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[Post] MOSS 2007 Infrastructure Updates

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Microsoft have released Infrastructure Update for MOSS 2007.
The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) includes several new Enterprise Search features for SharePoint Server 2007 and the latest performance updates and fixes for the Microsoft Office Servers listed in the system requirements section below.
Key updates [...]
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[Post] Almost bought iPhone

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Yes, almost. I did not stand in queue for hours, nor did I pay a deposit to get my hands on this most sought after gadget of 2008. However with all the media hype, I was tempted to get one since I am looking for a new device.
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[Post] News

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First off, loyal blog subscribers a big thank you for your subscription and hanging in there. I am happy that you have stuck around, since I have not really been in touch with you all in last 3 months.
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[Favorite] Windows Server 2008 Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735844.aspx
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[Post] Live Mesh Updates for June 18 2008

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I have been using Live Mesh for quite some time now and have already reached 60% of my allocated quota
Today I received an email from The Live Mesh Team with a list of fixes implemented in the latest Live Mesh release.
Fixes
· Live Mesh is now available in all English-speaking countries [...]
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[Pipe] SharePoint Resources
SharePoint Resources available since last 28 days!
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[Post] Blog Reader Exclusive

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Hi Guys! Long time no personal message. Have you checked out RSS Exclusive page recently? Well, head over there and you'd be surprised
On a side note, subscribe to email updates. Next month, I am going to be hosting a contest and some goodies lined up.
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[Post] Howto configure client alias for SQL Server

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This post will show you how to configure client aliases for SQL Server. One of the security hardening measures is configuring non-standard port for SQL Server instances.
A default instance of SQL Server listens for connections on TCP port 1433.
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[Post] SharePoint + Twitter

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Follow SharePoint on Twitter - SPTwitters. Never mind if you didn't make it to first 30
It really makes me feel so connected with other SharePointers!
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[Post] Send SMS from Outlook 2007

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The Outlook Mobile Service (OMS) was introduced in Outlook 2007 to allow you to send and receive text messages in Outlook. It also enables you to configure mobile notifications to have important messages, calendar summaries, and reminders forwarded to your mobile phone as text messages.
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[Just SharePoint] HOW TO: Import User Profile Information of Enabled User Accounts
This article describes how to import user profile information of enabled user accounts from Active Directory directory services to Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
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[Post] SharePoint Error 6482 - Related to Hosts File

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In our production setup, we experienced this issue when trying to access the Shared Service Provider Admin Web site. In a different environment, the SharePoint Configuration Wizard failed and it was same error that needed to be fixed.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category [...]
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[Post] MOSS Command Line Installation Round Up

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I apologise for not getting this done earlier. This is the index of all the posts I did to install MOSS from command line. I am planning to create a pdf document for this, not this week though. If you are a SharePoint blogger and would like to advertise in the pdf, please contact me.
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[Just SharePoint] How to set restrictions on a site collection
Administrators can use the stsadm.exe command to set restrictions on a site collection to allow access only for users in a particular OU
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[Just SharePoint] QOD: Can you audit permission changes?
Question: Can you audit permission changes in a site collection?
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[MsTalk] Microsoft Office Mobile 6.1: Upgrade for Microsoft Office 2007 file formats

Microsoft Office 2007 introduced new Open XML-based file formats for Office applications. These new file formats reduce file size, improve security and reliability, and enhance integration with external sources.
To allow Windows Mobile users to work with Office documents created in the Open XML formats, Microsoft has developed an upgrade for Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile applications.
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[MsTalk] Xbox Backward Compatibility

Microsoft has just issued the latest backwards compatibility update for the Xbox 360, allowing over 80 previously unsupported original Xbox games to be played on the system. Thanks to the Xbox 360's software emulation, all supported games are capable of running in resolutions up to 1080i with anti-aliasing.
Notable titles added include Armed and Dangerous, Breakdown, Burnout 2 [...]
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[MsTalk] Tip: Disable/Enable Screensaver with a shortcut
How many times have you been watching a long video on your computer and had the screensaver come on? Then you play the game of trying to jiggle the mouse every certain number of minutes to make sure it doesn't happen again... seems like it would be easier to have a really quick way to disable the screensaver.
Our solution comes in the form of a little utility named flipss.exe which can be used to easily enable or disable the screensaver via [...]
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[MsTalk] Tricks for 3D Pinball in XP

