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  Sharepoint 2010

• Be the first to get SharePoint 2010 beta

  pstubbs

  5 Nov 2009 | 3:46 pm

  You can sign up now to be notified when the SharePoint 2010 is released. Be the first on your block to be running the newest version of SharePoint. Pre-Register here for the SharePoint 2010 Beta http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx...(read more)

• Free SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference Thursday

  pstubbs

  4 Nov 2009 | 5:57 am

  SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference & Expo The SharePoint 2010 Virtual Conference and Expo is this Thursday. This is going to be a great event if you are limited to time and travel budget but want to lean about what’s new in SharePoint 2010. I will...(read more)

• Visual Studio 2010 Package designers for SharePoint

  pstubbs

  2 Nov 2009 | 3:32 pm

  The Visual Studio’s SharePoint Tools team has posted about using the SharePoint Package designers in Visual Studio. The package designers allow you to manage the SharePoint package (.wsp) that Visual Studio builds. The designer abstracts many of the complexities...(read more)

• SharePoint 2010 Free 1 Day Developer Workshop

  pstubbs

  2 Nov 2009 | 2:57 pm

  Are you a developer interested in learning about Microsoft’s fastest growing development platform? SharePoint 2010 is the Business Collaboration Platform for creating rich enterprise applications. I will be hosting a 1 Day developer workshop in Fort Lauderdale...(read more)

• SharePoint 2010: Sandboxed Solutions

  pstubbs

  2 Nov 2009 | 2:02 pm

  One of the biggest problems with SharePoint 2007 development is that all of its solutions run as full trust… SharePoint Pro Connections just published an article I wrote which discusses one of the new features in SharePoint 2010, Sandboxed Solutions....(read more)

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  Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

• October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

  sptblog

  29 Oct 2009 | 10:38 am

  The server-packages of October 2009 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download. October 2009 Cumulative Updates introduce more rules on Pre-Upgrade Checker, which can help customers to prepare the upgrade of their SharePoint farm to SharePoint 2010. Download Information Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update package http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=974989 Office SharePoint Server 2007 October 2009 cumulative update package…

• Short Overview of SharePoint Features in Visual Studio 2010

  sptblog

  28 Oct 2009 | 11:06 am

  As you probably know, Visual Studio 2010 was announced last week and it contains a lot of great features and project templates for SharePoint developers. Below is a short overview for some of the SharePoint development related features and project templates. Configurable deployment With all new SharePoint project templates you can leverage new configurable deployment feature which lets you configure the way you want to deploy or retract your project. Besides using provided, out of the box deployment steps (Run Pre-Deployment Command, Run Post-Deployment Command, Recycle IIS Application Pool,…

• SharePoint 2010 Resources

  sptblog

  19 Oct 2009 | 2:02 pm

  As Steve Ballmer announced this morning at the SharePoint Conference, and Jeff Teper notes below in his post, the public beta of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will be available in November. For more resources, take a look at: - SharePoint 2010 Website - to view SharePoint 2010 in action - SharePoint 2010 forum- for SharePoint 2010 questions - SharePoint 2010 PressPass- for the SPC 2009 keynote video, a Q&A with Jeff Teper, and more - SharePoint 2010 Developer Center - for developer info - http://www.mssharepointitpro.com - for IT Pro info - http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint - for more…

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Center

  sptblog

  19 Oct 2009 | 1:34 pm

  The SharePoint 2010 Developer Center is now live on MSDN. This new sub-site includes Getting Started modules, as well as a Beta version of the SharePoint 2010 SDK. To read more, take a look at the SharePoint developer documentation team blog, or head straight to the SharePoint 2010 Developer Center to see detailed, public technical information and instruction around both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010.

• SharePoint 2010

  sptblog

  19 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

  This is my third and final post as part of our disclosure of SharePoint 2010 today. The previous posts covered the SharePoint History and how we Engineer SharePoint. This morning, Steve Ballmer and I are kicking off the SharePoint Conference so it is time to talk about SharePoint 2010! It is incredibly fun and rewarding to unveil this release driven input from you and innovative ideas from the team. As Steve announced, we will release the Beta of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in November and look forward to your feedback as we finalization the product and documentation for release in the…

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  Mike Walsh's WSS and more

• A couple of worrying changes in SP 2010 products compared to the v3 equivalents

  3 Nov 2009 | 7:36 pm

  The first problem area is SPD 2010.   It has been confirmed in a thread in the new SharePoint 2010 (General) forum   http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/threads   that it is not possible to edit v3 sites using SPD 2010.   This is against all previous practice (with SPD 2007 and FrontPage 2003) where downward compatibility was available but naturally upgrade compatibility wasn't.   The only slightly bright spot is that it was also confirmed that SPD 2010 and SPD 2007 can be run together on the same client machine. So you don't need two machines just to…

• WSS FAQ additions and changes CLXXVI - 25th to 31st October 2009

  30 Oct 2009 | 11:38 pm

  Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.   (Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at www.wssfaq.com (wssv3faq.mindsharp.com) daily.)   From 25th to 31st October 2009   I.1 2007 KB Articles   New   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;975002   Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package…

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 FAQ - 2 - 25th to 31st October 2009

  30 Oct 2009 | 11:29 pm

  Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.   (Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)   From 25th to 31st October 2009   I.1 2010 KB Articles   New or Modifed   None   II. Articles - 2010 Products   New   A. Office 2010 Server Products   http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2009/10/sp2010-developer-skills-preparation.html  …

• 2010 Logging Specification is greatly improved over 2007

  29 Oct 2009 | 5:35 pm

  A couple of weeks ago I had already worked an hour overtime and was in a minute of leaving the office when I was dragged in to look at the logging of a customer's MOSS system.   As the customer wasn't mine I had no codes for the machine and it turned out had been given the wrong address of the second Citrix machine in the line of "jump" machines so I couldn't do anything from my office and had to go to the next building and persuade someone to help me.   [Oh for the good old days of my old (user) company where all the servers were in a well-equipped and well organised (and…

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 FAQ additions and changes - 1 - 18th to 24th October 2009

  24 Oct 2009 | 8:24 pm

  Special Note for the first post of this: I recommend that a better approach for this first set of additions is to look at the web site rather than this list. The web site allows to to select Views (such as Grouping and/or Sorted Views) which give you a better feel for what is there than this massive list.   (Items are added to the SharePoint Foundation 2010 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily).   From 18th to 24th October 2009   I.1 2010 KB Articles   New or Modifed   None   II. Articles - 2010 Products  …

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  Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS]

• Conferences and the Twitter Phenomenon #SPCONN09

  Andrew Connell

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:04 pm

  At the SharePoint Conference a few weeks ago in Las Vegas I found Twitter to be a very cool tool during the show. I really like it from two perspectives: the presenter & the attendee. From the attendee’s perspective… When you’re attending a session you post messages in Twitter and include a hashtag that includes the session number. This message can be an open question, feedback on what is going on in the session or letting others know how things are going in the session. This is great for attendees that are attending the session as you can have a complete dialog during the session…

• SharePoint 2010 Changes in Rendering

  Andrew Connell

  4 Nov 2009 | 6:09 am

  In SharePoint 2007 many customers provided lots of feedback to Microsoft… ok, they complained… that the markup generated by SharePoint 2007 (which also meant WSS 3.0 & ASP.NET 2.0) was not clean, concise or friendly to accessibility requirements. What’s new in the SharePoint 2010 generated markup story… Microsoft heard this loud and clear and committed to have SharePoint 2010 generate WCAG 2.0 AA complaint markup. However you may seen or heard in various places, even from a Microsoft person, in a blog or in some news report, that SharePoint is also generating XHTML 2.0 Strict…

• Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010

  Andrew Connell

  4 Nov 2009 | 4:09 am

  At the SharePoint Conference in Vegas two weeks ago I co-presented a session with Chris Johnson from Microsoft on how to upgrade a SharePoint 2007 Publishing site to SharePoint Server 2010. We covered some pre-upgrade stuff, things to watch out for, but what I think was likely the most interesting piece of the whole session was when we took a content DB backup of a 2007 site, restored it and added it to SharePoint 2010 (using a similar process I wrote about previously) and then modified created a new master page from the sites custom branded 2007 master page and added the 2010 stuff like the…

• Doing SharePoint 2010 Development – What’s in your rig?

  Andrew Connell

  3 Nov 2009 | 4:05 am

  Over the last year I’ve been working with SharePoint 2010 in various ways. With the new requirements of x64 hardware in this release, I got a lot of questions at the SharePoint Conference, on Twitter and via my blog on what hardware I use to do my SharePoint 2010 development & demos. Here it goes... hopefully this helps someone else out there. The setup… First, let’s get on the same page: SharePoint 2010 *requires* a 64-bit operating system in Windows Server 2008. For the majority of us you’ll want to virtualize it. These virtual machines, at least today in beta 2, really want at…

• Top session at SharePoint Conference 2009

  Andrew Connell

  3 Nov 2009 | 3:03 am

  Two weeks ago I presented two breakout sessions & a full-day post conference workshop at the SharePoint Conference. Before the show Microsoft setup a little contest for the top speakers for Microsoft & non-Microsoft speakers. I’m sure this was to incentivize many speakers to do the best they could do as this was a big coming out party for SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft wanted to put on a great show (that they did). While creating a session for a conference is a lot of work, presenting to a big group of people who are interested in learning something new is a lot of fun for me. In all…

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  Fear and Loathing

• SharePoint Site Roundup #SPC09

  Bil Simser

  20 Oct 2009 | 10:42 pm

  For those of you who watched the intro video at SharePoint Conference 2009 on Monday (you can view the video again here) I’ve put together a roundup of all the sites in the video (in the order they appear). These are all sites built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (well, sort of, see below). Ferrari.com Continental Airlines (*) Kraft Foods Kroger MTV (*) Viacom AMD Chesapeake Energy easyJet (*) General Mills Citigroup (*) McKesson (Intranet only) accenture (Intranet only) EA (Electronic Arts) (Intranet only) Tyson (*) Shell (Intranet only) Cadence Coca-Cola (Intranet only) Jones Lang…

• SharePoint 2010 What’s New – Ratings #SPC09

  Bil Simser

  19 Oct 2009 | 9:53 pm

  SharePoint 2010 offers a new feature around rating content. Note that this feature is only available in SharePoint Server 2010 and not available in Windows SharePoint Services 4.0 SharePoint Foundation 2010 (yeah, I can’t keep up with the name changes either). Ratings are very generic things that have a lot of flexibility. They allow users to rate content (of any type, Lists, Documents, Pages on a site, and even Content Types) and store that ratings data in the database just like the new social tags that are part of 2010. A rating represents the average score from all users submitting a…

• SharePoint 2010 What’s New – Lookup Columns #SPC09

  Bil Simser

  19 Oct 2009 | 3:00 pm

  An enhancement that’s been long waiting for SharePoint is around lookup columns. In 2007 you can create a lookup column which essentially “looks up” values from another list. Here’s creating a lookup column in 2007: Basic stuff. You select the list you want to get information from and the column you want to use as a display value. You can allow multiple values which makes for an interesting setup. Imagine you want to keep an inventory of servers in SharePoint. You might create a list of servers then you want to know what operating systems are installed. So you could create a list…

• The Kimono Is Open, The Veil Is Lifted, The Gags Are Removed... #SPC09

  Bil Simser

  19 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

  If you find the title of this blog familiar, it should be. Mike Fitz used it when he posted his first remarks about SharePoint 2007 back on September 14, 2005. Here we are in 2009 with a product releasing in about 6 months. Amazing what a journey it’s been, and things are just starting to heat up. Right now Steve Balmer is probably on-stage in Vegas and 7000 SharePoint nerds are listening to him. Developers, Developers, Developers. I’ll never forget Steve and find him a powerful presence whenever he’s around. So welcome to the New SharePoint Order, namely SharePoint 2010. I have a whack…

• ShareTalk – Soup to Nuts

  Bil Simser

  18 Oct 2009 | 5:36 pm

  My co-worker and BizTalk MVP Kent Weare has been blogging up a storm with his BizTalk and SharePoint integration series of posts on his BizTalk blog. In it, he walks through the entire process of getting BizTalk 2009 talking to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, publishing forms, retrieving information, creating InfoPath forms from BizTalk schemas and more! This is an awesome (and the first that I know of) resource that’s complete on the BizTalk and SharePoint side of things (with some InfoPath form processing thrown in for good measure). I highly recommend the entire series for anyone…

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  SharePoint Buzz

• Canada's First Look at SharePoint 2010

  SharePointBuzz

  26 Oct 2009 | 8:02 am

  If you are in Toronto & Mississauga this week, then you are luck to get Canada's First Look at SharePoint 2010.   Mississauga SharePoint User GroupMonday, October 26, 2009: Rob Windsor is presenting An Overview of SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 is being unveiled this week at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference. This session will provide an overview of the product with a particular focus on what’s new for developers. The tools included in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 make developers more productive and new hosting options for SharePoint solutions provide more flexibility in…

• How To Install SharePoint 2010 Beta on Windows 7

  SharePointBuzz

  22 Oct 2009 | 11:29 am

  Quick post:  Windows 7 has been officially been released today, and it brings lots of features.    If weren't able to attend the SharePoint Conference 2009 or keep up with twitter, then you might have missed that SharePoint 2010 can be installed on Windows 7.  This approach is obviously recommended for Developers and for production.   Alpesh Nakars has written a series of posts on how to prepare and how To Install WSS4 on Windows 7.    Until the release of SharePoint 2010 Beta, you can learn how to install SharePoint 2007 on Windows 7 / Vista [2].  Now there are some noticeable…

• Pre-register for the SharePoint 2010 Beta

  SharePointBuzz

  20 Oct 2009 | 12:07 pm

  Things have been pretty hectic at the SharePoint Conference 2009 with all the new changes and enchancements that are coming.  It's been an amazing couple of days meeting so many of those part of the SharePoint Community.   From Steve Balmer's keynote we learned that the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta will be available in November 2009.   This is a quick reminder, if your interested, to pre-register for the SharePoint 2010 Beta.   If you aren't sure of the list of features, a complete list will be provided but here's a snippet from the press release: A new ribbon user interface that makes end…

• SharePoint Conference Day 0

  justsharepoint

  18 Oct 2009 | 6:37 pm

  This is the happening place for all SharePoint Nerds! Yes we – the SharePoint Buzz Team are here to do Just SharePoint at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center starting from October 18, 2009 With 7000+ attendees, the registration line was going to be really long. Good thing the team registered first and then went in to check at the hotel. Otherwise we would be standing here in this long queue. We met few people at the Welcome Reception and then headed over to the first Share Event of the Conference - #ShareIndian and then #SharePint! It’s been a great start and we have met a lot of people…

• Honoured to Say I'm a SharePoint MVP!

