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Just When I’m About to Disable Comments …

They pull me back in! Windows Live Spaces doesn’t do a good job protecting me from comment spam. I assume MSFT has good spam detection, but that the spammers are better. The fact remains, however, that I get far more spam comments than I get …

Social Computing Book for SharePoint 2007

In mid July, I was offered a chance to author two chapters for Brendon Schwartz’s and Matt Ranlett’s up-coming book, Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Implementing Applications for SharePoint to Enable Collaboration and Inter…

What is Limited Access Anyway?

UPDATE 11/03/08: Be sure to read the excellent and detailed comment from Dessie Lunsford to this post. I’ve been working on a secret tech editing project for an up-coming book and it references this blog entry by Tyler Butler on the MSDN ECM blo…

I Don’t Often Agree with Big George Will, But He’s Right About Dreary Outcomes

The closing thought on this otherwise dull article speaks well to problems we often face in the technical community: "Such dreary developments, anticipated with certainty, must be borne philosophically." This puts me in mind of one of the pre…

SharePoint Designer Workflow and Email Attachments — A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished

Sadly, it is not to be. We cannot send an email with attachments from a SharePoint Designer workflow using out of the box features. This wish comes up with increasing regularity on the MSDN forums. However, the SharePoint platform, as with so many …

Quick Tip: Configure Security to Allow Admins to Access any My Site in SharePoint

In a sign that Social Computing is beginning to take off with SharePoint, I see an increased number of My Site type questions. One common question goes something like this: "I am an administrator and I need to be able to access every My Site. H…

Today is Opposite Day and I Love Debugging Code Like This

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Using Delicious.com to Track SharePoint “v.next” Information

As I find resources on the web discussing features available in the next version of SharePoint, I’ll be adding them to my delicious bookmarks. It appears that Delicious allows people to subscribe to a particular tag, so if you’re interest…

Congratulations, Natalya!

I just received word that my friend and colleague, Natalya Voskresenskaya was awarded MVP for SharePoint today. I’ve been working with Natalya for almost 18 months now and it’s a well-deserved recognition. Like all the MVPs I know, she&…

VPN Strikes Again, Slowing Me Down and Ruining My Beer

Tonight, I’m doing some hobby work with a virtual machine running on my desktop. I’m connecting via IE on my laptop and I’m noticing horrible performance. IE keeps freezing, especially when I access anything in the upper right han…