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Mindjet Provides SharePoint Support
Ian Morish
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Posted: Wed, Feb 24th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Twitter Web Part with auto refresh
Ian Morish
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Posted: Thu, Feb 18th '10 |
Mobile Web Thumbnail Index view of SharePoint Documents
Ian Morish
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Posted: Wed, Feb 10th '10 |
New SharePoint 2010 content for download
Ian Morish
New SharePoint 2010 content on the Microsoft download site.
SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper
This white paper provides an overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform for ASP.NET developers.
SharePoint 2010: SharePoint Developer Platform Wall Poster
The SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform wall poster (PDF format) shows a view of the SharePoint 2010 developer tools, community ecosystem, execution environment, Sharepoint Server 2010 workloads, and target applicatio [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
Using jQuery or Ajax on SharePoint Internet Site?
Ian Morish
Microsoft has added jQuery and Ajax javascript files to its global content delivery network (CDN). Because the files cached on servers located around the world, browsers download the content from the nearest location, saving you bandwidth. This also allows browsers to reuse cached JavaScript files for Web sites that are located in different domains.
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For more information see http://www.asp.net/ajax/CDN/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 29th '09 |
Display Related items in Display Form Page
Ian Morish
With over 1,000 Internet sites running on SharePoint listed on my site, I have been looking at ways to better present the list of sites. One scenario is to show similar sites based on the country and industry classification of the current site being viewed. E.g. http://www.wssdemo.com/Lists/Resources/Web%20Site/websitedetails.aspx?ID=2850
To enable this capability, I used SharePoint Designer (SPD) to create a new list view page and added 2 data views (DVWP's) for the list that contains web s [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 26th '09 |
Solve SharePoint Performance Problems in SQL Server
Ian Morish
Most poorly performing SharePoint sites are caused by underlying SQL server configuration, or lack there off, settings.
One of the big impacts of using SharePoint Central Admin to create content databases is that they will be based on the Model DB template.
This results in the following:
Data File = 10Mb with auto grow = 1Mb
Log File = 1Mg with auto grow = 10%
This means that almost every time a user saves an office document, SQL will have to "auto grow" the database files and there is an overhe [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
SharePoint and SSRS Integration at TechED NZ
Ian Morish
I was preparing my TechED NZ presentation last Saturday (apparently it was a sunny day) and thought I would share a sneak peek at some of the things you will see in the demo.
Clicking on the graph takes you to a full report
It is session OFC307 on Wednesday @ 2:20pm
Note: This is a Technical SharePoint presentation on how to integrate SSRS, I will not be teaching you how to create reports. [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 7th '09 |
A new spin on the SharePoint Value Proposition
Ian Morish
My attempt at humour in a SharePoint 2010 presentation I did at TR9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZZLwAikdhA [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
The largest list of SharePoint Internet Sites
Ian Morish
It may not be the only list of Internet sites using SharePoint on the internet, in fact there are now several other sites providing similar lists, and mine is certainly not the prettiest bit it is the largest (933 sites as of today). It is also based on a storage platform that provides a standards based API to access the list data (SharePoint OOTB web services) so anyone can extract the list of sites.
SharePoint allows me to restrict access to these open, standards based API's but I choose to a [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 2nd '09 |
Microsoft Productivity Hub Training Site installed on WSSDemo
Ian Morish
Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub http://bit.ly/1dYUE1 to help support your ongoing end user training efforts.
I have installed this on WSSDemo.com http://templates.wssdemo.com/sites/productivity for your viewing pleasure.
The Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft's core products. Microsoft also provides [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 27th '09 |
Process to define personalization requirements
Ian Morish
I'm often asked by customers how SharePoint can be used to personalize content for users. Although there are plenty of features in SharePoint to achieve personalization, you have to be able to come up with the rules that define an audience and then how you will identify the information that is relevant to each audience.
Wouldn't it be great if all information and content mapped to a comprehensive taxonomy and that we could automatically align the taxonomy with groups of people? Because this is [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 24th '09 |
Do not interrupt stsadm deleteweb command
Ian Morish
Today I was exporting a number of sub sites so that they could be imported as new site collections. After exporting the sites I used a batch file to delete them. For whatever reason (one that I'm not willing to admit to) I decided to C the batch file. This left the "Are you sure you want to quit?" message in the command window.
This resulted in a lock that prevented the web application from being able to render any sites in the content database. Given that this was a single site collection Intr [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
Information Worker Competence Center
Ian Morish
In the 1990's a lot of effort went into developing Office templates and macros. There was even a thriving partner business in providing these services but I don't see this activity any more.
Simon Ruppertz-Rausch, from Microsoft's Business Strategy Consulting group, has published a whitepaper on "Achieving Business Success with your Collaboration Infrastructure".
For many years I have been advising customers that, to get the most out of their investment in Office and SharePoint, they should in [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
I am not a developer
Ian Morish
But, like me, you probably know a developer and they probably laugh at you when you say "you should develop on SharePoint".
Having trouble convincing developers to take you seriously?
