Month: August 2006

WSS v3 what’s new – hands-on labs

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Microsoft has posted a hosted hands-on lab about the new features of Windows SharePoint Services v3. The Lab are online and free (registration is required). Learn about the new and enhanced features in Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) such as site creation, site administration, adding Web Parts, the permissions trimmed UI, list settings, navigation, list and library security, notifications, and email integration. What’s New in Windows SharePoint Services Feature Walkthrough

IIS 7.0 in a hosted environment

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Microsoft has published an article about IIS 7.0 in hosted environments. The article “Provisioning IIS 7.0 for Secure Hosting” was published on the IIS.net website. This how-to-paper will overview guidelines and recommendations that should be followed when deploying IIS 7.0 in a hosted environment securely. For those readers unfamiliar with the concept, isolation refers to the degree of separation between two Web applications running on a single computer. In this paper, we use the notion …

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IIS backup plan

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In addition to a previous post, there a new article from Chris Adams, this time it’s about how to create backups of your webservers and web content, read his blog post “Plan to save your Web & Backing up IIS 6.0” on his blog. The key understanding is that IIS is a part of the operating systems and has many, many dependencies on that platform. A person tasked with understanding a organizations backup strategy cannot …

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Categories IIS

Google Analytics for free

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Google Analytics has left the beta stage and is now available to everyone, without any waiting time for an account. It’s actually pretty cool, i’ve been running it on my site for about ½ a year by now and it  generates some pretty good statistics and reports. I believe it’s a good alternative to a lot of other statistics products, it might need at few things, you’ll find in some enterprise products – but it’s …

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SharePoint Forums 1.2 Released

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Ever needed a forum on SharePoint? CodePlex has released an updated version (1.2) of their SharePoint Forums, which is a webpart for Windows SharePoint Services. The SharePoint Forums Web Part is a free, open source, single web part that provides a more feature rich discussion board for SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services. It provides threaded discussions which can be locked, hidden, secured, and subscribed to and offers typical features found in discussion boards …

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