Live@edu is a service that Microsoft offers for students. As a student you can direct your IT administrator to this site. He can register your school, so you can take advantage of the services that Microsoft offers like:
But now Microsoft is announcing the addition of SharePoint Online. The Service will be available starting in the second half of 2010. You can read more here.
original source here
The article starts great: SharePoint is Awesome – Whether it be Hosted or In House 
Setting up security for SSRS in SharePoint integrated mode can be a bit tricky, particularly if you want to set up some of your users to only be able to run reports, but not to be able to modify or change them. I found a great post explaining how to create a Reporting group in SharePoint:
This morning I read an interesting blog article from Hans Blauw. He spoke about a software company named Webstate. They put together some nice software to access your SharePoint environment with your iPhone. You might think why this is so important to talk about, you could already access your SharePoint environment.
iSharepone (the name of the software) connects to your SharePoint Environment in a very nice way. It is easier to navigate through IsharePhone than with the normal mobile view of SharePoint.
One thing though! You need a additional software to connect your iPhone to Sharepoint. This software is iSharePhone Server. I haven’t tried the software myself cause I don’t have an iPhone 
I’ve been struggling for quite a long time with Excel Web Access in combination with a SQL Analysis Server and SharePoint.
The problem is that I am able to display an excel file (which is in a SharePoint web part), but whenever I choose to refresh the connection I get the following error:
Unable to retrieve external data for the following connections:
[ODC File]
The data sources may be unreachable, may not be responding, or may have denied you access.
Verify that data refresh is enabled for the trusted file location and that the workbook data authentication is correctly set.
Here is a screenshot:
Finally today I got this error resolved.
First of all I did all the action that MVP – Ton Stegeman did in his blog about this subject. Check it out here (follow all 4 parts). He ends in part 3 with the error I have, but there was no solution provided.
First of all I needed to make sure that Kerberos is working and did not have a double hop problem, and that I could access the SSAS server and his cube. For that I added a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Filter Web Part and specified the same ODC file. It worked great (I could select a dimension and a Hierarchy).
The problem with this error is that I am running MOSS and SSAS both on a Windows 2008 Server (2 different servers btw.). You might think that it should not be any different than a 2003 server, but Server 2008 is “AES aware” (Advanced Encryption System). There is a problem with AES aware systems like W2K8, Vista and the use of Kerberos.
To get it to work, you will have to follow the steps below:
<Security> <DataProtection> <RequiredProtectionLevel>1</RequiredProtectionLevel> </DataProtection> <AdministrativeDataProtection> <RequiredProtectionLevel>1</RequiredProtectionLevel> </AdministrativeDataProtection> <RequireClientAuthentication>1</RequireClientAuthentication> <SecurityPackageList/> <DisableClientImpersonation>0</DisableClientImpersonation> <BuiltinAdminsAreServerAdmins>1</BuiltinAdminsAreServerAdmins> <ServiceAccountIsServerAdmin>1</ServiceAccountIsServerAdmin> <ErrorMessageMode>2</ErrorMessageMode> <CellPermissionMode>0</CellPermissionMode> </Security>
<Security> <DataProtection> <RequiredProtectionLevel>0</RequiredProtectionLevel> </DataProtection> <AdministrativeDataProtection> <RequiredProtectionLevel>0</RequiredProtectionLevel> </AdministrativeDataProtection> <RequireClientAuthentication>1</RequireClientAuthentication> <SecurityPackageList/> <DisableClientImpersonation>0</DisableClientImpersonation> <BuiltinAdminsAreServerAdmins>1</BuiltinAdminsAreServerAdmins> <ServiceAccountIsServerAdmin>1</ServiceAccountIsServerAdmin> <ErrorMessageMode>2</ErrorMessageMode> <CellPermissionMode>0</CellPermissionMode> </Security>
Now try again.
Tip:
- restart IIS every time you make a change in your ODC file.
As I blogged earlier, there was a problem with SP2 of Sharepoint.
This is now fixed.
You can find the KB including the installation instructions and download links for x86 and x64 here (translate the article to English, to get access to the download packages).
You can apply the package before or after the installation of SP2
According to Microsoft they will be updating the SP2 download package within 4-6 weeks.
To create a view on a calendar in SharePoint which will display the 5 upcoming events, proceed as described below:
Today I have been fighting with enabling SharePoint to receive email. Due to a misconfiguration of our farm it took me quite some longer than it should have done. Anyhow, here are the steps.
First of all I created an OU in our Active Directory. This OU will hold all the email addresses (contacts) from all the list I enable in SharePoint. I only have to create the OU and delegate control to the account that is running the Application Pool of SharePoint Central Administration.
So that’s basically it. Now you can enable your lists for incoming mail and give it an email address.
In SharePoint you can choose whether a document has to be checked out before you can edit it, or you can edit a document without checking it out.
When you check out a document, a checked out icon appears next to the document icon. This means nobody can make changes to the document except the person who did the checkout.
You can change the behavior by going to the document library settings, below General Settings choose “Versioning Settings”. Change the last option on the next page (Require check out) to Yes or No.
