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My MSDN Magazine Article is now available

Kevin Hoffman07/08/2008
Recently I wrote an article for MSDN Magazine. The subject of the article is about planning for and designing state maintenance and sharing within peer networks. Overall I think the article turned out quite well.

When doing research, ALWAYS consider the source

Andrew Connell07/08/2008
In my days as a SharePoint professional living in the Publishing / CMS space, I frequently come across a customer who pits SharePoint against some of the other Web based CMS products out there. Most of these customers have been to a site called CMS...

Do Office Tools Still Play a Role in Architecture Design?

Mike Walker07/08/2008
I thought I would write this potentially controversial post about how traditional productivity tools such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio) can still play a role in the architecting process. Whether we like it or not the Of...

Vista #16 : Service Pack 1 issues

Sven Cipido07/08/2008
Some issues I discovered while using SP1: Vista SP1 recognized my total 4GB of Ram . Before without SP1, only around 3.25GB of my RAM was recognized.  The question with this can we be sure that now all 4GB...

Interesting Summer Reading

Mauro Cardarelli07/08/2008
A friend recently passed me a copy of “If Only We Knew What We Know” by Carla O’Dell and C. Jackson Grayson.  It’s an interesting read for those of us invested in the knowledge management discipline.  This book, while a few years...

Eusprig 2008

Simon Murhpy07/08/2008
Well its coming in a couple of days. Content looks good as usual. This will be my 5th or 6th year attending and I have spoken at 3 I think, but this will be probably be my last Eusprig. Looking around I get the feeling that the...

We Have a Contest Winner

Jon Peltier07/07/2008
Congratulations to Doug Jenkins, who writes the Newton Excel Bach, not (just) an Excel Blog blog. His entry UDFs for trigonometric functions was selected as winner in the Contest for Excel Models in Science and Engineering. Doug’s winning...

Deployment Practices: Required Fields

Brian Kennemer07/07/2008
Few things are more frustrating then using a system and being presented with a field you MUST fill in to continue at a time when you don’t know which value is appropriate for that field. Project Server is no exception. You can make any enterprise...

SharePoint Governance

Scott Jamison07/07/2008
I hope everyone in the USA had a fantastic 4th of July!  I watched the fireworks in Boston...what an amazing show.  Which leads me to today's topic...governance. The number one topic that my customers ask me about...

I’m in Houston at WW Partner Conference – anyone want to meet up?

Angus Logan07/06/2008
The WPC is a huge event for MSFT – there will be 10k+ people there – lots of fun; I’m not here for the crowds though – I just want to meet some cool MSFT partners doing great stuff on the web; Or… if you are in Houston and you aren’t even att...

Heading to Vancouver and Tahiti Islands

SharePoint Buzz07/06/2008
I’m going to Vancouver and Tahiti Islands for the first two weeks of August with the wifey. Any ideas on what are the nicest things to do in Vancouver?

Office Community Clips

Dick Kusleika07/05/2008
Have you seen the new Microsoft Office Community Clips? People upload videos that demonstrate how to perform a task. I guess people like this because it's almost like watching TV. Never mind that you actually have to click and watch in...

WSS FAQ additions and corrections CXI - 29th June - 5th July 2008

Mike Walsh07/05/2008
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (This is also posted...

Microsoft's Common Solutions for T-SQL Problems by Gus Collazo

speakTECH-BI07/04/2008
Hey everyone, Happy 4th fo July! I ran across this nice article by Microsoft with detailed solutions to some of the more common T-SQL problems you may encounter. Check it out! http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SQLExamples

PASS Camp Germany 2008

Chris Webb07/04/2008
Are you looking for a public MDX course in Europe? I teach private MDX courses (I'm in the process of building a new website with all the details on, now I've left Solid Quality - drop me an email if you're interested in one in the meantime) but...

Microsoft StyleCop, Totalitarian Rules

Bil Simser07/04/2008
I got turned onto a fairly new tool by a friend and was interested in checking it out. It's called Microsoft StyleCop and done in the style of FxCop but rather than analyzing assemblies it looks at code for formatting and style rules. The original...