  SharePointBuzz

  14 Oct 2009 | 1:39 pm

  I received some great news on October 1, 2009 - I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 2009!   If you are not aware of the Microsoft MVP award program then here's a quick snippet from the site: "Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized the inspiring activities of MVPs around the world with the MVP Award. MVPs freely share their deep knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial, objective feedback to help people enhance the way they use technology. Of more than 100 million users who participate in technology communities, around 4,000 are…

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  SharePoint Solutions Blog

• Updated: Building a SharePoint 2010 Service Application #sp2010

  29 Oct 2009 | 11:57 am

  A few weeks back, I wrote a series of three articles on the topic of building SharePoint 2010 Service Applications. Today, I have updated the source code for these articles to include Powershell cmdlets for provisioning, retrieving and updating the demo service application from the command line.The three articles and a link to download the source code solution can be found on the SharePoint Solutions' community site:Part One – The Service ApplicationPart Two – The Service Application’s Admin InterfacePart Three – The WCF Service EndpointPart Four – The User Application Page

• Take 2: Lists as Native SQL Server Tables in SharePoint 2010? #spc09 #SP2010

  27 Oct 2009 | 11:25 am

  Last week, while at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, I wrote a blog post on being disappointed that SharePoint 2010 does not seem to include a critical feature promised by Bill Gates and Tom Rizzo in their keynote speech at last year's (2008) SharePoint Conference.The feature promised was a one-to-one relationship (as needed for specific applications) between a SharePoint List and a native database table (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.). I explain in my first blog post why I think this is an extremely important feature to have.Turns out that this feature IS included in SharePoint 2010! It is…

• Job Opening: SharePoint Consultant - Solution Architect #spc09

  21 Oct 2009 | 10:31 am

  If you are a SharePoint expert and you like working in a friendly, people-oriented environment, SharePoint Solutions is the place for you. A desire to work for a company that has a strong customer focus and high standards for quality of work is also important.SharePoint Consultant - Solution ArchitectWe are seeking a SharePoint Solution Architect with previous consulting industry experience (e.g. Microsoft Gold Partner, Accenture, Avanade, MCS, etc.). This position is responsible for working with our consulting clients to understand their needs and help them architect solutions using…

• Job Opening: SharePoint .NET Developer Course Author/Instructor #spc09

  21 Oct 2009 | 9:55 am

  If you are a SharePoint expert and you like working in a friendly, people-oriented environment, SharePoint Solutions is the place for you. A desire to work for a company that has a strong customer focus and high standards for quality of work is also important.SharePoint .NET Developer Course Author/InstructorWe are seeking an experienced SharePoint .NET Developer who also has the ability to author outstanding training course curriculum and teach professional developer students using that curriculum.This position requires at least five years of full-time .NET development experience and at…

• Lists as Native SQL Tables in SharePoint 2010? #spc09

  19 Oct 2009 | 10:14 pm

  Even after today's keynote speech by Steve Ballmer and Tom Rizzo, I am wondering if this got included in SharePoint 2010?I expected it to be one of the big announcements, but heard nothing about it. I also have seen nothing to indicate that it got added as I have played around with the Technical Preview version that we have had and were under NDA until today.Why was I expecting this to be one of the big announcements? Only because at the SharePoint Conference in 2008 in Seattle it was promised at the keynote by Bill Gates and Tom Rizzo (the Director of SharePoint at Microsoft).Why am I so…

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  Sharepoint Tips And Tricks

• Closing thoughts from the SharePoint conference

  Ishai Sagi [SharePoint MVP]

  22 Oct 2009 | 1:01 pm

  I am sitting in the last session, and I have to admit- I am a little bit afraid of SharePoint 2010. There is just so much more, that it makes the step from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 seem small in comparison. I think we should thank the SharePoint product team for an enormous effort to get all this new stuff in - and give us some very complex stuff to work with.I am looking forward to doing search solutions, writing visual web parts, developing better event handlers (post synchronous events!), designing in sharepoint designer and then moving the design to visual studio and more and more and…

• What I like and dont like about the new BDC (the BCS)

  Ishai Sagi [SharePoint MVP]

  21 Oct 2009 | 1:14 pm

  To get one thing clear - when BDC came in MOSS2007 I was very excited about it. I really thought it was great...until I had to do a real life project with it.No, I am not talking about the pains I went through to create an application definition (this was before the BDC metaman or the tool that Microsoft released a bit later) - I am talking about how the BDC integration to sharepoint was so limited.Every single customer who had a problem that I wanted to solve using BDC had the exact same requirements that I couldnt give them using BDC:We want it to work in officeWe want it to be a multiple…

• Joke of the day from SharePoint conference 2009

  Ishai Sagi [SharePoint MVP]

  20 Oct 2009 | 1:24 pm

  quote: "if I don't need to dispose objects in the client object model, and it can do whatever you can do in the server object model, I am going to use it on the server!"Ishai comments: good joke - do not take seriously please... Update: it turns out you do need to dispose of them (when using them in .Net applications)

• Upgrading custom developed solutions to SharePoint 2010

  Ishai Sagi [SharePoint MVP]

  20 Oct 2009 | 11:04 am

  I am sitting in the presentation by KwizCom who are telling about their expirience with upgrading their products and web parts to SharePoint 2010. This is exactly the kind of session I came here to hear - get real life expirience from real life senarios.Shai Petel is a huge expert in SharePoint development - his presenation is focused on what you need to do Today to make your current projects be ready for the upgrade.He suggests to train the developers to use Ajax, JSON, silverlight, visual user controls (which I have to admit - it has been ages since I developed a web interface with a…

• SharePoint 2010 Web Parts and WiKi pages

  Ishai Sagi [SharePoint MVP]

  20 Oct 2009 | 9:30 am

  Wiki web parts - are new and do not have web part zones. You can add the web part in the text. This will allow us to give an option for the end users to create a page without an underlying page layout.This works with hidden zones - which is where the web parts are actually stored but the location of the web part is marked in the wiki content using place holders. During rendering the webpart contents are moved to the in line location after rendering. Maurice just showed what happens if you retract a solution that had the web part that was added to a wiki page. The page was then refreshed - and…

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  The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac

• SharePoint 2010 IT Pro Resources

  Shane

  30 Oct 2009 | 9:52 am

  So admittedly my blog has been very quiet for a while. That is because I have been knee deep in 2010 for longer than I care to remember. I am been creating new materials and I have even been traveling the country doing the SharePoint 2010 IT Pro Ignite tour. Five extended days of IT Pro training put on by Microsoft. Todd and I have had the privilege of both writing and teaching parts of this class along with some really great folks at Microsoft, both MCS guys and Product team. Hopefully most of that stuff will make it to TechNet one day for your learning pleasure. Until then here are some of…

• Speaking at the Atlanta SharePoint Usergroup September 21, 2009

  Shane

  28 Aug 2009 | 8:48 am

  http://www.atlspug.com/default.aspx I will be in town to teach a 2010 class and got invited to speak on some 2007 stuff. I will be doing my server auditing session. No PowerPoint just working throuh SharePoint Central admin and SQL. Fun stuff. Hope to see you there. Shane SharePoint Consulting

• Downloads of my SPTechCon Boston Sessions

  Shane

  28 Jun 2009 | 9:01 pm

  Last week I had the privilege of speaking at the SharePoint Technology Conference in Boston. Too cool. Got to meet several new people from the Twitterverse (I am @ShanesCows in case you were wondering). I would list the people but I never know if that is appropriate or not. Anyway. I promised a download PDF of all of the sessions I did so here they are. Todd Klindt and I did a whole day workshop on being a SharePoint administrator. For that session I have two decks. The SharePoint Admin deck is old faithful. It is all of the core Admin stuff we have delivered around the world brought back to…

• Upcoming speaking and webcasts

  Shane

  20 May 2009 | 5:56 pm

  Wow the weeks are getting away from me. Thought I would quickly list out some of my upcoming usergroups, webcasts, trainings, and conferences. Just so you know what to avoid. ;) Available now from your desk: Todd and I while at TechEd recorded a quick TechTalk – SharePoint: What could possibly go wrong? "SharePoint environments are like snowflakes. Each one is intricate and it seems no two are alike. In this TechTalk, Shane and Todd talk about some of the things done wrong in SharePoint installations they've seen. They also talk about how to fix those things." Available for a…

• Install Guide: SP2 for SharePoint (WSS v3 and MOSS 2007)

  Shane

  28 Apr 2009 | 8:53 pm

  Service Pack 2 was released today (as I am guessing the whole world knows by now). Instead of making that profound announcement I would recommend you check out this post on the SharePoint Team blog for the official announcement. I will spare you the crazy details other than you should install it. J Just like when the last updates came out I figured I would write a quick guide on the steps I am taking to install. Something to ponder before you get started. When was the last time you did a backup? Knock on wood as you answer. Start time 11:11 PM I am checking Windows Update for the latest…

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  End User SharePoint

• Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center – Part 04 (Free Screencast)

  EndUserSharePoint

  6 Nov 2009 | 6:59 am

  In the previous three articles of this series, I presented an overview of how to structure a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center. To conclude the series, I have created a screencast that walks through the finished solution to give you an idea of how it will look to the End User, including the transparent access to external videos and resources through the implementation of LyteBox. On the entrance page of the media center, I have exposed the structure of the site in the Quick Launch bar, where you can see lookup tables and other resources that are used to implement the solution. I have…

• Barriers to End User Adoption of SharePoint – and How to Overcome Them

  Natasha

  6 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am

  Guest Author: Clare Stone Pentalogic Technology It’s easy to deploy an application like SharePoint within an organization, the hard part is getting people to use it in a way which makes them more productive – this is the core issue addressed by the paper. It has been demonstrated statistically that whilst use of SharePoint for file sharing at the work group or departmental level is widespread in organisations, deployments where usage of SharePoint is enterprise standard and embedded in core business processes, are far less common. This paper explores some of the possible reasons…

• Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center – Part 03

  EndUserSharePoint

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:36 am

  In the first two installments of this series, I did a high level overview of the solution and a walkthrough of how to create a custom list to access external videos for display in LyteBox. Today I’ll walk through how to configure a document library so that it can be used as a storage and display mechanism for internal screencasts. Overview of the Core Library The core of the SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center is the On-Demand Screencasts library. This is the location where company screencasts are kept. These can be training videos, how-tos, job description walk throughs……

• SharePoint Reviews: A community worth supporting

  EndUserSharePoint

  5 Nov 2009 | 8:20 am

  After the NYC SPUG meeting last night, I had dinner with Inna Gordin, idea meister behind SharePointReviews.com and SharePointAds.com. We had a lengthy discussion about what it takes to get exposure for an idea in the SharePoint Community, exposure broad enough that it becomes viral and can really have an influence. Inna has setup an incredibly useful resource for the SharePoint Community: a site that has unbiased, community generated reviews for SharePoint companies, products and services. The problem is, how many of you have ever utilized it? That’s what I thought… The site has…

• SharePoint Problem Solved: Amnesia Problem: Multiple Content Types on Libraries

  Natasha

  5 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am

  Guest Author: Nick Grattan Nick Grattan Consultancy Limited http//nickgrattan.wordpress.com In this blog post I describe a problem whereby document libraries having multiple content types use the default content type when documents are saved regardless of the selected content type. Well, thanks to Kevin at Dublin City Council, (that’s Dublin, Ireland) here’s a solution to this problem. It’s all to do with how you define the template for the content type using “Advanced Settings” for a content type: First, if you “Upload a new document template” the…

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  Mastering SharePoint with Bob Mixon

• Live Webinar: The Secrets to Successfully Migrating Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint

  bobmixon

  3 Nov 2009 | 11:46 am

  My friends at Colligo are hosting another free webinar titled “The Secrets to Successfully Migrating Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint”.  See below for more information… Register Today! Live Webinar: The Secrets to Successfully Migrating Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint Exchange Public Folders are being replaced by SharePoint in many organizations, because it is a better choice for document sharing and collaboration applications. Once you’ve made the decision to migrate to SharePoint, how do you ensure a successful project from both the content migration and…

• Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200

  bobmixon

  20 Oct 2009 | 8:52 am

  I have been using Verizon Wireless service, including data plan, for a long time; actually years now.  I really like the data plan with USB modem, works well with all the traveling I do.  And, its much less expensive than paying $14+ a night for Internet access at hotels. Yesterday I picked the latest and greatest Internet access toy; the MiFi 2200.  It is a USB wireless modem that still allows me to access my same data plan but also adds a wireless hub.  Now, no matter where I go, I can setup a small wireless network.  This comes in very handy, even in my hotel room, because most all of…

• 5 More Days to Receive $100 Discount – Mastering SharePoint Information Architecture Course

  bobmixon

  16 Oct 2009 | 1:54 pm

  Early Bird Special: Register by Friday, October 23rd and receive $100 off. This 5-day course, taken from the comfort of your desk, will help you realize what is possible with Microsoft SharePoint.  If you are currently in the process of creating a new Intranet or struggling with findability, usability and end-user adoption/trust, this course will help you overcome all of these areas. After taking this course you will: Have a clear understanding of what Information Neighborhoods, Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies are. Have a clear understanding of how enterprise search works and how to…

• Looking Forward to Microsoft SharePoint Conference Las Vegas

  bobmixon

  16 Oct 2009 | 11:50 am

  I am looking forward to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas.  I have family in Vegas, visiting them is always great, and the weather will be beautiful.  What more could I ask for! I will be attending sessions throughout the week but can also be found at the MetaVis Technologies booth.  Stop by and say hello, there will be a lot to talk about.  Mixon Consulting will also be giving away additional discount coupons for our next Mastering SharePoint Information Architecture course so don’t forget to pick one up.  I will also be delivering SharePoint Information…

• Enhancing Calculated Column Views with jQuery

  bobmixon

  14 Oct 2009 | 11:45 am

  With a creative mind and a little code, it is quite amazing what can be done.  Bil Simser, Fear and Loathing, demonstrates a very creative way, using javascript and jQuery, to update calculated columns with little work.  Note while reading his article, all of this work is done on the client-side; meaning, nothing needs to be installed on the server. Great article Bil. http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2009/10/14/calculated-time-left-columns-in-sharepoint-with-jquery/

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  JOPX on SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010

• SharePoint 2010 – Adding new buttons to the SharePoint 2010 ribbon

  jopx

  5 Nov 2009 | 12:17 pm

  Update: I just found this excellent training video – Module 10: Creating Dialogs and Ribbon Controls for SharePoint 2010. Would have saved us some trouble if we saw it beforehand. We had a blast today at the SharePoint Ignite training as Koen already blogged in– Howto: Add a button to the ribbon in SharePoint. Fortunately Wouter (the trainer at the Ignite training) provided excellent background info and put us on the right track to get a working button. I’m not going to elaborate about the exact syntax for adding buttons to the Ribbon – since this might change from Tech Preview to…

• Interview Andrew Connell about SharePoint 2010

  jopx

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:22 am

  Technorati Tags: sharepoint+2010,sharepoint,sps2010

• SharePoint Server 2010 – Getting Started link guide for developers

  jopx

  3 Nov 2009 | 1:47 pm

  Updated 5/11/2009 – added some addditional links SharePoint Developer – General info http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx – Make sure you watch the videos SharePoint Conference KeyNotes SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010 (part of the Developer Center) – series of 10 workshops accompanied with great videos Describing SharePoint 2010 in 1 sentence, 8 categories and 40 Feature areas SharePoint Products and Technologies 2010 (Technical Preview) – Developer Documentation download SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White…

• Random tweets on SharePoint 2010

  jopx

  20 Oct 2009 | 12:38 pm

  Some thinks I just picked up from Twitter: SharePoint Online 2010 will allow Anonymous Access, so can be used for Internet solutions! Thats great! #spc09 Anyone planning a #SharePoint deployment for DM and RM should seriously consider going to Server 2008 R2 http://tinyurl.com/yghje9c #SPC09 SPC09 One key takeaway is that the "2,000" item limit is simply gone. We shall never speak of it again. Resources & Links slide from Word Automation OpenXML session. #SPC09 SPC349 http://twitpic.com/m9kye They just clarified. SharePoint Online Dedicated will be april 2010, Shared will be 2nd…

• BIWUG - Interview user groups TechDays Belux 2009

  jopx

  20 Oct 2009 | 8:45 am

  Something which got stuck in my mailbox – BIWUG – Interview user groups TechDays Belux 2009. Technorati Tags: biwug,community,sharepoint,techdays

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  Chris O'Brien

• SP2010 – developer skills preparation

  27 Oct 2009 | 3:21 pm

  So either you went to the SharePoint Conference last week, or you didn’t go but have seen the blog articles/tweets about various pieces of new functionality in SharePoint 2010. But ya can’t get your hands on the bits until late November when the public beta is released – so what’s a poor developer supposed to do? Well, lots it turns out. Most SharePoint developers are going to need to learn some new skills if you want to hit the ground running on your first SharePoint 2010 project – this post highlights some “generic” (by which I mean non-SharePoint!) topics and techniques which…

• My favorite SharePoint 2007 development techniques (with an eye on SP2010)

  7 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

  As we home in on the release of SharePoint 2010, I wanted to write down a couple of thoughts for posterity on SharePoint 2007 development, mainly for my benefit. One of the reasons for doing this is because I’ve been working with the SP2010/VS2010 Tech Previews recently, and whilst I’ve not done a full “compare and contrast” exercise, I can certainly see that in the future I will want to reference back to how I liked to handle something in the SharePoint 2007 world, and more importantly, why. My experience is that transitioning to a new platform brings on a certain amnesia, where for…

• Personal announcements from me

  30 Sep 2009 | 8:08 am

  I know not all of my blog readers follow me on Twitter (though if you are a SharePoint Twitteree, I’m @ChrisO_Brien), so I just wanted to post something here to say that last week I became a proud Dad, to twin boys! They came early by emergency caesarean – personally I knew Suzanne shouldn’t have had that last piece of chocolate cake. They initially had low blood sugar levels (not related to the cake, I should add!) so we had to stay in hospital a day or so longer than normal whilst things stabilized, but in general everyone is healthy and happy. It’s funny to wonder if SharePoint…

• Minor updates to Content Deployment Wizard and Config Store

  3 Sep 2009 | 4:26 pm

  I’m a firm believer that if you build community tools which become important to folks, you’ve got to do your best to maintain them – providing source code is great, but it’s far better if you take on the maintenance/enhancements workload! So this is a brief post for users of my SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard and Config Store utilities. Both of these have recently been updated on Codeplex, and depending on circumstances you may want to ensure the latest versions are what you have in your toolbox. I’ll explain the changes I noted in the readme.txt of the respective updates here:…

• Incremental deployment support added to CD Wizard

  16 Aug 2009 | 1:00 pm

  Back now from a short break from blogging for a holiday and some preparation for SharePoint 2010. One of the things I’ve been working on recently is the latest release of my SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard – this has just been uploaded to Codeplex. In this release (2.5 beta) I focused on adding support for a couple of things that were common feature requests, and which should hopefully make the tool more useful for users which have these requirements. As you’ll have guessed from the title of this post, probably the biggest one is incremental deployments, but there are a couple of…

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  Brain Dump: Posts

• Coming soon... my REAL WORLD Migration Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Migrations!

  3 Nov 2009 | 3:59 am

  Body: In the 2007 cycle of SharePoint, I released a comprehensive guide to upgrading from 2003 to 2007 because all the upgrade guides I could find were simply using default installs for upgrades.  That never reflects the real world scenario and complexities, so I created my upgrade guide.  It was very popular and I received many appreciative comments on the post.Well, fear not, for I will be doing the same thing again for the 2010 cycle.  I'm currently working on the post and will publish it soon.  Initially it will be for migration to Beta 2, but I'll update it as needed for RC and RTM,…

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  SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

• SharePoint 2010 Training

  6 Nov 2009 | 4:37 pm

  Now that SPC is over it seems there is a flurry of blogs, books, and training that is all lining up to help us get smarter about SharePoint 2010.   Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 Ignite for Developers/Admins for Partners (Final locations appear completely booked.) Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners!  (Apparently the link is currently down with 404, the Amsterdam training was this week, the Berlin training is in the next couple of weeks, with Bangalore to follow.  There are plans for a virtual ignite…) SharePoint 2010 Training…

• Upcoming NOT to MISS SharePoint Webcasts

  6 Nov 2009 | 11:12 am

  The Secrets to Successfully Migrating Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint Wednesday, November 18th, 2009, 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM London / 5:00 PM Paris Register Exchange Public Folders are being replaced by SharePoint in many organizations, because it is a better choice for document sharing and collaboration applications. Once you’ve made the decision to migrate to SharePoint, how do you ensure a successful project from both the content migration and end-user adoption points of view? Attend this practical "How To" webinar to learn the secrets of designing and…

• Is Gradual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 Really Dead? How is Upgrade Better?

  4 Nov 2009 | 4:06 pm

  In the Upgrade to SharePoint 2007 there were 3 popular methods.  In Place, Gradual, and Database Attach.  In place was a scenario that many of us took as a no starter and many of us even went so far as to say NEVER do it.  Now the message is there are two methods for upgrade.  In place and Database attach.  Despite the fact that gradual upgrade as we knew it is dead, what we got from gradual upgrade we still have.  What do I mean? There is NO supported method to run both the 2007 and 2010 bits side by side.  That’s true.  So definitely not side by side installations.  There is also…

• Information Worker SharePoint Resources

  2 Nov 2009 | 11:12 am

  Body: It started with a tweet and then a few more… and soon to be call.  @joeloleson Most of the #SharePoint how-to sites I've found (incl SharePoint End User) are very technical. Any how-to sites for non-techies? @joeloleson The Site Administrators I support are not techies. Mostly admin assts, nurses, librarians, project managers & analysts. @Catherine_Ford Have you seen the "it's everybody's business?" http://bit.ly/m6ETp re: endusersharepoint.com is too technical. @EUSP @joeloleson How about screen shots of what other orgs are doing on their intranet? Anywhere I can find…

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  Jan Tielens' Bloggings

• Introducing SharePoint 2010 Training at U2U

  Jan Tielens

  5 Nov 2009 | 10:12 pm

  During the last couple of weeks, we at U2U have been very busy building course material for our upcoming SharePoint 2010 courses. We expect that lots of experienced SharePoint developers, power users and administrators are very eager to get up to speed with the new version of SharePoint as soon as possible. That’s why the first course that we’ve build is titled Upgrade to SharePoint 2010. This course will focus on all the exciting new stuff in SharePoint 2010, so people with SharePoint experience will get all the relevant info as quickly as possible. Because an administrator is probably…

• Join my BoF Session at TechEd Europe about SharePoint, jQuery and Silverlight

  Jan Tielens

  4 Nov 2009 | 7:21 am

  I’ve got the pleasure to be able to present a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at TechEd Europe next week: BOF14 Microsoft SharePoint, jQuery and Microsoft Silverlight: Better Together. If you are interested in these technologies please join the discussion on Thursday, 12:20 in Theater 6 – Pink. Feel free to comment if you are planning to attend, it’s nice to know who’ll be there! :-)

• Watch the SharePoint Conference Live, from your home/office (9am Pacific, 6pm CET)

  Jan Tielens

  19 Oct 2009 | 8:30 am

  In 20 minutes a very important event is going to get started: the SharePoint Conference 2009! If you're not in Vegas (like me), get yourself in front of a computer with a big bag of chips, popcorn or whatever snack you prefer, and watch the keynote (featuring Steve Ballmer) live! I'm sure it will be a nice show and expect an avalanche of SharePoint 2010 information to be released shortly afterwards. Also make sure you keep an eye on Twitter, blogs, Facebook etc. to see the reactions of SharePoint fans all over the world. My buddies at EndUserSharePoint are going to cover the conference with…

• Assembly-Free jQuery in SharePoint Sites Using the SmartTools jQueryLoader

  Jan Tielens

  14 Oct 2009 | 11:48 am

  Summary: The SmartTools jQueryLoader enables the jQuery Javascript library in your SharePoint sites using an effortless and Assembly-Free deployment technique. Additionally the jQueryLoader will dynamically load custom Javascript files, deployed to a Document Library. Seeing is believing: watch this short screencast that shows the deployment and some sample scripts! Download the SmartTools jQueryLoader Installer from the Codeplex project Watch the short (8 minutes) screencast that shows the deployment and some sample scripts. If you read my blog you probably know that using the jQuery…

• "The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated" on Windows Server 2008 R2

  Jan Tielens

  13 Oct 2009 | 9:45 pm

  When I was installing a brand new demo environment using Microsoft's latest and greatest platforms (Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008) I ran into an annoying issue related to SharePoint. The slipstreamed installation (including SP2) went fine, but when I tried to create a new Collaboration Portal or Publishing Portal I got the error: "The Office SharePoint Server Standard Web application features feature must be activated at the web application level before this feature can be activated.".After some searching I learned that MOSS SP2 was not correctly applied, re-installing MOSS SP2…

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  Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

• SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour

  spdblog

  2 Nov 2009 | 2:20 pm

  Welcome to SharePoint Designer 2010! As Todd Haugen mentioned in his latest blog, we’ve got a number of wonderful features this release and we’re really excited to get them into your hands. This is a follow-up blog to dive into the new shell, or user interface, of SPD 2010. I think this is one of the greatest enhancements for the 2010 release. The new shell of SPD 2010 targets new and old users alike by highlighting SharePoint artifacts (not the folder structure they’re stored in), presenting key information you want to know about those artifacts, bubbling the tools and commands up to…

• Putting the SharePoint in SharePoint Designer

  spdblog

  19 Oct 2009 | 6:36 pm

  For those of you who have been with us for the long haul, you know SharePoint Designer (SPD) evolved from the FrontPage product. The result of this lineage was SPD 2007 largely focused on web page editing and added some SharePoint capabilities. In SPD 2010, we increased our investment in SharePoint capabilities and focused on exposing the power of SharePoint to both power users and developers alike. SharePoint has always been about the democratization of web development - think of SPD 2010 as furthering that goal. Figure 1. SPD's new shell focuses more on SharePoint objects and less on…

• Service Pack 2 prevents an on-change workflow from starting itself

  spdblog

  13 Jul 2009 | 2:38 pm

  Hello all, Stephen here again — I’m a writer for SharePoint Designer. I’d like to tell you about a fix that was included in Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This fix affects workflows designed in SharePoint Designer 2007. Then I’ll show you how to intentionally create a workflow loop by using two workflows instead of one. Before Service Pack 2, it was too easy to inadvertently design a workflow that triggered itself and created an infinite loop. For example, consider this scenario: 1) A workflow starts when an item is changed. 2)…

• Download SPD for FREE today!!

  spdblog

  2 Apr 2009 | 3:29 pm

  Today we are excited to share with you some news about SharePoint Designer 2007. Starting now (April 2, 2009), SharePoint Designer 2007 will be available as a free download! We want more of you customizing SharePoint and feel that this a good way to put the tool in the hands of more people. You can find a lot more information in our site including: a)      Letter to our Customers b)      Frequently Asked Questions c)       Free Download   Also, make sure to watch this video where Tom Rizzo and J.R. Arredondo…

• Visio diagram and site template from Office Online workflow videos

  spdblog

  27 Jan 2009 | 1:44 pm

  Hello all, Stephen here again. Awhile back I recorded a series of workflow videos that were posted on Office Online: Watch this: Design a document review workflow solution Many of you have submitted comments asking if I could make available both the Visio diagram shown in the videos and the solution itself. I’m happy to oblige (and apologies for the delay), so please find attached to this blog post a .zip file containing the site template (.stp file) and Visio diagram (.vsd file). A few notes: The solution uses the Document Center site template found in SharePoint Server 2007 (not Windows…

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  Paul Andrew

• Sharing VSeWSS experiences

  pandrew

  26 Oct 2009 | 9:06 am

  Clyde Barretto has shared his experiences getting started with the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint here. Maybe this will help someone else.

• Super Short Summary of my SharePoint Conference Talk

  pandrew

  20 Oct 2009 | 1:47 pm

  My talk at the SharePoint Conference 2009 was The Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform. Here are the things that I talked about. I only had 75 minutes including demos but for each of these great new features for Developers we have drill down talks at the show this week. Development on Windows 7 Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools SharePoint Designer 2010 Developer Dashboard Business Connectivity Services SharePoint List Improvements XSLT Views for Lists Data API Options LINQ to SharePoint Client Object Model REST APIs SharePoint Event Enhancements Workflow Improvements…

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Content Published

  pandrew

  19 Oct 2009 | 10:26 pm

  Wow, we disclosed all the new features of SharePoint 2010 yesterday at the SharePoint Conference. I spent my day rehearsing my demos, then sitting in the front row of the keynote, then giving my talk, then standing at the SharePoint booth in the exhibit hall, then at a function for SharePoint MVPs. I didn’t go running in the morning like Steve Ballmer did. Microsoft is making a significant investment for Developers in SharePoint 2010 and you will see it’s much more a focus than before. Here are some of the places you can read about developer information for SharePoint 2010. Overview of…

• Write up on the Sneak Peek

  pandrew

  21 Jul 2009 | 4:36 pm

  Craig Roth wrote a review of the Sneak Peek videos here:http://knowledgeforward.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/a-first-look-at-sharepoint-2010/ 

• SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek

  pandrew

  13 Jul 2009 | 9:34 am

  Today we introduced a sneak peek of SharePoint 2010. We’re only announcing a few of the many new features right now, but there’s some exciting stuff in the list today to talk about. We’re showing off six key new features for developers in SharePoint 2010. 1)      Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools 2)      Language Integrated Query to SharePoint 3)      Developer Dashboard 4)      Business Connectivity Services 5)      Client Object Model…

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  Bill Baer

• SharePoint Products TechCenter for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

  Bill Baer

  30 Oct 2009 | 8:05 am

  The SharePoint Products TechCenter on TechNet has been updated to include documentation and resources specific to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The SharePoint Products TechCenter beta resources include categorized documentation and guidance on planning,...(read more)

• Intermittent Database Server Connectivity and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

  Bill Baer

  6 Oct 2009 | 12:07 pm

  Intermittent connectivity to a database server hosting Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies databases can occur for a number of reasons. In some cases it may be related to a simple database connection timeout configuration setting in Windows...(read more)

• sharepoint.microsoft.com Optimization Strategy and Insights on the SharePoint Team Blog

  Bill Baer

  1 Oct 2009 | 11:02 am

  I read a great article on the SharePoint Team Blog during the morning commute providing insight into how sharepoint.microsoft.com was both evaluated and optimized for performance by Tony Tai – SharePoint Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation and...(read more)

• Now serving Bing...

