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2 hours ago
Microsoft have released a slew of information on what you need to get your beta SharePoint 2010 server up and running - check it out here... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.14).aspx
2 hours ago
Microsoft have published a case study on creating a Highly Available Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Environment by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring in a Windows Server 2008 Virtualized Environment - http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/0/0/500ABD93-DF75-4B30-856E-63D39CB2A1C3/MOSS%20Stretch%20Farm%20Case%20Study_update.docx. It came out end July, so I'm a bit slow off the mark. This solution and the associated scripts deliver a load-balanced, highly available MOSS farm for a fictitious Financial brokerage firm with guaranteed no data loss. The results were outstanding - 2 second failover time and zero loss of data in a geographically distributed configuration - and SharePoint 2007 is not even Mirroring-aware like 2010 is - in 2010, you just point to the database and the mirror and it will automatically switch for you. Companies who tout themselves as heavy-iron solutions must be starting to plan their "Points of difference" arguments ...
5 hours ago
Had this happen to me at a client's site. Would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes… When a user opened an office document (in our case, it was a word document) in Microsoft Office 2003 and then saved it, it reset all of the multi-choice fields to their default values. In fact, it was impossible to save anything but the default values from within Office 2003. The process worked fine in Office 2007… so what was happening? According to this article, it appears a bug was introduced in SP2 where if the default document Content type (Document) is removed from a document library and replaced with an alternative (eg a content type that inherits from Document), it cannot resolve the multi-choice fields properly and so it resets them to the default property. There's a fix for this issue - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971500/ – but it looks like the issue is in a Javascript file called bform.js. The most reliable solution (and one that could be done more ...
14 days ago
I just stumbled across a massively funny search tutorial site - LMGTFY.com - standing for, "Let me Google that for you". Try it! http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sharepoint+2010 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=oakton http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+muppet+show http://lmgtfy.com/?q=del+rio+resort - the place I'm camping this weekend! Sweet...
16 days ago
This is an excellent paper describing the new features that appear in SharePoint 2010, and highlights enhancements and differentiations between Standard and Enterprise versions of SharePoint. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167123 - Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide Brad
