Microsoft has announced the December Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog.  Make sure you read the whole post before applying as there's information related to earlier reported errors. - M

Hoping all have a great holiday these next couple weeks...enjoy and see ya in the new year! - M

As the munged title kinda states, this posting relates to an event that has already happened. So much fer real-time, eh?

I was able to present a more "code heavy" presentation of my talk on Features and Solutions at the Philly.NET Code Camp on Saturday, October 11th. I gotta say, what a cool event. Hundreds of folks showed up, early on a Saturday, and stayed til the evening, listening to tracks from 51 speakers that ranged all across the .NET space. It was one of the coolest things I ever did, meeting with peers, speaking on topics we all are interested in.

I'm tidying up the source code that I used for my talk and will upload in the very near future.

Oh and to any and all that showed up for my talk...thanks! - M

*** UPDATE ***
As promised, here's the code and presentation slides...CodeCamp20081011.zip (842.53 kb)

As luck would have it I'm giving a small presentation on Microsoft's SharePoint Features and Solutions Framework to the Philly Office Geeks User Group during their monthly meeting on the evening of September 9th. When complete I'll see if I can post the contents of the slide deck here as well as on the Group's site.

** UPDATE **
With the site move I'm now able to have the presentation available here...SolFeat.ppt (1.16 mb)

I've seen many posts around the topic of SSL-enabling a Web Application and how many go through the process of Extending the Web Application to do so. While this does work, it is not necessary. Extending a Web Application should really be used when you want to offer a different authentication mechanism than the default one. To SSL-enable a Web Application all you need to do is (1) add an Alternate Access Mapping entry and (2) install the SSL certificate on the web site. To add a new AAM entry perform the following steps:

1. From the Central Administration home page navigate through Operations --> Alternate Access Mappings (under the Global Configuration section)
2. In the Alternate Access Mapping Collection dropdown (near upper-right) select Change Alternate Access Mapping Collection
3. In the Select An Alternate Access Mapping Collection page select the relevant Web Application Name you want to create a new entry for
4. In the Alternate Access Mappings page click the Edit Public URLs button near the upper-left.
5. Enter the desired URL in one of the 4 Zones available then click the button
6. Install the SSL certificate to the relevant IIS website

At this point you should be good to go!

- M

Check this out...I found this while wandering around the Bamboo Solutions site...

For those that are looking to do some development w/o virtuals, with the information found at the following blog entry you can now set up your Vista box for SharePoint development. Cool stuff!

How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86

- M

I found this while doing some diligence around the possibility of using this part as a way to display some project (think MS Project) information based on tasks and their dates. In my work I was looking to display a Task's information and it's Due Date and Actual Finish Date as a bar chart, to show the differences of planned vs. actual.

It seems that when you set up the Chart Plus part to have its Y-Axis be Long/Short Date based, the scale shows information in the form of 12/30/1899 for each place on the scale, and not the dates in the source data.

This was duplicated by the Bamboo support team. Incidentally, kudos to them for responding so quickly (2 days) for an issue that came up for an individual (me) using a trial version of their software. Excellent in my book.

- M

3 words: Go get it!

This is a fantastic book written by Ben Curry and Bill English of Mindsharp. It basically speaks to the best practices around designing and deploying a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation (and all of the ins and outs).

Find it at Amazon here.

- M

Achieved!

Well, I finally found a new home, with a new look, and the ability to upload/host content as well.  I'm currently migrating my previous posts from my old blog (http://moss2007stuff.blogspot.com/) to here.  So, grab a cup (mmm...Dunkin' Donuts coffee...), have a seat, and enjoy the new posts! - M