Download the Microsoft VHD’s for the SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 betas:
2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) Download
Great overview on the two VHD’s from Alpesh Nakar at the following link:
SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 VHD Download and Installation Instructions
Download consists of 20 files with a total size of 12.5GB
We’ll begin our little journey by changing the background colors of the quicklaunch menu and background column.
We’ll start by changing the top, left and right hand borders of the quicklaunch and the border at the bottom of the recycling bin.
Next we’ll change the color of what I had always called the “separator lines” within the
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Requirements, we love, and need, to have them but what happens when one of your first requirements is “make it look sexy”? In all honesty I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box, generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint” mandate
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Yesterday my production server started displaying the following error message across all sites and sub-sites:
ErrorWeb Part Error: One of the properties of the Web Part has an incorrect format. Windows SharePoint Services cannot deserialize the Web Part. Check the format of the properties and try again.
Looking in the event viewer I see a nice little message
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Note to self more than anything else.
If you’re passing credentials via the web.config for forms based authentication it is absolutely essential that you encrypt the membership section of the web.config file.
When encrypting the membership section of the web.config file it is important to realize that the proper identification for the aspnet_regiis.exe command is going
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Well if you’re among the unfortunates that couldn’t make it to Las Vegas today (which includes me) you probably didn’t get a great deal of work done because you were too busy trying to following the tidal waves of tweets and blog posts emanating from SharePoint Conference 2009 (not to mention of course the two
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I’ve had a number of requests for this over time and ran across this while I was reading through Devin Walkers site at dlocc.com.
Mark Wilson (http://planetwilson.blogspot.com/) has created a solution package for a color coded SharePoint calendar that awfully daggone sweet. Download the wsp file from his codeplex site, add the solution using stsadm, deploy
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I was searching the net (as usual) for something else and ran across an excellent source for a few different things that I will post individually. This specific post refers to those instances when you would just love to get rid of the "Title" field in your SharePoint list.
Read the article at DLOCC.com
How to
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