  Bill Baer

  30 Sep 2009 | 7:05 pm

  Search this site with Bing... ;-)...(read more)

• Just Published - Configure a Server Farm for Minimal Downtime During Software Updates

  Bill Baer

  18 Sep 2009 | 3:07 pm

  New documentation was recently published which provides guidance and examples on how to configure your server farms for minimal downtime during software updates http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee514459.aspx ....(read more)

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  Stefan Goßner

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 6 – Logging

  Stefan_Gossner

  6 Nov 2009 | 6:55 am

  Part 1 - The BasicsPart 2 - The Basics continuedPart 3 - ConfigurationPart 4 - CommunicationPart 5 - Quick DeploymentPart 6 - LoggingPart 7 - coming soon...Part 8 - coming soon...Part 9 - coming soon... ULS Log Both Content Deployment and the Content Deployment and Migration API use the ULS log to report problems and progress information using the following categories: For the WSS Content Deployment and Migration API: Category: Upgrade For the MOSS Content Deployment feature: Category: Content Deployment To troubleshoot, content deployment issues these two categories should be set to Verbose:…

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 5 – Quick Deployment

  Stefan_Gossner

  4 Nov 2009 | 6:51 am

  Part 1 - The BasicsPart 2 - The Basics continuedPart 3 - ConfigurationPart 4 - CommunicationPart 5 - Quick DeploymentPart 6 - LoggingPart 7 - coming soon...Part 8 - coming soon...Part 9 - coming soon... Quick Deployment Concepts Quick deployment enables authors to select specific items to be quick deployed as soon as possible. The problem here is that authors are usually not allow to start timer jobs. To overcome this limitation it is required to store the information about which items have to be quick deployed at a place where a normal author of the site collection has write…

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 4 – Communication

  Stefan_Gossner

  3 Nov 2009 | 6:25 am

  Part 1 - The BasicsPart 2 - The Basics continuedPart 3 - ConfigurationPart 4 - CommunicationPart 5 - Quick DeploymentPart 6 - LoggingPart 7 - coming soon...Part 8 - coming soon...Part 9 - coming soon... Content Deployment uses the http (or https) protocol for communication between source and target farm. Most of the communication is performed through Web service calls except for the file transfer of the exported files to the target farms which is done using a regular http POST request against an ASPX page to perform the upload operation. Communication inside the same farm (between worker…

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 3 – Configuration

  Stefan_Gossner

  2 Nov 2009 | 8:04 am

  Part 1 - The BasicsPart 2 - The Basics continuedPart 3 - ConfigurationPart 4 - CommunicationPart 5 - Quick DeploymentPart 6 - LoggingPart 7 - coming soon...Part 8 - coming soon...Part 9 - coming soon... Content Deployment General Settings The content deployment configuration in MOSS 2007 differentiates between settings that are unique for each content deployment path or job and general settings that affect the configuration of the whole farm and applies to all paths and jobs. This section will cover the general settings. Access to the content deployment configuration information is provided…

• Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 2 – The Basics continued

  Stefan_Gossner

  2 Nov 2009 | 12:43 am

  Part 1 - The BasicsPart 2 - The Basics continuedPart 3 - ConfigurationPart 4 - CommunicationPart 5 - Quick DeploymentPart 6 - LoggingPart 7 - coming soon...Part 8 - coming soon...Part 9 - coming soon... Content Deployment Phases The content deployment process is divided into several different phases which are partly performed on the source and partly on the target server. Preparing This phase is unique to jobs that are started through the Central Admin UI. In this phase, the code in the UI of the exporting server creates the one time timer job that will perform the export. Exporting This…

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  Arpan Shah's Blog

• SharePoint 2010 Overview Presentation

  arpans

  22 Oct 2009 | 12:44 pm

  Here’s a pointer to the SharePoint Overview session presentation that I delivered at the SharePoint Conference this week. For those of you who missed it, I believe we’re publishing this session out publicly; I’ll be sure to point to it when it’s available. In the mean time, take a look at the deck. Keep in mind that all the screenshots are from a pre-beta build.

• SharePoint Conference Keynotes

  arpans

  20 Oct 2009 | 11:26 am

  If you didn’t get a chance to come to the SharePoint Conference and watch the keynotes, you can watch them now! Steve Ballmer kicked off the conference with a dynamic keynote:   Followed by Jeff Teper: (I do a demo to highlight IT platform investments at 1:05)

• Welcome to SharePoint 2010

  arpans

  19 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

  The moment has come that many of you have been waiting for – full disclosure of SharePoint 2010! Truth be told, many of us in Redmond have been anxiously waiting for this day, because now we can talk freely about SharePoint 2010 to our customers and partners. There’s a lot of exciting news being announced today and a lot of great content will go live in a number of places. Keep in mind that while we are unveiling SharePoint 2010 today, the public beta won’t be available until next month. To get ready for that, I recommend checking out the following places for SharePoint 2010 news,…

• Windows Azure Poker Probability Calculator Application

  arpans

  26 Sep 2009 | 2:38 am

  Over the last few weeks, I found some free time to play around with Windows Azure. Since PDC 2008, I’ve wanted to get hands on with Windows Azure to become even more knowledgeable and gain experience with Microsoft’s cloud stack. Here you have it: My Windows Azure application at http://holdem.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx. For those of you familiar with poker, you’ll hopefully enjoy it. It provides useful data on various poker scenarios. It’s really useful for anyone who plays poker. Developing for Windows Azure was really straightforward. All I did was download the Windows Azure…

• SharePoint 2010 Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners

  arpans

  28 Aug 2009 | 1:47 am

  A lot of people have asked about SharePoint 2010 Training. Well now, it’s here! We’re announcing SharePoint Ignite which is SharePoint 2010 training for SharePoint 2007 Partners. Check out all the details and pre-requisites at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/topics/Pages/IgniteProgram4.aspx.

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  Philippe Sentenac [MVP SharePoint]

• SharePoint 2010 : Réunion du club utilisateur MOSS le 27 novembre

  phil

  19 Oct 2009 | 5:00 am

  Je tenais à faire un post rapide pour vous rappeler que la prochaine réunion du club MOSS aura lieu le 27 Novembre. A l'occasion de cette réunion, vous aurez la possibilité de retrouver énormément d'informations sur SharePoint 2010 avec des feedbacks ...

• SharePoint 2007 : Création d’un Quizz dans SharePoint, Récapitulatif

  phil

  20 Jul 2009 | 1:00 am

  Je viens de me rendre compte que je n’avais jamais aggrégé l’ensemble des posts présentant les étapes de développements des composants nécessaires à une fonctionnalité Quizz dans SharePoint. C’est désormais chose faite ! SharePoint 2007 : Activation d...

• SharePoint 2007 : patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance

  phil

  3 Jul 2009 | 12:56 am

  je vous avais déjà parlé de ce projet Codeplex mené par l’équipe de P&P sur un guide des bonnes pratiques de développement dans des posts précédents. Nous en sommes au 12eme drop (Un drop par semaine) pour la version V2 et la documentation commenc...

• SharePoint 2007 : Un peu de qualité dans ce monde de brutes

  phil

  9 Jun 2009 | 4:10 am

  Afin de me remettre un peu en mode blogueur (cela faisait un petit moment que j’étais loin de ce blog), je me suis dis qu’il serait bien de clarifier un peu mes propos par rapport à mes derniers posts. En effet, depuis les posts : SharePoint 2007 : Uti...

• SharePoint 2010 : Annonce officielle des pré-requis d’installation et détails sur le support et la compatibilité des navigateurs

  phil

  12 May 2009 | 12:37 am

  [via Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog ] Ca y est, c’est officiel. SharePoint Server 2010 sera uniquement en version 64-bit (cela avait déjà été annoncé précédemment). SharePoint Server 2010 nécessitera Windows Server 2008 64-bit ou Windows Server 2008...

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  Erika Ehrli

• Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 for Developers + New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Centers

  erikaehrli

  19 Oct 2009 | 2:22 pm

  It’s always hard to stay away from blogging when there’s so many new things to share and talk about. Today at the SharePoint Developer Conference Keynote, Jeff Teper talked about SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 features for developers and IT professionals. This is the time to start to blog more about the new release of Office and SharePoint and I am glad that we can all talk now!!!! The SharePoint team blog has a good summary of key announcements made today at the conference, so in case you missed the keynote, go check out this blog. Here’s a few more cool surprises from the MSDN Office…

• MSDN Redesign: Office, SharePoint, and VSTO sites are live!

  erikaehrli

  16 Oct 2009 | 11:39 pm

  I know it’s late at night, but I couldn’t resist. The MSDN Office, SharePoint, and VSTO Developer Center are blue now and match the super cool new MSDN branding and experience. Go take a look and enjoy: Office Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx SharePoint Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx Office Development with Visual Studio Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsto/default.aspx More sites here: http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa/archive/2009/10/17/msdn-com-refresh.aspx Office and SharePoint devs - See you in…

• Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 + MSDN Redesign + New MSDN Open XML Developer Portal

  erikaehrli

  1 Oct 2009 | 6:36 pm

  It’s been a while since I had an opportunity to blog. When I am quiet it usually means I am up to something :). Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 This are exciting times for Office and SharePoint developers. While we have released some interesting news about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 already, there’s a lot more coming for the SharePoint Developer Conference and Beta 2. We currently have more than 100 items in the publishing queue to be released between the SP Conference and after Beta 2, plus some great improvements and new pages being built for MSDN Office and MSDN…

• Open XML SDK 2.0 August CTP, Videos, and 50+ Open XML Code Samples

  erikaehrli

  28 Aug 2009 | 2:28 pm

  Zeyad Rajabi announced this week the availability of the new Open XML SDK 2.0 August CTP. As mentioned by Zeyad, changes to this CTP include: Add semantic level validation support Add markup compatibility/extensibility support General improvements based on your feedback If you are into Open XML Development, you will also be interested in a few more videos and code samples. Open XML SDK 2.0 Visual How-to Series We have released some videos, walkthroughs, and code sample downloads in the last couple weeks: Visual How To: Creating a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation from a Folder of Images by Using…

• Are you an Office Developer? Identify yourself as a member of the “Office Developer Guild”

  erikaehrli

  31 Jul 2009 | 2:00 pm

  This will be interesting for all of you who are into Office development: As Office developers, we can start identifying ourselves as active members of the community by joining the “Office Developer Guild” spearheaded by John Durant. The developer community for Microsoft Office grand and healthy. And, the knowledge and expertise in our community is pretty vast and deep. To make it easier for us to stay alert about events, up-coming content, etc. and more easily share ideas we now have the “Office Developer Guild”—a group of like-minded professional friends on Facebook. Additional…

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  Tam Tam Blogs

• SP2010: Provisioning a Document Set

  Peter Gerritsen

  6 Nov 2009 | 7:32 am

  In this post I’ll show you how to create a project in Visual Studio 2010 with the new SharePoint project and item templates to provision a Document Set from a feature. DISCLAIMER: The examples are build on and tested against a Beta 1 build of SharePoint 2010 and a Beta 1 build of Visual Studio 2010, so there is no guarantee this will work on later versions or even on the Beta 1 build you're running. A Document Set is basically a content type just like all the others you can find in SharePoint, it derives from the Folder content type. So the steps you need to take to provision a Document Set…

• SP2010: Coding against a Document Set

  Peter Gerritsen

  6 Nov 2009 | 6:56 am

  I’ve just had a 5 day training on development for SharePoint 2010. We’ve seen some cool stuff, were able to do some Hands on Labs and talk to other SharePoint experts about the new stuff that is coming up. One of the best things though about this training was the ability to try some stuff out for yourself. The fact that no project managers or customers were bothering me for a week allowed me to finally take the time to look around in the object model, the central admin and the new front end interfaces. Over the next few week I’ll be publishing some post on the things I’ve tried out. I…

• Using SharePoint file icons for custom controls

  Nuno Freitas

  6 Nov 2009 | 12:23 am

  SharePoint already provides icons for files, mainly in lists. You can also make use of those same icons, for example, for custom web parts or controls. First, we need to know where and how SharePoint stores these icons. The icon images are stored in the images folder in the 12 hive: Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES This maps to the virtual directory: /_layouts/images There is also an XML file with information of how to map a file type or extension  with the appropriate icon. This file can be found at: Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft…

• Nieuwe applicatie geeft inzicht in bevoegdheden leraren!

  Marlien de Roo

  4 Nov 2009 | 12:30 am

  Vandaag is de applicatie Bevoegdheid in het onderwijs live  gegaan. Op de werkconferentie ‘Werken in het onderwijs’ presenteerde de Minister van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Ronald Plasterk, de nieuwe applicatie op de MinOCW site ( http://bevoegd.minocw.nl/ en http://www.bevoegd.nl/). Met deze applicatie kan iedereen opzoeken hoe het zit met bevoegde docenten per onderwijsinstelling en eventueel per vakgebied.   In november 2007 is MinOCW gestart met de uitvoering van het Actieplan Leerkracht van Nederland. Hoofddoel van het actieplan is om het onderwijs te verbeteren door…

• Microsoft verlaagt BPOS prijzen

  Athur Hallensleben

  3 Nov 2009 | 7:13 am

  De Business Productivity Tools Online van Microsoft, met daarin Exchange en SharePoint Online en het Office Communications, is in prijs verlaagd. Per vandaag kost het complete pakket nu nog maar 8,52 per maand per gebruiker. Voor dit bedrag is het volgens mij niet mogelijk om deze pakketten zelf op locatie te hosten en beheren. Het complete prijsoverzicht, de Service Level Agreements en de voorwaarden zijn op de Nederlandse BPOS-Portal te vinden. Tam Tam heeft inmiddels ruime ervaring in het neerzetten en inrichten van de Suite, alsmede  (het assisteren bij) de migratie naar deze online…

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  harbar.net

• DIWUG - Dutch Information Worker User Group: November 4th, Amsterdam

  Spence

  29 Oct 2009 | 4:04 pm

  I’ll be in Amsterdam as one of the instructors of the SharePoint 2010 Ignite program next week. The Dutch Information Worker Group are hosting a evening event on the 4th November to coincide with Ignite. Come along and join some SharePoint Experts for a Ask the Experts panel, and probably some drinks afterwards. DIWUG - Dutch Information Worker User Group

• Single Server Complete Install of SharePoint 2010 using local accounts - From The Field

  Spence

  20 Oct 2009 | 1:33 pm

  My good buddy and fellow SharePoint Certified Master, Neil ‘The Doc’ Hodgkinson has an excellent little post over on the From the Field blog on setting up SharePoint 2010 the way you want to for the purposes of running a farm on a single machine. Check it out! Single Server Complete Install of SharePoint 2010 using local accounts - From The Field

• SharePoint 2010: Service Applications Part One: Model Overview

  Spence

  19 Oct 2009 | 1:36 pm

  The new Service Applications model in SharePoint 2010 presents significant improvements to the scalability of the SharePoint platform and offers tremendously exciting opportunities for developers and ISVs. This article delves into the the Service Applications model and architecture, providing developers and IT Pros essential information on the new foundation of shared services in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010: Service Applications Part One: Model Overview

• SharePoint 2010: Enterprise Readiness

  Spence

  19 Oct 2009 | 1:33 pm

  SharePoint 2010 has made huge investments in enterprise readiness, from core architecture to the deployment experience, to runtime diagnostics and operational service management. Along with significant investments in tooling, and field readiness, SharePoint 2010 delivers the promise of enterprise readiness. This article highlights key feature areas and their impact on your deployments. SharePoint 2010: Enterprise Readiness

• SharePoint 2010: Developer Tools Overview

  Spence

  19 Oct 2009 | 1:30 pm

  SharePoint 2010 ups the ante with it's developer tool integration, providing developers with rich development time, testing and application lifecycle support. This article provides an overview of the new features and improvements along with powerful out of the box capabilities for improving the developer experience with SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010: Developer Tools Overview

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  SharePoint Automation

• Creating Custom SharePoint 2010 Cmdlets using Visual Studio 2010

  19 Oct 2009 | 11:50 am

  With SharePoint 2010 we now have the ability to create custom PowerShell cmdlets that can be deployed just like any other SharePoint artifact using SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) created with Visual Studio 2010. With SharePoint 2007 it was necessary to build a custom setup (MSI) package which had to be run on every server in the farm. This setup package would register a custom snap-in that you'd have to create which would be responsible for registering all of your custom cmdlets with the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• SharePoint 2010: PSConfig and PowerShell

  19 Oct 2009 | 11:49 am

  The information in this article is based on BETA 1 of SharePoint 2010 - there will likely be differences with the RTM release. If you've ever done a scripted install of SharePoint 2007 then you are familiar with how to script the initial farm creation using psconfig.exe. Unfortunately psconfig is still with us in SharePoint 2010 but we do have some PowerShell cmdlets which replace certain psconfig commands. At present, Beta 1 that is, there are several cmdlets that are not fully functional... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• SharePoint 2010: STSADM and PowerShell

  19 Oct 2009 | 11:49 am

  The information in this article is based on BETA 1 of SharePoint 2010 - there will likely be differences with the RTM release. Finally, the NDA is lifted and we can openly talk about SharePoint 2010! There's so many cool things to talk about it's hard to decide where to begin, but as the focus of my blog has generally been on STSADM then I suppose that's a good place to start. The first thing we should do is load the new SharePoint 4.0 Management Console which can be found under the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Setting Back Connection Host Names for SharePoint 2007 Using STSADM

  20 Sep 2009 | 5:15 pm

  Not too long ago Microsoft introduced a security fix which addresses a possible attack vector in which malicious software tries to impersonate a local request, thereby bypassing certain constraints.  The problem with this fix is that it introduces some issues for SharePoint servers, effectively resulting in 401.1 Access Denied errors.  Spence Harbar does a great write-up of the fix and the options available to get your SharePoint environment working again so I won't re-hash all that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Attend the SharePoint Conference 2009 for Free!