I don't normally blog about other people's content but you need to check out this web cast by Jeremy Thake... [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
WSSDemo.com in need of a facelift and SharePoint Gives Back
Ian Morish
WSSDemo first went live on a beta of WSS 3.0 on 20/05/2006 (based on this resource entry ) and has pretty much looked the same for the last 3 years. The only thing that has really changed is the amount of content on the site. One area in particular that has grown is the list of public web sites that are built on the Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform. This list has grown to over 640 sites and I have included a highlight of 100 sites that I thought were the top ones that people might want to [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 3rd '09 |
Demo site for NZ Community SharePoint Conference
Ian Morish
This is the demo site I built during my presentation on the Data View aka Data Form web part presentation at the New Zealand Community SharePoint Conference today. The PowerPoint deck is also on this site. http://templates.wssdemo.com/sites/community/
Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback and the problem with one of the web parts in my demo was that I had select the wrong parameter value in the connection. That's what happens when you try and cram a 75 minute session into 45 minutes... [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 |
Demo site for NZ Community SharePoint Conference
Ian Morish
This is the demo site I built during my presentation on the Data View aka Data Form web part presentation at the New Zealand Community SharePoint Conference today. The PowerPoint deck is also on this site.
Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback and the problem with one of the web parts in my demo was that I had select the wrong parameter value in the connection. That's what happens when you try and cram a 75 minute session into 45 minutes... [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 |
Reporting Services 2008 in SharePoint Integrated Mode
Ian Morish
It seems that I have a different experience every time I install this configuration.
A few key points if you are thinking of doing this:
Integrated mode only works for SharePoint Web Applications on the Default Zone
Integrated mode will not work on a Web Application that has Anonymous access enabled
If you have a multiple SharePoint Server Farm:
Install the SSRS SharePoint Add-in on the server hosting Central Admin first
Instruction say that you only require a "Files Only" install of the [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
Testing SharePoint Kerberos Configuration
Ian Morish
I found this nice asp.net application by to test end-to-end Kerberos functionality. http://blogs.iis.net/brian-murphy-booth/archive/2007/03/09/delegconfig-delegation-configuration-reporting-tool.aspx
By installing this application in a virtual directory of the IIS site hosting my SharePoint Web Application, I was able to confirm the SSRS reports hosted on the WFE would support integrated security through to the Reporting Server (SSRS not installed on the WFE) and that SSRS could connect to SQL [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09 |
Testing SharePoint Kerberos Configuration
Ian Morish
I found this nice asp.net application by to test end-to-end Kerberos functionality. http://blogs.iis.net/brian-murphy-booth/archive/2007/03/09/delegconfig-delegation-configuration-reporting-tool.aspx
By installing this application in a virtual directory of the IIS site hosting my SharePoint Web Application, I was able to confirm the SSRS reports hosted on the WFE would support integrated security through to the Reporting Server (SSRS not installed on the WFE) and that SSRS could connect to SQL [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09 |
Annoying Search Results Bug
Ian Morish
I wasted a few hours on this last week and another couple of hours trying to confirm exactly under which circumstances the problem happens.
The Search Core Results web part returns some standard xml elements in the results. I wanted to get the document library name for documents returned in the search results. To do this you can use the and values with the substring-after XSLT function to trim the site name off the absolute URL which then lets you use substring-before / to get the document li [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 9th '09 |
Three Pillars of SharePoint Governance
Ian Morish
My thinking on this after a customer asked me to define SharePoint Information Architecture (IM on IM ;-).
SharePoint Governance
Most Microsoft solutions are governed by the standards and guidelines that are focused around operations and development. These have already been well defined by Microsoft and various people in the SharePoint community. A key component of the SharePoint platform is the ability to manage information which requires IM disciplines normally found in EDRMS or Data Warehou [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 8th '09 |
Upcoming events for which I have to create presentations...
Ian Morish
I have never been one for regurgitating old or other people's presentations which means I create a lot of work for myself. These are the presentations I'm working on:Â
NZ SharePoint Conference, July 2-3 (Building apps/smash-ups with Data View/Form web part)
USA TechReady, 9 July 27-31 (SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Taxonomy stuff)
NZ TechED, September 14-16 (2 sessions, TBA)
Not as impressive as Joel's list... but I also have consulting utilization targets to achieve at the same time. [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 6th '09 |
SharePoint Content Type, Document Template and Default Metadata Choice in Custom DIP
Ian Morish
Something new that I did today...
Scenario
A Document library with metadata column for DocumentType.
There are about 20 document types in the lookup and a site collection field that references this list.
A Base Content Type that includes this lookup field
5 Content Types that inherit from the base
Not all of the document types have an Office template which is why there are fewer content types.
When a user creates a new document from one of the content types that does have a 1:1 relations [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
Building a Slipstream SharePoint Install for SP2 – the Fine Print
Ian Morish
Just wanted to highlight an update to the instructions on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261890.aspx that is not mentioned in many of the blog postings that also suggest how to build your MOSS slipstream install.
Important:
Delete Wsssetup.dll because it may conflict with Svrsetup.dll. Having both Wsssetup.dll and Svrsetup.dll in the updates folder for a slipstreamed installation source is not supported.
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I have to add a new WFE to an existing farm that is still runni [read].
Posted: Fri, May 8th '09 |
Installing SharePoint Server with .Net 3.5 SP1 pre-installed
Ian Morish
There have been several problems caused by security changes in .Net 3.5 SP1 that affect .Net 2.0 & 3.0 functionality that MOSS relies. These issues can now be prevented by installing the hot fix mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959209/ before you install MOSS.
