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October 2005 - Posts

• Running a WSS SP2-site in ASP.Net 2.0-mode

  Today I made an attempt to run a WSS-site on ASP.NET 2.0. I wanted to see how complicated it was and if everything kept working as expected. The site I used is the Endeavour Project Portal . This site is part of the Endeavour .NET software development Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:12 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• Microsoft Web Content Management blog

  The Microsoft team responsible for WCM (the next MCMS) started a team blog. It is pretty empty right now, but this could be a very interesting link to keep track of in the future! Visit it here Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:21 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: Content Management Server

• BI-integration with Office 12

  Via Mart Muller : “Business Intelligence is boosting at Microsoft. In the Business Scorecard Manager 2005 release article they talk about the increased investment in BI. With BSM 2005 and Office 12, Microsoft is delivering a robust platform for Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:42 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, Office, Office System 2007

• Office 12 beta 1 coming in a few weeks

  Via Steven Bink : Office 12 Beta 1 will be available on MSDN Subscriber downloads within the next few weeks. In a marketing ploy, Microsoft decided to wait in order to build interest up before releasing it to developers. Futhermore, the article states Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:32 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: Office, Office System 2007

• WSRP consumer support in SharePoint v12

  Patrick Tisseghem posted an article about WSRP and that SharePoint will be able to consume these webservice: “ WSRP stands for Web Services for Remote Portlets and is an OASIS spec you can read more about here . The idea behind WSRP is to create Read More... Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:19 AM by Porint | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, Office, Office System 2007

• Overriding Style at the Page Level WITHOUT Using FrontPage

  Josh Meyer wrote an article on how to use a custom stylesheet in a page of a SharePoint-site, without using FrontPage or modifying the site definition template set. In his article he reveals some more tricks that I didn't know. For example: it's possible Read More... Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:19 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, Office

• Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 released

  Get it here: Download Description of Service Pack 2 Security troubles with SPS SP2 or WSS SP2? Check this article of my collegue Marcel de Vries of his experience with both Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (which uses WSS+SP2 for its team portals). Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:45 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, Office

• Office 12: Save-As PDF!

  Finally you don't need any more PDF-printers or other types of PDF conversion tools. From within Office12-applications it will be possible to simply use File->SaveAs to store a file in the PDF-format. Read the interview with Steven Sinofsky, Microsofts' Read More... Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 11:53 AM by Porint | 1 Comments Filed under: Office, Office System 2007

• Sharepoint Recycle bin for SPS 2003

  Joel Oleson has released a Sharepoint Recycle bin tool. It sits as an ISAPI filter in IIS on top of the Sharepoint filter. Whenever a user performs a delete action on a document, this filter copies the document to a network share. After the copy action, Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:27 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• Bill Simser announces 'Sharepoint builder'

  Bill Simser is implementing a graphical editor for Sharepoint XML Files. Maybe we can get rid of the annoying manual editing of ONET.XML and stuff before Sharepoint V3 is released! Check this posting on his blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2005/10/05/426720.asp Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:11 PM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• First BTUG Meeting

  Last Thursday (29th September) was the first meeting of the Dutch BizTalk User Group (BTUG). It was an interesting meeting with a nice mixture of architectural overview and technical in-depth presentations. Microsoft contributed with a presentation of Read More... Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 6:50 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: BizTalk

• Article about Sharepoint Design

  I found this article which could be very usefull of you plan to customize the look and feel of Sharepoint: http://sharingpoint.blogspot.com/2005/09/extreme-sharepoint-design-creating.html Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:38 AM by Porint | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server