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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:35 PM

AchieveForms: AFLite 2.0 has been released

The latest version includes full multi-lingual support, twice as many forms, and a full SharePoint integration. [Via BusinessWebSoftware ] AFLite now offers integration with both SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services . Other major improvements
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:38 PM

Portals and Content Management Server Trainings in UK

Great news for Microsoft Partners – Three courses that will enable you to be able to gain the certification requirements for the Portals and Content Management Specialisation have been anounced: Accelerated Customising Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:04 PM

Consuming RSS in ASP.NET 2.0

ASP.NET 2.0 makes it very easy to consume and display an RSS feed on an ASP.NET web site. Andrew Duthie demonstrates how to do this using a XmlDataSource control and a DataList bound control with a little XPath on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=12052
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:35 PM

WSS SP2 is now available

[Via Andrew Connell ] WSS SP2 is now available: MSFT WSS SP2 Aside from a hotfix rollup, the following features/capabilities that are provided by WSS SP2: Reverse Proxy and Alternate URL support IP Bound virtual servers SQL Server 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 Some
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:59 AM

How to compare two different postings by code?

MCMS ships with a nice comparison feature for revisions. But there is nothing available to compare to different postings! Chester has spent some time to analyze how MCMS does the revision history comparison and managed to get the CompareHTML.dll shipped
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Monday, September 26, 2005 9:40 AM

Great article series on new tracing API in ASP.NET 2.0

Mike Rousos has put together a great article series for the ASP.NET 2.0 tracing system. A must read for all ASP.NET 2.0 developers! A Tracing Primer - Part I Introduction Instantiating a TraceSource Adding Tracing Events Configuring source using config
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Friday, September 23, 2005 9:38 AM

ASP.NET 2.0 Security References

ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidance Index http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/ASPNET2SecurityGuidanceIndex.asp?frame=true ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidelines http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGGuidelines0001.asp?frame=true ASP.NET
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Friday, September 23, 2005 9:23 AM

Lawrence Liu's "Top 10" features in Office 12

Now after Arpan posted his Top 10 favorite features for next version of SharePoint and MCMS Lawrence Liu has posted his favorite list: A "Global" Template that is applied/provisioned before any other template, and a Feature Framework that provides modularity
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:28 PM

IIS 7 - Online documentation

IIS 7.0 Operations Guide http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/iis7/Ops/9a90c800-3f09-4a3f-87b0-caae34076aca.mspx Procedures for how to do tasks in IIS 7.0 IIS 7.0 Technical Reference http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/iis7/TechRef/cb9206df-accd-4513-9150-8deb9091c5a9.mspx
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:14 PM

Great article on how to diagnose Connection_Refused responses in IIS 6

Just found the following great article on this topic: HOWTO: Diagnose IIS6 failing to accept connections due to Connections_Refused
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:39 PM

Common Problems when copying an authoring MCMS database to the production server

Sometimes - especially when a large site update is required MCMS customers decide to use database copy rather than using Site Deployment to move the changes to the production machine. That is a valid way to do this but some things need to be considered
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:54 AM

10 great things about the next version of SharePoint Products and Technologies and CMS

Arpan Shah , Product Manager for MCMS and SharePoint has provided a nice list of his personal top 10 features in the next version: There's a lot of great buzz in the community as well as Microsoft around the next version of Windows SharePoint Services
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Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:49 AM

Amazing PDC videos

[Via Angus and Mikael Söderström] I was just watching some videos from the PDC at WinSuperSite . I really wish I was there. If you weren't there, check this videos out. They are amazing. Convention Center Walkthrough Bill Gates and Napolean Dynamite (Part
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:42 PM

Office "12" Curriculum may be overwhelming

Lawrence Liu has attended the Office "12" Curriculum Design Summit which I was also invited to but couldn't attend. Here are here impressions one the new product: I spent the past day and a half participating in an Office “12” Curriculum Design Summit,
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:29 AM

Security Guidance for .NET Framework 2.0

J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Blaine Wastell, Prashant Bansode, Kishore Gopalan Microsoft Corporation August 2005 Security Guidance for .NET Framework 2.0 Summary This page explains the rationale behind the patterns & practices Security Guidance for .NET
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:19 AM