I just came across some secret codes for 3D Pinball in Windows XP. Now you don't need to start from ground zero! Howzzatt?!!
Note that the 3D Pinball window must be active for these codes to work.
- Regain your old rank from a previous game by starting a new game and immediately typing rmax.
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[MsTalk] Get Vista Style Drive Icons in Windows XP
One of the nice little features in Windows Vista that you don't think about is the graph of drive space for your drive icons, so you can visually see at a glance how much space is used. There's no reason to upgrade for this feature, especially since some programmers created a small utility for XP that gives you the same functionality.
You'll notice the new icon looks very similar to the ones in Vista [...]
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[MsTalk] 3rd Party Tools for Managing Active Directory

Some Third-Party Gems since Active Directory is based on LDAP standards, you can query and modify it using any tool that can speak LDAP. Many third-party vendors have released fee-based tools to assist you in administering Active Directory, but sometimes you find a treasure that has been made available to the community at no charge.
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[Just SharePoint] HowTo: Create Site Collections with Create Site
If you want to create site collections using create site button, you need to do the following:
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[MsTalk] More Essential Tools for Active Directory

Dsget and Dsquery
The ds* command-line toolset also includes two tools used to query Active Directory for information rather than for creating or modifying objects.
Dsget takes an object's DN as input and provides you with the value of the attribute or attributes you specify.
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[Just SharePoint] Friday Video: Fix IE User Logon Prompt
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[MsTalk] Essential Tools for Active Directory - 2

Dsadd
Dsadd is used to create an instance of an Active Directory object class on a particular directory partition. These classes include users, computers, contacts, groups, organizational units, and quotas. Dsadd has a generic syntax that consists of the following:
dsadd attributes
Note that each object type you create takes a specific set of switches corresponding to the attributes available for that type.
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[MsTalk] Essential Tools to Manage Active Directory
CSVDE
The Comma-Separated Values Data Exchange tool, known as CSVDE, allows you to import new objects into Active Directory using a CSV source file; it also provides you with the ability to export existing objects to a CSV file. CSVDE can't be used to modify existing objects; when you are using this tool in import mode you can only create brand-new objects.
Exporting a list of existing objects with CSVDE is fairly simple.
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[MsTalk] Update for Internet Explorer for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB912945)
This update includes minor changes to how Internet Explorer handles some web pages that use Microsoft ActiveX controls. Please see the Overview section of this page for more information.
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[Just SharePoint] HowTo: Index Office 2007 files on SPS 2003
You upload a document or a file that was created by using the 2007 Microsoft Office system to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Web site. When you do this, SharePoint Portal Server cannot index the 2007 Office document or file.
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[Favorite] Get Windows Live Email Address | Alpesh Nakars' Blogosphere
http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog/get-windows-live-email-address/
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[Just SharePoint] CLI: Unextend / Extend Web Application
extend or unextend sharepoint application using this script
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[Favorite] docstoc : find and share any document
http://www.docstoc.com/

Download professional documents - free! Be it legals or business. One place for all professional documents
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[Favorite] Make ad changes without replacing code
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/10/coming-soon-make-ad-changes-without.html
Google Adsense Server side ad management
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[Favorite] GooSync for Mobile Contacts
http://www.goosync.com/

Full on-line GooSync Contact manager from within your GooSync account; Bring your contacts together in a single easy to manage place.
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[Favorite] Microsoft WM6 Dare 2 Die Start doing more
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/startdoingmore/default.aspx?WT.mc_id=sdmvan
Don't try this!
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[Favorite] Gmail Imap Help
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77689
Imap is on it's way in gmail. How will this handle labels?
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[Favorite] Bad Neighborhood - Link Exchange Tool
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
Tool to scan the links on your website and flag problem areas.
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[Favorite] Change Default Thumbnail Size in WordPress 2.3
http://www.supriyadisw.net/2007/10/change-default-thumbnail-size-in-wordpress-23
How to change the default size of the thumbnails that WordPress 2.3 creates when you upload an image.
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[Favorite] Customizing Your WordPress Theme Footer
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/customizing-your-wordpress-theme-footer/
How to customize your WordPress Theme footer.
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[Favorite] Design Bliss's 25 RSS Icons
http://www.designbliss.com/2007/09/27/over-25-different-styles-of-rss-icons/
25 different styles of RSS icons
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[Favorite] Feed Icons - Free Icons For RSS Feed Icons
http://feedicons.com/

