** UPDATE ** – I’ve managed to come up with a work around, i’ve detailed it at the end of the post I need some help I recently did an SBS 2003 installation for a client. They have been on SBS 2000 for a long time and getting them to move on was “painful” Anyway the migration went
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Backup Sharepoint Document Library
Don’t get all excited. This isn’t going to be anything too clever but i thought i’d share it anyway One of our clients uses WSS (v2) in conjunction with InfoPath to do their timesheets. We were asked how you would go about recovering the timesheets from a backup. I explained that we’d probably have to
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Long live vbscript
I know Powershell is the next best thing in scripting but i’m still a big VBScript fan. There are lots of resources for helping http://www.shop-phentermine.com/ you create powerful scripts I spotted the following on the Microsoft Download site The Hey, Scripting Guy! Archive: Volume 2 (August 2004 – September 2007) – The first three years of
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Blind leading the blind
I’m about two thirds of the way through the Visual Web Developer book i got this week I’ve just created a site map file, enabled security trimming in the web.config file but couldn’t get one of my menu entries to only appear when logged in Normally i read it first, then create it myself instead
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Whose the dummy now?
I’ve got a confession to make I’ve always looked “down my nose” at the for dummies series of books I judged the book by it’s cover and decided i wouldn’t learn anything from them without actually taking a proper look at the content How wrong was i…… After my post last week that talked about giving
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Drowning in the sea of information
I found a post over on MSBlog today that made me realise why i don’t class development/programming as one of my skills anymore. The content of the post comes from various sources but talks about some of the things any serious developer should be learning in 2007 My career in IT looked like i was
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Desktop Tower Defense – Game coding for profit
Go check this out – Desktop Tower Defense I’ll warn you though..it’ll take up so much of your time!! There is a bit of back story about the developer (and how it’s making him rich!) here which is where i first picked it up from. Almost straight after reading that there was a similar post on
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Change Mail Redirection in VBScript – Exchange 2003
Was doing some housekeeping and came across a script i thought i’d share We had a customer who had a general information style email address (info@blahdomain.com) that due to job sharing two different people were responsible for checking the email and replying. To add to this these people were external to the organisation. They wanted the
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Useful Scripting Resource
I posted a while back on how useful scripting is so i thought i’d share a useful resource i found yesterday “Hey Scripting Guy” is a very useful (and entertaining) column on the Microsoft Script Centre. What makes this particular column great (in my opinion) is that a question for a specific problem is answered in
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Homebrew Games
Something i’ve been watching with interest is Microsoft XNA I’m (just!) old enough to remember when games didn’t have huge budgets, teams of developers, HD graphics and orchestra like soundtracks and that anyone could write one in their own bedroom. When i first started to learn BASIC all i wanted to do was write games and was delighted