Note: the "local loopback" detection will still be an issue for host header address (or other DNS entries) that resolve to the local host. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 (go with option 1 for productions syste [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
SharePoint 2007 SP2
Ian Morish
I have upgraded wssdemo.com to SP2 but not after trying the upgrade on several VPC's to ensure that all would go well. Of course there was one small problem. The Central Admin server installed WSS SP2 fine but the MOSS SP2 file failed with a generic MSI error 1603. A reboot of the server fixed this. The reboot however installed a number of other Windows Updates that were pending which caused search to stop working (I use a dedicated server for search so the loopback detection was blocking access [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
New STSADM commands with SharePoint SP2
Ian Morish
Use the variationsfixuptool operation   This article describes how to use the Stsadm variationsfixuptool operation, which lets farm administrators control and perform operations against variations.
Pre-upgrade scanning and reporting for future releases (Office SharePoint Server)Â Â Â This article describes how to use the Stsadm preupgradecheck operation to scan farm servers before starting an upgrade to ensure that some upgrade prerequisites are met and to detect known issues that can preven [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 30th '09 |
Multiple SharePoint Site Collections in Baseline Site Hierarchies Visio Diagram
Ian Morish
If you look at the SharePoint Products and Technologies Baseline Site Hierarchies Visio diagram http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73124&clcid=0x409 you will notice the Multiple Site Collections sections talks about the maximum number of site collections being 125.
This does not match the guidance here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx which suggests a theoretical limit of 150,000 site collections. It seems the diagram focuses on the host header configuration (p [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09 |
SharePoint becoming the Default Web UI
Ian Morish
For Microsoft products anyway... Adding to Project Server & Performance Point which use SharePoint for the Web UI comes Forefront Identity Manager 2010
(from http://blogs.msdn.com/imex/archive/2009/04/16/identity-lifecycle-manager-2-is-now-forefront-identity-manager-2010.aspx ) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 18th '09 |
SharePoint SP2 take 2
Ian Morish
After the false start yesterday when the publishing review process obviously failed, we can now all see the post that some of the people who have nothing better to do than sit and watch RSS feeds had picked up ;-)
http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/16/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-to-ship-april-28th.aspx
For the SharePoint fans, the key bits are:
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 16th '09 |
SharePoint RSS Web Part Connection FeedURL Value
Ian Morish
The RSS Web Part supports connections so you can create a connection between a list of RSS Links and the RSS Viewer Web Part.
You would think that the RSS Web Part would understand if it was being sent the Feed URL value from a list column formatted as a URL field (url, title) but it doesn't. If you create such a connection you will get the following error.
ProtocolError occured trying to complete the request. The server returned a status code of : BadRequest and the status description is : [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 7th '09 |
Must Have Free Tools for SharePoint
Ian Morish
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007. That's right; SPD is now free from http://www.microsoft.com/spd
SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit 2007 aka (SWAT). http://www.idevfactory.com/products/swat/default.aspx [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
You don’t make product announcements on April 1
Ian Morish
Unfortunately, the April fool's day prank will be on all those people who don't run Windows Update and there probably won't be any good news on April 1. April 2nd will probably full of announcements that were deferred by a day to avoid being mistaken as a joke.
Of course, being in New Zealand, we experience any effects of date related issues first (viruses, worms or product bugs) but then we get to put April 1 behind us while you are still worrying about it. I'll let you all know if we survive [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 31st '09 |
SharePoint is a Platform, a Very Big Platform
Ian Morish
This platform can help customers with their enterprise content management requirements. Traditionally, these different types of content have been in their own silos managed by products that were designed with the specific characteristics required for that type of content.
Most products are built to meet the requirements of a specific type of content. Document and record management products have merged over time which reinforced the unfriendly/inflexible perception of these products. WCM and C [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 29th '09 |
SharePoint Geographic Replication
Ian Morish
I have been busy for a few weeks (hence not many blog posts) on a proof of concept to replicate content between a central SharePoint server and some regional data centres hosting SharePoint which in turn support remote users.
The top level portal content (WCM and documents) are pushed out the regional servers and each remote site collections hosted on the regional servers is replicated back to the central server.
This is not a product endorsement but I thought I would share some of statistics [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 24th '09 |
Must watch Mix 09 session: State of the Art in Web Site Design on Microsoft SharePoint
Ian Morish
I just wanted to make sure that anyone into SharePoint branding knows about this.
Chris Auld from Intergen shows how to construct and deploy themes to SharePoint using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and VSeWSS (which Intergen wrote) . Also hear about the artefacts in SharePoint themes and how they are deployed to SharePoint. http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C20F
This is the process used to package the new Ten Themes for SharePoint in VSeWSS Projects
Check out Chris' blog posting with the resourc [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 22nd '09 |
Must watch Mix 09 session: State of the Art in Web Site Design on Microsoft SharePoint
Ian Morish
I just wanted to make sure that anyone into SharePoint branding knows about this.
Chris Auld from Intergen shows how to construct and deploy themes to SharePoint using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and VSeWSS (which Intergen wrote) . Also hear about the artefacts in SharePoint themes and how they are deployed to SharePoint. http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C20F
This is the process used to package the new Ten Themes for SharePoint in VSeWSS Projects [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 21st '09 |
Web Content Management with Windows SharePoint Services
Ian Morish
Most people think that you have to use the WCM features of MOSS to deliver a public facing web site. It is true that MOSS provides a very rich platform on which to deliver a WCM solution, if all you want is a simple but dynamic publishing site then you can't beat the value of WSS. I have had several people asking me for any resources I had for how to deliver a public facing WSS site so I thought I would recycle the answers into a post.
SharePoint Designer is Microsoft's tool to customize the OO [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 5th '09 |
SharePoint User Profiles, My Links and My SharePoint Sites without a personal My Site
Ian Morish
Many customers implementing SharePoint internally for their Intranet, collaboration platform, document management solution or any combination of these often want to disable or delay the rollout of personal My Sites. I completely understand why this is often desirable but there are many benefits provided by the Shared Services (SSP) in MOSS that you can still leverage without giving users their My Site.