Feed Icons now offers large downloadable packages of a wide variety of feed icons to choose from.
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[Just SharePoint] HowTo: SlipStream WSS and MOSS Security Updates
slipstream security hotfix updates for wss and moss 2007
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[Favorite] Google tools to power virtual worlds
http://www.news.com/2100-1043_3-6212325.html
Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is set to announce a partnership Tuesday that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment
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[Favorite] Jaiku Acquired by Google
http://www.jaiku.com/help/google
Twitter will gain more popularity with anti-google camp...
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[Just SharePoint] New Theme?
This blog would love to have a premium theme. What do you think? Given the content of this blog, getting a Revolution News Theme for free in a giveaway contest would rock!
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[Just SharePoint] Links for 2007-10-07 [del.icio.us]
- You cannot search for content, or you may receive unexpected results when you search for content in the portal site in SharePoint Server 2007 or in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
You may find that MOSS 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 do not index content correctly.
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[Just SharePoint] HowTo: Display Custom Fields in CQWP
Over at MSDN, the team has demonstrated a howto for displaying custom fields in Content Query Web Parts.
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[Favorite] Build An Image Map with CSS
http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/10/02/css-image-map/
DK Rocks! I'd love to have a cool header like that! Trust me :-) Can I have one DK?
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[Favorite] Cheap Wireless For Your Xbox 360
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/10/02/how-to-cheap-wireless-for-your-xbox-360/
HOW TO: Cheap Wireless For Your Xbox 360
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[Favorite] SSL-Explorer
http://www.sshtools.com/showSslExplorerCommunity.do
An open-source, web browser based SSL VPN solution.Securely access your company's intranet applications and resources that are behind a firewall remotely from a web browser without installing and configuring any third party VPN client software.
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[Favorite] FeedBurner FeedSmith
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BurnThisRSS2/~3/164960170/the_feedsmith_plugin_newly_for.php
Get the latest update of feedburner feedsmith for your wordpress blog. Plugs security hole.
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[Favorite] Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Debut_Zune_2_on_Tuesday/1191256215
Microsoft will hold a event on Tuesday in Redmond to herald the second generation of Zune music players
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[Favorite] Steve Ballmer stirs the technology pay row
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2568492.ece
The Microsoft chief executive has questioned the mammoth $74m pay-package taken home last year by Oracle's Larry Ellison
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[Favorite] Niklas Zennstrom Steps Down as CEO of Skype
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071001/20071001005827.html
First casualty of Web 2?
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[Favorite] Nokia announces buy out of NAVETQ
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1157198
Competition for iphone
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[Favorite] Joost is now gold
http://www.joost.com/blog/2007/10/hello-public.html
Joost have opened up to public. It is no more an invite only
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[Favorite] Pow Wow Info - PowWows.com » Blog Archive » PowWows.com Media Kit
http://www.powwows.com/info/?p=15
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[Favorite] About Us
http://www.mediabistro.com/aboutus/advertising.asp
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[Favorite] Multiple Versions of IE
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
The installer will not work with Windows Vista, but if you've got Windows XP, you can be the first on your block to run 6 different versions of Internet Explorer.
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[Favorite] Yuvraj Singh six sixes in one over
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bob85WbW8cU

Bravo! Blaster Master!! You just can't miss this one!
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[Favorite] Google Reader Theme 1.2 // journal // hicksdesign
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/google-reader-theme-12
Google Reader Theme 1.2 update includes search for Google Reader
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[Favorite] http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=734
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=734
Google already owns GDrive.com, but it's unlikely that will be the final name of the service. Like Gmail is technically "Google Mail", the real name for GDrive will likely be "Google Drive".
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[Favorite] iPhone now software unlocked in 32 countries and 69 carriers
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/iphone-now-software-unlocked-in-32-countries-and-69-carriers/
With the European and Asian iPhone rollouts still months away, is it any wonder to find the little guy venturing out on the mean, GSM streets all on his own?
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[Favorite] Free Online Audio and Video Convertor- Media Convert VX2 | -| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-
http://www.nirmaltv.com/2007/09/11/convert-audio-and-video-online-media-convert-vx2/
It is a free online tool for converting Video and Audio files to other formats.
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[Pipe] Just SharePoint Feeds
Experimenting with Just SharePoint Feeds
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[Pipe] Indian Techie Blogs
Indian Technology Bloggers
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[Pipe] Alpesh Nakar - Experimental Pipe
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[Pipe] Copy of Aggregated News Alerts
Get news from Yahoo!, Google, MSN, Findory, Bloglines, and Technorati on any topic, all fed to you in one feed.
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