Archives: 2007 July

As you’ve probably realized, Windows SharePoint Services is the official SCHRAG Technology of the Week. If you’re a SharePoint wannabe too, here’s something you must add to your RSS list: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/default.aspx. If you don’t, how will you find out about things like this?

This is a pretty good example of what IT consultants do all day and why people are willing to pay us to do it for them.
Goal: create a Windows SharePoint Services application via the Internet based on a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Simple enough, right?
Process: Start with basic procedure described here. From WSS home page, click [...]

In one of his many posts about this year’s Microsoft partner conference in Denver, Vlad refers to a certain memo I wrote and distributed at last year’s conference in Boston.
Vlad, re-read the memo. I didn’t “demand change.” I suggested that Microsoft bring together the appropriate group of managers and have them consider making changes based [...]

In the market for a mobile phone? PC Magazine has several articles to help guide your decision. I recommend consulting multiple reviews before making a decision, but these will at least provide some context and they’re aimed at a relatively non-technical audience.

Smartphones for global travel
First crop of Windows Mobile 6 phones
Mobile phones recommended for small [...]

Are you getting error messages like this?
Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 SearchEvent Category: Gatherer Event ID: 2424Date: 7/10/2007Time: 7:25:47 AMUser: N/AComputer: SBSDescription:The update cannot be started because the content sources cannot be accessed. Fix the errors and try the update again.
Context: Application ‘Search’, Catalog ‘index file on the search server Search’
For [...]

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Small Business Server 2003 Standard:
The Very Basics
Version 5.1, updated June 24, 2008
Note for v.5.1: I have discovered a major potential problem with these instructions. By default, even when you move the WSS 3 database off the C: partition (step 13), you will still end up with a couple of log [...]

A couple interesting articles in the Business & Innovation section of today’s Boston Globe:

iPhone review (I’ll show this to any client who asks if they should get one; the answer is “no.”)
Verizon removing copper wiring (Customers converting to FiOS may not be able to switch back)

Anyone reading my meager bulletin for information about Small Business Server should already be a faithful reader of the Diva’s blog as well. In case there are a few of you out there who are missing the show, this post is an example of why Susan’s blog is required reading for all SBS administrators. Susan, [...]

Found this by accident today. It would be a great resource if somebody updated it with the latest information. (It informs us that Vista will be available in 2006, for example.) Still, it’s the best thing I’ve found to date that explains exactly what the Software Assurance benefits are, why they might be considered valuable, [...]

While roaming about the Microsoft web site looking for some technical information, I came across the Microsoft Community Beta Services, whose “mission is to do nothing less than change the way technology professionals relate to the information they have at their disposal and how they connect with the people who make up their professional community.” [...]