Hi all Just a quick note to mention that I’m off travelling again, this time swapping 39 degree Celsius summer weather of Perth for somewhere between –6 to 5 degrees of Canada. I’ll be spending a week in Canada running two classes – one public and one private. The first class is a public SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture class running in Vancouver. MVP Michal Pisarek of SharePointAnalystHQ fame will be there and it should be a terrific two days of learning how to think a little differently to govern SharePoint strategy and deployment. You will learn a bunch of new…
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An opportunity to learn about aligning SharePoint to business goals in Vancouver
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Maximise SharePoint Value using the “Start Your Day” Game
21apps - Innovation in SharePoint26 Jan 2012 | 3:30 amBackground I recently ran a very quick overview presentation (find it on SlideShare) of Innovation Games to the East Anglia SharePoint User Group. The aim of the 1 hour session was to give a little insight into where SharePoint project challenges are and how, through the use of Serious Games techniques, such as Innovation Games(R) and Gamestorming we can break the vicious cycle of poor requirements gathering, unhappy users, SharePoint Celery and conflict between IT and the business teams. I planned to cut the slides to a minimum and focus as much time as possible on actually playing a… -
Cartoon: SharePoint Stakeholder Fog of Despair!
21apps - Innovation in SharePoint24 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amWe all have those SharePoint projects where life would be great if the client stakeholders stopped arguing with each other and actually got on with delivering value for their organisation… Take some solace in the fact that you are not alone… Take some advice from 21apps and let us help you clear the mists of despair through facilitation, serious games and visualisations! -
The SharePoint Language Store
SharePoint Dragons23 Jan 2012 | 3:29 amWe feel the SharePoint Language Store ( http://splanguagestore.codeplex.com/ ) is an interesting idea for situations where you don’t want (or are not allowed to) to roll out a new resource file every time there is a change in the UI multilingual text. -
How to handle downtime by sending all requests to one HTML page
Randy Drisgill - SharePoint Branding and Design15 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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Mike Walsh's WSS and more
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When a guaranteed reply within 48 hours isn't.
23 Jan 2012 | 4:58 amWhen I was working in a company that had Microsoft Premium Support, I used to get extremely annoyed with the first reply I got from the Nordic support centre in Stockholm because typically I had given all the detail necessary and that reply very rarely asked me anything at all useful for solving the problem. When I was later on a Nordic MVP tour of the MS Nordic Support Centre, I found out that one of the two criteria on which the boss of the support people was measured on was the quickness of that reply (the other was the speed in which a problem was "solved" which was why they… -
Did Todd Klindt read my piece about SP 2010 Kindle-only "books"?
14 Jan 2012 | 1:42 amIn the second half of December 2011 I wrote a piece about a new trend in Kindle books - private publishing of "books" covering a limited part of SharePoint 2010. The ones I mentioned were written by someone I had never heard of called Vishal Gupta and varied in price from a few dollars to something like 13 dollars. Well he's issued a few more, but perhaps of more interest is that a well-known and respected SharePoint MVP - Todd Klindt (one of the authors of the high-selling SP 2010 Admin Guide) - has joined in and has produced a Kindle "book" for less than 4… -
Another example of a good looking but totally useless web site (this time MS)
14 Jan 2012 | 1:26 amAnyone who is wondering why in the past couple of months I haven't added many Microsoft SharePoint webcasts to the WSS v4 FAQ site needs look no further than this - very good-looking, but completely useless - web page http://events.microsoft.com/Pages/Home.aspx#m=;r=0;s=;yourrole=2;eventtype=2;level=2;timelength=2;v=list;pi=;mi=;si=;ai= The problem with webcasts and Microsoft used to be that each part of Microsoft made their own web casts. For SharePoint this meant (at least) Office; Channel 9; MSDN and TechNet. So rather than search each of these sources I used to go to a single… -
MS makes promises they can't keep for forum support for TechNet subscribers
7 Jan 2012 | 4:57 amThe Microsoft forums mostly are supported by "peers" - i.e. people like you and me. Any Microsoft support is only available in certain forums and is mostly provided by contractors working on Microsoft's behalf. As I explained in two earlier posts about the forums and Microsoft' role in them, support is not guaranteed (i.e. your post could lie there for years without any reply) unless you have a TechNet or MSDN subscription and in addition sign-up within that subscription for forum support. Then it used to be that Microsoft would in certain forums only guarantee that a… -
End of year look at SharePoint
30 Dec 2011 | 11:35 pm[When you lose the MVP title you immediately become a non-person and lose most of your contacts and certainly all access to non-public information - a bit of a shock after having that access for many years. As a result this end of year look is based entirely on publically available information.] SharePoint 2010 came out in May 2010 so we are now just over halfway through the usual three year cycle before the next version of the product. There are lots of indications of this. - new book releases have started to become a trickle - there are very few new MSDN and TechNet articles…
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Andrew Connell [MVP SharePoint]
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Amazon Kindle Fire – 2 Months Later
21 Jan 2012 | 4:39 amWhen I saw the presser months ago with Jeff Bezos, someone I highly respect in this business and one of the few true visionaries, I jumped and did what I try not to do and make an impulse purchase on something that expensive. When I got it I loved it, gave it a few days and wrote a review I posted here. Now after two months, I wanted to post some more thoughts. First, I still really like the device and I’m glad I got it. But I have to say that I don’t love it. You can’t beat the price for what you get, but there are a few aspects to it that I would need to see resolved for it to be a… -
Critical Path Training SharePoint Developer Roadshow in Boston & SharePint!
