Aug 12 2009

SharePoint Advertising For Your Site!

Category: amilsark @ 06:10

Have you noticed the SharePoint targeted advertising (look to the right) available now thanks to SharePointAds.com?

According to their site the payout for pay-per-click is $2.8!  If this is really two dollars and eighty cents, that is an amazing figure!   If this is indeed the case that figure absolutely destroys google adsense.   Their FAQ says that they pay their affiliate publishers 70% of the revenue they collect from advertisers.   High profile SharePoint blogs (SharePointJoel.com), community sites (SharePiontBuzz.com), and online editorials (SharePointReviews.com) have adopted this advertising.

The performance graphs and data visualizations are pretty impressive in your affiliate control panel.  The control panel includes quick stats, trend rports, data on each individual rotating add including click through rate and commision pending and paid out.

Targeted Advertising for SharePoint is an excellent opportunity not only for blog authors, but also for companies whose business is based around SharePoint.  Now your company has an easy and cost effective way of getting advertising space on these high profile, high traffic sites which are  SharePoint resource heaven for most IT professionals working with SharePoint.

If you are interested in generating some targeted advertising revenue from your SharePoint site or SharePoint blogs just fill out the form below.  SharePointAds.com will review your information and send you a confirmation ID  and temporary password.

 

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Happy SharePointing!

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Aug 11 2009

Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 License Issue fixed

Category: amilsark @ 06:00

Microsost has released an updated Office Sharepoint Server 2007 SP2 patch where the "license isssue" is now fixed.

For those of you who may not realize the problem in the first releae of Service Pack 2, it essentially places your SharePoint installation into a trial mode until you re-enter your software key in Central Administration.

You can download the updated Service Pack from the following links:

x86: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/5/2F51AB71-1325-49D2-9CB9-18DEC4780E99/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x86-glb.exe

x64: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/B/5BBD34A9-C528-42B0-8A5F-9A8997B25C32/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x64-glb.exe

The recommended installation procedure is to install the WSS 3.0 SP2 first, don't run the configuration wizard, then install the Office Sharepoint Server 2007 SP2 and now run the configuration wizard.

 

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Aug 11 2009

Back to Web Development

Category: amilsark @ 03:25

It's been about six months since I moved over to help out with the Fpweb.net Engineering group.  Since then I've learned a lot about hosting infrastructure, networking, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, SharePoint infrastructure, SharePoint migrations, and support for these systems.  During my time with the engineers we have put in place many process improvements and infrastructure improvements.  It was an excellent experience.

 

Now back to the .Net Development group.  It seems that since my move, there's been a lot going on with the developers.  There are a number of technologies that I'll need to learn quickly.  These include WCF services, JSON, Jquery Extensions, Sillenium and NUnit tests, Linq to SQL, and many others.  I can't wait to get the ball rolling as we have many projects that will ultimately stream line our business processes, provide better service for our customers, and improve communication between all our departments.


Stay tuned as I have a number of SharePoint and .Net Development articles coming.

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Jan 30 2009

WSS 3.0 error - Cannot open "tsa.en-US.resx": no such file or folder.

Category: amilsark @ 01:59

The fabulous 40 site templates are a set of Sharepoint site templates released by Microsoft that provide enhanced functionality to sharepoint without developing custom sites and lists. 

Some examples of sites that come in this package: 

Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management, Help Desk, Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects, Inventory Tracking, Bug Database, IT Team Workspace, Call Center

We have encountered an issue on our server farms that have these templates deployed.  It seems as though the deployment package does not deploy some of the US English resource files to the sharepoint resources directory (C:\program files\common files\Microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\resources).

If you see errors in the Sharepoint logs like: "Cannot open tsa.en-US.resx: no such file or folder" I can help you out.

To resolve this issue, you'll need to deploy the resource files  to their required location.

It turns out that the English resource files are actually deployed, but they are named incorrectly.  From my Sharepoint development background in multi-language software, it is a common mistake to  to leave your default English .resx file named xxxx.resx.  Sharepoint requires xxxx.en-US.resx to load the English resource strings for English regional settings in its applications.

So enough background, let's fix this thing!

Open up the command prompt WSS 3.0 or MOSS Web Front End server:

Start > run > cmd

Change the directory to the sharepoint resources folder

cd /d "C:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\resources"

Then make copies of the resources files with the copy named with a xxxx.en-US.resx

copy avm.resx avm.en-US.resx
copy compproc.resx compproc.en-US.resx
copy ep.resx ep.en-US.resx
copy er.resx er.en-US.resx
copy hlpdsk.resx hlpdsk.en-US.resx
copy itteam.resx itteam.en-US.resx
copy proj.resx proj.en-US.resx
copy pws.resx pws.en-US.resx
copy rer.resx rer.en-US.resx
copy tsa.resx tsa.en-US.resx

 And there you have it, you should have all the required English resource files in their required location.

Also note that you can create a batch file with the above commands if you have multiple web front end servers to speed up the fix.

I hope this helps someone!

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Nov 28 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Category: Andy @ 03:08
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who may stumble across this.  We went to the Shermer Senior's for an excellent dinner.  Bill Sr. is helping us find a cruise and flight for the honeymoon in June, so we really appreciate his help.  OK, now time to root for Texas A&M to beat Texas and read C# in depth.  This whole self learning thing never ends with .Net software development...  I also played tackle football this morning with Scott and some of his college friends.  My body hurts...

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Nov 27 2008

ASP.Net Gridview, Filtering, Sorting, Objectdatasource, LINQ

Category: Andy @ 05:35

The following is a great example i found of how to use SQL paging, LINQ, and an ObjectDataSource to support efficient paging for an ASP.Net Gridview or ListView.

http://mosesofegypt.net/post/Building-Custom-Paging-with-LINQ2c-ListView2c-DataPager-and-ObjectDataSource.aspx 

 I still need to research how LINQ and DataContext classes work...

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Nov 26 2008

Now using BlogEngine.Net

Category: Andy @ 20:08
This is a cool open source ASP.Net blog engine.  I bought this domain and had to get something up here ..

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