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Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft, and consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online. Unfortunately, public folders are not supported by BPOS. To migrate your old public folders to BPOS, you’ll need to find a workaround. One of the ways to migrate your old Shared Folders, is by creating a shared mailbox that everybody can access. The eas ...

Authentication in SharePoint 2007 In SharePoint 2007 it was possible to enable forms based authentication next to windows authentication only by extending a web application and basically running two separate applications on the same content database. side from the problems with forms based authentication in SharePoint 2007, there were also some usability issues. The two sites are accessed by a different url. For internal users the url could be https://intranet, for external us ...

This week we started investigating OData and WCF data services as a way to easily expose and query a remote database. OData, the Open Data Protocol is a protocol for querying and updating data over using Http and AtomPub Visual studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 come with rich support to both produce and consume data using the Open Data Protocol. This post is a tutorial on how to set up a web service that exposes OData, and how to query it from a client application. Prerequisites Download and in ...

Thanks to a colleague of mine Voicu Matei I came across this very interesting presentation about what actually motivates people: Giving money rewards works very well to motivate people doing simple, straightforward tasks. But surprisingly, it has the opposite effect for more complicated tasks that require some conceptual, creative thinking! For these kind of tasks, such as software development, 3 factors lead to better performance & personal satisfaction: 1. Autonomy: the desire to direc ...