  20 Aug 2009 | 1:02 pm

  ShareSquared, Inc. and Kodak just announced a contest where you can win a free pass to the 2009 SharePoint Conference and four nights stay at Mandalay Bay in Vegas!  You can also win some free consulting or a Kodak scanner!  Visit http://www.sharepointgiveaway.com/ for more information and to enter to win - good luck! BTW, I'll be at the conference as well so look me up if you're there! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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  Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

• How to Build a SharePoint 2010 Development Machine (Part I)

  erobillard

  29 Oct 2009 | 5:46 am

  I was going to hold off on posting this until the public beta drops, but anyone preparing for the drop will want to get the right hardware, OS and optionally virtualization in place now. Then when the beta drops I'll write more about specific steps to...(read more)

• Tonight: First looks at SharePoint 2010

  erobillard

  28 Oct 2009 | 9:33 am

  First Looks at Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Presented by Savash Alic , Principal Specialist – SharePoint TSP, Microsoft Canada Join us for a special live meeting on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 where Microsoft Canada’s Savash Alic will present...(read more)

• SharePoint Testing Strategies

  erobillard

  24 Oct 2009 | 12:14 pm

  Someone recently asked about test plans and how to test components during development so you can be comfortable they'll perform well when hosted on large farms. The short answer is that you want to create the best simulation you can, and that means creating...(read more)

• Controlling SharePoint 2010 Deployment in VS 2010

  erobillard

  21 Oct 2009 | 4:36 pm

  The default experience when you press F5 in Visual Studio 2010 is to Create, Build, Package and Deploy your solution, all at once, automagically, pretty cool. As long as you don't want to control that process. But wait, you can do that too. You can customize...(read more)

• Extending SharePoint 2010 tooling in Visual Studio 2010

  erobillard

  21 Oct 2009 | 3:00 pm

  Extensibility points Already had: Macros, add-ins and packages New extensions based on MEF VSIX model simplifies distribution and deployment VSIX Package A zip package Contains am .XML manifest Install by double-clicking Managed Extensibility Framework...(read more)

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  Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts

• SharePoint Conference 2009 – 19th to 22nd October – I’ll be there!

  12 Oct 2009 | 12:23 pm

  Body: The conference of the year is SOLD OUT! Unofficial sources say that this year the attendance number is over 7000! This is going to be a huge event. Check out the official web site for details. http://www.mssharepointconference.com/ Follow the twitter channel for announcements and event information if you can’t be there here > http://twitter.com/SPConf The online SharePoint world will be buzzing with news so setup a watch on #SPC09 and keep up to date with happenings. If you are a regular reader of my blog come and say hi, I’ll be hanging out with a few of other SharePoint guys…

• Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 3

  8 Oct 2009 | 5:36 pm

  Body: Please read first two posts in this series. Planning for SharePoint 2010 Part 1, Planning for SharePoint 2010 Part 2. In the last two posts I showed you how to move your data tier to your new 64bit Farm. That is you moved all your databases and tested that you now have a 64bit based database server to host all the content databases. Let’s look at how we can move the application server and the web front end server tiers. In this case you can choose to move both Tiers Tier B and C at the same time or individually. In either case the approach is the same. In order to move your…

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  Serge van den Oever [Macaw]

• SharePoint 2010: #SPC09 - SSP is dead, long live Service Applications!

  svdoever

  20 Oct 2009 | 10:38 am

  Notes from the SharePoint Conference 2009 session "Introduction to Service Applications and Topology". This is my personal interpretation of what has been said during the presentation. Don't shoot me if I interpreted something wrong:-)In SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Providers (SSP's) are replaced by Service Applications. Services are no longer combined into a SSP. Services are running independent as a service application.So in MOSS 2007:SSP: combines services like Search, Excel Services, User Profiles, ... into a shared service provider.In SharePoint 2010:Service Applications: services like…

• Visual Studio and having multiple startup projects

  svdoever

  19 Oct 2009 | 3:34 pm

  Never knew this: you can have multiple startup projects in a solution. Was there already in Visual Studio 2005! See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165413%28VS.80%29.aspx for more info.

• SharePoint 2010: Client side JavaScript Object Model Library written in Script#?

  svdoever

  19 Oct 2009 | 3:28 pm

  Note: this blog post is based on experiences with the SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview version. SharePoint 2010 now extends the object model to the client. A remote object model proxy is available for C# development (including Silverlight) and a Javascript client library which can be found at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\SP.js, accessible at /_layouts/SP.js.I tried to understand what happens in the Javascript code, did some document formatting on it to get it readable. But not really a Javascript wizard myself I didn't really got…

• SharePoint 2010: Site exporting as WSP solution (Part 1)

  svdoever

  19 Oct 2009 | 1:48 pm

  Note: this blog post is based onexperiences with the SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview version. In the good old days of SharePoint 2003 and 2007 it was possible to save a site as a template. These sites were saved as .stp files, I assume this acronym stands for SiteTemPlate, a non-documented closed format that did not allow for modification in the saved template files. so new sites could be created based on the template. SharePoint 2010 promises the possibility to save a site as a WSP package, the Windows SharePoint Services Package format that we all love in the development of our SharePoint…

• SharePoint 2010: Getting Publishing template working

  svdoever

  19 Oct 2009 | 1:38 pm

  Note: this post is only relevant for people running the SharePoint 2010 Technology Preview. When I create a new site based on the Publishing Portal template you get a .../Pages/Default.aspx page with an error on it. The error seems to be generated by a ContentByQuery web part (the only web part) on the page. Add ?contents=1 to the url (…/Pages/Default.aspx?contents=1): Check Out the page, remove the web part (Delete, not Close), and your page starts working again. Happy Publishing! Disclaimer: All information in this blog post is based on my personal interpretation of information collected…

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  Shane Perran's SharePoint Customization Blog

• Another Externally Facing SharePoint 2007 Website…

  shane

  22 Oct 2009 | 11:32 am

  This week we launched our latest website built on SharePoint 2007, just in time for the SharePoint 2010 madness in Vegas. Visit Infotech: http://www.infotechsolutions.com

• VMware Fusion + Windows 7 “Shutting Down Mode”

  shane

  22 Oct 2009 | 11:29 am

  If ever find yourself stuck in an infinite loop while trying to shut down a VM in VMware Fusion you can get out of it by holding the (ALT or OPTION) key while selecting the “Shut Down Guest” from the Virtual Machine Menu. It will change to “Power Off”, just like hitting the power button. This tip just came in handy, hope it helps.

• If you are using SharePoint 2007 + Windows 7 and getting SLOW transfer rates within document libraries…

  shane

  25 Sep 2009 | 11:36 am

  If you are using windows 7 and moss 2007 you may find things get REALLY SLOW while moving files in document libraries. This rather obscure fix worked for me, maybe it will help you as well. I spent some time today doing some work on a site whereby I needed to add a large amount of images to the style library of a SharePoint Site Collection. To speed up the process of course I would select the Open with Windows Explorer option so I could just paste the required files in with ease. Instantly I would notice a significant freeze and then subsequently extremely low speeds when uploading. Since…

• SharePoint Nation! User Group Meeting Tonight w/ Dev Panel

  shane

  18 Aug 2009 | 4:56 pm

  Join us on Tuesday, August 18th at 8pm EST as we welcome a developer panel featuring Ed Musters, Geoff Varosky, Paul Schaeflein, Paul Stork and Rebecca Isserman. These guys will be there to answer your questions as well as provide some of their own guidance on topics such as getting started with web part development and the proper implementation of user controls. This event will be hosted by Laura Rogers. As with all previous meetings, come join us no matter where you are in the world as this meeting will be delivered virtually via Live Meeting. In order to hear audio for the event, you will…

• SharePoint Nation! - Virtual User Group Meeting Tonight!

  shane

  21 Jul 2009 | 3:37 pm

  Join us Tonight, Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 8pm EST for another SharePoint Virtual User Group Meeting. In this meeting, Laura Rogers will demonstrate just how flexible and useful the Out-of-the-Box Web Parts are in MOSS. She will take a detailed look at the Filter, KPI, Excel Web Access, Outlook Web Access, Business Data Catalog, and Data View Web Parts. She will then look at how to customize some of these web parts using SharePoint Designer while still adhering to the Industry Best Practices. All of this is done without using any code.Speaker Biography: Laura Rogers is currently a…

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  Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP

• SPC09 is go! Conference Keynote

  Andrew Woodward

  19 Oct 2009 | 12:22 pm

  The build up to this event has been growing,  it sold out with over 7400 people attending,  making this probably the biggest Microsoft Conference ever!    This is probably the best social networking conference,  with the biggest beach party in Mandalay Bay hotel on Tuesday night..  with room for dancing (or to quote Tom Rizzo) to sway!   7.5 miles of network cabling to support the Wireless network Steve Balmer takes to the stage in his usual enthusiastic style,  finally getting to take on the last thing from Bill Gates and present at a SharePoint…

• TDD Kata – By Example video

  Andrew Woodward

  12 Oct 2009 | 1:35 am

  Since attending Roy Osherove’s TDD Master Class I have been doing my daily TDD Kata, I will admit I have missed some days but generally I have been keeping up with it and really seeing the benefit. Here I talked about what a Kata is and how it compares to Kumon Maths and I also took the opportunity to practice my reviewing techniques by looking at the best and reviewing Uncle Bobs prime factors TDD Kata. I had promised to provide a web cast of the TDD SharePoint session that I did at the Best Practices conference, but I feel now that I need to really improve my keyboard mastery before…

• Which Build Servers in SharePoint – The Results

  Andrew Woodward

  11 Oct 2009 | 4:11 am

  The numbers are in and I think this small sample really gives a good view as to the way people are approaching their SharePoint development projects. Numbers taken from a one week poll asking people which build servers they used on their SharePoint projects. It’s very clear from this that people are in one of 3 camps of almost identical size Those using Team Foundation Server Those that user another non Microsoft tool Those that don’t do anything Team Foundation Server Installing and using, or developing against Microsoft SharePoint Server requires a fairly big commitment to the…

• Which build server are you using?

  Andrew Woodward

  6 Oct 2009 | 9:32 am

  I am looking to provide some guidance on doing Continuous Integration (CI) on SharePoint projects,  looking at the concepts behind CI but also looking to provide examples that can help people get the most out of CI on a SharePoint project.   Having used a number of technologies in the past I thought it would be useful to get an idea of the which technologies people are using, if any.  Please take a few seconds to tell me what you have used, and have a look at what others are doing.   View Poll I have made the selections mutiple choice as I know people, especially consultants, have…

• TDD Master Class – with Roy Osherove

  Andrew Woodward

  29 Sep 2009 | 2:54 pm

  For almost my entire career I have been involved in software development, and probably uniquely more often than not in an environment or role where I have needed to look at process improvement. This started with my first role where I had to ensure development adhered to ISO9001 standards, through to today where I work with teams to help them adopt agile techniques and continuous improvement. Along the way almost everyone I talked to understands the basic idea that the earlier in the cycle you find a defect the cheaper and easier it is to fix, and from this most (if not all) agree that Unit…

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  Matthew McDermott

• Austin SharePoint User Group: SharePoint 2010 Preview

  Matthew McDermott

  29 Oct 2009 | 1:08 am

  Matthew McDermott, Microsoft MVP, and Brad Freels, Microsoft Senior Technology Specialist, will provide a 2 hour overview of the great new features of SharePoint 2010. Including: Sites: UI Changes, Mobility Support, Office Client Support Communities: Social Improvements, My Sites, Activity Feeds Content: Enterprise Content Types, Metadata, Video Content Types Search: Phonetic Search, Navigation, Relevance Insights: Visio Services, Web Analytics, PerformancePoint Services Composites: BCS, External Lists, SharePoint Designer We won't be able to cover EVERYTHING in two hours- there is just too…

• Life After SharePoint Conference 2009

  Matthew McDermott

  26 Oct 2009 | 7:31 am

  Wow, anyone in attendance at the 2009 SharePoint Conference will tell you, there was a LOT going on. I don’t want to rub your nose in it, it is a simple fact, being at the conference, experiencing the nerdy goodness of ITF collaboration and sharing, seeing the SharePoint Fairy (#SPFairy) granting geeky wishes and stealing the attention from the conference floor, or rubbing elbows with the folks who write (or manage the folks who write) one of Steve Balmer’s “favorite products”, cannot be duplicated on-line. You have to be there to participate. OK, You missed it, what now? There are…

• SPC09 Be There Virtually

  Matthew McDermott

  17 Oct 2009 | 1:51 am

  By now the planet knows that the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference is sold out. Does that mean that you are going to miss all the good stuff? Not at all. You can attend the keynote address by Steve Balmer and Jeff Teper virtually. The keynote address will be streamed live at 9:00 Vegas time and available for viewing later from the Conference Web site. Go to www.mssharepointconference.com for more info. You can follow the conference on Twitter @spconf and #SPC09.