13 Jan 2012 | 8:34 amA month or so ago I blogged about a new offering we have at Critical Path Training, a 2-day SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadshow. Our first delivery will be in Boston, February 15-16, 2012 at the Museum of Science. After the first day of the event (February 15) head over to Mr. Dooley’s Boston Tavern for drinks and to shoot the breeze … it’s a SharePint after all! Registration for the event runs $599 but if you register before the end of the weekend (January 15) you’ll get $100 off to make it $499! -
O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Critical Path Training's Office365 AuthN Helper Library
11 Jan 2012 | 5:51 amThis post is part of a series on Office365/SharePoint Online, Windows Azure and Authentication. The other posts in this series are as follows: O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - About this Series O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Overview of Challenges with O365, SPO & MSO O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - How to Authenticate with O365, SPO & MSO O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Workarounds and Fixes for Claims-Based Auth Sites O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Critical Path Training's Office365 AuthN Helper Library In this last post in my Office365/SharePoint Online + Windows Azure + Authorization blog series, I want… -
O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Workarounds and Fixes for Claims-Based Auth Sites
11 Jan 2012 | 5:51 amThis post is part of a series on Office365/SharePoint Online, Windows Azure and Authentication. The other posts in this series are as follows: O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - About this Series O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Overview of Challenges with O365, SPO & MSO O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - How to Authenticate with O365, SPO & MSO O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Workarounds and Fixes for Claims-Based Auth Sites O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Critical Path Training's Office365 AuthN Helper Library Now let's see how we can address the authentication fixes for each of the different ways you can access… -
O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - How to Authenticate with O365, SPO & MSO
11 Jan 2012 | 5:50 amThis post is part of a series on Office365/SharePoint Online, Windows Azure and Authentication. The other posts in this series are as follows: O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - About this Series O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Overview of Challenges with O365, SPO & MSO O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - How to Authenticate with O365, SPO & MSO O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Workarounds and Fixes for Claims-Based Auth Sites O365/SPO + Azure + AuthN - Critical Path Training's Office365 AuthN Helper Library In my previous post in this series I talked about how authentication works with Office365 (O365) &…
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Fear and Loathing
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Visual Studio Achievements - Remember Kids They're Just For Fun
18 Jan 2012 | 11:01 amI followed a neat project for the last couple of months which today became a reality, Visual Studio Achievements. Achievements are something the gaming world are very familiar with. They're milestones of recognition to meet like "Blowing up 30 Enemies with 1 Grenade" or "Destroy a Super Tank playing the Classic Game". There are a lot of sites around the Internet to track them including one dedicated to just XBox 360 ones here. They're fun and you get a bit of an internal high when you see this on your screen: The Visual Studio Achievements follows the same idea and, once… -
The Big Dummies Guide to Building a SharePoint Internet Site
6 Jan 2012 | 8:42 amI'm about to embark on a new project, building a SharePoint based Internet site. This is new for me as all the SharePoint work I've done has been Intranet facing and I know there are some challenges with SharePoint and outward facing sites. So I called on a few MVP friends and people that have some real world experience configuring SharePoint for Internet to see if I could come up with a list of tips, tricks, and things to watch out for. Search Engine Optimization Out of the box URLs are not SEO friendly, you need a custom solution Jie Li, a program manager on the SharePoint team, has a great… -
Some JSON Resources For You
15 Dec 2011 | 11:37 amAs a developer I really dig JSON over XML for information exchange. It's clean, simple, and just works. I don't have to deal with complicated schema validation, reams of unreadable encoded text, and hierarchies that make no sense. I prefer to consume in apps and more and more services offer it up natively these days. Here are a few key tools I use that you might fun value-add in your dealings with JSON.Hmm... is it JSON or Json? Anyway, here's a short list. Json.NETIMHO this is the key library for working with JSON. Yes, you can do some native de-serialization with .NET but the Json.NET… -
Prairie Dev Con West - Sessions Announced and Registration Open!
5 Dec 2011 | 8:23 amI’m thrilled to announce that the Prairie Dev Con West folks have posted sessions and speakers on their site, and opened registration for Prairie Developer Conference West!Three Days of Fantastic Sessions!Prairie Dev Con West happens March 13 – 15, and will be three days of software development, IT Pro, and Agile sessions delivered by world class speakers and experts in the technical industry! We’ve currently posted 45 of the 72 sessions we’ll be providing, so check out what’s on the site and check back over the next few weeks as we fill out the session list!Carl Franklin and… -
Do We Indeed Have a Future? George Takei on Star Wars.
20 Nov 2011 | 8:38 amGeorge Takei (rhymes with Okay), probably best known for playing Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek, has always had deep concerns for the present and the future. Whether on Earth or among the stars, he has the welfare of humanity very much at heart. I was digging through my old copies of Famous Monsters of Filmland, a great publication on monster and films that I grew up with, and came across this. This was his reaction to STAR WARS from issue 139 of Famous Monsters of Filmland and was written June 6, 1977. It is reprinted here without permission but I hope since the message is still valid…
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SharePoint Solutions Blog
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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… -
InfoPath Training
18 Oct 2011 | 10:54 amNeed InfoPath training? We've got just what you're looking for!SharePoint Solutions offers quality hands-on classroom-based InfoPath training.Learn the ins and outs of creating digital forms that your users won’t mind using.Four days is all it takes to master digital form creation in InfoPath 2010, and to learn the basics of routing those forms through common business processes using SharePoint 2010 workflow, through our new course, InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 No-Code Workflow Deep Dive (Intermediate).In this instructor-led 4-day “deep dive” course, you’ll learn:To… -
Method to grant account access to User Profile Service Application
7 Sep 2011 | 3:46 pmIn order to work with SharPoint's User Profile Service Application beyond a read-only capacity, a user account must be granted appropriate access. Otherwise, you'll encounter errors such as ActivityFeedPermissionDeniedException when attempting to perform operations such as ActivityEvent.CreateActivityEvent.The following method will grant access to User Profile Service Application for a specified account name of the format DOMAIN\User. 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425private static void GrantPermissionsToUserProfileService(string accountName){var upServiceproxy =… -
Method to determine account identity of 'SharePoint 2010 Timer' (SPTimerV4) Windows Service
