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• Noel Dsouza Creating users without adding them in the AD

  Hello: Maybe this coul be a silly question but is it possible to create users accounts without using the Active Directory Regards. Yes that is the start. You can also just use local server accounts if you like. Or you can look into a 3rd party tool: http://software.sharepointsolutions.com/products/Pages/ExtranetCollaborationManagerforSharePoint2007.aspx Thank you. I'm going to star with the documentation Yes, SharePoint supports the .NET 2.0 Membership Provider Model. You can store the user accounts in SQL Server, Active Directory, ADAM or any other LDAP store by configuring one of the providers supplied with Share ...Show All

• MisterT006 OOP Design Question - Need an opinion...

  I know there is no "100% correct" way to design the following but any suggestions or shared opinions would be appreciated: I want to create a Customer business entity. Should this Customer class only contain properties and simple validation or should it also contain all the business logic and CRUD functions Should I create a separate class called CustomerService that handles logic by passing around and working with the Customer entity Example: How to add a new Customer 1) All domain logic in one Customer object . Customer.Name = "Bla" Customer.Save OR 2) Customer object to hold properties and Service object to perform business logic. Customer.Name = "Bla" CustomerFactory.AddCu ...Show All

• cbpd86 VSeWSS

  When can we expect the next release of VSeWSS I am getting the error mentioned in other places (blogs and newsgroups) where I can't build and deploy the same project twice (works the first time, errors out each time after). Steps to reproduce: 1) Create a new VSeWSS web part project 2) Hit 'F5' to Build, Deploy, Debug - works fine 3) Add the web part to the page - works fine 4) Close IE 5) Modify Render method enough to trigger a new build 6) Hit 'F5' to Build, Deploy, Debug I get in the status window: Build Started, Build Progress, Deploy Started ..., Deploy failed. A dialog pops up saying 'There were deployment errors. Continue ' Clicking yes or no doesn't do anything. In the Error ...Show All

• Arran Siu Service Orientated Architecture and Connected Services Framework

  I am currently working on designing our Company's SOA and this will include a large wrap-up of legacy systems, new systems, support for a variety of web portals etc., synchronising of third-party software and more. At some stage (I.e. When there are accessible services in place - which could be quite a way down the track), we'll look to make those services externally available to our clients. My question is this... I am currently looking at things like: Service aggregation Service discovery and routing Service performance metrics Service usage metering Potential service billing (later on) Service logging and later consolidation - Both infrastructure and application-level etc... and this has lead me to begin to ...Show All

• rternier Service Catalog Installation

  Hello, I am trying to install CSF 3.0 Full version. All the components are getting installed Excpet Service Catalog, where only UDDI registration tool is getting installed. I have checked thread from Senthil about Platform SDK and downloaded and installed that one. I have also checked UDDI installation and made sure that non-SSL is selected and UDDI is running under ASP 1.1 in the IIS. Still the problem persists. Please guide. Thanks and Regards It must be only "Platform SDK 2003 Sp1", any other Platform sdk ...would fail :) HTH ...Show All

• markovuksanovic [moss 2007]Change a property of an image

  I need to modify a property of an image by programming. But it gives me an error because I must check-out the image before. Does anybody know how I can do it Thanks Hi Elena, Well the error message basically says it, first check out the doucment. You can do two things to achieve that. 1) disable the check-out settings in the list settings, so images can be changed even if the file is not checked out. 2) you can programatiaclly check out the document first, before changing the properties. This page shows an example: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms454425.aspx I hope this helps! Mart ...Show All

• Dan Sherwin Project potal right-hand zone missing unable to reinstate

  On a "project portal" in WSS associated to a (MVS2005 TFS project) I removed all web parts from the right-hand zone leaving only web parts in the left-hand zone. I'm now unable to re-instate the right-hand zone; I cannot add any web parts. For example: I select "modified shared page" > "add web parts" > "browse"; When draging a web part it is only possible to drop it on the left-hand zone; in the "add to" combo box only one option ,"left", is available. This project portal is associated with business critical source code held in TFS. That's why I haven't reinstalled the project portal because I'm not sure if it will disrupt the source code that developers have to acces ...Show All

