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The next SDN event will be on friday, june 26th 2009 in Hotel Van der Valk in Houten in the Netherlands. Part of the event is the Information Worker track. Spencer Harbar , Bob Fox and our dutch SharePoint specialist Robin Meure will be presenting there. So spread the word!! There will also be a SharePint afterwards talking about nothing else then SharePoint. This will be the second SharePint in the Netherlands. I will be there too and hope to see you all! Sessions will be: SharePoint Mythbusters...
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Especially when you are a small company or running a small SharePoint Portal and you need the reuse of a site, using Site Templates is a great option. SharePoint offers functionality in Site Settings to create a Site Template. A Site Template contains the structure and if needed the content of the current site. This is stored in the database of SharePoint. Reusing the template is only possible when creating subsites. But what if you want to use it even in a separate Site Collection? It is possible...
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Step 5 will be the installation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise edition. Will will use a seperate account for this installation for the same reason as we did for SQL Server. Also SharePoint will install some services which will be running under that account. If for some reason you change the default Administrator accounts password when using that same account for the services, after reboot, those services will not come up anymore. Part 1 - Getting the VPC ready! Part 2 - Installing...
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The following step will be installing Microsoft SQL Serverer 2008 Enterprise. Two of the Prerequisites of step 3 are automatically performed when starting the installation of SQL server. Part 1 - Getting the VPC ready! Part 2 - Installing Windows Server 2008 Part 3 - Prerequisites for SQL 2008 and MOSS 2007 Part 4 - Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Start de installation of SQL Server by selecting the ISO image of the SQL Server installation just like you did with Microsoft Server 2008...
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The next step is the preperation for the installation of prerequisites for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This involves the creation of some user accounts, installation of the .NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1 and a hotfix. The last two are automatically started when you start installing Microsoft SQL Server 2008. But i have put them in a seperate step for this walkthrough. Part 1 - Getting the VPC ready! Part 2 - Installing Windows Server 2008 Part 3...
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The next step is the installation of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. This will incorperate the installation of the operating system, configuring the domain, active directory, application services and web services. Part 1 - Getting the VPC ready! Part 2 - Installing Windows Server 2008 Start your virtual machine and while it seems the virtual machine is loading stuff, go into the menu and use "Capture ISO image" to capture the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 image. Restart your virtual machine...
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From the community i get a lot of requests for help to install a virtual environment with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Normally i always have a copy of a virtual environment ready for use. But to get a better understanding what you need to install and how you need to configure it, it is wise to do the installation yourself at least once. I will publish several parts of this walkthrough, each incorperating a step of the installation process. I'm using Virtual PC 2007, Microsoft Windows...
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Have a look inside the "Future home" at Microsoft. One year ago i did a tour at Microsoft in Seattle. It is a great experience and gives a very good impression of combining technology into your private environment. It shows different ways of communicating, enjoying parts of your life in another way then you are used to. BBC has released a video which shows you this "Future home". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8046659.stm
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I'm currently involved in a large project for one of our customers and each of the team members is using an indentical MOSS development environment using VMWare. In the past i have been using a lot of virtual machines like VPC or VMWare. When you create a copy of an existing virtual machine you get a nasty problem called "Duplicate machine names on the network". The following i have picked up from our projects to rename your virtual machine while MOSS is installed. I would like to share...
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Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access content in a variety of forms that guide you in learning the important skills. Join Ramp Up (it's free!) and help advance your career - click on a track now to start! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default...
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Creating you UC development environment is not a simple task to do. Chris Mayo has written a walkthrough in 5 parts: how to build a virtualized UC development environment. It includes OCS environment (pool, certificates, phone integration and more), Domain Controller, Exhange and other stuff. Building a Virtualized UC Development Environment: Part 1 – Building the TS Virtual Machine Building a Virtualized UC Development Environment: Part 2 – Joining the Fabrikam Domain Building a Virtualized UC Development...
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On the 6th of May Sparked will discuss all your worst SharePoint Nightmares together with 6 industry experts. I will be one of the speakers at this session and my subject is " SharePoint Customizations? How far should you go ". The other speakers will be Roel Hans Bethlehem, Marianne van Wanrooij, Mirjam van Olst, Donald Hessing and Mart Muller to talk about their bad dreams. A SharePoint Nightmare is a (often common) problem that you can encounter during your work with SharePoint. This...
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Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite. This Service Pack has some important updates which will benefit you and your customers. Some of these are: Offers enhanced stability for Outlook, calendaring reliability, and many more improvements to applications that run on both PCs and servers Improved performance and stability of Outlook, better charting functionality in Excel, and more control over the appearance of SmartArt graphics Office 2007 now has built-in support...
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I like to use beta programs. You can see what new functionality will be available before the product is released. But using betas of Internet Explorer is something i have a lot of bad experiences with. Currently we got a report on one of our websites that it had some problems running under Internet Explorer 8. Ofcourse i checked this in my virtual machine by installing the released version of Internet Explorer 8. For some reason i was not able to access my SharePoint websites anymore. It kept me...
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Microsoft has announced that the current Microsoft SharePoint version 14 will be named to Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the conference to learn about SharePoint 2010. As they say, be the first to learn about the improvements they have made to the platform and how many of those investments can be quickly implemented to add value to your organization and businesses. You can read more on the announcement on the SharePoint team blog .