Today I passed exam 70-649. The upgrade exam to Windows Server 2008. Studied a long time for it but passed quite easily. If you have a lot of Windows 2003 experience combined with Windows 2008 experience, try the exam!
With this exam I got the following certificates:
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 [...]
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Do you also sometimes receive errors like the ones below when installing SharePoint 2007. Well read on.
As you can see below, in IIS ASP.NET 2.0 is not registered but it is installed (see Add/Remove Programs)
Solve this by registering ASP.NET with IIS. Follow these steps:
Quit Internet Information Services Manager.
Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then [...]
On a SharePoint site I wanted to use a CAML query to only see all the list items of a particular list filtered on date AND time. First I thought this was impossible till I found on the internet the following string “IncludeTimeValue=”TRUE”
I used it like this:
<Leq>
<FieldRef Name=’StartDate’ />
<Value Type=’DateTime’ IncludeTimeValue=”TRUE”><Today /></Value>
</Leq>
For all those (SharePoint) designers out there that have customers that still use IE6, look at this post.
I have updated my testing server to the February CU and the server is nicely, without a glitch, updated. see picture.
So far I have not seen any major changes, but I did not have the time to test it thoroughly. I’ll keep you informed.
For some time now I thought I was the only one with this problem. Well, not exactly me but the client of which I updated the SharePoint farm to Infrastructure Update. In the picture libraries on the sites complete views seemed to have disappeared or not working correctly any more.
It was a problem until I [...]
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Microsoft finally finished the, as the call it, uber update package for SharePoint updates. The updates mentioned in my first post did not include all updates. It included only some hotfixes.
You can find all the necessary links and descriptions here.
Update: when I requested the packages I saw that they are released as SP2.
Today I encountered some strange behaviour with a SharePoint site. I wanted to add some custom web parts to a site but received a strange error. (see below)
I don’t know at the moment how to solve this but a work around is, you can guess, check out the page first. It worked but what caused [...]
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On twitter I found a link to the site of Paul Liebrand. A guy who is building a TinyURL feature for SharePoint. He says about this feature: The basic premise of this feature is to use URL Rewriting, a mechanism to generate a short uniquely ID, and a SharePoint list to store them in.
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Read it today on twitter. A new product for SharePoint. In summary the PDF Converter is a solution that allows end-users to convert common document types, such as doc, docx, rtf, txt etc, to PDF format from within SharePoint. It integrates at a deep level with SharePoint and leverages facilities such as the Audit log, localisation, [...]