These services are:
Public user profiles – anywhere you see a user name in SharePoint you [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 5th '09 |
SharePoint public facing web sites discovered in February
Ian Morish
Site
Industry
Marktvergleich
Financial
Microsoft Office Labs
Technology
DakStats
Technology
Community Reinvestment Fund
Financial
Inetium, LLC
MS Certified Partners
Evonic Eastern Europe
Industrial
Financial Regulator Ireland
Financial
XBRL US
Charity/Club/Community
Department of Social and Family Affairs Ireland
Government
Western Australia’s Golden Outback
Entertainment
West Coast TAFE
Education
Halton District School Board
Education
CMS Legal Services
Professional Services
Vot [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 3rd '09 |
Creating Visio flow charts from Office client diagrams
Ian Morish
I often have to take a customer documented business process or workflow from a Power Point presentation and convert it into a Visio diagram. This used to be a manual process of recreating all the shapes in Visio. Now there is a free Visio add-in that can do this for you.
Flowchart Converter provides the capability to convert Microsoft® Office Excel®, Microsoft® Office Word®, and Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® documents to Microsoft® Office Visio® documents (*1), which are more suitable [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 1st '09 |
Use Business Value Planning Services to get more out of SharePoint
Ian Morish
BVPS is designed to help customer Business Decision Makers (BDMs) develop a plan to leverage the strategic value of the Microsoft Information Worker (IW) platform by improving an impactful business process, working with the customer to document, analyze, optimize, justify, sequence, and propose a plan to improve their business using Office System. We provide a reliable, repeatable process for certified BVPS partners to conduct, and be compensated for 3, 5, 10 or 15-day engagements according to t [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 5th '09 |
Create a Windows 7 Federated Search provider for SharePoint
Ian Morish
I had blogged about the federated search feature that was demonstrated at the PDC but now that more than 2.5 million people have downloaded Windows 7 there bound to be people running Windows 7 who also have access to a SharePoint server. File preview is my favourite feature.
You can create a .osdx file for your SharePoint server by following this format which is for my wssdemo.com site
WSSDemo Site Search the Ian Morrish Sharepoint Demo site. -1 -1
Or click on this [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 12th '09 |
Creating the SharePoint Silverlight Slideshow
Ian Morish
Instructions on how to build this demo http://www.wssdemo.com/SlideShow/show.aspx
It would be simpler to just install a custom web part on your SharePoint server that provides this functionality but not everyone has server administration access to their SharePoint environment to do this.
That is why I love the Data View/Form web part. It is already installed on your WSS/MOSS server, all you have to do is configure it through SharePoint Designer or import an already created .webpart configurati [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 10th '09 |
SharePoint STSADM Command Reference Access from Mobile Phones
Ian Morish
SharePoint provides the option to have a mobile view url for any list view. The problem is how you share that url as you certainly wouldn't want to type it into a phone because it would look something like this
http://www.wssdemo.com/_layouts/mobile/view.aspx?List=3d601dca%2D957f%2D4f4b%2Db120%2D430220475ea5&View=38511657%2D1885%2D48f8%2D8a76%2D43f32b976d9e
Now you can create a TAG that can be photographed by Windows Mobile device and iPhone cameras and converted into a unique reference th [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 10th '09 |
Searching Dynamics CRM from SharePoint using the BDC
Ian Morish
Now you can easily search Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Office SharePoint Server.
The Enterprise Search Accelerator includes:
Documentation - Documents covering all aspects of the accelerator are included to help walk you through the process of getting started with Enterprise Search.
BDC XML Definition – Pre-configured Microsoft SharePoint Business Data Catalog (BDC) definition for many of the standard Microsoft Dynamics CRM entities.
BDC Tailor Utility – Utility to pull metadata from Micr [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 8th '09 |
Having trouble documenting your SharePoint Content Types?
Ian Morish
Try the beta of this great new tool from MetaVis Technologies http://www.metavistech.com/sharepoint
MetaVis Designer models SharePoint metadata and hierarchy in a graphical two-dimensional way providing an intuitive interface to design and maintain metadata structures. Users will be able to create, modify, document and share these models through extensive use of a rich graphical interface. MetaVis Designer is integrated with SharePoint allowing users to load, synchronize and provision metadata [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 8th '09 |
Dynamic MindManager Map Generated from SharePoint List Data
Ian Morish
Using the Data View web part and the concept of an XML Data Island, I was able to get the Mindjet HTML Viewer control to render data directly from a SharePoint list.
See the demo here http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/MindManager2.aspx (this will download the active viewer automatically).
The tricky part was grouping the list data to create the sub-topics. The XML format is very order specific and not well documented. I only have the evaluation copy of MindManager which doesn't have all the feature [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 6th '09 |
Thankfully I’m not a SharePoint Project Manager
Ian Morish
But I often wish I had more influence on the way some projects are run.
Most organizations know there is lots of room for improvement in the way they manage and execute projects. Lots of emphasis is placed on Enterprise Project Management (EPM implies global resource and cost management plus reporting) but not much on how all the people involved in a project execute on the plan and deliver a good result.
Executing the plan is more than just updating task statuses and recording time. Most proje [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 4th '09 |
Reporting on the performance of your SharePoint SQL Server
Ian Morish
Or any other SQL server for that matter...