• Aleniko29139 Sharepoint Blog

  I want to setup a secure Blog. This means that each user would have an online journal. only that reader and certain administrators could read this journal. 1.Is this somthing that should be done in sharepoint or should I just build a webapp to do this 2.If this is for sharepoint where can I go for some information on how to get started. 3.Note I am very very new to sharepoint so go easy on me if this is stupid..... Thanks WSS v3 (2007) - its free, so you will only pay for hosting and SQL liscencing (make sure of that. I am not a liscensing expert) and has all the features needed for what you specified. OK, so how would you do this A secure site facing the WWW and a webpart that woul ...Show All

• Hansen Steve Authorization Manager (AzMan) API

  Hi All, Microsoft seems to be putting AuthorizationManager forward as its offering for authorization in a number of articles, but there seems to be very little documentation about it. I'm currently writing a .NET wrapper for the interop assembly. Does Microsoft already have one Also, where can I get the API documentation Thanks, Steve Pack Hi Steven, if yours is an ASP.NET 2.0 application you can use the ASP.NET 2.0 security model to access AzMan indirectly thru its provider model (you can read about that here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/ms998336.aspx ) If your application, being web or not, needs to access an AzMan repository from a non-web environment, you can leverage the ...Show All

• Dr.9 difficulty in understanding visitor pattern

  Hi All, I have confusion on why is Visitor pattern is needed.One of the famous website provides the following code to explain the use of visitor pattern,but it is nto understood by me. Can somebody please explin in simple terms what is visitor pattern and in what case it is implemented. package Transactions ; public class Transaction { public abstract void accept( TransactionVisitor v); } interface TransactionVisitor { public void visit( DepositTransaction dt); public void visit( WithdrawlTransaction wt); } class DepositTransaction extends Transaction { public void accept( TransactionVisitor v) {v.visit( this );} } class WithdrawlTransaction extends Transaction { public void acce ...Show All

• Matt_br Web Part CAS/Security Issue

  Hi, I created a web part for MOSS2007 which allows users to browse the Active Directory. After lots of searching I found out that any code that makes calls to System.DirectoryServices.dll must run with full trust, which I duly configured by creating a custom CAS policy. Took a while to figure out, but got there. When accessing the page containg the web part locally, it works fine. When accessing the page from another workstation on the LAN (intranet) it fails. I tested this using two user accounts - one is a typical domain user, the other is a member of DomainAdmins. My custom policy file is based on ws_minimaltrust.config , and I created a code group which only grants full trust to my assembly (identified by PublicKeyBlob ...Show All

• AVVIT Start workflow when due date specified in list item has passed

  Hey mates! I need to send a notification mail when a due date specified in a list item has passed. I'm using share point designer to do the workflow part and have a workflow without condition but the corresponding action defined. I was trying to use the expiration function in the information management policy setting of the list but that doesn't work that nicely. Any suggestions for a more elegant solution Thanks a lot! Has anyone got this working. I am trying to create the same functionality - Have an email sent to user before expiration date of an item approaches. I am not sure if going the workflow way is the best though . Hi, I have created a batch job that runs ever ...Show All

• Son_seph14 Server Admin Templates - Workflows Included?

  Do any of the new fabulous 40 application templates include custom workflows Jeff Lynch MVP Windows Server System - Commerce Server http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch ...Show All

• Eugene Agafonov Effect of Assembly size

  Hi, I have an application written in such a way that it support reflection based instantiation, and my question is, is it beneficial if I devide my code in to small set of libraries or have all code in to huge library. some more specifics: Applicaiton is having multiple sub systems and each sub system has multiple modules and each module has 3+ tiers (UI,DAL,Data,BLL). If I keep library per module+tiers there would be too many libraries, so we are debating if we can merge all modules in to one huge subsystem library. That way we will have very few libraries to maintain, but I think that approach may have some issue, as when we instantiate one type from one module, whole library would be loaded in memory and that may un-necessarily lo ...Show All

• hrvat Data Exchange

  We need to exchange our customer data with an external partner on a daily basis. This data is highly confidential. This size of the data will be around 1GB. The data format is unicode. What will be the best way to exchange the information Vikas, We don't have any connectivity between two networks as of now. The cusotmer data is stored in SQL Server (some applications in 2000 and some applications in 2005). The partner uses SAP(SQL server as its database) 1 GB a day Are you sure you need that much data Is some of it redundant Trimming down the amount might open up some other possibilities. My initial thought would be a program, probably a Windows S ...Show All