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All certifications passed successfully - Let's get on the blogging-train again! 2007-10-26 15:17:00 As some of you know, I've been rather absent the last couple of weeks and not really replied to mails and comments in the blog. This is because I've concentrated on taking the SharePoint certifications, aswell as being out in the country (Sweden) and consulting.
I hereby proudly let you know tha ... (More) Read more:passed
MOSS 2007: Configure Document Conversion for your server 2007-09-13 15:16:00 Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url:
I recently bumped into a challenge where I had to make it possible for people to convert their Word, Excel, InfoPath or other documents to a web page for display in your SharePoint 2007 installation. After a few minutes of informationgath ... (More) Read more:server
, Conversion
MOSS 2007: Connect a custom Search Page to a custom Search Scope 2007-08-25 15:15:00 Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url:
The other day I got a comment on a post from one of my readers who wanted to know how you can connect your custom
created Search
Page with a specific Search Scope
.
Create a custom Search Page
Navigate to your Search Center ( ... (More) Read more:Connect
MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) 2007-08-23 15:15:00 Author: Tobias Zimmergren Url:
Since people have been bugging me to get started with the blogging again, I guess I should just take their advice and get to it.
This blogpost will cover the basics of customizing your search results-page using XSLT.
I will in a later ... (More) Read more:Result
, Search
Back from the Mediterranean 2007-08-07 15:14:00 I was out sailing for the last week, in the mediterranean. One of the best vacations I've had in a long time really. We (two friends of mine and me) sailed from southern Mallorca (Palma) to france (st. Tropez and Antibe) with alot of stops on the way along the Mallorca and Minorca coastlines :)
I ... (More) Read more:Mediterranean
Less time than I thought.. 2007-06-27 15:11:00 Having less time over during the evenings this week at the hotel than I thought
I'd have.. Conclusion is - as you have noted - that I'm a bit slow on the blogging.
However, I've got some nice ideas that I will be blogging about soon after I return home.
Check in soon!
Great News - SharePointBlogs.com post-backups 2007-06-27 15:11:00 Edit: After a search through the database, I found out that there isn't as many SharePointBlogs-posts as I had hoped. However I've managed to get a great bunch of posts recovered to some bloggers through mail and MSN. So after all, it wasn't all in vain =)Lastly: Keep up the good work Dustin.
Ori ... (More) Read more:Great
Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites 2007-06-24 15:11:00 *sigh* - I just finished a blogpost about the above title, and when I pasted a link in the texteditor, my browser crasched.
That said, I'm going to make this short, I don't want to re-write it =).
Visit: -us/sharepointserver/HA102147321033.aspx for information on t ... (More) Read more:Sites
, Templates
Going to Gothenburg again - Informator 2007-06-24 15:10:00 The upcoming week I'll be attending the T2742-course at Informator in Gothenburg. I will personally tutor this course myself later on this year, but right now I am attending it so I can get a good look on how to prepare for it and structure it.
I'll have some time to kill since there's going to ... (More) Read more:Going
Zimmergren VSTO Tip #1: Extend the Ribbon-menu in Word 2007 2007-04-18 15:09:00 In this Visual Studio Tools for Office I will walk you through how to make a very simple customization to the Word 2007 (or any of these: Visio, PowerPoint, InfoPath, Outlook or Excel) Ribbon
-menu and add our own button with some code to execute when it's pressed.
Basically, what you need to do ... (More) Read more:Extend
Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #4: Extending the "Site Actions" menu with a custom feature 2007-04-10 15:08:00 In this little tip I will show you how you can custom
ize the "Site Actions
" menu by creating a Feature to manipulate the menu and deploy it to your SharePoint site.
This post, as the previous in the series is just an overview of what can be done and will not be discussed in detail how ... (More) Read more:feature
Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #3: Publishing and displaying an InfoPath form in the browser 2007-04-07 15:08:00 In this little tip I'm creating a Sample InfoPath form to be published to my Forms Library on my site and then opened within the browser
when you want to edit/update the form.
This is a sampleform from InfoPath:
Bring up the Design Checker (Tools - Design Checker), make sure you don't have a ... (More) Read more:Publishing
Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #2: Retrieve stuff by code 2007-04-05 15:07:00 This is by no means meant to be anything other than a small tip on how to interact with the object model. If you need more information on how to interact and code with the object model, drop me a comment. But for now this is just to show you guys out there who havn't done any coding with SharePoin ... (More) Read more:stuff
Zimmergren MOSS 2007 Tip #1: Anonymous Access 2007-03-18 15:07:00 This is the first post I'm making in a series of small "how-to's" and "aha!"-posts. It will be basic stuff that you often want to know, and why not write them down here instead of in a hidden document that I'll forget about..