Heathers SharePoint Resource page

[Via Andrew ] Heather Solomon has put together a nice list of resources to many different SharePoint related topics, pointers to web parts, documentation and specs. Check it out!
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Monday, September 19, 2005 4:12 PM

Portal Webcasts in October

[Via Eileen ] TechNet Webcast: Getting Started with Microsoft Collaboration: 30 New Applications for SharePoint Services (Level 100) Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time Jason Bunge, SR. Product Manager - WSS, Microsoft Corporation
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Monday, September 19, 2005 9:33 AM

Building Websites with MCMS - now also available as ebook!

[Via Mei Ying ] Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server is now available as an eBook. Get the bundle now from directly from Packt Publishing @ http://www.packtpub.com/mcms/book and enjoy a discount of 10% of the book and 80% off the
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Monday, September 19, 2005 9:20 AM

SharePoint Products and Technologies/CMS future - which is which?

Arpan talks about confusion for packaging and licensing of Office 12: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/09/18/471088.aspx
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Friday, September 16, 2005 5:26 PM

Some good news for MCMS customes I forgot to mention earlier...

Office 12 will have API completeness. So with next version of CMS the times that a tool like Site Manager is required to manually create resource galleries, create custom channel properties, maintain rights groups or to manually assign rights to containers
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Friday, September 16, 2005 12:35 PM

Slide Deck of Content Management Session of Ryan Stocker now online!

As Mark pointed out, all PDC slide decks are now online . Especiall interesting for all MCMS customers would be the following slide deck from Microsoft Lead Program Manager for Content Management Server Ryan Stocker: OFF313 Web Content Management Application
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Friday, September 16, 2005 10:40 AM

Differences between CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode and WebAuthorContext.Current.Mode

This week I received two questions on confusion caused by the fact that the difference between CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode and WebAuthorContext.Current.Mode was not clear. CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode - Publishing Mode This mode reflects the current Publishing
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Friday, September 16, 2005 9:46 AM

Must have hotfixes for ASP.NET 1.1 - yes that also affects MCMS!

Todd has listed a couple of must have hotfixes for .NET framework 1.1 which should be applied to almost every web server running ASP.NET 1.1! http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2005/08/23/455116.aspx
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Friday, September 16, 2005 9:33 AM

MCMS v.Next - The curtain has been lifted at PDC

Ok, finally some official information next version of MCMS has been officially anounced and presented at PDC. Here is a short summary of everything that has been anounced so far: Next version of MCMS will be build on top of WSS in Office 12 ASP.NET 2.0
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:44 PM

Office 12 User Interface - Another Channel 9 Video

At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you'll hear is "they changed the user interface." So, we wanted to talk with the team who came up with this new UI and we wanted to ask them "are you nuts?"
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:55 AM

Wanna see a demo of WSS V3?

There is a nice video up on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=115383
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:47 AM

Best Practice Whitepapers for MCMS 2002 and WSS

Designing Your MCMS 2002 Solution for Reusability Summary: Use best-practice design recommendations for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 applications and Web sites to help you create your site in a way that prepares it for future versions of MCMS
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:10 AM

Mike Fitzmaurice summarizes features of Office 12 Server provided in the keynote

[Via Mike Fitzmaurice ] RSS. Everything about sites, lists, libraries, etc., can be syndicated via RSS automatically. Blogs and Wikis. Templates and features in the box. Content Types. These aren’t just like SPS 2001’s document profiles. They define sets
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:08 AM

The Future of WSS, SPS and CMS revealed at PDC

[Via Arpan ] There were several large announcements made at PDC that are very relevant to SharePoint and CMS customers. I'm personally super excited about this and to be part of this. Microsoft revealed Office "12" - client and servers and talked about
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:57 AM

PDC anouncments on the future of SharePoint

[Via Angus ] Angus is currently at the PDC and he is blogging about all anouncements made on the future of SharePoint and MCMS. Here is a summary of all anouncements made yesterday: WSS SP2 will be shipping by end of the month . It will support ASP.NET
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:57 PM

