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International SharePoint Conference 2012 Follow-up
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Setting up a development environment for SharePoint and Windows Phone 7
JOPX on SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 and Windows Phone 726 Apr 2012 | 2:04 pmThere are basically 3 flavors of setup that you can use for setting up a development environment when you want to build a Windows Phone 7 app that integrates with SharePoint: Physical single machine setup using Windows 7: install both SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 on a physical Windows 7 machine. This will not work in a virtual environment since SharePoint requires a 64 bit machine and the Windows Phone SDK requires a 32 bit setup when installing in a virtual environment. Installing the Windows Phone SDK on the Windows 7 host and using VMWare is not an option either – see Help… -
Favourites rather than Favorites at last
Mike Walsh's WSS and more10 May 2012 | 6:23 amOne of the columnists in the UK magazine PCPro has just pointed out in his latest column that there - for the first in MS Operating System history, he says - will be a British English version of Windows 8 (naturally in addition to the US version and, who knows, twenty plus other language versions). He pointed out that this will mean that we over here will no longer have to put up with the abomination of Favorites reminding us of the fact the US Americans have taken over the world. Well any reduction in the amount of bad spelling in computer products is good of course but I can't help… -
Useful Event handlers for SharePoint
Sharepoint Tips And Tricks14 May 2012 | 4:57 amIn a few of my recent posts, I wrote about event handlers to set titles and permissions on items automatically as items are created. Since then, I have received a lot of questions from none developers who wanted to use the code samples, but didnt want to compile themselves, and didnt want to go through making the code more generic and robust. So I have done the work for everyone out there who wants to have the code samples as a downloadable product. The product I am now selling as part of my Company's offerings is called "Extelligent Design's SharePoint List… -
Engaging with stakeholders–did you know there is a standard for it?
CleverWorkarounds24 Apr 2012 | 8:50 amHi all I think its a sure bet that many of you, for your various sins, perform “stakeholder engagement” as part of delivering solutions to your clients or organisations. I also bet that many of you would not be aware that a standard for Stakeholder Engagement has been released. It was written by the nice folks at accountability.org, an organisation dedicated to helping organisations embed accountability into their operations at an ethical, environmental, social, and governance level. When the standard was released, I read it with some interest, and decided to see what it would look like…
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Mike Walsh's WSS and more
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A bit more care with your web site links, Microsoft UK!
15 May 2012 | 3:54 amA funny thing happened today caused by the fact that my location in the OS is set to the UK and not the US. I have a RSS feed set up for TechNet Magazine articles and, because of that location setting, when I click on the link to one of the articles (in this case to the one on SharePoint 2010 Government from the May 2012 issue) I get the article in the normal US English but with a UK (actually /en-gb) URL instead of the usual US (en-us) URL. So far so good and you may be wondering why this bothers me as after all you get the correct article even if the URL is a bit different. The problem… -
Sky Drive and One Note (2) - this time with the iPad
14 May 2012 | 2:49 amWhen I first installed the OneNote app on the iPad there wasn't much I could do with it because all my OneNote notebooks were OneNote 2007 format so I could access them (from a USB stick) on all machines (including the one running Office 2007). OneNote for the iPad however required OneNote 2010 format so all I could do at the time was to create a single page OneNote 2010 format notebook in OneNote iPad itself and see how it looked. But then I got the new portable and created a couple of OneNote 2010 notebooks (with genuine content) and, as discussed in an earlier post, stored them in… -
Using SkyDrive for One Note 2010 and Windows 8 is a neat solution
11 May 2012 | 10:13 pmAs an old SkyDrive user I recently took advantage of the link that let old users increase their storage space (free) to 25GB. I did this knowing full well that I hadn't actually used the 5 GB I already had in any serious way and so had a lot of space (4.9GB probably!) left, but, it cost nothing and was a limited time only offer so why not. I can't say that I then started hunting around for ideas about how to use this space. I can't for instance use it as extra storage for the iPad backups which already take up most of my (free) 5GB iCloud storage [which would have been useful] and I've… -
Which SharePoint product does this Access KB Article refer to?
11 May 2012 | 9:56 pmI've noticed quite often that people in different Microsoft Office product teams are rather blinkered. They know a lot about their own product but often don't know much about other products grouped as part of the Microsoft Office range. This often becomes apparent when you look at KB Articles for an Office product. They will carefully list all the versions of their own product that it affects, but then - despite having another Office product mentioned in the Title and/or text - they won't bother in the same Applies To section to mention that other product. A case in mind is the… -
Favourites rather than Favorites at last
10 May 2012 | 6:23 amOne of the columnists in the UK magazine PCPro has just pointed out in his latest column that there - for the first in MS Operating System history, he says - will be a British English version of Windows 8 (naturally in addition to the US version and, who knows, twenty plus other language versions). He pointed out that this will mean that we over here will no longer have to put up with the abomination of Favorites reminding us of the fact the US Americans have taken over the world. Well any reduction in the amount of bad spelling in computer products is good of course but I can't help…
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Andrew Connell [MVP SharePoint]
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Isolating Integration Tests with EF4.x, Code First & MSTest
2 May 2012 | 5:04 amForward: this has nothing to do with SharePoint :) I'm using Entity Framework 4.1+ and the cool Code First capability on a current project. For those unaware, Entity Framework (EF) is an code representation of your database. Code First (CF) is an approach where you define classes & relationships between them and let EF do the work of creating the DB and data model. Spare me the debate about "I can write the schema & queries better than EF"… that's great… golf clap for you. Sure could and so could I, but I also wouldn't be nearly as productive in creating this app I'm working on. -
Wrapup – International SharePoint Conference 2012, London
30 Apr 2012 | 8:37 amThis past week I participated as one of the presenters in the developer track at the International SharePoint Conference show in London. This show was different in that each track was solution based. For the developer track we started the week by talking about the requirements gathering requirements and going through the process of what type of app to build, how to build based on the deployment (on-prem/cloud), what capabilities to leverage (farm/sandbox solutions, metadata, BCS, search, kitchen sink service app) and then we had detailed, deep-dive sessions on all the topics. At the end of… -
Little Trick for Building/Opening SharePoint Projects in Client OS’ w/o Installing SharePoint
22 Apr 2012 | 4:09 amIf you’re like me, you stay away from installing SharePoint on your client OS (Windows 7) and just put it on your server OS and run within a VM. However there are times you want to pop into Visual Studio without firing up a VM and exploring the code. Of course you can do that, but it gets tricky when you want to build or run unit tests. One trick I use that works most of the time (not all the time) is to put the SharePoint assemblies on my machine and make my own SharePoint Root (aka “14 folder”) on my Windows 7 machine. It’s easy enough, but maybe you want to check the differences… -
I’m speaking at the Jacksonville SharePoint Users Group
11 Apr 2012 | 9:45 amTomorrow night (Thursday, April 12, 2012) I’ll be presenting a developer topic to the local Jacksonville, FL SharePoint User’s Group. The talk will be at the Deercreek Country Club… anyone up for a round? :) Developing with SharePoint Server 2010 Metadata The Managed Metadata Service application in SharePoint 2010 allows users to create and utilize taxonomies in various ways. Microsoft has included a robust taxonomy API in SharePoint 2010 that can be leveraged in custom solutions. In this session we'll explore how you can interact with taxonomies within the Managed Metadata Service… -
MVP Renewed for SharePoint Server
2 Apr 2012 | 12:28 pmGotta love April 1st… this is my anniversary date for my MVP award. You never know if you’re going to have an April Fool’s joke pulled on you or not. Regardless, I got the email this weekend that I was renewed for my 8th year in the MVP program. Guess the joke was that my junk filter caught it first (does it every year!) :P. My first two years were for Content Management Server (CMS) and when CMS was retired in favor of moving the feature set over to the SharePoint platform, I was transitioned over. Here we go for another year!
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Fear and Loathing
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Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3, Logging, and Depency Injection
15 May 2012 | 8:35 pmI started a new ASP.NET MVC project recently and wanted to give you a little insight on kicking off new projects. There’s some setup time you want to spend setting up your solution and getting the plumbing in order before you dive into writing unit tests and building out your site. For a full on, blow my mind, ultimate guide you *have* to go watch Rob Conery and his 90 minute walkthrough of setting up his MVC projects. I’ve watched this video a few times and Rob is awesome and knows his stuff. The tips he gives are gold. You can also check out the MVC 3 Starter Kit on CodePlex which is… -
Broken Windows Phone Marketplace
25 Apr 2012 | 6:46 pmRecently the Windows Phone Developer Team posted an article about how App Insights work and specifically how Free, Top, and New apps work. It’s all accurate, a good read, and (to an extent) will help you improve your app’s ranking in the Marketplace list. However there continues to exist a few underlying problems with the Marketplace, specifically for independent app and game developers, that has yet to be fixed. This isn’t the first time someone brought this and I blogged about it over a year ago when the Marketplace had about 10,000 apps. There’s even a user voice item to show trial… -
Farseer tutorial for the absolute beginners
13 Apr 2012 | 6:38 pmThis post is inspired (and somewhat a direct copy) of a couple of posts Emanuele Feronato wrote back in 2009 about Box2D (his tutorial was ActionScript 3 based for Box2D, this is C# XNA for the Farseer Physics Engine). Here’s what we’re building: What is Farseer The Farseer Physics Engine is a collision detection system with realistic physics responses to help you easily create simple hobby games or complex simulation systems. Farseer was built as a .NET version of Box2D (based on the Box2D.XNA port of Box2D). While the constructs and syntax has changed over the years, the principles… -
Introducing SharePointR
1 Apr 2012 | 8:19 amRecently there’s been a lot of great press on a async signallying libarary called SignalR. SignalR is the brainchild of Microsoft employee David Fowler and helps you build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications. The last year I’ve been working with a top team in Redmond on rewriting SharePoint into a complete JavaScript version that runs in the client which we’re now calling SharePointR. SharePointR is a client side version of SharePoint offers all of the base functionality that SharePoint 2010 has but boasts a 300% improvement in speed and productivity for the Information… -
Displaying Large Text Files in Windows Phone Apps
31 Mar 2012 | 9:18 amHave you ever needed to provide instructions or help for your Windows Phone app and found yourself creating gobs of XAML and writing it in the Visual Studio designer into a TextBlock control? Not very efficient is it? Here’s a technique you can use that might make things easier. Ingredients 1 Text File (preferable something appropriate to your app) 1 Phone Application Page 30 Lines of Code Preparation Create a new Phone Application Page (or use an existing one). Add a ScrollViewer to it like so: <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here--> <Grid…
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SharePoint Solutions Blog
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SharePoint Lifecycle Management
16 May 2012 | 8:53 amMost organizations lack a formal SharePoint lifecycle management process. What frequently happens is a company finds itself facing uncontrolled SharePoint growth. SharePoint quickly becomes a disheveled mass of new sites, old sites, stale sites, and even duplicate sites. Left to their own devices, users begin creating business-critical applications in obscure SharePoint sites that IT doesn’t even know about. Without proper guidance and controls for style, navigation or branding, every team, department and business unit has a site that looks and feels different from everybody else’s. -
SharePoint Governance Plan
12 May 2012 | 5:11 pmIs SharePoint 2010 Governance Planning on your mind? Not sure where to start? In the Microsoft TechNet topic entitled Plan site creation and maintenance (SharePoint Server 2010), Microsoft is quick to point out that before you deploy and make sites available to users, you will need to answer questions such as: Do you want to tightly control site creation or to allow many users to create sites? At which level in the site hierarchy should additional sites be created? How do you find and remove unused sites in your environment? Once you've reviewed Microsoft's TechNet topics… -
Series of Posts on Column Validation in SharePoint 2010
28 Mar 2012 | 7:38 amOver the past few months I’ve written several posts on Column Validation techniques over on the SharePoint Solutions Help Community Blog. It occurred to me that followers of our blog here might be interested in these posts too. So here is an index with links to those articles. How to Validate a Due Date in a SharePoint 2010 List How to Validate Strict Text Formats in SharePoint 2010 How to Validate an Email Address Using Column Validation in SharePoint 2010 How to Use ‘OR’ Type Options in SharePoint 2010 Column Validation How to Validate a Non-Required Column in SharePoint 2010 Also, if… -
Our New Free SharePoint Training Video Series
1 Feb 2012 | 10:10 amSharePoint Solutions is pleased to announce the release of the first two videos of a new free SharePoint training video series: SharePoint 101 – What Makes SharePoint Work. The free video series is the latest addition to our free SharePoint training video library, and introduces the viewer to key foundational SharePoint concepts and strategies, with a view towards helping organizations derive the most value from their SharePoint implementations. The videos may be accessed from the red “Free Training Videos” button at the top of our SharePoint Solutions home page at… -
Announcing Our New Introductory SharePoint 2010 Course for Server Administrators
3 Jan 2012 | 3:36 pmIn response to numerous requests over the last several months, SharePoint Solutions is pleased to announce a new addition to our catalogue of SharePoint 2010 courses: Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators, a 3-day hands-on instructor-led course designed to give IT Professionals a jump-start and quickly bring them up to speed on installing and managing their SharePoint 2010 environment. Introduction to SharePoint 2010 for Server Administrators is aimed at IT Professionals who are responsible for installing, configuring, designing, and administering a SharePoint 2010…
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Sharepoint Tips And Tricks
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Useful Event handlers for SharePoint
