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Yearly Archives: 2008

Can you restore a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 backup to a MOSS farm? No.

Oct 21, 2008

If you try to restore a SPD file from SharePoint 2003 to a MOSS instance, you will get this error: Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the …

Tagged: sharepoint
SharePoint Training and Internal Communication

Sep 29, 2008

Note to self: Here are some packaged solutions available to help make the user community aware, prepared, and excited. Office Online SharePoint Help Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training built on SharePoint …

Tagged: sharepoint
Official Blog Icon?

Sep 29, 2008

Interesting. Is this the "official" blog icon? Not terrible. http://office.microsoft.com/global/images/default.aspx?assetid=ZA102499971033 Bigger See it in action here: SharePoint 2007 Help and How-to
Locking Your Computer with a Script

Sep 29, 2008

For humans: ÿ-L For computers: % windir %\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation So cool. Command line source: Shutting Down Computers and Logging Off Users: TechNet

Tagged: scripting
Model Driven Development

Sep 29, 2008

A great post by Gabriel: Valuing the Undervalued Solution Model

Tagged: general software development