7 Sep 2011 | 3:07 pmAs a developer of solutions for the SharePoint 2010 platform, you may on occasion find the need to determine the account identity of the SharePoint 2010 Timer Windows Service (SPTimerV4). The following method will return the service's account name for you. 1234567891011121314151617181920private static string GetSPTimerJobAccountName(){ string retval = null; ServiceController[] controllers = ServiceController.GetServices(); var cont = controllers.Where(c => c.ServiceName == "SPTimerV4"); ServiceController svc = cont.FirstOrDefault(); if (svc != null) { System.Management.SelectQuery query =… -
Recorded Webinar: Site Provisioning and Governance Assistant for SharePoint 2010
1 Sep 2011 | 11:43 amYesterday's Site Provisioning and Governance Assistant for SharePoint 2010 webinar was very well attended. Based on the webinar's turnout and the multitude of questions we received from participants, there is certainly a lot of interest in the features SPGA 2010 has to offer for SharePoint site creation and governance. Who can blame you for wanting to stop wasting so much valuable time creating, managing and governing SharePoint sites? It just makes sense that so many people are looking for a solution like SPGA 2010 to automate these processes. Many of our clients asked us to post a recorded…
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Sharepoint Tips And Tricks
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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… -
Speaking in the upcoming Asia conferences
16 Oct 2011 | 12:25 amNext month I will be in both Singapore and Hong Kong for the Asian sharepoint conferences. If you are coming, why not jump in my session to learn about sharepoint development? Who knows, there may be prizes... http://www.sharepointconference.asia -
Setting the images for a publishing page from a module
14 Oct 2011 | 2:08 amHere is a small tip for developers (about time I wrote one again). What do you do if you want to provision a publishing page to a sharepoint site, and set the page's image (or rollup image) during the provisioning? Well, step one should be obvious - make sure you upload the image you want to display. This can be done in the same feature or a seperate one. I will assume that you already know how do do that (if not, then the MSDN article "how to provision a file" is your friend). The same goes for actually how to build the feature and module that uploads your publishing page (again, refer to…
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The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac
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Health Check - Happy New Year to you and your SharePoint servers!
3 Jan 2012 | 1:40 pmHappy New Year. Hopefully you have recovered from all of the good times and/or you got some rest on the break. I figured many of us have SharePoint 2010 deployments at this point that are mature. Which is awesome. But one thing I know about mature SharePoint farms is we often take them for granted. Below I am going to throw a couple of things at you to double check this week and make sure SharePoint is happy. What is your build number? You should be running at least service pack 1 at this point. Now if you are not I am not recommending blindly installing it on your production server. You… -
SharePoint Admin class in Orlando
28 Nov 2011 | 9:56 amI sat down to write a blog post but then my VM client decided it wanted to install updates and all of that chaos so I got distracted. Now I am out of time to write a helpful blog post. So instead I will put a quick post here to remind you that I am teaching my SharePoint 2010 admin class in warm Orlando, Florida the week of December 12th. I don't know about you but Cincinnati (where I live) is very cold that time of year so I am looking forward to a company sponsored get away. Why don't you come join me? Shane SharePoint Consulting -
Free Turkey Today!
23 Nov 2011 | 8:58 amUpdate: I am an idiot. Here is the link to sign up. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/920583097 Unfortunately it isn't the kind you eat it is just more of Shane and Todd's cheeky shenanigans. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, two of SharePoint's biggest Turkeys are putting on a free webinar from 3 to 4 PM EST today 11/23/2011. The session will be completely informal where anyone can post SharePoint questions and they will give it their all to answer them. Cranberry sauce not included. Fine print: The meeting only holds 100 people so first come, first served. When you… -
Find me at SharePoint Conference
30 Sep 2011 | 12:29 pmHopefully your bags are packed and you are ready to head to the Anaheim for the sold out SharePoint Conference next week. I know I am excited. Quickly I wanted to give you a list of my sessions and other events where you can stop by to say hello or heckle (whichever you prefer) next week. Sessions: All three sessions will be a good old time. My partner in crime Todd Klindt and I will do our best to entertain and hopefully teach you something along the way. Understanding SharePoint Administration Part 1 Monday 11 AM Marriott: Platinum Ballroom 1-5Understanding SharePoint Administration Part 2… -
After SharePoint 2010 database attach upgrade alerts have the wrong URLs
22 Aug 2011 | 1:47 pmDatabase attach upgrades seem to be the norm these days for customers upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. I am assuming the reason for this is because they are very flexible and generally work pretty well. One of the flexible things about these type of upgrades is you can change your web application URL. Some customers are going from short URL to fully qualified (FQDN) like http://portal to http://portal.company.com. And some of our customers are making complete changes going from http://sharepoint.company.com to http://intranet.company.com. The nice thing about making these…
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JOPX on SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 and Windows Phone 7
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Microsoft Business Ready Security Trial Environment
26 Jan 2012 | 1:07 pmThe Microsoft Business Ready Security trial environment contains an interesting set of VJDs that you can use to evaluate protection, access, management and identity technologies from Microsoft as a pre-configured set of VHDs and is using the following products: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange/Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint/Forefront Protection for Server Management Console Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 Active Directory Rights Management Services Download Details… -
Book Review–Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook
26 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pmThe Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook is an excellent book which is aimed specifically at getting things done in SharePoint without requiring development or hardcore administration skills. And I must say I like it. This book is a must have reference guide for business power users who use SharePoint in their daily job but don’t need to know all the background about how SharePoint exactly works from a system perspective. It is however also very useful for SharePoint administrators who need to perform common SharePoint tasks as well as for SharePoint business analysts… -
Outlook 2010 Quick Tip – Showing week numbers
23 Jan 2012 | 2:09 pmJust a reminder to myself – Outlook 2010 makes it possible to show week numbers in Calendar View. Go to the Outlook Backstage > Options > Calendarand check Show Weeknumbers in the Month View and in the Date NavigatorTags van Technorati: Outlook2010,microsoft -
My favorite 5 sessions for TechDays 2012 Belgium
23 Jan 2012 | 2:03 pmYou smell that? Do you smell that? New technologies, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of new technologies in the morning… (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now) . Yep, TechDays 2012 is coming near, so don’t forget to register – there are still some seats available. If you don’t know what to choose, check out my list of favorite sessions below: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Better Together HTML5 Quick Start SharePoint Governance Part I: Architecting SharePoint for Scalability and Enforceable Governance and Part II:… -
Wondering how companies are using SharePoint?
