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I have been looking for a software for a specific purpose but havent found it yet, so was wondering if anyone out there knew of something that serves this purpose. Let me explain. I want to have a Centralised Media Repository at home, like a server which other devices (laptops, pda etc) can connect to and listen to mp3s etc off the server (possibly by streaming). Users connecting to the server should be able to search media, browse media by album, artist etc. Does anyone know of any software that ......
Its been quite a bit of struggle for me to find an accurate way of finding the netbios name of a domain from AD using System.DirectoryServices. In case you are in the same jam here how you do it. Connect to AD using the following ldap url: LDAP://CN=Partitions,CN=Con... When querying AD using the Directory Searcher object uses the following filter: netbiosname=* This should give you a record from AD containing the netbios name of the domain as the ......
From neowin.net I came across this game. http://pagehunt.msrlivelabs... Its not exactly a great timer waster but its good for a good 5 minutes before you get bored. What I still don't get is, Bing should take into account any suggestion we may make for returning the page result, instead of saying "no thats not it".Crossposted from tariqayad.com ......
"Such and Such a grid should not be blank when there is no data, it should show the column headers with no rows." How many times have you heard that? Yeah, I've seen it as bugs in the change request system!! Seems like a simple enough request, but trying to deliver it sends you straight into the land of GridView hacking. Oh why was such a simple feature not incorporated into the GridView. Microsoft are you listening. Instead you have to jump hoops. Here are some of those hoops that help you solve ......
aka, List Column not appearing in Managed Propperty Selector. I am not sure if I have blogged about this before, but I do recall falling for this stumbling block earlier. If I have blogged it, then this is a worthy reminder When wanting to map a crawled property as a managed property, please be cautious when declaring the managed property to select the appropriate type, because when you click that "Add Mapping" button to select the crawled properties to map to, the crawled properties that are going ......
I am noticing some wierdness with the MOSS's metadata propperty mappings. The scenario I tried was, went to a document library and added a new number column, did an incremental crawl, came back to search settings and went to add a new metadata propperty. If declare the metadata propperty as Integer it does not pick up my new column, but if I declare the metadata propperty as text it does. Is that wierd or what? Technorati tags: MOSS, SharePoint, Search Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Whatcha think? Will the iPhone blend? See for yourself Technorati tags: iPhone, Will it Blend, YouTube Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I was doing some work on the MOSS Search API to execute a few custom queries. I also wanted the Search Engine to return the blurb of text that contains the occurence of the searched term. A little digging around and I discovered there is a managed propperty that contains this. The managed propperty is HitHighlightedSummary (just in case any of you are stumbling down this route too). Technorati tags: MOSs, Search, SharePoint, Managed Propperties Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I came across this tool from JOPX's list of SharePoint Tools (see my previous posting). Its a good thing I did, since now this is my favorite new SharePoint tool. It helps that I am playing around with Search these days to put the tool to good use. Thanks for the link Joris, and speschka you rule Technorati tags: MOSS, SHarePoint, Search Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
Here are few lessons learnt from playing with the BDC on a project 1. Even though the BDC can crawl associated entities in your database schema, the search results will not show related entity instances for the item you searched. 2. In case of mapping 'complex' db schemas specially ones that contain m:n relationships between entities, sometimes it might be advisable to show un-normalized relationships via stored procedures or views, but this approach provides the following roadblocks Un-normalized ......
This is a bit of a kludge in SharePoint 2007. In your site collection how do you move your search scope from one display group to another? Logically you would expect there to be an option in the context menu (i.e. Site Settings -> Search Scopes [Under Site Collection Administration]) of the search scope, or be able to change it in the subsequent page when clicking the search scope. That isnt the way. Here is how you would have to do it. 1. On the Search Scopes Page click on the name of the display ......
Access Denied for User 'MOSS\crawlUser'. Securable MethodInstancewith Name 'TableIDEnumeratorInstance' has ACL that contains: User 'MOSS\administrator' with Rights 'Execute, Edit, SetPermissions, UseInBusinessDataInLists, SelectableInClients' or The parameter is incorrect. (Access denied by BDC.) If you get either of the error message above trying to crawl the BDC, the error could possibly be caused by the crawl account not having access to the BDC application defintion; i.e. the crawl account is ......
Continuing the YASQ series but now updated for MOSS let me introduce my contribution to Yet Another MOSS Quirk (YAMQ). I was trying to enable Windows SharePoint Search Service on a MOSS Server, on the configuration page I kept entering the required user accounts as just "UserName", and the configuration kept failing. I tried this over and over, and checkign the username, password, secuirty permissions etc. with no luck. The logs provided no help either. How do you get around it, you need to enter ......
