Monthly Archives: September 2009

Internet Explorer 8 Hrun // 64 bita Operating Systems

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A athugasemd frá Bob Fox (í gegnum Twitter, @bfox11b) minnti mig að ég hefði ætlað að kasta saman a fljótur bloggfærslu sem lýsir vandamál og lausnin mín að Internet Explorer hrun á mig allan tímann.

Fyrir nokkrum mánuðum síðan, Ég fékk nýja fartölvu (Dell Vostro 1720). This is my first 64 bita vél og ég var að keyra 64 bit IE8. Með tímanum, það byrjaði að hrun unpredictably, en oft (líklega á hverjum degi). It’s pretty agile at recovering from all that, but it was a real nuisance.

Vandamálið virðist hafa verið Adobe tappi, “Air” or their flash plugin – I don’t really know what it’s called or care all that much. It turns out that it’s not compatible with a 64 bita umhverfi (sem er * algerlega * eðlilegar; það er ekki eins 64 hluti er góður af hlutur sem einhver nema *** brjálaður *** fyrirtæki vilja styðja eða eitthvað). I tried to uninstall it but that experiment only lasted about 15 mínútur. It turns out that a ridiculous number of sites are using flash tech (Ég kann að vera síðastur að átta sig á þessu á jörðinni). Svo, Ég get ekki lifað án þess og ég get ekki notað IE8 64 hluti.

My answer is to switch to 32bit IE8. It’s been smooth sailing since then.

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SharePoint Shop Spjall Fimmtudagur, 09/03 á 12:30 PM UTC

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Við halda áfram SharePoint Shop Talk morgun á 12:30 PM UTC. Eins og venjulega, ef það eru einhverjar málefni eða spurningar sem þú vilt spjaldið til að takast, please email them to info@arcovis.com.

This week we are drawing a few questions from the www.endusersharepoint.com Stump The Panel forums:

  • "Ég skil að foreldri staður og barn síða getur ekki tjáð. Til dæmis, I would like to either push data from a list in a child site to a list in a parent site or have the parent site pull data from child site. Is there a way to design a workflow to accomplish having data sent for pulled from lists in a parent/child site relationship?"
  • “On my newform.aspx for my main list, I have a lookup column that points to the title column in my employee list.

    In the employee list, there is another column that is a checkbox named ‘active’.

    What I would like to happen is on the newform of the main list, when they click on the dropdown it only displays the records from the employee list that are marked active.

    Is there a way to filter the dropdown on the mainlist’s newform.aspx so it only displays the ones marked active?"

  • “I know this is simple but, for the life of me I can’t get it to work! We have a discussion board that we built a date field into call expiration. I would like to automatically have expired items delete after their expiration date. If you could send me a screen shot of the workflow it would be much appreciated. Basically if expired = today then delete current item “
  • “I am trying to set up a sign-up list for a blood drive, wherein once a time slot is chosen, it is no longer available. Is there a way to do this, besides just making an Excel-type spreadsheet be the sign-up? "

And if we have time:

  • How many SharePoint experts does it take to change a light bulb?

Auk þess, we answer questions directly from email and we’re open to questions any time on the call itself.

Skráðu þig hér: https://www323.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/Registration.aspx?pageName=0dc4shjthnl6d0mm

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SharePoint á netinu // BPOs - Sumir Hands á reynslu

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(Athugaðu: þessi grein var kross-staða hér: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1912)

Uppfæra 09/01/09: Byggt á twitter viðbrögð, I need to clarify that InfoPath is supported in the sense that BPOS provides forms libraries. What I mean when I write "not supported in any way" is that InfoPath forms services functions are not supported. That means that you can’t publish an InfoPath form to BPOS and and have it render in the web browser. It also means that some out of the box workflows, which use InfoPath (even in MOSS standard edition) don’t work in BPOS because their initiation and other forms use InfoPath. Hopefully that clears things up.

I had a chance to really dig into Microsoft Online’s offering earlier this year and specifically the business productivity online suite (BPOs). This came along before I even hard a firm plan to set out on my own at Arcovis. I immediately saw, þó, that BPOS could be a key part of my company’s internal infrastructure and over time, it has become exactly that. Arcovis, uses it on a daily basis. I thought I’d share some of that experience from a practical perspective in case you want to evaluate it for yourself or are just curious about it.

As the word “suite” in BPOS implies, you get a small bundle of applications:

  • Exchange
  • Live Meeting
  • Communicator
  • SharePoint

You can buy each of them separately, Ég trúi. It’s all spelled out relatively clearly on the Microsoft online site. You may be able to get better deals through MSFT partners. Arcovis has been working with Cloud Aðferðir og þeir virðast vita efni þeirra, svo ég myndi þá í listanum yfir smásali ef þú gera a multi-söluaðili leit.

Ég útlista reynslu mína og hugsanir fyrir hvert þessara sig.

Exchange

Þetta er Hosted Exchange umhverfi og frá sjónarhóli mínum, it works like any other Exchange server I have ever used. It’s fully integrated with all of my fellow Arcovis partners’ environments and gives me access to the calendar (sem er mikil). Good stuff.

Það veitir einnig Web Outlook Aðgangur (OWA) interface. That means I can get my email on any machine that has a web browser.

HTC farsíma minn, keyra Windows Mobile 6.1(?) connected to it nicely via Active Sync. It did this in exactly the way I expected and wanted.

Ég tel mig ekki mikið meira en frjálslegur horfur og gengi notandi, þannig að það getur verið mjög mikilvægt húsum aðgerðir sem bara eru ekki studd og ég vildi ekki endilega vita það.

