June 2009 Blog Posts
- Published June 26, 2009 at
2:34 AM
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Jeremy Jameson
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When helping customers migrate their Internet sites to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, I've found it very helpful to create wireframes showing the various fields, Web Parts, and master page content. For the last several years, I've been...
- Published June 18, 2009 at
3:08 PM
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Jeremy Jameson
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In my previous post I showed how my simple, but highly effective approach to logging can be used with ASP.NET Web applications -- including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS).
Note that SharePoint application...
- Published June 18, 2009 at
2:38 PM
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Jeremy Jameson
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This post continues on the original post for my simple, but highly effective approach to logging and the follow-up post which introduced configuring logging for console applications .
Obviously not all solutions are simple console-based applications...
- Published June 18, 2009 at
1:50 PM
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Jeremy Jameson
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In my previous post, I introduced my simple, but highly effective approach to logging . As promised, this post introduces how to configure logging (based on a simple console application).
As noted in my previous post, one or more trace listeners can...
- Published June 18, 2009 at
10:01 AM
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Jeremy Jameson
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A common question that frequently arises both with customers and fellow consultants is what do I recommend for logging? As experienced software developers, we know that there are going to be errors in our solution -- as well as other important events...
- Published June 9, 2009 at
12:42 PM
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Jeremy Jameson
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One of the challenges I see in organizations that I work with is the lack of naming conventions for various environments -- or sometimes naming conventions that provide little or no value.
For about the last ten years, I've been a strong proponent...
- Published June 5, 2009 at
2:08 AM
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Jeremy Jameson
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One of the common tasks when using the "DR.DADA" approach to SharePoint development is programmatically creating and configuring pages on a site. This often requires adding numerous Web Parts to various zones on a page -- for example, to configure search...
- Published June 4, 2009 at
1:12 PM
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Jeremy Jameson
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If you ever find yourself looking for reasons or evidence why you should choose the "Server Core" installation option for Windows Server 2008, try searching for the following:
"Windows Server 2008 Server Core installation not affected" site:microsoft...
- Published June 3, 2009 at
1:11 PM
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Jeremy Jameson
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The project I am currently working on is nearing the end. Last week we reached our "Feature Complete" milestone and now we have formally transitioned into the "Stabilizing" phase.
In a couple of team meetings this week, I mentioned the concepts of...
- Published June 3, 2009 at
3:09 AM
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Jeremy Jameson
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About a year ago, I wrote a post about saving huge amounts of disk space by slipstreaming service packs . Having just been through an ordeal installing Windows Server 2008 SP2, I thought it would be worthwhile to provide an update (since that original...
- Published June 2, 2009 at
2:39 AM
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Jeremy Jameson
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In yesterday's post , I noted the errors I encountered when trying to install Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) due to "insufficient" disk space. I ended up having to expand numerous VHDs (one for each of my VMs running Windows Server 2008 x64...
- Published June 1, 2009 at
3:14 AM
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Jeremy Jameson
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Last week I approved Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Vista SP2 on my local WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) server. My expectation was that the various physical and virtual machines in the "Jameson Datacenter" would subsequently...