Former GWBer and now MSFTy Brandon Paddock has released an app for Windows Vista that gives you the shortcut ability of Windows Desktop Search (formerly MSN Desktop Search) on the Vista Search box which is nested in the start menu. Go check it out. Brandon you are 'The Man'. First all those uber tips for WDS and now Start++. As a matter of fact, I find myself using WDS more for the shortcut ability rather than for the search functionality. Link: http://brandonlive.com/cate... Technorati ......
Where do you go to download VS2005 Extensions? Seriously where do you go? How do you know what the latest CTP is? of if an Extension is released or is in RC? Its weird but www.visualstudio.com (aka http://msdn2.microsoft.com/... doesn't list any, netfx3.com doesn't list any of the extensions or the CTPs. Googling for an Extension by name is of no luck, the result takes you to a download page for the most referenced CTP (which may not be the latest). Speaking of CTPs how do ......
Check out this awesome awesome list of freebies from Microsoft. http://bhandler.spaces.live... This is a lot more than just Power Toys, its a really really big list. I something that I've longed for, i.e. - GroupBar (just wish it was easily downloadable) Technorati : freebies, freeware, microsoft Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I was checking my referer logs and came across this http://blogsearch.google.com/ Google has search dedicated to blogs - woah! when did that happen. Interesting! Technorati : blogsearch, google Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ......
I was trying to setup WSS v3 on a VPC today. The setup went fine, but then the configuration (I mean SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration) failed about 4 times at the “Registering SharePoint Servces” i.e. 5/10 stage before it finally continued. I really dont get it. The exception in the log says this 05/27/2006 17:16:52 10 ERR Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPExce... ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlEx... Cannot open database "WSS_Search_HEX" requested by the login. ......
Everytime I setup a machine I end up wasting a good hour to find out how to turn on the advanced search. I cant stand the default search wizard in XP.
So for future reference a bunch of girls showed me how. I am ashamed.
Researches at Rice University have developed a Nano car, Its an interesting read, and for all you nano-technology fans this seems like a good step forward. “And with four independently rotating axles, built-in suspension, and oversized wheels, it looks more like a racer in the DARPA Challenge than any car on route 95. With its rotating axles, the Nanocar moves directionally, which means either forward or backward, with its wheels rolling, as opposed to sliding back and forth which is commonly ......
I picked this up from Brian E. Cooper’s blog. Google dwelves in to the RSS Aggregator Domain. I am begining to feel that they would do anything to place ads along side content, but the strange thing is there arent any with the reader (atleast not yet, and I am sure we can expect them in the future). Whats my take on it, I guess its easier to say the contras becuase everybody knows what to expect from an aggregator. I would have assume that there would be a newspaper view of blog items, but ......
Our friendly SharePoint “Microsoftie” Mike Fitz has dropped us a big one. He has a post listing out some of the features of V.Next. Just looking at the ‘listed features’ which I believe isn't all of them, theres only one thought on my mind; i.e. “Woah!!!! Thats awesome, ME WANT NOW!” 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 ......
TomsHardware has an interview with Blake Ross a Firefox Developer.
I came across this interview whilst i was searching for a plugin for Trillian. Looks like Blake uses Trillian too
It also appears that now there is a skype plugin for Trillian.
I came across this cool article at news.com about a backpack that has been developed by the University of Pensilvaniya with the funding of the US Office of Naval Research that can generate power in the range of 7 Watts from movement. From the site “Their trick is to make use of the fact that a walking person moves like an upside-down pendulum. “One foot is put down and then the body vaults over it, causing the hip to move up and down by 4 to 7 centimetres,” he says. And as the hip ......
Apparently there is a chart webpart at the FrontPage
add-in center.
Go check it out - http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/searchdetail.asp?a=701
Bill Simser has a post titled "The Collective vs the Individual". He is not the first to spring up with an idea along these lines. As Mart points out in the comment thread Bob Mixon is setting up a Wiki for SharePoint information, but that isnt the first either. Around last year Amanda had a notion for setting up a Virtual SharePoint user group. Amanda is 'right on' that as individuals working on SharePoint we 'the collective' are geographically distributed. But what I have most wanted out of the ......
