Community Server on my mind

Deleting Auto-Deleted Spam comments

The last week, many of us have seen a large increase of spam comments sent to our Community Server blogs. That has given us the opportunity to learn how CS Spam rules work, and to see what a great job they do if configured correctly. And you might also Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

The NewUserDefault CSModule of the Alabaster package

A few weeks ago, the Community Server MVP's released a package of CSModule's , which we called Alabaster. It contained a couple of CSModule's developed by a couple of us MVP's. My contribution to Alabaster was a module called NewUserDefaults, which I Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Wonder what my new screencasts will be like...

I was thinking, maybe something in this direction, with a little music, and a lot of colors, and flowers...that would be nice....look at the girl with the sun in her eyes...oooops, was I dreaming? Sorry. Another kind of those weekend posting, I should Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

What? No screencast today?

I won't have any screencast today as I usually have on Fridays. Why? Simply because it's getting hard to find good ideas for screencast's every week , and I don't want to start doing any topic just to keep the "schedule". But Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Add/Remove buttons from the Paperclip Theme

If you run your blog at the root as I do, you might want to get better use of the toolbar of the blog. In my case I use a modified version of the Paperclip theme. As you can see in the picture above, I have modified the toolbar by adding 2 buttons (Media Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

My blog has been Qgyenified

As Thomas Freudenberg said yesterday there are a lot of add-ons for Community Server. And many of them are already working on CS 2.1. I just realized I am running 3 of Ken Robertson's modules on my own blog, and I think they are really useful. Qgyen.Lightbox Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Screencast: CS Reports in Excel 2007

Ok, I'll admit it! What I am going to show you in today's screencast, works well in earlier versions of Excel as well. But the title looks more cool if I write Excel 2007. And that's what I am using in the screencast as well. The topic is admin reports. Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

The CS MVPs CSModule project has its first release

Old news for some, I know but... A couple of weeks ago, no it's actually over a month ago, I talked about a developer project that me and a couple of college MVPs started. We planned to create a couple of CSModules over at CodePlex, to serve as examples Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

NewsGator Toolbar Beta

Just found out that NewsGator has a Toolbar in beta to download . Not another toolbar you might think. But for me it's great. I am running FeedDemon for all my RSS feeds, and I really like that app. But one thing that's bothered me a bit, is that I had Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Community Server is now fully translateable to other languages

Some of you that has been with Community Server for a while now, might remember that I previously coordinated the translations of CS. I think we at most were about 10 people with 10 different languages. You might also have seen that I've witting about Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

My blog space

It's saturday, a bit windy outside, and the first week of my vacation is almost to an end. I don't normally write any posts during weekends. But today I for some reason felt I should invite you to my blog space were I do all my blogging. I'ts Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Screencast: Easier navigation - Browse by Tags

I guess you all have seen the new Tag feature in Community Server 2.1 by now? It's a great way to categorize content all through your CS site, and then navigate by "tag clouds" to easier find what your looking for. So now we got one more Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Separating moderation on a forum level

Did you ever want to have different moderators for different forums in Community Server ? It is possible, but not very straight forward as checking a check-box.....yet anyway. During the last couple of days, I followed part of a thread at CS.org, where Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

How I do Community Server Upgrades

I know, most of you have done this a million times, and I am not trying to teach anyone that already knows with this article. I just wanted to write some pretty good practices on how I do it after learning from some mistakes in the past. Some of the mistakes Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Mark as not on vacation anymore

So I am back after a short vacation. Well actually my vacation starts today. Vacation from my regular work that is. But last week I had some things that I needed to attend to that took most of my time, so I decided to take a week off of blogging. I haven't Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

My new home

As you might have seen, today I moved my blog here to joeriksson.com. I have not yet redirected my old rss link here because I want all that reads the feed to get a chance to get my last message on my old blog. So I will redirect it tomorrow. But as I Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!