Jaspers' Weblog My personal blog about me, my work and what I like.
Technical / October 15, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
For some reason I always seem to lose this URL somehow. So as a reminder, and to share a bit too; here’s MS’ website for requesting hotfixes online: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1410&WS=hotfix. Saves you a call with support (and perhaps also the follow-up, I’ll report back on that later).
Technical / October 15, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
A while ago, a user asked me why he wasn’t able to add a task to a default SharePoint tasklist and assign it to multiple persons. I wasn’t sure about this so I checked myself and indeed I wasn’t able to do this either. For some reason I didn’t really look too hard and didn’t found
Technical / October 6, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
As I’m writing this I’m on ‘holiday’; that is not working in the IT business. Before I started my job I was earning some money designing and operating lighting for theatre, popshows, etc. Currently I’m doing that again, and it feels good to be back! Finished the first gig yesterday where everyone was very pleased including
Technical / September 24, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
After installing and setting up a MOSS environment, we want to make sure our users have easy access. Most of the times the computername is selected by some network administrator and doesn’t match what we think is easy. Adding a DNS records and alternate access mappings can solve this problem if installed the right way.
Gadgets / September 21, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
Most of you will have seen Surface by now. Surface is a multi-touch display built into a table with very nice user interaction. I really dig new types of intuitive interfaces and this definitely is one of those. I found a new (it’s not brand new, but I didn’t see it before) video on YouTube
Technical / September 20, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
On a project I’m currently developing I needed to keep track of changes to database records made by users. Typically you would add 4 columns for this purpose: CreatedBy, CreatedOn, ModifiedBy and ModifiedOn. Filling these columns can be done via business logic offcourse, but I was looking for a sweeter solution (and found one!). As
Technical / September 16, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 4
Earlier, I wrote a blogpost about creating a web part to display Crystal Report files. The biggest problem faced was the displaying of images on a report (which include graphs, pie charts and more stuff like that) which wouldn’t work in a MOSS environment. I solved it by creating a second web application to ‘host’
Technical / September 13, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
After switching the authentication provider on our SharePoint installation from NTLM to Kerberos (which should be better), users started to complain that they weren’t able to create a MySite anymore. I checked and offcourse they were right. To use Kerberos, I had to change the application pool account to the Network Service. That account isn’t
Technical / September 13, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 7
In a blogpost by Ishai I found some code which enables users to print out lists in a printerfriendly view; something which is missing in SharePoint by default. To enhance the feature a little bit more, you can edit the printlist.xml file to include a description (which is displayed below the title of the menu item)
Technical / August 28, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Hurray! Some nice new development packages have arrived from Redmond! They bring some interesting new features and tools which should make our lives as developers a bit easier. Direct download links: MOSS 2007 SDK 1.2 WSS 3.0 SDK 1.2 Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 CTP 1.1 Please check out the Microsoft SharePoint