Problems with the Out of Office Indicator and Status Message on Microsoft Lync 2010

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This isn’t a software development problem per se, but it was a technical problem I had with Lync that does not appear to have been documented, based on my searches.In an enterprise environment where Microsoft Lync is integrated with Exchange, Lync has an indicator that shows if your Out of Office Assistant (OoOA) in Outlook … Read more

Creating a Custom GridView Object

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An earlier post dealt with creating a GridView programmatically.  In some cases, this GridView might need to be used multiple times throughout a site, either using the same data, or perhaps a different set of data.  Several options exist when determining how to implement this. The simplest, of course, would be simply to copy the … Read more

Running SSRS Reports with Lotus Notes Databases as the Original Data Source

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I had a need to be able to report on data inside a set of Lotus Notes 7.0 databases, and I wanted to use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to do this. There is no direct interface between SSRS and Notes, but I found that IBM provided an ODBC connection from Notes using their NotesSQL … Read more