• Catapult Webcast: Overview of Windows Server R2

  Matthew McDermott

  12 Oct 2009 | 3:20 am

  Join us for this technical webcast as we discuss the new features and improvements in Windows Server R2 and how it brings virtualization enhancements within Hyper-V including Live Migration. We will also explore the management improvements such as: Better Together with Windows 7 (Branch Cache & Direct Access) Platform Scalability Power Management Built-in File Classification Engine  This session is geared towards IT Management and Windows Server Administration, with a focus on the updates and changes in 2008 R2. Where can I get more info? From the Session Brochure Can I attend? Sure,…

• Austin SPUG: Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint

  Matthew McDermott

  9 Oct 2009 | 1:13 am

  Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint October 14th Program Description: SharePoint is a great platform on which to build and deliver solutions. The question, however, quickly becomes what to build, how to build it, and most importantly, how to ensure that what I build is successful. In this presentation, we discuss the SharePoint “Solution Quadrant,” which addresses the many types of solutions you can build on SharePoint. We explore how to build your solution, keeping in mind the concepts of modularity and reusability. And finally, we address end user adoption challenges and how to…

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  Mauro Cardarelli

• Syncing Your Blackberry with Microsoft Online Email

  Mauro

  29 Oct 2009 | 2:44 am

  Have you heard about Microsoft BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite)?  If not, you will soon!  BPOS is a service that allows access to standard Microsoft technologies like Exchange, SharePoint, LiveMeeting and Office Communicator "in the cloud" (meaning they are hosted external to your company and are accessible via the internet).  As someone who has kicked the tires on how these really work for day-to-day business activities, I have been very impressed.  That said, there is always a technical challenge to talk about... I needed to find a way to sync a Blackberry with…

• Living in SharePoint “Mixed Mode”

  Mauro

  17 Oct 2009 | 4:21 am

  It was 3 years ago this month that I configured and deployed my first SharePoint 2007 solution (running on beta software).  At the time, I told myself that for some short amount of time I needed to live in SharePoint “mixed mode” (term stolen from the SQL Server authentication option).  To me, “mixed mode” meant having to support customers who were running SharePoint 2003 or 2007.  The challenge with it, of course, is differences in functionality, administration and general configuration.  Do you know what?  I’m still living in “mixed mode” (supporting…

• Sunday Morning Business Intelligence Lesson

  Mauro

  4 Oct 2009 | 4:37 am

  First, apologizes to my non-sports fan readers.  I, too, get that face tightening, head turning expression when a corporate executive tries to relate business performance to some sports concept.  However, in this case, there is a lesson (I hope!)… It’s football season.  That means that I, like many other sports geeks, manage a fantasy football team (where the goal is to assemble a collection of NFL football players, aggregate their performance statistics and hope that this week’s total point value is greater than your opponent’s).  All this, at least in my case,…

• Budgeting for SharePoint 2010

  Mauro

  30 Sep 2009 | 2:47 am

  I am doing some guest blogging work for tek-tips forum on SharePoint.  Here is my first piece on budgeting for SharePoint 2010... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/budgeting-for-sharepoint-2010 Here in New England the foliage has begun to appear, signaling two things: flurries are not far behind and it is budget season. Ah, budget season; that time of year when CIOs and IT Directors look into their crystal balls and try to predict the technology budget figures necessary to help drive business processes and deliver increased operational efficiencies. Today, if your organization is invested…

• Using Microsoft Translator on my Blog

  Mauro

  15 Sep 2009 | 4:24 am

  Have you seen Microsoft Translator?  I stumbled upon it last week and ended up requesting an invitation code to use it on this blog.  Check out the orange box on the left side.  Select any language from the dropdown and the content on this blog will automatically be translated.  I'm international!  You can read about Microsoft Translator here on the Microsoft team blog.  Key tidbits... What it is: Built on top of the Microsoft Translator AJAX API, it is a small, customizable widget that you can place on your web page – and it helps you instantly makes the…

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  SPSFAQ

• Setting up SharePoint 2010 - Including what hardware to get.

  Stephen

  25 Oct 2009 | 10:48 am

  The public beta for SharePoint 2010 is out in 2-3 weeks, so if you don't have the hardware ready already, here's what I did. Although this is not what you'd do in production it is nice and simple. I bought a Dell Precision 390 on eBay for about €300.It had no monitor I connected my main monitor to it temporarily when installing everything, then remote desktoped to it after that.I put 8GB of RAM in it. I bought that on www.memoryc.com (about another €120). Putting RAM in a machine is easy. Just get the right type, see how many slots are in the server, then put it in and reboot. Note if…

• Live from SPC09

  Stephen

  19 Oct 2009 | 2:09 pm

  I will be posting updates from the SharePoint Conference via my twitter page, go have a look!:http://twitter.com/stephencummins

• Capacity Planning.

  Stephen

  23 Sep 2009 | 7:04 am

  Definitive article on MOSS 2007 capacity planning, well worth another look since it has been updated: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

• SharePoint so simple your mum could understand it.

  Stephen

  28 Aug 2009 | 6:40 am

  SharePoint is frustratingly hard to simplify into one sentence. "It is a collaboration tool" sounds too basic, but this little movie explains it neatly in just over three minutes: http://www.youtube.com/v/s12Jb5Z2xaE&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1

• I've got the beta of SharePoint 2010 and I love it!

  Stephen

  24 Jul 2009 | 6:26 am

  Can't give away anything at all, since this is a very closed beta, but this is one very nice slick UI and blasts SharePoint into the future. Woo hoo! I'll be going to the SharePoint conference in Vegas in October: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx not because I plan on having any fun as well, oh no :-) but just to learn what I can and be involved in the launch. Very glad I got out of website design in 2001, this is way more interesting!

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  meetdux.com

• Mark Your Calendars: Dec 5, 2009 - SharePoint Saturday DC is Back!

  Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

  29 Oct 2009 | 3:31 pm

  Thanks to Dan Usher and Gino Degregori, I'm very excited to tell you that SharePoint Saturday DC (SPSDC) is back! It will be held on Dec 5, 2009 at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA.   Sessions for SPSDC will focus on SharePoint solutions addressing business needs relevant in Washin... (More)

• Free Download: SharePoint Assessment WBS & Project Schedule

  Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

  28 Oct 2009 | 4:48 pm

  I had a great time today presenting at the Richmond SharePoint User Group. One of the questions I had was:   "How can you assess the business needs of an organization and map it to a solution that SharePoint can provide?"   At Innovative-e, whenever we engage in a  SharePoint impleme... (More)

• Screencast: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success

  Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

  28 Oct 2009 | 1:37 am

  I'm sure you've heard by now SharePoint 2010 is out of the bag. Thanks to Bamboo Solutions, I had the opportunity to showcase its' capabilities to support project management (PM) last week at SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas.   Along with Julie Auletta and Daisy Anand, we presented in a p... (More)

• Free Webcast: How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010

  Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

  26 Oct 2009 | 1:29 pm

  Microsoft Project is a project management tool widely used by project managers today. Its' ability to support project managers to define a schedule, assign resources to tasks and track project status has been instrumental in contributing to project success. However, it can be a challenge for a proje... (More)

• #spc09 The Future of SharePoint Project Management

  Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

  25 Oct 2009 | 11:37 pm

  One of the immediate values SharePoint can deliver to an organization is the ability to address project management challenges, such as inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor information management practices and undefined project collaboration standards that compromises project success.... (More)

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  Boris Gomiunik

• CAML query not considering time for Date and time field

  Boris Gomiunik

  29 Oct 2009 | 1:16 am

  If you’re having trouble constructing your CAML query and you have a DateTime field with time enabled, the important fact that plain <Value Type="DateTime">2009-10-28T10:00:00Z</Value> will ignore the time part of the query. It is useful for querying whole days. If Time part of the DateTime field is also important to consider (you’re querying specific time of the day, you have to add parameter IncludeTimeValue="TRUE" parameter. So the whole CAML node would be <Value IncludeTimeValue="TRUE"…

• SharePoint Lookup field: how does it work and how to add JavaScript event handler function to it?

  Boris Gomiunik

  25 Oct 2009 | 3:23 pm

  Due to a lot of comments and questions to my last year’s post about Attaching functions to SharePoint form fields concerning especially lookup fields on which the demo was made, I’ve decided to take a deeper dive into SharePoint’s Lookup Field and how to manipulate it client-side, since it behaves different in different situations. On the image below you can see two lookup fields – rendered different. Even though new SharePoint is about to go public beta I’ll still show how to handle this in SharePoint 3.0 or 2007 How does it work? Before explaining how to attach a functon or event…

• MOSS Lanugage pack installation without CD/DVD

  Boris Gomiunik

  14 Sep 2009 | 3:14 am

  MOSS 2007 Lanugage Pack comes in .img format, which you can burn to a CD and then use it for installing Language pack. If you’re working remotely or working with a server that has no CD/DVD drive, this might pose a slight problem. You can avoid this in a simple way: 1. Rename the .img file into an .iso file. 2. Download 7-zip portable version and extract the executable to a folder on your server desktop. 3. Navigate to the extracted folder and run 7-ZipPortable.exe. 4. Browse and open (double-click) the renamed .iso file 5. You can extract all files from the .iso to another folder on your…

• Highlight weekends in list view

  Boris Gomiunik

  29 Aug 2009 | 1:54 am

  This trick works with a list view (not calendar view) of any list that has dates. It doesn’t work in a calendar view of a list. We’ll need jquery for this script to work. So if you don’t have jquery uploaded you can download it from jquery.com. The way I usually add it to the site is by creating a document library for “system” files in this demo I’ll create a llibrary called sys.   When the .js file is uploaded copy its location. Easiest is by right-clicking the document link and selecting “Copy Shortcut”. Now let’s open the list view of the calendar. Now we create an…

• New blog URL

  Boris Gomiunik

  4 Aug 2009 | 12:48 pm

  A short notice – this blog is now available also on new url (yes, kind-of moved again) – www.sharepointboris.net. The content and looks are the same. Also the old domain (boris.gomiunik.net) will still be available for a while. Like - Dislike Bookmark It Hide Sites

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  To the SharePoint

• New SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) Content

  supotter

  6 Nov 2009 | 5:35 pm

  The SharePoint IT Pro content team is proud to announce the launching of our new SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) Tech Center and our related set of Technical Articles. In addition, we have launched the SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Beta) Tech Center and its related Technical Articles.  We will keep this content up to date with timely information to help you design, build, and deploy SharePoint sites and solutions. We have launched these sites with an initial set of Beta content and we will add lots of additional content throughout the Beta and on through the product release. Although we are…

• Support your DBA!

  Margo Crandall

  5 Nov 2009 | 4:33 pm

  We’ve just finished creating a new downloadable book for SQL Server database administrators who support SharePoint environments. If you work with one of those lucky folks, you may want to point them to: SharePoint guidance for SQL Server 2008 database administrators (Downloadable book) We’ve also updated a number of our other articles to refer to features in SQL Server 2008 that you can take advantage of in a SharePoint environment. Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices (white paper) Physical topology…

• The new Business Intelligence Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010

  normbi

  5 Nov 2009 | 8:18 am

  The new Business Intelligence Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010 is a TechNet site for information about business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010. The following is some of what is is included in the TechNet resource center. IT professionals Excel Services overview What's new for Excel Services What's new for PerformancePoint Services Visio Services overview Developers What's new: Excel Services (MSDN) Creating custom solutions with Excel Services (MSDN) What's new: PerformancePoint Services (MSDN) Creating custom BI solutions with PerformancePoint Services (MSDN) The site also…

• My impressions of the SharePoint Conference

  normbi

  30 Oct 2009 | 8:02 am

  I’m Norm Warren, IT Pro writer for SharePoint Server 2010 business intelligence. I also write for B.I. the way…and used to write for Norm's PerformancePoint Server Blog. The following are some of my impressions of my first SharePoint Server 2010 conference. I remember the first SharePoint Server 2007 book I picked up. Surprisingly, it had a chapter on change management –the first chapter. As I spent time with customers at the 2009 SharePoint conference last week, my mind kept going back to that chapter. We met customers from all over who were delighted about the new features in…

• How do you use our posters?

  Margo Crandall

  26 Oct 2009 | 2:06 pm

  We'd like to know how you use the posters we have up on TechNet: SharePoint Server 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199(office.14).aspx  SharePoint Server 2007: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287835.aspx Do you print them on a plotter, or in a smaller format? Would you like them to be available to order in glossy format? Is there any other way that you'd like us to present them? Post a comment here, or send us an email. Thanks! - Margo

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  Waldek Mastykarz

• DIWUG (Nov 4) – SharePoint 2010: Ask the Expert

  Waldek Mastykarz

  29 Oct 2009 | 11:17 pm

  Upcoming Wednesday evening the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG) is organizing another meeting. And it’s not going to be “just” a meeting. First of all it will all about SharePoint 2010. Secondly there were be a lot of great folks there. Not only local heroes like Matthijs Hoekstra (Microsoft), Mirjam van Olst (SharePoint 2007 Microsoft Certified Master), Wouter van Vugt (MVP) and myself but also fellows SharePoint MVPs Spencer Harbar (also SharePoint 2007 Microsoft Certified Master) and Tobias Zimmergren (THE guy from the Internet). To keep it short: if you have any…

• Web Content Management in SharePoint Server 2010

  Waldek Mastykarz

  20 Oct 2009 | 6:59 am

  For a while now I’ve been thinking about what should I write about in the very first post about SharePoint 2010. If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you probably know, that I’m passionate about Web Content Management (WCM) in SharePoint. For three years now I’ve been working with SharePoint WCM. Although it’s sometimes challenging, it’s great to build WCM solutions on the SharePoint platform. And now SharePoint 2010 offers an even richer foundations for custom Web Content Management solutions. So what’s new in SharePoint Server 2010 Web Content Management? SharePoint…

• Meet me @ Tech·Ed Europe 2009

  Waldek Mastykarz

  5 Oct 2009 | 7:57 am

  I’ve just got confirmation from Microsoft: I will be at the Technical Learning Center (TLC) booth at Tech·Ed Europe 2009. Together with some fellow MVPs I will be answering all your SharePoint questions. Looking forward to see you at Tech·Ed 2009! Technorati Tags: TechEd 2009

• Extending Lookup Fields with “Add new item” option

  Waldek Mastykarz

  3 Oct 2009 | 9:27 am

  How many times were you working with Lookup Fields and just when you were about to pick a value, you found out that it’s not there. How many clicks did you have to make to get to the Lookup List, add the new Lookup Item, get back to where you were first and add your item? While it sounds trivial, it’s the only way things can be done in out of the box SharePoint. You could of course create a whole new Custom Field Type which would contain an “Add new item” link, but there is an easier way to get this done. Inspiration is just around the corner A couple of days ago I attended a Dutch…

• Custom Field Type: Site Reference (part 1)

  Waldek Mastykarz

  22 Sep 2009 | 10:53 am

  For the last few weeks I’ve been working on a project that strongly relied on meta data. The project is all about finding the right information in a strongly fragmented collaboration environment. One of the parts of the project was publishing news messages related to specific collaboration areas. The background The project I mentioned is an Intranet environment meant to support the organization’s collaboration process. It consists of many different areas like Topics, Projects, Departments, etc. Any of these areas can contain a number of sub areas which facilitate many other items like…

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  MOSS.... et moi....

