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Test post
Eric Alexander
Just a test post to see if Feedburner has picked up my new platform and if it works with Twitter. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 5th '10 |
Hello world!
Eric Alexander
Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging! [read].
Posted: Wed, May 5th '10 |
Moving, be sure to use my feedburner feed
Eric Alexander
I’m going to be decommissioning my hosting and domain and transferring over to another blogging platform. If you are one of my few readers (If Dan Lewis only has 7, I’ve probably only got 2) be sure to grab my feedburner URL, http://feeds2.feedburner.com/EricsSharepointAdventures, and add it to your RSS list.
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Posted: Wed, May 5th '10 |
Looking for feedback, 3rd party add ins
Eric Alexander
Looking for feedback about your one product you would want to include in a new Sharepoint deployment. I’ll keep this open as long as needed. Check out the Polls page at the top.
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Posted: Fri, Jan 22nd '10 |
Running WebDAV on your WFEs
Eric Alexander
So I’m going to start this blog post with a rant about SSRS, make reports outputtable to Excel 2007 format!
So with that said, we encountered a question poised to us from some of our users, “we have a report that is generated from SSRS that’s send to a file share. This has some KPI information we use in Sharepoint. It’s a manual process to get it converted and uploaded. Is there anything you can do to simplify this?”
If the SSRS was configured in Sharepoint Integrat [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 20th '10 |
Back at work
Eric Alexander
Back at work after being on paternity leave. I have some ideas for blog posts and should be writing them soon I hope.
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Posted: Mon, Jan 11th '10 |
On hiatus
Eric Alexander
Taking some time off to enjoy time with the new family. See you all again in mid January 2010.
eric
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Posted: Sat, Dec 19th '09 |
Request for Sharepoint developer bloggers
Eric Alexander
I’ve got a request for the Sharepoint Developers out there that blog. A blog article or series I’d like to see is a simplified step by step process on how to take a simplistic javascript content editor web part solution and turn this into a globally deployable web part with a configuration screen when in edit mode.
We see a lot of good CEWP solutions out there that serve a particular function for a particular user. What would be great to see in detail is how to take that idea, make [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 15th '09 |
Using authenticated RSS feed to Serve Public Data
Eric Alexander
I can only a little bit about this project now since we haven’t completed it but it’s really neat.
Currently Departmental phone numbers are tracked on a Sharepoint list and then once a year, formatted and sent off to the printers for publication. Some people decided we should make this information publicly accessible in an online version. The problem is the Sharepoint data lies in an authenticated NTLM environment, how do we get it out there for the public?
We, being Brian and I, cre [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 13th '09 |
Goodbye Zoe, you will be missed
Eric Alexander
I don’t normally post personal things on my professional blog, but many readers and Twitter followers have had a sincere interest in the happenings of our black lab Zoe. Last night my wife and I faced the inevitable. We had to put our black lab Zoe down. The below is a brief summary of our life with Zoe.
Elissa and I decided to get a puppy right after we had purchased our first home in Toledo prior to getting married. We both agreed we should do the responsible thing and adopt a puppy. We [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th '09 |
Removing HTML Person Group Fields in Sharepoint
Eric Alexander
Over on Stump the Panel, Sasha wanted to change the message being displayed on a Tasks list when no one had a task assigned. The hyperlinks for the Assigned To user on the DispForm and EditForm.aspx pages should also be removed.
First, the Disp/Edit forms. In order to make changes to these pages, we need to employ the tool pane URL hacking method. You’ll need to have a tasks list populated with some data or you won’t be able to see this in action. Click on one of the items to go to [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 12th '09 |
Sharepoint Saturday Raleigh registration open
Eric Alexander
For all maybe 10 of my readers in the North Carolinas, registration for Sharepoint Saturday Raleigh is now open! If you’d like to attend, please go register, these events fill up quickly so be sure to sign up early.
Some great speakers are lined up and am looking forward to meeting them. Some I have already met from SPS DC and Charlotte. Really looking forward to the Sharepoint 2010 session as the cover will have been blown off the NDA because of the Sharepoint Conference.
I’ll be a [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 12th '09 |
Access 2007 and sharing data
Eric Alexander
It’s been a while since I’ve posted something. The last few weeks were extremely busy with your avergae run of the mill Sharepoint tasks, answering questions, provisioning sites, working in our new test environment.
This week we had a data access problem to tackle. Someone wanted a database on a SQL server. This database was going to be linked to from Access and needed to be accessed by people off site and or not affiliated with us. No easy task with VPN and security concerns. We th [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 16th '09 |
Setting read only fields on an Editform.aspx page
Eric Alexander
So I was working on a proof of concept assignment that was relatively simple, but thinking about it there was an inherent security issue. The idea for this Sharepoint site is to have a list where someone would register for a research topic. They only get to choose 1 topic. I was going to go about it in a simple way since it’s a POC after all, so it’s just a 2 list solution with a workflow.
