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• Microsoft Certified Master: SharePoint Server 2007

  The Microsoft Certified Master program has just launched. For now it only includes the following tracks: Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master: Windows Server 2008 – Directory... Posted Jun 27 2008, 12:10 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: moss, Tips, exam

• Sysinternals tools on Live!

  You can now use the Sysinternals tools directly from the Microsoft site or even use a drive mapping to the tools directory: \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\ . No longer will you have to search for the latest version of the tool, download each tool individually... Posted Jun 24 2008, 09:31 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips

• Sharepoint Templates - Types

  Aravindhan has compiled a list of Templates: Template Name Description GLOBAL#0 Global template (1033) STS#0 Team Site (1033) STS#1 Blank Site (1033) STS#2 Document Workspace (1033) MPS#0 Basic Meeting Workspace (1033) MPS#1 Blank Meeting Workspace (1033... Posted Jun 18 2008, 04:48 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: moss, Tips

• Quickly installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008

  You can slipstream SP1 yourself, but it turns out there's an easier way. First, install the trial version of MOSS 2007 with SP1 ( 32 bit or 64 bit ). After you install the trial version, upgrade from the trial version . In Central Administration,... Posted May 17 2008, 12:48 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: moss, Tips

• TED: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

  Secrets of Success Richard St. John has a nice little talk featured on TED where he talks about the secrets of success. He interviewed several members of TED and came up with the following list of features: Passion, love for what you do Work hard and... Posted May 16 2008, 10:08 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, Tips, consulting

• Missing Microsoft Robotics Development Studio Templates in Visual Studio 2008

  After I installed Visual Studio Team System 2008 and the April CTP of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio, the Robotics project templates were missing from the Visual Studio 2008 project templates list. After a bit of digging around I finally solved... Posted May 16 2008, 09:52 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips, robotics developer studio

• It's Always Your Fault

  Jeff Atwood has a great article, called: The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault . An excerpt: "You know the feeling. It's happened to all of us at some point: you've pored over the code a dozen times and still can't... Posted Mar 26 2008, 12:14 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips, coding

• Teaching with an Edge

  "MIT professor and Web star Walter Lewin swings from pendulums and faces down wrecking balls to show students the zany beauty of science. "It took me a decade to come to the realization," says Lewin at his MIT office, "that really... Posted Mar 17 2008, 04:47 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, Tips

• Hidden list named "User Information List"

  "In case if you don't know there is a hidden list named "User Information List" which displays all the users of the site (collection) {MOSS / Sharepoint 2007}. And there is a page "Simple.aspx" which show this list, the URL... Posted Mar 15 2008, 03:27 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: moss, Tips, sps

• Simplicity

  What can we learn about usability… It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens Posted Mar 15 2008, 04:44 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips

• SharePoint Skills Advisor Tool

  "If you [are] interested in ramping up on SharePoint, the Product Group has developed a very slick tool that will point you to all currently available training on SharePoint, whether it be Instructor Led, Hands on Lab, Online Course, Reading, etc... Posted Mar 14 2008, 05:21 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: moss, Tips

• Second TFS Hosting Provider on the market

  Looks like there is now a second Team Foundation Server hosting provider on the market. If you need a hosted TFS solution, head over to TeamDevCentral or TFS Now! and give them a ping. Posted Mar 12 2008, 11:54 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips, tfs

• Error 1704

  During deployment of a Team Foundation Server Policy I was greeted by the following error: "Installation for Microsoft .NET Framework Service Pack 1 is currently suspended. You must undo the changes by that installation to continue. Do you want to... Posted Mar 12 2008, 10:55 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips, tfs

• Bringing down an ASP.NET Application for updates

  ASP.NET Debugging : Bringing down an ASP.NET Application for updates "One of the really useful, and not well-known features of ASP.NET 2.0 is that you can use a special file to take your application down and show users a friendly message while you... Posted Mar 12 2008, 10:43 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips

• Explaining Windows Live ID usage in Web Applications

  "A High Level explanation of how Windows Live ID works. If you are using a web application that uses Windows Live, such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live, you might be wondering, how does authentication work." Jon White of the Microsoft Dynamics... Posted Feb 19 2008, 03:07 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips

• Microsoft Web Deployment Tool - Tech Preview

  Overview Microsoft has created the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool , which provides deployment and migration support for Internet Information Services versions 6.0 and 7.0. This tool incorporates many features that enable web server administrators to deploy... Posted Jan 24 2008, 05:49 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips

• SharePoint Designer 2007 Tips

  SharePoint Designer 2007 is one of those beasts of programs that you have a love/hate relationship with. Honestly, the program is great when it works. When it doesn’t, you don’t call it SharePoint you can it some other names. Hey, its a learning... Posted Jan 23 2008, 10:24 PM by Sharepoint BUZZ Filed under: Tips, Tutorial, Sharepoint Designer 2007

• 5 Whys

  "The five whys is a question asking method used to explore the cause/effect relationships underlying a particular problem. Ultimately, the goal of applying the 5 Whys method is to determine a root cause of a defect or problem." ( 5 Whys - Wikipedia... Posted Jan 23 2008, 06:47 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips

• NewsGator’s RSS clients are now free! - Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - Musings on just about everything.

  Great decision guys! NewsGator’s RSS clients are now free! - Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - Musings on just about everything. Posted Jan 10 2008, 04:46 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips

• Package This

  If you find yourself in the situation that you need offline access to the MSDN and/or TechNet Library, and the MSDN Library cd's are not an option, take a look at Package This . This is a neat little tool which connects to the Library API and lets... Posted Dec 16 2007, 04:13 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Tips

• Boosting your VM Server

  If you've ever worked with Virtual Machines (VM) hosted on a VM Server, you might have come across the following situation where the VM itself has not been used for some time and is running very low on resources allocated to the VM. This is noticeable... Posted Dec 16 2007, 04:11 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: moss, Tips

• Free 411!

  Body: Don't you just love technology? I'm just amazed at some of the possibilities we have with technology these days. Of course, I'm most interested when I can: Save money Give less (also read take away) money to phone companies. Point in... Posted Oct 16 2007, 01:50 AM by Brain Dump: Posts Filed under: Tips