ReMIX UK 08

Mark Harrison07/03/2008
ReMix UK 08 takes you to the frontier of today's web. With boundaries continuing to blur between developers and designers, consumers and producers, and TVs, PCs and mobile devices, ReMix UK 08 asks 'where next for the web?'Over 30 top flight...

Office Live Small Business has >1M subscribers

OfficeRocker07/03/2008
Following on from my Office Live demo at the NCVO event, Tim Kimber sent me this today which is worth sharing I thought:   Microsoft Office Live Small Business has reached a pivotal milestone: In less than two years since its November 20...

A much easier way to keep track of new SharePoint content published on MSDN and TechNet

SharePoint Team07/03/2008
The following RSS feeds have been available for a few months now, but we still get questions on a weekly basis from people wondering how they can keep track of SharePoint oriented content that is published on TechNet and MSDN. Feed for new...

A list of Post SP1 Hotfixes

William Cornwill07/02/2008
Spencer Harbar has a great article that lists the hotfixes that have been released since SP1 which he is keeping up to date.  I will stress as per Spencer, "You shouldn't deploy these willy nilly unless you are experiencing issues...

On the road to paying a lot for the iPhone

Omar Shahine07/01/2008
I knew this would happen. As time went on and details emerged, my prediction of how miserable it’s going to be trying to buy an iPhone is going to come true. You see, now that AT&T is wearing the pants, it’s doing it’s usual business...

My First Book: Programming Microsoft® Office Business Applications

Erika Ehrli07/01/2008
I think it's quite interesting how knowledge is shared nowadays. With so many blogs, online articles, how do I videos, and e-mail newsletters out there, writing/reading books seems to be just poetic. I still believe good tech books are your best...

My new role in Office interoperability

Doug Mahugh07/01/2008
Brian Jones mentioned on his blog yesterday that he’s going to be pretty focused on Office 14 going forward and people should look over here on my blog for information about Office’s approach to interoperability and file formats going forward. I’d...

I've been presented with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award for Windows SharePoint Services

Jeff Cate | Kevin Pine 07/01/2008
I have received notification that I’ve been presented with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award for Windows Server - Windows SharePoint Services. This is my second consecutive year of being honored with this award, but I have to say that the amount of...

Building an Asset Tracking Application in Excel Services – Part 3b of 5

David Gainer06/30/2008
Today's author, Dan Parish, continues his discussion on building an Excel Services solution. In Part 3a I walked through how to create the SharePoint List that stores the data users enter. In this post, I will walk through how to create the Excel...

Dopust

Peter Jausovec06/30/2008
Koncno dopust! V sredo letim iz Seattla za Frankfurt in nato do Zagreba (business class :)). Nekaj dni bom doma, pol pa naslednji teden spet na letalo in v Dubrovnik na "pravi" morski dopust. Sem ze zacel pocasi pakirat, pospravljat, pripravljat....

Houston we have a (workflow) problem.

Wouter van Vugt06/30/2008
Body: Call me evil... Yes... it is true. Like many of you, I used to run SharePoint as admin on my developer box, and found out the hard way that this is quite a bad idea when you want to make software that actually deploys well on someone else's...

Looking for some good reading on Open XML?

Brian Jones06/30/2008
Wow, can't believe it's been over a month since my last post. I've been pretty busy getting back into the Office 14 project, the recently released Open XML APIs, as well as the Office 2007 SP work (where we'll be introducing the ODF support). I...

Designing browser-enabled forms for performance in InfoPath Forms Services (Part 6)

InfoPath Team Blog06/30/2008
Part 6 – Addendum: Links to related performance resources Welcome to the sixth article in our series about designing InfoPath browser-enabled forms for better performance and scalability. In our previous articles we defined performance in terms of...

Announcing: The Knowledge Worker Tools Early Adopter Programme

Mark Bower06/30/2008
This week we are kicking off the KWT Early Adopter Programme.  If you work in NHS IM&T and you are about to begin a SharePoint 2007 or Office 2007 deployment then read on...   What is KWT exactly? The Knowledge Worker ...

Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 10

dwinter06/27/2008
Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx Here is the full project from this effort:     http://www.codeplex.com/WikiMigrator

Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 10

Dan Winter06/27/2008
Note, this series starts at http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx Here is the full project from this effort:     http://www.codeplex.com/WikiMigrator

Access 2007 ribbon examples

Erik Rucker06/27/2008
A while back I asked for examples of ribbon apps that developers have created. My hope is that we can stimulate different ideas and help people think about how to build apps using the new paradigm. Here are some of the examples sent in by the...

Enjoying microspotting

KC Lemson 06/26/2008
I've been reading http://www.microspotting.com ever since my coworker Alex (aka carpenter-turned-test-manager) was profiled a while back. Great writing, beautiful photography, fun quirky looks at a bunch of Microsoft employees. Alex's profile is a...

Norwegian Developer Conference Presentations

Patrick Tisseghem06/25/2008
Body: Last week was the first edition of the Norwegian Developer Conference, a great initiative by Microsoft and ProgramUtvikling. As some of you probably know, Norway is one of my favorite countries to travel to and I always enjoy the people (and...

Upgraded to CS 2008

Bryant Likes06/25/2008
Today I upgraded http://blogs.sqlxml.org to Community Server 2008. Previously it was running Community Server 2.1, so since I missed a few versions the upgrade was not quite as simple as it could have been. However, it went pretty well overall I...

Some links to useful sources

Dennis Wallentin06/25/2008
A new and time consuming project keeps me busy so at present I don’t have the time to post here on a regular basis. Anyway, the following links points to several recently published articles by MSFT.  Finally, the version 1.0 of Open XML...

Add-ins for Multiple Office Versions without PIAs (Pt2), or _VtblGap

Andrew Whitechapel06/24/2008
In my last post, I discussed how you could avoid any dependency on the Office PIAs by using ComImport to redefine the host application’s OM interfaces. Someone (A Developer) pointed out that I had actually omitted the trailing 2 members of the...

Mac Office 2008 webcast today - great documents made simple!

Stephanie Krieger06/24/2008
Hi, everyone! Just a quick reminder to please join me today at 9a Pacific; 12p Eastern; 5p UK time (or whatever time zone you're in) for a 1 hour tips & tricks webcast on creating great documents with Office 2008 for Mac. Here's the link to...

The New World

Dick Moffat06/21/2008
I ran into an old client today at the grocery store (sounds like a song by Dan Fogelberg ?).  He works in IT for the Hospital Authority in our city.  Years ago I used Access to do some conversions for them from an old HR system...

Vista Annoyance - Open/Save As Choices For File Downloads

Eric Legault 06/19/2008
  Finally - after months of occasional efforts to find a solution (poor searching maybe), and seeing "close but no cigar" workarounds for general file association issues in Vista, I've deduced the answer to a problem that's been...

Upcoming DIWUG Event at July 3rd

Mart Muller06/19/2008
Thursday July 3rd there will be a new free event from the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG).  This evening contains two interesting sessions. The first one is about Nintex Workflows, presented by Sander de Koning. The...

Visual Studio Attach Security Warning

Mike Toole06/17/2008
Anyone else out there get annoyed with the "Attach Security Warning" dialog?  It gets pretty annoying when you attach to multiple processes (ie: w3wp.exe) and have to click 'attach' for each process every time you debug......

Podcasting Kit for SharePoint

John Roe06/16/2008
The podcasting kit for SharePoint has been released on codeplex. It provides podcasting and enhanced social networking built using SharePoint 2007 and Silverlight 2.   Key Features include: Listen and watch audio/video podcasts,...

MS Sharepoint developer site

Mohamed Zaki06/14/2008
Very nice site for sharepoint developers, you can find references for many Virtual machines, articles, samples ... etc.   url: www.microsoft.com/click/sharepointdeveloper      

Adding Copy and Paste to SharePoint with the SmartTools

Jan Tielens06/14/2008
I've just uploaded a new extensions to the SmartTools for SharePoint project on CodePlex. This extension adds Copy and Paste functionality to SharePoint Document Libraries. You can download the extension from the Releases section. For more info and...

