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Favorite feature of SharePoint 2010?
Gary Bushey
There are a lot. I think that the Client Access Model is really going to change how interaction with SharePoint will occur. I can see a fully Windows based SharePoint in the near future. However, my favorite change is the new notification area of the...(a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/shareblog/archive/2010/05/17/favorite-feature-of-sharepoint-2010.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1765710" width="1" height="1" [read].
Posted: Mon, May 17th '10 |
Style sheets in real life
Gary Bushey
For those who do not know, a stylesheet, AKA CSS, is used to help define the look and feel of a web page. Check out the CSS Zen Garden for some great examples of what CSS can do. While working on a recent project I noticed that the incredible web page...(a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/shareblog/archive/2010/05/06/style-sheets-in-real-life.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1765031" width="1" height="1" [read].
Posted: Thu, May 6th '10 |
Issue to be aware of upgrading Windows Server 2008 to R2 with MOSS
Gary Bushey
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962216/EN-US First you get a message telling you to look for KB article 962935, which canot be found. One MS employee on the forum (who is really very helpful) suggested it may not ready for public release yet. If you are...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 6th '09 |
In defense of the MVP program
Gary Bushey
Some of you may have read Joel's recent blog posting regarding the MVP program in general, and it appears, the SharePoint MVP program specifically. While some of the point raised may be valid I do not think they tell the entire story. I am not sure...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
Update panel not working like you expect
Gary Bushey
We have been using a lot of updatepanels (yeah, I know there is a performance issue but that is a different post) and, as usual, it worked great on my computer but not so great at the customer site. What the panel does is to process a search request without...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 - I want to start a trend
Gary Bushey
Since we called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS what are we going to call Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010? MSS is already taken as an acronymn (Microsoft Search Server) but I would bet it catches on in the general population. I was thinking...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 16th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 - the year we make contact?
Gary Bushey
Well, assuming the release schedule that Microsoft just posted is actually correct we will. Now if only they would start releasing tidbits as to what we can expect in the product. So no more MOSS, or SharePoint Portal Server. Now it is just SharePoint...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
Best SharePoint site ever!!!
Gary Bushey
Well, maybe not the best technically....or graphically, but you have got to love the subject matter! http://www.ferrari.com/Pages/Country_selector.aspx...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 30th '09 |
Working with quotes in XSLT
Gary Bushey
I have a XSLT file where I need to pass strings to javascript. Due to the way the code is written the string designator is the single quote. Typically that is not an issue but what happens if the text you pass in contains an apostrophe, AKA single quote...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 24th '09 |
Make sure to check out the Microsoft Incentives web site
Gary Bushey
Kind of like sales on Microsoft licenses: http://www.microsoftincentives.com/ For a limited time only! 15% off L&SA - Exchange Server Standard, Office Communication Server Standard, SQL Server Standard, Office SharePoint Server , Visual Studio Team...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 13th '09 |
Cannot unregister UpdatePanel with ID '' since it was not registered with the ScriptManager and MOSS
Gary Bushey
I have run into this while trying to get the AjaxControlToolkit working with MOSS. Turns out there are a couple of things that can cause this. The first is using CreateChildControls to create your controls. While this is typically a best practice in this...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 11th '09 |
Sending data from javascript to a .Net object
Gary Bushey
Recently I came across an issue where I had checkboxes outputted via XSLT (which only outputs HTML) but needed to have the values of the selected checkboxes sent to a C# object. After banging my head against the wall and trying various schemes I remembered...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 24th '09 |
No mapping between account names and security ids was done
Gary Bushey
I just created a new SQL Server 2008 server with Hyper-V and was in the process of setting up my VMs complete with AD. When I got to the point of adding a SQL Server 2008 to the mix I recieved the above error when I was trying to add the domain users...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 19th '09 |
Great news in the world of Business Intelligence and SharePoint
Gary Bushey
"PerformancePoint scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL and available to customers who are on SharePoint SA. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do so today at no...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 23rd '09 |
Limiting who can create a MySite
Gary Bushey
I have had a few customers ask how they can control who can create a MySite, whether it was just for a trial run, to try to control hard drive usage, or for other reasons. In any case here is how you can do it Open the "Central Administration"...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 20th '09 |
Maybe the XBox 360 does have a problem
Gary Bushey
I just dropped off my XBox 360 at my local UPS store to get the infamous red ring of death issue resolved. Without me even saying anything the clerk behind the counter knew it was a XBox being returned! Now this is not exactly a major UPS Hub we are talking...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 12th '09 |
New version of Visual Studio Extensions for WSS available
Gary Bushey
Good news: Lots of bug fixes and some new features Bad news: Still does not work with VS 2008 (but the next version should!) Get more information here...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 12th '08 |
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Gary Bushey
It is with mixed emotions that I announce I am taking a position with Microsoft soon. I am happy because I feel that Microsoft is a great place to work and has many great opportunities (not to mention benefits!) but I am sad because I will no longer be...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 6th '08 |
New video describing workflows for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008
Gary Bushey
Explains some of the enhancements in Visual Studio 2008. Can you say debugging? =) Also some talk about a new power tool that can take a SPD workflow and pull it into Visual Studio!!!! http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto/archive/2008/01/17/sharepoint-workflow...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 18th '08 |
Microsoft to acquire Fast Search and Transfer
Gary Bushey
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/08/Microsoft-bids-for-Fast-Search-and-Transfer_1.html "By integrating Fast Search's products with SharePoint, and drawing on its worldwide network of partners, Microsoft hopes to bring Fast Search's...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 8th '08 |
Required fields and linking to other lists
Gary Bushey
Had an interesting problem come up at work the other day. I had written some custom code that reads from ListA (which has 3 required fields one of which is a lookup into ListB) and outputs them. Every so often the web part would come back saying that...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 29th '07 |
Hope to see you at the MS Office SharePoint Conference in March
Gary Bushey
I just got the confirmation from my company ( MicroLink) that I will be attending the conference in March. If you are not familiar with it, check out the the confernece's homepage . We are also an exhibitor so I will be spending a lot of time in our...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 28th '07 |
Create a web part to show sites and sub-sites
Gary Bushey
Saw a newgroup question the other day about how to do this in SharePoint 2007. While the solution posted works quite well here is some code that I wrote that should accomplish what the user needs. This will either start at the root of your site collection...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 28th '07 |
Process appears hung when deploying/retracting solutions
Gary Bushey
I have noticed from time to time that when I deploy solutions (using the Central Administrations, Operations, Solution Management) the Status field is stopped on either "Deploying" or "Retracting" for quite a long time. While normally...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 27th '07 |
SharePoint is taking over the world!
Gary Bushey
Well, maybe not the entire world, but at least according to this Network world article it is becoming the de-facto collaboration platform! http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2007/1217msg1.html...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 24th '07 |
Recruiters, get a clue
Gary Bushey
Update: Had another call from a recruiter yesterday. It was night and day difference! He was very professional, knew what he was going to say, and even though I turned him down he asked.....let me say that again, HE ASKED....if it would be alright to...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 20th '07 |
Time to go 64bit
Gary Bushey
As a follow-up to yesterday's post let me restate that the next version of SharePoint is set to be 64bit only. This means that if you have the option any new SharePoint 2007 install should be done using the 64bit version otherwise you will not have...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 19th '07 |
Capacity planning beta and hardware recommendations
Gary Bushey
The SharePoint team blog has posted a great entry about the beta of the SharePoint capacity planning program as well as information about hardware recommendations. Basically you will need 64bit machines for the future versions of SharePoint. Not really...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 18th '07 |
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