14 May 2012 | 4:57 amIn a few of my recent posts, I wrote about event handlers to set titles and permissions on items automatically as items are created. Since then, I have received a lot of questions from none developers who wanted to use the code samples, but didnt want to compile themselves, and didnt want to go through making the code more generic and robust. So I have done the work for everyone out there who wants to have the code samples as a downloadable product. The product I am now selling as part of my Company's offerings is called "Extelligent Design's SharePoint List… -
Enabling Managed Metadata in Office365 (includes download)
6 Feb 2012 | 9:50 pmIf you have office365 or other hosted sharepoint solutions, you may find that the managed metadata column is not available to use - it shows an error that "the required feature is not enabled for this column type". There are two possible reasons. The first - you don't have a hosted site that supports managed metadata. To check if that is the case, check with your hosting company, or, if you have Office365, you should have a "manage term store" link in your sharepoint online administration centre. If you dont have that link, then you cannot have managed metadata - sorry. The other possibility… -
The importance of synchronous event handlers
15 Jan 2012 | 9:35 pmIn SharePoint, we can create list item event handlers (or receivers). I have written about this in the past, and even posted some code for setting the security automatically on a list item as it is created.Now, there is one thing I wanted to write about this topic. Event handlers can be defined as either Synchronous or Asynchronous - regardless of the event type. By default, events were always asynchronous if they had the "ed" suffix (ItemAdded, ItemUpdated), and synchronous if they had the "ing" suffix (ItemAdding, ItemUpdating). However, sometimes we want to run our code in an "ed" event,… -
Event handler to archive items when deleted
16 Nov 2011 | 2:12 amA person just asked this on a mailing list I am on, so I thought I'd share this code. The requirement - copy a list item that is deleted to an archive list. The solution - event receiver that copies the item. The code below does the job, but again is only a sample - you still need to implement error handling, and there are hard coded variables there you will want to change. Note: this code is specifically for list items, not for documents in document libraries. You can easily change the code to support documents as well (see the CopyAttachments function for an example on how to copy files). -
Setting item permissions for new items
16 Nov 2011 | 1:28 amA common question that I recently answered in a sharepoint conference is how to make a sharepoint list only show items to the users who wrote the items, and users specified in the item's properties.A good example of this is a task list where only the original creator of the task and the assignee can see and change the task. This is impossible to do in sharepoint out of the box, and that is where we, as developers, come in. The way to do it is by developing a simple event handler and attaching it to the list. I prefer to attach to ItemAdded and ItemUpdated - put the exact same code in both…
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Mastering SharePoint with Bob Mixon
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Exporting MindManager Maps to Microsoft Word
13 May 2012 | 11:31 amIf you have ever exported your a MindManager map to Microsoft Word, you may find it to be a somewhat disappointing experience. There’s just not a lot of options for formatting, including/excluding topics, etc. Well, this has changed! There is a new MindManager add-in product on the market called OPTi-Word which provides a whole bunch of great export features. Olympic Limited – OPTi-Word Share -
Speaking at SharePoint Summit 2012 – Toronto
4 May 2012 | 11:02 pmI am speaking at the SharePoint Summit 2012 (Toronto) Conference this year! I am delivering 2, 3 hour tutorials on Monday, May 14th. Tutorial 1.3 – Architecting Information for SharePoint 2010 Regardless of the industry your organization is aligned with, if your goal is to use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as an Intranet and/or Document Management System (DMS), you will need to architect your solution to simplify the storage and management of content, promote findability, promote the agile evolution of information use and trust. We will walk through high-level designs of site… -
Steps Toward a SharePoint Reference Information Architecture – by Seth Early
24 Apr 2012 | 5:31 amSeth Early, from Early & Associates, wrote an interesting article about the purpose and use of a Reference Information Architecture. He then describes, in part, additional information architecture steps required to ultimately derive a physical SharePoint implementation model; content model, site structures and navigation elements. One area Seth touches on this article is the need to focus on user processes first and foremost. I am currently writing quite a bit about this topic myself. For example, I often see contributor and consumer process/contextual requirements bundled in to a… -
Colligo Briefcase
21 Apr 2012 | 8:15 pmMy friends, at Colligo, have a new product called Colligo Briefcase. It provides all the robust power, you have come to expect from Colligo products, on the iPad. Yep, you can now connect to a SharePoint site and manage all your favorite content right from your iPad. Just a week ago, I happened to be part of a very large SharePoint PoC and was asked to demonstrate some mobile abilities. I quickly configured my iPad IPSec/VPN so I could log in to the customer portal and brought up a few sites, lists and libraries in the Safari browser. They were impressed with how quickly I could get… -
SFSPUG – Introduction to Information Architecture
19 Apr 2012 | 3:10 amI had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the San Francisco SharePoint User Group last night. It was held at the Mindjet office, downtown San Francisco, and we had a great group of attendees. I started the meeting by asking where they would like to start; An Intro to IA or IA Applied to SharePoint. They chose to start with an Introduction to Information Architecture; which I thought was great. There were so many fantastic questions, I wasn’t able to get through even a small amount of the presentation. Though this is somewhat common, I hope everyone felt I was able to add…
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JOPX on SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 and Windows Phone 7
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Setting up a development environment for SharePoint and Windows Phone 7
26 Apr 2012 | 2:04 pmThere are basically 3 flavors of setup that you can use for setting up a development environment when you want to build a Windows Phone 7 app that integrates with SharePoint: Physical single machine setup using Windows 7: install both SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 on a physical Windows 7 machine. This will not work in a virtual environment since SharePoint requires a 64 bit machine and the Windows Phone SDK requires a 32 bit setup when installing in a virtual environment. Installing the Windows Phone SDK on the Windows 7 host and using VMWare is not an option either – see Help… -
RSS Feeds are default not enabled in SharePoint 2010
25 Apr 2012 | 2:40 pmDefault RSS feeds for SharePoint lists are not enabled – you will need to enable it per site collection. On the RSS settings page you will also be able to add some additional info to include into the feed such as copyright statement, managing editor, webmaster as well as the time to live (in minutes). Next you need to define on a per list basis whether you will allow RSS feeds. It is also in this screen that you can define whether you want to include additional fields/columns in the RSS feed. Be careful though, when you add additional columns outside of the standard fields in RSS (title and… -
SharePoint Designer 2010 Custom Actions–Lock a SharePoint Discussion thread
18 Apr 2012 | 1:43 pmI recently got a question whether it would be possible to lock a discussion thread in SharePoint 2010. The quickest (no code solution) according to me would be to use the new quick step/custom action features in SharePoint 2010. For a basic overview take a look at SharePoint 2010 – Create a new quick step & custom actions . My first idea was to hook a SharePoint 2010 workflow with just one workflow action to the new quick step – declare as record (part of the new records management capabilities in SharePoint 2010) – check out this full list of the available workflow actions in… -
Survey on SharePoint deployment in Belgium
12 Apr 2012 | 1:36 pmPlease take a moment of your time to fill in a survey around SharePoint deployment in Belgium organized by two students from the University College of Ghent: Thank you for taking the time to respond to this survey. This survey is organized by the University College Ghent. It is aimed at measuring the deployment of Microsoft SharePoint in Belgium. Answering the approximately 25 questions will take about 5 to 10 minutes. Try to be honest when you answer the questions, we can assure you that all the data is confidential and will only be processed by the researchers. No answer is right or wrong,… -
Accessing Microsoft CRM 4.0 data using web services
10 Apr 2012 | 2:33 pmA couple of days ago I wanted to write a plugin for Excel 2010 which would allow me to do lookups in Microsoft CRM 4.0 for adding extra information to a worksheet. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this was. Microsoft CRM 4.0 exposes all of its data through the CrmService web service - http://[server:port]/mscrmservices/2007/crmservice.asmx which exposes a number of interesting methods ( see CrmService Common methods) of which one is the CrmService.Fetch method which allows for retrieving CRM entities in XML based on a specified XML query syntax which is called FetchXML. The only…
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Chris O'Brien
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Being a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer
15 May 2012 | 6:14 pmSince the beginning of the year I’ve been contracting to Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer, and I’ve been meaning to write about my experiences. Since my team (here in the UK) are looking for new people, now seems like a good time. Also, although I was already fairly close to Microsoft in many respects, it’s interesting being on the inside and seeing how certain things work - especially how MS IT deal with some of the challenges within a large organisation. I’ll talk about some of the cool things I notice at the end. It’s been a fun few months for me – I work in the SharePoint…
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CleverWorkarounds
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Engaging with stakeholders–did you know there is a standard for it?
24 Apr 2012 | 8:50 amHi all I think its a sure bet that many of you, for your various sins, perform “stakeholder engagement” as part of delivering solutions to your clients or organisations. I also bet that many of you would not be aware that a standard for Stakeholder Engagement has been released. It was written by the nice folks at accountability.org, an organisation dedicated to helping organisations embed accountability into their operations at an ethical, environmental, social, and governance level. When the standard was released, I read it with some interest, and decided to see what it would look like… -
I’m published in a PM Journal
5 Apr 2012 | 10:52 pmHi all Just a quick note for those of you who are of the academic persuasion or who have an interest in research and academic literature. Kailash and I wrote a paper for the International Journal for Managing Projects in Business. The article is called “Towards a holding environment: building shared understanding and commitment in projects”. The paper is about how to improve shared understanding on projects – particularly at the early stages where ambiguity around objectives tends to be at its highest. While it covers a similar territory to the Heretics Guide, it covers some literature… -
Wohoo! Heretics Guide has won an award
20 Mar 2012 | 2:28 pmHi all This might count as the winner of the cleverworkarounds “Most enjoyable blog post ever” award. This is because the book I wrote with Kailash Awati has won a medal at the 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards. The Heretics Guide to Best Practices has taken out the bronze medal in the category of Operations Management/Lean/Continuous Improvement. As you can imagine, we are completely thrilled and stoked about winning this, especially as we are first time writers with such awesome competition (there were 381 books entered into these awards). In case you are wondering what the Axiom awards… -
Warts and all SharePoint caveats in Melbourne and Auckland
5 Mar 2012 | 5:32 amHi all There are a couple of conferences happening this month that you should seriously consider attending. The New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Community Conferences. This year things have changed. There are over 50 Sessions designed to cater to a wide audience of the SharePoint landscape and the most varied range of international speakers I have seen so far. What is all the more pleasing this year is that aside from 20 sessions of technical content, the business side of SharePoint focus has been given greater coverage and there are over 20 customer case studies, which give… -
The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 6: The pros and cons of patriotism
11 Feb 2012 | 8:13 pmArticles in this series...The cloud is not the problem–Part 1: Has it been here all along?The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 2: When complex technology meets process…The cloud is not the problem–Part 3: When silos strike back…The cloud is not the problem-Part 4: Industry shakeout and playing with the big kids…The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 5: Server huggers and a crisis of identityThe cloud isn’t the problem–Part 6: The pros and cons of patriotism Hi all and welcome to my 6th post on the weird and wonderful world of cloud…
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Brain Dump: Posts
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How do I - Add a User Account to the Local Administrators security group of a Domain Controller
11 May 2012 | 10:37 amBody: Once you have done a DCPROMO (promoting your server to a domain controller) on your server, Windows removes the ability to manage local administrators from the server, at least via the GUI interface. As you can see here in the following two screen shots, the “Local Users and Groups” GUI option which is normally available on a non domain controller server thus: Is removed once the server is promoted to a domain controller thus: How do we work around this issue then? Bring out the good old administrative command line… Click through your Start menu and navigate to locate the… -
White Paper-2010 Office and SharePoint-Good, Better, Best
10 May 2012 | 3:47 pmBody: My clients and conference attendees are constantly asking me for this reference document. It’s silly that it’s so hard to locate on the Microsoft site, but it’s a great resource and the Appendix where it lists the Office versions side by side is indispensable. Come and get it! http://www.crayveon.com/Downloads/SharePoint/2010/Office-and-SharePoint-Good-Better-Best-White-Paper.pdf Enjoy C Published: 5/10/2012 1:47 PM
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SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
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Upcoming Free SharePoint + Social Webinars from NewsGator
14 May 2012 | 11:53 amUpcoming NewsGator Webinars NewsGator has a few upcoming webinars. Sign up and mark your calendars! Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePointMay 16th @ 2pm ETCapture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint (APAC)May 17th @ 10 am EST (GMT +10 Hours) Why Social at Stockland, Why Right Now?June 6th @ 10 am EST (GMT +10 Hours) This is a sponsored story. -
Kill SharePoint 2010 Mobile Interface
8 May 2012 | 8:52 pmI’ve always thought the word kill comes on a little strong, but at the same time… I think it gets the point across.I’ve been very big into mobile lately and SharePoint’s default mobile WAP interface is driving me crazy.About 5 months ago I wrote about some of my experiences: SharePoint For Mobile – Yes we can! It’s also not the first time I’ve said “SharePoint Defaults have Faults.”I’ve found we are missing out on more valuable mobile experiences with SharePoint because the mobile interface is on by default in SharePoint 2010.Ironically there is a hidden feature to turn…
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Jan Tielens' Bloggings
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SharePoint Saturday Belgium was a Big Success!
