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May25

Deploying Risks and Issues as Centrally Controlled Content Types in a MOSS/MOPS Environment

This post describes a trick we came up with a couple of months ago that works great, and really should be considered standard for any joint MOPS/MOSS (or WSS) deployment. The advantages of this approach are: 1) Centrally controlled Risk and Issue metadata, to support the changing needs of an organization. 2) The ability to hide columns as needed. For instance, many organizations opt not to ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on Monday, 25 May 2009 07:37.
0 Comments | Categories: MOPS 2007

 
May22

New requirements for SharePoint Server 2010

The new requirements for SharePoint Server 2010, hence Project Server 2010 have been disclosed on TechEd:- SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only - SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005- SharePoint Server 2010 will require a standards based browser ...
Posted by Virgilio Arciniegas on Friday, 22 May 2009 02:25.
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May22

Important Information on Service Pack 2

If you have recently installed applied Service Pack 2 (SP2)  for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, this information is of high relevance to you. A bug with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that affects all customers that have deployed it for SharePoint Server 2007 has been identified. During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will ex...
Posted by Virgilio Arciniegas on Friday, 22 May 2009 01:08.
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May22

CACTUSS and SALSSA Videos and Power Point Presentation

Hi everyone,As I promised, I am uploading the videos showing how to install SQL Reporting Services 2005.I hope you enjoyed the meeting. I am working to create additional material for having a next presentation soon, please keep checking my blog for any future events.I enjoyed both groups tremendously and thank everyone that could attend. The installation video is available here. The configu...
Posted by Virgilio Arciniegas on Friday, 22 May 2009 08:35.
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May14

Master Project Baseline Issues

I am currently managing a master project with two subprojects.  The other day, I was trying to export the timephased baseline data into a visual report, and ran into a couple of issues.  Figured this would be good content for my inaugural contribution to this blog:   A couple of things.....first when establishing the baseline for a master project, it's important to note that the master projec...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on Thursday, 14 May 2009 05:06.
2 Comments | Categories: Project Professional 2007

 
May6

EPM Codeplex tools available for download

From my original post in my blog at: http://msofficedepot.blogspot.com EPM Timesheet & Statusing Customization Samples http://epmtsst.codeplex.com/ Project DescriptionCode samples that demonstrate how EPM (Project Server) 2007 Timesheet and Statusing functionalities could be customized using custom event handlers and Project Server Interface calls. These samples leverage the Timeshee...
Posted by Virgilio Arciniegas on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 02:04.
0 Comments | Categories: MOPS 2007