Recently, I had the need to expand my virtual machine hard drive.  Initially when I had created the virtual machine, I had only allocated 16GB of hard drive space.  That quickly filled up.  Clean up virtual hard drive space via Windows OS using Disk Cleanup Shutdown your virtual machine Go to Virtual Machine Settings Select Hard Disk ...[Read More]

UPDATE: On May 11, 2010 the SharePoint 2010 RTM Virtual Machine was released by Microsoft.  This is the updated version that has been released to the public!   The SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine aka 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) is now available for everyone!  This is one day after Microsoft released ...[Read More]

The SharePoint 2010 VHD is now available for Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) partners.  The SharePoint 2010 VHD is a virtual machine that contains SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 that you can start using today.  Go to your SDPS partner portal for further details!   Here’s hoping the SharePoint Community at large will have acc ...[Read More]

TechNet has announced forget the "Super Bowl", Windows Server 2008 has RTM'd!!!  The features that I'm looking forward to in Windows Server 2008 are: Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 – Modular architecture, high levels of administration Terminal Services Gateway – Allows access to apps without the need for a RAS client Power ...[Read More]

One of my most popular posts on this blog is the How To Configure Employee Lookup Web Part Series with Part 1 explained what the employee lookup web part is, configuring user profile import and defining the AD data connection. While Part 2 walked the administrator thru initiating user profile import and enabling the employee lookup web part searc ...[Read More]

Here's some links to the best articles on SharePoint 2007 in the blogosphere: SharePoint Team blog provide us with a Visio logical architecture design samples file to give you a jump start on your own design and a Debugger "Feature" for SharePoint community. Thank you SP Team! SharePoint Solutions blog released free Utility Quickly an ...[Read More]

Just browsing around at all the wonderful blogs that have started up and I have to say, its refreshing. SharePoint 2007 has definitely become one of the most welcomed versions of SharePoint. This might have been caused by the blogosphere, global community or just the great features that SharePoint 2007 offers; who knows and who cares why! Today ...[Read More]

The Employee Lookup Web Part allows you the ability to search against user profiles that you import from the Active Directory. Its not a process that is real time but does allow you to setup import schedules for incremental changes. In my last post, How To Configure Employee Lookup Web Part Series - Part 1, I walked you through configuring the ...[Read More]