29 Apr 2012 | 7:39 amYesterday I had the pleasure to attend and present at the SharePoint Saturday Belgium edition. The Belgium Information Worker Usergroup (BIWUG), who organized the event, deserves a big round of applause; they hosted around 200 enthusiastic SharePoint people on a free and fun event. Of course a big thanks also goes to the numerous sponsors: Xylos (for making their great infrastructure available), AvePoint, Beyond-it, Metalogix, K2, Microsoft, Spikes, Ventigrate, Aurelium, Axceler, CTG, Idera, RealDolmen, Webtrends, and Wrox. On top of that Karine and Andy released their first public beta… -
URL Shortening For SharePoint 2010
12 Dec 2011 | 2:13 pmI’m pretty sure everybody who is using SharePoint has sent a link to a document in a Document Library to somebody else (in an email message for example). So you probably know that links to documents (or list items) can become pretty long if the document is located in a Document Library on a site deeply buried in a hierarchy. SharePoint is of course not the only platform having this “issue” and the internet already solved it quite some time ago with URL shortening. From Wikipedia: URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made… -
TechDays 2011 - Check out the sessions and build your own agenda
21 Mar 2011 | 2:42 amCheck out the live agenda and find out why you should attend TechDays 2011. Review the sessions and speakers and build your own personalized agenda. Today we already have more than 1200 registrations. Don’t lose time and register now before the event sells out! If you are attending, feel free to drop by and say hi during my SharePoint & jQuery session. :-) If you haven't decided yet, we give you more than just a few reasons why you should not miss this event. Developer Opening Keynote We are happy to announce Scott Hanselman will be joining TechDays 2011 for the developer… -
Saying Goodbye to U2U, and Hello to Microsoft
30 Nov 2010 | 7:08 amLast week was a very special week for me: I delivered my last course as a U2U trainer. I’ve been a full-time U2U employee for almost 7 years. During that time I had the opportunity to travel the world, meet lots of interesting people and make many new friends, while talking about Microsoft technologies. In the last couple of years my focus was mainly on SharePoint, but in my “early” years I was quite active with BizTalk, ASP.NET … as well. My career at U2U had many, many heights: having a drink while watching the sunset over the Kilimanjaro, strolling over Sunset Boulevard with my… -
Getting Started with jQuery Templates and SharePoint 2010
5 Oct 2010 | 11:30 amYesterday evening Scott Guthrie announced that Microsoft’s contributions to the jQuery Javascript library were accepted as Official jQuery plugins. One of those contributions is the jQuery Template plugin that allows you to do (up to a certain level) something like data binding similar to the approach we know from Silverlight. The idea is to create a template (think HTML snippet with elements bound to data properties) and data bind that template with an array of objects. You can find the API documentation over here, or you can check out Boris Moore’s excellent Getting Started guide. So…
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Stefan Goßner
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April 2012 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been released
25 Apr 2012 | 4:01 amThe product group released the April 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the April...(read more) -
Interesting problem when creating a variation hierarchy on an already deleted site collection
27 Mar 2012 | 6:00 amMy colleague Cedric Naudy recently analyzed an interesting problem: Hierarchy creation for all site collections in a specific content database failed to create the hierarchy while hierarchy creation in other web applications worked fine. The Hierarchy...(read more) -
February 2012 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released
7 Mar 2012 | 1:47 amThe product group released the February 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the February Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before...(read more) -
February 2012 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been released
29 Feb 2012 | 3:45 amThe product group released the February 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2597959 - WSS 3.0 KB 2597958 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for...(read more) -
Picks of the week - 07/2012
17 Feb 2012 | 10:52 amTopics covered in this post: Consuming Webservices over HTTPS (SSL) Reset the Farm Passphrase SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata When Page Output Caching Does Not Output Database maintenance for SharePoint Server 2010 “Headless” Authentication with SharePoint Online and the Client Side Object Model ...(read more)
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Not Fit For Print - Robert Bogue [MVP]
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Book Review: Duct Tape Marketing
16 May 2012 | 2:18 amIt's hard to think of something that's more practical than duct tape. Whether you're a fan of the TV show MythBusters or you've got your own stories about what you've been able to do with duct tape, you know it's pretty amazing stuff. Duct Tape Marketing promises to help you put together marketing with a limited budget – as other books like Guerilla Marketing do. I stumbled across the book from a friend of mine having forwarded a seminar – that I couldn't attend but I decided to invest in the book anyway. The book clarifies some difficult concepts. Having watched the corporate search and… -
Finding a Business Connection
5 May 2012 | 7:53 amIn my blog post, "The Nine Keys to SharePoint Success" I called out Business Connection as the number two key to success. In this blog post we'll delve into what makes a business connection – and how to create it. Bustling Business How hard could it be to solve a business problem? A walk through the break room will provide snippets of the latest frustrations of your coworkers. Getting into your car of an evening will reveal more challenges as someone is on their cell phone desperately trying to get home – and address some urgent business problem at the same time. It seems like… -
Creating Shared Vision
29 Apr 2012 | 9:39 amIn my blog post, "The Nine Keys to SharePoint Success" I called out Shared Vision as the first key activity – in part because it's one of the first things in the process and in part because it's so often missed. In this blog post we'll delve into what shared vision is, why it's critical, and some techniques for how to build it. Defining Shared Vision We all like to believe we're going to build the same solution but invariably there will be a conversation where your understanding and the understanding of someone else on the team differ. Clearly they're wrong – or are they? One of… -
Book Review: The Information Diet-A Case for Conscious Consumption
11 Apr 2012 | 2:37 amMost of the time when I read a book that I have problems with – or that I don't like most of it – I simply don't write a review of it. I generally think that there's little value in telling people what not to buy – it's a habit I picked up from my days of writing magazine reviews, however, the book The Information Dietis a bit different – because there's some things that I agree with strongly and a few things that I vehemently disagree with. I'm going to let you in on a secret that many of my closest friends know. I'm quirky. Yep. I admit it. I do things that make little sense from… -
Announcing the Comedy for Professional Presenters Workshop
9 Apr 2012 | 2:33 amI'm bearing down on two weeks from the first ever Comedy for Professional Presenters workshop – and I'm excited because it's been a journey to find the right people, the right place, and the right time to help my fellow presenters learn how to integrate comedy into their work. You can find out more about the workshop at http://comedy4presenters.eventbrite.com but I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, let me first start with what I mean by professional presenters. Professional Presenters Sure, you can imagine Tony Robbins or former President Bill Clinton when I say professional presenter –…
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Arpan Shah's Blog
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Office 365 : Continuous Innovation
6 May 2012 | 11:40 amOne of the great things about Office 365 is that we can continuously innovate and improve our service. And that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. You can learn all about our updates @ http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/office_365_service_updates/default.aspx. I encourage you to sign up for a trial of Office 365 if you haven’t already and experience it yourself! All you need to do is go to http://www.office365.com and within minutes you’ll be up and running. -
To The Cloud!
1 Mar 2012 | 12:43 amI’ve taken a new role in the Microsoft Office Division and I’m excited to say that my new team will be leading core product management for our Office 365 Suites. Our mission is to deliver the best online productivity solution in the industry to our customers. My team will work closely with engineering as well as our outbound channels. While I am super excited about my new role, I will miss being part of the Project team. The Project team is one of the best teams I’ve been a part of at Microsoft – great people, great technology and great community. It has truly been a pleasure &… -
Project Collaboration with Microsoft Project 2010 and Office 365
31 Jan 2012 | 4:09 pmI wanted to call out some really interesting content that highlights the power of Microsoft Project 2010, Office 2010 and Office 365. I definitely recommend reading the article and watching the videos from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project/archive/2012/01/25/leveraging-office-365-for-project-collaboration-success.aspx -
Cell Phone Trends in Asia
31 Dec 2011 | 12:08 pmI had a unique opportunity to spend 6 weeks in Asia – specifically in India, Cambodia and Thailand from early November to late December. And while this was a personal trip, I observed technology trends that were quite different from the US. Here are a few that I noticed: - WiFi is not ubiquitous. Unlike many places in the US where WiFi is present in many homes, coffee shops, airports and city centers, WiFi is not everywhere in India. There are definitely pockets of WiFi access, but even in many homes, it’s not available. - BlackBerry is a popular smartphone in India. Caveat: while I was… -
Project Conference 2012 – Register now!
27 Nov 2011 | 4:56 amThe Project Conference 2012 is less than 4 months away! It’s an opportunity to see the Microsoft Project team and share ideas & experiences with the greater Microsoft Project community. This conference is ideal for Business owners, Project Managers, partners, developers and IT Managers – check out the tracks at http://msprojectconference.com/pages/tracks.aspx. You can also register now at http://www.msprojectconference.com I’m looking forward to meeting you in Phoenix, AZ, next March!
