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Graphic Design Guidelines for SharePoint 2007
Problem: You've been asked to create a graphic design that can be applied to a SharePoint 2007 site - but you've never seen one before. Or, you've seen one but don't have access to the CSS to see how...
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Office 2010 Technical Preview Announced Today
Hi All – I was at the Microsoft Technical Preview Press Event this morning to participate in a panel discussion with members of the press. Session was hosted by Jason Brommet and the good folks at High...
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Enterprise Search: Why Search Scoping Doesn’t Work
My previous post outlined the problem with the ‘traditional’ approach to search scoping. To explore the problem and a solution that leverages Microsoft FAST search, I’ve invented a fictitious company...
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Don’t Tell Me You’re Not a Designer
Often, when I’m working on a project with someone who isn’t an Interaction Designer I’ll inevitably hear the phrase, “I’m not a designer, but...” followed by an idea or suggestion for changing the user...
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Create TFS Work Items directly from Outlook Emails
This is a great little productivity tool for teams actively using Work Items to track dev activities in TFS. Used it at a recent customer (thx Dilip!) and found it helpful....
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Performance Testing: The Performance Test Plan
I have always had a problem doing performance testing (aka load testing). I am quite adept at recording web tests and collecting counters, but I still find it troublesome interpreting the counters that...
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Another version of SharePoint? Actually SharePoint 2010 is pretty impressive.
So this is my first blog post...ever! Yeah, I'm pretty excited that I have finally taken the plunge and decided to write about something, so here goes... I have been working at imason for over 6 years...
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Some noteworthy new features of SharePoint 2010
In my last post I mentioned I had the privilege of attending the SharePoint 2010 conference. In this post I'd like to review the things I think were quite notable based on the sessions I...
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Options for a SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
One of the first things you will probably ask yourself when you start embarking on SharePoint 2010 development is where do you set up your development environment. As I started investigating this, I...
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Enterprise Search: Ask for help after you have a starting point
Your employees can't remember all of the information sources inside your company, much less keep track of the search interfaces that exist. Each of the following system likely has its own search...
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Turning on Basic Web Parts such as the Content Editor Web Part
I have been working on a SharePoint 2010 MySite implementation and wanted to do something that I thought would be fairly simple which was adding a Content Editor Web Part to the page. When I went to...
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Building a User Experience Team
A while back I was asked to answer some questions on how to build a User Experience team. I'm always interested how other teams work, so I'm sharing this in hopes that people will share their...
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Print Stylesheets affecting the Rich Text Editor
Every now and then a client will have some very specific requirements when it comes to the print view of their website. For those clients we will create a custom print only stylesheet that is...
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Styling SharePoint 2010 - Refrencing Your Custom CSS
As I delve deeper into styling a SharePoint 2010 site, I am discovering a few quirks here and there. Normally as each new challenge arises and I find a fix for it I just move on, rarely documenting...
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Visual Studio Test Suite 2008: Unit Tests Pass but Load Tests Fail
This is a problem I recently ran into:- I am using Visual Studio Test Suite 2008 to create load tests that run multiple unit tests- I created unit tests that run by getting configuration settings from...
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Adobe PDF iFilter not working after installing June 2010 Cumulative Update...
Recently I installed the June 2010 CU for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 on one of our farms and noticed that after the installation, the Adobe PDF iFilter stopped working; more specifically, it wouldn’t crawl...
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Beginner’s Guide to Developing on Windows Phone 7
The official release date for Windows Phone 7 is October 11th (in the US). Word around the internet is that it will be released in Canada around the end of October / beginning of November. LG, Samsung,...
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w3wp process is greyed out in "Attach to Process" dialog
If you have tried to attach to the w3wp process from Visual Studio (2008 in my case) and the w3wp process is greyed out, then I might have a solution for you.The first link that you might want to read...
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Forms and WSP solution deployment stuck at "Installing" or "Deploying"
I had been tearing my hair out with his problem, and I cannot take any credit whatsoever for the solution. I fully thank Prasanjit Mandal for his excellent blog post here...
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"401 unauthorized access" when server-side code or browser tries to call...
It all started out as a problem I got in a load-balanced environment. However, this error can occur whenever you try to browse to a server's URL from that same server, but using a different host...
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