Another task I managed to complete within a day was to get SSRS installed on WSSDemo.com's SQL server (still running 2005, upgrading to 2008 will wait for another day).
There are a number of reports you can get from the SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard which is a free download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1d3a4a0d-7e0c-4730-8204-e419218c1efc&displaylang=en
After installing this package, additional reports are [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 3rd '09 |
Conflicting Characteristics of Content Requirements in SharePoint
Ian Morish
Most products that store content are designed to meet the requirements of a particular discipline; collaboration, document management or record management. The challenge with designing a SharePoint solution is that you might need to meet the requirements of more than one discipline.
This is a slide from the Tech Ready session on Information Architecture I was going to present in February (that session is now the victim of the current economic situation which means I won't be able to attend :-( [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 1st '09 |
Silverlight Slideshow of a SharePoint Picture Library
Ian Morish
I decided that I should start and finish something for the first day of 2009. Fitting that it should be SharePoint project consisting of a Web Part that uses the Data View and Silverlight to turn the pictures in a picture library into a slide show.
http://www.wssdemo.com/SlideShow/show.aspx
99% of this is thanks to Frederik Hendriklaan and his SilverlightSlideShow project on CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/silverlightslideshow which gets the list of images from an XML file. I used the Data V [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 1st '09 |
Dealing with network shares and a SharePoint deployment
Ian Morish
An important part of any introduction of SharePoint for better document collaboration/management as compared to a network share is to decide what documents to migrate.
The first question I always ask is "are you going to add any value to the documents by placing them into SharePoint?".
Bearing in mind that SharePoint storage is more expensive than a network share there has to be benefits for doing it. Just saying "we will be able to find it more easily by using SharePoint search" is not a valid [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 26th '08 |
Update to SharePoint My Site redirect
Ian Morish
Shortly after deploying this solution to redirect users from the Intranet web application to the My Site web application (as per this blog post) we found a small problem.
If you want users to be able to change their regional settings then there is still a valid reason for them to get to the _layouts/userdisp.aspx page. So the redirection code need to check for the URL parameter force=True and not redirect in this case.
So the updated code looks like this [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 22nd '08 |
SharePoint email alerts and Tumbleweed Email Firewall
Ian Morish
Just in case anyone else strikes this problem...
SharePoint email alerts where being stripped of their HTML body at a customer site. The customer had added rules to prevent *** SPAM*** from being added to the subject line but the body of the email would be replaced with "഼".
Changing the outgoing email settings in the Central Admin to "Unicode UTF-8" fixed the problem. [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 5th '08 |
Installing WSS and Search Server Express to make a Search and Collaboration appliance
Ian Morish
I wanted to install this configuration for my church office as it represents good value for money.
They already had a W2K Server license + Windows CAL's but no SQL Server. So I installed the following:
WSS SP1 in Basic mode – provides unlimited storage SSEE database in single server only solution (no 4Gb limit like Express or MSDE)
Upgrade to Search Server Express – adds SQL Server 2005 Express for the SSP Content and Search db (this gives you MOSS search functionality for WSS sites, web [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 29th '08 |
Get more out of your SharePoint Server
Ian Morish
With all the talk about Web 2.0, Social Computing and now the economic crisis, it is time to turn back to productivity and knowledge management.
If you are an employee and as part of your job you start researching the Internet or Intranet for resources, you eventually find something and add it to your browser favourites. That is great for you but there are probably other people in your organization that could benefit from your research so you do one of 3 things:
Â
Keep the link to yourself, [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 29th '08 |
Using scripts to automate SharePoint Server 2007 installation
Ian Morish
Microsoft has just published this whitepaper to give you guidance on automating the installation of SharePoint. Although some might say "Others have already done this" or "I have a much better solution" it provides a good description of the process and, even better, has a good diagram showing the process.
Some of my tips:
I build the Application Server first which makes it the Central Administration Server
Use Powershell (bring on the day we deprecate the CMD shell. Unfortunately I know, it [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 28th '08 |
SharePoint redirecting user link to MySite page - solution
Ian Morish
SharePoint provides rich integration between content and users (Office Communicator presence information and a hyperlink to display user details). This can be seen everywhere a user name is assigned to a piece of content which can be:
Created/Modified By details for any item display page or view that includes these columns
Site group membership from settings page or web part
People & Group column added to any list/library
Workflow and version details
For Microsoft Office SharePoint Ser [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 28th '08 |
Where would I be without Google?
Ian Morish
An interesting comparison of my site stats vs Joel Olsen.
Thanks to Joel for publishing some of his Google Analytics details. I noticed a few subtle differences between my stats (all of wssdemo.com, including blog) and Joel's.
Direct vs Google are swapped around, hence the title of this post! (this is for one day...). As far as the keywords go, I'm just not famous :-(
Joel's traffic sources
Non Search Engine referrals, the LinkedIn referrals relate to job offers from recruitment companie [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 26th '08 |
Free Card Sorting Application – StickySorter
Ian Morish
For those who were at Sydney partner training I delivered yesterday, this is the application I said should be available any day;-)
StickySorter is an Office Labs sponsored spare-time project by two Microsoft employees, Julie and Sumit. The idea sprung from the need for project teams all over the world to gather and organize data using a collaborative process known as affinity diagramming. Since its inception, StickySorter has evolved into a desktop application so anyone can use it to collaborate [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 19th '08 |
Implicit vs Explicit Document Check-out in SharePoint
Ian Morish
SharePoint document libraries support enforcing check out to make any changes to a document or its metadata. This is set in the Version Settings menu of the document library settings.
