Today I tried to install SSRS 2005 at the Windows Server 2008 server of a client but the option for Reporting Services was greyed out. After some research on the internet I found an article by Jim Hlavin to make this work.
Look here for the solution.
Edit:
After following the solution in Jims post it still did [...]

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MarC on May 25th, 2009

Found on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog:
During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date [...]

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MarC on May 17th, 2009

In my Infopath 2007 forms in my SharePoint site I want to collect some information about the logged in user who opens the form, like first name, last name, department, manager etc.
I found this blogpost of Itay Shakury which helped me a lot.
If you receive security errors please read this post of Jingmei Li.

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MarC on May 12th, 2009

At the moment I am designing some forms for a customer. To let all forms have the same design and layout I use reusable form template parts.
Look at this post for a detailed description how to use this parts.

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If you are doing a search using the top level search box of your root site, it is a known limitation that you are always redirected to osssearchresults.aspx instead of the configured search center.
In order to redirect the search to the preferred search center, edit the Osssearchresults.aspx page. The Osssearchresults.aspx file is located on the web front-end [...]

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admin on May 5th, 2009

A former colleague of mine did the beta exam for Windows 7.
Read his story here.

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admin on May 4th, 2009

The MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 SDK’s are available here:
Download the MOSS SDK 1.5
View the MOSS SDK 1.5 Documentation on MSDN
Download the WSS SDK 1.5
View the WSS SDK 1.5 Documentation on MSDN

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 Urgent Technical Bulletin

Microsoft has recently released Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Products and Technologies. Nintex have identified compatibility issues between Nintex Workflow 2007 and SharePoint Service Pack 2.

Nintex customers are advised not to apply the Service Pack on servers running Nintex Workflow 2007 until an  update of Nintex Workflow 2007 is made available. A compatible [...]

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