Resolve Flaky Site Deployment UI in MCMS Site Manager
If you’re a CMS developer, I bet you’ve had your fair share with the flaky site deployment UI in Site Manager. There are a ton of posts in the CMS newsgroup about it, as well as on …
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Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
SharePoint Designer vs. Visual Studio for Workflow Authoring
Last night at the monthly JAXDUG meeting, David McNamee came to talk about MOSS and the goals of this next release of Office System (clients & server SKUs). Previously the group hadn’t been …
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Introducing a WCM specific link and resources list
Let’s face it, Web Content Management (WCM), the successor to MCMS and included in the next version of SharePoint (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)), hasn’t received much …
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SharePoint Web Content Management Links and Resources
This page contains links and resources specific to Web Content Management (WCM). WCM part of a larger Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategy that’s part of Microsoft Office SharePoint …
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A little more on DevExpress' VS.NET Productivity Offerings
After the JAXDUG meeting the other night, I was talking to a few people who said that while they see value in things like DevExpress’ CodeRush & Refactor! Pro, many developers won’t …
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New MCMS book coming out on SP2 & utilizing ASP.NET 2.0
Cheers to my former co-authors & Spencer Harbar on a new MCMS book: Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0. In this book they explain how to get SP2 installed and up and …
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MOSS 2007 Administrator's Companion Book Announcement
During Bill English’s Theater talk Friday afternoon on the last day of TechEd 2006 in Boston, Bill announced a book he’s working on. Bill English, along with some coauthors, are writing …
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Cross Browser Support in MOSS - Common Questions Answered
Seems three questions keep coming through from readers of my blog and some of my fellow IM cronies, so I figured I’d mention them here to hopefully answer any questions in the future (ala …
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When 'F5' debugging and attaching to processes is slow
Nothing new in this post… just seems ever few weeks/months you talk to someone that wasn’t aware you could do this. The last person I spoke to had a hard time finding this so I’m …
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Chester Ragel named new CMS MVP, details in his blog post
Congrats to Chester Ragel, newest Content Management Server MVP! See the post on his blog for details. Chester is the one behind the MCMS Manager. I also got my renewal for my CMS MVP today as well… …
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Silent Fan of Gator Nation Rejoices: 2006 National Champions
I haven’t been the most vocal fan over the course of March Madness, but that doesn’t mean I’m not on cloud 9 with the rest of Gator Nation. Today is a good day to be a Florida Alumni… GO GATORS! 2006 …
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Squeeze Every Last Drop of Performance from virtual machines
In my last article on virtualization with Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 SP1, I covered how you can use Differencing Disks to your advantage. However, in retrospect, this article was posted a bit …
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Improving Virtual PC Performance with Differencing Disks
In this article, I explain the steps to boost performance of Virtual PC’s differencing disks. These methods save space and time with administration.
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Free Chapters from Advanced Microsoft CMS Dev. Book on MSDN
Packt Publishing has made yet another chapter available for free from our book Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development. Chapter 8, “Useful Placeholder Controls” is now available on …
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Microsoft Office 2007: A Comprehensive Productivity Suite
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 includes Office Professional Plus & OneNote. Detailed info on packaging & licensing in the official press release.
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MCMS 2002 SP2 Adds New Support but Poses Challenges
The release of Service Pack 2 for MCMS 2002 includes many bug fixes but also adds support for SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio .NET 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. The added capabilities of ASP.NET 2.0 adds many …
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Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 SP2 Resource List
I’m in the midst of creating two MCMS 2002 SP2 sites. If you’ve done any work with VS2005/ASP.NET 2.0 for an MCMS 2002 site, you’ll know there are a ton of quirks and “features.” The two sites that …
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My Account of a Rough and Scary Flight in Bad Weather
I’ll preface this with: If you plan to fly anytime soon in bad weather, this isn’t the story to read. Before Friday, the roughest/scariest flight I had taken was from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in …
FREE Chapter on 'Searching MCMS with SharePoint' Available
MSDN now has Chapter 5 from our Advanced MCMS Development book online: Chapter 5: Searching MCMS with SharePoint
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New Year, New Goals: Learning from SharePoint MVPs
Aiming for change, the writer suggests learning from SharePoint MVPs like Bill English and Todd Bleeker of Mindsharp.
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DevExpress' DXCore, CodeRush, Refactor., and Mark Miller
You’ve probably seen others rant & rave about two development productivity utilities offered by DevExpress: CodeRush & Refactor! I first got my paws on these two utilities in April of 2005… …
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SharePoint SP2 white paper and RecyleBin v1.1 update
A new white paper has been posted that answers many questions about SP2 for SharePoint (WSS & SPS). Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Joel Oleson …
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Managed Debugging : Part 1 - Windbg, Mdbg, and more
This will be the first of a few posts on managed debugging… just too much to discuss in one post. Ever had one of those moments (maye not a single moment, but in general an experience) where you learn …
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Microsoft product build & version numbers for OSS developers
The following list contains an index of the major build and version numbers for a few Microsoft products. This list is primarily for the Office Server System (OSS) developer so it doesn’t cover …
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HOWTO: Use Virtual PCs Differencing Disks to your Advantage
Ever since Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 (VPC) was released, I’ve been using it for development tasks… specifically SharePoint related projects since it requires Windows 2003 and all my desktops have …
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