All the research topics are entered on one list, and users will just add their name to the desi [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 17th '09 |
Black Tuesday
Eric Alexander
This morning I got some Facebook notifications from some friends back in Ohio. As it turns out, my previous employer, whom I spent 6 years working for and really enjoyed, fell on some hard times after a prosperous looking first half of the year. As a result, they had to let a lot of people go. Some were people I worked with on a daily basis while there and others were people I supervised before we moved down south.
It’s unfortunate they had to be let go and my thoughts go out to them all. [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 11th '09 |
Thanks readers
Eric Alexander
Thanks to all my readers out in the interweb. This month I’ve totally blown my unique visitor record out of the water. I hope you are enjoying the content I’m putting out there and hope you are enjoying the training template. The number of downloads is impressive.
Continue reading and I’ll continue to share my adventures in Sharepoint.
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Posted: Fri, Jul 31st '09 |
Page viewer web part and UNC paths
Eric Alexander
No it isn’t what you think, I’m still at ECU and not a Tar Heel. This post comes about from an internal project that I had done and now we are reworking. A bit of history, we are trying out using Sharepoint to serve as a file server for various software packages.
Some concerns were raised about performance because these large files live in the content databases, which is valid I suppose. So I have been experimenting with trying to find ways to deliver the files from a different file [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
Podcasting Kit
Eric Alexander
We recently got a new test server in our department, my initial thought was to install WSS on this so I could test solutions in that environment. Instead I installed MOSS standard with SP2 and applied the podcasting kit.
My first installation did not work at all. This was no fault of PKS but my own. This was the first install I had done of MOSS so I didn’t have all the service accounts and app pool accounts right. After getting those all configured, PKS deployed successfully and relatively [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Disregard, activating post rank
Eric Alexander
Trying to verify my blog at post rank. [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
Employee Training template, official release!
Eric Alexander
After developing this custom template for an internal project, I knew I would have to do some work to be able to recreate and reuse this internally. After a couple weeks of tinkering, deploying and troubleshooting, I have what I believe to be an easily deployable template to manage internal registrations for employee training. After about 10 to 15 minutes of simple configurations, you can have this up and running in your environment.
All that is needed is Sharepoint Designer access and server ac [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 |
Using Information Rights Management and Workflows
Eric Alexander
My new article posted on EUSP about how to use the Information Management policy to use a workflow in managing a contract list.
Enjoy! [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 |
Employee Training Comments
Eric Alexander
Michael Gannotti posted the video that we shot at Sharepoint Saturday Charlotte. If you have any specific questions or comments on how I did something, leave a comment and I’ll get back with you.
I am hoping to release an updated STP of the template soon. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
Sharepoint Saturday Recap
Eric Alexander
Wow what an amazing day in Charlotte! There were so many great sessions to choose from. Some time blocks had 3 sessions of interest so picking 1 was very difficult. If you have not been to a Sharepoint Saturday in your area, I highly encourage you to participate in one. Lots of great, free, information divided between various topics.
Check out the Sharepoint Saturday website for upcoming events in your area. You can also view all the slide decks from the presenters.
The added bonus of this Share [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 21st '09 |
Why I love Sharepoint
Eric Alexander
I came to an epiphany last night while randomly walking up the stairs. I was going to blog about this aforementioned realization today but was easily distracted with other things.
All through high school and summers during college, I always worked for a subsidary of the Sauder corporation. They have an old time craft village, make tables and chairs, and are a market leader in ready to assemble furniture. One of my great joys in life is when we bring home a piece of prefab furniture that I get t [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 15th '09 |
Business as usual
Eric Alexander
Not much to report on the home front. Business is going as usual. I’ll be trying a new test of my registration template soon. If all goes well, I’ll have a copy available for download. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 10th '09 |
Leveraging Google Appliance in Sharepoint
Eric Alexander
Yesterday Mike (@next_connect) blogged about Sharepoint Search. A few back and forths about other benefits like federated search and indexing file shares, I found out he is using a Google appliance as are we. In our portal redesign, I had created a custom search box to leverage this. There might be better, more elegant ways to incorporate the Google into Sharepoint, but this is what I did.
As a recap, I took the BlueVerticle.master as the base for our site. I’m working off a copy of that f [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
Folders and metadata rehashed
Eric Alexander
My article about folders vs metadata has been posted on Enduser Sharepoint, visit http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1707 for the article. [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
Portal redesign
Eric Alexander
As I wait for some workshops to close so I can finish the final pieces of the Revamped Employee Training template, I’m shifting gears and redesigning the top level portal for our Sharepoint environment. This redesign is moving from an SPS 2003 subsite based structure to a “web 2.0″ feel.
I’m moving all the old content into a wiki and updating it. We’ll also be utilizing a blog to push out information to our users and have a discussion board where the administrators [read].
Posted: Fri, May 29th '09 |
Salute to our troops
Eric Alexander
I wanted to take a minute and give a salute to all our nations military personnel, past, present and future. It takes a special person to dedicate their life to service of their country, and without these people, we might not enjoy the liberties that we do.
On behalf of all Americans home and abroad, we say thank you, stay safe, and come home soon. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 25th '09 |
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