Chris Johnson
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Seoul highlights
I have just finished off my official work commitments here in Seoul. I am leaving tomorrow morning...
Author: chjohn Date: 02/03/2006
My hotel fridge in Seoul...
Just now I was a bit thirsty as i was looking over some material for the Seoul leg of the O12...
Author: chjohn Date: 02/02/2006
In Flight Wireless Internet
I am currently airborne on SQ286 to Singapore from Auckland, and just read that Singapore Air are...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/25/2006
Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Support boundaries for Active Directory Federation Services
Over the last few months there has been a lot of noise and questions regarding ADFS support in...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/19/2006
Microsoft Research Group Shot
This is pretty nifty ... make sure everyone has their eyes open in a group photo :) We are happy to...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/18/2006
Xbox 360, PGR3 & Media Center Extender
I got back from the US on Monday after a week over in Seattle for a work conference. Had a great...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/17/2006
A year of vulnerabilities
US-CERT has released their year-end vulnerability summary. According to InformationWeek.com,...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/05/2006
That quirky SharePoint Object Model...
I had another chance yesterday to do battle with something in the SharePoint Object Model. These...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/04/2006
Seat Guru - a tool for travellers...
(Rod: will love this!) On Friday i am about to head off to the MotherShip HQ in Redmond. Then later...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/03/2006
First XBox 360 experience
Got a chance to play some PGR3 and Call of Duty 3 (?) on the Xbox 360 a few days ago ... wow. Was...
Author: chjohn Date: 01/03/2006
Worms on Smartphone or Pocket PC !
I know sure the people at Provoke will be excited about this one! Worms World Party by JAMDAT
Author: chjohn Date: 12/19/2005
King Kong
I really have no idea how to put my feelings down in writing about this movie... It is the most...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/19/2005
One Note Mobile in Office 12
Out and About with OneNote Mobile
Author: chjohn Date: 12/13/2005
New whitepaper up on WSS/SPS SP2
Finally its out! For some time there has been quite a bit of confusion about ASP.Net 2.0 & the...
Author: chjohn Date: 12/08/2005
WSSSplit....
Another handy WSS administration tool from the MSIT dept... Automates the process of moving a site...
Author: chjohn Date: 11/30/2005
Finance ...
Firends of mine who used to live in the states told me of all the credit card offers they used to...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/31/2005
Level flight achieved by skydiver.
Im a skydiver and find these sorts of things AMAZING! I friend of mine (Jezz) recently moved to...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/30/2005
Bill Gates vs. Napoleon Dynamite
If you liked the movie check out BillG in action: https://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2679657 For one...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/19/2005
Take WSS folders offline (& in sync) without purchasing anything.
I have had a number of queries from customers about the simplest way to take a folder of documents...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/11/2005
Mindsharp's FREE Deleted Items Document Library Custom List Template
Posted recently: https://mindsharpblogs.com/todd/archive/2005/10/06/719.aspx This looks like a cool...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/09/2005
Joel is blogging...
And about time too! Joel has a wealth of real world SPS/WSS experience from running the internal...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/09/2005
Another great addition from the MSIT group...
From the same group that brought you the "SharePoint Recycle Bin v 1.0" .... the Cross Forest People...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/09/2005
AfterMail, Email & KM
Yesterday I was treated to being shown v.Next of AfterMail … all I have to say is WOW … they are...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/06/2005
New improved SharePoint Recycle Bin released!!! (must have)
One of the most frequent questions I get from customers is around a recycle bin for SharePoint. This...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/05/2005
Peter Jackson, Windows XP, Apple & Media Center
Was catching up on some Production Diaries from the King Kong movie on KongisKing.net and noticed a...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/05/2005
How to do a screen capture in Media Player
I wanted to do a screen capture from Windows Media Player and was having issues due to the use of...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/05/2005
More on Peter Jackson, Weta, Microsoft and Wellington, NZ
More info coming out on the Halo movie. Local buzz is building. I for one have been a Jackson fan...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/05/2005
You know you are old when ...
... You go to a Black Eyed Peas concert ... and everyone holds up cellphones instead of lighters. Oh...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/05/2005
Non-Collaborative My Sites
Bill has a good post on My Sites here.There is some confusion about what the 'Create Personal Site'...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/04/2005
Offile Folder Sync SharePoint libraries
Ian pointed me to this little utility by digi-link. Great little app for offline library...
Author: chjohn Date: 10/04/2005
Halo 2, Peter Jackson & Wellington, NZ
Great to see that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are going to be Exec Producers on the Halo 2 movie....
Author: chjohn Date: 10/04/2005
Hoff Friday...
Every Friday a friend sends out a Hoff pic ... this on is IT related so thought i needed to share:
Author: chjohn Date: 09/30/2005
Funny...
Found this whilst checking our Microspeak glossary for a term & thought it was a bit of a laugh:...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/30/2005
WSS SP2 out ... support for SQL 2005 etc....
Just out is WSS SP2. I have blogged about this before ... but now it is out. Lots of people will be...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/27/2005
SharePoint Explorer
Use this all the time to look at a SharePoint farm ... great tool ... just wanted to bookmark it so...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/27/2005
Office 12 madness...
Just wanted to say that it is so great to see so much excitement on the web about the Office 12...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/22/2005
Handy VPC Tips
I was having some issues running VPCs on my new Toshiba M4. Solution - Install BIOS 1. 5 -Change...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/15/2005
Another great vid on WSS v3
Following on from my last post ... here is another vid up on Channel 9. So great to see this stuff...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/14/2005
Rob Lefferts talks about WSS vNext...
A great vid is up on Channel9. Rob Lefferts talks about WSS v3 ... lots of good stuff about workflow...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/14/2005
Who says we dont innovate! (SuperFetch & USB)
Demoed at PDC .... SuperFetch and USB memory sticks. SuperFetch is a new technology in Windows Vista...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/14/2005
WSS v3 exposed...
Finally we can talk about this stuff!!!! I have been dying to talk to people about what is coming up...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/14/2005
MCE Web Guide
This is the coolest Windows Media Center addon i have seen since "My Movies". It is an ASP.Net Web...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/12/2005
Themes a portal area...
Another cunning use of those WSS admin pages in SPS. I question the supportability of this ... but...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/07/2005
TechEd NZ Slides are up...
For those people who want the slide decks and vids from TechEd NZ ... they are here... "Microsoft...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/05/2005
NZ Music Stores...
For a while now i have been wanting to buy a couple of tracks that i have heard ... and decided it...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/04/2005
TechEd 2005 ... done.
TechEd New Zealand is over for another year ... and it was great! My session on SharePoint...
Author: chjohn Date: 09/04/2005