59 Dr E.A. Cooray Mw, Wellawatte, Colombo 6, Sri Lanka +94 11 2360793 tariqayad@gmail.com M. Tariq Al Ayad OBJECTIVE An experienced Software Engineer in .NET Development with a keen interest in SharePoint Technologies and high-tech collaboration solutions, having experience in working on project teams as well as leading teams from a technical aspect Enjoys learning new skills and is confident working in different cultures. EMPLOYMENT STATUS I am currently employed but am open to discussing fulltime, ......
What a frustrating day. I spent hours looking for a code snippet on google on how to achieve something that I was very sure I had done. I was looking for the snippet which does not bring up the enter credential box if the user does not have rights for a sharepoint section. I knew it could be done, I had done it before. I spent an awfull long time searching the newsgroups (as i recalled the place i had seen it the first time). All this for what? just the one line below // Prevent the request for access ......
Hey, do you remember sometime back I was searching for some CAML tools. I think I have found them. Patrick's got one at U2U and Stramit's got one too. btw, Patrick, I think you need to mention that CAML testing will only work on the same box as SharePoint is installed on. Same problem on my tool (because it uses the SP API, not the WebServices), but I am sure we SP Devs dont mind ;) Stramit's blog posting has some other cool tools as well ......
I was browsing through sandbox.msn.com & I found Netscan which seems to a very interesting system that will show you statistics of newgroup usage. So here is the statistics for microsoft.public.sharepoint... http://netscan.research.mic... Darn, its been so long since I've hit the newgroups. Just been too busy these days ......
Off of Mart Mulers blog
Mathew Cosier has been working on a toolkit to enable boolean logic on the SPS search.
Theres even SAST (Advanced Search Tools) WSS site to beta test it.
More deails here.
I remember seeing a tool like this before, but I couldn’t find it. Searched the net for sometime, and eventually gave up and did my own one. It’s pretty primitive at the moment, but it lets you execute CAML queries against a SharePoint list. Here is a few screenshots I’ve shared it here p.s No limitations on the code or app, do whatever you like ......
Yes its true, take a look at any of the default WebParts or ListViews in SharePoint and you can learn a thing or 2. For instance recently I wanted to find all the related items in an issues List. I was stumped until I took a look at the CAML in the default Issue Item Edit form, which goes something like this <Where> <And> <Eq> <FieldRef Name="IsCurrent"/> <Value Type="Boolean">1</Val... <And> <Neq> <FieldRef Name="IssueID"/> <Value ......
Was doing a google search to find something about SharePoint’s CreateWS.aspx page. The search results returned were interesting. Here some sites that are listed, all running SharePoint. - Destination Desktop - ISC Consulting - Eushe.org Heres the search results I got ......
Maurice shares some thoughts on what most probably might be with the next Version of SharePoint. He also mentions vaguely the nuance of developing and deploying WebParts. The fact is SharePoint v Next will built on the next version of Asp.net. I am sure that most of you would agree that WSS is today what it is because of Asp.net. The move up from SPS 2001 or STS to SharePoint 2003 was phenomenal. All that productivity capabilities just opened up with the 2003 versions. I suspect that we can look ......
As a developer wanting to create a WebPart that needs a date picker everybody will tempted to use SharePoint's date picker. Unless you know how to use it you are going to run into a couple of gotchas. Basically everybody initially stumbles, trying to find a way to get it to display. What you should ideally do to use the OWSDateField is OWSForm frm1 = new OWSForm(); OWSDateField df1 = new OWSDateField(); frm1.Controls.Add(df1); If you are creating an ASP.NET form, you would need to have the following ......
Here is the TOC of Scot Hillers book 'Advanced SharePoint Solutions' About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii About the Technical Reviewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......
At last; a hack that I really appreciate. Neowin has a snippet posting on how to Get Windows Media Player 10 to install on Windows 2003. Link here. Why do I appreciate this hack so much you might ask? Well I work on SharePoint, and I currently cant see it running on Windows XP, or justify having an extra test environment for me to play around with it. Next hack to look forward to is to install MSN desktop search on Win2K3. What I know so far is that the contents of the setup (exe) can be extracted. ......
I had to reinstall SharePoint Portal Server today; today because it seemed like a good day to do it. My SharePoint Portal Server got zapped long time back after IT decided to rename all the machines to some finky naming-convention. Zapped as in the Search went down and never came back. So I was installed SharePoint, configured it, and then created the first portal, everything went OK. Once the Portal was created it normally presents a screen providing you with several options like to visit the site, ......
I am not sure if this has been already done, but I think it’s about high time someone started consolidating a list of tools that are out for SharePoint. I am thinking of something similar to the SharpToolbox. Of course the list will not be huge like the CSharp list at SharpToolbox, but I think we’ve got enough to go around. So let me start it off by providing the ones I know, you guys can contribute by adding the ones you know to the comments system of this post, and I will update the ......
