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Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related .NET technologies. A frequent speaker at TechEd and SharePoint Connections, he is also the author of 10 books on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training. Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com

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January 2010 (17)

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Jan18

Where is My Timer Job?

SharePoint Timer Jobs are great for accomplishing tasks asynchronously throughout the farm. You can create your own custom Timer Job by inheriting from SPJobDefinition. Recently a question arose regarding the exact nature of custom Timer Job exe ...[Read More]
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Jan18

SharePoint Pro Summit 2010

The SharePoint Connections Conference has been renamed to SharePoint Pro Summit 2010 and will be held this spring in Las Vegas at the Bellagio hotel for those of you who can stand a third trip to Vegas in under a year. This promises to be a big ...[Read More]
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Jan18

Setting up PowerShell ISE for SharePoint 2010

PowerShell is a great companion for SharePoint 2010. As a developer, I find the best way to use it is through the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). The only problem is, the SharePoint snap-in doesn't load automatically when I start PowerSh ...[Read More]
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Jan18

Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007

Yesterday my article Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007 went live. This article show how to take external repositories (Documentum, Interwoven, etc) and surface them in SharePoint as if they were a document librar ...[Read More]
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Jan18

Versioning and Approval Scenarios in SharePoint 2007

When it comes to versioning and approval options in SharePoint 2007, there are several configuration settings that lead to multiple scenarios. These scenarios can be confusing for administrators and end users. To get to these options for any Docum ...[Read More]
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Jan18

Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced

Paul Andrew posts some of the new capabilities of VS2010 for SharePoint developers. Keep an eye on this - it's what we've been waiting for! http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2008/11/10/visual-studio-2010-tools-for-sharepoint-announced-at-teched ...[Read More]
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Jan18

Using SoftArtisans OfficeWriter with the Business Data Catalog

The following is a reprint of my article found here OfficeWriter is a set of .NET libraries that can create, edit, and read Excel and Word binary file formats. This makes OfficeWriter an elegantly-simple solution for integrating Excel and Word d ...[Read More]
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Jan18

SPDisposeCheck Released

SPDisposeCheck is a tool that checks your SharePoint code for undisposed SPWeb and SPSite objects. It is not completely foolproof (false positives are possible), but it is an excellent tool that should be run on all production code before release. ...[Read More]
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Jan18

Troubleshooting SharePoint: When Good Servers Go Bad

This article is a summary of my presentation at Office Connections held in Orlando April 30, 2008. It summarizes the most-common issues with SharePoint, how to avoid them, and how to fix them. Here is a list of topics: Install Service Pack 1 ...[Read More]
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Jan18

Creating a Scope and Tab for MOSS Search Center

I am occasionally asked how to create a tab in the MOSS Search Center to search a given scope. This process is often confusing to administrators because it involves the creation of a scope, making the scope available, and then the creation of not ...[Read More]
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