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The other day I was totally playing around with configuring SharePoint to recieve emails. I totally went to town with with configuring Virtual Server (VS), Creating  a Private Network within VS, and setting up MOSS Virtual Machine (VM) and Exchange/DC VM. For some reason I couldnt get far. I see the messages I send in Exchange's queue, and on the MOSS box in IIIS under SMTP Sessions I see a session with the Exchange box. But thats it, my lists dont recieve the emails I send.

Anyways enough of my ranting,

Lawrence Liu previously pointed out that were 4 new SharePoint screencasts.

One of them is "Configuring SharePoint to Recieve Emails". Need to try this simple approach and see if I have more luck.

I knew there were hidden Emoticions in Trillian, but I didnt know there were so many.

Wayne Porter has a list of the Emoticions that you dont normallh see.

I was playing around with Mart's idea and wanted to 'step through' the Infopath Down Level Script.

So how do you debug wsh scripts?

That is a question that has been asked before in the newsgroups. The best answer I could find is this response by Michael Harris.

Solution:

wscript /d /x <script file>

where

• /d = Enable Active Debugging
• /x = Execute script in debugger

Chris Burrows has an illustrated post on how to setup TFS to support Continuous Integration, Automated Unit Testing, and Automatic deployment.

Link: http://blogs.madtechnology.net/blogs/chris/archive/2006/11/22/665.aspx

I experienced an issue with the SharePoint Solution Generator today it kept crashing right the first screen (i.e. choosing Site Definition and clicking next).

The exception being thrown shows that the tool is looking for a SharePoint site on the default website i.e. http://ServerName

Now in this paticular case there was no SharePoint site on the on port 80 so http://ServerName would naturually fail.

As much as I would like to I am not going to complain about this being a silly Exception.

The workaround:  Create a temporary sharepoint site on port 80.

In a MOSS publishing site (can I say CMS 2007?) there is an editor in which you can change the navigation elements shown on the Top Navigation.

At first glance you would assume that it would be easy to manupilate elements on that top navigation bar through code. Infact Todd has an in-depth article showing you how to add and remove items from the navigation bar.

But have you tried to hide an element. Its not as easy at it would seem. TheSPNavigationNode.IsVisible propperty is readonly, and I am yet to find an approach to hide an element.

Strangely the AreaNavigation.aspx UI makes it seem like a piece of cake.

Well its not the end of the week yet, but I did find an awesome picture that really emphasises on creativity.

The picture by LeonParin a long exposure shot (I presume) its just so cool

Link: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50185952/