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By: Seth Broweleit
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NaN, at NaN: AMIn SharePoint 2010 the navigation menus have been greatly improved. They now produce standards compliant HTML that can be custom styled without limitations. SharePoint 2007 came with an optional master page that was configured to show sub menu items on a second row instead of as a fly-out menu. This gave you the ability to make attractive designs happen in SharePoint like this: SharePoint 2010 does not provide such a master page out of the box but the good news is that you can copy and paste
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By: David Sobiecki
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NaN, at NaN: AMSharePoint 2010 has improved browser support over previous versions of SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 supports Internet Explorer versions 7.0 and 8.0 (32-bit) with no known limitations. Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0 (64-bit), Firefox version 3.6 and above, and Safari 4.04 and above on Windows operating systems need additional ActiveX control support that in most cases is provided by SharePoint 2010. On non-Windows operating systems, ActiveX support is not provided so some features of SharePoint are
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By: Seth Broweleit
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NaN, at NaN: AMContent management systems are great for automation. SharePoint will keep your navigation updated as you add or delete sub-sites and pages. This is helpful but it can limit the ability to customize the UI. If you were writing the HTML code from scratch you could specify different CSS classes for each and display a different background image. However when the nav is created by SharePoint there is nothing unique about each of the elements so an attempt to add a specific background image to one, vi
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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NaN, at NaN: AMOne major drawback to SharePoint 2010’s installation is the way the installer chooses a name for your databases. It also appends a very easy to remember GUID to the database name as well that makes referencing your databases quite a challenge. In 2007 you could easily mitigate this using psconfig to setup your configuration databases but with 2010 there are quite a few more databases to configure and name which makes this a bit more challenging. Recently, I came across the AutoSPInstaller Ut
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By: Seth Broweleit
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NaN, at NaN: AMA couple of projects ago my team created a SharePoint site with a background image that stays full size of the browser window. Recently I created it again with jQuery. To do it right takes a combination of jQuery, CSS, and HTML. To view my full working demo follow this link: http://jsbin.com/openu4. To view the concept in a real world scenario take a look at http://www.thenorthface.com. The HTML: <body> <img id="bgImg" alt="" src="bckgrnd.jpg"/> &l
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By: Jeff Monnette
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FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint includes the capability to extend the document processing pipeline by adding additional steps. These steps are implemented as executable assemblies that accept, at minimum, two command line arguments: the path to an input file and the path to an output file. The input file is created by the document processing pipeline prior to calling the custom executable. It contains the crawled properties of the document currently being processed but is limited to tho
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By: Brian Hulse
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NaN, at NaN: AMWe, as a company, have been in the process of moving all of our internal systems to SharePoint 2010 and one particular feature we wanted to take advantage of is Managed Metadata. I was tasked with creating all of the content types and list definitions we would use across our extranet. The first thing I had to do was pick out which existing columns we could convert to managed metadata columns, hopefully giving us a better user experience and a better ability to search our existing content. I ca
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By: David Sobiecki
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NaN, at NaN: AMI thought I would add this note about doing the configuration of FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. It seems that the typical scenario is to turn off Windows Firewall within the enterprise. More than one client I have been at has had it turned off. When I was ready to hit the configure button, I noticed the message that said to turn on Windows Firewall for IPSec settings. Once I did, the remote connection was lost and we were unable to connect to the server without server admin assistance. Be
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By: Thomas DuPont
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NaN, at NaN: AMTo quickly and easily test FAST queries, you can use the Search Front End UI and its advanced options to create queries against your content without having to debug queries through code. This is a very useful feature, especially if you have worked on SharePoint Search projects where testing queries consisted of building your own application or using a third party tool. You can execute simple text search and apply a search mode (All, Any or Exact Phrase): Advanced options provided an easy way to
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By: Thomas DuPont
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NaN, at NaN: AMFQL stands for 'FAST Query Language' and it used to build very flexible and powerful queries of the index. Here is a simple FQL example in which the word 'Examen' is searched within the document field named 'passage':
passage:string("Examen")
AND/OR: in these examples, the 'and' / 'or' operators indicate that they are applied to the query terms 'Red' and 'Car':
passage:and("Red", "Car")
passage:or("Red", "Car")
In the previous examples, a single
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By: Frank Nezrick
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NaN, at NaN: AMGreetings, just recently, one of my best friends from college asked me how he could use his companies new install of SharePoint 2007 to manage the many documents that he, as a manager, must approve and maintain, with the possibility of converting some of these documents to web forms. The following 3 part series goes through the following:
Electronic Signatures and Forms In SharePoint Part 1 of 3
Creating a Teams site collection
Adding a document library containing a Word template
Addin
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By: Matthew McGillen
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NaN, at NaN: AMWe've recently assisted a number of clients in Exchange 2007 à 2010 upgrades. In each case, they've been using ISA or TMG to publish external Exchange services. For the most part, it's been easy to find information on the subject: the MS Exchange team has a really nice write up on the ISA configurations for 2010 upgrade; ISAserver.org has a good write-up in general on ISA and Exchange; Elan Shudnow has a post or two on the subject; and there's always technet. All the info is helpful, however my
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By: Matthew McGillen
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The SAN cert strikes again! I have a new mantra: don't ever use SAN certs with OCS. I know, I know. "It can be done / you have it working / it's cheaper / it's supposed to work". I get it. But this week was the last straw for me and the SAN; specifically the SAN cert on the Edge server's internal interface.
