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Dr. Horrible will stop the world with his Freeze Ray
Like any good writer would, Joss Whedon got a little bored and frustrated during the writers strike. So, intentionally relying on the Internet as it’s medium and conduit, he has created a supervillain musical called “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog“ With … Continue reading
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I’m excited about the new Office Server Infrastructure Update
Yesterday, Microsoft published an “Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)“. As I look through the list of fixes and read the post from the SharePoint Team Blog, I’m pretty psyched to see what they’ve put in this update. New … Continue reading
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Set up local SMTP service to relay e-mail to a mail server
Let’s say you’re using a virtual machine to develop SharePoint on and you need to test some mail alerts. These instructions will show you how to set up the built-in SMTP on Windows Server 2003 so that it will accept … Continue reading
How to delete a MOSS farm and start over
Use this procedure to completely blow away a Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 (MOSS), or Windows SharePoint Services v3 (WSS 3.0) farm in 4 easy steps. Purpose: The reason this is important is that some people are convinced that they … Continue reading
Hotfix Rollup on Content Deployment Released for MOSS and WSS
Well I hope everyone had a nice Microsoft Tuesday… As noted in Mike Watson’s blog, Microsoft has released a rollup of fixes for Content Deployment in the form of the May 2008 package. I’m going to say this is pretty … Continue reading
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A movie called "My name is BRUCE"
This is so win I can’t even describe. Bruce’s ability to make fun of himself is unsurpassed. And Ted Raimi is there… but what about Sam? Will there be a cameo from Sam Raimi? One thing is for sure. I’ll … Continue reading
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Windows Mobile 6.1 is here but will I see it on my 8525?
I’m a big fan of the changes to the Windows Mobile OS from version 5 to 6. But 6.1 has got some very compelling stuff added to it. It looks like the biggest additions are stuff involved with enterprise support. … Continue reading
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MOSS Backup and Recovery Whitepaper is now updated
Microsoft just released an update to the whitepaper “Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server†on TechNet. (direct link to the doc download) The original version was geared for small or medium farms but the update includes information that … Continue reading
SharePoint 2007 admin toolkit released
Well it looks like the new “Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit” is now out. It’s got just two peices of funtionality that is added. But they look pretty good. 1. “Batch Site Manager”: This thing adds a new link in the … Continue reading
PDF iFilter for MOSS
This is something that tripped me up on a client-site recently. I installed Adobe’s PDFs IFilter onto a MOSS farm so that PDFs could be crawled. A week later I came back to check on it and there were consistently … Continue reading