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| Technical tips and tricks our staff have fallen over, stored centrally so we can find them again. |
8/31/2010
- Notify friends through mini feed on installation and selective activity as it happens through your application
- Canvas page to merchandise your widget to Facebook users
- Application integrates into user’s profile pages - doesn’t just sit on top
- User comments get written to the Wall for everyone to see
- Your application takes on familiar Facebook look and feel
And hence the social applications of the future??? • Simplicity over Completeness
• Share over Protect
• Advertise over Subscribe
• Early Availability over Correctness
• Select by Crowd over Editor
• Honest voice over Corporate Speak
• Participation over Publishing
• Community over Product
8/24/2010
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| 8/19/2010
Situation: each browser session you have to log in again at a SharePoint site. You also have to log in for accessing documents.
[IE8 on Win7]
Explanation: [My situation] If the site you are using isn't in the same domain as your machine login, Microsoft's heightened default security may prevent it passing your credentials to automatically authenticate.
Solution Description: There is a registry key where you can list URLs for the specific purpose of forwarding the credentials. The list should be created as restrictively as possible to avoid any security issues. Also, because there is no specific deny list, the credentials are forwarded to all the servers that match this list.
In my situation, I am going to grant access to
[for details on constructing the URL list, see the slightly unrelated http://support.microsoft.com/?id=943280 - this is not just a Vista thing. That thread also identifies the registry key to modify.]
This fix requires a reboot to take effect.
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Alternatives:
1. May have stuck with wrong credentials - fix it in Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager
2. Mark the site as trusted
3. Check you're not set to require prompting in Internet Options.
2/18/2010Sometimes you just gotta try a repair, and you get an error telling you to use a valid copy of "osrvmui.msi".
Turns out the INSTALL PATH was saved in the registry at the original install, and it wants the media to be there!
HACK: MSI files are self-registering, and typically bootstrap the other required files. Go through the installation media, running all the MSI files. Now run the repair... Bingo.
1/29/2010Make a registry entry so they get opened as if they were CABs, without endlessly changing the extension to and fro...
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wsp]
"PerceivedType"="compressed"
@="CABFolder"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wsp\OpenWithProgids]
"CABFolder"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wsp\PersistentHandler]
@="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
[Using on Windows2008ServerR2] 1/22/2010
R2 requires certain SPs, which as of writing were not available all-in-one. It (mainly - the excpetion is SQL - see below) won't let you install and update.
So:
download the sps, and use the /extract:<dir> syntax to uncompact them. Put em into the 'updates' folder in the MOSS source - they are now "slipstreamed"
You don't need to install WSS seperately anymore- the MOSS install has that - but you do need the WSS SPs, and you need to MANUALLY remove the wsssetup.dll (conflicts with the moss version, which is a superset)
HOWEVER, MOSS will only install SQL2005 Express x86:
- If you want 2008, non-express, or 64 bit, you need to install that first manually.
- If you let MOSS do the default thing, it will instruct you to install SQL2005SP3 after the install (but before the config wizard) (and remember, that's not the normal SP3, it's the special one for SQL Express)
1/14/2010Value Management
- Define the Value Propositiion for Value Management
- Define the roadmap for introducing value management
- Identify executive sponsor and 'champions'
- Comms program
- Determine funds needed
Governance
- Informa nd commit leadership
- Align and integrate with financial planning
- Processes, roles, responsibilities
- Framework, Portfolio, and Monitoring
- Close the loop
Inventory of Investments
- Assess and score curreent and candidate investments
- Make this part of the normal selection process
Clarify Value
- Benefit assessment of 'in flight' investments - track and update
- Delivery assessment of 'in flight' investments
- Define and implement reporting and review regime
1/7/2010
To create the Godmode folder, create a new folder and change its name to this string:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Now these were 'published' about Windows7, but many work on the server...
Here's the list of strings: - and if they work in Windows2008R2, what they do!
{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D} - PowerPlan
{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9} - taskbar Notifications
Vault.{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70} - Windows (Credentials) Vault <- AWESOME!!!
{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4} - Install program from the network
{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966} - Windows Default Programs
{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43} - Opens the GAC
{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D} - Network
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} - Disks on Local
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} - Printers
Remote.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B} - Remote <- I like this one
{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423} - Firewall
{62D8ED13-C9D0-4CE8-A914-47DD628FB1B0}
{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}
Oh, and once the icon changes, if it didnt remove the GUID from the name, you can safely do that. |
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