Jaspers' Weblog My personal blog about me, my work and what I like.
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.
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
Technical / August 21, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Yeah! After reading two quite lengthy books (and for me that’s a lot of reading compared to the things I usually read…) in not so much time, and taking two not too easy exams, I made it! I’m now officially a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. Guess I’m going to need new business cards to fit
Technical / August 20, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 11
To enable our users to view Crystal Reports in a SharePoint environment, we looked for a solution of Business Objects. Unfortunately, that only seems to be available for SharePoint 2003, and not 2007. Also obtaining it seems not that easy, at least it’s not included in the default developer edition of Crystal Reports XI. So
Technical / August 17, 2007 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
Here’s a quick walkthrough to enable a InfoPath form to get information from a SQL Server database with credentials found in a SSO database (which you typically use with SharePoint).