23 Jan 2012 | 1:48 pmAre you wondering how other companies are using SharePoint Server 2010? Then you definitely need to take a look at these different surveys which were conducted in 2010 and 2011: How are business using SharePoint in the Enterprise (2010 - conducted by Global 360) How are business using SharePoint in the Enterprise (2011 – followup survey from Global 360) – also check out the related slideshare presenation on State of the SharePoint market TEC Survey (Quest, 2011) SharePoint, ECM and Cloud Storage Adoption (Colligo, 2010) SharePoint Adoption: Content and collaboration is just…
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Chris O'Brien
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WebPartAdderExtension – a better way of deploying web parts
19 Jan 2012 | 7:09 amRecently, that nice young man Wictor Wilén blogged about WebPartAdderExtension and web part gallery sources – this is a little-known (and currently undocumented) capability in SharePoint which allows you to deploy custom web parts in a different way, with huge benefits. In summary, SharePoint 2010 provides a means for you to specify web parts to appear in the web part ‘picker’, without requiring a .webpart file in the local web part gallery (which is the usual route). Code is required, but SharePoint 2010 provides a ‘hook’ for you to add this in the form of the…
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CleverWorkarounds
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An opportunity to learn about aligning SharePoint to business goals in Vancouver
23 Jan 2012 | 1:11 amHi all Just a quick note to mention that I’m off travelling again, this time swapping 39 degree Celsius summer weather of Perth for somewhere between –6 to 5 degrees of Canada. I’ll be spending a week in Canada running two classes – one public and one private. The first class is a public SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture class running in Vancouver. MVP Michal Pisarek of SharePointAnalystHQ fame will be there and it should be a terrific two days of learning how to think a little differently to govern SharePoint strategy and deployment. You will learn a bunch of new… -
The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 5: Server huggers and a crisis of identity
19 Jan 2012 | 4:24 pmHi all Welcome to my fifth post that delves into the irrational world of cloud computing. After examining the not-so-obvious aspects of Microsoft, Amazon and the industry more broadly, its time to shift focus a little. Now the appeal of the cloud really depends on your perspective. To me, there are three basic motivations for getting in on the act… I can make a buck I can save a buck I can save a buck (and while I am at it, escape my pain-in-the-ass IT department) If you haven’t guessed it, this post will examine #3, and look at what the cloud means for the the perennial issue of the IT… -
Why can’t people find stuff on the intranet?–Final summary
17 Jan 2012 | 3:34 amHi Those of you who get an RSS feed of this blog might have noticed it was busy over last week. This is because I pushed out 4 blog posts that showed my analysis using IBIS of a detailed linear discussion on LinkedIn. To save people getting lost in the analysis, I thought I’d quickly post a bit of an executive summary from the exercise. To set context, Issue Mapping is a technique of visually capturing rationale. It is graphically represented using a simple, but powerful, visual structure called IBIS (Issue Based Information System). IBIS allows all elements and rationale of a conversation… -
Why can’t users find stuff on the intranet? An IBIS synthesis–Part 4
16 Jan 2012 | 6:57 amHi and welcome to my final post on the linkedin discussion on why users cannot find what they are looking for on intranets. This time the emphasis is on synthesis… so let’s get the last few comments done shall we? Michael Rosager • @ Simon. I agree. Findability and search can never be better than the content available on the intranet. Therefore, non-existing content should always be number 1 Some content may not be published with the terminology or language used by the users (especially on a multilingual intranet). The content may lack the appropriate meta tags. – Or maybe you… -
Why can’t users find stuff on the intranet? An IBIS synthesis–Part 3
15 Jan 2012 | 5:05 pmHi all This is the third post in a quick series that attempts to use IBIS to analyse an online discussion. The map is getting big now, but luckily, we are halfway through the discussion and will have most of the rationale captured by the end of this post. We finished the part 2 with a summary map that has grouped the identified reasons why it is hard to find information on intranets into core themes. Right now there are 4 themes that have emerged. In this post we see if there are any more to emerge and fully flesh out the existing ones. Below is our starting point for part 3. Our next two…
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Brain Dump: Posts
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You do NOT need to install the SPF CU before installing the SharePoint Server CU as of 2011-08-31
18 Jan 2012 | 7:32 amBody: Yes, yes, I know. I'm only about 4 months behind on this revelation, but it came and went without too much fan fare. Something that so radically changes the way we apply Cumulative Updates for SharePoint, deserves a special footnote. Consider this post as such. We bid farewell to Long drawn out explanations to clients as to why they have to install the Foundation CU before installing the Server CU when they have the Server product installed. I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain and then re-explain this to admins. The concept is confusing and I'm glad it's…
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SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
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Uruguay SharePoint Community Launch
23 Jan 2012 | 12:02 pmWhat an amazing Community! Uruguay comes across as such a laid back family centric country. Everywhere we went we saw families enjoying each other and enjoying the weather and ultimately stopping to smell the roses. This was not only the largest SharePoint event in Uruguay, it appears to be the first! A new SharePoint/SQL Technical Solutions (TSP) at Microsoft was just hired into a new position. Exciting timing that the STP crew comes right in time to partner with Microsoft to LAUNCH the SharePoint community here in Uruguay. Ricardo Szyfer is fired up. I can imagine he will be very anxious to… -
