I attended a very interesting BCS talk last night hosted by the West Yorkshire Branch about Enigma, Bletchley Park and the Battle of the Atlantic. Dr Mark Baldwin is a superb speaker; he spoke about Enigma machine itself, the decoding efforts started by the Poles in the early 1930's, subsequent wartime efforts to break …

One of the new features introduced with the recent SharePoint Infrastructure Update are the Enterprise Search Features that were shipped with Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express, that were not included in the original release of SharePoint 2007. This includes some Search core platform performance updates, …

I've recently been investigating a rather curious problem we've been experiencing with deployment of the Digital Signature ActiveX Control from SharePoint 2007 to browsers. First a little background: A number of workflows we've developed recently make use of the capability of InfoPath forms to incorporate sections that …

Today I had to run aspnet_regiis -ga domain\user to grant a specific domain user account access to the IIS metabase and other directories that are used by IIS. The server in question is running Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 edition and after running aspnet_iisreg from the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 …

There are a number of ways of generating Custom Content Types for SharePoint, some more difficult than others. One of the easiest ways is to create your own using the SharePoint GUI interface via a web browser, however while a nice 'point and click' approach, there is no easy way to extract the resultant custom columns …