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Monkey Fun with Exchange Server 2007

By on June 11, 2009 in Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Office

Ever try to rename a server with Exchange 2007 installed?  Don't even think about it!
After spending the good part of a day setting up a nice clean MOSS development VM (W2K3x64/VS2008/Office), I decided to add Exchange Server 2007 to the mix just to play with managed folders and the most excellent Messaging Records Management (MRM) [...]

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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

By on April 17, 2009 in Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Development

You've probably heard by now that the next version of SharePoint will drop the "Office" moniker in favor of the more direct and easily understandable "Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010"  (read the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog Post).  I agree with my colleague Bil Simser that it sounds like something from a science fiction novel (2010 [...]

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SharePoint Designer 2007 – It’s FREE!

By on April 2, 2009 in Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Development

In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is now available as a FREE download.  This is an exciting development, because it means that a lot more developers will now be able to customize their SharePoint deployments to include all the functionality they need.
Fellow SharePoint MVP Asif Rehmani has written a thorough [...]

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OBA Book Available from MS Learning

By on January 27, 2009 in Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development, Smart Client

In case you missed it, my most recent authoring adventure, 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 is now available from Microsoft Learning, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Quantum Books. This was a collaborative effort with Rob Barker, Joanna Bichsel, Adam Buenz, Steve Fox, Bhushan Nene and Karthik Ravindran. If you're building [...]

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Atlanta Code Camp – 2007

By on January 23, 2009 in Code Generation, InfoPath, Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development

Registration for the 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp is now open!
Here's the link to register (you'd better hurry):
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=113135
The 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp will take place on January 20th. The event is completely free and lunch is included. Doors open at 7:30am at the Decatur campus of DeVry University. Here's the address:

250 North Arcadia Ave
Decatur [...]

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Important Safety Tip for Office Open XML – Flatten Your Package!

By on October 24, 2008 in Microsoft Office

Eric White -> Transforming Open XML Documents to Flat OPC Format
If you're doing anything with Office Open XML, then you need to read this article by Eric White.  In it, Eric describes a very nice approach that lets you gain full leverage out of XSLT when dealing with Office Open XML documents.  Basically, he starts by converting a .DOCX file [...]

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Creating Tabbed Sections in an InfoPath Form

By on July 23, 2008 in InfoPath, Microsoft Office

As we all know, tabbed controls make it a lot easier to enter data on a form. Surprisingly, InfoPath does not provide a built-in tab control. This leads to form designs that are much less intuitive than they could be.
There is a nice article on the InfoPath Team Blog that shows how to create tabbed [...]

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Second Annual Jacksonville .NET CodeCamp

By on January 1, 0001 in Code Generation, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Development

The Jacksonville CodeCamp is just around the corner. In fact – it’s happening this weekend! If you haven’t registered already, here is the link. This is going to be a great event. We have seven (7) Microsoft MVPs, not to mention several Microsoft employees with lots of great info about VSTS, VSTO, VSTA, VISTA, MOSS, [...]

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SharePoint Designer To The Rescue

By on January 1, 0001 in Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development

So I needed to setup a quick demo of the new SharePoint 2007, InfoPath 2007 and workflow. The task was simple – create an InfoPath form with a few fields, save the form to a SharePoint form library with certain fields promoted so they would be visible to the workflow logic, then create a workflow [...]

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Office 2007 SP1 Released

By on January 1, 0001 in Microsoft Office, SharePoint Development

After much anticipation, Service Pack 1 for the Office System is now available.  The service pack is split into several components, which you can download from the following links:

*You must install this before installing the MOSS SP1*
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
The Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)

The MOSS SP1 applies to:

Microsoft [...]

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