Nov19

Xbox – a whole new experience

Microsoft released the New Xbox Experience (NXE) today and the reviews are pretty favorable. I downloaded it this morning and I was pretty impressed. So far my favorite additions are the Avatars, Netflix streaming and the ability to store your gam ...[Read More]

Published: Nov-19-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Nov06

Microsoft is putting it out there

Microsoft has announced their approach to cloud computing in the form of the Windows Azure. We are evaluating the solution to see how it integrates with our current / future offering. Of course we are highly interested in the Azure SDK which looks ...[Read More]

Published: Nov-06-08 | 2 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Nov06

Windows Financial Services Interview

Based on some of the work MicroLink has done with SharePoint we had an opportunity to do an interview with Windows Financial Services Magazine. Check out the article here: http://windowsfs.com/magazine/viewpoints-business-process-efficiency. ...[Read More]

Published: Nov-06-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct29

Microsoft Single View Platform (MSSVP) Integration

Microsoft has begun to realize the value of providing solutions to its customers versus just products. We at MicroLink have been working with the federal team by integrating with the MSSVP solution and are pleased to leverage it as one of our core ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-29-08 | 9 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct28

My $.02 on Vista

So I just finished watching another Mac vs PC commercial which I have to say are pretty funny. After watching it I thought about my own experiences with Windows Vista and figured it would be worthy of note to highlight what I am running on my lapt ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-28-08 | 67 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Sep20

MOSS Reader sub web enumeration

While working with a group of our developers on one of our products that leverages web services to communicate with the MOSS servers we noticed that users with Reader access were not able to view sub sites. It turns out that reader do not have perm ...[Read More]

Published: Sep-20-08 | 119 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Sep04

Using non serializable properties with WebParts

Just recently I was working with a member of our team debugging an issue with one of our custom WebParts. We were exposing a property value as an object which is allowable via both the WebPart and WebControl classes using a declaration similar to ...[Read More]

Published: Sep-04-08 | 91 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jul17

Finding Blog Postings using the SharePoint Query Service

Ever wonder who else is blogging out there across your SharePoint Server Farm? Try running a search by content type for example "ContentType:post". If you want to access the results via your own custom application you can use the followi ...[Read More]

Published: Jul-17-08 | 95 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jul14

Deep Zoom

While at the 2008 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference I was routinely impressed by some of the tools Microsoft is offering free to the public. One tool that was very visually captivating and provided some great quick capabilities is the Microsof ...[Read More]

Published: Jul-14-08 | 136 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May05

MicroLink External Blogs

Since the release of MOSS 2007 we at MicroLink have been heavy users of the blog features included with SharePoint. With the release of our external blog sites we now have a way to share our content and thoughts with the rest of you who. We have b ...[Read More]

Published: May-05-08 | 1934 Comments | 0 Links to this post

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