Today's tip is: Enabling Annonymous Access
to your ... (More)
I am Superman too! [Take the quiz] 2007-02-24 14:09:00 I saw in Liam's blog ( ) that he took the Superhero-test. It's been going around the office for a long time, and I just had to take it again. (Last time I was Wonder Woman... Dang)
Your results:You are Superman
Superman
85%
Rob ... (More)
The final 20 Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 2007-02-22 14:07:00 At last! Many of you already tried the first 20 application templates (Site Admin-templates), while the other 20 were just released (Server Admin-templates).
"Site admin templates are custom templates that are easy for any SharePoint site administrator to install into the template gallery wi ... (More) Read more:Application
, Services
, Templates
, Windows
Virtual PC 2007 availible for download! 2007-02-20 14:06:00 You've probably seen this in a bunch of other blogposts already, but if you havn't:
It's time for an upgrade of those horrible VPC's ;) Go get VPC 2007 from
Quoted from the Microsoft website:"Use Microsoft Virtual PC ... (More)
Estimated release timeframes for SharePoint 2007 Language Packs!! 2007-02-14 14:04:00 "One of the most frequently asked questions about SharePoint that we've received since RTM is, "Where is the [this] or [that] Language Pack?" While we still cannot provide exact dates due to variables in our localization and release management processes for different languages, I' ... (More) Read more:Estimated
Configure aliases for your web-applications in MOSS 2007 2007-02-14 14:04:00 Alias?Alias! Say your web-server is named myServer1 and you want users to access it via the browser with instead.What you need to do is � obviously � change in the DNS so that the address myServer1 points to companyintranet, but you also need to make some configurations in t ... (More)
I am Outlook 2007! Try the quiz :) 2007-02-13 14:04:00 Apparently I am Outlook
2007 according to this fun little quiz :)
"Connecting with people is the key to your happiness and success. Your outgoing, action-oriented personality is something everyone who knows you can count on. You have the information at your fingertips - whether it is a dat ... (More)
I've had little time to blog, sorry 2007-02-13 14:03:00 As you can see it's more than a month ago since my last post, and that post promised a few posts to come from the course in .DK.
However I've been really busy (70h/week). But now it has started to clear out and I can once again see the horizon.
This time I promise that I will post something inte ... (More) Read more:sorry
, little
SharePoint 2007 - Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Solutions 2007-01-08 14:02:00 I am currently in Denmark (Hellerup) at a u2u course by Patrick Tisseghem on SharePoint 2007 held by Jan Tielens. It is a 5-day course, and I will get you some juicy details when the course is over.
Course details:
Cheers Read more:Microsoft
A reflection tool for SP 2007, SharePoint Inspector 2006-12-13 14:01:00 The last couple of days I havn't came across anything interesting to blog about, since I've been busy with alot of other projects. However, I recently stumbled into a blogpost linking to an application called SharePoint Inspector
, which is described below.
Quote from the author: (This tool can be ... (More) Read more:reflection
WSS v3.0: Import an ASP.NET Web Part to your Windows SharePoint Services Site 2006-12-13 13:57:00 It is possible to use your ASP.NET web parts in your Windows
SharePoint Services
(WSS) application simply by exporting them to create .webpart files. .Webpart files are simply XML files that contains property values, state data, assembly or source file details about your Web Part (WP).
In order to ... (More) Read more:Import
Common Page and Site Customization Tasks (MOSS 2007) 2006-11-29 13:56:00 Check this MSDN site/article out. Summarizes alot of information about customizing your pages and sites :)
These topics are covered:How to: Customize NavigationHow to: Create a Minimal Master PageHow to: Customize Page Editing Toolbar ComponentsHow to: Add a Button to the HTML Editor Field Contro ... (More) Read more:Tasks
, Customization
, Common
MOSS 2007: Search and Indexing 2006-11-16 13:55:00 In this post I will show you how to configure search by creating a content source that should be indexed and a search scope to limit the results when searcing. I will also show you how to customize the Search
Center and adding a tab with a custom search and search results page.
I will walk you ... (More) Read more:Indexing
T2617 - Introduction to SharePoint 2007 2006-10-26 14:54:00 Monday through wednesday (today) I went the T2617 course held by Göran Husman, Sweden's only MVP in sharePoint. The overall impression was great, and my thanks goes out to Göran who did a great job as the tutor.
I will in my upcoming post(s) describe some of the subjects covered, and what that re ... (More) Read more:Introduction
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