Ben There, Done That

I’m back to blogging after a bit of a lapse over the last month. I was busy with some client work as well as spending a week in Haiti helping out my sister and brother-in-law at the children’s home they run. I helped out with some of the kids; playing with them, feeding them, brushing their teeth, and just giving them some attention and love. I also did some networking and computer work for them while I was there to try to keep everything running smoothly. It’s a bit tricky down there with all the heat and dust and no AC to keep it cool or closed rooms to keep the dust out. Due to the privacy of the children, I’m limited to the pictures I can put up, but here are a couple of them that I can post.

Me working on some laptops, and yes, all the Coke down there is in glass bottles.

The view from the porch of my sibling’s apartment.

Our trip to Christof’s Citadel.

A Haitian Road

That gives you a little bit of an idea of my trip. If you want to see more pictures let me know and I can show them to you.

But back to work. I have some blog posts coming as soon as I get some time that will be on the subjects of InfoPath forms and getting around certain issues when creating an InfoPath form to deploy to Forms Services and filtering data queries as well as a post on deploying PerformancePoint to a SharePoint site collection. Stay tuned and I’ll have them up as soon as I can.

Yesterday my boss ran into a problem with transfer speeds when connecting to our MOSS installation. The time it took to browse through the various sites and document libraries was incredibly slow. In addition, he got prompted to enter his credentials fairly regularly. After doing some digging through the internet and comparing my laptop (running quickly) with his we came up with the solution. It has to do with your internet connection settings. You can get to it either through you control panel or through Internet Explore and clicking on Tools -> Internet Options. Once you have the Internet Options open, click on the connections tab and click LAN settings. On this Screen your settings should be the same as those shown in the image below.

This should fix any speed problems you have in connecting to a SharePoint site through Microsoft Office. You may not even be using a Proxy server, but I would still check both check boxes. I haven’t tried leaving them unchecked and monitoring the speed, but there is a possibility these boxes could be left uncheck as well.

~Ben