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

Reference the system.EnterpriseServicess assembly to your project.

using System.EnterpriseServices.Internal;

public void Update(DirectoryInfo folder_GAC)
{
  //check if folder containing new dll files exists
  if(folder_GAC.exists){
    //add each dll found in this folder to the Global Assembly Cache
    foreach (FileInfo dll in folder_GAC.GetFiles("*.dll")) 
    {
      //instantiate a new Publich object and install the dll
      Publish objpublish = new Publish();
      objpublish.GacInstall(dll.FullName);
    }    
  }
}

remove an assembly from the GAC can be done by using the GacRemove(string name) method.

more information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... blish.aspx

Microsoft Office 2010 won't be released untill june 2010, but the beta is already available, for free. I took the liberty to download the new Office child from http://bit.ly/2GWWj8 and installed it on my laptop.



Post Installtion Information to read
Microsoft posted a short list of Frequently asked questions about 2010 and the installation, you can read here: http://bit.ly/2K6MlL

Upgrade or Side-to-side installation
I didn't want to loose my installed 2007 version so I choose the customize button instead of the upgrade button.Then changed the settings to co-exist and finally changed the installation folder to C:\program files\Office2010 instead of C:\program files\Office.After several seconds the instalation was completed and I needed to reboot windows.

Outlook 2007 and 2010 cannot run side by side. This is also the fact for Groove 2007 and his 2010 versions called 'SharePoint Workspace'.

Look and feel & first Impressions
The layout is soft and flat
All mails containing the same subject are automatically shown together as a sublist.

Overview Links
Download
Frequently Asked Questions
Top 10 benefits

Screenshot

Economy Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) has ordered an investigation into the data limits on Internet use in our country. Belgium is one of the few European countries where users are restricted by the providers in the download volume.

The investigation comes after a complaint by Microsoft. The download restrictions in our country provides problems for its online video rental service. Microsoft launched earlier this month the Zune video service. This allows users of the Xbox 360 game console films (whether in high definition) directly to their television stream. That will take much bandwidth from several hundred megabytes for simple movies to maximum 14 GB for a feature film in HD.

Since Belgacom and Telenet handles data limits, Microsoft complains that the Zune video rental service in Belgium can not fully develop.

"We await the report of this examination before we make further statements on this issue," said spokesman Arne Van Den Driessche. (belga / SPS)

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.