SharePoint Community Argentina
21 Jan 2012 | 1:04 pmSharing the Point South America and Antarctica is in full swing. Here in Buenos Aires it's not just HOT from being in the middle of summer. The tango is HOT, the beautiful people are HOT, and the SharePoint is HOT. In between sessions I was talking to Alejandro, the guy shown above with a punisher shirt, he and another guy travelled 300 KM to meet up with us. It was so cool to find out that he started following my blog after the Bjorn EPIC battle of SPTECHCON 2011. There were more than a few people that were more than confused about that whole thing, but knowing that some good came out… -
Building Social Intranets
21 Jan 2012 | 10:36 amIntranet Portals are often sooooo boring. They start out as dry static places with official snippet of words from the CEO or a vision statement, and a few stale articles and links scattered in mega menus. Ultimately users turn to search or simply click on their links that they hope don't move around too much. Social Networks are these fresh places where employees engage with each other. They are the new IM and Chat conversations and those that adopt them can't live without them, but others see it as a waste of time… What work is being done? What good can come of it? The conversation is…
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Stefan Goßner
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Be careful when creating a content deployment path using powershell
27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 amIf you create a content deployment path using the UI the EnableEventReceivers https:/login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=11&checkda=1&ct=1327656453&rver=6.0.5276.0&wp=MCLBI&wlcxt=msdn%24msdn%24msdn&wreply=http%3a%2f...(read more) -
Be careful when using the "Sign in as Different User" feature in SharePoint
19 Jan 2012 | 7:42 amWe sometimes see customers running into problems when using the "Sign in as Different User" feature in SharePoint. Common problems are Documents opened in external applications are saved with an unexpected user account because the external application...(read more) -
Picks of the week - 01/2012
5 Jan 2012 | 5:54 amTopics covered in this post: Publishing SharePoint mobile for Windows Phone 7 Creating Flash navigation menus driven by your SharePoint site content How To Hide Ribbon From Users Without Edit Page Privilege Download SharePoint 2010 Pre-Requisites UserName showing up as DomainName\UserName instead of Full Name in SharePoint 2010 The request failed with the error message: Object moved (SharePoint 2010, Web Services & FBA) ...(read more) -
December 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been released
16 Dec 2011 | 7:38 pmThe product group released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2596987 - WSS 3.0 KB 2596986 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for...(read more) -
December 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released
14 Dec 2011 | 4:18 amThe product group released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the December Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before...(read more)
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Arpan Shah's Blog
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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! -
My Netbook, OneNote and Phone
12 Oct 2011 | 11:29 amOver the next few weeks, I’m traveling around the world spending time with friends and family. I plan to stay unplugged from work the entire time. But unplugged from work doesn’t mean unplugged from technology. :-) Here’s how I’m balancing the art of staying unplugged from work and still remaining connected for surfing, email, photos and Skype – of course: 1. Shut down the work laptop and boot up the netbook. The easiest way to leave work behind is to leave the work laptop behind. I booted up my netbook, upgraded the netbook memory to 2GB and installed the latest updates including… -
Using Microsoft Project 2010 to Plan My Trip
2 Oct 2011 | 2:34 pmI’m taking a sabbatical from October 7th to January 2nd. It’s an award I was given at my 10 year Microsoft anniversary. It’s an opportunity to unplug, relax and come back recharged for 2012 – specifically Project Conference 2012 in March! There’s never a great time to take time off, but this window turns out to be a pretty good time. I plan to write a blog post reflecting on my 10 years at Microsoft – stay tuned for that! Now back to the topic. With 12 weeks time off, my wife and I discussed many different ways to spend the time. We wanted to spend time with family, visit Europe… -
Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Training
14 Sep 2011 | 1:50 amWith Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010 deployment on the rise, it’s important to think about end user adoption and education. End user training is important to improve business processes and get value out of your software. As Dux often says when people blame the tool, “the tool isn’t the problem”. Project 2010. When it comes to Microsoft Project 2010, there are many partners that provide training for Project Server as well as Project desktop. Many of these partners support the Microsoft Project 2010 exams. You can find a list of them at…
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21apps - Innovation in SharePoint
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Maximise SharePoint Value using the “Start Your Day” Game
26 Jan 2012 | 3:30 amBackground I recently ran a very quick overview presentation (find it on SlideShare) of Innovation Games to the East Anglia SharePoint User Group. The aim of the 1 hour session was to give a little insight into where SharePoint project challenges are and how, through the use of Serious Games techniques, such as Innovation Games(R) and Gamestorming we can break the vicious cycle of poor requirements gathering, unhappy users, SharePoint Celery and conflict between IT and the business teams. I planned to cut the slides to a minimum and focus as much time as possible on actually playing a… -
Cartoon: SharePoint Stakeholder Fog of Despair!
