Chris Johnson
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TechEd NZ Fast Approaching
TechEd 2005 in New Zealand is rapidly approaching and I have just managed to finalise my demos and...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/24/2005
Nice SharePoint actions toolbar (web part)
Whilst over at Ian's desk yesterday ... he showed me this nice little web part. It gives you ability...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/24/2005
SPS 2003 Discovery Kit
Just released. A great set of labs that are focussed on how to use bits of SPS including reporting...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/23/2005
Run IE7 Beta 1 alongside IE6 with NO install.
Geoff pointed me to this GREAT post on running IE7 alongside IE6 ... and all that with no install!...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/17/2005
Phoenix and Seattle
Just got back from a trip to the US, Had a great time, a mix of work and pleasure. Summary: - Eloy...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/09/2005
Telerik r.a.d editor
As previously blogged a while back ... this is a "Content Editor Web Part" on steroids! The default...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/04/2005
30 new WSS templates
The WSS team has just released 30 new site templates for download! These cover a multitude of...
Author: chjohn Date: 08/04/2005
LA, Phoenix, Seattle for a bit
I have just left NZ for the next week and a half to go to Seattle for an internal technical...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/27/2005
Wireless Notebook Mouse...
Received one of these little guys today ... what a great mouse! Small, wireless, optical, roller ......
Author: chjohn Date: 07/21/2005
SharePoint Advisor Mag Arrived ... finally.
Got my first printed copy of issue 1 of the SharePoint Advisor magazine yesterday. It took a while...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/21/2005
GhostDoc for C#
Really handy tool for C# developers. It fills in the C# XML comments for methods etc... with the...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/20/2005
SPS Outlook addin
This looks really good. Many clients are looking for ways of storing email in SharePoint. Another...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/20/2005
Tech Ed New Zealand and Windows SharePoint Services
For all the kiwis out there ... if you dont know already New Zealand TechEd 2005 is coming up on the...
Author: chjohn Date: 07/19/2005
SharePoint SSO error and Window Server 2003 SP1
"Failed to connect to the database server. Verify connectivity and rights for the configuration...
Author: chjohn Date: 06/30/2005
Changing the New document button to a drop down list in a document library
There have been many times when a customer has asked if it is possible to have a choice of doucment...
Author: chjohn Date: 06/26/2005
Right click email on Documents in SPS/WSS
WinApp Technlogy has a nice little free addon called the "Outlook Power Tool for SharePoint" that...
Author: chjohn Date: 06/26/2005
Site Definition KickStart
A while back Fitz announced the availablity of the Site Definition KickStart project for developers...
Author: chjohn Date: 06/26/2005
IE and Tabs
I have never really jumped on the tab browsing horse ... until now. The MSN Search Toolbar with...
Author: chjohn Date: 06/16/2005
Avis and Calendar Items
I love it when i see something so basic and simple that has high value to me. When you book a car...
Author: chjohn Date: 06/16/2005
Telerik r.a.d editor controls for SPS
Finally it seems i am allowed to blog about this. I have had a customer on the Alpha of this for a...
Author: chjohn Date: 06/12/2005
WOW: A XBox 360 to be won every 10 mins for 9 weeks!!!
New competition announced that will give away an XBox 306 every 10 mins for 9 weeks! Read about it...
Author: chjohn Date: 05/17/2005
My Sub Sites Web Part...
One web part that i think is missing in the out of the box parts is one that allows you to show the...
Author: chjohn Date: 05/12/2005
Custom Create Site link to create site on different WSS farm
I am working on a project right now that has about 4 standalone WSS farms and a central SPS portal...
Author: chjohn Date: 05/09/2005
Run once in an WSS/SPS site/area...
There are many times when you need to so somethign to a WSS site just after it has been created ......
Author: chjohn Date: 05/09/2005
Administration of Alerts in SPS/WSS
Often SPS/WSS admins want to "force" a subscription to a doucment library or list etc... for a...
Author: chjohn Date: 04/27/2005
WSS and W2K3 R2
In W2K3 R2 there are a number of updates to WSS. They fix some of the biggest deployment issues...
Author: chjohn Date: 04/27/2005
Groove
So... since MS has purchased Groove I thought i should check it all out. WOW. I had only read about...
Author: chjohn Date: 04/26/2005
New Kiwi in MS
Great to see that the new CFO of MS is a Kiwi! I imagine there will be a few innovative financial...
Author: chjohn Date: 04/25/2005
Bluetooth Mouse & Keyboard
Thought i would get a new mouse and keyboard for the MCE machine in that lounge. Apparently the...
Author: chjohn Date: 04/19/2005
Multiple document library event handlers on a library
Ever wanted to do this? ... Me too! Unfortunately there is not a nice way to do this... however if...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/14/2005
How to create WSS top level sites under the root of a virtual server
I have a number of customer who have asked me this, so i thought i would blog it in case anyone else...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/10/2005
Media Center anywhere...
So long and no post... been well slack... This is really cool ... watch your TV etc.. from on the...
Author: chjohn Date: 03/10/2005
Interesting Tsunami graphic
Where the waves went ...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/10/2005
First In....
A new shopping experience for NZers online ... https://www.firstin.co.nz For a limited time ... and...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/22/2004
How can I trust Firefox?
With all the hoopla going on around the browser wars starting again and how IE is dead etc... i...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/21/2004
Halo 2 Game Viewer
Most people don't know about the awesome Halo 2 online stats you can get on www.bungie.net. You can...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/17/2004
Nice workaround to permissioning lists in SPS Areas.
If you have ever wondered how you secure a list or doucment Library in an SPS Area ... Bil has a...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/17/2004
OneNote shortcut...
Just found this and it rules! .... Shortcut Windows Key + S to do a selectable screen capture into...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/17/2004
Digital Image Pro 10
I take quite a few digital photos ... and up until now have used a number of different editing...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/16/2004
SPS Document ratings tool....
IanM pointed to this as a good out of the box document ratings add on to Sharepoint:...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/16/2004
Good place to get help ...
I get lots of people that want to know how to ask Microsoft questions about various things without...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/15/2004
Changing search engines...
Today i decided to make the move to the new MSN search service, desktop search etc... Up till now i...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/14/2004
Infopath forms -> ASP.Net forms
I did some work a while back for a company based in Australia called Unique World Software. One of...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/10/2004
SmartPart...
There has been lots of talk around on SharePoint related blogs about the Smartpart and how it allows...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/10/2004
2 new SPS branding documents
Branding SharePoint Portal Server Well this is a topic very close to my heart. Having spent a...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/10/2004
Halo 2 and Excel...
I am no typical business user .... and i have not found a good use of pivot charts for my use ......
Author: chjohn Date: 12/07/2004
Cut, Coopy, Paste in WSS document libraries...
This looks like a handy little addon to WSS document libraries ... have a number of customers who...
Author: chjohn Date: 11/25/2004
WSS Document Library Event Handlers...
Was doing some digging on information on event handlers for a customer and found this. It is a great...
Author: chjohn Date: 11/25/2004
Orbital Voting using MS products...
Sometimes it blows my mind how our software is used ... this rocks: NASA Astronaut Votes from Space...
Author: chjohn Date: 11/24/2004
Extending SPS Alerts...
Found this great article on extending some of the alerts functionality that SPS provides. It shows...
Author: chjohn Date: 11/22/2004