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SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 Tip

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Andrew Woodward

There are some great articles out about setting up SharePoint 2010 to work on Windows 7. Spence has a few great tips as always. MSDN has a good post which actually gets you up and running. One things that I … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 – Have to Extend to have Multiple URLs

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Andrew Woodward

I think this was a best practice in SharePoint 2007, but was one that you could get away with.  You have internal and external URLs that will be used to access the same web application.   Internally for historical or vanity … Continue reading →

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Top Tool Tips

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

Do you write proposals?   do bug testing?   or write books? post blogs? or just need screen shots to help explain what you mean?  If Yes then you need the latest version of SnagIt by TechSmith.   In it’s version 9 release … Continue reading →

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Create Custom Policy programmatically

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

Answering a forum thread I had to do a bit of digging into how to create new Policies in code. This post from Ethan helped point me in the right direction.   The requirement was to programmatically give users Full Control … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2008 developing SharePoint – Can’t connect from Office clients

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

Now that Windows 2008 Server is out SharePoint developers (and I’m sure lots of others as well) will start to move their development machines onto the new platform.  For SharePoint  developers tend to work in Virtual Machines and develop on … Continue reading →

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Low mic volume in Vista 64bit

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

Having previously been an avid Skype user I decided to reinstall on my Vista ultimate 64bit laptop build.   Download and software installation (version 3.6) went without issue, but making a Skype test call I could hardly hear myself.   I made … Continue reading →

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Scripted SharePoint Farm deployment

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

I normally do not cross post from other people blogs, but had to make an exception for this post by Ben Curry – because it mentions me Scripted SharePoint Farm Installation using PSConfig.exe and stsadm.exe Ben presented this session at … Continue reading →

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SharePoint ate all my memory! – dealing with memory pressures in SharePoint

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

One of the areas covered during the training I do on WSS Development is how to correctly dispose of objects, specifically the the ones that have a reference to SPRequest like SPSite and SPWeb.  We talk about performance tuning but … Continue reading →

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User Profiles: Why do my changes not show in other sites?

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Andrew Woodward

A detailed look at how the Sync works I was asked recently to advise on how to configure a MOSS 2007 installation to allow end users to update their display name as they had previously been able to do in … Continue reading →

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IFilters released for Office 2007 formats

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Andrew Woodward

So how many of you thought that MOSS2007 was already indexing your Office 2007 documents correctly?   Microsoft have just (17 Dec 2007) released an updated Microsoft Filter Pack  which provides additional IFilters specifically for the Microsoft Office 2007 format documents: … Continue reading →

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