24 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amWe all have those SharePoint projects where life would be great if the client stakeholders stopped arguing with each other and actually got on with delivering value for their organisation… Take some solace in the fact that you are not alone… Take some advice from 21apps and let us help you clear the mists of despair through facilitation, serious games and visualisations! -
UK Gov Camp 2012 – A Graphic Recording
23 Jan 2012 | 3:10 amGov Camp 2012 kindly hosted by Microsoft UK was as awesome as ever. I had a great time, met with inspiring people, learnt lots and added a new dimension to my experience this time by creating sketchnotes (graphic recordings) of every session I attended! I’m new to this technique, but it has significant value in providing (hopefully) engaging representations of what went on in the session. Visualisations are the future! Ant Sketchnoting at UK Gov Camp 2012 - Courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/annkempster UK Gov Camp Unconference Introductions Sketchnote of the "Social… -
Cartoon: Estimates
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Speaking at Channel Islands 1st SharePoint User Group
19 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pmVery pleased to say that we have been asked to support the 1st Channel Islands SharePoint User Group meeting on Feb 9th. Gus Fraser (@gusfraser) recently made the move to Jersey and being active in the SharePoint community has worked hard to get the 1st event off the ground. Myself and Ant are delighted to be able to support this event and would love to see you there – perhaps we could get some French SharePoint’ers to make the hop over. It also just so happens that the session finishes just after the last plane leaves! That means we will be have to stay and support the biggest…
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Matthew McDermott's Blog
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SharePoint Saturday Austin Session
22 Jan 2012 | 8:27 amSharePoint Saturday Austin was terrific! I am grateful for all the speakers that traveled to Austin as well as the attendees (some from as far away as Nebraska!) that came and made it a wonderful collaborative and educational day. We could not have done it without the sponsors and volunteers. All in all an amazing show for our first attempt! SharePoint 2010 No Code Search Center Customization My session was fun, I love it when the audience gets involved and really thinks about what I am presenting. Here is a link to my deck and the links from the last slide. SharePoint 2010 No Code Search… -
Troubleshooting SharePoint Search Crawl
4 Jan 2012 | 5:37 pmCrawl Troubleshooting Every once in a while SharePoint Crawler will behave unexpectedly on web sites that you wish to crawl. You may get error messages that you can understand and help you troubleshoot the problem or you will get just one error that is not helpful at all. Either way, I have found that you can troubleshoot the crawl by using the following technique with Fiddler Web Debugging Proxy (http://www.fiddler2.com). Using Fiddler we are going to configure SharePoint Search to crawl through Fiddler as a Proxy so we can watch the traffic. Download and install Fiddler on the server… -
Troubleshooting SharePoint Search iFilter Registration
3 Jan 2012 | 2:58 pmTroubleshooting SharePoint Search When I first started working on SharePoint Search I was troubled by how hard it was to figure out what was actually happening when the crawl was running. The crawler/indexer is a black box that I could not see into. This made it very challenging when I would open the crawl logs and see a cryptic error message. (Often the cryptic message is not the fault of SharePoint Search, the log is just bubbling the error up, often from the iFilter.) Here are two approaches that I use to troubleshoot specific errors. The first is a tool for troubleshooting iFilters the… -
Find Me but don’t Show Me
10 Nov 2011 | 4:36 pmI recently received a question from a client who has been working on improving the quality of their search results. They are crawling their non-Microsoft CMS with SharePoint and wanted to ensure that the Keywords that they entered in the CMS and were finally rendered in the Web pages, would be findable in the search center. The keywords were emitted as META tags in the page <meta name="keywords" content="Elephant,Giraffe,Lion" />. After crawling the content a search for “Elephant” failed to return the page. Tell SharePoint to Include the Crawled Property in the… -
Take Control of Search XSL
30 Sep 2011 | 12:32 pmThis is a demo I often do when asked about how I perform Search Center XSL changes to improve the SharePoint Search Center Search Core Results Web part display. This information is buried in a few of my other posts so I thought I’d call it out all by itself for clarity. I usually perform these steps right after I create a new Search Results page and corresponding tab in the process of customizing the tabbed Search Center as I explain in the post Getting Started with Search Results. I perform these steps for many reasons that I detail in my No Code Search Center Customizations lecture.
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meetdux.com
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FREE Whitepaper & Videos: Leveraging #Office365 for Project Collaboration Success #pmot
26 Jan 2012 | 2:28 amAre you tired of relying on email to facilitate project collaboration? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a more efficient project collaboration solution out there? Office 365 can take your project collaboration practices to the next level. I'm very excited to let you know that my colleagues a... (More) -
Feb 2: Community Webcast w/ #SharePoint Director Jared Spataro
25 Jan 2012 | 1:18 pmWant to know what’s in store for Microsoft SharePoint in 2012? Join me as I talk to Jared Spataro, Director of Microsoft SharePoint, for a live 30 minute community webcast on February 2, 2012, Thu, at 3pm PT/ 6pm ET I'll talk to Jared about: - What's in store for SharePoint in 20... (More) -
Book Review: The Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices by @PaulCulmsee & @KailashAwati
21 Jan 2012 | 6:13 amThe Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices: The Reality of Managing Complex Problems in Organisationsby Paul Culmsee and Kailash Awati The monolithic topic of organizational theory may be a necessary evil in the worlds of project management and management as a whole, but only true wonks can be exci... (More) -
Top 7 Reasons You Should Attend #MSProject Conference 2012 #mspc12 #pmot
20 Jan 2012 | 7:55 amWith over 20 million Microsoft Project users worldwide, now is the time to maximize the value of this project management tool. There’s no better way to do this in 2012 but to attend the upcoming Microsoft Project Conference 2012 in Phoenix Arizona from March 19-22. Here are 7 top reasons why you c... (More) -
Video: 2012 #MSProject Community Webcast w/ @ArpanShah #pmot
19 Jan 2012 | 4:59 amHad a great time talking to Microsoft Project Director Arpan Shah yesterday. We talked about: - MS Project 2010 momentum - Client success stories - The business value of project management - Project Conference 2012 - MS Project partner ecosystem - MPUG - Community engagement If yo... (More)
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To the SharePoint
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How does Microsoft IT do it? Check out these IT Showcase resources for SharePoint Server 2010
23 Jan 2012 | 11:14 amOne common question we get from customers who are evaluating SharePoint Server 2010 or a specific SharePoint scenario is: “How did someone else do it?” Or, more specifically: “How did Microsoft IT do it?” Fortunately, Microsoft IT documents and publishes a set of resources known as Microsoft IT Showcase, which describes how they designed and deployed various Microsoft technologies and products. These resources include Webcasts, TechNet Edge videos, and Quick Reference Guides. Here is a list of Microsoft IT Showcase resources for SharePoint Server 2010: Architecting a… -
Fabulous SQL Server connection troubleshooting article in the TechNet Wiki!
