Saturday, August 20, 2005
Ive updated my
SharePoint+ /
MCMS+ site.
It's now powered with a content management mechanism that uses InfoPath for content authoring and Windows Sharepoint Service for the storage.
The WSS repository can be seen
here.
An item can be added by selecting "Fill out this form" (users that don't have access to the WSS site can ignore the InfoPath logons by hitting Escape and then submitting the form using the "Submit by email" button).
List of categories:
Friday, August 19, 2005
Jay posted an comment
here about an issue he is experiencing with the SQL Report Pack for SharePoint - or more specifically the DEP tool RPDataExtraction.exe.
Dino pointed me to an
Upcoming KB Article to address issue in the SQL Report Pack for SharePoint.
Redaction is the careful editing of a document to remove confidential information.
The
Microsoft Office Word 2003 Redaction Add-in makes it easy for you to mark sections of a document for redaction. You can then redact the document so that the sections you specified are blacked out. You can either print the redacted document or use it electronically. In the redacted version of the document, the redacted text is replaced with a black bar and cannot be converted back to text or retrieved.
From Carlos Segura Sanz -
csegDocLibTools ... making document libraries a bit more explorer-like with an explorer view and copy & paste.
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 is an integrated communications client, enabling information workers to communicate in real time. As the recommended client for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, Communicator 2005 integrates with Microsoft Office System applications and enterprise telephony infrastructure.
The 'Presence Controls for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005' are now available for download. These are designed to provide presence information and real time collaboration options to Microsoft Windows Forms, Web Forms and GUI applications that are based on the Microsoft Win32 application programming interface.
The controls provide developers of these applications with the ability to drag-and-drop the control from the toolbox in Visual Studio onto applications and provide access to the capabilities of Communicator in an easy to incorporate manner.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
If you have installed IE7 then you might have a few problems with certain sites that check for the browser type but do not recognise the new browser.
The IEBlog discusses
Internet Explorer 7 User Agent String and shows the checks that developers should make.
Also gives clues on how you can amend the registry settings so that the browser can resemble a different version of IE ... so if you have issues accessing sites then you can make your IE7 send a user agent of "MSIE 6.0". Scripts to switch the registry between IE6 and IE7 are
here (restart the browser after invoking).
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
WM video highlights from the Sky interactive TV event is now available -
View video .
Also a reminder that our
CMS.RAPID:iTV session from the event is available to download.
Another good article on the offering -
Sky's Ian Valentine Discusses the Company's New Interactive TV Portal.
Microsoft have announced prices and specifications for the
XBOX 360.
Press Release.
Update 19Aug:
Useful data sheet.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Early bird registration for IT Forum 2005 (in Barcelona 15 to 17 November 2005) is now open.
I'm the Office System track owner and currently working to identify some great track content for Breakout Sessions, Chalk & Talks, Hands on Labs, Panel Discussions, Birds of a Feather Sessions and so on.
My aim is to source some fresh new interesting content that connects with the issues that our customers/partners are facing and ensures that we deliver the best ever Office System sessions. In addition to addressing todays technology, we will also have some sessions on the new Office 12 servers.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Skelta CMS Workflow Lite (i.e. the free workflow solution for Microsoft CMS customers) is now being rebranded as the Express version.
Its going through the final testing and its launch is iminent. In the meantime you can request a preview
here .
More info on
Skelta CMS Accelerator - Express Edition .
My home page is now set to
start.com/3.
They have just added roaming using Passport - so you can now take your settings across different machines.
And checkout the
start.com weblog to find what's going on with "start" from the start team
Back in March, NTL upgraded my home broadband connection to 2Mbps for no extra cost. According to this BBC Report -
NTL ramps up broadband offering - its now going up to 10Mbps, again for no extra cost.
Discussion on
NTL Broadband Speed Increase.What's your bandwidth? Try this
Bandwidth Speed Test .
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Back in June I blogged about the beta of Microsoft Acrylic - a new illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media.
The software has now made a second beta release as a Community Technology Preview and is available for
download.
This new release will be of interest to software developers, as images can now be exported to XAML used by the
Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) that underlies the Windows Vista operating system. You can watch a demo of the XAML export features in Acrylic -
video.
More
Key Features & Demo Videos of Microsoft Acrylic.
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Bil Simser has created the The SharePoint Template Project - a community initiative to share list and site templates for SPS/WSS:
Bil also provide some advice on fixing some issues with the Microsoft WSS application templates released earlier in the month:
Aaron Sauve explains how to
add new search providers to IE7 and includes a link to Sean Alexander's
blog post on this subject ... he has created a downloadable file that allows you to quickly add 32 search providers to IE7.
And IE7 has a
new logo.
Saturday, August 06, 2005
From
Bil Simser ...
With the recent release of the 60 Windows SharePoint Services site templates from Microsoft I decided to install them on my public SharePoint site for anyone to check out. You can find a summary Web Part Page
here that lists all the templates with their descriptions and links to each site itself.
MoreAnd from
Erol ...
How to easily and quickly install the WSS Applications templates
Friday, August 05, 2005
Guidance on how to create web pages and RSS feeds that enable autodiscovery with IE 7 and Windows Vista.
Fritz Onion is back, introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 to developers who are currently working with ASP.NET 1.1. During this 15-part series, learn the new features of this platform, which range from declarative data binding to storing per-client profile data, and hear practical advice about how to best incorporate these features into your applications. Each webcast has an accompanying online virtual lab, which gives you an opportunity to test the concepts yourself.
Essential ASP.NET
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!
Avalon and Indigo are now given their real names:
Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon) ... Microsoft's presentation subsystem for Windows, unifies how Windows creates, displays, and manipulates documents, media, and the user interface. Windows Presentation Foundation enables developers and designers to create more visually stunning, distinctive user experiences.
Windows Communication Foundation (formerly Indigo) ... Microsoft's next-generation Web services technology, extends the functionality of the .NET Framework 2.0, giving developers a highly productive framework for building secure, reliable, and interoperable applications.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Applications for Windows SharePoint Services ... these application templates are tailored to address the needs and requirements for specific business processes or sets of tasks for organizations of any size. The applications are the first out-of-box custom scenarios for the Windows SharePoint Services platform, though they also provide a starting point for partners and developers looking to build deeper Windows SharePoint Services solutions.
Scenarios Available for Download:
Update 5 Aug: Roberdan has made some of these applications
available to view live on the web.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
From
Daniel Lyons - Forbes ...
The marketing folks in IBM's Lotus division are starting to sound like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who insists he's winning a fight even as he loses both arms and legs: "'Tis but a scratch," the Black Knight declares after one arm is lopped off. "Just a flesh wound" he says after losing the other. "I'm invincible!"
More
From
BrianG and
ScottGu ...
The
ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Toolkit provides a full source code implementation for how you can build a set of ASP.NET 2.0 providers for the new Membership, Role Management, Health Monitoring and Personalization features.
Monday, August 01, 2005
Interview with Ray Ozzie ... Redmond's newest CTO hopes to make his mark on Microsoft's collaboration efforts, and perhaps much more.
SharePoint+ / MCMS+