I’m unlikely to unearth better details on this than good ‘ole SharePoint Joel. Check out Joel’s post for all the dirt. If, though, you’re like me and you just say “Gimme the downloads!” here are the key bits: 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x64)…
We got an ODP file (turns out that’s a presentation file a la Powerpoint) from a friend the other day and couldn’t figure out how to open it until we found the Sun ODF Plug In for Office. The overview from the above site: The Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office gives users of Microsoft…
Odd tip of the day… I was trying to install Nortel’s Contivity VPN client on my Vista laptop today and kept getting the error: This version of the Contivity VPN Client can only be installed on Vista. If this is a Vista system, turn off compatibility mode for the CVC installer (typically this is eac607d.exe).”…
I’ve alluded to this in the past, but I had a client situation in the last few days that brought it top of mind again. One of the quirks of a Crosslist DVWP is that you *must* specify all columns you would like to display in the CAML for the Data Source. You can add…
There are a number of posts about this in blogs out there about this trick and I’m not sure who posted first, so I’ll attribute it to the Ferrara Data Consulting | Company Blog. It’s certainly a useful trick, and worth repeating. By default, all SharePoint lists have a column called Title (@Title for you…