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Consider the following Scenario: On Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 2008 systems with Office 2007 or Office 2010 installed and Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8, you attempt to open files from a SharePoint site using a Fully Qualified Domain Name (a URL including ‘.’ in the site name). The SharePoint 2007 is hosted on Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 Server with WebDav enabled. The SharePoint 2007 site is setup to use Windows Authentication. Users of the SharePoint site are expecting Client Integration (being able to edit and save directly back to the server) to be functional. In this scenario, a user may see one or more of the following symptoms: The user is prompted unexpectedly to enter their credentials.  The Office document will open in Read Only.   When opening SharePoint Explorer View an error will occur showing the path to the Document Library and a message of "Not Implemented".  When trying to save from Office back to a SharePoint ...

Is there a difference between creating Managed Properties between SharePoint 2010 Search and FAST 2010 Search? The answer here is: Yes… the process of making a property searchable is a bit different between FAST and SP Search. FAST can only filter/property search on Managed Properties. Managed Properties are derived from crawled properties and are not automatically created like in SP Search. FAST does come with some default Managed Properties like Author, Site, Name, etc… and that’s why those properties work on you FAST system and not the newly created “Reference No”. Here are the instructions on how to list/add/edit a Managed Property in FAST. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/fast-search-server-help/property-management-HA010382016.aspx#_Toc251751310 Try creating a managed property for your fields, recrawl, test searching on that managed property.

Had been trying to set up a Windows 2008 R2 machine at home since last Saturday. But i kept getting bug by this issue where Windows is taking FOREVER to boot. when i mean FOREVER, it meant like ~1 hour, when i finally gave up waiting and just reset the machine. I tried living with it, but figured out that something is really wrong. I should point out that i had dcpromo-ed the installation. I had had older windows DC taking like 5 mins or so to boot up because it was the only domain controller and DNS server on the network. But this was really unusual. I tried booting from safe mode and it freezes after loading classpnp.sys. Google wasn’t exactly helpful. Tons of people seems to be stuck loading this driver because of various reasons. So i reinstalled the installation and tested it step by step. windows updates had no issue, drivers had no issue, and it happens right after i do dcpromo. After search on the web this time, i found out dcpromo will attempt to disable write cac...

For all devices – iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbion http://www.noko.co.uk/what_we_do/solutions_for_sharepoint_2007/sharepoint_for_smartphones.aspx For iPhone only http://www.moprise.com/ For iPhone only http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ishare/id305862898?mt=8 (Spyk Software) For Blackberry Only http://silverdust.softartisans.com/blackberry-sharepoint-mobile-integration-use-cases-457.aspx For Blackberry Only http://www.wicksoft.com/sharepoint_summary.htm Noko – Mobile Entrée Base Plugin The Mobile Entrée Base Plugin provides out of the boxconfigurable access to: ·          Search - with a configurable scope ·          Lists - Control which lists and views are made available to mobile users (includes support for Announcements,Calendars, Tasks and Links) ·          Doc...

If ever you have tried using VMWare Workstation to install Windows OS, as soon as you select the .iso image, it will prompt you for the product key and you would have entered the same. But once the installation starts, it will give you this message. The unattend answer file contains an invalid product key. Either remove the invalid key or provide a valid product key in the unattend answer file to proceed with windows installation All you need to do is, Power Off the VM. Open the autoinst.flp file, find where the product key is and re-type it... guess this is a bug with VMWare which adds some special characters to the product key when given initially. Once you have saved back the file, you can re-start the installation and it will go through successfully. Screenshots below:

PerformancePoint Services and its Dashboard Designer are touted to be wonderful things that came free with SharePoint 2010! A kind of a monster product that independently existed (as PerformancePoint Server 2007 before) to be now available with our beloved SharePoint... When you start PPS, you start facing it's instability and unfriendly nature of guiding you through creating great BI Solutions. Microsoft BI - one thing that people always think, great, Microsoft allows us to pull data from Tabular data such as Excel Sheets, SharePoint Lists and SQL Server Tables and create Charts, Scorecards, KPIs and perform Analysis - and it is always thought that, you really do not need to have your SSAS Cubes created (this always is a mystery for many!). Actually, you will soon realize that, you can realize the full potential and power of PPS, only if you have your Data Source really as Analysis Services Cubes.. Infact, apart from KPIs and Scorecards (which is just a grouping of your...

http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ I saw the launch of this new tool (and free!) from Microsoft today... downloaded and installed it, oh boy so amazing... embraces all tools around - be it MS or Non-MS, guess you can build a CMS enabled website within hours and publish it! I used to always think about the demise of tools like FrontPage, PhotoDraw and here comes WebMatrix, something that can possibly start matching DreamWeaver sooner than later! Some screenshots below...just go ahead and immerse yourself!