SharePoint Document Library Folders/Subfolders Headache
I have been recently contacted by a group that has created a Document Library within their SharePoint Site, containing about 2,600 folders. When I first looked at this document library, I start...
View ArticleSharePoint Client Side Customization – Part 2 (Web Services In Action)
On my previous article “SharePoint Client Side Customization – Part 1 (Rude Awakening)”, I talked about the limitations that I have encountered while working with SharePoint. With this in mind, I would...
View ArticleSharePoint Conference 2008 – Seattle
Seattle is one of those cities that I wanted to visit for the longest time, since I grew up during the “Grundge” era. In addition, I am a SharePoint kind of guy and the combination of both made it a...
View ArticleMicrosoft SharePoint Visual How Tos
The Ted Pattison has posted some great Visual How Tos: Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Activating Auditing Programmatically for a...
View ArticleSharePoint 2007 Customization RoadMap
SharePoint 2007 has greatly improved its infrastructure when compared against SharePoint 2003. When customization SharePoint 2003 with FrontPage 2003, users could use javascript to pre-populate fields...
View ArticleSharePoint 2007 Free Templates
You don’t usually get anything for free these days, specially coming from Microsoft. Check out these Microsoft freebies for SharePoint 2007: The Fantastic 40 Site Templates (leave it to tech guys to...
View ArticleWhat is a “Feature” in SharePoint 2007?
This is a good article that talks about the introduction of “Features” in SharePoint 2007. link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/05/OfficeSpace/ The post What is a “Feature” in SharePoint...
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Using Javascript to Manipulate a List Form Field
This is a good article on how to be able to set values on SharePoint Elements. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/06/13/using-javascript-to-manipulate-a-list-form-field.aspx Thanks...
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Excel 2007 Add-in for Synchronizing Tables with SharePoint Lists
When MOSS was officially released, I was extremely happy to see how tighly integrated MOSS and Office 2007 were. However, when playing around with Excel 2007, I was disappointed that I could no longer...
View ArticleMicrosoft RoundTable
Move over Cisco and Polycom! Here comes Microsoft Office Communication Server and some new toys. Last week at MetroStar we played with the RoundTable and the new VOIP Phone. It was amazing how...
View ArticleSharePoint Workflow Links
SharePoint Workflow introduction http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101005871033.aspx Create a workflow in SharePoint designer...
View ArticleHow to Grab Items From the QueryString?
ISSUE: How to grab items from the query string? SOLUTION: SharePoint 2007 uses QueryString heavily, in order to display data. If you have access to the SharePoint Server, under the...
View ArticleSharePoint Performance on Large Lists
The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog posted a very good white paper that talks about SharePoit performance of a very large lists. Greate read. White Paper: Working with Large...
View ArticleDeploying and Supporting Enterprise Search (Technical White Paper)
This is a great technical white paper, even for developers, since it provides an overview on Enterprise Search. If you are looking for code, this is not necessarily what you would like, however, if you...
View ArticleUsing Javascript to Manipulate a List Form Field
This is a great post by the SharePoint Designer Team on using javascript to manipulate a list form field:...
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How to Remove “generate-id” From a Customized Form
ISSUE: I am customizing the EditForm.aspx file and have added an HTML Table Tag. Moreover, when I set the “ID” attribute for the HTML TABLE Tag and save the page, SharePoint keeps on appending the...
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SharePoint and SQL Cubes
It has been an extremely busy couple of months, since I have been back from the Seattle SharePoint Conference. And man, it has been a while since I posted anything. At the Seattle SharePoint...
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Anonymously Submit InfoPath Form to SharePoint Library
If you’ve landed on this post, then you are probably struggling to submit InfoPath browser-enabled forms to a SharePoint library anonymously. And you’ve already learned that SharePoint doesn’t allow...
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Add Navigation Buttons to Your SharePoint Site (Without SharePoint Designer!)
Ok… so you’ve done it, you’ve dared to click the ‘Add Web Part’ button and have ‘ooohhed’ and ‘ahhhed’ at the enormous list of available Web Parts. Of course, each Web Part provides its own special...
View ArticleSharePoint Designer 2007 “failed to load the workflow”
To resolve the error “failed to load the workflow” when opening a declarative workflow in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007, please follow the steps provided below: Close Microsoft SharePoint Designer...
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MetroStar Systems Employee Receives Exclusive Microsoft Award
In athletic arenas, winning multiple games, titles, and championships can result in several acknowledgments and perks. Each field of sport tends to acknowledge one shining star as its team’s Most...
View ArticleApple wants Microsoft “Laptop Hunter” Ads pulled
Just like most of us, I get a real kick out of TV Commercials. I got to admit it, the Apple commercials were funny, however, I was surprised that Microsoft did not react right away with counter ads. I...
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows Azure Pricing
Microsoft has released pricing plans for their cloud-based operating system Windows Azure and related systems. Pricing for Windows Azure is based on: compute time (i.e. machine hours while your...
View ArticleRide the Microsoft Wave
Keeping track of technology can, at times, be a time consuming endeavor. Especially when it comes to Microsoft technologies. Moreover, trying to explain these technologies to users can take even...
View ArticleHow to Customize the Layouts Application Master Page
The introduction of master pages in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has made it easy for designers like me to customize the look and feel of SharePoint sites. I had created and customized...
