Arkivji ta 'Kull Xahar: Novembru 2008

Personali On-line Backup Mini-Reviżjoni: Mozy

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Wieħed mill- … Effetti sekondarji … of working for a giant corporation is that I get a lot press releases in my inbox every month. I’m still new to the EMC world, hekk ħafna ta 'dawn stqarrijiet għall-istampa huma, bażikament, inscrutable. This or that company purchased these or those EMC products, blah blah blah. I’m not complaining. I actually take this as an incentive to learn more about EMC as time goes by so that I better understand the big picture of what EMC is all about (ħjiel: it’s about Informazzjoni).

Some times, those press releases are quite easy to understand and one of them was about Mozy. Mozy is an on-line backup tool. You install a lightweight client on your workstation (laptop in my case), you tell it what you want to back up and when and then it does it by sending your data to some server(i) on the cloud. It does it in the background.

My initial backup ran in just under 4 hours and according to Mozy is 550MB or so of data. I only backed up "My Documents" (għalhekk, the relatively small amount of data).

It ran again (I think 24 hours later), backed up some more stuff in about 8 minuti. I never noticed it happen. There was no obvious impact on any work I was doing at the time.

I did a test restore and it provides a decent enough user interface to select the file(i) you want to restore. It was quick, snappy, informative … I don’t know how it could be any better.

I spoke to one of my colleagues about it who has more experience with online backup. He said that Mozy is good but that it lacks an ability to tell Mozy to do the equivalent of "restore files that I deleted." This is to say that if you don’t know you deleted a fie, or if you do but don’t remember its name, Mozy may not help you much in terms of easily finding it to restore.

They impose a 2GB limit if you just want to use the service for free. It looks like it’s $5/month for unlimited storage.

Bottom line, if someone asks me if they should use Mozy for online backup, my answer right now is, "Hell, yes."

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Sortjar Punti Kalendarju fil-View Kalendarju

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I’m using a calendar to track panel discussions on a given day. I have two sessions: morning and afternoon. I want to create a view that shows morning sessions only listed alphabetically via a session ID. This is a little tricky to accomplish (sakemm I qbiżt xi ħaġa reali ovvju).

I can easily create a filtered view showing just that day’s events. The calendar will show all those events and if they all take place on the same hour, it lists them side by side in the hour slot. That’s great. The tricky part is that, b'mankanza, it wants to list them in ID format. Allura, if I add "Session 02" and then "Session 01" il-kalendarju, jurihom f'dik l-ordni (I.E, Sessjoni 02 u mbagħad Sessjoni 01). To list them in Session ID order, Ħsibt li jippruvaw dawn l-affarijiet:

  1. Configure the view using the web user interface. No luck. There are no options to sort items this way.

    Peress li ma ħadmux, I am now hoping there’s a CAML query somewhere in there that will allow me to override the sort. CQWP lets me make that kind of change, maybe calendar will as well?

  2. Edit the web part, look for an "export" function and … BZZZT! I can’t export its XML. There is no export option.

    I’m still holding out hope that I can find and modify some CAML query. Since I can’t export the web part, that leaves SharePoint Designer.

  3. I add the calendar web part to a sandbox site and open that site using SharePoint Designer. I look at the markup for the web part and I find what I’m looking for. It’s encoded madness, but it’s there: "<ListViewXml …. >encoded madness</ListViewXml>". Speċifikament, hemm dan gem:

<Mistoqsija>
<Fejn>
<DateRangesOverlap>
<FieldRef Name="EventDate"/>
<FieldRef Name="EndDate"/>
<FieldRef Name="RecurrenceID"/>
<Value Type="DateTime">
<Xahar />
</Valur>
</DateRangesOverlap>
</Fejn>
<OrderBy><FieldRef Name="Session_x0020_ID" /></OrderBy>
</Mistoqsija>

(Stajt decoded l- &lt;"Iu &tal gt u maqsuma minnhom għal-linji multipli f'ġieħ iċ-ċarezza).

Żid il- <OrderBy> bit u issa xorta mill Sessjoni ID, mhux l-lista ta 'loġġetti ID intern.

Ġiganteski ponta o’ il-hat biex Becky Isserman għall-kummenti tagħha biex blog post Isha Sagi tal: http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/2008/07/caml-sorting-by-file-name.html. I wouldn’t have put the <OrderBy> fil-post dritt mingħajr kumment tagħha.

Nispera li tikteb dan up aktar ċar fir screen shots malajr, iżda fil-każ I qatt ma, inqas Jien għamilt dan ħafna.

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NJ SharePoint User Group Laqgħa Bil Dave Mann … Jew .. Liema Bob Said

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Bob Fox lets us know that Dave Mann, SharePoint workflow genius, is speaking at the NJ SharePoint user group meeting on Wednesday evening, 11/19/08. Don’t miss it. (Sfortunatament, my corporate overlord has scheduled a big group meeting Wed night and I will miss it).