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SharePoint Automation
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International SharePoint Conference 2012 Follow-up
15 May 2012 | 9:34 am.codebox { overflow:auto; height:400px; border: solid 1px black; padding:5px;} First off I apologize for the delay in getting this post out – I’ve been fraught with injuries and illness since my return from London and just haven’t had the time or mental capacity to think about writing anything. During my sessions at the ISC I [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
Exporting and Importing SharePoint 2010 Terms
16 Mar 2012 | 6:51 pmEver had the need to migrate Terms from the Managed Metadata Term Store from one environment to another? Do you find the flat, CSV, import approach provided out of the box to be insufficient (especially with its lack of support for alternate labels)? When I first started working with Terms over two years ago I [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
“Stamping” PDF Files Downloaded from SharePoint 2010
11 Mar 2012 | 6:27 pmFirst off I want to clarify that the subject of this post is not my idea as it is something that my friend Roman Kobzarev put together for his company and I merely assisted with getting the code to work. The problem that Roman was trying to solve was that his company provided numerous PDF [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
Updating SharePoint 2010 User Information
22 Dec 2011 | 3:51 pmOne of my clients recently had an issue where a particularly high profile user (CEO) had their title spelled incorrectly in Active Directory; unfortunately the error wasn’t noticed right away and now, despite changing the information in Active Directory, SharePoint was still showing the wrong title in the People Picker when granting the user rights [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
SharePoint Saturday Denver 2011 Slide Decks
19 Nov 2011 | 11:02 amLast weekend I had a great time at SharePoint Friday/Saturday Denver 2011 – all the folks who helped organize the event did a fantastic job (and I have to say, it was nice this year not being one of the organizers as I was able to just enjoy the event for once which makes me [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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21apps - Innovation in SharePoint
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TechEd Europe for a SharePoint’er
16 May 2012 | 9:00 amWe have all received the email SAVE THE DATE November 12-15, 2012 in Las Vegas for Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012, so the question is why as a SharePoint person would I look to attend TechEd Europe in June? If your an experienced SharePoint consultant or have been running SharePoint 2010 for a while a quick look at the Office, Office365 and SharePoint track you may be a little disappointed, especially if you’ve just been to the International SharePoint Conference. The elements from this track that stand out for me are around SharePoint Online and Office365 Building SharePoint… -
#ISCLondon and #SHARE2012
15 May 2012 | 2:46 amNot all conferences are the same, and it’s always a challenge deciding which is the right conference to spend your budget on. The decision is not just something to be made be attendees, vendors have to decide where to sponsor and speakers have to make a call on where to invest the time. At 21apps we had to make a decision late last year as two conferences we absolutely wanted to be part of fell on the exact same dates. The conferences in question were International SharePoint Conference 2012 in London Share 2012 in Atlanta The reason these two conferences are important to 21apps is… -
ISCLondon 2012 – A Personal Review
12 May 2012 | 4:32 pmIts been a few weeks since the International SharePoint Conference London 2012 came and went and I thought it would be useful to capture my experience and thoughts while they are still fairly vivid. My take on the conference is going to be somewhat different to most as I had the pleasure/job/challenge of leading the new for 2012 Business Track. Having spoken at the previous conferences (excluded last year when new baby duties took precedence) Steve Smith invited me to help out on the developer track. As you may be aware my focus over the few years or so has moved very much away from the… -
Workshop: SharePoint AND Custard! Effective SharePoint Requirements with Serious Games
8 May 2012 | 6:11 amWe are super-excited to announce our very first workshop in our new studio space (The Custard Factory) in the heart of Birmingham’s (UK not Alabama) creative community: We are situated in the uber cool Zellig Building, feel free to give us a call and pop by and see us sometime? Anyway, we have decided that our first workshop is going to be on Thursday 31st May and will be on the topic of SharePoint Requirements Gathering: Register Here: “Effective SharePoint requirements Gathering with Serious Games” AND if you live or work in Birmingham, you qualify for a £50 discount on… -
Harmon.ie Mobile Review
7 May 2012 | 7:15 amAs I sit here, outside in my garden on an unseasonally cool May evening in England, the chiminea burning brightly and I’m checking the status of some documents in SharePoint on my mobile phone I find myself wondering about how amazing technology can sometimes be. The kids are playing in the garden, I’m (relatively) relaxed, and yet I am still “doing work”. At 21apps we use Office 365 and SharePoint Online extensively, we don’t work in a traditional office environment and we are more than likely to be working in different counties or even countries! You probably…
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SharePoint
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Bookmarklet to recover right-click and "open in new tab" for SharePoint 2010
23 Apr 2012 | 1:36 pmOne of the things that I was using in SharePoint 2007 and is GONE in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to open a link in top navigation or in quick launch in another tab. This still works in SharePoint 2010 if you’re not using Internet Explorer. But in IE when right clicking a link in quick launch or in top nav, you will find "Open in new tab" or "Open in new window" missing. But after running the bookmarklet from favorites or favorites bar Right click again and the desired options are there The bookmarklet is available in my JavaScripts Library. -
Bookmarklet tool for revealing internal field names
18 Apr 2012 | 5:45 pmI was already describing the way to get SharePoint List Column’s internal name. Now I’ve prepared a simple tool that you can embed in your browser for an even faster insight. How to "install" the bookmarklet? 1. Navigate to my JavaScripts Library page. 2. Under Bookmarklets you will find a link. Drag it to your browser’s favorites bar or favorites. How to use the script: 1. Open SharePoint List settings page. In this example we’ll open a Contacts list’s settings. Pay attention to the "Columns" table 2. Click the link you’ve added… -
SharePoint Designer Workflow Failed on Start (Retrying) issue
22 Dec 2011 | 5:45 amRecently I’ve stumbled on a strange error in SharePoint. In the entire site collection I couldn’t start any workflow (nobody could). If workflows were set to start automatically, they would fail immediately with the message Failed on Start (Retrying) If they were set to manual start after clicking the Start button on the workflow initiation form, nothing would happen. In SharePoint logs I’d find the following message: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException:… -
Fix lookups–update for SharePoint 2010
13 Dec 2011 | 5:16 amA while ago I prepared a simple solution on CodePlex that helps to reattach broken lookup columns (due to restore, migration,…). There is an update available – on the same place – CodePlex. The project is still a small console application. How to use it? Run it and follow instructions. Click here to download the latest release. -
Display members of AD groups in SharePoint
12 Dec 2011 | 4:58 amHave you ever found yourself in a situation where you’ve followed recommended practice to use also AD groups? Perfect. So you create an AD group, add some users to that group and next you add that group into a SharePoint security group. Good. Now three months from now if somebody asks you to list all members of that group, what do you do? Remote to your Active directory and list (or printscreen) the group’s members. Now thanks to my friend’s solution, you can tell them to go see for themselves. Robi Vončina has prepared a solution to list AD group members directly on your…
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To the SharePoint
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New SharePoint search column: The View from the Crawl Space
8 May 2012 | 3:55 pmOne of the things I love about SharePoint Conference and TechEd is hanging out with and learning from people who are tops in their field—the gurus. My favorite search guru is Jeff Fried, who came to Microsoft as part of the FAST Search acquisition and was technical product manager for all of our enterprise search technologies. Jeff is a search geek extraordinaire, but he has the gift of being able to talk about search in a way that we non-geeks can understand. A few conferences ago I had a chance to catch up with Jeff, who's now CTO of Microsoft partner BA Insight. In the course of our… -
SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Test Lab Guide published
4 May 2012 | 9:28 amThe Test Lab Guide: Install SQL Server 2012 Enterprise is a new building block Test Lab Guide (TLG) that steps you through the default installation of SQL Server 2012 Enterprise on APP1 or another domain member server in the Base Configuration test lab. There are step-by-step instructions for the following: Configuring the Base Configuration test lab (if you have not already done so). Installing SQL Server prerequisites. Installing SQL Server 2012 Enterprise. Verifying the installation. Thanks to my esteemed teammate Jim Morey for making this happen! The current SharePoint Server 2010 TLGs… -
Three-tier farm Test Lab Guide (TLG) for SharePoint Server 2010 published
20 Apr 2012 | 10:37 amThe Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2010 in a Three-Tier Farm describes how to install and configure SharePoint Server 2010 in a three-tier farm configuration (web front end/application server/database server), starting with the computers in the Base Configuration test lab. Here is the resulting test lab configuration. This TLG takes you through a default installation of SharePoint Server 2010 in a distributed capacity that is more suited to a typical enterprise SharePoint deployment. This TLG is in contrast to the previously published Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint… -
Updates to Plan browser support
4 Apr 2012 | 11:13 amHi. This post is to let you know of the changes to the “Planbrowser support” article for SharePoint 2010 Products. Unless otherwise stated, all browser versions aresupported. Period. The browser support matrix table of supported, supported with known limitations,Not tested, and Not supported has been removed. The only browser that will clearly state known limitationsis Windows Internet Explorer. For any third-party browser (including Google Chrome, Firefox,Apple Safari, etc.) we will support the latest publically released version.There is no more distinction regarding… -
The first Test Lab Guide (TLG) for SharePoint Server 2010 is published!
8 Mar 2012 | 11:54 amI am proud to announce the publication of the first Test Lab Guide (TLG) for SharePoint Server 2010, titled Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2010 as a Single Server with Microsoft SQL Server. This document in the Microsoft Download Center describes how to install and configure SharePoint Server 2010 on a single server with Microsoft SLQ Server 2008 R2 using the computers in the Base Configuration test lab. The following figure shows the resulting test lab configuration. If you are relatively new to SharePoint, this TLG is for you. It takes you through a default installation of…
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Waldek Mastykarz
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Inconvenient Sandboxed Web Templates and Navigation
9 May 2012 | 3:59 amWeb Templates are the new recommended approach for templating sites. Combined with Sandboxed Solutions they empower power users and offer them great flexibility and productivity. There is however one inconvenience with regard to how SharePoint Navigation Providers deal with Sandboxed Web Templates. Web Templates are the way to go Back in SharePoint 2007 we had two options for templating sites: we could either save sites as templates which resulted in unmaintainable STP files or create Site Definitions and deploy them using Solution Packages. In both scenario we were locked and unable to… -
Inconvenient Templated Controls and customized pages in SharePoint 2010
6 May 2012 | 2:51 amUsing Templated Controls is a great way for separating UI from functionality. Unfortunately as soon as you customize the Master Page or Page Layouts that uses a Templated Control things are likely break. So what is exactly happening behind the scenes and, what’s more important, how should you deal with it? Templated Controls are the way to go When building public-facing websites the HTML is the center of the universe. At the end of the day it’s the HTML that has a big influence on the success of your website. By crafting proper HTML you can ensure that your website is accessible for all… -
Easy fixing broken Publishing Pages with Mavention Publishing Page Settings
5 May 2012 | 6:58 amWhen working with Publishing Pages it happens once in a while that you apply a broken Page Layout to a Publishing Page and since you cannot navigate to that page to change the layout back the only option seems to either recreate the page with a different layout or fix the layout. There is however another – easier way. Find out how to easily change the layout of a broken Publishing Page using the Mavention Publishing Page Settings solution. Inconvenient switching Page Layouts When the Ribbon has been introduced with SharePoint 2010 almost all of the UI has been redesigned to make it more… -
Easy building Enterprise Solution Stores in SharePoint 2010 with Mavention Solution Store Builder
30 Apr 2012 | 3:58 amIn my previous article I showed you how you can leverage SharePoint 2010 extensibility capabilities to build an Enterprise Solution Store for your organization. In this article I will share with you Mavention Solution Store Builder – a solution that I’ve built that allows you to easily create your own Enterprise Solution Store without any custom development. What is Mavention Solution Store Builder Mavention Solution Store Builder is a SharePoint 2010 Solution that allows you to easily build an Enterprise Solution Store for your own organization. It uses a Document Library to store… -
Building Enterprise Solution Catalogs in SharePoint 2010
29 Apr 2012 | 3:20 amEnterprise Solution Catalogs are a great way of delivering solutions to your end users. Find out how to build an Enterprise Solution Catalog for your company by leveraging the extensibility capabilities of the SharePoint 2010 platform. Extending the SharePoint platform Probably the greatest strength of the SharePoint 2010 platform is its extensibility capabilities. While SharePoint 2010 contains some standard functionality, it’s the ability of configuring it, customizing it and building on top of it that allows you to get the very most out of SharePoint for your organization. When building…
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The Mit's Blog
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SharePoint : Mes alertes ne marchent pas … Que faire ? Comment réparer ou agir ?
8 May 2012 | 7:59 amCes derniers temps, je vois une recrudescence des soucis d’alerte sous SharePoint. Effet de mode ou autre ? Ce n’est pas la vrai question. Le technicien que je suis et resterais se demande déjà : comment ca marche et comment on répare ? (puis gouv... -
SharePoint 2010 & CAS : le GAC n’est pas l’unique solution de déploiement de vos composants
4 May 2012 | 7:01 amUn sujet qui revient souvent dans le monde SharePoint mais bizarrement moins depuis la version 14 alors que très à la mode sous 2003 et 2007. Le Code Access Security : CAS et la problématique des stratégie de contrainte .. Référence MSDN (très bo... -
SharePoint WebControls : oubliez le Label/Literal, il y a le EncodedLiteral
23 Apr 2012 | 8:29 amil faut savoir se méfier de ces vieux réflexes et souvent les mettre en doute pour justement progresser. C’est d’autant plus vrai avec des outils qui évoluent de version en version de nouvelles fonctionnalités apparaissent des corrections sont... -
CLOM : Client Object Model ou comment travailler à distance sur votre ferme (même en ADFS) ?
30 Mar 2012 | 10:06 amUn sujet un peu riche mais je fait ce post en l’honneur d’un de mes collègues Laurent qui vient de vivre cette histoire. Donc je me permet de la partager, ne sait on jamais. Contexte : comment intervenir sur un site SharePoint en maintenance sans acc... -
101 Samples pour SharePoint 2010 (SPF/SPS et Online s’il vous plait)
24 Feb 2012 | 3:26 amJ’ai toujours insisté sur la qualité grandissante du MSDN. Avec le temps, je trouve plus souvent de vrais pépites d’information dedans que dans la blogosphére (ce qui semble logique après tout) Voici la dernière SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples ...
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Bamboo Nation
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Migrating to SharePoint 2010; Is Social Revolutionary?; Microsoft Cloud Privacy
16 May 2012 | 6:56 amSummer is almost here (in Virginia at least). Time to pick up new sunscreen. - Dooley Top News StoriesThe Art of SharePoint Success: Transition - The Seeds of Change (CMSWire)Transition is the umbrella term that I use to refer to the combination of change management and user adoption which are vital ingredients in the success of SharePoint. This week we’ll be taking a look at what 1940’s North American farmers can teach us about SharePoint adoption. How Revolutionary is Social? (AIIM)We've all sat in a meeting or overheard someone talking on the train or… -
This Week in Bamboo (May 6th, 2012 - May 12th, 2012)
15 May 2012 | 1:28 pmPatch for Workflow Conductor SharePoint 2010 Release 2.5 was released to the storefront this week along with User Directory Web Part Release 1.7 and Group Email Web Part Release 1.7. Please check out the latest releases of this week and see below for more information on all the bug fixes and new known issues. SA08 Workflow Conductor for SharePoint 2010 (2.5.1) Bug Fixes: • Corrected behavior where the Request Approval widget followed the "Rejected" path when approved by a system account without an assigned email address. • Resolved issue where tabs on the… -
Assessing One's Own Project Management Skills
15 May 2012 | 8:30 amThe confluence of our busy season at work and a distinct lack of inspiration lately has had me floundering for topics to cover. I haven't been doing very project manager-y things at work lately, so the wellspring from which I usually draw topics has been pretty dry. The theory of capital-P, capital-M Project Management still fascinates me, though I haven't had the time to give it a lot of thought lately. Perhaps I'm just avoiding actually delving into the Big Bad Boogeyman that is Microsoft Project by lingering on the schools of thought that drive project management, but it seems… -
Information Governance & Social ECM; SkyDrive Meets SharePoint; What is Collaboration Software?
15 May 2012 | 6:36 amI really don't understand people and I'm not sure I want to. - Dooley Top News StoriesThe Battle Ahead: Information Governance and the Need for Social ECM (AIIM)“Gartner predicts by 2016, 20% of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement the discipline of information governance successfully.” Houston, we have a metadata problem. And search is broken but when was it ever fixed? Microsoft SkyDrive Meets SharePoint (WindowsITPro)If you've got Microsoft SkyDrive and SharePoint, you might be interested in checking out this… -
Challenges of Custom-Coded SharePoint Applications; US Government Approves Office 365; Bing Friends Facebook
14 May 2012 | 6:42 amSounds like someone has a case of the Mondays. - Dooley Top News StoriesSharePoint 2010 Communities: An Integrated Collaboration Platform (CMSWire)This is the third article in the series “What is This SharePoint Thing All About Anyway?” and in this article we are going to be looking at the concept of SharePoint Communities and how you could use them to improve your current working environment. Communities are a concept within SharePoint that provides a way for users to come together based on experience, needs and general working relationships. We will look at…
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Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
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ASP.NET Web API: Query string based content formatting
23 Apr 2012 | 2:24 amMy previous post about Web API content negotiation showed how to add support for new content formats. As our API may have consumers who prefer query for data using GET requests we have to offer something for these dudes too. In this post I will show you how to make life easier for our Web API consumers by using query string mappings. I will use media type mapping and formatter from my previous posting Extending content negotiation with new formats. We have to modify code a little bit because we need also single vCard download. Media type formatter Here is my media type formatter for vCard. It… -
ASP.NET Web API: Extending content negotiation with new formats
20 Apr 2012 | 4:11 amMy last post about ASP.NET Web API content negotiation support gave you basic idea about what content negotiation is and how it works out-of-box. In this post I will show you how to extend Web API content negotiation support and make Web API to output contact data in vCard format. In the end of my previous post we asked data in vCard format from Web API and got answer as JSON. No errors, just answer in the format that Web API was able to provide. In this posting we will add support for vCard data and I will introduce you some more concepts related to Web API. Our focus is on getting data back… -
ASP.NET Web API: How content negotiation works?
19 Apr 2012 | 5:12 amOne cool new feature that ASP.NET Web API introduces is support for content negotiation. Content negotiation is mechanism that allows web server to serve content in different format using same URL. In this posting I will show you how to use ASP.NET Web API to serve content in JSON and XML formats. How content negotiation works Content negotiation takes place when browser or some other HTTP-client tells server what content formats it accepts. HTTP-client uses Accept header to list all formats it can read. Accept: */* means that client is okay with every content format that server is able to… -
ASP.NET MVC 4: Short syntax for script and style bundling
17 Mar 2012 | 6:43 amASP.NET MVC 4 introduces new methods for style and scripts bundling. I found something brilliant there I want to introduce you. In this posting I will show you how easy it is to include whole folder with stylesheets or JavaScripts to your page. I’m using ASP.NET MVC 4 Internet Site template for this example. When we open layout pages located in shared views folder we can see something like this in layout file header: <linkhref"@System.Web.Optimization.BundleTable.Bundles.ResolveBundleUrl("Content/css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />… -
Windows 8 Metro development–are they serious?
11 Mar 2012 | 3:27 pmWhen Windows 8 Consumer Preview came out I downloaded it same day and installed on virtual machine. Of course, I also installed new Visual Studio 11 beta on it. Then I started playing with metro applications and I am very confused and a little bit disappointed about how broken and limited everything will be on WinRT right now. Here are some of my thoughts. Metro apps are extremely buggy Over years I have seen no such a pile of bugs in Microsoft product that should be Release Candidate (RC). Windows 7 beta and RC were brilliant. They worked like charm and after couple of weeks with beta I…
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Michael Greth [SharePoint MVP]
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Veranstaltungstipps für Mai und Juni 2012
15 May 2012 | 4:25 amEin Blick auf den SharePoint Community Kalender zeigt: es ist Veranstaltungssaison. Deshalb hier ein Special mit einer Zusammenstellung der SharePoint Termine bis Ende Juni 2012. 21.5.2012 Newsgator and Microsoft Get Social Tour Frankfurt / M 21.5.2012 9:00 Uhr Info + Anmeldung Partnerveranstaltung 22.5.2012 AvePoint Strategien und Tools zur Reduktion von Speicherkosten und verbesserte SharePoint-Leistung Webcast 22.05.2012 14:00 Info + Anmeldung Webcast 23.5.2012 Modern Zusammenarbeiten mit Microsoft SharePoint Webcast 23.05.2012 10:00 Info + Anmeldung Webcast UG Zentralschweiz Sursee… -
Webcast SharePoint Debugging Schwarze Magie mit Microsoft Public Symbols
14 May 2012 | 8:56 amPatrick Heyde hat auf dem ShareCamp einen Vortrag zum Thema “SharePoint Debugging - Schwarze Magie mit Microsoft Public Symbols” gehalten, den er jetzt auch auf MSDN als Webcast veröffentlicht hat. “In diesem Webcast zeigt Patrick Heyde, was Source Code und Symbols sind. Source Code kennt jeder, Symbols jedoch werden in ihrer Bedeutung oft unterschätzt – obwohl man Erstaunliches damit erreichen kann. So wird im Vortrag etwa demonstriert, wie man mit den 'Microsoft Public Symbols' in Produktivumgebungen hineinschauen kann und wie sich eine Produktivumgebung debuggen lässt,… -
SharePointPodcast 220 Freikarte für ShareConf 2012 zu gewinnen
10 May 2012 | 1:17 amIn der aktuellen Ausgabe des SharePointPodcasts müssen wir eine Menge aufarbeiten – Tipps, Tricks, Events und mehr, daher kein Talk …. Aber es gibt eine Freikarte für die ShareConf 2012 im Juni in Düsseldorf zu gewinnen. Hier geht es zur Ausgabe 220 SharePointPodcast LInks Website: http://sharepointpodcast.de RSS-Feed: http://sharepointpodcast.de/feed oder über Feedburner http://feeds.feedburner.com/sharepointpodcast iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/sharepointpodcast/id73330079 -
SharePoint ToolBox 50
8 May 2012 | 9:10 amJubiläum – die 50.te ToolBox SharePoint Branding Package Create your own Branding package in only a few minutes! This SharePoint Branding Project template is used to create a new SharePoint branding solution wsp package, the package includes a custom masterpage, a minimal master, a custom stylesheet, logo and favicon. All parts can easily be edited or replaced. The wsp includes an activation and deactivation feature as well as a childweb eventreciever to apply branding on all subsites when they are created. SolidQ Filtered Lookup Columns for Cascading Dropdowns in SharePoint 2010… -
Sales Cockpit auf Basis Duet und Silverlight
8 May 2012 | 5:58 amIm 3.Teil der Gastbeitäge von Ralf Kuhn zum Duet Enterprise for SharePoint and SAP Feature Pack 1 geht es heute um die die Möglichkeiten der Silverlight Integration. Teil 1 der Serie Duet Enterprise for SharePoint and SAP Feature Pack 1 Serie Teil 2 der Serie Duet Enterprise for SharePoint and SAP die neuen Szenarien im Feature Pack 1 Oft steht man als Entwickler vor der Schwierigkeit, Daten aus einem ERP-System wie SAP ansprechend darzustellen. Idealerweise soll dies dann auch noch auf Tablet PCs und anderen Devices funktionieren. Duet Enterprise bietet jetzt die Schnittstelle, um die…
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Furuknap's SharePoint Corner
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SharePoint 2013/SharePoint 15 to run on .NET 4.0 Runtime
10 May 2012 | 6:20 amI’ve been keeping hundreds of subscribers updated on what’s going on in the SharePoint 2013 news scene over the past few months. In addition, I’ve been deep diving into the released protocol documentation to describe new features of SharePoint 15. If you’re interested in obtaining a subscription, priced at $14.95 for the entire series (monthly issues, 25-35 pages each), head over to http://sharepoint2013beta.com/. Regardless of the paid options, I’ve been posting information on SharePoint 2013 on my blog too, so feel free to check out the SharePoint 2013 tagged articles for updates. -
New Edition of Beginning SharePoint Development
3 May 2012 | 1:50 amIf you’ve seen me less the past couple of weeks, it’s not from lack of want to post, but rather from lack of time. You see, I’ve been working on upgrading one of the most popular USP Journal issues to a second edition. The issue, Beginning SharePoint Development, deals with, well, what you’d want to learn if you’re starting out as a new SharePoint developer. A while back, I wrote a blog post on why SharePoint versions and tools don’t matter, where I said that I don’t see a point in upgrading screenshots when the purpose of learning is to learn the fundamental topic. In other… -
Microsoft: SharePoint 2013 Will Suck at Social – Get Something Else!
1 May 2012 | 9:22 amOf course, I’m blowing this slightly out of proportion, but really the message remains the same. Microsoft touts the next version of SharePoint as a breakthrough in social computing, but then turns around and say that they’re not really expecting to get it right and that you’ll need something else to really get social going. In fact, social in SharePoint 2013 won’t be good at all so you might as well just buy SharePoint 2010 now and then get the third-party add-ons that you’ll need to get anyway. Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you what I’m talking about. Last week, I picked up on an… -
SharePoint and Office 15 Beta Availability in June
18 Apr 2012 | 8:25 amThe following are both excerpts from my SharePoint 2013 Beta journal series and completely new information. Office 15 and SharePoint 15 Beta Availability In the previous issue, I mentioned that I strongly suspect the beta version of SharePoint and Office 2013 to arrive in early June 2012. The background for this suspicion is a comment made by a TAP member on a LinkedIn group, stating that the NDA for SharePoint 15 would be lifted in June. The comment from Danny, originally referenced in Issue 3 back in early March, states “everybody is on an NDA regarding SharePoint 15. It seem that by June… -
SharePoint 2013 App Marketplace – The Smoking Gun
17 Apr 2012 | 11:37 amYou probably know that Microsoft released literally thousands of pages of documentation on SharePoint 15 (or SharePoint 2013, as I believe it will be called). Most comprehensive is the less intelligible open specification documentation, although that’s also where the good bits are. You probably also know that I’m highly focused on learning what’s new on any new SharePoint version and that I write a USP Journal series that details this research and the findings. In the first issue, now freely available to members of the USP Journal mailing list, I wrote about the new App store. You can…
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SharePoint Geek
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Incoming Emails Don’t Work After Moving The Site Collection To A New Content Database
11 May 2012 | 12:51 pmWe ran into an issue where incoming email was not being picked up by the Time Job from the Drop folder (c:\inetpub\mailroot\drop). So, I found a command the reads the incoming email alias of lists in a content database and syncronizes them with those that are stored in the configuration database: [code]stsadm.exe -o refreshdms -url <URL name>[/code] source: Refreshdms: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) -
Common SharePoint 2010 URLs To Help Administrators
11 May 2012 | 8:59 amAll Site Content: ../_layouts/viewlsts.aspx User Information List: ../_catalogs/users/simple.aspx Manage Site Users: ../_layouts/user.aspx Web Parts Maintenance Page: ..?contents=1 Site Settings: ../_layouts/settings.aspx Others can be found at the following locations: http://sharepointserver-2007.blogspot.com/2008/10/sharepoint-2007-url-quick-list.html http://www.techgrowingpains.com/2010/03/sharepoint-admin-url-quick-list/ http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/1116.aspx http://vadivelu7.wordpress.com/tag/sharepoint-url-quick-list/ -
List The Site Collections In A Content Database
10 May 2012 | 7:06 amNico Marten, SharePoint 2010 Blog, posted a great little one-liner Powershell script that lists all of the site collections contained in a content database. I changed it up just a little to make it more readable for me… [code]Get-SPContentDatabase | %{Write-Output "$($_.Name)"; foreach($site in $_.sites){write-Output " - $site.url"}} > "e:\powershell\dbs.txt"[/code] -
How To Kill A Process With PowerShell
19 Apr 2012 | 9:08 amUse the command below to kill a process that is hung up: [code]kill -processname , , [/code] Thanks HTG! -
A Visual Studio 2010 Project For SharePoint 2010 Branding
19 Apr 2012 | 7:06 amThis project was created by Thomas Balkestahl http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/7237a2e1-a7b5-4b12-bc56-c62c805c01e7 Create your own branding package in only a few minutes! This SharePoint Branding Project template is used to create a new SharePoint branding solution wsp package, the package includes a custom masterpage, a minimal master, a custom stylesheet, logo and favicon. All parts can easily be edited or replaced. The wsp includes an activation and deactivation feature as well as a childweb eventreciever to apply branding on all subsites when they are created.
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Wictor Wilén
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International SharePoint Conference 2012 wrap-up
30 Apr 2012 | 10:41 pmIt’s been almost a week since the International SharePoint Conference ended, the first of its kind – and what a conference it was! I was honored to be part of the developer track, together with top-notch speakers and developers such as Andrew Connell, Ben Robb, Eric Schupps, Matthew McDermott, Mirjam van Olst, Paul Schaeflein, Todd Carter and Waldek Mastykarz. We’ve been working together on this “project” for a couple of months having weekly calls trying to build a solution that we would use for the developer track. I really think that we did a good job and that we covered a lot of… -
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - SharePoint Server for another year
1 Apr 2012 | 12:23 amIt's Aprils fools day and together with a lot of other MVP's around the world we're checking our junk mail folder for the e-mail that says that we have been renewed. I just got mine (actually not in the junk for the first time). This was my second renewal and I have now been awarded MVP for three consecutive years (2010, 2011). Thanks to everyone, colleagues, friends and Connecta, who have supported me the last year. Looking forward to another 12 months of really exciting SharePoint work and happenings. The Microsoft MVP program is an award (not a certification) given to community leaders… -
Speaking at the International SharePoint Conference London 2012
25 Mar 2012 | 12:55 amIn less than a month the greatest SharePoint conference on this side of the pond will take place in London - the International SharePoint Conference (ISC). The ISC is the new name for the conference held in London and previously called Best Practices Conference and Evolutions Conference. This will actually be my first year at the conference, but I always wanted to go there - and now I'm one of the speakers in the fantastic line up! This conference will not be just an ordinary conference - instead of having the traditional one hour demo sessions we will over the course of three days go from a… -
What is a Microsoft Certified Architect?
11 Mar 2012 | 8:56 pmLast Friday I got the fantastic message that I had successfully passed the Microsoft Certified Architect - SharePoint 2010 (MCA) certification, something I'm really proud of - but something most of the community never ever heard of. During this weekend I've been pinged and messaged by a lots of people asking the question "What is a Microsoft Certified Architect?". In this post I intend to answer it as thorough as possible, including my own personal aspects of it. First of all let's answer the most common question - "How does the Microsoft Certified Architect relates to the Microsoft Certified… -
How Claims encoding works in SharePoint 2010
8 Mar 2012 | 6:15 amI've seen it asked numerous times on forums and I've been asked over and over how to interpret the encoded claims - so here it is: a post which will show you all the secrets behind how claims are encoded in SharePoint 2010. Updates: - 2012-03-09 Added Forms Authentication info. - 2012-03-11 Updated with information about how the claim type character is generated for non-defined claims Background If you have been using previous versions of SharePoint 2007, been working with .NET or just Windows you should be familiar with that (NETBIOS) user names are formatted DOMAIN\user (or…
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Office and Business Productivity
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SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2012 was great!
4 May 2012 | 3:46 pmOn April 28th 2012 the best ever edition of SharePoint Saturday Belgium was successfully delivered. We had 36 sessions of 50 minutes, an exhibition with well-known and maybe less known SharePoint or SharePoint related companies, a fantastic prize draw and an awesome SharePint. I would like to thank all the sponsors who participated in SharePoint Saturday and especially the prize draw sponsors. The prize draw itself was fun, because we used a randomizer tool and it was performed real-time. It did had some strange funny side effects though J But I also need to thank our speakers. Thank you for… -
My SharePoint links from this week (weekly)
22 Apr 2012 | 6:31 pmBusiness process management, BPM, workflow automation software | Bizagi BPMS I got this link from Ruven Gotz on a Quora Topic. Bizagi Business Process Management (BPM) software makes business process modeling, execution (workflow) and improvement easy for everyone, no matter if you are a small organization or a big corporation. tags: bpm modeling sharepoint Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. -
My SharePoint links from this week (weekly)
15 Apr 2012 | 6:31 pmThe 451 Group: Information Governance – YouTube Hear The 451 Group analyst Kathleen Reidy discuss how Microsoft SharePoint fits into the information governance landscape and what organizations should be considering in terms of good information governance and SharePoint. tags: sharepoint governance Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. -
Survey on SharePoint implementations in Belgium.
13 Apr 2012 | 6:13 amThe University College Ghent is organizing a Survey about SharePoint implementations in Belgium. 2 students, Davy Loose and Gill Gonnissen created a survey to “measure the deployments of SharePoint in Belgium”. The survey is anonymous, but if you are interested in the result of our survey you can fill in your e-mail address at the end of the survey and we will send you the result. This e-mail address will only be accessible by the researchers and won’t be given to third-party companies. Feel free to send out the survey link to other interested persons or to distribute it… -
My SharePoint links from this week (weekly)
8 Apr 2012 | 6:31 pmThe Evolution of SharePoint Governance: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Today on Vimeo Today’s SharePoint governance requires a holistic understanding of both the temporary nature of individual projects and the longer-term on-going management of your organization’s SharePoint community. “The Evolution of SharePoint Governance,” hosted by Tim Cermak, Managing Partner of Innovative-e, and Ant Clay, Chief Strategy Officer of 21apps tags: sharepoint governance Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Yaroslav Pentsarskyy on SharePoint Development
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My SPSummit Toronto session materials
16 May 2012 | 9:40 amThanks everyone who attended my session today at SharePoint Summit in Toronto. Here are the recorded backup videos, some of you mentioned you’d like to have. Those have no sound (since they’re backup videos) but if you attended the session you’ll know what we’re doing. Be sure to check out few other good videos on the topic. Enjoy! 1. Creating mobility responsive masterpage 2. Adding interaction to your site 3. Transfering the branding to Visual Studio Here were the giveaways after the session … -
Adding custom controls to SharePoint web part header views on lists and libraries
14 May 2012 | 7:57 pmSharePoint ribbon is great to group tons of related content such as action buttons and activate them when needed. But when your users are not aware of the ‘hidden’ functionality – it can impact usability. In this post, I’d like to show you how you can add your own custom markup to web part views of lists and libraries; below you can see few web parts which are actually views of list or library with an arrow image, in their header. In your scenario, this can be an arrow to hide a web part and remember the user preference etc. In my case, when the arrow is clicked, you… -
Dynamically modify SharePoint user profile properties with jQuery
13 May 2012 | 3:12 pmIn my last post here we looked at how you can retrieve user profile properties with jQuery. The scenario here is that you would save user contextual information, very much like cookies, into a SharePoint user profile and then retrieve that information and alter how your SharePoint UI is rendered …. very handy to personalize your site to authenticated users. In this post, I’ll show you how to save data into the user profile. So with my previous post and this post you will have all you need to save and retrieve text value properties with JavaScript. I’ll save myself from… -
Retrieve SharePoint user profile property value with jQuery
11 May 2012 | 9:40 pmUser profile properties are great to store user specific data and use it in your web parts and other functionality. For example, here I have a profile property for each user which stores user title: It’s no secret that you can access this property in code and get value from it, but it’s a bit more complicated to retrieve user property values on client using JavaScript. Why do that? Well, accessing the user profile on client, say with jQuery, you can adjust UI on the fly without post back, cool right? For example you can hide a web part if the user has set it to be hidden and saved… -
SharePoint auditing turned on – now what?
10 May 2012 | 11:18 pmSo you turned on auditing on your SharePoint site collection, how do you actually see the things audited? One of the most common misconceptions with SharePoint auditing is that audit logs are available as Excel spreadsheets generated on a scheduled basis. When you go to Site Actions -> Site Settings, you get to specify how often does the audit log get trimmed and what to audit. So the whole trimming gets misinterpreted with log generation. In fact all, the audit logs are in the content database for the site collection and are nearly real-time. If you specify how often does the trimming take…
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SharePoint Tutorial
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What is SharePoint - SharePoint Product Overview
19 Apr 2012 | 6:09 pmThis guide explains in easy words how to license SharePoint. Here we go… SharePoint 2010 There are 3 different version of SharePoint 2010 if it comes to differences in functionality: SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 - Standard SharePoint Server 2010 - Enterprise For an overview about the different functionality visit SharePoint 2010: How to buy. SharePoint 2010 Licensing If you create an intranet you need to license: Servers, Each server running SharePoint needs to have a license. Users or devices Each user or device needs a CAL (client access license) For each user or… -
What is SharePoint - The Solution called SharePoint
19 Apr 2012 | 6:08 pmSharePoint is the tool Microsoft provides which can improve my work and the result of my work. It can also improve the work of my team, my department, my company or my partners. You already know the following graphic: You can use sites and communities to store and manage information as well as to collaborate with colleagues. You can use content management features to set up compliance features for the information stored. Content management also allows you to use information in your already existing working environment like Microsoft Office. Search allows you to retrieve information… -
What is SharePoint - Yes you are an Information Worker!
19 Apr 2012 | 6:08 pmIn our daily work we all have problems making a decision since we can’t find or use the information we need to make a good decision. I need to have access to information and I need to know if they exist or not independent of their storage. So how about an application that helps me: To work more easily and more efficient and To securely store, manage and retrieve any information from anywhere? I don’t want to waste time finding something, doing the same job someone else already did or to prepare information just to make a decision based on that. I need something to store, to manage… -
What is SharePoint - Way Too Much Information!
19 Apr 2012 | 6:05 pmInformation overload is a term which can be found in history before the digital or information age even started. Usually it means that you have difficulties to make a decision because of too much information. Information Overload The amount of available information and the rate in which it is created increased and the way people communicate changed. Within an intranet scenario information can be stored at: File shares, Local hard disks, Personal folders, Different applications, E-Mails or In the head of a person you don’t know. People may have problems to make decisions because they… -
SharePoint 2010 - Create Site Definitions and Site Templates with Visual Studio
27 Mar 2012 | 1:00 pmHome > Branding > SharePoint 2010 - Create Site Definitions and Site Templates with Visual Studio This guide shows you step by step how to create a SharePoint Publishing Site Definition and two Site Templates. Site Definitions are XML files which are language dependent and therefore stored in different folders: Each of the language dependent folders has a sub folder called XML: Each Site Definition corresponds to a XML file and in order to create a new Site Definition you need to place a new XML file with the right markup in that folder. 1. Create a new solution called…
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Tech Talk PT
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Visual Studio 11 – Productivity Booster !!!
