I have spent some time in the last week developing forms in InfoPath 2007. Several of the forms used the Contact Selector control. The control was used in various ways, all of which required promoting the value of the user’s name. The requirement was to then filter this value using the [Me] filter in a custom view so that the contents of the library could be customized so that each user saw items where their name had been selected in the control.
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Search Server 2008 Express and WSS
One of my clients has been evaluating SharePoint as an architectural decision for their organization. To start, they decided to use the free Windows SharePoint Services (WSS); however WSS does not contain all of the full Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) elements.
One very important feature that is missing from WSS is search. Microsoft provides site level search in WSS but what if you need to search data outside of WSS? Yes you guessed it, Microsoft has an answer for this: Search Server 2008 Express.
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Recently I had to move databases from one SQL 2005 server to another. You can detach the database from the old server, and then attach it to the new server. This is the fastest method as the security moves within the database, however, you still need to add the security login to make the process complete. You can use this same method if you want to move the database and log files to a new location on the same SQL server–detach the database, move the MDF and LDF files to a new location, then attach them again. This should not affect the application using the database.
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A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in Mixon Consulting’s “5-Days to a Successful MOSS Deployment” course, led by Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS) MVP, Bob Mixon.
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One of my clients just told me about a VERY cool product. It makes very little sense for me to repeat what they wrote…. Take a look!
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