• Advanced Services & Topologies

  Christian Hougardy (Wygwam Team)

  22 Oct 2009 | 11:06 am

    Excellente session sur les services et la topologie. Vous savez maintenant que le SSP n’est plus et que tous les services qui font SP 2010 sont indépendants et peuvent être installés partout. Ce partout peut être une ferme de services (ca me plait beaucoup cette idée…), autant de servers qu’il n’y a de services, etc… Il était donc particulièrement interessant d’aller voir ce que MS allait nous proposer comme topologie puisque tout est à réinventer.   Ainsi, pour une petite ferme, voila la solution proposée:   C’est donc surtout quand on voit la…

• Si si, 'j’y suis

  Christian Hougardy (Wygwam Team)

  22 Oct 2009 | 10:27 am

    Je suis en effet bien arrivé à Las Vegas pour la Conférence. Bon, avec un jour de retard mais cela commence à être une habitude, je m’y fais donc. Je profite de l’occasion pour remercier Bill et Redo, mes patrons, de m’avoir donné l’occasion de venir à Vegas pour cette conférence, en compagnie de Renaud. Ca fait beaucoup de sous que nous avons essayé de dépenser à bon escient :) J’ai préféré consacrer mon temps à choisir puis suivre les sessions plutôt que de blogguer pendant les sessions. Je n’ai pas l’habilité de mon collégue Renaud qui fait…

• « Formation utilisateur SharePoint : Produire, collaborer et gérer les sites »

  Christian Hougardy (Wygwam Team)

  25 Aug 2009 | 8:28 am

  Vous connaissiez déjà Wygwam sous l’angle de l’expertise technologique ainsi que sur nos implications communautaires. Aujourd’hui, Wygwam ouvre un tout nouveau pôle FORMATION. En partenariat mondial avec la société Combined Knowledge (www.combined-knowledge.com) Wygwam vous délivrera, en Français, les formations SharePoint de Combined Knowledge. C’est donc l’expérience technologique de Wygwam, combinée avec l’expérience pédagogique de Combined Knowledge que nous vous délivrons dans ces formations exceptionnelles. Première formation Pour fêter l’événement, nous…

• J’y serai…

  Christian Hougardy (Wygwam Team)

  9 Aug 2009 | 3:17 am

    Et pas tout seul, Renaud aka TheMit sera également de la partie. Ceci promet une belle série de posts en perspective car, bien entendu, nous allons essayer de vous faire participer en direct à l’évènement. Il n’est pas encore trop tard pour s’inscrire, j’ai trouvé, grâce à un collègue SharePointeur, un hôtel assez génial: Le Luxor. Bon marché (quand je dis bon marché, ca veut vraiment dire bon marché puisque la nuit coûte moins de 50 $) , à côté du Mandalay Bay, qui héberge la Conférence, et à proximité immédiate de l’aéroport (pour éviter les frais…

• Tout arrive...

  Christian Hougardy (Wygwam Team)

  9 Aug 2009 | 2:54 am

  Ca fait longtemps, trop longtemps que je n'ai rien publié sur ce blog. A un tel point que je me demande si j'ai encore des lecteurs. Mais bon, je viens de prendre une bonne résolution: je vais m'y remettre. La matière ne manque pas: Office 2010 , vNext (oui, enfin là, faudra attendre fin octobre et la conférence de Las Vegas pour avoir plus d'information). Ceci dit, une des raisons de mon désinstérêt momentané pour ce blog, c'est Twitter. En effet, j'aime disposer de l'info immédiatemment, ce qui…

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  The Mit's Blog

• Envie de découvrir SP2010 en avant première? Sur Genève? Venez donc à la prochaine session du Swiss SharePoint Club le 10 novembre.

  themit

  5 Nov 2009 | 1:26 am

  Rentrant de Las Vegas, les yeux encore remplie de néon et de Beta 2, j’ai effectué une plongée en eau profonde dans le monde de l’ECM avec la Taxonomie et la folksonomie. Content du résultat, je vais en présenter les points importants le 10 Novembre à...

• SP2010 : envie de de commencer tôt avec la CTP ? voici de quoi lire ou coder :)

  themit

  27 Oct 2009 | 2:04 pm

  La version beta2 de SP 2010 arrive à grand pas mais je me doute que bien d’entre vous trépigne de pouvoir mettre la main dessus ou de se faire une idée des nouveautés du, au hasard Linq for SharePoint aka SPLinq le client...

• #SPC09 : La nouvelle SPRosas et quelques liens pour aller plus loin dans le 2010

  themit

  26 Oct 2009 | 6:28 am

  SharePoint VingtDix arrive à grand pas. Steve Ballmer, MS CEO, a annoncé d’ailleurs la beta Publique pour Novembre et la release pour la premier Semestre 2010 Soit ou si vous voulez mieux appréhender cette nouvelle “rose des services” Voyez, que d...

• #SPC09 : Buiding custom service applications

  themit

  22 Oct 2009 | 1:20 pm

  Dernière session de la conférence et une super advance pour hard core coding Andrew Connell prévient toute la salle : c’est encore plus complexe mais plus cool que les customs controls field type >> pour lui, ce n’est pas du 400 mais...

• #SPC09 : Guidance for SP application

  themit

  22 Oct 2009 | 11:49 am

  enfin une session sur l’architecture applicative par ce cher MikeAm, pour une session choisie au hasardm je suis veinard Objetifs : SP list or DB 1 Site or many No code, sandboxed or solution Ne jamais oublier que SP reste une immens...

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  Bamboo Nation

• Guest Blog by FiveSix Consulting's Tamara Austerlade: SharePoint in Higher Education

  Tamara Austerlade

  6 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm

  Higher education is different. It has a culture that recognizes as positives what many companies would find dysfunctional. Consensus-based decision making, lack of standardization, and a penchant for analysis over action encourages collaboration and discovery, but can make it difficult to be effective.  Throw in byzantine funding models and political intrigue that made Henry Kissinger "long for the simplicity of the Middle East", and you begin to get a sense for the complexity of the environment. These factors make deploying SharePoint within institutions of higher…

• Microsoft SVP Chris Capossela Presents the 3 Pillars for Office 2010

  John Anderson

  6 Nov 2009 | 6:30 am

  In the wake of our coverage of last month's SharePoint Conference sessions, this is the sixth in a series of posts documenting the keynotes and sessions I attended at the Microsoft "Airlift" event for Office 2010.  This four-day event took place in Seattle during the first week of June, was open to participants in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP), and in essence took the form of a mini-SharePoint Conference. Day two of the Airlift began with a keynote from Chris Capossela, SVP, Information Worker Product Management Group.  Revealing the three…

• SharePoint 2010 Marketplace Coming Soon; H1N1 Tracking in the Cloud; More Complaints from Browser Makers in Europe

  SharePoint Daily

  6 Nov 2009 | 4:33 am

  Top News StoriesMicrosoft To Offer Application Marketplace In SharePoint 2010 (Read Write Enterprise)Microsoft will offer an application marketplace within SharePoint 2010 that shall integrate with third-party applications from its partner network. No date has been set for the marketplace launch but it will evolve from "The Gallery" a feature that provides SharePoint 2010 users access to templates. McDonald's Switches to New Microsoft Tool (QSR Magazine)Microsoft Business Division president Stephen Elop announced that the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS),…

• SharePoint 2010 Mobile

  John Anderson

  5 Nov 2009 | 6:30 am

  In the wake of our coverage of last month's SharePoint Conference sessions, this is the fifth in a series of posts documenting the keynotes and sessions I attended at the Microsoft "Airlift" event for Office 2010.  This four-day event took place in Seattle during the first week of June, was open to participants in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP), and in essence took the form of a mini-SharePoint Conference. There were a number of exciting revelations of new features and functionality in SharePoint and Office 2010 apps which were made known during…

• Novell, SAP, ThoughtWorks Ride Google Wave; Microsoft Courier Tablet UI Details; Microsoft Cuts 800 Jobs

  SharePoint Daily

  5 Nov 2009 | 4:31 am

  Top News StoriesMicrosoft's Live@edu to Add SharePoint (NetworkWorld)Microsoft Wednesday said it will add SharePoint Online services to its Live@edu program that provides free e-mail and other collaboration tools to schools and universities. In addition, Microsoft said in the past four months the Live@edu service has added 5,000 new schools, which has raised number of users of the service into the tens of millions. The announcements were made at the annual Educause conference, which focuses on technology in education. Enterprise 2.0: Novell, SAP, ThoughtWorks Ride Google Wave…

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  Andy Dale SharePoint Blog

• SharePoint Training Pays Off

  30 Oct 2009 | 7:06 am

  Brad Guzan is probably not a name known to many of you, but on Tuesday night he incredibly saved FOUR penalties for Aston Villa to help them beat Sunderland and reach the last eight of the Carling Cup. Yes he is Villa’s brilliant American goalkeeper named ‘Brad’, the one who isn’t Brad Friedel. So how did Mr. Guzan, who only plays in cup games, manage to save four penalties from four different players? He puts it all down to training and practicing saving penalties every day. So when you are thinking of how to get the best out of your SharePoint project team make sure you train them…

• Please Backup SharePoint - A Bang From Behind

  21 Oct 2009 | 5:46 am

  Last Friday, whilst I was parked admiring the pleasant views of Evesham and eating my slightly limp ham sandwich, I was startled by a sudden unexpected bang to my rear. A lady of 'advancing years' had unfortunately clipped the back of the car and within minutes we were exchanging insurance details and assessing the damage. As the lady was fully insured there was no need to panic as everything was covered, but I started thinking what if she had been one of those many UNINSURED drivers? This was a reminder to me of how important it is to make sure you have your SharePoint fully…

• SharePoint Passes the Test

  9 Oct 2009 | 8:56 am

  This week saw me having a fairly routine if slightly unpleasant hospital test and this got me thinking about two SharePoint topics. Firstly, the importance in any SharePoint Project of a ‘Test Environment’ where you can try new things out and learn how things work. The second SharePoint thought I had was how they stored all the x-rays (digital images) and sent them to the relevant GPs. Was this an opportunity for Digital Asset Management (DAM) in SharePoint like I discussed in last week’s blog. To my surprise on my hospital visit as I entered the X-ray room, dressed in my fetching…

• That DAM SharePoint

  2 Oct 2009 | 6:59 am

  Last month I went to a wedding at Breadsall Priory in Derby (yes, for those who read this weekly SharePoint Blog the one where I had the unfortunate hole appeared in my trousers). Now thousands of photographs are starting to appear of the happy event – luckily none of the hole in my trousers yet. Everybody seems to have taken photographs and videos of the couple on their big day and now all of these are appearing in various forms on Facebook, as well as being emailed around the globe. These days companies/organisations seem to have ever-increasing mounds of digital photographs. Without…

• SharePoint - Fading Eyes

  28 Sep 2009 | 6:06 am

  All good things come to an end and that is what happened to the Villa’s winning run on Saturday. Thanks to a referee who for once had good eye-sight. The ref noted that the ball ACCIDENTALLY hit a Villa defender’s arm and gave Blackburn a last minute penalty. So what about fading eye-sight and SharePoint? I have certainly notice in the last few years that I find it harder to read smaller text on the screen. When I am with customers whose screen resolution is set to 1280 by 1024 or greater I end up having to virtually sit on their lap before I can read the screen. Not all customers are…

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  The Sanity Point

• Off Topic - String Along with Ford

  Woody Windischman

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:18 pm

  Buried in Bureaucracy and Rebuffed Note: This is a follow-up piece to my "In a Fix with Ford" article. See that if you need some additional background. Where does one begin a tale of woe? For that, my friends, is what we have here. Six weeks ago, I wrote my original article with high hopes that I could prevail upon Ford to do the right thing, and fix the known design problems with my early production 2006 Ford Fusion. Little did I know that I had about as much chance of success as Don Quixote in tilting at windmills. An Apology to the Messenger First, I want to express my…

• SharePoint 2010 Hits the Jackpot

  Woody Windischman

  27 Oct 2009 | 4:52 pm

  SharePoint Conference 2009 Wrap-up The show is over, but the adventure is only beginning. As stated before, SPC09 in Las Vegas was the coming out party for SharePoint 2010. While we will still have to wait a few weeks for stable bits to play with, over 7000 attendees came away with a treasure trove of knowledge and documentation. In my previous installments, I talked about the venue, the atmosphere, and the keynotes. I've also touched on some of the new Office integration story. Of course, the star of the show was SharePoint 2010 itself. So, I'm going to dedicate the rest of this post to a…

• Off Topic - A Brief Tribute

  Woody Windischman

  26 Oct 2009 | 12:54 pm

  In Loving Memory of Three Wonderful People I know you are expecting my wrap-up of the SharePoint conference here, and that will still be coming. But, for now, I need to digress. While I was in Las Vegas, I received word that my grandmother on my mom's side (my last grandparent) had passed away. This caps a series of three losses for me and my family over the past few weeks. In addition to my grandmother, Mary Cary Rudes, I lost and attended services for my uncle, Dr. Les Meyer, and my brother's wife's father, Tom Moore. Each, in their own way, spent much of their lives helping others. My…

• SharePoint Conference 2009 - Midpoint Musings

  Woody Windischman

  21 Oct 2009 | 3:37 am

  Keynotes, Sessions, and More I can't believe how fast the time has gone. We're half-way through the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 already. If you're following me on Twitter, you'll know some of the things that caught my attention as I was sitting through the keynotes and sessions. I really haven't had much time to ponder things too deeply, but there are some items that stand out. "SharePoint is Magical" During Steve Ballmer's keynote, this was his answer to the question "What is SharePoint?" Although that seems more than a little hyperbolic, in some ways he's right.

• SharePoint Conference 2009 - Sunday

  Woody Windischman

  19 Oct 2009 | 3:37 am

  Day 0.5 <cue Film Noir music> The day started clear and cold. I would say "bright" and cold, but it was only 4:45 AM when I left for the airport, so it was dark. There was frost on my car windows as I made my way to the airport. Traffic was light, but construction was heavy around O'Hare. The security line was long. Fortunately I had checked in online, so I didn't have to wait for my boarding pass. Still I ran through the B/C tunnel and barely made it before they closed the door. <end music> And so began my trip to the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. The flight…

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  Made 4 the Net

• SharePoint SPSource bonnet open

  Jeremy Thake

  29 Oct 2009 | 8:23 pm

  If you have been using SPSource to reverse engineer Content Types, Site Columns, Module (files), List Templates etc. please take some time to provide some feedback over at CodePlex. I have the bonnet up on the source this weekend fixing some loose ends. SP… what? If you haven’t used SPSource…why not? ;-) Seriously check out the webcast (list template demo) to get an idea of what this can do for your Development Lifecycle. #SP2010 I’ll be upgrading this tool so that it works with SP2010. I will also be looking at cool ways to integrate it with VS2010 as well and also with WSPBuilder…

• SharePoint 2010 is one greedy beast…and will block adoption

  Jeremy Thake

  27 Oct 2009 | 9:03 pm

  So I saw the Setting Up a Development environment for SharePoint 2010 was posted on MSDN. I nearly fell off my chair when I read this: “In any development environment, you should use a computer with an x64-capable CPU, and at least 2 gigabytes (GB) and preferably 4 GB of RAM for SharePoint Foundation, and 6 to 8 GB of RAM for SharePoint Server.” I think it’s great that Microsoft have been so honest and realistic with these figures, as MOSS2007 recommended RAM was 1Gb, which was a load of tripe! To give some history on this, I currently battle daily with customers to set up SharePoint…

• The 12 factors to turn ASP.NET developers to SharePoint 2010

  Jeremy Thake

  26 Oct 2009 | 1:48 pm

  I’ve already posted a webcast and created a wiki page that has caused a lot of discussion on the wiki on “How ASP.NET developers can leverage the SharePoint 2007 Platform”. This post will reflect on the SharePoint 2010 conference last week and to nominate 12 factors that will hopefully be the tipping point for ASP.NET developers to start leveraging the SharePoint 2010 platform. I will be using my ASP.NET Readify colleagues as a good bench mark on how successful the adoption of development in SharePoint 2010 platform is because these guys are classed as the elite of Australia. One thing…

• Thoughts on SharePoint Conference 2009

  Jeremy Thake

  25 Oct 2009 | 9:33 pm

  So I’m sitting at San Francisco airport, terrible international area by the way *sigh*. Anyways, thought I would start to write my thoughts on #SPC09. The Keynote It was very exciting to see Steve Ballmer start the keynote off with so much energy and knowledge of the platform, but it slowly went from him being very business focused to the other guys coming on and jumping directly into a technical extravaganza. Internet Facing Sites Steve managed to shock me by stating that “MOSS2007 was never built for Internet Facing sites”…even though MCMS2003 was migrated into that product which…

• Does JavaScript/jQuery Enhancements to SharePoint Count as Development?

