Westin's Technical Log

The MapPoint web service is offering a free 1 year subscription to MSDN subscribers.

If you ever need to generate a date that is compliant with InfoPath 2003's date format (ISO 8601), here is the handy little function that appears throughout the InfoPath SDK code:

An article in EnterpriseAppsPipeline cites a recent Forrester study that indicates that the success of an enterprise portal deployment hinges on, amongst other things:

Ok.  I did a search on the internet to make sure this wasn't already painfully obvious to everyone already.  So, with the risk of stating the obvious, here is how you can integrate your SharePoint Portal Server 2003 search engine directly into your Office 2003 research task pane.

Add two Content Editor Web Parts to the web part page.

In Web Part A add the following code:   

<iframe name=”myframe” src=”http://www.msn.com”></iframe>

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James writes:

In the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 830342, entitled "Soap:Server Exception of Type Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException" Message Appears When You Try to Edit a Portal by Using FrontPage there are a variety of solutions which probably do work. However, one of the solutions mentions opening up the web part page maintenance page.

In order to do this, simply append "?contents=1" to the URL of the page. For example:

http://myportal/myarea/default.aspx?contents=1

You may have noticed that in a SharePoint event list, you can export an event list item as an iCalendar file.  Although the link is generated script, you can create this link manually if you want to post it on another page or in an email for convenience.  The format of the URL is as follows: