Outlook 2007 Free/Busy Issues

Came across an interesting issue that I thought I would pass along.  For the longest time I couldn’t see any Free/Busy information when I used the Outlook client to connect to Exchange.  When I used webmail, the information was there. I finally figured out why: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17227. After I added the key, the info is available.  [...]

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Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 Upgrade thoughts

I just completed a medium sized upgrade (83GB) for a client from Sharepoint 2003 to 2007 and thought I’d share a few things I took away from it: You’re probably going to need to create a new Site Definition to map to the old one if the old one is customized at all Set expectations [...]

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New Sharepoint Book

Here’s a new Sharepoint book that my manager Sean McDonough and John Ferringer co-wrote: SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide Book Description: Microsoft’s SharePoint technology gives organizations access to a wide range of tools and functionality designed to encourage collaboration, manage documents, discover shared knowledge, and much more. As the use of these resources through SharePoint [...]

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Welcome Page Updater

During a recent uprade from Sharepoint 2003 to 2007, I noticed that some of the sites’ welcome pages weren’t getting set correctly. For some reason, they were set to UpgLandingPgRedir.aspx, which redirected to nowhere. Very convenient; must be a feature. Here’s a piece of code I wrote that looks at every weclome page in your [...]

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