  Jeremy Thake

  15 Oct 2009 | 6:43 pm

  I had a great twitter discussion today with @bsimser & @sympmarc about SharePoint and jQuery which was triggered by an End User SharePoint post by @sympmarc. I pointed them to my “jQuery: The SharePoint band aid” and @bsimser came back with well does jQuery enhancements in SharePoint count as development? So here’s my opinion on this: Are jQuery enhancements development? YES! jQuery is a JavaScript library which is executed on runtime within the client browser. People may say that because it isn’t compiled code, such as C#/VB.NET, that it is not development. Well that is not true,…

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  Wictor Wilen

• Microsoft publishes three posters on upgrading to SharePoint 2010

  Wictor Wilén

  18 Oct 2009 | 5:11 pm

  Just hours before the SharePoint Conference 2009 starts in Vegas, and all information will flood out from the conference, blogs and twitter, Microsoft released three four posters that should help you in planning and updating your SharePoint 2007 installation to SharePoint 2010.Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Approaches (added since original posting) Visually describes the different upgrade approachesMicrosoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Planning Takes you through how to upgrade hardware and software on your servers. Shows the available upgrade paths.Microsoft SharePoint…

• Last Service Pack for PerformancePoint Server 2007 is out

  Wictor Wilén

  15 Oct 2009 | 7:25 am

  The long awaited service pack for PerformancePoint Server 2007 is now released to the web - Service Pack 3. This is the last service pack for PerformancePoint Server since the PerformancePoint Server bits will from next week be turned into PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint 2010. Service Pack 3 is the last update to the standalone version of PerformancePoint, which was announced in January this year when Microsoft changed their BI strategy. After this update Microsoft will not invest any further into the 2007 version and as you hopefully are aware of - the Planning module will not exist…

• Useful Delegate Controls in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

  Wictor Wilén

  7 Oct 2009 | 5:18 am

  Delegate Controls in SharePoint is a blessing when you are customizing the features and interface of SharePoint. The Delegate Controls are areas in the out-of-the-box SharePoint pages where you are allowed to inject your own controls. This is heavily used by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which essentially is a set of features on top of Windows SharePoint Services. For example the standard WSS user information page redirects to the MOSS My Site, this redirection is done by inserting a delegate control into a specific delegate control on the userdisp.aspx page. This nifty delegate…

• How to export and reuse the Data View Web Part

  Wictor Wilén

  2 Oct 2009 | 8:07 pm

  Inspired by the latest SharePoint PodShow topic; The SharePoint Data View Web Part-Episode 31 and Laura Rogers post on building a permissions dashboard I just had to write this post. In the last paragraph Laura quickly mentions how you can reuse the created Data View Web Part. I think this is really important to know how to export and import this Web Part. What I don't want people to do is to fire up SharePoint Designer and create these Data View Web Parts in the production environment so that the pages get's unghosted or customized. Also when you are working with solutions packages and…

• Time for new adventures

  Wictor Wilén

  1 Oct 2009 | 7:15 am

  I'm glad and proud to tell you all about that next month I will start a new job. I will start as a SharePoint Architect at Connecta. This is a fantastic opportunity for me and it will let me work with some of the finest SharePoint minds and developers here in Sweden as well as some really awesome customers. I've been working with basically the same company now since 2000, when I and two good friends founded it, iBizkit. We all came from consultancy firms working with WCM, portals and intranet solutions and had a dream of making a really good semi-product for these kind of solutions. And we…

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  Mark Harrison

• SkyDrive Explorer

  5 Nov 2009 | 2:24 pm

  SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service (25 GB of free storage space) using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer.http://www.skydriveexplorer.com/Mark Harrison

• BPOS Pricing Announcement

  3 Nov 2009 | 3:04 pm

  Microsoft have announced new pricing for the business productivity cloud offerings.For example, the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is now $10 per user per month (originally $15).BPOS includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Live MeetingPress ReleaseOnline ServicesMark Harrison

• Forza Motorsport 3 launch video

  2 Nov 2009 | 3:17 pm

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• 'Learning Snacks' for SharePoint 2010 Now Available

  29 Oct 2009 | 6:24 pm

  Learning snacks are now available for SharePoint 2010. They are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each free presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topic, or visit a related Web site.Developing Solutions with Microsoft SharePoint 2010Microsoft SharePoint 2010 enables developers to build rich solutions easily, rapidly, and efficiently. This Learning Snack…

• Business Productivity at its Best - White Paper

  29 Oct 2009 | 4:07 pm

  A new whitepaper has been made public ... Business Productivity at its Best - White Paper Very much like the Fair Good Better Best white paper for 2007, but updated for Office 2010. Mark Harrison

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• Visual Studio 2010: Visualizing dependencies

  DigiMortal

  5 Nov 2009 | 5:19 am

  Visual Studio 2010 introduces new and cool feature – architecture diagrams that visualize dependencies between assemblies, namespaces and classes. In this posting I will show you how these diagrams look like and provide some explanations about how to read them. I tested architecture diagrams (or should I say dependency diagrams?) with one of my small projects. Okay, I tried to visualize dependencies found in source code of KiGG too but it was too big for current implementation of dependency visualizer. But for smaller projects it works pretty well. You can find these diagrams from…

• Adding uberVU badge to your blog

  DigiMortal

  4 Nov 2009 | 12:09 pm

  uberVU is service that monitors how your blog entries (or other web resources) are performing in different social networks. You can integrate uberVU reaction count badge to your blog and monitor popularity of your blog entries right in your blog. In this posting I will show you how to add uberVU badge to your blog without any server-side coding. You can find uberVU patch from uberVU tools page. There is also JavaScript given that you can use on your blog or home page. If you plan to insert this badge manually then you don’t need any additional work. But I am lazy guy and I want to put it up…

• Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects

  DigiMortal

  4 Nov 2009 | 2:12 am

  Visual Studio 2010 introduces modeling projects that bring UML diagrams to Visual Studio. Currently it is not possible to generate classes from diagrams automatically but I don’t think it is a problem – good UML diagrams visualize different aspects of system short and clearly and they usually don’t document everything you can find in system. In this posting I will show you how to use modeling projects in Visual Studio 2010. Creating modeling projects Modeling projects are created as all other projects. Select New Project from menu and select Modeling Projects from templates pane. There…

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 downloads

  DigiMortal

  3 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am

  Here are some download links to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and related technologies. Visual Studio Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 - ISO Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium Beta 2 – ISO Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 2 - ISO Microsoft Visual Studio Test Elements 2010 Beta 2 – ISO Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition Beta 2 – ISO Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) Beta 2 Redistributable Package Team Foundation Server Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 Visual Studio SDK-s Visual Studio 2010…

• Using ASP.NET and Jcrop to crop images online

  DigiMortal

  2 Nov 2009 | 5:46 pm

  Cropping images in ASP.NET is easy task to do if you use right tools. In this posting I will introduce how to crop images using Jcrop and System.Drawing namespace classes. What we are building is simple and user-friendly image cropping interface that also demonstrates some simple features of Jcrop. Believe me, your users will love it! Jcrop is jQuery based library that brings crop margins selection to client side. Before starting you need two (free) JavaScript libraries: jQuery Jcrop After downloading them create new ASP.NET Web Application project and unpack those libraries to js directory.

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• SPC09 Recap and My SharePoint 2010 Top 5 List

  26 Oct 2009 | 8:09 pm

  The four day SharePoint 2010 reveal-athon is over, and I'm back to a boring and completely regular MOSS 2007 lifestyle. Okay, so it's not that dramatic, but I am definitely feeling a desire to switch completely over to 2010 for just about everything relating to SharePoint. There was tons of great content on display during the SharePoint Conference in Vegas last week. I'll be pouring over the on-demand sessions for weeks I'm sure, so this is only the beginning for the 2010 learning process. There are some good resources popping up on the net about everyone's favorite features about 2010, so I…

• Visit us during Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas

  14 Oct 2009 | 9:38 am

  In just a few short days, SharePoint Conference 2009 (SPC09) will finally be upon us. Not only is this the biggest and most important SharePoint conference on the calendar, but this year's conference signifies the lifting of that pesky SharePoint 2010 NDA. We've all been salivating at the tidbits of information and screenshots that have been shared so far by Microsoft, so next week will be a bit overwhelming. The conference recently sold out, and there will be an expected 7,000+ attendees crammed onto the strip! If you've got an "STSADM rules!" coffee mug or a 12 hive shortcut on your…

• Metalogix Selective Restore Manager Pro Gets Top Marks

  4 Oct 2009 | 4:35 pm

   (Rating: 5 out of 5)For server administrators, backup and restore processes are essential in production environments. This is obviously no different for SharePoint farms, but out-of-the-box (OOTB) features for backup and restore are certainly lacking in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The Selective Restore Manager Pro from Metalogix is one such product that aims to fill the void left by Microsoft ... Read more...

• TunnelPoint: The BDC for SharePoint in the Cloud

  20 Sep 2009 | 4:39 pm

   (Rating: 5 out of 5)TunnelPoint is a hosted service provided by Zevenseas. It connects external services (for example SOAP web services) to SharePoint List data in your SharePoint Site. TunnelPoint uses the built-in SharePoint SOAP web services exposed by your SharePoint environment to read and write list data. Really, all you need to do is log in to TunnelPoint using your TunnelPoint account and use the web interface provided to configure which external services should map to which lists in your SharePoint site ... Read more...

• View the Best Practices Conference Live Stream Archive

  31 Aug 2009 | 7:40 pm

  If you read my last post on Best Practices Conference 2009, then you probably followed the live streaming coverage as provided by EndUserSharePoint.com. That content was fully archived, and is now viewable online. Please take the time to check it out, as the live blogs are full of great content from the conference. Best Practices Conference 2009 - Day 01 Best Practices Conference 2009 - Day 02 Best Practices Conference 2009 - Day 03 If you enjoyed this as much as I did, then you'll be pleased to know that the same offering will be available for the upcoming SharePoint Conference 2009 in…

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• SPPD128 SharePointPodcast

  Michael Greth

  6 Nov 2009 | 2:30 am

  Direkter Download: SPPD-128-2009-11-06 (Please visit the site to view this media) Diese Ausgabe des SharePointPodcast wird präsentiert von der Serviceportals GmbHspo.MailShare: E-Mails aus Outlook heraus direkt in SharePoint speichern Feedback Veranstaltungen TechEd 2009 in Berlin SharePoint Konferenz 2010  24.+25.2.2010 Microsoft TechDay Roadshow im Dezember - Verlosung einer Eintrittskarte Thema SharePoint 2010 Warten auf die Beta 2 Zusammenfassung der SharePoint Konferenz 2010 von Reiner Ganser SharePointConference 2009 – Gastbeitrag von Ulli Kersting Installation…

• SharePoint Kaffeetasse 138

  Michael Greth

  6 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am

  Office2010 Demo of Access 2010 room bookings database InfoPath 2010 Performance Highlights UI Extensibility in Office 2010 SharePoint 2010 FAST meets SharePoint - What's Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010: SharePoint Developer Platform Wall Poster How to Build a SharePoint 2010 Development Machine (Part I) Entwicklung Kurze knackige Demos zum Thema Development MSDN Briefing November 2009 - Microsoft Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 Development – What’s New (27.11.2009 in Wien) Tipps MOSS 2007 SP1 auf Windows Server 2008 R2 Installationsanleitung (Slipstreaming)…

• Landkarte der SharePoint Usergroups

  Michael Greth

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:22 am

  Im Microsoft Community Guide gibt es jetzt als eine BING-Map, also Landkarte, dem Community Kompass, in dem u.a. auch alle regionalen UserGroups der SharePointCommunity verzeichnet sind: http://www.microsoft.com/germany/community/kompass/default.mspx Unter der Karte den Link SharePoint anklicken. Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePointCommunity,SharePointConference 09, SharePoint 2010, Michael Greth, Office 2010

• Gastbeitrag SharePoint 2010 - Metadaten als Key-Faktor

  Michael Greth

  5 Nov 2009 | 1:11 am

  Ich hab ja schon mehrfach mit den SharePoint Spezialisten von itsystems aus der Schweiz gesprochen - zuletzt mit Patrick Püntener auf der DMS Expo in Köln – und es ging da immer um das Thema Metadaten in SharePoint. itsystems hat dazu eine Lösung namens MatchPoint entwickelt - mehr dazu MatchPoint mit SharePoint 2010  oder direkt zur Lösung. Hier das Interview auf der DMS Expo 2009 in der es um die Nutzungsmöglichkeiten von Metadaten innerhalb von SharePoint zur Suche, Kategorisierung und Navigation.   Patrick war auf der SharePoint-Konferenz 2009 in Las Vegas und hat seine…

• SharePoint Kaffeetasse 137

  Michael Greth

  4 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am

  Tools Tool to configure all document libraries in a site in Sharepoint 2007 Webpart to use Bing Maps in Sharepoint 2007 y WSS 3.0 Custom BDC for Windows Sharepoint Services SPilverlight - SharePoint Web Part For Easy Silverlight WSS3 Workflow Tools SharePoint Deployment Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 1 – The Basics Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 2 – The Basics continued Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 3 – Configuration Service Packs October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint…

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• #spc09 Notes: Introduction to Service Applications

  Daniel McPherson

  20 Oct 2009 | 2:20 am

  This is one in a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. New, flexible, extensible services architecture that can be used by developers Overview What is a Services Application? An Application Server Tier feature that performs the useful function of providing data or processing resources to SharePoint features. Search is a good example of a Services Application Service Application Configured logical instance of a…

• #spc09 Notes: Sandboxed Solutions

  Daniel McPherson

  19 Oct 2009 | 10:06 am

  This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Its all about balancing Security/Stability and Business Agility Sandboxed solutions balance these two things out. Sandboxed solutions should be the default approach to developing solutions on SharePoint. You build them this way UNTIL you hit a limitation you just cant get around. Difficult to come up with a list that describe what you can do with…

• #SPC09 Notes: Visual Studio Development Overview

  Daniel McPherson

  19 Oct 2009 | 8:24 am

  This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Tools are designed to make development for SharePoint a LOT easier and a LOT more productive Supports Sandboxed and Farm solutions Provides a number of Project and Item Templates Provides a number of Visual Designers Provides a number of Workflow improvements Templates You are going to generally start with an empty project and then add the items you…

• #SPC 09 Notes: Developer Overview

  Daniel McPherson

  19 Oct 2009 | 6:58 am

  This is the first of a series of notes I will be making while attending the SharePoint Conference in Vegas. These are not intended to be complete, polished, edited blog posts. Its simply the highlights, as I saw it, from the sessions I attended. Started with a review of the types of applications that are built on SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 can be install on Windows 7 or Vista SP1 Both SharePoint Foundation Server (was WSS) or SharePoint 2010 Still requires you to be running 64bit This is for development only, so single server, non-production, etc. There is an Install Guide in the SDK (Beta…

• Get Your Demos While They Are Hot! Blog Central, Discussions Central, TunnelPoint and Produshare

  Daniel McPherson

  13 Oct 2009 | 5:03 pm

  As mentioned before, next week, zevenseas is heading to Las Vegas for the SharePoint Conference. Given its a week of “Show and Tell” we are coming fully equipped to demonstrate any of the three product releases we made this year. Blog CentralDiscussions Central (released this week)TunnelPoint – http://www.tunnelpoint.com ProduShare If you have an interest in any of the above, and have 5 minutes to spare, drop me an email daniel@zevenseas.com or send me a tweet @danmc and lets be sure to find some time. I’ll even pay for the beer or coffee!