You might think that this option should be on by default but there are some downsides to doing this. The biggest impact to requiring check out is that you can't use the bulk editing Datasheet View. If require checkout is enabled, the Datasheet View will display "This view is read-only" message at the bottom.
No [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 3rd '08 |
Windows 7 Federated Search with SharePoint
Ian Morish
At the PDC, David Washington demonstrated Windows 7 searching my WSSDemo.com SharePoint site from the file explorer and from within Office applications. One of the best features is the ability to get a document preview from the search results.
I cut a video of the relevant 2 minutes from the PDC session here http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/3523/xEncoderApp0/iframe.html or you can watch the entire session (SharePoint demo starts at 13:50) here http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC16/ [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 2nd '08 |
Internet Video like it should be
Ian Morish
IIS 7 Smooth Streaming + Silverlight + Akamai distributed network!
Even in little old New Zealand, at the end of the Internet, this looks fantastic! Check it out http://www.smoothhd.com/ [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 1st '08 |
System Center Operations Manager is more than just for Monitoring SharePoint
Ian Morish
It also provides valuable reporting capability.
The critical conditions that the SharePoint Management Pack monitors are summarized in the following reports that can be easily viewed through the System Center reporting console. Rules can be defined to alter how and when data is gathered, influencing... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 30th '08 |
test
Ian Morish
Test blog [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 27th '08 |
Creating a SharePoint Page Layout to play video content
Ian Morish
There is so much video content available now days that can be used as a source of content for your web site (Internet or Intranet).
This article shows you how to create a SharePoint Publishing Layout page that supports authoring a web page with the following features:
display a preview image... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 27th '08 |
How to measure the performance of your SharePoint site
Ian Morish
Ed Robinson the CEO of Aptimize has written this paper with guidance for measuring the performance of SharePoint Intranet and Internet sites. Aptimize produces the Runtime Page Optimizer (http://www.getrpo.com) – a software component that instantly speeds up web pages, applying Yahoo’s rules of Exce ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 15th '08 |
SharePoint Custom Code Acceptance Checklist
Ian Morish
Microsoft has provided a good sample checklist for organizations to evaluate a custom or 3rd party SharePoint solution against.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707802.aspx
The one thing I think it fails to mention is evaluating the impact on being able to upgrade your SharePoint farm to ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 8th '08 |
Hot Desking
Ian Morish
Over the last 28 years of my professional career, I've always had a desk to call my own.
This was what it looked like this morning
And this is what it looks like now...
(I got a concession to leave the PC on the desk. Trying to get power and an ether net connection into my locker was ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 7th '08 |
New Site Permissions for SharePoint Visio model
Ian Morish
You will find this very helpful when trying to explain permissions to site administrators.
Download it from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73118&clcid=0x409
Here is a sample of some of the content... [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 4th '08 |
SharePoint Administration Toolkit Batch Site Manager (BSM)
Ian Morish
The Admin toolkit is a fully support Microsoft extension for WSS and MOSS and should be part of your standard server build.
x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6 ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 3rd '08 |
Sysinternals Process Monitor v2.0 released
Ian Morish
I have used this tool to troubleshoot so many problems. I suspect my next need for it will be on a customer's SharePoint farm to see what impact their OS based anti-virus solution has and ensure that we have the correct exclusions in place.
Download from here... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sy ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 3rd '08 |
Another step closer to the 100% scripted SharePoint installation with DcomPerm.exe
Ian Morish
I have just completed my most recent MOSS scripted install which included a slipstream install of the IU + latest hot fixes as described here. One of the few things that I still have to do manually is fix the DCOM errors that seem to very consistent. According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/92 ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 2nd '08 |
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Help and How-to
Ian Morish
The built-in SharePoint help is wealth of information but I do struggle to find a good way to use it as a reference manual because it was designed to be accessed primarily through search.
Here is a good starting url http://www.wssdemo.com/_layouts/help.aspx?lcid=1033&cid0=MS%2EWSS%2Emanifest& ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 11th '08 |
The Microsoft SharePoint Step by Step Kit
Ian Morish
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Step by Step and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
I just noticed that these 2 great titles had been bundled together. Now this is something I would recommend a SharePoint site manager or power user get as a learning tool and reference.
And you can't ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 11th '08 |
If you can’t do it with SharePoint Designer, it’s not worth doing...
Ian Morish
I'm sure that will get a few people talking.
Anyway, if you want to know what SharePoint Designer can do then there are 3 options:
Books
E-Learning
Instructor led training
I just received a book in the mail to review. "SharePoint Designer Tutorial" by Mike Poole from PACKT Publishing (170 ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 11th '08 |
SharePoint List data displayed using Silverlight Charts
Ian Morish
I was talking to a customer at TechED NZ who asked if there was a simple way to chart data from a SharePoint list. Thanks to VisiFire and the SharePoint Designer blog, I was able to throw this live demo together in a few minutes using the Data View web part. http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/graph.aspx
... (More) [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 7th '08 |
How to create a good SharePoint Survey
Ian Morish
Or any online survey for that matter.
SurveyMoney has published a great document on "Smart Survey Design" which is a collection of guidance from many sources.
E.g. a good checklist of concerns regarding the survey and question design that, as the survey designer, you should consider:
Do th ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 5th '08 |
SharePoint Virtual Earth Web Part without deploying any server code
Ian Morish
I have had many people asking me how I built the demo that displays multiple pins on a map from a SharePoint list of locations. http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/map.aspx
You can do this with SharePoint Designer and the Data View web part. Nothing has to be run on the server as this is a "content ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 5th '08 |
NZ Tech-ED 2008
Ian Morish
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions.