Click here to register and get more details.

Here are some session details:

Session Title “Deploying Workflows in a Large Scale SharePoint Environment"

Workflow in SharePoint is an exciting new capability. Madankollu, it is a capability that is often misunderstood when it comes to the impact it has on your environment. For small environments, the out-of-the-box settings, configurations and architectural approach are probably sufficient. But what about an environment that will be processing thousands of documents per day? How can you make sure that those environments will not falter under the load, but still meet SLA’s for performance and responsiveness? This session will explore why focusing on your workflow subsystem is important, and cover the needs of a large scale workflow environment from the farm level down to individual workflow design specifications. Learn why all workflows need to be looked at in light of performance and scalability as well as how to build workflows that scale in an environment that scales, monitor workflow processing and overcome common obstacles. This session will cover architectural guidance for your SharePoint environment as well as specific coding practices to ensure you get the most out of your SharePoint workflows.

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Karatteristiċi SharePoint & Soluzzjonijiet ta 'Ġestjoni — Tinsiex il-U fl CRUD (jew il-D għal dik il-kwistjoni)

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Aħna flimkien jonfqu ammont kbir ta 'ħin jaħsbu dwar soluzzjonijiet SharePoint — kif toħloq lilhom, li għodda għall-użu, x'jiġri meta dawn jonqsu li tuża, impjiegi timer, ambiti, eċċ. We spend so much time thinking about the up-front bits that it’s easy to forget that we need to retract them as well. Retracting solutions is probably more difficult, minn perspettiva disinn kunċettwali, than deploying them. Deployment is basically a cookbook affair. Typically, jinstallaw karatteristika, forsi jkunu riċevitur karatteristika tagħbija xi data ġo lista, that sort of thing. Madankollu, retracting huwa potenzjalment aktar kumplessa.

Soluzzjoni mogħti jista 'joħloq artifacts bħal dawn:

  • Kontenut Tip
  • Lista Definizzjoni
  • Site Definizzjoni
  • Data fil-lista
  • Anke riċevituri
  • Forom InfoPath

Il-lista tkompli.

Filwaqt li huwa ovvjament importanti li disinn soluzzjoni li instantiates dawk artifacts korrett, it’s just as important to consider the update and delete cases. If your solution creates a new list and populates that list with data, x'jiġri meta s-soluzzjoni tiġi miġbuda lura? In some cases, the list should be deleted. In other cases, it should be left intact for historical purposes. Your business requirements will guide you to the right decision.

Biex tgħin ma 'dan, create a matrix that lists each artifact your solution deploys to SharePoint. List three columns per artifact, waħda għall joħolqu, update and delete. For each case, jiddeterminaw ir-riżultat korrett għal dik l-operazzjoni.

This sort of analysis is obviously best done before the solution is ever deployed to a SharePoint farm. Madankollu, bħat-tipjip, it’s never too late to start doing things correctly. Create that matrix and develop a plan to address the missing update/delete scenarios. It may be a hard problem to solve, iżda mill-inqas inti ser ikollok tpoġġi kaxxa madwar il-problema.

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SharePoint Designer Workflow ma tistax aċċess “Remote” jew “Barranin” Listi

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Hawn mistoqsija oħra komuni SharePoint workflow Disinjatur:

"Can I access (taqra / tikteb) SharePoint jelenka permezz workflows li ma jirrisjedux fl-istess sit bħal-lista nnifisha?"

It-tweġiba hija sempliċi: Mhux.

Kif f'ħafna modi, madankollu, irridu jikkwalifikaw li (li hija ħaġa tajba f'dan il-każ). The platform lets us create extensions to the produce in many ways, inkluż azzjoni custom (tara proġett tiegħi CodePlex ftit hawn għal eżempju). A custom action lets us do basically anything we want from SharePoint designer workflow. I’m a big fan of this, fil-fatt, peress li jagħtina l-aħjar taż-żewġ dinjiet — a dikjarattiva-utent aħħari disinjatur ħbiberija ma 'l-fond totali tal-qafas. NET fuq ponot tas-swaba tagħna.

Sfortunatament, jekk inti qed tuża SPD, hemm ċans tajjeb li qed tagħmel li minħabba li inti ma tistax tuża studio viżwali (minħabba l-fatt li l viżwali studio teħtieġ sfond iżviluppatur fil-fond). I don’t have any good answer to that problem except that you should prevail upon one of your technical co-workers to create the kind of custom action you need. Alternatively, jaħdmu mal-ġestjoni li jimpjegaw jew kuntratt li tip ta 'riżorsa.

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SharePoint fuq il-ferrovija

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Illum, I kien qari permezz Mike Walsh Jgħallmu Yourself SharePoint 2007 fil 24 Sigħat u, oerhört, l-mara fuq il-post maġenb me qal, "We just implemented SharePoint in our company." It’s "incredible" because people just don’t talk to me on the train 🙂 It’s funny how SharePoint was the catalyst.