20 Apr 2012 | 9:01 amLast Wednesday I went to a Microsoft’s Portugal Event on Visual Studio 11, it has been a while since my last event and the topic is very interesting to me. This was an event that was divided into 6 sessions: Keynote – Welcome to Visual Studio 11 (with Jay Schmelzer) What’s new in the Visual Studio IDE (with Michael Koster) Agile Application life-cycle Management with Visual Studio 11 (with Mitch Lacey) Async -New Feature for Responsive Programming in Visual Studio 11 and .Net 4.5 (with Caio Proiete) Software Testing with Microsoft Test Manager 11 and Lab Management (with Luis… -
Sharepoint Advance Training – Core Architecture
20 Apr 2012 | 8:36 amIt is now available on the Technet site some very valuable resources on Sharepoint 2010. On the Learn you have lots of training resources, but this time I will stand out the Core Architecture. This is a subject that is very important, the definition of a Sharepoint Farm topology and architecture can determine the success of failure of an implementation. This topic is divided in 3 lessons: Lesson 1: Understanding SharePoint 2010 Topology Lesson 2: Planning and Leveraging SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Lesson 3: Business Continuity Management Features in SharePoint 2010 You can… -
Microsoft Announces Media Services Platform and Architectural Guidance for the Cloud
16 Apr 2012 | 12:42 pmThe Cloud is here no one can doubt this, and it is here to stay! So all of us, at least those that don’t want to miss the hype, must check out the news on the cloud. so with that in mind, here is some fresh info on media services platform and architectural guidance for the Cloud. You can find this info here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Apr12/04-16NABPR.aspx -
Sharepoint 2010 in channel 9
16 Apr 2012 | 4:25 amNowadays we have a lot of resources on Sharepoint, but one of the first was Channel9 and is still used as one of the main channels for us to get valid information on Sharepoint. Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/sharepoint Besides Sharepoint you can have access to more resources on development. -
Sharepoint Browser Support – All browsers latest version supported . . .
13 Apr 2012 | 5:27 amOne of the questions we get a lot in the beginning of projects is what browsers are supported by Sharepoint, this is usually after the clients demand that the implementation must be supported for all browsers . . . or at least most of them! Microsoft had made available a compatibility matrix that we all used to support our pains . . . well it seems that this matrix is no longer available and now Microsoft states: “Unless otherwise stated, all browser versions are supported. Period” followed by ” . . .The only browser that will clearly state known limitations is Windows…
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SharePoint: Send Document Attachment from Search Results
16 May 2012 | 12:00 amClient of ours wanted to have a new functionality in search results so that users could send documents, they find in search, as attachments. -
SharePoint: Add a Filter in the Refinement Panel of the Search Page
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SharePoint, Security, and Compliance - Part 4: Content
16 May 2012 | 12:00 amClearly, it's difficult or impossible to be secure or in compliance if you don't know what information you have in SharePoint sites. So how do you deal with this? -
SharePoint: Get Started with jQuery - Part 2
16 May 2012 | 12:00 amThey are a lot of different ways we can deploy jQuery library in our SharePoint environment. Some are easier than others, some offer more flexibility when we want to reference that library in our pages. -
Brand SharePoint: Quicklaunch - Getting ready to expose CSS (Part 1)
15 May 2012 | 12:00 amA good navigation experience can make the difference in your SharePoint deployment’s adoption and experience by the users. Many will agree, if you are looking at a website and cannot figure out where to click to find relevant information, you probably wil
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Randy Drisgill - SharePoint Branding and Design
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SharePoint Saturday Orlando Registrations are Open
7 May 2012 | 2:00 pmWe have opened up registration for the first ever SharePoint Saturday in Orlando, Saturday, June 9th, 2012. The event is free but seats are going quickly… we have given out about half of them already! If you are interested in attending please fill out our Eventbrite form so that we can make sure there is a spot for you! Here is the registration link: And here is the event website: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/orlando/default.aspx Location: ITT Technical Institute Suite 100 8301 Southpark Cir Orlando, FL 32819 Google Map -
SPTechWeb Article: Customizing SharePoint 2010 My Sites Navigation
30 Apr 2012 | 4:49 pmJust wanted to put up a quick post pointing folks to my latest article about My Sites Navigation that is up at SPTechWeb. I cover the basics of changing the navigation as well as how you can manipulate the HTML and controls that live in the My Sites top bar. Customizing SharePoint 2010 My Sites Navigation -
SharePoint Saturday Orlando 2012 – June 9th
28 Mar 2012 | 2:09 pmI am proud to announce that Michael Hinckley, David Griffiths, John Ross, Dave McNamee and myself will be hosting the first ever Orlando Florida edition of the world famous SPSaturday event on Saturday, June 9th, 2012. If you live near the Central Florida area or are in town early for the big Microsoft TechEd Conference (June 11th to the 14th) come on by and check it out. We are hoping to provide a lot of valuable FREE SharePoint content to compliment the SharePoint sessions that Microsoft will be providing at TechEd. Here is some info from our website to describe the event: Join SharePoint… -
So… I’m a Racker Now!
16 Feb 2012 | 8:51 amAll of us at SharePoint911 are now Rackspace employees! Please allow me to rewind the clock a little… You know things are going to get interesting when the owner of the small business you work for sets up a mandatory “all hands” meeting in the middle of the Christmas to New Year’s vacation time. The employees start to speculate what the news could be, and then we hear the words “The company has been sold”. After we all wake up from our individual panic attacks, we learn that one of our favorite partners, Rackspace is purchasing the company and we all need to be in San Antonio ASAP… -
How to handle downtime by sending all requests to one HTML page
15 Jan 2012 | 10:26 pmI had a nice little Sunday planned today, but it was interrupted by the SharePoint911 uptime monitors telling me that our web server had pooped itself (technical term… trust me). Shane did some poking around and found that the hard drive had died… we have backups but bringing it back online is going to take a bit (our clients always come first!). We decided to temporarily put up a maintenance page until we can bring the site back completely. I had to do some GoogleBing’ing to find a simple way to funnel all of the web links that point to our various pages and blogs to one page telling…
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LifeInSHAREPOINT
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EU Cookie Law & SharePoint – What’s affected?
10 May 2012 | 4:38 amWhat is the new EU Cookie Law? The EU Cookie Law is intended to prevent information being stored on people’s computers, or to be used to recognise them through the device they are using, without their knowledge or agreement. The rules are not intended to restrict the use of particular technologies. The deadline for compliance with ... -
Metro UI Masterpage – May Update
4 May 2012 | 5:21 amHi everyone, I have released a new update to the Metro Masterpage Farm & Sandbox editions making a couple of enhancements and some fixes for some issues that were reported also. Enhancements : Streamlined some code for better performance Added new functionality to choose which side you would like the quick launch. (This is a ... -
iGoogle UI for SharePoint 2010 – Part Four: Control Adapters
28 Apr 2012 | 6:34 pmSeries Content Part One – Overview, Concept, HTML Structure & jQuery Basics Part Two – Dragging, Dropping, Sorting and Collapsing Part Three – Saving WebPart states using Cookies Part Four – Control Adapters – Current Article Part Five – SharePoint 2010 Integration Part Six – Bringing it all together ... -
iGoogle UI for SharePoint – Part Three: Saving WebPart states using Cookies
28 Feb 2012 | 12:46 pmSeries Content Part One – Overview, Concept, HTML Structure & jQuery Basics Part Two – Dragging, Dropping, Sorting and Collapsing Part Three – Saving WebPart states using Cookies – Current Article Part Four – Control Adapters Part Five – SharePoint 2010 Integration Part Six – Bringing it all together ... -
Metro UI – SharePoint Masterpage for Sandbox Solutions
27 Dec 2011 | 5:49 pmJust a quick note that i have updated and created a blue themed wsp which now works in a Sandbox Solution. http://lifeinsharepoint.codeplex.com/releases/view/78033 Hope this helps some people.
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SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans
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Excel formulas not auto calculating but F9 still works #in
14 May 2012 | 11:14 amAs ever, when you work in IT you become the go to guy / gal for friends, family etc… So today, whilst working on my TechEd Europe 2012 presentation, my girlfriend rang up, asked if I knew Excel and promptly forward me to a manager for a quick chat. The problem Excel is no longer auto calculating formulas for any spread sheet that is opened, yet if you press F9, suddenly the calculations kick into touch. The solution Essentially, automatic calculations have been turned off in the Excel client and we simply need to turn it back on again: Excel 2003 Menu: Tools > Options Click on the… -
Useful virtualisation links #SP2010 #SharePoint #in
10 May 2012 | 5:11 amOnce again, writing tenders and needed to provide evidence of supported platforms for virtualisation: Virtualisation support and licencing (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607936.aspx Supported virtualisation platforms – listed here: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvp.htm VMWare in particular. Virtualisation planning (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607968.aspx Virtualisation notes (SharePoint Server 2010 – Bill Baer)… -
Create a New MySite Host Site
9 May 2012 | 11:54 amOn a recent project we created a small SharePoint development farm using AutoSPInstaller. The farm created perfectly, the Portal was working, UPS was working, mysites were working, all was good. The My Site host Web app had been created on port 8080 with the URL http://ServerName/:8080/ We then decided to move this to a DNS addressable location with a (slightly) more user friendly URL of http://DevMySite.domain.local on port 80 I looked at extending the mysite host Web Application, but I decided to create new Web Application with a host header value instead. The first step is to create… -
Office 365 / #SharePoint 2010 Accessibility Compliance Links #O365 #SP2010 #in
7 May 2012 | 9:00 amAs part of responding to a tender, I needed to do some research on SharePoint 2010 / Office 365 and accessibility compliance. Here are some links that I found… Office 365 / SharePoint 2010 – Accessibility Compliance http://blogs.technet.com/b/whymicrosoft/archive/2012/01/19/why-microsoft_3f00_-office-365-is-accessible.aspx http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?PageType=4&ListId=%7b72C1C85B-1D2D-4A4A-90DE-CA74A7808184%7d&pID=431 Office 365 Help: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/ff637603.aspx Conformance statement AA-level… -
Using the “Inactivate Tasks” functionality
4 May 2012 | 11:23 amInactivate task is a new feature for EPM2010; this feature enables the project manager to set certain tasks to inactive rather than deleting the tasks. This functionality is also useful for performing what-if analysis. The following paragraph from Microsoft explains that intended usage of the inactivate task functionality: “Microsoft Project Professional 2010 enables you to cancel a task but keep a record of the task in the project plan. This is called inactivating the task. The task remains in the project plan, but does not affect resource availability, the schedule or how other tasks…
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Kristian Kalsing
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Wrap-up from Share 2012 in Atlanta
25 Apr 2012 | 3:59 pmI’m about to shoot back to the Pacific Northwest after some great days amongst SharePoint peeps in Atlanta. For me, the Share 2012 show started on the Monday night, being a booth bandit for Winshuttle in the exhibition hall. We had some interesting conversations with people wanting to understand how to get their SharePoint environment better integrated with their SAP backend. Tuesday kicked off with a triple keynote with back-to-back sessions by Dux Raymond Sy, Microsoft's Gideon Bibliowicz and finally Jody Billiard and Shawn Olsen from Coca-Cola. Dux was interesting and enthusiastic as… -
Speaking at SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference 2012 in Orlando
15 Mar 2012 | 12:00 pmTime flies and we’re rapidly approaching May and the annual SAP bonanza in Orlando. Like last year, I’ll be delivering a presentation on how to empower business units to solve SAP challenges with SharePoint. I will have a particular focus on where to find the “low hanging fruit” and the characteristics of those use cases. This is the session abstract: Leveraging SharePoint to Empower the "Business Developer" Increasingly, business people empower themselves to create solutions that support their business functions. These business developers are here to stay and harnessing… -
Export SAP data to SharePoint with Winshuttle Query
16 Feb 2012 | 5:28 pmWhen business users are automating processes by essentially building applications in SharePoint, there are often use cases where a solution needs to include data from SAP. It could be mash-up scenarios between SharePoint content and SAP data or it could be simple use cases where having SAP data in SharePoint for easy access makes sense. There are many ways of achieving this through custom programming. However, what I wanted to bring to your attention here is a new feature of Winshuttle Query which effectively empowers a business user to create an SAP data query and export the extract to a… -
Speaking at the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin
13 Oct 2011 | 5:03 amAfter an awesome few days at the WUG conference in Chicago, I’m headed for Berlin next week to speak at the European SharePoint Conference. I’ll be talking about how SAP customers can utilise SharePoint as a platform for optimising SAP-centric business processes. Although my talk is centered around SAP, the issues and solutions discussed are relevant to any large ERP back-end. Here’s the session outline: Accelerating SAP Transactions with SharePoint and InfoPath Data entry into SAP can in many cases lead to complex business processes taking up unnecessary time and resources throughout… -
