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Monday, March 28, 2005 5:18 AM

TechNet Virtual Lab: Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Get first-hand deployment experience through the Virtual Lab series. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 hands-on labs will teach you how to set up the portal, organize content on the portal, manage user permissions, create Web Parts for
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Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:28 PM

How to modify skins in Community Server

Today I played around with community server to adjust how it places the different elements. Community Server on Technet has a couple of really nice skins but non of the addressed completly how I wanted to see my blog. The green Marvin3 skin was the one
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Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:31 AM

My blog has a new home

Please update your links to my blog to http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner or for RSS http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/rss.aspx
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 5:24 PM

MCMS Rapid Developer Reference available for download!

[Via Artemis ] We have just published what we think is quite an important step in the documentation process – the developer reference. This is the CHM-style NDoc-generated class reference doc that we know you all love to get your hands on. It’s draft
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:52 PM

Sharepoint Webcasts and Samples

[Via Andrew Connell ] Todd Bleeker has a bunch of SharePoint web casts and samples listed on his site. » The 60 Hive: Webcasts and Samples
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Monday, March 21, 2005 6:27 PM

Get the Scoop - My blog is a hot topic!

Just found that my blog was chosen as hot topic of the week for the Microsoft Content Management Server section of the official Microsoft Office Website!
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:22 PM

Coveo Enterprise Search - Free for up to 5000 item

Coveo provides an interesting solution for small IIS or MCMS websites as it is free for up to 5000 items: http://www.coveo.com/en/enterprise-search/
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:42 PM

How to enforce Alternate Text on Images with MCMS

Although I'm not really a friend on enforcing this for every image - there are always some images in a site which are only there to beautify the site which don't have a message - here are some tips if you really need to enforce this. There are three dialogs
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:20 PM

Direct access to the MCMS database

Once in a while I see people using code to directly access the MCMS database. Today I found a blog from Chester who wrote a module to do this. Unfortunatelly direct access to the MCMS database without using the MCMS publishing API breaks the Microsoft
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:14 PM

Another IFRAME issue with MCMS

I previously wrote an article that discussed an issue that can occur if an IFRAME is part of the MCMS page. Today Angus pointed me to another issue that can occur if you need to display an MCMS site in an IFRAME of another site. For presentation mode
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:24 AM

About the MCMS.Rapid Web cast

This was the first time that I got a full impression about what can be done with MCMS.Rapid . Actually this is really a great product filling many of the feature gaps MCMS has out of the box. The most interesting thing I saw was the SharePoint Webpart
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:29 AM

FAQ Update

Today I have uploaded the latest version of the MCMS 2002 FAQ to the Microsoft Website. Here are the links to access the FAQ: Html Version CHM Version (perfect as offline version)
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Monday, March 07, 2005 12:13 PM

Creating scalable applications using the CmsApplicationContext

MCMS context objects are not really designed for long running scenarios. Usually long running application need to take care on releasing unused resources and do housekeeping. Unfortunatelly MCMS context objects do not have such features implemented. Allocated
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Friday, March 04, 2005 10:13 AM

New MCMS article live on MSDN

A new MCMS article is live on MSDN: Enabling SSL Protection on MCMS Sites Complete list of all available Articles, Whitepapers and other useful stuff can be found here .
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 6:38 PM

Blogmap - do you know who blogs in your neighborhood?

Through Angus I just got pointed to Blogmap which allows you to see where individual bloggers are geographically located. Would you like to see where I'm located and who else in my area is blogging? Then have a look here:
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