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Most of the information in an employee’s MySite profile comes from the Active Directory profile import, which is set up in the SharePoint Shared Service Provider.  However, this can be tricky with employee photos since links to photos are not normally stored in Active Directory.  An easy way around this if you don’t want to store the links in Active Directory, is to simply create a picture library in SharePoint and upload all of the employee photos to the picture library with a standard name, such as username.jpg.  Then you can write a script to update each MySite profile and associate the photo with the person.
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As you may have read, a judge recently upheld a court ruling which bans Microsoft from selling Word 2007 after January 11, 2010, due an XML patent infringement.  That was yesterday.

Today, Microsoft announced that they have released a patch which corrects the patent infringement, bringing the Office 2007 code under compliance:

The 2007 Microsoft Office OPK Master Kit Download, available on Microsoft’s OEM Partner Center, strips Word and other Office programs of custom XML editing capabilities.

“The following patch is required for the United States,” Microsoft said in a message on the site.

The 2007 Microsoft Office OPK Master Kit Download (12.9 MB) can be found at the Microsoft OEM Partner Center.  The site also says:

After this patch is installed, Word will no longer read the Custom XML elements contained within DOCX, DOCM, or XML files. These files will continue to open, but any Custom XML elements will be removed. The ability to handle custom XML markup is typically used in association with automated server based processing of Word documents. Custom XML is not typically used by most end users of Word.

Pretty quick turnaround, but I have a feeling they were working on this for a while…

One of the most overlooked pieces of technology in law firms is PDF creation.    Yet it’s also one of the most important to an end user.  It needs to be simple, stable, and usually needs to integrate well with a DMS system.

With iManage, you have three main choices.  Do you A) use the built-in “Convert to PDF/Send as PDF” utility function, B) find a third-party tool with full integration, or C) use the native Save As PDF option available in the Word 2007 Office Button.

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Before creating an image of a XenApp server, several steps must be performed to generalize the XenApp installation, in order to remove the machine-specific information from the install and allow the server to come online and join the XenApp farm as a unique entity. In the past, this was either accomplished manually or through the use of a set of scripts. Citrix has since released a small MSI that contains a command-line tool and a Windows service that can be leveraged to quickly generalize a XenApp installation. The tool is called XenAppPrep and it can basically be thought of as the equivalent of sysprep for Windows, only used with XenApp installations.

With XenAppPrep, you can easily prepare and clone your XenApp servers, either by traditional Ghost/image type methods or through the use of Provisioning Services (talked about in my previous post Citrix Provisioning Services Part 2 – PVS with XenApp!). Using XenAppPrep is a simple process:

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