Center, 77 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL<br /></p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=27f5d427-69b6-47cd-8a63-ad7caa699383" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=23081" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1643" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/10/03/new-sharepoint-writer-for-intranet-journal.aspx2006-10-03T19:59:21Z2006-10-03T19:59:21Z<p><a href="http://blog.funknstyle.com/">Amanda Murphy</a> has started writing <a href="http://www.intranetjournal.com/sharepoint/">SharePoint articles</a> for Intranet Journal. The SharePoint series over there has&nbsp;slowed down&nbsp;since I got too busy to contribute. But with Amanda and <a href="http://thorprojects.com/blog/">Rob</a>, I look forward to more great stuff!</p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=f0a0e517-8268-4df5-a1fa-6110549499cd" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=13265" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1645" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/07/11/customizing-layouts-pages.aspx2006-07-11T09:01:52Z2006-07-11T09:01:52Z<p>Shane is rallying the troops on <a href="http://www.graphicalwonder.com/?p=479">WSSv3 customization</a>.</p><a href="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/kick/?url=http://www.graphicalwonder.com/?p=479"><img alt="kick it on SharePointKicks.com" src="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http://www.graphicalwonder.com/?p=479" border="0" /></a> <p></p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=e6ea0813-6c6f-4c67-8b2e-51d4bb9597ee" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9092" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1646" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/07/07/howto-setup-forms-authentication-for-wssv3-in-7-days.aspx2006-07-07T14:31:51Z2006-07-07T14:31:51Z<p>I started the process on Friday afternoon, so you may need to adjust each days activities...</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>Day 1 (afternoon)</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>Create Virtual Machine and Virtual Disk; Install Windows 2003 Server R2; Download 32 patches from Windows Update.</p></blockquote> <p>Day 2 </p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>Watch A.J beat the Cubs in the ninth-inning sandwich by the World Cup semi-finals.</p></blockquote> <p>Day 3</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>Mow lawn; Buy new garage door opener; Pay for installation (It is a hardware problem!); Other honey-do&#39;s.</p></blockquote> <p>Day 4</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>Work on&nbsp;a setup project for the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=SPFORUMS">SharePoint Forums WebPart</a>.</p></blockquote> <p>Day 5</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>Independance Day parade, cook-out and fireworks.</p></blockquote> <p>Day 6</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>Download and install WSS and its prerequisites. <a href="http://www.wssdemo.com/default.aspx">Ian Morrish&nbsp;has them summarized on his demo site</a>.</p></blockquote> <p>Day 7 (morning)</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>Configure Forms Authentication using <a href="http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/06/14/1617.aspx">tips from Nick Swan</a> and code from the <a href="http://asp.net/QuickStart/aspnet/doc/security/login.aspx#createuser">ASP.Net Quick Start</a>. (In an interesting intersection of old and new, I used Notepad to create an ASP.Net 2.0 application!)</p></blockquote></blockquote> <p>The SharePoint&nbsp;Team has done a fantastic job!&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/kick/?url=http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/2006/07/07/HOWTOSetupFormsAuthenticationForWSSv3In7Days.aspx"><img src="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/2006/07/07/HOWTOSetupFormsAuthenticationForWSSv3In7Days.aspx" border="0" alt="kick it on SharePointKicks.com" /></a></p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=99173ca3-1ffa-4d34-99b8-d7c11ee49a10" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8987" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1647" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/06/29/sharepointkicks.aspx2006-06-29T09:22:38Z2006-06-29T09:22:38Z<p>Bil Simser is <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2006/06/28/Kicking-it-up-a-notch-with-SharePoint.aspx">bootstrapping a community publishing site</a>. <a href="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/">Kick it!</a></p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=c6c962a1-f01a-42c1-ad50-74806a98931d" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8767" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1648" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/06/28/unable-to-validate-data.aspx2006-06-28T23:16:37Z2006-06-28T23:16:37Z<p>Symptom: </p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p>When performing a search on a WSS page that has been customized, the standard WSS error page displays with the message &quot;Unable to validate data&quot;</p></blockquote> <p dir="ltr">Cause:</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr">The search box is rendered via the &lt;SharePoint:ViewSearchForm&gt; tag. In the customized pages,&nbsp;this tag was inside the &lt;form runat=&quot;server&quot;&gt; tag</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/kick/?url=http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/2006/06/29/UnableToValidateData.aspx"><img alt="kick it on SharePointKicks.com" src="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/2006/06/29/UnableToValidateData.aspx" border="0" /></a></p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=e26f98f2-1890-41a7-83e7-7e77563c5a20" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8752" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1649" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/06/15/best-practices-using-disposable-windows-sharepoint-services-objects.aspx2006-06-15T15:58:51Z2006-06-15T15:58:51Z<p>A new Technical Article is online discussing the cases in which Dispose() should be called.&nbsp; A must read for all SharePoint developers.