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• Hello Mother… Hello Father… Greetings from Camp, Twin Cities SharePoint …

  Monday, June 16, 2008

    

  Well, the first bi-annual Twin Cities SharePoint Camp has been a rousing success.  We had over 140 attendees and 22 Sessions representing some of the best and brightest minds in the area on SharePoint.  The weather for the event was a pristine sunny day, and the turnout for this event was phenomenal.

   

  We did have 24 presentations scheduled, which means two sessions that were scheduled did not occur.  We had one illness that ...

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• Managed Paths and SharePoint 2007

  Thursday, May 22, 2008

  I had an interesting question from a client today.  They wanted to be able to hang multiple site collections off of their root url (let's just use http:\\litwareinc.com\) for this discussion. 
  
  Or to put this another way, they did NOT want to use the Sites default Managed path for additional site collections (i.e. http:\\litwareinc.com\sites\HR, http:\\litwareinc.com\sites\Sales, etc.).

  Here's the deal...
  
  You can manage these paths from Central Administration > Application Management > ...

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• New SharePoint Admin tool from MS helps with migration...

  Thursday, May 22, 2008

  Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit Released...

  This newly released toolset from MS contains two very useful tools:  1) Batch Site Manager (for the Central Administration site) and 2) UpdateAlerts STSADM cmd line tool.
  
  Batch site manager adds a new section "to the Application Management page of Central Administration. Batch Site Manager is a feature that is designed to be used by SharePoint farm administrators to manage and administrate bulk operations that involve moving, locking or deleting ...

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  Tags: SharePoint Tools SSPScopeDeploy SharePoint SharePoint Search

• How to Correctly Configure pdf i-Filter for SharePoint 2007

  Wednesday, May 21, 2008

  There is a large amount of mis-information out there on this i-Filter.

  First some background:

      Adobe has not created a stand alone i-filter for the pdf file type since Acrobat and Reader 7.0.5.
  Adobe states that, "iFilter functionality is now bundled within the Acrobat and Reader products. Improvements to iFilter in Acrobat and Reader 8 include support for Vista and Windows Desktop Search, as well as improved performance and stability. It is recommended that you update ...

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• Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money...

  Friday, May 02, 2008

  I am on my way to a well earned vacation... on a beach in St. Somewhere... I'll be back to blogging the week of May 12th...  As a preview of things to come... I will provide several postings on how I accomplished the SSPScopeDeploy and what I learned from the process, I will also be blogging about gotchas in this process of altering functionality in a given site or site collection using the Central services ...

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• Inaugural Twin Cities SharePoint Camp

  Friday, May 02, 2008

  New Horizons of Minnesota is proud to present the first Twin Cities SharePoint Camp, a one day FREE event for both SharePoint Administrators and Developers.  The event is scheduled for Saturday, June 14 from 8:30 – 5:00 at New Horizons of Minnesota in Edina.  We see this being a bi-annual event, falling in May and November each year.
  
  I am the Chairperson for this event and will be giving two presentations: one geared more toward ...

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• SharePoint SSPScopeDeploy for MOSS launched...

  Friday, May 02, 2008

  Update: 5-19-08 SSPScopeDeploy V1.1 released!
  
  Just in time for Cinco de Mayo...
  
  I have officially released my SSPScopeDeploy Search enhancement plug-in for MOSS!
  
  This plug-in inserts itself into the Search section of every Shared Service Provider's main page in your Farm.
  The goal of this tool was to try and decrease the time it takes to utilize newly created Shared Search Scopes from your SSP into your various Site Collections, more in a bit...
  
  What it is:...

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• Migration from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 & Moving Sites Alerts issues

  Wednesday, April 30, 2008

  In working with a client the other week we came across a bit of odd functionality...
  Namely that after you upgrade a SharePoint implementation to MOSS 2007 existing alerts do not seem to function correctly.
  KB#936759 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936759/en-us
  E-mail notifications for alerts are not sent when content in a migrated list or in a migrated document library changes after you perform a database migration to upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  In a nutshell, the title ...

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• Welcome to the Jungle...

  Wednesday, April 30, 2008

  Welcome to the inaugural post of The Pointed Man blog. 
  
  This blog will cover topics related mainly to a phenomenal MS Platform; SharePoint 2007.  I fully expect to place postings on this site that relate to both SharePoint Development and Administration along with the occasional sidebar into other topics...
  
  Who I Am:
  I am the Lead SharePoint Developer/Administrator Technical Instructor at New Horizons of Minnesota.
  I have been in the IT Industry fully for over a Decade ...

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