Miscellaneous

SharePoint Guidance from patterns & practices

Paul Schaeflein — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:00 GMT

Did you know that Microsoft's patterns & practices group is working on SharePoint guidance? You can view their work as it is developed on the CodePlex site: http://www.codeplex.com/spg. In addition to a reference implementation, they are working on documentation that discusses the trade-offs and decisions that go into a SharePoint-based development project. There are many decision points, so they cannot obviously cover everything. So be sure to post your questions and comments so the team knows where to go next! I had the privilege of meeting with them this week along with a few MVPs and together we brainstormed some areas to pursue. But your feedback is just as important -- please speak up.

Bind operation failed

Paul Schaeflein — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:45:00 GMT

Windows Network Load Balancing error:

Starting update...
Going to bind NLB...
Bind operation failed.
Update failed with status code 0x80041002

Turns out that the Network Load Balancing service must be installed before attempting to configure the cluster.

MOSS Camp - St. Louis

Paul Schaeflein — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:40:00 GMT

I will be speaking at the MOSS Camp in St. Louis on April 5th. I will giving an overview of the Porting Workflows project and community site.

Hope to see you there!

An explanation for the lack of blogging

Paul Schaeflein — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:47:00 GMT

Barracuda, LLC, Announces DeliverPoint: PERMISSIONS for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Minneapolis, MN — February, 18^th 2007 — Barracuda, LLC announces the release of DeliverPoint: PERMISSIONS - a security trimmed enterprise permissions management application for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. DeliverPoint: PERMISSIONS empowers SharePoint Products and Technologies administrators - both Central administrators and non-IT Local administrators, to be able to discover, copy, transfer and delete account and object permissions in one efficient administrative action.

Read the full press release

MOSS Camp - Chicago

Paul Schaeflein — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:24:00 GMT

If you live in the Midwest and are not going to Las Vegas on November 9th, make plans to attend the MOSS Camp - Chicago.

User Group presentation

Paul Schaeflein — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:18:00 GMT

I have a few presentations that are geared toward SharePoint developers.
I would be happy to present these to developer-oriented user groups in the Midwest (I'm in Chicago).

If you are aware of such a group, feel free to contact me directly at paul AT barracuda DOT net, or at the Contact Me link on the blog, or post a comment to this entry.

Scheduled Tasks and WMI

Paul Schaeflein — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:12:00 GMT

I found a particularly interesting comment on the Technet Script Center page for Scheduled Tasks:

Note that this class can only return jobs that are created using either a script or AT.exe. It cannot return information about jobs that are either created by or modified by the Scheduled Task wizard.

A search of the .Net Framework turned up empty. As far as I can tell, schtasks.exe is the way to go if you want the end-users to be able to change the default entry…

UPDATED June 14, 2007: I used the Task Scheduler library from Code Project.

Thank you PointBridge

Paul Schaeflein — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:43:00 GMT

I want to thank the group from PointBridge for the wonderful evening. Ethan, Bert, et. al. were a pleasure to meet!

I have joined Mindsharp!

Paul Schaeflein — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:26:00 GMT

I am very excited to announce that I have joined Todd Bleeker and Bill English at Mindsharp! I will be working in the Barracuda Tools division along with Keith Richie.

Thanks to everyone at Mindsharp for this wonderful opportunity!

SharePoint topics at Chicago User Groups

Paul Schaeflein — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:56:00 GMT

Todd Bleeker (who is alleged to be a cult figure in some circles) is speaking at two local events:

Building SharePoint Web Parts
Wednesday, April 18th
Chicago DotNet User Group (RSVP requested)
Microsoft Office in Downers Grove, IL

Ghosting, Master Pages, Themes, CSS, etc.
Thursday, April 19th
Chicago SharePoint User Group (RSVP required)
Microsoft Technology Center, 77 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL