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Blog Name: Alex's MCT Rant
Url: http://mctalex.blogspot.com
Language: English
Topics: SharePoint, Microsot Certified Trainer, MODL
Description: Alex's knowledgebase on being a MCT, Trainer guides to teaching Microsoft Official Courseware, Tips 'n Tricks with Vista, SharePoint and other courses. Resource for SharePoint related architecture and development related questions
Popularity: 4 Followers

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Multiple Templates per Document Library
I recently got a typical FAQ in my inbox:"I have set up a sharepoint document library which has a template associated with it, whereby when you create a new document by selecting "new" from the menu bar, the document opens using the associated template.What I would like to know is, is it possible to associate multiple templates to a document library so that when creating a new document by selection "new", you are offered a choice of templates to use? I'm hoping this is possible!!!"Nothing simpler than that. The magic word is called Content Types. Okay. Two words then.You can associate one template with a document library and associate one template with a conten
Busted! Importing Profiles from multiple organisational units in Active Directory
One big drawback of the way AD implements LDAP is the lack of support for querying on Organisaitonal Units. No matter what you try, you will hit a brick wall when trying something like OU=SharePoint or OU:SharePoint in a simple query. Even trying to access the value as a property of an AD object will fail as OUs are not stored as properties on objects but only form part of the hierarchy and not part of the metadata. So, when importing profiles into SharePoint, the only place where you can enter an OU is when you are selecting the datasource, before applying any filters. Which means only one single OU, right? Wrong. read the solution at
Busted: Customising the application.master
There are numerous articles out there about how to change the system master page. The one that all pages in the _layouts aka LAYOUTS folder use. In most cases they want to do this to enable a different datasource for the top navigation aka global navigation. The average rookie who is in charge of creating a site in MOSS using the publishing feature will stumble across this problem and start hacking away at either the original application.master, or even go and implement a custom http handler to exchange the application.master with a custom one on the fly. None of these approaches are best practice nor are they supported by MS. So is it impossible to fix without breaking the system? Not at a
Gettting Started with SharePoint development
Microsoft put together ten labs for Developing on SharePoint and also provided a fully functional VPC for you to get started. Time for the image is running out, as it will expire on 30/09/09. So if you don't have your own SharePoint development environment and wish to have a look at what all the hype is about go and download the image quickVPC Image:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1beeac6f-2ea1-4769-9948-74a74bd604fa&DisplayLang=enWSS Hands on Labs:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B885DCE8-C93F-48AA-B798-4422FEBCC200&displaylang=enLoads of Resources, Demos, and online Walkthroughsh

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