The other interesting aspect was that she didn’t realize that there were books on the product. Here comment was along the lines of "It must be pretty important if people are writing books about it." I think everyone reading my blog would agree with that.

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Għażil Up WFE Virtual Temporanju għall Pjaċir u Qligħ

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I kienet waħda ta ' 20 jew 30 (jew forsi 100?) membri tal-panel aħħar lejl fil- New York SharePoint Utenti Grupp meeting. Instead of the usual presentation format, din kienet kollha dwar Q&A between the audience and the panel members. Early on, Michael Lotter introdotti me idea ġdida u I riedu jaqsmu.

An audience member described how his company had paid a consultant to write an application for his company. The consultant wrote it as a console application using the SharePoint object model. Bħala riżultat, this meant that the program had to be run on a server in the farm. This meant that anyone that wanted to use the app would have to log onto the server, do the work and log off. Fl-ewwel, dan ma kienx problema, iżda malajr, aktar u aktar (mhux tekniku) users needed to use the utility. His question was (jipparafraża):

"What are my options? I don’t want to keep letting users log directly onto the server, iżda jeħtieġ li l-funzjonalità."

Michael Lotter ssuġġeriet li jiġi kkonfigurat magna virtwali ġdid, join it to the farm as a WFE and let users run the application from there.

This is a pretty stunning idea for me. Generalizing this solution brings to mind the notion of essentially temporary, almost disposable WFE’s. I think it’s a pretty neat concept. This temporary WFE can run a console application that uses the SharePoint object model. You could also use it to run stsadm commands. It doesn’t have to be part of regular local balancing. If it goes down or gets wrecked, you can just spin up a new one. I repeat myself, imma jien biss ngħid li naħseb li hija idea verament pulita.

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Servizzi fuq Server ma tniżżilx Fittex — Għaliex?

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I kien chat illum ma Agnes Molnar (l-unika persuna li naf li jien naf fl-Ungerija) about a strange search configuration problem. Namely, search was missing from the "services on server" wiri (permezz Admin Ċentrali -> Operazzjonijiet -> Servizzi fuq Server).

Kelli ħarsa lejn VM funzjonali fuq magna tiegħi stess u flimkien, we determined that search was not installed on that server. There are probably a few ways to do this, but we did it by confirming that "Office SharePoint Server Search" kienet nieqsa mil-lista ta 'servizzi permezz Start -> Amministrattiv Tools -> Servizzi.

Oddly, l-exe assoċjati. * kien * fuq is-server ("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Bin\mssearch.exe").

I għamlet tfittxija ta 'malajr u sabet dan blog dħul: http://msmvps.com/blogs/obts/archive/2006/10/19/189466.aspx

C'est katina email dan il-punt ewlieni:

"I solved this problem. Kien żball tiegħi. I choose "Web front end" instead of "Complete" waqt l-installazzjoni."

Dan kien promettenti, but we weren’t sure if the installer had actually picked WFE instead of complete when installing MOSS.

Aħna ċċekkjati għall-ewwel (kmieni) verżjoni tal-PSCDiagnostics * fajl fil- 12 doqqajs log direttorju u fil hemm, sibna li l-installatur kellhom, fil-fatt, configured this server to be a web front end. End of story and it had a happy ending.

(X'imkien matul il-linja, Bob Fox ltqajna involuti, iżda kollha I remember lilu jikkontribwixxu għad-diskussjoni kien kumment dwar Fable 2).

Aġġornament: Blogs Agnes dwar dan is-suġġett hawn: http://dotneteers.net/blogs/aghy/archive/2008/11/06/wfe-vs-complete-installation.aspx

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Huma jimpjegaw jkollna ftit aggressivi?

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Jew hija biss me? I’ve received three or four calls at my house since late September looking for SharePoint work. I’m used to the email solicitations, but these phone calls are a little unnerving. I haven’t had an updated resume on a job site I(like Monster pr Dice) since almost two years ago exactly. And back then, my resume was all about BizTalk and MS CRM. That’s the only place my phone number appears on line anywhere, so far as I know.

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Just Meta jien About Itfi Comments …

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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, madankollu, that I get far more spam comments than I get real comments and I was just thinking in the last week or so that I was going to disable comments.

Madankollu, llum, I found two excellent comments in response to din il-kariga (about Limited Access) u din il-kariga (about limiting search to documents, as opposed to folders). Those comments are so complementary (in that they add a lot of value to my post), I can’t see disabling comments and thereby closing off that avenue of useful information. Allura, I’ve resigned myself to being a human spam catcher / cleaner. Live spaces does provide a pretty decent way to clean up comments, but who wants to waste time doing that?

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