Eli Robillard's World of Blog.
Bligger. Blagger. Blogger.
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Save as PDF for Office 2007
Yes, the feature was included during the betas. No, it's not there in the final release. But like Grandpa used to say, "you can't keep an open standard down forever."
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TextPad 5.0 just released, Speedscript, and vindication.
You read that right. TextPad has a new major version, and it looks really good. Thank-you to the TextPad deities for continuing to support my license key. Total Commander is one of few others that does too and I've referred a thousand people to both of your sites.
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Upgrading SharePoint Site Templates and List Templates
Site Template Galleries and List Template Galleries are not upgraded during a migration.
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Patch WSS 2.0 (and SPS 2003) for Daylight Savings Time changes
This was just brought to my attention this week and if that's the case, I'll bet this arbitrary change in DST rules causes more ripples than Y2K ever did.
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Why can't I access SharePoint by UNC path?
The short answer is that URLs don't support spaces, and UNC paths do. You're probably copying the URL into Windows Explorer, so just replace each %20 in your path with a space and you should be off to the races.
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300-level MOSS Search Webcasts
Received via e-mail and also distributed on TechNet. You need a Live ID to register. Note that the first two plus the webcast on March 8 are for Vista rather than MOSS. Enjoy!
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Error: Can't connect to the database during WSS / MOSS Configuration
This is a head-slapper that happened to someone on my team, the answer wasn't on-line so here it is...
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How to Build a SharePoint Development Machine
[Update 2008-12-05: Justin Devine posted a fantastic article to build on this posting that contains many screen shots, additional comments and a section on writing and debugging your first SharePoint program in your new environment. So give this a read-through, but as you walk the steps I recommend starting from Justin's posting where you'll also see the visual cues and where necessary, links back to here.]
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IE 7 Sucks!!!
Internet Explorer is dying on me at the worst times. No "Send an error report to Microsoft," no nothing. Just dead and gone, back to the ether. It happened to me an hour ago on my old laptop in the middle of a blog post. It happened again five minutes ago on my shiny new laptop while trying to recreate the same blog post. This time I did a "Save, but don't Publish" about a half hour ago, but I've now lost about an hour today, and that's the most uncool thing any software's done to me in a long time. Take back every new feature, take back the crappy RSS implementation, just give me a browser that doesn't disappear every fiftieth time I paste text. Now to go write that post again. It's a gooder, I promise.
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Updating data through the BDC
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is one of the best features of MOSS 2007 (no, it's not in WSS 3.0). What excites me is the prospect of not only reading from, but writing back to data sources defined in the BDC. It's recently come up a few times and I've found that many people believe that updating source data is simply not possible, so I second-guessed myself and went back for a closer look to clarify the reality.