I’ve just started skeptically using Bing. The first thing I searched for was “xPollinate”, my Live Writer plugin. I guess I can safely say, “Bing!”. On Google, the first result was for a PHP data conversion project, hosted on a GeoCities web page (apparently not updated since 2004): On Bing, the first result was my…

After writing a Windows Live Writer Plugin and publishing it to the gallery, I’ve become completely frustrated with the user experience of that site. The Windows Live Gallery web site matches all the negative stereotypes that people typically have about Microsoft products. It is a hodgepodge of functionality, loosely tied together, with no visible support…

Here is a script for configuring WSS 3.0 installation without Active Directory, where SQL Server resides on a separate box: psconfig -cmd -configdb -create -server DBSERVERNAME -database wss_admin_config -user WSSSERVERAppPoolAccountName -password p@ssword -dbuser SQLDBUSERNAME -dbpassword p@ssword -admincontentdatabase wss_admin_content Based on the post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/fooshen/archive/2007/02/01/installing-moss-without-ad.aspx

Ahh, my rant for today. With the announcement of the name for the next version of SharePoint on the OFFICIAL SharePoint team blog, I am waiting for the inevitable flood of pingbacks, trackbacks, and reposts about this in my RSS reader. This will be similar to the flood of reposts about “SharePoint Designer is now…

I ran into a situation where I created a User Profile Property with the Replicable checkbox set, which had a really long name. There were no errors when saving the profile property, however later on I started receiving errors in the Event Log: failure trying to synch site [guid] for ContentDB [guid] WebApp [guid].  Exception…