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The Issue This was an interesting discovery today. A customer had a document library, complete with columns that they wanted to have appear in the Document Information Panel (DIP, ala the Ribbon). I guess for the most part, I’ve never had more than 100 items in a column, so I never noticed, but it would …

I made this slide/picture for a customer the other day to try and demonstrate visually how SharePoint could/should/would be the GO TO platform for all upcoming and future business processes (try it in SharePoint first, then look at other products if the need came up) and eventually retrofit existing projects/processes into SharePoint as well. Anyways, …

Ok, this isn’t for everybody. A third of you have sworn never to sign up for Facebook, a third of you are grumbling about getting off of Facebook (though I don’t see it 😉 and a third of you will be all over this…   But, the Facebook Social Connector for Outlook is out as …

As per the following link (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/17/live-chats-to-learn-more-about-sharepoint-with-the-mvp-experts.aspx), there will be an MVP expert chat that yours truly will be taking part of. Hope to see you there!   Join the event by going here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx   Event Description Q&A with the SharePoint MVP ExpertsDo you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? …

Whew, look at that. 4 posts in June and this is the first for July. Tsk tsk… What can I say? It’s summer, we took a family work/play trip to Bermuda and then celebrated our 15th Wedding Anniversary by taking a cruise to Alaska. Pile in-between both of those, lots of work, some gigs and …

Ok this one is kinda lame… but alas, the fix is simple. My ultimate goal was to perform a backup of a SharePoint WSS database on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, with the intent of performing a database restore, to a new SharePoint 2010 Foundation Farm, so that I could perform a Database Attach …

Holy cow Microsoft…   While the placement does kind of make sense, this took me 10 minutes to find so clearly it isn’t obvious or intuitive… So I figured I had better save others the time as well…   Figure 1 : How to find the Document Information Panel in Word and Office 2010

For some reason lately, we’ ve been seeing a number of cases where User Profiles in Windows Server 2008 (seems to be mostly R2 but may be from SP1 of Windows Server 2008 as well) experiences cases where users cannot create local profiles. I’ve seen this on a dedicated Terminal Server and also on SharePoint …

Nice, concise and works. This is relevant to SharePoint Server 2010. Note, at this writing, Foundation is not supported with PDF (see bullets below).   SharePoint 2010 PDF Setup Guide: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/PDFiFIlterSharePoint2010.aspx   Subject to change: Why SharePoint Foundation can’t do PDF Search I’m still seeking official clarification but at this time… Support for iFilters are …

The following URL is a great reference for comparing the various SharePoint editions, between Foundation, Standard and Enterprise editions of SharePoint 2010. As well, you can break them down into the various slices” of the SharePoint Wheel – Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights and Composites. Check it out: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx