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On a recent trip to Microsoft, I found myself getting heckled for my trusty notebooks "Vista Basic" sticker. A Toshiba Protege M700 which has served me well, has been upgraded to 4gb ram and an SSD, but shows its age because it has video driver...

Yesterday Microsoft launched a beta of the new version of Microsoft Office 365. http://youtu.be/J-3uK2bRNnE I found the preivew links were fairly well hidden... Sign up for the preview / beta here http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/try-office...

Wouldn't it be great if the internet gods created a DNS top level domain for .local with a wildcard dns a record to 127.0.0.1... If you don't know what that would do, it would make any dns name ending in .local point to your local system... IE...

Just putting some finishing touches on my Developer Jam item. Well a bit of background... What is the Big Social? That's our 2011 Telligent Conference that kicks off next week in Dallas... ( http://telligent.com/bigsocial/ ) What is a Developer Jam...

The Telligent Community / Community Server control panel doesn't expose a nice list of users in a particular role, but for auditing purposes its sometimes useful to be able to view all members in a role. If you have access to the database and SQL knowledge...

The Telligent Evolution Platform starting with version 5 has begun to store considerable amounts of the "Theme" configuration in the database. Its is often necessary to take the theme configuration from one environment and apply it to another, or modify...

When working with Telligent Community Sandbox sites, I find it useful to create a couple of theme variations to help illustrate the power of Group and Blog themes, and the differences between the widget "Save as Default" and "Save Contextually" options...

If you are running the new Telligent Community 5 (formerly known as Community Server 5 or CS5) or the new Telligent Enterprise 2 (formerly known as Community Server Evolution 2 or Evo2) and need to move your dynamic theme configurations and changes between...

Starting with CS2008 telligent introduced the ContentFragementList as well as several out of the box widgets. This is pretty much old news, but I thought it would be good to cover a very basic scenario... User story: An admin of a site wants the ability...

Open a command window and run servermanagercmd -install telnet-client and your windows will install telnet for you. Dan

Telligent has a Windows Service job which can be run to offload some of the Tasks / Job processing from your web server... The most common configuration is to use the task server for running the Enterprise Search Indexing jobs, although you could use...

Yes, well now it seems like everyone is making one; and many users have two or three... Google has launched Chrome http :// www . google .com/chrome the latest development in the browser wars... We have IE8 shaping up (currently in beta 2 form) and Firefox...

From time to time I find myself pulling down a live Community Server database for testing. When the database also has a remote membership system it can be very time consuming to try to download and configure both a CS database and a Membership system...

As announced way back at CSDC 07 ( http :// kevinharder .com/ blog /live- blogging -the- csdc -part-3/ ) graffiti was designed to be able to integrate directly with an existing asp.net membership store... the key is in the configuration.... So first thing...

CS Rest Endpoints return XML, but JSON is much cooler for working with the data in javascript, you can get the results back in JSON and actually iterate through collections and such... To convert the data to JSON, in leu of server calls to do this, Thomas...

With the release of CS2008, we have released the REST webservice code for the first time... This webservice has a client API which is used by the server, and actually is in the bin folder of your CS site... CommunityServer.WebServices.dll. Referencing...

I have enjoyed streaming a vast variety of Internet music for some time... I like the ability to discover new artists and music as well as a nearly infinite selection of styles and artists to suit my mood. I have to say of all of the services I have tried...

Ran across these couple of tips on the Internet the other day, and thought I would pass them along... First, my own tip, make sure you have the latest video driver installed... chances are pretty good that your video card is the lowest ranked item in...

In CS 2008 we have our javascript files linked through the scriptresource . axd handler. This is very similar to the webresource . axd handler in that it serves content from within a dll . The gotcha is that the scriptresource handler will throw an exception...

Microsoft has made the current release of Vista RC1 available to early adoptors via Windows Update or as a stand alone download (~850mb). http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9de6260e-4275-482d-9524-de850c4dd91c&DisplayLang=en...

We are having an awesome time at the Community Server Developers conference, developers from around the country world have converged to hear about the future and direction of Telligent development. Kevin Harder has been blogging the event for those who...

The current installer locks access to the disk open, so if you did something, like asked it to "format" your disk prior to installing Windows Server 2008, the format process will silently fail, the copy files will silently fail, and you will get a x8007045d...

As I speculated based on internet rumors nearly a year ago ( http :// blog . danbartels .com/archive/2006/12/26/good-bye-yahoo-music-hello- zune . aspx ) Amazon has jumped into the online music sales foray... Now you didn't need to be psychic to guess...

In Community Server, several of our classes derive from the ExtendedAttributes class. This class creates a list of name value pairs on the class, and is picked off by our data layer and stored into two NTEXT columns in the table, PropertyNames, and PropertyValues...

Telligent is having a little contest to see who can build the best theme for CS... There are a couple of contests actually, one showcasing our new theme / markup system for full site themes, and another to creatively use the "export" option of our dynamic...