Open XML Format SDK

Maarten van Stam06/13/2008
A couple of days ago the Open XML Format SDK was posted on Microsofts download site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad0b72fb-4a1d-4c52-bdb5-7dd7e816d046&displaylang=en With this SDK you get a set of strongly...

Podcasting Kit for SharePoint

John Peltonen06/09/2008
Today, at 6am Eastern time, Microsoft announced the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint.  We're particularly excited about this, as we've spent the last few months building it! PKS is freely available on codeplex.  It allows you to use MOSS as a...

Use VS2008 to create a VSPackage that runs in VS2008 and VS2005

Serge van den Oever06/04/2008
We all want to use the new features in Visual Studio 2008 during development. When using VS2008 for VsPackage development we need to install the Visual Studio 2008 SDK. The approach taken for building VsPackages in VS2008 is incompatible with the...

Targeting multiple versions of Office without PIAs

Misha Shneerson06/03/2008
Having to rely on the correct version of PIAs to be deployed for implementing Office add-ins has become the inevitable reality for many Office devs. This reality is quite gruesome, I must add. Andrew Whitechapel describes a technique...

Seeking feedback on VBA if you are at TechEd this month

Eric Carter06/03/2008
Do you use VBA (or any other extensibility mechanism) in Office and are you headed to TechEd? If so the we would like to talk with you in an "invitation only" meeting. This is your chance to share your feedback and influence the work that Microsoft...

"OWS_" Property Mapping Tip

Bill English06/02/2008
http://admincompanion.mindsharp.com/BillBlog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=80 Bill EnglishMindsharp

Transitioning to Office Labs

Chris Pratley05/31/2008
It's been about a month since we went live with officelabs.com. Of course as a team we’ve been operating a little over a year, but only now do I get to talk about that period. I thought I might fill you all in on my transition from OneNote to Office...

Thank you for all of the comments and suggestions

Melissa Macbeth05/31/2008
Dear readers, Thank you for all of your suggestions and feedback to this blog. There will not be any new posts to this blog in the near future. To see more about what is going on now in Outlook, I highly recommend the Outlook Team...

Upgrading all projects to .NET 3.5

Avner Kashtan05/25/2008
A simple macro to change the Target Framework for a project from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5, hacked together in a few minutes. This will fail for C++/CLI projects, and possibly VB.NET projects (haven't checked). Works fine for regular C# projects, as well...

Tips on Excel Services article published on MSDN

Shahar Prish05/23/2008
This article contains some basic troubleshooting/tips on using Excel Services.

I'm Back -- Just In Time To Move On...

Mike Fitzmaurice05/21/2008
The good news is that I'm going to be blogging again.  The not-exactly-bad news is that I'll be blogging over at  http://mikefizmaurce.wordpress.com.  Actually, that's good news.  I'll be blogging elsewhere...

Unlearn

Rod Paddock05/09/2008
“You must unlearn what you have learned.” Yoda to Luke Skywalker Empire Strikes Back 1981 I have become convinced that we are entering a new dawn of software development and we must take time to unlearn that which we know. Over the last 2 months I...

Resolving circular references in MS Project

Gord Schmidt05/01/2008
A customer presented me with a project plan with thousands of tasks. Somewhere within that large list of tasks lurked one or more circular relationships and the error message did not help. The task to which the error message was pointing was not,...

Experiments in Productivity: Office Labs

Jensen Harris04/28/2008
This morning, we publicly revealed the existence of Microsoft Office Labs and made a few of their experiments available for download. Office Labs is a small offshoot of the main Office product team dedicated to producing experiments and...

Looking to Learn about Office Development & VSTO?

Ty Anderson04/18/2008
Body: Download these files and give them a listen...also, while you are at it, open up the VBA help files for the Office app you plan to target for a solution and learn the object model. And one more thing....it doesn't hurt to become a proficient...

