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I came accross a very nasty error. I was configuring some client development machines for one of our customers. After installation i tried to start the Office SharePoint Server Search service and got the error: An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface.Exception Information: OSearch (Administrator) It seems that even if you not using a domain account, you still need to provide the machine name in front of the requested account. So for example: Administrator must be MACHINE001\Administrator...
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A lot of news articles are appearing around some introduction of the new Windows 7. Windows 7 is gonna be the new version after Windows Vista. Some people already claimed that this version will be released soon and Microsoft does not have enough faith in their current Windows Vista. But the release of windows 7 will be in the second half of 2009. Strange enough the first half of 2009, support on Windows XP will be stopped. This could cause a large number of companies not having any support while...
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Thanks to one of my collegaes Ruud, we have a solution for embedding presence information into SharePoint using a Content Editor Web Part. Add a Content Editor Web Part to your site within SharePoint and use the following piece of code for showing the presence information: <img border="0" height="12" width="12" src=http://www.somesite.com/_layouts/images/blank.gif onload="IMNRC(' a.meijers@somesite.com' )" id="IMID1" ShowOfflinePawn=1>...
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Next week, 21st til 26th of januari, i'm visiting Microsoft in Redmond as part of the LEAP 2008 training. LEAP stands for Lead Enterprise Architect Program. Dik Bijl, LEAP Program Owner, has organised some interesting events during 3 days at Microsoft. Some sessions will be Software + Services The Next Operational Challenge, Internet Service Bus Overview, Software Factories Overview, the new world of work, Office Business Applications Overview and more. Also some cool things are organised in...
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Bart Wessels mentioned a whitepaper which describes the interoperability between SAP NetWeaver Portal and MOSS 2007. It provides a complete overview over all relevant concepts, technical building blocks and integration scenarios known to date. For key scenarios also detailed How-To chapters can be found in the rear part of the paper. I have included the download link. http://blogs.microsoft.nl/bartwe/archive/2008/01/08/interoperability-between-sap-netweaver-portal-and-microsoft-sharepoint-server...
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I get a lot of questions regarding licenses for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Its not that hard. Software License for WSS 3.0 is free when you use Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and you will need a license per server for each MOSS 2007 server. Next to that you have to pay for each user which uniquely authenticate. And there is even the possibility to buy off licenses when you use MOSS for publishing sites (internet sites). At the Microsoft website there is a handy tool called License Advisor which can help...