View ArticleSilverlight Streaming of Sunday Night NFL Football
Silverlight is one of those technologies that keeps on giving. And what ‘s more important to guys than football? NFL Football is one of those sports where Full HD Streaming, 5 cameras, instant replay,...
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Bing Visual Search
As an avid Google user, I keep on asking myself, why would I ever use Bing. Google has been good to me, since I can easily find information in regards to work. However, when it comes to home searches,...
View ArticleSharePoint 101/102 Slide Decks
Per request, here are pdfs of the slide decks used in the SharePoint 101 and 102 classes. Thanks! Janis Introduction to SharePoint “Introduction to a SharePoint Collaborative Envirionment” by Janis...
View ArticleMicrosoft My Phone
If you ever lost a phone, you know how it feels to know that all the data that you had saved on your phone is gone. All those pictures, music and contacts are gone with the phone. It happened to me and...
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Walkthrough: DVWP Tooltip
Tooltips may be implemented to greatly improve user experience in many scenarios. This walkthrough will provide a method with which tooltip functionality may be implemented on SharePoint Data View Web...
View ArticleScience Behind Project Natal
New year, new tools, new games, NO CONTROLLERS? Microsoft is really cranking on getting Project Natal this year with hopes of getting this onto the market by the end of 2010. Check out the following...
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Please wait while Setup finishes determining your disk space requirements
.MSI files can act strangely at times. Causing us to explode in anger as to why it decided that it must check your disk for space requirements. Is this a sign that I must take a break and get a cup of...
View ArticleSurface SDK and Windows 7
I recently upgraded my computer from Windows Vista to Windows 7. And while setting up my computer, I discovered that the Microsoft Surface SDK only works on Windows Vista. I am not going to lie, but I...
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Windows Phone 7 Series
Earlier this week, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft unveiled “Windows Phone 7 Series“. This new phone, which Microsoft is targeting to unleash by the 2010 holiday season, will take...
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Mostafa Elzohgbi presenting at Microsoft’s 2010 MVP Summit
MetroStar Systems is pleased and proud to announce that our team member, Mostafa Elzohgbi, will be presenting at Microsoft’s exclusive 2010 MVP Global Summit which takes place February 16-19, 2010 at...
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Office Communicator 2007 R2 Missing Registry Key
I love technology, however, when someone forgets to add very simple comments, it drive me crazy. Today, I needed to figure out how to add a Custom Tab onto Microsoft’s Office Communicator 2007 R2....
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Adding Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to a Pool on a Subdomain
Let’s say you want to install Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 onto a subdomain (i.e. installing OCS onto a domain such as lab.domain.net instead of domain.net). If you are logged in as a...
View ArticleNotes from the 2010 Microsoft MVP Global Summit
Hello Everyone, I’d like to share some of the experiences I had at the 2010 Microsoft MVP Global Summit which was held from 16-19 Feb 2010 in Seattle, WA. This year’s summit was exciting for MVPs as...
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Imagine Cup USA 2010
The Newseum in Washington, DC (Image Courtesy of http://www.newseum.org/) The Imagine Cup U.S. Finals event was held on Monday, April 26, 2010 in Washington, DC at the Newseum. The Imagine Cup is the...
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SharePoint Saturday Washington DC
Sharepoint Saturday, Washington DC was held on May 15th this year. The event, at no charge to registrants, offers a full day of knowledge sharing, networking and seminars. MetroStar Systems was...
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SharePoint Saturday New York City
SharePoint Saturday New York City is being held July 31st this year at the Microsoft Manhattan Office. The event is well-known for its lively atmosphere, invaluable presentations, and for its high...
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Mostafa Extends His Microsoft MVP Streak to Five Years in a Row
Another year has passed here at MetroStar Systems and yet another Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Visual C# award has been bestowed upon our own Mostafa Elzoghbi. In what has seemingly...
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New Visual Search!
MetroStar Systems has implemented Microsoft’s Pivot technology to create a new way to search Supernova: Visually! If you haven’t checked it out yet, give it a try by clicking here and see what catches...
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Adding a Silverlight Control to an existing ASP.NET Website
I’ve only been working with Silverlight for a few months now and I’ve came to the conclusion that either my Google-fu is lacking or there isn’t a great deal of lower level information out there on how...
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Silverlight Caching Data Requests
SilverLight is a great presentation display. However, when it works perfectly on ALL Browsers, with exception of Internet Explorer, it become very comical. Background We developed a SilverLight display...
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Leveraging SharePoint 2007 through Windows PowerShell
For all of you out there that have not yet been allowed the opportunity to dig into the vastness that is SharePoint 2010 and have become bored with SharePoint 2007, I just might have something new for...
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Persistent SharePoint 2010 Site Columns
Site Columns and Site Content Types are a great feature of SharePoint. They’re easy to create/modify and provide granular configuration capabilities. It’s commonly known that the Title Site Column...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to Update Content Editor Web Parts
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to programmatically update the content in Content Editor Web Part (CEWP)? Maybe you added some HTML that is breaking your page or maybe you’re moving...
View ArticleMicrosoft BUILD 2012
Even thought we could not attend the Microsoft Build 2012 conference due to Hurricane Sandy, we can all still view ALL session online. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012 Here are a few sessions...
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Part 2: Possible Use Cases for Microsoft Service Fabric
I’m Excited About Service Fabric. Now What? In my last blog, I looked at some of the common pain points Microsoft Service Fabric can help developers with. This week, we’ll take a closer look at some...
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