Today I had the chance to configure a stand-alone sharepoint server on the Amazone EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) environment.

It takes a while to learn all the documentation and different options but if you are familiar with Hyper-V or any other technology, you will discover that the user interface of EC2 is very easy to understand.

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These are the links I used to configure the EC2 server:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC ... rtedGuide/

This firefox add-in elasticfox is a real timesaver:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/ ... nalID=1797

Setting the credentials in elasticfox:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=https%3A%2F%2Faws-portal.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Faws%2Fdeveloper%2Faccount%2Findex.html%2F?action=access-key&tag=bucket-20

Problem 1: after each reboot the server receives a new servername, this is not so interesting because SharePoint and SQL server are not so happy with this. Resulting in "cannot connect to the configuration database". It seems like 1 little checkbox is the solving answer!
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After I disabled this setting, renamed my server and rebooted... the whole SharePoint server worked like a charm!

Artemis Oliver posted 50 very interesting jQuery scripts.
http://addyosmani.com/blog/50-jquery-sn ... evelopers/
Nice post!

Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server 2010


This MSDN article contains all the information needed to create a Windows 7 development environment. It is advised to create a bootable windows 7 VHD in order to use all available resources, more information about creating bootable VHD's


Some important addidtional notes:
Windows 7 enterprise or ultimate, both x64
At least 4GB RAM

Links
Setting up Windows 7 for Office & SharePoint 2010 Beta Development: http://bit.ly/5svSgJ
Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 x64 [codeproject]: http://bit.ly/7tt6U3

SharePoint beta installation files:
http://bit.ly/2COQdL
http://bit.ly/79gU5y

1) Word 2010 enables drag and drop upload

While using the Upload Multiple Documents menu from the actions menu in a library. I noticed that this page was transformed into a drag and drop enabled upload container.



You can simply select the files you want to upload en drag them into the page.



After pressing the OK button all the documents were uploaded.



The free Office 2010 beta version is still available for downloading, check my previous post for more information

Nice to have if you ask me!

2) Word 2010 cannot open a document from SharePoint

1. Open up Internet Explorer
2. Click Tools –> Internet Options
3. Click the Connections tab
4. Click LAN settings
5. Check “Use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections).”
6. Enter 127.0.0.1 for the address
7. Click Advanced
8. In the Exceptions type: *.*
9. Click OK, OK and OK

source: http://bit.ly/6aZeY8

In this previous post I explained how to change the default SharePoint drafts folder from
My documents/SharePoint Drafts to another location.

If you have to change this settings for more than 300 users this is not a job you want to do by hand, so here is a possible solution that might work:

Create 2 files:

1) sharepointdraftslocation.reg, this file contains the register keys that need to be added or altered.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\Offline\Options]
"Local"=dword:00000001
"Location"="C:\\Users\\tom.vangaever.NEOMATICS\\Documents\\Other SharePoint Drafts\\"

2) sharepointdraftslocation.bat, this file will use the builtin REGEDIT.EXE application to add the correct register values in to the register.

@ECHO OFF
REGEDIT.EXE -S sharepointdraftslocation.reg
cls


By using an active directory group policy you can make sure that this sharepointdraftslocation.bat script is started each time the user logins in on a computer.