I think the strongest recommendation I make for this is that I am completely unaware that my exchange environment is “somewhere else.” I don’t know see any difference in Exchange and how I use it on a daily basis versus the half dozen or so other times I used someone’s exchange environment. Í raun, þetta er betra því það virkar einfaldlega.

Neðsta lína - Hosted Exchange er hvað það þarf að vera og ég er mjög ánægð með það.

Live Meeting

This is a truly indispensible tool when you’re in the consulting business. I fire up instant live meetings several times a week to show intermediate work product to clients, að horfa á þá brjóta lausnir á mér svo að ég veit hvernig við gætum bætt þær, gera velta kynningar, o.fl.. Live meeting is bundled with BPOS and it’s very easy to use.

I’m even less of a live meeting expert than I am on exchange. Hins, fyrir tilgangi mínum, það er frábært.

Communicator

Svo langt, I use communicator almost only for presence information. I say “only” but have that presence data available to me whenever I’m connect has become addictive. With communicator installed and running, samstarfsmenn mínir vita þegar ég er laus, hvað áætlun mín er eins og á þessari stundu, og geta IM mig (þótt IM tengi er nokkuð illa, í besta falli). It’s one of those things that I really miss when I don’t have it. I actually get a little annoyed when my colleagues aren’t running communicator because the presence information is missing.

The presence indicator feels pervasive. It shows up in SharePoint whenever their name appears as an author to a document, úthlutað verkefni, o.fl.. It shows in email, embedded right in outlook. It shows up in the communicator client itself.

For the most it just sits there running in the background and decorates my outlook and SharePoint screens with real-time presence information. It’s very cool.

SharePoint

Uppáhalds hluti minn, auðvitað, is SharePoint.

BPOS provides a modified version of MOSS standard edition. I’ll explain “modified” below. We’ve been using our BPOS SharePoint portal for stuff like:

  • Markaðssetning upplýsingar
  • Sölu (tillögur, Lead Rekja) -> við gerum áætlun um að fjárfesta í CRM lausn en nú, SharePoint er að vinna út sem lausn CRM okkar.
  • Samstarfsaðila og viðskiptavini tengiliði
  • Leita
  • Viðskiptavinur verkefni upplýsingar
  • Innheimtu (aðallega til að geyma reikninga okkar)
  • Umræður
  • Prototyping lausnir
  • Byggja út sýning staður (e.g. nýráðningum stjórnenda HR ferli)
  • Time blöð
  • Document samstarf

Grundvallaratriðum, öll efni sem þú vilt búast við að nota SharePoint fyrir.

Á leiðinni, við notum tæknilega eiginleika eins:

  • Viðvaranir
  • SharePoint Designer
    • Verkferlar
    • Blandaður
  • Efnisgerðir
  • CQWP
  • Skjal bókasöfnum með stjórn útgáfa
  • Sérsniðin listum til alls konar hluti (eins lak tíma okkar)
  • jQuery (og öll gæfa að geta komið frá því að, þ.mt AJAX kalla til SharePoint Web Services)

Hvað get ég ekki gert við það? There are a bunch of things that would be nice:

  • I cannot provide anonymous access. Í raun, i don’t think I can do that for any price. I could be wrong, eða vonandi MSFT mun breyta þessu í framtíðinni.
  • Engin InfoPath af einhverju tagi.
    • Þetta hefur örlítið undarlega aukaverkun hindra nokkur staðall workflows mosa sem treysta á InfoPath.
  • No server side code. That means, m.a.:
    • No event receivers
    • No custom SharePoint designer actions
    • No custom field types
    • No proper SDLC (i.e. features/solutions).
    • No access to stsadm
  • No access to a shared service provider.

      • The last bit is a little sad because we can’t do as much search configuration I would like.

      You basically give up a lot of technical capability and are forced to live within the confines of out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality.

      I can live with that. I have found myself wanting to slap together an event receiver or use a custom action once or twice,, but for the most part, I don’t notice the lack.

      I should add that this is not a comprehensive list of the differences between a hosted “on prem” MOSS environment and SharePoint on line. Cloud Strategies has a very detailed presentation that goes into all that if you’re interested. I’m speaking from the perspective of a business owner leveraging the tool.

      Auðvelt í notkun

      Microsoft veitir nifty skrifborð forrit sem gerir fljótlegan og auðveldan aðgang að öllum BPOs virka:

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      Þú þarft ekki að nota það, en útrýma the þörf til að skrá þig inn í hvert forrit fyrir sig og fyrir lifandi fundi, Það er alveg gott af því að þú getur gert "hitta nú" fundur með bara 2 smellir (one on the “web conferencing” button above and another on the web browser that pops up). It’s also nice to get OWA with one click, though you can just put that in your browser favorites as well.

      The other major advantage with this desktop application is that it provides a background kind of single sign on service. As long as this is running in the background, I can open up web browsers and connect to my BPOS environment without ever needing to enter credentials.

      Full Disclosure

      Microsoft made BPOS available to me for free so I am not currently paying the monthly per user fee at this time. Hins, I see value there and you can accept on faith (eða ekki) that I would pay for this service. The fact is that I can’t count on Microsoft providing this for free forever and it’s become so strongly integrated with my business that moving … the mind quails.

      Ályktun

      BPOS is an insanely feature rich platform. Exchange, SharePoint (MOSS Standard!), presence, instant live meetings – it’s a lot of functionality that I would sorely, sorely miss if I had to live without it. My business would be severely impacted without it. Could I find replacement functionality? Probably, but I think I would have to cobble it together from a variety of other vendors, complicating my life. BPOS has so far proven itself to be stable and reliable. For the right kind of customer (like my company), BPOS is worth strong consideration.

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