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Wiring Up the LinkedIn Social Connector

I recently downloaded and installed the LinkedIn Social Connector for Outlook and noticed a problem, the Add option was not available. How do you fix it? While setting up my new company, AbleBlue, I had a “transition” account for email before swit ...[Read more]

Published: 6/15/2010 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Hard Disk Optimization on Hyper-V

In order to support my SharePoint 2010 demo environment I have become quite a fan on Microsoft Hyper-V. I admit that I did not enjoy the learning curve and that there are a few “features” missing that would make it significantly easier to use as a ...[Read more]

Published: 12/5/2009 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Windows Live Writer and Twitter

I just found a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that posts updates to Twitter when you publish a new post to your blog. Twitter Notify lets you format the tweet and prompts you when you publish a post. ...[Read more]

Published: 7/6/2009 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Adventure Works Travel Site and Hands-on-Labs

The Adventure Works Travel site and 10 Hands-On labs have been released to the SharePoint community. These developer oriented labs are available from The MSDN Code Gallery in the SharePoint on the Web Project. The kit comes with an installer for the ...[Read more]

Published: 6/23/2009 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Linux Browser Testing Made Easy

Every once in a while I have a client that requires more extensive browser testing. For most Windows-based browsers I have them installed locally or run a VPC with them installed. I am not a Linux expert by any means so the thought of standing up a ...[Read more]

Published: 5/25/2009 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SPDisposeCheck is loose!

Paul Andrew has just announced that the SharePoint Disposable Object checking tool SPDisposeCheck has been released into the wild. Jump over to: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2009/01/29/spdisposecheck-v1-3-1-is-released.aspx and have a read. ...[Read more]

Published: 1/29/2009 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SharePoint Image Search (Part 2)

Introduction This is Part 2 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search ex ...[Read more]

Published: 8/30/2008 | 8  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SDPS and Microsoft RoundTable

I have been spending this week delivering a Microsoft sponsored SharePoint Delivery Planning Services session. If you are a Partner and you don't know about SDPS you should check it out. If you are a customer and have Software Assurance you should ...[Read more]

Published: 8/13/2008 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post

How does he do it?

One of my favorite stories from the 2008 SharePoint Conference happened during Dustin's presentation "SharePoint Designer: I didn't know you could do THAT!". Dustin was running through his patter and zooming the screen in and out. Every ...[Read more]

Published: 6/14/2008 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post