Wrap-up from the Winshuttle User Group conference in Chicago
12 Oct 2011 | 3:15 pmThe annual Winshuttle User Group (WUG) conference has been the sole focus of my attention the last few days. After the inaugural event in New Orleans last year and follow-up events in London and Paris earlier this year, the WUG has grown exponentially into a sizable affair with more than 400 Winshuttle enthusiasts gathered to share experiences, attend customer presentations, participate in training classes and engage with the Winshuttle Partner Network. The show was kicked off Monday with a keynote that included a solution demo by Winshuttle Co-Founder Vikram Chalana and a very inspirational…
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SharePoint Dragons
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TechNET Wiki page Performance
16 May 2012 | 12:41 amThe TechNet Wiki page about dealing with performance issues has been updated: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7926.sharepoint-2010-tips-for-dealing-with-performance-issues.aspx -
DebugDiag
16 May 2012 | 12:36 amThe Debug Diagnostic Tool (v1.2) is a tool that assists in troubleshooting issues such as slow performance and memory leaks. It’s created by MS and also contains a dedicated SharePoint Analysis Script. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26798 -
Best Practices for Service Accounts
15 May 2012 | 9:15 amWe like the following post about best practices for service accounts: http://seclists.org/basics/2008/Sep/225 Although this is not limited to SharePoint, we tend to see the world to SharePoint glasses and apply it to the SharePoint world. -
Copying or moving a thicket file
15 May 2012 | 8:10 amWe remember, a long time ago, when we were working on a chapter for an MS Press Administrator Companion book, we were reading one of the other chapters and it mentioned a thicket file. We re-read it, baffled, and the sentence still said thicket file. We later found it that this is a pretty common reaction to thicket files. We looked it up and found out a thicket is an Office doc saved as a web page. Every time you save a file as HTML that contains contains resources that can’t be stored within HTML (such as images) these get stored in a special linked folder called [file name]_files. When… -
Keep your focus – Kyteman
14 May 2012 | 4:12 amSomeone once gave us the advice that every blog should have a focus point. In our case, that’s easy, our main focus point is and remains SharePoint. Most of our posts are directly related to this topic. The second part of the advice was that you can do off-topic blog posts up to a maximum of 20%. And that, if you choose to do an off-topic post, you should choose it well. Well, here it is. Our first off-topic post. It’s completely unrelated to SharePoint, instead it’s related to music. Kyteman is a young Dutch musician, and there are times when we think he just might be brilliant. Or, as…
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Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
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SharePoint: Force the New button to show Content Type choices
9 May 2012 | 9:29 amNote: The following only applies to SharePoint 2007, but I'm looking into a similar fix for 2010. Content Types add a lot of value to SharePoint, if you can get your users to use them. When you upload a document to a library where you have Content Types enabled the user is always asked to pick a content type. But when a user is working with a list, such as Tasks, and clicks the New -
SharePoint: Preventing Content Type Changes
8 May 2012 | 11:09 pmThere are many good reasons to use Content Types… if you can get people to use them, and then leave them alone. :-) When creating a new list item based on a Content Type the user needs to select the Content Type from the New dropdown. Once selected, the Content Type should generally not be changed. Changing it is too easy as the user is offered the choice every time they edit the item. -
Adding JavaScript and CSS to SharePoint
8 May 2012 | 4:13 pmMany of my Site Owner customization tips require adding CSS and JavaScript to individual pages, the Content Editor Web Part or to the master page. Instead of repeating those steps over and over I'll link to this page in the future. (This is an expansion of an earlier article found here.) Where to put your JavaScript or CSS Where to put your JavaScript or CSS Where you put the JavaScript or CSS -
SharePoint 2010, the Content Editor Web Part, and Broken Views…
7 May 2012 | 7:26 pmThe following is an excerpt from chapter 7 of my book SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Customization for the Site Owner. I keep getting questions on this so I thought I’d post it here. (You should still by the book!) Adding a Content Editor Web Part to a view page like "Allitems.aspx" is a great way of customizing list and library views in SharePoint 2007. This generally had no negative impact, was -
SharePoint Governance Training
4 May 2012 | 11:30 amCreating a SharePoint governance plan, correctly, can be a real challenge as SharePoint governance is only partially about SharePoint. Because SharePoint is (too) easy to use it attracts content, user, compliance and best practices problems. Without a plan… well you know what you’ve got. There are several approaches to creating your governance plan. One is to download one of the sample plans
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Top SharePoint Sites » Blog
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Associations with Websites Built on SharePoint
4 May 2012 | 2:43 pmWhat makes SharePoint so appealing to Associations and Societies? It is well known that associations, and for this case societies, have a tight budget and limited staff, so looking from the planning and implementation point of view, staying within the approved budget and timeline, developing a successful CMS solution first time is vital. This is where SharePoint comes in. Besides the obvious plethora of useful features SharePoint provides, the special pricing structure for Charitable Organizations (501(c)(3)) makes SharePoint very attractive. Most of associations or societies fall under… -
Best Technology Websites on SharePoint
12 Apr 2012 | 5:52 pmFor this web design inspiration jolt, I decided to continue our series of industry specific showcase with a collection of 50 beautiful and innovative technology related companies with websites built on SharePoint. To see the complete list and to discover more technology related companies with websites built on SharePoint platform click here. The following SharePoint branding inspiration list is updated automatically, based on your ratings. If you like any of these website designs make sure you vote for them so they remain on this showcase. New SharePoint-based websites are added everyday to… -
Beautiful Red SharePoint Websites
4 Apr 2012 | 1:45 pmWe continue our SharePoint branding inspiration series of posts on color schemes going through some excellent examples of red-based SharePoint websites. Red color is well known to be used in design world to grab attention and mostly to urge visitor to take action. It symbolizes power, love and passion. Red is often chosen because of its domination to other colors. Below you will find 50 inspiring SharePoint websites that make great use of the red color in their design and will definitely give you great ideas for your next web design project. This showcase is updated automatically, based on… -
Deliberato – Free SharePoint 2010 Theme
30 Mar 2012 | 6:02 pmWe are happy to announce the release of our fourth Free SharePoint 2010 theme. Deliberato theme has 2 columns of fixed width and its main purpose is to help you get accustom with SharePoint branding and to give you some insight on the inner-works of SharePoint platform. You can use the theme for free and without any restrictions. However, it is forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without TopSharePoint.com permission. You may modify the theme as you wish at your own risk. This work is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Theme Features: - Two-columns -… -
Portfolio Showcase – BrightStarr
13 Mar 2012 | 5:13 pmWe continue our series of articles on successful SharePoint consulting companies focusing on another talented agency based in UK with offices across US and Middle East. Global Microsoft Gold SharePoint Partner, BrightStarr, understands the digital workplace and builds best of class, award-winning SharePoint and mobile solutions that increase employee productivity, elevate brands, and create multi-channel revenue opportunities. They are regularly singled out for incorporating a unique blend of both creative and technical skills to deliver extra-ordinary experiences with the perfect balance of…
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SharePoint Hive
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What’s New with the Content Query Web Part
8 May 2012 | 7:42 amHowdy, my name is Dustin Anglin and I’m a Program Manager on the Enterprise Content Management team. Today I’m here to talk about the new things we’re doing with one of most popular SharePoint web parts, the Content Query Web Part, or as it’s better known amongst acronym-o-holics, the CQWP. If you haven’t already checked it out, be sure to check out both the ECM overview by Jim Masson and the WCM overview by Sangya Singh. CQWP for Newcomers For those of you who are new to the CQWP, here’s a brief explanation of what it does and what kinds of things you can use it for. The Content… -
The Seattle Foundation
8 May 2012 | 7:42 amThe Seattle Foundation is making the greater Seattle community a vital and healthy place to live, driving positive change on a range of local issues by working side by side with donors. Founded in 1946, The Seattle Foundation is your local, definitive resource for giving. We provide the reliable insight and tools you need to [...] Read More -
Still here…
8 May 2012 | 7:42 amHi guys – I’m still around, but fighting a few more "CKS:EBE on SharePoint 2010" issues than I expected (in what little spare time I have). In particular the rich RSS feed (a critical bit, don’t you think) doesn’t appear to be working correctly. Don’t worry, though, you haven’t been forgotten, and I’ve got a couple cool post subjects already on tap. Read More -
Storage Update for SharePoint Online Enterprise Plans
24 Apr 2012 | 11:06 am"Business is business and business must grow.” -Once-ler from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. Your feedback was clear: “We need more online storage and it needs to be cheaper.” So we adjusted the SharePoint Online service accordingly—both in per tenant storage quota limits and the cost of additional storage. Now, you can be less constrained as you plan your content management strategy and determine how and where you share files and manage projects. Tenant storage quota limit increase—Now up to 25 terabytes(TB) Individual customers (tenants) can now consume up to 25TB… -
Unlock your customer’s value by Integrating SharePoint.com with your CRM system
10 Apr 2012 | 1:21 pmSharePoint customers are finding new ways to leverage the power of SharePoint in combination with other Microsoft products to achieve their goals. Two customers that have taken advantage of the great integration between SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites and Dynamics CRM are Copenhagen Airports (CPH) and Boys and Girls Club of Canada (BGCC). By combining SharePoint with Dynamics CRM they have improved their customer experience and relationships while increasing site traffic and revenue goals. Copenhagen Airports (CPH) owns and operates the airports in Kastrup and Roskilde, Denmark.
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The Microsoft SharePoint Blog
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Video how-to: Creating SharePoint 2010 List Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
16 May 2012 | 12:30 pmLearn how to create list definitions and list instances for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. This video was originally posted here Related code examples can be found here -
Create a New MySite Host Site
16 May 2012 | 10:00 amOn a recent project we created a small SharePoint development farm using AutoSPInstaller. The farm created perfectly, the Portal was working, UPS was working, mysites were working, all was good. The My Site host Web app had been created on port 8080 with the URL http://ServerName/:8080/ We then decided to move this to a DNS addressable location with a (slightly) more user friendly URL of http://DevMySite.domain.local on port 80. I looked at extending the mysite host Web Application, but I decided to create new Web Application with a host header value instead. The first step is to create a… -
Do you have a “Sid”? A look at the different personalities on a project team
16 May 2012 | 7:38 amThis post asks a few questions. Does every project have a “Sid”? Can modern IT projects support a “Sid? Who is “Sid”? Let me explain. Every IT project team I have worked with has had a number of developers in it. Usually their is a lead developer, or senior guy, who is in charge of the other developers. This is “Sid”. Sid, on my at least projects, has exhibited the following two characteristics: Extremely talented These guys, for it is invariably so, tend to be natural coders, very very skilled at what they do. Some I have worked with border on… -
You have turned on SharePoint Auditing – now what?
16 May 2012 | 4:17 amSo you turned on auditing on your SharePoint site collection, how do you actually see the things audited? One of the most common misconceptions with SharePoint auditing is that audit logs are available as Excel spreadsheets generated on a scheduled basis. When you go to Site Actions -> Site Settings, you get to specify how often does the audit log get trimmed and what to audit. So the whole trimming gets misinterpreted with log generation. In fact all, the audit logs are in the content database for the site collection and are nearly real-time. If you specify how often does the trimming… -
Editing rich content in SharePoint 2010 – Not always easy
15 May 2012 | 11:20 amSharePoint 2010 brought with it many improvements for adding rich content to pages. These include the ribbon interface (making regularly used controls more accessible) and wiki pages (meaning you could add such content directly to a page). Wiki pages mean you no longer need to bother with ‘content editor webparts’ when you can to add rich content to a page, just add it directly. Well you could add HTML directly, using the ‘Edit HTML source’ button. However the HTML ‘editor’ (if you could call it that) doesn’t format or highlight the code, so it is…
