JohnMcBride on June 27th, 2008

I’m sure most of us are aware, today is the last official day for Bill G at Microsoft. I believe Bill G and Microsoft have pioneered a lot of this industry (Go SharePoint!!! . They are not without faults though, but if you are trying to develop or invent something totally new and untested before, [...]

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If you have a SharePoint UDC and want to embed SQL authentication into it, you need to enable that access from SharePoint. Say you have a InfoPath form, that uses a UDC you have stored in SharePoint, that UDC has a SQL account (like a service account) embedded in it, but when you view your [...]

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JohnMcBride on June 27th, 2008

  RedGate has posted two eBook’s titled “SQL Server Best Practices” and “How to become and exceptional DBA”. Both are pretty good reads so check them out. You can never have to many ebooks Get them here

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admin on June 27th, 2008

SmarterTools has a free edition of their SmarterStats 3.x web analysis product. This is free for a single domain, but is a very good tool if you need to get stats for your site. Check it out here

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JohnMcBride on June 25th, 2008

This is a really good site that I use when debugging InfoPath form development. It’s got some good information for both IP Client Development as well as IP Browser Development. Check it out at InfoPathDev.com

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JohnMcBride on June 25th, 2008

The guys over on the InfoPath team have posted an article (and IP form template) that allows you to use InfoPath to create a UDC file for import into a SharePoint DCL. I have been using this for a while now, but just got around to blogging about it. You have to download the IP [...]

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Then this link is a must have for your favorite list. I always seem to put in controls that do not properly convert to a browser scenario. InfoPath 2007 features that are unavailable in InfoPath Forms Services

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JohnMcBride on June 20th, 2008

If you ever need to delete your default shared services provider the best way woul dbe to run the following command. stsadm.exe –o deletessp -deletedatabases NOTE: In order to delete the default shared services provider it has to be the only SSP in the farm (so delete all those other ones ).

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There are times, when we, as developers, may have several different iterations of SharePoint installations floating around. Maybe we have a staging installation, development installation, and finally a production installation (which may or may not be administered by us . In cases like this, what is the easiest way to find out the version of [...]

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JohnMcBride on June 17th, 2008

Firefox 3.0 official release is today but it seems that the Mozilla site is having problems since i cannot download any add-ons for FF 3.0. I guess the world record for most downloads in a day is gonna have some problems. If you want the new version you can try to download from here I [...]

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