The Problem
I've had this issue a couple times: when you place a call with your MOC client, you hear a few slow beeps before the call actually starts ringing. In general, this
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By: Jeff Monnette
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I just finished reading Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarelo's book Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise. This is a great book and a must read for anyone who is architecting enterprise grade solutions on the Microsoft development platform. The book is not strictly technology specific and includes a lot of general purpose information on design principles and patters - borrowing heavily from Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture but discusses the p
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By: David Sobiecki
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NaN, at NaN: AMI thought I'd share these images of Office Web Apps with the full version of the applications. The applications provide basic view and edit capabilities but for more advanced features you'll want to open up the desktop version.
I'm only displaying the Home tab but you can see the differences in the number of tab items as well as the features offered on this tab. Notice the "Open in" button on the far right of each Office Web App version too.
Better together!
Sorry for the width but I
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By: Jeff Schertz
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In a follow-up to some of the features I briefly mentioned in a previous article here is a more in-depth look at some additional new features currently in the CS ‘14’ beta software which have been covered in various presentations throughout TechEd 2010 this week. I’ve just scratched the surface with most of these topics, but it should help explain what some of the buzz-words like SBV, CAC, and Registrar mean.
Enterprise Voice Features
Site Resiliency
With the addition of a ‘Site’ comp
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By: Jeff Schertz
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Right now I’m down at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans, LA where the keynote address is in progress. Microsoft has now officially lifted the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) on all features and content which will be coming in the next release of Communications Server, which is still dubbed ‘Microsoft Communication Server 14’. The ‘14’ refers to the internal Wave 14 codename which has been used since the birth of this iteration of code.
I’m going to try and provide a very brief feature overview whil
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By: Travis Nielsen
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NaN, at NaN: AMIn my last post, I demonstrated how to enable Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) on a WCF web service and configure it to require a SAML 1.1 “ActAs” token from a SharePoint 2010 server. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how this web service and the data it provides can be integrated with SharePoint 2010 in a manner that supports this security model. Let’s start with a scenario where we need to surface the sales data stored a SQL database but we want to lock down what the user sees based on their rol
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By: Travis Nielsen
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Most of my previous posts involve configuring Claims Mode authentication in SharePoint 2010 and using federated Identity Providers (IP) to authenticate users. I also recently demonstrated how roles can be defined internally and assigned to user identities via ADFS 2.0 through token augmentation. These roles can in turn be used for access control to resources within SharePoint.
That’s all very well and good, but it’s really only half of the story. The second and equally as important part of if
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By: Jeff Schertz
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The purpose of this article is to serve as a lessons-learned addendum to the current primary resource for configuring OCS and GMail federation: the Communication Server team’s official blog post on the subject. Following the detailed steps in that article should get you to a working end-state, but if a specific deployment differs from the directions in any way, sometimes it is hard to tell which of the documented settings are recommendations and which are requirements. I will address each of
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By: David Sobiecki
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I’ve been working on a SharePoint 2007 Search project using BDC lately and one of the things that bit me was trying to make a change to a managed property. The change could be due to a misspelling of the property name or the mapping to the crawled property. You’ll find the Managed Properties in Central Administration under Shared Services Administration in your Shared Services Provider. Then go to Search Settings in the Search category.
Once you’re in the Search Settings, click o
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By: Jeff Monnette
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Extension methods in C# provide a mechanism for adding functionality to a class when you do not control the source code to that class. Most often, extension methods are used as a means of syntactically treating external utility methods as though they were methods on the class itself. In this use, the main difference between extension methods and instance methods is that extension methods do not have access to the non-public state of the object.
There has been some discussion on various blogs
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By: Jeff Monnette
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By default, SharePoint uses URLs like the following for the page that displays a post on a blog site:
http://blogs.mycompany.com/blogs/blogger_name/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=1
With a little code in an HTTP Module, we can support a much more user friendly URL format for displaying posts. In this example, I will show you how to create a module that implements URL rewriting and response filtering to support URLs that look like this instead:
http://blogs.mycompany.com/blogs/blogger_name/1/b
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By: Michael Becker
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As part of a FAST search proof of concept, I got the opportunity recently to create slightly more advanced navigator than the typical text-based set of hyperlinks. I used the FAST ESP WebParts (available on CodePlex) as a starting point and the Dundas Chart control as the basis for the Ajax user interface. Getting the data from FAST into the chart was surprisingly easy.
Here’s what it ended up looking like:
Here’s what was involved:
FAST configuration:
You’ll need to update your index p
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By: Bob Moore
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Wouldn’t it be nice in SharePoint 2007 if we could put our own buttons into the publishing menu? We can...it just takes a few steps. The steps taken are determined by the master page that is used. If you are using default.master, you will need to create a delegate control. There are plenty of examples for adding your own delegate control, so I will not go into that. My delegate control was copied from the PublishingMenu.ascx. The control we want to change within the publishing console
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