Not all posts are here are serious
Yesterday Microsoft showed Windows 7 and Office 14 and the PDC. Very nice features of both are listed below:
Windows 7
Dual Monitor Remote desktop connection (You can see both screens on your screen!)
Jump Lists - from the task bar you can customize the list of what you can do
Create a VHD natively within Windows 7
Boot to [...]
Today I had to install Faceted Search 2.0 at the SharePoint Farm of a Customer. Installation did not give any problems, but when I browsed to the web part gallery to check if the SearchFacets webpart was working the following error appeared:
The type initializer for
‘Microsoft.Office.Server.EvaluatorModeProvisioning.OfficeServerProductToProvision’
threw an exception.
After some searching on the internet I found the [...]
Jet another announcement from Microsoft. Yesterday at PDC, Microsoft announced Windows Azure, the cloud-based service foundation underlying its Azure Services Platform, and highlighted this platform’s role in delivering a software plus services approach to computing. The Azure Services Platform is an industry-leading move by Microsoft to help developers build the next generation of applications that [...]
Microsoft did another service pack announcement. This time it is about the Vista SP2 beta.
This service pack contains previously released fixes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues. Microsoft expects (!!!) Windows Vista SP2 will retain compatibility with applications that run on Windows Vista and Windows Vista SP1 and are written using public APIs. Because Microsoft adopted a [...]
The Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is expected to be released between February and April of 2009.
Here are some of the SharePoint related topics:
Improved Read-only Content Databases
Whenever a content database is marked read-only, all of the site collections in that database are automatically marked as read-only.
ECM Performance and Manageability Improvements
Improved [...]
Yesterday I blogged about two of the same errors. I concentrated at the error at the customer I described in situation two. The SharePoint Portal we made for this customer is a Publishing Portal for Collaboration and we tried to make more sites in this farm, one for every department. By making this publishing sites [...]
Continue reading about Publishing site template error (AllowUnsafeUpdates follow up)
This time I blog about a very strange error that I have encountered two times over the last few days. They occured at different customer SharePoint farms and while doing different things it seems.
The complete error is “Updates are currently disallowed on GET requests. To allow updates on a GET, set the ‘AllowUnsafeUpdates’ property on SPWeb”.
First situation:
The farm [...]
The company has released Microsoft Sync Framework 1.0, first unveiled in December last year. The Sync Framework is designed to let you add roaming, synchronization, and offline access to applications, devices and services using .NET.
Microsoft said Sync Framework 1.0 works with databases, NTFS/FAT file systems, feeds for Simple Sharing Extensions - now called FeedSync - [...]
A few days ago I blogged about SharePoint in extranets. I have found another blogpost on the internet about SharePoint in extranets and solutions and applications for user management. You can also find a link to SharePoint extranet planning resources.
Read more at source
Continue reading about More on extranets (and user management)