12 Jan 2012 | 10:06 amCheck out How to Troubleshoot Connecting to the SQL Server Database Engine in the TechNet Wiki. Author Rick Byman takes you step-by-step though the troubleshooting process when you get the “Connect to Server” error. I strongly encourage you to bookmark this article and use it for the next time you see this type of error. Additionally, because it is a TechNet Wiki article, all it takes is a Windows Live ID and you can add to it and improve it based on your experiences. This article is a great example of what I like to call “troubleshooting methodology” content. When you… -
Find active databases used by SharePoint Server 2010
19 Dec 2011 | 4:08 pmOne of the best ways to know what databases your SharePoint deployment uses is to keep a record and add database names each time you create a new database.This isn’t always easy as there usually isn’t enough extra time during the day to keep records. Plus, more often than not your SharePoint database maintenance tasks tend to occur either late at night or in the pre-dawn hours when no users are accessing the system, so remembering to add a new database name to an ongoing list is really tough. Luckily, there are several tried and true methods you can use to find not… -
Windows PowerShell Script: Download SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites
19 Dec 2011 | 11:36 amThis is the first in a new series of posts that puts the spotlight on Windows PowerShell scripts for SharePoint 2010 Products that are stored in the TechNet Gallery. In each post, we will describe a script’s functionality and use and look under the hood at specific Windows PowerShell programming techniques that you can learn for your own scripts. Download SharePoint 2010 PrerequisitesThe Download SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites Windows PowerShell script (http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/bcf3332d-f726-4ac7-b01a-eeda4b7ece8e) downloads and stores all of the files for the… -
Extra! Extra! Apple iPad Users Can Now View SharePoint Business Intelligence Content
14 Dec 2011 | 5:23 pmIn the recent blog post, December 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released, Senior Escalation Engineer for SharePoint Stefan Goßner provides an overview of Cumulative Update 2011-12 (CU 2011-12) for SharePoint Server 2010 (thanks, Stefan!). For SharePoint business intelligence users, CU 2011-12 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is particularly exciting because it opens the door for people to get business intelligence content on Apple iPad devices. People can now view PerformancePoint reports and scorecards, Excel Services reports, and Reporting Services reports on iPad devices…
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Waldek Mastykarz
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Easier using widgets in SharePoint 2010 with the Mavention Widget Web Part
27 Jan 2012 | 8:59 amIn my previous article I explained why using widgets in SharePoint 2010 is inconvenient and showed what you can do to make it easier using the standard functionality. In this article I’ll show you how you can simplify working with widgets even further using the Mavention Widget Sandboxed Web Part. Mavention Widget Web Part The Mavention Widget Web Part is a Sandboxed Web Part which allows you to include in the page any snippet of HTML without any restrictions. Although from the functionality point of view this Web Part doesn’t seem like much, it’s offering you a lot of flexibility and… -
Inconvenient using widgets in SharePoint for end users
27 Jan 2012 | 3:36 amIt’s a common approach to use widgets to enrich web solutions. Unfortunately using widgets with SharePoint 2010 has a number of challenges. Find out why using widgets with SharePoint is inconvenient and how you can simplify it. Widgets – they’re everywhere In the last few years many web services started providing widgets so that their services can be integrated with websites. After all, who haven’t heard about the twitter search widget, the facebook like button, or about embedding a YouTube video in a page. The great thing about widgets is that they allow non-technical users to enrich… -
Better content targeting with Mavention Negated Audiences
24 Jan 2012 | 12:51 amOne of the frequent challenges when working with Audiences is the inability to provide alternative content to users outside the Audiences to which the content is targeted. Find out how to prevent pages from getting blank with Mavention Negated Audiences. SharePoint 2010 Audiences 101 The Audiences capability provided with SharePoint 2010 allows you to target content to specific groups of users. By leveraging Audiences you can not only unclutter the user interface but also make the solution more useful to the users by showing them relevant content. Targeting content using Audiences in… -
Granting permissions to the User Profile Service Application using PowerShell
20 Jan 2012 | 8:12 amIn my previous article I explained how access permissions to the User Profile Service Application are required if you want to programmatically configure Navigation of a Publishing Site in SharePoint 2010. In the article I showed you how you can configure grant required permissions manually. There are however scenarios when you might need to configure those permissions in a structured and repeatable way. Find out how to grant permissions to the User Profile Service Application using PowerShell. It’s all about having access Previously I showed you how to avoid an exception being throw while… -
Programmatically configuring menu items in SharePoint 2010 revisited
20 Jan 2012 | 3:51 amA while ago I wrote about how you can programmatically configure menu items in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell. Unfortunately it turns out that it doesn’t always the way you would expect it to. Find out how to get the script working in your SharePoint environment. Being able to programmatically configure menu items is an quite important part of structured and repeatable deployment. Particularly if you’re building and deploying frequently, configuring navigation can save you quite some time and make it easier for you to run automated tests. Back in June I shared with you a PowerShell…
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The Mit's Blog
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Rappel sur les licences SharePoint 2010 (on premise) : interne / externe
11 Jan 2012 | 5:47 amBien que SharePoint 2010 fasse partie intégrante de bien de nos projets, il y a toujours des zones d’ombre qu’il est bon de savoir éclairer … comme le sujet des licences. Ce post n’a pas pour but de détailler le système de licence de Share... -
Meilleurs Vœux et Plus pour 2012
2 Jan 2012 | 9:29 amNe sacrifions rien sur l’autel du changement : Bonne année 2012 et tous mes vœux de bonheur et de réussite que ce soit professionnel ou personnel à tous mes chers lecteurs ! 2011 fut une belle année (comme toutes les autres, il faut savoir rester pos... -
SharePoint 2010 Dev : cherchez toujours les méthodes GET !
1 Dec 2011 | 8:50 amDepuis quelques temps, je croise régulièrement des soucis dans des développements sur la récupération d’objet SharePoint Par exemple, récupérer une liste, un champs, des sous sites L’opération n’est pas vraiment compliquée, mais la méthode utilisée... -
SharePoint 2010 : Création des groupes de sécurité à posteriori et gestion de l’héritage des permissions
1 Nov 2011 | 8:56 amC’est un constat : on créé souvent des sites SharePoint plus rapidement qu’on le pense. En pratique, on oublie de casser l’héritage des droits Ce n’est pas vraiment gênant mais que ce soit via l’admin, le code ou Powershell, il faut cependant faire... -
SharePoint 2010 WCM & multilingues : Comment dites vous pages en allemand ? “Seiten”
21 Oct 2011 | 11:39 am(Oui je suis de retour, toutes mes excuses pour un si long silence mais je reviens doucement entre 2 pauses BB) Pourquoi une telle question ? Simple me direz vous, non ? Alors petit rappel : Comme vous le savez tous, SharePoint 2010 est multilingu...