Delivering Rich Media with Windows Server 2008 (yes, there is more to life than SharePoint ;-)
Windows Media Services http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/serve/prodinfo2008.aspx
IIS 7.0 Media PackWeb Playlists http://blogs.iis.net/vsood ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 3rd '08 |
Sending out a search party for the cheese
Ian Morish
New Zealand is famous for its cheese. Unfortunately we have a very successful dairy corporative (Fonterra) who has managed to get such a high price for our dairy exports that the only way we can purchase it in NZ is to pay the same price as can be achieved overseas.
So, when I order a cheese board f ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 26th '08 |
Installing Vista on Hyper-v is fast, real fast.
Ian Morish
So fast that I didn't believe it. I had the Vista Enterprise ISO file on the W2K8 host and it took about 2 minutes from creating the virtual machine, mounting the ISO, answering the start-up questions and logging into Vista. [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 16th '08 |
SharePoint Single Sign-on Service (SSO)
Ian Morish
Now that WSSDemo.com is running in a Hyper-v multi-server farm, SharePoint features such as the BDC and Data Form web part can't use Integrated security SQL access without configuring Kerberos. Many of my customers don't want to enable this (for whatever reason, fear of the unknown is my guess) just ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 14th '08 |
Sleepless in Seattle, Literally.
Ian Morish
I made it to Seattle eventually. Had to go via Vancouver in the end and only just managed to check in for my connecting flight to Seattle with 1 minute to spare. There is no direct baggage transfer so I couldn't use the transfer lounge. Had to clear Canadian customs, wait for bag, exit agriculture ( ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 29th '08 |
Don’t forget, there are plenty of good SPS2003 sites still in use
Ian Morish
One that I have been involved with for many years is still trucking along. I think I shared some numbers for this site back when wssdemo.com was running WSS 2.0.
This SPS 2003 Medium Server farm has 6 virtual server extended with WSS and a portal site that is only used for searching and the site dir ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 25th '08 |
Sorry for my typing Dyslexia
Ian Morish
I have done that twice now. If you don't know what I'm talking about then all the better.
Both times I have done this when adding an entry in a rush before heading to the airport. For my punishment, the Wellington airport closed today just after I checked in due to bad weather and it was the first o ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 24th '08 |
Do you want to host the list of public SharePoint sites?
Ian Morish
Feel free to grab this web part (right-click, save-as) http://www.wssdemo.com/Downloads/SharePointSitesRSS.dwpAdd it to a web part page using the Import option (zero code deployment).
Thanks to http://sharepointrss.com/ for the DVWP generator+ a couple of tweaks to show all sites and cache the d ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 19th '08 |
SharePoint Clarity Master Page
Ian Morish
While I'm thinking about themes, I have updated my demo page for the Clarity theme with a few excellent tips on using this particular theme. Check it out here http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/master%20clarity.aspx [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 16th '08 |
Outsourcing your Intranet SharePoint Theme development
Ian Morish
Tip: don't forget to tell the outsourcer that it is an Intranet site where you want to use all the collaboration features of SharePoint otherwise they might assume that you also want a master page based on the minimal master template which was intended for Web Content Management site only, removing ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 16th '08 |
Hyper-V RTM on Windows Update
Ian Morish
I had set my W2K8 server that hosts the WSSDemo.com virtual farm (4 virtual servers) to automatically install Windows Updates including recommended updates. Looks like the WFE server didn't update before the host OS updated and the network adapter in the WFE virtual machine was no longer valid so it ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 14th '08 |
Page Layout pages and SharePoint Designer don’t play well together, or do they?
Ian Morish
SharePoint Designer is used to create page layouts but you must use the browser to create web pages based on a page layout. I found this rather frustrating with page layouts that include web part zones and trying to use Data View's in these pages.
A Data View could be created in a normal Web Part pa ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 13th '08 |
Click to call from a SharePoint Contacts List
Ian Morish
If you are lucky enough to have Office Communicator deployed with telephony integration enabled you will have already seen the SharePoint functionality to initiate a telephone call with a document author or from the user profile page.
You can create a hyperlink in a web page or email message to ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 8th '08 |
SharePoint Advanced Administrator and Power User Training in Wellington
Ian Morish
The Administrator Training runs from 14th July
This 5-day event is designed to provide SharePoint Administrators with information and provide the skills needed to design, deploy and manage a Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007 implementation.
 Prerequisites
The ideal students will posse ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 27th '08 |
Using Runtime Page Optimizer (RPO) to improve SharePoint Performance
Ian Morish
This is the product that I have installed ion WSSDemo.com. It is developed by some old colleagues of mine and I think they are onto a winner here.
As an example, my Top 100 web sites page http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/topwebsites.aspx contains 100 thumbnail images but RPO tiles them into a single ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 27th '08 |
How to increase the performance of your SharePoint site by at least 200%
Ian Morish
At least I think http://www.wssdemo.com is going twice as fast than it used to. What do you think?
Â
All will be revealed in the next couple of days... [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 26th '08 |
SharePoint Picture Libraries support TIFF images
Ian Morish
I discovered something I didn't know about SharePoint. Picture Libraries create thumbnail and preview images of TIFF files.