</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ms778813(office.12).aspx">Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects</a></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/kick/?url=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms778813.aspx"><img src="http://www.sharepointkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms778813.aspx" border="0" alt="kick it on SharePointKicks.com" /></a> </p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=f7eda3ef-087c-419c-b6c0-11b125b2eea4" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8411" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1644" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/06/15/ie-update-breaks-some-pages.aspx2006-06-15T09:59:49Z2006-06-15T09:59:49Z<p dir="ltr">One of the patches on June 13, 2006 is causing problems on some pages. A few pages to review to get up to speed and the work-around:</p> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/15/79304_HNactivexreprieve_1.html">InfoWorld&#39;s article</a></p> <p><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912945">KBase Article</a></p> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp">MSDN Technical Article with the work-around</a></p></blockquote><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=4600f4e8-8416-46d0-a667-f6eb407afd8b" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8409" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1650" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/06/14/unclear-on-the-concept.aspx2006-06-14T15:52:50Z2006-06-14T15:52:50Z<p>InfoWorld posted an <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/14/79274_HNhateaboutwebsites_1.html">article describing some of the things that cause visitors to leave</a>. One of those things -- flashing ads that distract the reader.</p> <p>On the page, I&#39;m sure you can guess what I saw...</p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=690b0910-f905-483f-b5fc-5e1498fd43bd" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8407" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1651" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/06/07/how-to-conditionally-add-web-part-to-page.aspx2006-06-07T13:11:29Z2006-06-07T13:11:29Z<p>How would you address this scenario:</p> <p>I have a web part that displays information from a legacy system. The information is very important to that system&#39;s user community -- so much so that it deserves to be displayed on the home page (WSS, not SPS). However, the legacy system user community is about 25% of the organizations employees. This 25% is influential, and mostly technology averse.</p> <p>If the information applied to 100% (or somthing close to it) of the employees, then I would update the Shared View. But I would rather not subject 75% to an empty web part. And forcing the 25% to manually add the web part to their Personal View is a nonstarter.</p> <p>I encourage <a href="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog">comments/questions on my blog site</a>.</p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=2ae2fc61-d659-4bb5-a56c-e76694080b2c" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8406" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1652" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/01/27/another-peek-into-upcoming-features.aspx2006-01-28T00:18:00Z2006-01-28T00:18:00Z<p>The <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/">SharePoint Team blog</a> has another entry today: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/01/27/518483.aspx">Configure it out</a></p> <p>Read the post carefully and you can discover additional details about the next version. My favorite --&nbsp;&quot;simultaneous vanilla LDAP &amp; Windows auth (on separate URL namespaces, both hosting the same base content).&quot;</p> <p>I knew that non-Active Directory authentication was coming, but this is huge! Employees authenticated via AD, external users authenticated in a different fashion. If the external connector license is reasonable, SharePoint deployments should grow dramatically. (As if they weren&#39;t already!)</p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=0dd8c895-33dc-4864-b6fa-a1161214c5ec" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4861" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1653" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2006/01/24/wss-themes.aspx2006-01-24T18:47:00Z2006-01-24T18:47:00Z<p>Some time ago, <a href="http://www.infotechcanada.com/infotech/default.aspx">Infotech Canada</a> release a <a href="http://www.infotechcanada.com/productivity_solutions/themepack.aspx">theme pack for WSS</a>. But, if you want a <a href="http://www.sharepointdevelopers.net">custom theme</a> that looks exactly like you want, you should get in touch with <a href="http://www.heathersolomon.com">Heather Solomon</a>.&nbsp;First-class!</p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=1d167939-4376-4545-8fdb-cedf49a61486" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4789" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1654" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2005/12/23/what-is-a-amp-quot-site-amp-quot.aspx2005-12-23T08:44:00Z2005-12-23T08:44:00Z<p>Todd Bleeker has a great explanation of <a href="http://mindsharpblogs.com/Todd/archive/2005/12/22/923.aspx">sites and other SharePoint nouns</a>.</p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=3955ef59-a5ec-4880-8a76-7bc0728bc32c" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4442" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1655" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2005/12/22/quick-launch-webpart.aspx2005-12-22T21:49:00Z2005-12-22T21:49:00Z<p><a href="http://bobmixon.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome">Bob Mixon</a> is wrapping up a new <a href="http://bobmixon.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/QuickLaunchWebPart">WebPart to replace the default Quick Launch</a>. The sample images look very nice!</p> <p>(Bob hints at some upcoming WebParts as well. Read his <a href="http://bobmixon.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/WebHome">new blog site</a> for details.)</p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=8f32b0ff-bfcf-4170-989d-c346c0a948f4" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4435" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1656" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspxhttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/spdiary/archive/2005/12/21/web-based-database-designer.aspx2005-12-21T21:30:00Z2005-12-21T21:30:00Z<p>From <a href="http://www.graphicalwonder.com/">Shane</a>, a <a href="http://ondras.praha12.net/sql/">web-based visual database designer</a>.</p><img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.schaeflein.net/blog/cptrk.ashx?id=cee869f8-e5f0-4125-80fe-8d088fa100f1" alt="" /><img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4428" width="1" height="1" alt="" /> <hr><span style="font-size:10pt;">Posted on <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/">SharePoint Blogs</a></span> <img src="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1657" width="1" height="1">Unclaimed Bloghttp://www.sharepointblogs.com/members/Unclaimed-Blog.aspx