Update Your Blog Readers, We've Moved!

VSTO 204/03/2008
The Visual Studio Tools for Office team has moved to http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto , and the RSS feed is http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/rss.xml. We've got a lot more team members set up to blog over there so come on over and join us! Important...

Send Groove Bugs and Feedback Directly to the Product Team

Paul Stubbs03/23/2008
  Download a free trial You can now submit your bugs or feedback directly to the Groove product team. The Groove team has set up a new Microsoft Connect site to allow you to submit and track your bugs. These bugs go directly into the...

Jason Morales' Microsoft BI Update v.18 - March

Ian Tien03/13/2008
Contents: Upcoming Events Upcoming Webcasts Training: online and regional options Resources: whitepapers, case studies, datasheets, webcasts, books, etc News Links and Press Releases   Hot Topics   SQL Launch 2008...

Office: Put Your Document Name on the Title Bar or the Clipboard

The Office Letter03/02/2008
We explain two macros that help you extract and use the full path and file name of your current document.

Kerberos & Sharepoint

Bruce Sandeman02/28/2008
Some useful links that help guide a configuration of SharePoint when using Kerberos... How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM...

Release of Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Office Case Studies

John Durant02/27/2008
What are customers doing with VSTO and Microsoft technologies generally? We have recently published case studies that show how and what companies are doing with our tools Below are two prominent studies with the list of products and technologies use...

OpenXML Package Editor RTW with VSTO Powertools!

Kevin Boske02/21/2008
Back when we were working heavily on the OpenXML file format developer tools, many of us were using zip and Notepad to edit the OpenXML files.  Tom Underhill from the Office graphics team made all our lives easier with a VS package for...

ODC rocked the house!

Joanna Bichsel02/15/2008
The Office Developer Conference finished on Wednesday and it was unbelievable! Jay Paulus, Director of the Office Platform Strategy team kicked it off to a great start. Following that, Bill Gates talked saying: "Making Office into a...

DinnerNow 2.5 for .NET 3.5 RTM now released

Jamescon02/14/2008
On late Friday afternoon David and I posted a new build of the DinnerNow sample application on CodePlex.  The new version (2.5) is compatible  for the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5.  David...

Cleaning things up

Omar202/11/2008
So the site in final beta form was released yesterday. The last build attacked various small issues and also allowed us to clean up some of the code and implement some things in a better fashion. Blog AggregatorFor example, we...

The power of the press

Don Reamey01/14/2008
I just got the Jan 7th issue of Information Week and i was reading the letters to the editor. There were a couple of letters about Windows Vista in this issue. One of the letters I found very interesting. It stated how arrogant Microsoft was about...

Using WPF in Outlook Folder Home Pages

Ryan Gregg01/14/2008
One common question developers have asked is how they can extend the view area of Outlook to display additional information related to the contents of a folder.  Our solution to this problem is to use a Folder Home Page along with the...

Best places to get XPS Info

Andy Simonds12/12/2007
Since I moved over to the Office team this blog (primarily focused on XPS) is not very active. If you are looking for the latest info on XPS, here are some helpful links: XPS implementation information at http://www.microsoft.com/xps XPS in Vista at...

SharePoint SDKs (and Other Documentation Resources) Now Updated for SP1

Andrew May (Microsoft)12/11/2007
(Cross-posted from the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog.) By now you’ve no doubt heard that SP1 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Designer are now available. (And if you haven’t...

Excel's Worksheets and Sheets Collection - What's the Difference?

Frice12/05/2007
Among the top four objects most searched for on the Microsoft Developer Network by Excel programmers are the Sheets collection and the Worksheets collection (the other two are the Range object and the Application object). As an aside, I've...

speakTECH acquires the OfficeZealot.com site

Steve Hansen10/16/2007
Office is so much more than the client tools that many of us started with and while we have done our best to keep up with the demands, OZ really needs some new blood and additional muscle to grow its feature set and deploy some much needed updates....