First official Info on Microsoft Content Management Offering in Office 12

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has become a strategic imperative for most organizations. Businesses have seen a huge explosion of structured and unstructured information over the last several years that includes documents, e-mail messages, voice mail, and video. A recent study by Accenture shows that more content will be created in the next two years than in the entire previous history of humankind. It will be critical for organizations to have a strategy to manage unstructured content thro
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:07 PM

Google just lauched a new Blog Search Engine

[Via AJ ] Google has just launched a Blog Search Service.... Now you can search and find all your favorite Blogs on the net! http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:05 AM

C# <-> VB.NET Conversion

As all the sample code I have written is in C# a common question I receive in the newsgroup is how to convert this C# code to VB.NET. Here is a list of tools which allow to do this: C# to VB.NET conversion: http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator/Default.aspx
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:56 AM

New User Interface for Office 12 Core Applications

[Via Mark Harrison ] Thousands of software developers at the sold-out Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 today got a preview of a new, redesigned user interface (UI) that will debut in several core applications of the next version of Microsoft
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:35 PM

Bill Gates Keynote at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 - Live Web Cast today at 8:30 AM Pacific

September 13, 2005 Live webcast starts at 8:30 A.M. Pacific In a live keynote from Los Angeles at the world’s premier event for software developers, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveils the next generation of software application
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:31 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate Available for Download

[Via Mark Bower ] Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate is now available for download from the MSDN subscriber download site. The build is compatible with the September CTP of SQL Server. Both of these builds have been handed out to PDC attendees in the
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:55 PM

How does Google do page ranking?

[Via Wayne Larimore ] Have you ever tried to design a website in a way that it's Google ranking is high? Then you should check out the following article. There are "over 100 SEO factors" that Google uses to rank pages in the Google search results (SERPs).
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:49 PM

Security Whitepaper for ASP.NET 2.0

I just found a really nice document on Security Practices for ASP.NET 2.0. Just have a look at the Index of practices to see how much good stuff these people have put together! Security Practices: ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance J.D. Meier,
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:41 PM

Mike Fitzmaurice talks about supportable customizations for WSS and SPS

Mike Fitzmaurice has provided a very nice explanation about the boundaries for Microsoft Support . A very good read - not only for WSS and SPS. Most stuff also applies to MCMS. Btw: Mike also has a nice article about direct database access for SPS/WSS
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Monday, September 12, 2005 7:04 PM

Microsoft SQL Server Report Pack for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

The Microsoft SQL Server Report Pack for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is a set of 8 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports that work with a sample database of information extracted from a SharePoint Portal Server environment.
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Monday, September 12, 2005 6:55 PM

Don't read Harold's review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!

At least if you haven't read the book till now and are planning to do so. It can ruin your experience. For all the others, here is the link to the review: http://blogs.technet.com/haroldwong/archive/2005/08/16/409304.aspx
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Monday, September 12, 2005 6:51 PM

Portals Webcasts in September

[Via Eileen_Brown ] TechNet Webcast: Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint for the Lotus Notes Administrator (Level 100) Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time Amy Blumenfield, Technical Writer, Microsoft Corporation Gary Devendorf,
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Monday, September 05, 2005 10:59 AM

r.a.d.callback / r.a.d.dock

[Via Mark Harrison ] In response to strong customer demand telerik has added two great new products to the r.a.d.controls suite - r.a.d.callback and r.a.d.dock. r.a.d.callback is a suite of AJAX-enabled UI controls, which allow you to update page content
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:59 PM

Skelta CMS Accelerator - Express Edition - free Workflow Engine for MCMS ... NOW AVAILABLE

[Via Andrew Connell ] Seems the Skelta marketing group was throwing a few names around… but it looks like they’ve settled on the Skelta CMS Accelerator. This is a free add-on to licensed MCMS 2002 installations, providing extended workflow to MCMS, as
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:17 PM

Nice review of our book: Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server on Amazon

[Via Mei Ying ] We've got our second Amazon review on the Amazon.co.uk site! Read it here . Thanks, niente0 for the encouragement! Look forward to our upcoming book: Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development . Expected Oct 2005. Pre-order
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