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Here is a short list of most common scenarios that people should be aware of regarding SP admin account on AD: 1. When the account initially is created, set "Password never expires" account property to true. This is not a regular user account...

When you create Shared Services provider in your SharePoint Farm and want to assign already existing app pool make sure that the name of this application pool is exactly the same as SSP name. If the name is not the same then Sharepoint will create new...

Microsoft and BSkyB announce that Microsoft Silverlight and PlayReady technologies are enabling Sky Player TV, Sky's online TV service. Launched today, the service offers access to a range of leading pay TV entertainment as part of an online-only...

URL: Reminder: Microsoft Office and SharePoint Tips and Tricks Session 1 Of 2 Body: This is just a reminder that tomorrow from 12 noon to 1pm eastern time I will have a very special guest on the SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series. This week Michael Rich...

The Microsoft Generation 4 Modular Data Centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers and apply it across the entire facility, which will be composed of modular 'building blocks' of prefabricated mechanical, electrical and security...

This is the fourth in my series of blogs posts that discuss the implementation of an Employee Blogging Platform that we implemented for a customer. Previously in this series: Anatomy of a SharePoint Solution: The Blog Anatomy of a SharePoint Solution...

I saw this during a code review today. Essentially, to support a LINQ query into a SPListItemCollection, there was an iteration that converted the SPListItemCollection to a typed List collection, the secondary collection subsequently being queried through...

One of the compelling features in C# 3.0 is the presentation of lambda expressions, cultivated out of the anonymous delegate (type-safe function pointers) support (don’t need to define a method somewhere else) that was present in C# 2.0. A lambda expression...

Corpo: Olá pessoal, tudo bom??? QUICK ANSWER IN ENGLISH: Anonymous access to the My Site Web site is not supported in SharePoint Server 2007. This behavior is by design . Vocês conhecem a feature My Sites (ou Personal Sites ) disponível no Office Sharepoint...

I've seen a few posts in the forums lately on this, so I thought I would post how I have implemented it in the past. The issue is you have multiple SharePoint farms, but you want one index server to handle both of them. This is actually pretty easy...

Application screens (a.k.a. "_layouts" screens) usually don't display the search in the header. There does appear to be a few screens out there that do, and depending on your design for application screens, this may throw a wrench in how...

Und wieder mal eine neue Site, die Informationen und Erfahrungen zu SharePoint (hier für Entwickler) sammeln möchte, diesmal als Wiki auf Basis der Confluence Engine: SharePointDevWiki . Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast , SharePoint 2007 , SharePointCommunity...

Body: I've been recently building some SharePoint Virtual Machines, looking at the media I had available which was SharePoint 2007 RTM, I decided it was best to get a fresh copy of SharePoint 2007 with SP1. I planned to install the Infrastructure...

URL: Video: Enterprise Information Discovery With SharePoint Body: The other day I had a remote webcast session as part of a joint multi-account briefing. I was asked to speak/present on Enterprise Information Discovery with SharePoint Search. Search...

URL: SharePoint Resources To Help Planning Efforts For Scalability, Manageability, Availability And Reliability Body: The other day I got a request from a client for informational resources around MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) Scalability...

Be A Mad Scientist JavaScript Developer Looking over the last two articles in this series, parts 4 and 5, some ideas may have popped into your head. “If I use the web service to get data then use that to pre-populate a form or manipulate page elements...

A new wave of Windows Live services have been released, adding more social-networking qualities to the online services. They include a new version of Windows Live Home , Spaces , Events , and SkyDrive , as well as completely new web services such as Windows...

Und schon geht die nächste regionale SharePoint Usergroups an den Start: Dank Sven Pohl und Hauke Fast findet in Stuttgart am 20.1.2009 das erste Treffen im Hause Kodak statt. Hier die Details SharePointCommunity UserGroup in Stuttgart Termin: 20.1.2009...

URL: Book Review and Giveaway: Seamless Teamwork by Michael Sampson Body: I just received the following information about a cool book give-away over at SharePoint Buzz. The cool thing about the timing is that I actually just got my own copy in the mail...

URL: SharePoint Unleashed Conference: Come See Me December 9th Body: Are you a at an organization looking to purchase, rollout, or maximize your investment in SharePoint? Are you also located in the Philadelphia PA region? Do you have some time on December...

URL: Two New SharePoint User Groups Added Body: I have added two new user groups to the SharePoint User Group page. The two are the Hampton Roads SQL Server and SharePoint User Group and the DoD SharePoint User Group. The DoD SharePoint User Group is...

Last night, I set out on a mission; a mission to create an accordion-style left navigation menu for my WSS test site. Mission complete. If you can copy/paste, you can see it in action. Since I used Google’s API to load jQuery, you don’t even...