Michael Stringfellow's contact has ended

2009-03-13 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
I will be out of the office starting 12/03/2009 and will not return until 30/09/2009. Please email mike.stringfel...@sevensigma.com.au instead. ___ Unencrypted electronic mail is not secure and may not be authentic. If

Michael Stringfellow's contact has ended

2009-03-12 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
I will be out of the office starting 12/03/2009 and will not return until 31/10/2010. Please email mike.stringfel...@sevensigma.com.au instead. ___ Unencrypted electronic mail is not secure and may not be authentic. If

Fw: Welcome page - bug or feature [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-03-09 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
to take Sezai's favourite, MCSM content with links based on GUID's, and whack it in SP, as well as a docs from a doc management system that used Id's, so it made a lot of sense. MS - Forwarded by Michael Stringfellow/CSC/CB/B

Re: Welcome page - bug or feature [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-03-09 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
That's why people end up using a look-up url, that returns docs based on a unique document management system id or guid (internal CAML or look-up from a list). It's also why you end up with an extra column on all your custom content types - Original GUID - that won't change in migrations, deployme

RE: Feb 2009 CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released!

2009-03-08 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Easy, easy. I asked because I, like many others I'm guessing, request some software, get told where it is on the network, skim read some EULA text and click ok to install. I've had no exposure to the differences you mention and don't understand the implications. If it's against the EULA, does tha

Re: Feb 2009 CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released!

2009-03-08 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Calling all AU contract law experts! Is it illegal, if you have a license for the product AND server anyway? As Tommy noted, many use laptops, and running up virtual images can drown slow memory and HD subsystems. That's why I asked the question and was considering it. Unsupported and strongly

RE: Feb 2009 CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released!

2009-03-05 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Has anyone tried bamboo solutions free tool to get WSS+MOSS on Vista 32 or 64bit + SQLExpress? http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/bambooteamblog/archive/2008/05/21/how-to-install-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-sp1-on-vista-x64-x86.aspx I'm tempted to give it a go on my own PC to see if

RE: Link advice please

2009-02-24 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Thanks Paul - the doc workspace doesn't sound quite right from my reading so far, but I'll test it out. 1. Sending the docs means I'll have to programmatically copy the meta-data back and forth as well, and as you mention, merging versions back when multiple projects have worked on them is almost

RE: Link advice please

2009-02-24 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Maybe not - I've not used them so it looks like asking the question is paying off already! I guess there would be a workspace per project, so the only thing I can think of is when multiple projects are working on the same files. Can you organise those workspaces into a site structure as detailed

Link advice please

2009-02-24 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get his sort of functionality?: Basically a 'project' view of the world with a project doc and links to the docs elsewhere it involves. Those links point to their 'systems documentation' with a life beyond the many individual projects that include them.

Re: Feb 2009 CTP of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has been released!

2009-02-23 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Daniel, We would all love to have our own 64bit Server under the desk to develop on. But until recently, MS haven't been supporting us Devs on that target OS, as their focus was on the majority of devs using 32 bit client OSes. And most organisations don't have deep enough pockets, don't allow Ser

RE: Storing documents in a Pages library

2009-02-10 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Fundamentally I'm with you, and your users, on this Ivan - it's just another type of content. Unfortunately I'm an idealist, so in practical terms you probably shouldn't do it! The main reason is the law of unintended consequences. Sometime you go down a path (especially with SharePoint's complex

RE: Draft Folder & Check Out

2009-02-03 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Can you: 1. If you are using 'edit in ms word', can you instead out the document manually in SP first, and then edit in word? 2. Both access the documents as read-only from the link? I've seen this behaviour before, but can't for the life of me remember what it was now I'm afraid. Mike.

RE: Attached Document Template reference changes to Temporary Internet Files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-28 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Update: Yippe - a solution to this!!! There was nothing as fancy as a group policy doing this (I searched my registry without luck, but beware that the Word 2003 file location runs home to C:\Documents and Settings\CurrentUser\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates even without a setting). It turns

RE: Feature attributes - default activation on new sites

2009-01-22 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Yep - stapling always sounds like what you want, but rarely meets what you need - more caveats than a lawyers office. Caveat Utilitor Stapling

RE: Feature attributes - default activation on new sites

2009-01-21 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Sorry, but as far as I know there is no single way to add and activate features on all existing and new sites. I'd run the 2 stsadm commands to install and activate, if activate by default doesn't kick in. The add the feature to the desired soltuions/site definitions for new sites. Sorry, not sing

RE: Feature attributes - default activation on new sites

2009-01-21 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
>From memory, feature stapling won't activate those at a web scope. You may also hit issues with; a. the site not being fully provisioned if you have a mechanism to activate them though code (ensure you test the provisioning status property). b. The order of the 'staplee' features is not as you l

Attached Document Template reference changes to Temporary Internet Files

2009-01-19 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
A belated Happy New Year to the list!. A little help though please, as I've not looked into document templates much before and they are causing me grief! I've got a standard doc library with versioning, 'require checkout for edit' and a single custom content type (with a custom approvals workflo

RE: Urgent Help

2008-12-28 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
You probably need to push out a new/changed browser settings policy for the ie 'content zone' you are targetting, or even specific settings for your domain. Regards, Mike.

RE: Urgent Help

2008-12-23 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
Sounds like a cache issue, probably on the client. Tomm

RE: Applying the December Cumulative Updates

2008-12-22 Thread Michael . Stringfellow
I hope that wasn't Java dripping over you .net code. Given past hotfix experience, and sticking with the metaphor, I'd let the cumulative update cool for a while to see if anyone else is a mug and burns their mouth on it first... MS