If you want to render the TIFF images using a Data View Web Part, you need to calculate the url for the thumbnail or preview images.For a file name of http://www.wssdemo.com/TI ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 21st '08 |
Custom SharePoint display item pages per content type
Ian Morish
My list of over 1,800 SharePoint resources uses content types to distinguish the metadata that is relevant to each type of resource (article, blog, download etc.)
If the content type is KB Article, I wanted the default display item page to be customised to render the Microsoft KB Article page in an ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 13th '08 |
There are not enough Microsoft SharePoint Certified Technology Specialists!
Ian Morish
I just logged onto the https://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/default.mspx site for the first time in years and saw that they list the number of Certified Technology Specialists.
QualificationQtyMCP (all)2,268,992Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Application Development1,852 Microsoft Office ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 12th '08 |
Top 100 Web Sites Hosted on SharePoint
Ian Morish
Now that there are 250 sites listed on my MOSS hosted public Internet site directory, I have decided to maintain a top 100 list with a thumbnail image of the site to enable visitors to quickly identify sites they might want to take a closer look at rather than just going by the title and brief descr ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 7th '08 |
Quick Thinking for SharePoint Error Logging
Ian Morish
Although I'm very busy as a SharePoint consultant, I try and answer others questions even if they are developer specific (I'm not a developer). Today's question was...
"Hi Ian, We've had a bit of a discussion about logging in xxx - basically what we want is somewhere to log any exceptions, war ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, May 26th '08 |
Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint working on W2K8
Ian Morish
I still have a small list of things to get working on wssdemo.com since migrating to the W2K8 Hyper-v platform. Today I managed to tick one off the list.
The SilverlightPart web part would give a 403 error whenever I tried to edit the web part properties. The Sysinternal Process Monitor is a gre ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, May 24th '08 |
Office Tip: Always see where a file is located
Ian Morish
I often find that I have lots of documents open and can't always remember if I opened them from an email attachment, My Documents or a SharePoint site. I would often use the "File Save-As" menu just to see where the file was opened from. It turns out that you can add this information to th ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, May 19th '08 |
Tech-ED NZ Selling out fast!
Ian Morish
Don't be disappointed, register now...
I've been to the last 8 Tech-ED's in NZ and they just keep getting bigger, better and sell-out sooner every year. See you there... [read].
Posted: Sun, May 18th '08 |
Changing Accounts and Passwords for SharePoint Components
Ian Morish
There are many pieces in the SharePoint jigsaw puzzle and they should all rely on Active Directory accounts.
Every SharePoint Farm should follow these guidelines for the use of AD accounts http://www.wssdemo.com/redir.aspx?ID=1456
Unfortunately this is not always the case and, although everything a ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sun, May 11th '08 |
SharePoint Document Libraries and users
Ian Morish
The purpose of this article is to help IT desktop support professionals understand the different ways a user can interact with files stored in a SharePoint document library and the implications of each method.
Clicking on the document name results in Read-only copy This is the option that causes the ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, May 10th '08 |
New server for wssdemo.com
Ian Morish
I've been out of town every week except 2 so far this year so the blogging has taken a back seat while my spare time is taken up with migrating the site onto a new Server 2008 Hyper-v environment. Apart from building the new DC, SQL Server, MOSS App server and WFE, I can also run up a few other virt ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, May 10th '08 |
New server for WSSDemo.com
Ian Morish
I've been out of town every week except 2 so far this year so the blogging has taken a back seat while my spare time is taken up with migrating the site onto a new Server 2008 Hyper-v environment. Apart from building the new DC, SQL Server, MOSS App server and WFE, I can also run up a few other virt ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, May 10th '08 |
SharePoint Developer Breakout sessions at Tech-ED North America
Ian Morish
Not as much content as the IT Pro's get but, given that there is also a lot of .Net content that is also relevant to SharePoint developers, I'm sure this event will be worth your while. There are still some discount registrations available so register now.
Session TitleTrackLevelSpeakerMicrosoft SQL ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 26th '08 |
Over 40 SharePoint IT Pro Breakout sessions at Tech-ED North America
Ian Morish
Don't miss out; get onto your registration today!
Session Title
Track
Level
Type
Speaker
Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Office Excel 2007
 In this session, see an imp ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 26th '08 |
The life of a SharePoint consultant (and what do customers think about it?)
Ian Morish
BUSY!
I don't know if any other SharePoint consultants are finding this but in trying to maintain a work-life balance, I try and stick to a 40 hour working week. Yeah, right. I do stick to a 40 hour billing week though.
This means that I'm working on customer engagements for 40 hours a week and dur ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 12th '08 |
Moving from Google Analytics to Microsoft adCenter Analytics for SharePoint reports
Ian Morish
This weekend I have started migrating my site analytics from Google Analytics to adCenter. Why? Call it patriotism;-)
The tracking script is added to the master page just the same as was required for Google Analytics. I then excluded the "source" parameter from the reports (this is the ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 5th '08 |
The pathetic state of broadband internet access in NZ hotels
Ian Morish
Not only is it expensive
(If only I was Geoff Payne...)
It doesn't even support HTTPS or VPN access. Zero use for a business traveller. Just as well I only signed up for a ½ hour.
If I was in the USA this would be free or at most $10 for the entire stay. [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 25th '08 |
Installing the SharePoint BluePrint for Silverlight: SilverlightPart
Ian Morish
First off, Silverlight 2.0 is still beta so you should not install it on a production server, but for those who want to throw caution into the wind (it will be blown back in your face like me), here are the steps I went through for a non-development environment (i.e. no Visual Studio 2008 installe ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 23rd '08 |
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