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  • Using SharePoint Surveys for a Quiz - Part 2

    In Part 1 , I showed how to configure a SharePoint survey to be used as a quiz. In Part 2, I will show how to easily "grade" the quiz. In our case, since we were using it as part of a contest, we will also see how to easily select the winner of the contest. After you create the survey for the...
    Posted to JoeD (Weblog) by joed on 09-24-2008

  • Clean install: Error 5586 SQL Exception 15123

    Just seen a wierd error building a clean MOSS VM, running the config wizard afetr install resulting in a config DB being created but errors being logged. The error refers to the setup routine not being able to set properties within SQL... After a few minutes googling I found the following post from an...
    Posted to Matt Groves - SharePoint blogger. (Weblog) by Matt Groves on 09-24-2008

  • Using SharePoint Surveys for a Quiz - Part 1

    Our company recently had a fundraising drive for a charity. The people on the fundraising committee came up with an idea to raise some money and have a little fun - we would have a trivia contest for employees. You would pay a small fee to enter, with the best score winning a prize, and the proceeds...
    Posted to JoeD (Weblog) by joed on 09-22-2008

  • MOSS Service accounts

    I recently attended a great 2 day event at MSFT, the UK User Groups came together and had 2 full days of presentations, demo's and discussions, I found it very beneficial, the SUGUK sessions were great and I thought Mark Wilson's session on Hyper-V was excellent... There were several questions...
    Posted to Matt Groves - SharePoint blogger. (Weblog) by Matt Groves on 04-10-2008

  • Displaying Users with Presence in XSLT Data View

    In a list, you can create a field of type "Person or Group" and set the "Show data" option to "Name (with presence)". When the field displays the user's name, it shows the Office Communicator presence "globe" to the left of the name. If you use SharePoint Designer...
    Posted to JoeD (Weblog) by joed on 03-17-2008

  • PDF ifilter for x64

    There has been a bit of an issue with a full x64 MOSS farm, mainly due to the lack of ifilters for x64, the obvious (and also, importantly, tested and supported) workaround being the use 32bit for the Index server and x64 elsewhere. The most common third party ifilter needed by clients (in my experiance...
    Posted to Matt Groves - SharePoint blogger. (Weblog) by Matt Groves on 02-19-2008

  • Display a "New!" indicator in the Content Query Web Part

    I am using the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) to display news items from news subsites. There are a few capabilities missing from the CQWP that were present in the old SharePoint 2003 News web part. One of them is the display of the "New!" indicator next to items recently added. You can get...
    Posted to JoeD (Weblog) by joed on 02-03-2008

  • How to: create and attach multiple content databases in MOSS/WSS3

    Just added an article on creating and attaching multiple content databases to a MOSS/WSS3 WebApp, all done using scripts... http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mattg/pages/attaching-content-db-s-in-moss-wss3.aspx
    Posted to Matt Groves - SharePoint blogger. (Weblog) by Matt Groves on 03-15-2007

  • Starting Timer Jobs manually & Recycle Bin

    RESTORED POST I have been unable to find a way of starting (non-admin) timer jobs manually; however, you can change the default schedules. I wanted to do this to test document deletions and prove the point to a client. For example, the job that runs against the recycle bin(s) and deletes expired items...
    Posted to Matt Groves - SharePoint blogger. (Weblog) by Matt Groves on 03-08-2007

  • MOSS Gem!

    Just happened across the "help URL" and modes feature within a MOSS/WSS web part, what a gem of a feature! This allows you to control the page (URL) used for help for each web part and control the way that it opens (ie; pop-up, new windows or reuse existing)... Obviously, this is a tiny feature...
    Posted to Matt Groves - SharePoint blogger. (Weblog) by Matt Groves on 02-05-2007
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