If you are a Windows Server fan, you must have installed the 2008 version. I did it on my laptop and it was a walk in the park but I have encountered a small a problem that took allot of hours to figure it out. All my hardware was identified by windows directly however I was not able to find any wireless connections so after hours of changing the driver for my wireless card I discovered that Windows Server 2008 does not install the Wireless service by default so if this happens to you just go to the control panel and enable this feature enjoy as shown in the image below.

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This is really crazy check it, Imagine you are creating workflows for a client using out of the box workflows it is easy nice and smooth right ? think again this happened with me I created a workflow based on the approval workflow template in SharePoint with a single step for the approvers group very smooth till now but check this out go to group permission and change the name of the group AHAAAA, guess what SharePoint does not change the name of the group in the workflow step so as a result an error will pop out as the pictures below

Approvers group here is still the same even if we changed the name, so I thought SharePoint might be smart enough to change it at run time but NOP an error occurred like the pictures below.

And finally here is the report

So you can imagine, if it is one workflow it is easy but imagine creating this workflow template for 10 processes, yup you have to go back and change all the group names so be careful

As announced a few months ago SharePoint have passed the DoD chapter 2 standards and now it is available as a resource kit to download with some code samples I have not tried the resource kit yet but I am downloading it right catch all the fun right here

 http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/02/09/announcing-the-dod-5015-2-resource-kit-for-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx

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Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007

This is really a lovely thing the Scott Gu announced .NET framework sourcecode has been released for the community now you can debug inside the framework itself cool press F10 and you might be inside System.Data.SQL.

Read more here

Check this out ,

http://www.computersight.com/Hardware/Accessories/10-Strange-Keyboards.70082

A friend told me that Microsoft Press has a special offer for an e-book to download it for FREE!

Just sign up and download the book. from here

Hi,It has been a while since I wrote any new blog entries because I got married J and guess what l am the luckiest man on earth with my wife and also I have reallocated my job from Estarta – Jordan to Injazat Data Systems – UAE (a joint venture between Mubadala and EDS) so my hand were little bit full.Anyways I decided I will update my blog with a series of entries to recap my absence and as a start I noticed something very strange in SharePoint lists lookup fields, I was doing a presentation for a client to show the ability of getting data from other lists and my example was to retrieve data from team members list that had two columns as the following:1-  Title by default with the list of type single line of text2-  Team member name of type people and groupMy goal was to connect the column to the team member column and guess what! It did not show up in the drop down list so as a result I made a small exercise to see what are the columns that are supported by the lookup column: 

I know there are other solutions to get the values of these columns like the DVWP but is there any reason behind this limitation because I recall some of these columns were supported by SharePoint 2003.

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Yazan