I’ve been writing a slurry of code to return list item XML so that it can be parsed and consumed by AJAX components on the client side. Since Lists.asmx does not work in anonymous access scenarios, I’ve been creating many proxy .ashx Http Handlers installed in the LAYOUTS directory, to query via the object model…

[rating:2] I’m implementing the AKS for a customer, and I’m having a hard time understanding how this product actually made it to a public release. It feels like a product that is half finished, that was used as a springboard to creating a commercial product, while leaving the original free version to the wayside. If…

The implementation of the BDC entity picker dialog (opened with the Browse button) can cause some firewall and security software to think a worm or sql injection attack is happening and block the traffic. The manner in which properties and entity IDs are encoded into long query string values makes the urls appear to be…

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…