yazan's blog

Windows Server 2008 Wirless Connection Service

yazanouf — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:30:00 +0000

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.

Enjoy.

SharePoint Bug Bug Bug :D

yazanouf — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:30:00 +0000

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

Chapter 2 is now on SharePoint

yazanouf — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:21:00 +0000

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

Enjoy

New design document on Microsoft SharePoint team blog

yazanouf — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:26:00 +0000

Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Updated: December 20, 2007

The goal of this guide is to provide prescriptive guidance that can help you and your team build custom enterprise sites by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - such as company-wide portal sites or Internet presence sites. Custom sites based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 combine coded elements, such as workflows, document converters, and Web Parts, along with content, such as master pages, layout pages, graphics files, and Web pages. Best practices for developing these sites include setting up multiple environments for developing, integrating, piloting, and deploying coded elements and content from one environment to another. Therefore, coordinating the development and deployment of an enterprise site based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a complex activity. This guide describes the ways you can set up the multiple environments used in the development read here more

F10 (Debug) inside the .NET Framework

yazanouf — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:26:00 +0000

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.

Top 10 Geeky keyboards

yazanouf — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:30:00 +0000

Check this out ,

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

FREE EBOOK

yazanouf — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:36:00 +0000

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

SharePoint Lookup fields does not support “user or groups”

yazanouf — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:30:00 +0000

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:

Column Type	Supported/Not Supported
Single line of text	Supported
Multiple line of text	Not
Choice – Drop down list	Not
Choice – Radio buttons	Not
Choice – Checkbox	Not
Number	Not
Yes/No	Not
Person or Group	Not
Hyperlink	Not
Hyperlink – Picture	Not
Calculated	Supported

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.

Enjoy

Yazan

Sharepoint 2003 Vs SharePoint 2007 Vs IBM

unclaimed blog — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:57:00 +0000

Hi Guys,

Today a client asked what are the advantages MOSS 2007 has over IBM web sphere, and I simply told him I don't what MOSS 2007 has to offer over IBM, however while searching the net I found a small pdf file that compares performance wrote by IBM themselves.

Well frankly if the results are correct the surprise is that SharePoint 2003 performance is better than 2007 :S; and of course as per the article IBM web sphere is the king in this comparison.

I have attached this article with this blog entry so that all of you can take a look at it.

MOSS Contacts List :'(

unclaimed blog — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:02:00 +0000

MOSS v3.0 Contacts List

MOSS v 3.0 contact list does not have the option to import the contacts directly from outlook, I wonder why this feature was removed; since most of our clients always ask for a directory of thier employees on the web.

I dont think people search can replace such functionality in MOSS I wonder how we can replace this feature other than importing the contacts from a spread sheet.