Aberdeen Report: Companies See Increased Productivity Through the Convergence of Enterprise Applications and Desktop Tools

Michael Kiselman10/15/2007
In case you have missed this aricle on MoneyCentral: "The integration of desktop tools with enterprise applications is a two-way street that brings personal productivity, which in turn translates to improved corporate productivity. Aberdeen, a...

Excel Services Calculation Issue Update & Fix!

Luis Bitencourt-Emilio10/10/2007
Please check out David's post for links to the fixes. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/10/09/calculation-issue-update-fix-available.aspx...(read more)

Windows Live Search - Products

Andrew Ma10/02/2007
It's been 6 months from the last time I posted about Product Searching in Windows Live Search. Our team is still well and kicking. To prove it, today you can go to our newly revamped site (http://search.live.com/). In the past, you would have to...

Purple Cafe

Julie Kremer09/07/2007
John Peltonen was right. I was wrong. However, we both agree that Andrew Whitechapel sucks for standing us up.

Uploading and Downloading documents from a Office Live Business Application using DAV/FPRPC

Rohit Puri08/21/2007
It’s somewhat difficult to work with Front Page RPCs.  We’ve heard this from folks, and I recently solved it for myself in a client app that uploads and downloads files from document libraries sitting in a custom business application in...

Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005 Second Edition) Now Available!

Mike Hernandez07/19/2007
Windows Vista vastly improves overall quality, security, and reliability as compared to previous versions of Windows. Though there are tremendous investments in Windows Vista to ensure backward compatibility, some system enhancements, such as User...

Onward and Upward

Don Campbell07/06/2007
This is my last post on my Microsoft blog.  I've had a great 4.5 years here at Microsoft.  Met some amazing people, and played with some cool technology.  Now I'm moving on to do my own thing.  I'll be blogging a...

"I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through"

Todd Bleeker06/13/2007
  Hello, yeah, it's been a whileNot much, how 'bout youI'm not sure why I [blogged]I guess I really just wanted to talk to youAnd I was thinking maybe later onWe could get together for a whileIt's been such a long timeAnd I...

New official Outlook Team Blog is up!

Michael Affronti06/13/2007
Hey hey - we've pooled our resources on the Outlook team and created a single Outlook Team Blog.  We'll be having folks from the whole team posting and discussing tips, tricks, and resources about Outlook.  Check it...

IW Executive Prodcast - Bill Gates, Chairman - Microsoft

Shawn Murray05/28/2007
A couple of weeks ago, I traveled to Redmond for a customer briefing.  While I was out there, I got the rare opportunity to interview Bill Gates, company co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft.  As you might imagine, his time is...

It depends on what the definition of "this" is

Robert Green05/18/2007
I was perusing the VSTO MSDN forum a couple days ago and I saw Add a command button to the send email screen. This person (Bear23 to be exact) wanted to add a button to an Outlook 2003 Inspector. Well, not only do I know how to do this, but I have...

Office Zealot is giving away an Acer Ferrari Laptop!

Ryan Bedell04/12/2007
We want to thank all the Office Zealot readers for their support over the years! We are giving away an Acer Ferrari laptop loaded with Windows Vista.  We recently had a chance to review this laptop and now that we are done, it is...

SharePoint topics at Chicago User Groups

Paul Schaeflein04/11/2007
Todd Bleeker (who is alleged to be a cult figure in some circles) is speaking at two local events: Building SharePoint Web Parts Wednesday, April 18thChicago DotNet User Group (RSVP requested)Microsoft Office in Downers Grove, IL Ghosting, Master...

Word 2003 XML Viewer Control v1.0 released

Oleg Tkachenko03/26/2007
I was cleaning up my backyard and found this control I never finished. So I did. Here is Word 2003 XML Viewer Control v1.0 just in case somebody needs it. It's is ASP.NET 2.0 Web server control, which allows to display arbitrary Microsoft...

