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I just posted our Community Server Video Preview Module to the downloads area of Hydrus Software . The module automatically generates thumbnail preview images for videos uploaded to media galleries and as attachments to other posts. The module executes...
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I have encountered a bug in Community Server 2008.5 and have a hotfix that I thought I would share with the community. The bug is described in this post , and involves the fact that group (hub) pages do not display properly when the accessing user is...
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All the information you need can be pulled from this TechNet article , but I have condensed it here. You need to run the following command to get the system state backup, which is what you can use to restore a DC it fails and you need to restore to a...
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I have been working on another Community Server installation for a client concerned with SEO (more on lessons here later). Duplicate urls are one of the major issues we have tried to elimate in his site. CS publishes lots of urls for the same content...
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One of the guys on a private mailing list asked about what software people couldn't live without. Here's my list. Notepad2 - I rename it to n2 and put it in my PATH. Then it is just a WindowsKey + R, n2 away. Firebug - Couldn't...
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Here are two things that I haven't found written about other places, but that are hinted at in the help for New-Object. Open an explorer window in the current directory: > $shell = New-Object -comObject shell.application > $shell.Explore("...
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I realize this is minutea, but I wanted to get this down for later recall. First of all, when working with Firefox, I usually find that it is reliably strict, and so developing for FF will allow you to get a result that transfers to other browsers. Of...
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I recently read these two articles by Dino Esposito about ajax templates ( part1 , part2 ) and was intrigued by the possibilities. I spend a lot of time working on customizing Community Server which is one page after another of templated data-bound lists...
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Many of you were saddened by the news that Kevin Downs quit development on NDoc , the .NET documentation engine. For those of you who haven't moved on to Sandcastle , though, there may be hope for you. Kim Christensen has taken up the torch and continued...
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I've been charged recently with the task of upgrading several custom Community Server 2007.1 sites to CS 2008. Most of these upgrades are quick-and-dirty, without all of the effort necessary to fully re-theme these applications. During the upgrades...
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When I attended CSDC back in October, in the presentations was by Ben Tiedt and Wyatt Lyon Preul they said to make a new theme, start with an XHTML template and throw the CS controls into it to make your theme. Since I'm not a designer, I googled...
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Anyone who has done much customization for Community Server will eventually run into the need to add more profile properties for users. These properties are really easy to add. The problem is that you cannot easily search on these fields because they...
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We have our first reporting period under our belts, and I am very excited about the EV results. In this fictionalized representation of our first project, we see the period % complete reporting by the team leader: This evaluation of our status leads to...
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One session of a conference I attended way back in March was a discussion about managing projects presented by Juval Löwy . One of Juval's excellent claims was that he had used earned value analysis to keep his management time to 15 minutes every...
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It seems to me that the development world is experiencing another period of rapid evolution again, much as it did in '99-'01 around web application servers, XML, and all the XML spinoff technologies. Interestingly, during the last evolution many...