Was catching up on my Rss feeds and noticed that there we a bunch of SharePoint tools released, almost as if it was Christmas already. Here is the list with my first impressions SharePoint Explorer This is a neat tool except for one annoying issue i.e.; the lack of validation specially for entering the ‘SharePoint Url’ in the Settings tab. If the URL is entered without a trailing ‘/’ it throws an exception, and oh yes when you enter your credentials for the WebService to use make sure nobody is looking ......
As you might have gathered from my last post, I was able to get an ADSL connection for my home from our local telecom provider. Being connected has brought up a very new issue I have to fight, i.e. Spyware. Previously being disconnected, spyware wasnt much of an issue, but now I have to fight them off/stay away from them, tie them to a post and burn them (well that sort of thing), and heaven forbid if anything happens to my registry. Anyways I've found one Spyware remover which is pretty good. Its ......
Navigo who provided the free SharePoint explorer tool also provide a product called ONTOLICA that provides a series of webparts that provide more extensive search capabilities for SharePoint. Ontolica Search Features Support for all standard search features Intuitive SearchAssistant AND / OR / NOT support Wildcard (*) search Configurable search properties Context sensitive search properties Custom properties in the search result. Respects the SharePoint security model Personalization Reusable Web ......
If you havent already, you need to check this out Source http://weblogs.asp.net/soev... "Great SharePoint Explorer tool Have a look at http://www.ontolica.com/Eng... for a great explorer tool with the following capabilities (quote from website):WSS Features View and modify the object properties of Virtual servers, Sites, Lists, List templates, Document Libraries, Files, Folders, List items and List fields. Delete site collections, sites, ......
OK theres been about a ton of blogs pointing to desktop.google.com for indexing your local machine contents. But a former colleague of mine points to Swish-E, another Open Source desktop indexing engine. Thanks for the link Rukmal ......
Is it just me or is there something funnily wrong with the archived WebCasts on Microsoft.com For example click on the link SharePoint Implementations in the Real World - Level 200 on this page. What I am currently getting is an error message saying “The Event you are searching for does not exist. …” ......
Recently I was writing a mail to a friend of mine, who wanted to know how I customized Firefox to give me the same features as MYIE2 (which I used to love). So I thougth I'd share the content with you as well. Actually there is nothing much to it, all you got to know is the proper extension to install. My current list to duplicate most of MYIE2 (now known as Maxthon) functionality is Tab Browser Extensions (TBE) Petit TBE All in one gestures Super drag and go miniT Ie view add bookmark here copy ......
Perhaps it’s a sign that I am getting old (although I really doubt that since I am along way from 30 and still play Counter Strike often). Recently I’ve been scouring the net for tweaks to products I use just to find ways of enabling features that I could really look forward to. The 2 on the top of my list are Outlook 2003 I’ve been looking for a tweak or a ‘How-To to create a view similarly to how GMail shows the inbox and emails stacked by conversations. And I don’t mean the default ‘Group by Conversations’ ......
My machine crashed today! and I am a bit puzzled about it. The crash was a BSOD crash, with the Stop error being 0X000000008E (0X00000005, 0X80588318, 0XF4E4ACC4, 0X00000000). Right now I blame the hardware, from what I have read typical reasons for the 0X000000008E crash are either the memory or the BIOS. Anyway while I was in a foray seeking out a reason for the crash, I came across this thread on the newsgroups about a user facing the 0X000000008E Stop error, which eventually turned out to be ......
Fyi. http://msdn.microsoft.com/l... ......
I found this interesting MSKB article whilst searching for other related information. http://support.microsoft.co... As Ian constantly acknowledges, I agree, the DVWP has enormous power and I mean way beyond just XSLT filtering. If the dataquery syntax can be mastered then the potential of the DVWP is multiplied. Now I need to go find a good article on the DVWP query syntax and its capabilities ......
Another one of those SharePoint Portal Server mysteries. Recently a colleague of mine was facing this dilemma. After a restore of a certain teamsite on SPS, the Search results weren't showing the contents. When she tried checking the gather log for the NonPortal Contents index it contained the following error. “The address could not be found, (0x80042616 - Error in the Site Data Web Service. ) Value cannot be null. Parameter name: uriString” Unfortunately there is a very non-relevant MS KB article ......