My first only WSS3 blog

Sharepoint info03/24/2007
How to put Sharepoint slides into Sharepoint, you'll need office 2007 but, <a href="http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/21/publishing-sharing-and-searching-powerpoint-files-in-sharepoint.aspx">here's...

The Five Ways of Learning

Melanie Spiller02/10/2007
Have you ever felt that other people seemed to be collecting more information than you, and learning it faster and retaining it longer? Or maybe that you were the only one following along, and everyone else seemed to be scratching their heads? Or...

Do You Share Diagrams On A Server?

Eric Rockey01/26/2007
Do you ever put Visio diagrams on a SharePoint site, Web site, or file server so you can easily share them with others? Are you making use of Visio 2007’s Data Link and Data Graphics features? If so, the Visio Product Planning department would like...

SQL Server 2005 Bulk Insert using Windows Authentication ...

George Wesolowski12/04/2006
Here's the scenario that tripped us up during our SQL Server 2005 upgrade:  Consider a stored procedure that executes a BULK INSERT command where the file in the FROM clause is located on a remote machine.  When...

Sites and Site Collections

Andrew May (Fujitsu Services)12/02/2006
Without me realising it Amanda Murphy's blog somehow dropped off my blogroll (possibly when she moved to feedburner) which is a shame because it means that I missed her article on the differences in the way site collections are handled...

Rebuilding Perfmon counters on XP

Vijay Desai 10/20/2006
Perfmon is an extremely handy utility to track application performance. When tracing the performance of .NET applications(VSTO/IBF) on the Office platform, I find the counter counter "# of Stubs" provided by the performance object ".NET CLR...

New icons of Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 TR

Alexander Gorlach09/18/2006
New icons of Microsoft Office seems very good, but still not in the vector format:

Microsoft PDF and XPS Add-ins and the 2007 Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Jeff Bell09/14/2006
It has been great to see the web buzz over the past few days over the availability on the Microsoft Download Center of the Microsoft Add-ins for Office 2007 for Save as PDF and Save as XPS. The better news comes today that you can now actually use...

What's the story with WINS?

David Lemson09/07/2006
Recently, someone asked the following question on an internal Microsoft distribution list: Can someone please outline the ways in which Exchange 2003 is dependant upon WINS..? Here's the answer I wrote back: Exchange 2003 is dependent upon three...

Windows Live WiFi

Laura J08/25/2006
While I've been away from this blog, I've been working with the MSN Access team. We provide dial-up access to a ton of users across the United States but we've also been working on a stealth project that we're now ready to Beta -- Windows Live WiFi....

Blog Roll
BloggerLast Post
Kevin Hoffman07/08/2008
Andrew Connell07/08/2008
Mike Walker07/08/2008
Sven Cipido07/08/2008
Mauro Cardarelli07/08/2008
Simon Murhpy07/08/2008
Arno Nel07/07/2008
Jon Peltier07/07/2008
Brian Kennemer07/07/2008
Scott Jamison07/07/2008
Angus Logan07/06/2008
SharePoint Buzz07/06/2008
Dick Kusleika07/05/2008
Mike Walsh07/05/2008
speakTECH-BI07/04/2008
Chris Webb07/04/2008
Bil Simser07/04/2008
Mark Harrison07/03/2008
OfficeRocker07/03/2008
SharePoint Team07/03/2008
William Cornwill07/02/2008
Omar Shahine07/01/2008
Erika Ehrli07/01/2008
Doug Mahugh07/01/2008
Matt Cornell07/01/2008
Jeff Cate | Kevin Pine 07/01/2008
David Gainer06/30/2008
Peter Jausovec06/30/2008
Wouter van Vugt06/30/2008
Brian Jones06/30/2008
InfoPath Team Blog06/30/2008
Mark Bower06/30/2008
dwinter06/27/2008
Dan Winter06/27/2008
Erik Rucker06/27/2008
KC Lemson 06/26/2008
Patrick Tisseghem06/25/2008
Bryant Likes06/25/2008
Dennis Wallentin06/25/2008
Andrew Whitechapel06/24/2008
Stephanie Krieger06/24/2008
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