Windows Live Messenger–Program Cannot Start because DWrite.dll is missing from your system When you see the now infamous: You have probably installed Live Essentials 2011 – and Messenger is buggered. Check the following and download the hotfix applicable to your OS: http://support.microsoft.co... It was no fun running this down. HTH’s… ......

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SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting - SharePoint in a Package - SharePoint SHIP - Get your SHIP Today Sclera Hosting Internet Services and Sclera Design bring you SharePoint in a Package - SHIP - and we're happy to announce three (3) SHIPS: I-4 - our base-line entry-level edition that provides you a dedicated host for complete control over your environment, ......

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Enterprise SharePoint 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Standard 2010 Hosting, Michigan Sclera, a Microsoft Hosted Services Provider Partner, is offering key Service Offerings around the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 stack. Specifically – if you’re looking for SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Standard or Enterprise 2010 ......

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Creating CSR – Certificate Request – and Generating CSR’s for IIS7/IIS 7/ Internet Information Services 7 In IIS7 – it is not intuitive – how to generate your CSR and then get your certificate issued – and apply that certificate to your site. In IIS 6 – it was pretty straight forward once you have walked through the process – but IIS 7 is as different ......

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 EXAMS / Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) V3 EXAMS ADMINISTRATORS I thought I had posted these once before. If you have 1 to 2 years of MOSS/WSS administrative experience, you should – at a minimum – have the two (2) following exams under your belt: MCTS 70-631 – Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring ......

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DotNetNuke 5.x – What happen to Forums and FAQ and other Modules? If you’re new to DNN 5.x and you’re very familiar with DNN 4.x or 3.x – you’ll notice some distinct changes, and not all of them are intuitive at all. Take the Forums and FAQ modules. Where are they? In DNN 5.x – Sign in as HOST. Under Host—>(select) Extensions Scroll this all the ......

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Deleted User Login Control or Changed Login and Delete Page in DotNetNuke and cannot login During a recent reconfiguration of a client’s site – we encountered this. Our situation was this: We created a Sign-In page – and under Admin—>Settings – we set the login to use this page. We do this frequently when we stand up a site on a static IP that needs ......

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Microsoft Online Services – Online is not always Online As a software engineer for a small Microsoft Partner – I have had a blast working with the enterprise technologies – especially since the release of the beta bits of MOSS 2007. The firm I work for is also a Microsoft Hosted Services Partner, and we host key technologies like Exchange, MOSS, Dynamics ......

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How to Disable Touchpad - Compaq 6735s Notebook w/Synaptics Touchpad - Windows Vista Ultimate x64. Like many of us - when I pick up a new notebook - one of the first things I want to know how to do is to disable to onboard touch pad/buttons - when I plug in a wireless or wired external mouse. The Compaq 6735s is a new, lightweight AMD dual core 64 bit ......

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I have been more than busy and apologize for not being as active in the blog community as I'd like to be. Also, I'm moving my blogs to www.msftliveblogs.com/mhami... - and hopefully I'll be able to keep up. I'm still working on the MOSS and WSS sandbox demos for the Agency - which we hope to launch frist quarter' 08 ......

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As a developer, one of the first things I did to my notebook (running Vista) is disable the UAC - I can't stand it - it keeps me from installing things like Virtual Server (which is not supported on Vista - but works perfectly fine), and is basically something I'm not worried about. Until I want to add a printer that is a network resource on my LAN. ......

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Many of us have probably dabbled in setting up our own domain and forest for development purposes. For me - a domain is a must - I have my development environment that is heavily used to model development projects for clents - and I have my family - me, my wife, and 7 children with their own computers. So, we have a fairly detailed setup on the home ......

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I remember the book by Harold Robbins very well, but it was when I was reading this book that I was introduced to country music and a life that I'll never forget - notwithstanding my career in technology. Long before I was a coder I was a countruction worker by day and guitar player at night. Mostly I favored the folk songs of the '60's and '70's - ......

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I recently had the not-so-great-or-fun pleasure of a pure .Net to Oracle application show-down :) And yes, I say that with some pun. In summary, keeping to proper form, I developed a DataProviderFactory that provided the following: SQL Server native client API Oracle BDC to SQL Server BDC to Oracle Now, BDC = Business Data Catalog - a new service provider ......

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After installing MOSS and launching the SharePoint Configuration Wizard (psconfig.exe) - you are ready to begin the last leg of your MOSS installation/setup. Here you provide the setup with the particualars for your server. Often you are installing MOSS with SQL Server being remote from MOSS, and you will be using a domain-level service account for ......

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