CNET RSS Feed Item "Microsoft buys Lookout to boost search. The acquisition comes two weeks after the launch of a revamped MSN search. Source: http://news.com.com/Microsoft buys Lookout to boost search/2100-1032_3-5271825.... Just imagine how Powerfull Outlook would be if they provided it as a freebie companion ......
Oooh looky here, I've got a google page rank of 1
http://www.google.com/search?q=tariq
This could be trouble, I could be in for a great deal more comment spam in the future.
OK I admit it,I am a big fan of the 'run command' (Win Key + R). In fact I probably use it much more than the Start Menu. I mean for all those programs that are so deep into start-menu, the 'run command' becomes so very convenient for day-to-day work. for instance - IIS Manager is : Win Key + R -> InetMgr in contrast to Start -> [All Program] -> Administrative Tools -> IIS Manger - Visual Studio is : Win Key + R -> devenv in contrast to Start -> All Programs -> MS Visual Studio.Net ......
Recently I noticed a neat fact about the Search Results WebPart; that is how it responded to a failure with the index database, and I think this is pretty cool - "Hats off to Microsoft, for thinking about this" Consider a situation when the SPS is unable to connect to its Search Indexes, like for instance due to a database corruption, or the configuration database account being invalid, then as a result of this severed connection the search shouldn’t work (obviously), or perhaps give horrendous error ......
First to fend off any SPS discriminations I might be accused of- Mike I am writing this with my knowledge of SPS, do not know if it applies to WSS, since I do not have a WSS Configuration to try it out on separately. Secondly fiddling with SPS database is not recommend, do it at your own risk K OK, I had this scenario recently (actually about 2 weeks back). An intern colleague of mine had to do a bulk upload of a bunch of documents to a SharePoint team site, which is not very unusual if you are trying ......
Patrick points to Mads Nissens blog.
I came across his blog today along a compltely different track. I was searching for some stuff regarding CAML and came across his article on customizing the Areas Template.
Hes got a bunch of good links at the bottom of the article.
I am not sure whether Justin has had anything to do with this, but Waste is making a resurgence.Other stuff that caught my eye today was the MyDoom variant that targets the RIAA site.And then there is Skype. Free international phone calls, really. Hey where have I seen this gag before ......
I got a new machine at work, and for the first time in my whole working life the machine I have at work is faster than the one at home.Its a HP d530 SFF - so this fast business - whats that all about you might ask? Well right now only the fact that its got a P4 processor with Hyperthreading(oh yeah!)Anyways I would provide you a with a better link than the above one but I cant find any.So heres a couple of pics off of google's image search. Warning! please be advised that due temporary technical ......
Have any of you seen WSS FAQ? Yeah? Which one? Today I discovered there are 2 sites that go by the same name, both running on SharePoint (Can the net get any nicer?) One is the very informative WSS FAQ by Collutions and the other is the WSS Demo Site The latter I came across today whilst trying to do a google search for the former (talk about stealing someones thunder). Anyways I was flattered to see me on their blog roll along with LauraJ, but my first thought on this was, where are the others, ......
Wanting to find some really technical MSDN article regarding the PageView=Shared. I consulted google.
The search result was to one of the internal lists inside http://collegewriting.us/default.aspx. - another one to add to my list of "one those SPS sites on the net".
Off of slashdot. Rolling stone has an article about Justin Frankel The man behind the digital music revolution (IMO) and the man behind many great things. When I was at college I used to envy the guys at Nullsoft. As a matter of fact I still do. With all their witty comments, rants, and developing of Winamp. It was absolute green eyed envy. Back in its hay day, I had a really souped up Winamp, with about 200+ skins, and 40 odd plugins. I even tried my hand at skinning, but that didn't last long. ......
I was searching for which was board is better A7N8X or the A7V600 on groups.google.com. Whats odd is that the first page of the search results shows me that there are 10+ more pages of results (I'm talking about all those numbers that come under the Gooooooooogle). But going on to second results page all the links at the bottom seem to have disappeared (gone on vacation I assume). Anyway if anyone knows which is the better board let me know ......
Got more links for you This one is courtesy of Robert K.In his own words "Here are a few more excellent WSS/SPS/Web Part articles that are usually missed by most people! http://www.fawcette.com/sea... I have to admit, I had no idea there were articles on SPS at FTPOnline. Thanks for the links Robert. Also worthy of subscribing too are the MSD2D.com newsletters, atleast the SharePoint one. You might learn a thing or two from them. And if you haven't already been ......
Found this one whist trying to sort out a problem with search Active Directory. I circulated the csharp help article on memmory managment that Raju had posted around work and got these ones in response. 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... 2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/m... ......