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Bamboo Nation
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Guest Blog by Dan Holme: SharePoint Perspectives South of the Equator
27 Jan 2012 | 5:30 pmGreetings, all! I am writing this column from 35,000 feet, on a plane to Patagonia, Chile. I am looking down at a ridiculously beautiful and dramatic landscape of mountains, glaciers, sharp valleys, turquoise glacial lakes, and cone shaped volcanoes... So excuse me for any typos I make while typing and looking out of the window at the same time! We're on our way to Punta Arenas, Chile, which is our jumping off point for the final stop on the Sharing The Point South America tour: Antarctica. Tomorrow, I am privileged and lucky enough to head to this remote end of the planet, bringing along… -
Do SharePoint Right; SOPA vs. ECM; Vote Via the Cloud
26 Jan 2012 | 6:44 amThere has to be a better way to avoid the snooze button. - Dooley Top News StoriesSharePoint Implementation the Right Way (CMSWire)In my last post, I outlined the decision point that the SharePoint user community faces right now. I caught some flak after the post that I want to address here head-on: some folks pointed out that whatever SharePoint can or can’t do in theory, in practice SharePoint implementations frequently fail to provide improved document management…and organizations find themselves with as big (or bigger) of a mess as they had with shared… -
Paul Swider’s ‘Developing and Extending Enterprise Content Management Features’ at STP Santiago
25 Jan 2012 | 9:15 amWith Ricardo translating for the Spanish-speaking audience, Paul Swider delivered his STP Santiago session looking at ECM from a developer's perspective. Explaining the objectives for the session at the outset, Paul said that attendees would gain an understanding of forms of ECM programming, as well as best practices regarding extending ECM features. Paul also said that he would be focusing on the document management namespace and the taxonomy namespace during his session. "Everything you can do in lists today can be useful in document management," Paul said, and that "by… -
Simplicity Ensures SharePoint Success; Huddle for the Enterprise; Microsoft Kills MIX
25 Jan 2012 | 6:57 amHave the solar storms passed? Is it safe to go outside again? - Dooley Top News StoriesKeeping Things Simple to Ensure SharePoint Success (SDTimes)People often ask about tips for getting started with their SharePoint project, and usually my advice is to keep things simple and focus on what SharePoint does best (and avoid what it doesn’t do as well). Normally whenever these words come out of my mouth, I’m very aware of how silly it must sound to someone because it sounds rhetorical. But the fact of the matter is that failure to follow these two little… -
This Week in Bamboo (January 15th, 2012 - January 21st, 2012)
24 Jan 2012 | 12:13 pmFor this week in Bamboo, we fixed some bugs and released the patches for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 products using our new Web License Manager Version 2.0.10.0. More details about the patches can be found below. HW34 Team Calendar Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (1.6.19) and SharePoint 2010 (1.6.26) News: • Team Calendar Web Part now uses Web License Manager Version 2.0.10.0. Bug Fixes: • The Web Part does not automatically account for Daylight Saving Time in Month view when events are added for a secondary Exchange account and begin after…
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made4the.net: Posts
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Essentials for Samsung Series 7 Slate
27 Jan 2012 | 3:21 pmBody: So I have the Samsung Series 7 Slate for a while now, thanks to being giving it by Microsoft at the BUILD conference back in September. I actually immediately made it my production workstation…yep even though it is running Windows 8 Developer Preview! It’s great to see all the Sales VP’s who were awarded them at the Management Summit at beginning of January for hitting their figure using them. I absolute love the form factor of this device and have used various tablets in the past including a Fujitsu T5010 back in 2008. The battery wasn’t great on that and it was a little too… -
Essentials for Samsung Series 7 Slate
27 Jan 2012 | 3:12 pmBody: So I have the Samsung Series 7 Slate for a while now, thanks to being giving it by Microsoft at the BUILD conference back in September. I actually immediately made it my production workstation…yep even though it is running Windows 8 Developer Preview! I absolute love the form factor of this device and have used various tablets in the past including a Fujitsu T5010 back in 2008. The battery wasn’t great on that and it was a little too heavy to carry and scribble on with the stylus. This slate is perfect. The dock allows me to hook into Ethernet and out via HDMI to monitors. There are… -
CloudShare for proof of concepts
16 Jan 2012 | 5:11 pmBody: I’ve been working with CloudShare for a while now and I guess for me the biggest bonus has been not having to lug a stupidly oversized laptop with me to customer meetings and conferences to do demonstrations from. The second benefit is how stupidly quick you can have environments up and running. Chris Riley, Product Manager and Evangelist at CloudShare pointed out to me that there is a “SharePoint Showcase” where you can simply click on a link and it’ll “clone”/”share” a copy of a templated VM right off the bat. I’m doing a fair few talks on Application Lifecycle… -
Speaking at NYC User Group Feb 1st
13 Jan 2012 | 1:57 pmBody: I will be speaking at the NYC SharePoint User Group on Feb 1st at 5:30pm, be great to see you guys down there so please come say hello! Application Lifecycle Management in SharePoint 2010 Jeremy Thake, Enterprise Architect at AvePoint Inc and SharePoint MVP, will explain the principles of Application Lifecycle Management in SharePoint 2010. The session will suit SharePoint Developers, Team Leaders, Architects and Development Managers to understand how to approach ALM with SharePoint. The pillars of ALM will be discussed in detail and the benefits of each from a Solution perspective. The…
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Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
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Windows Home Server needs new licensing scheme
17 Jan 2012 | 9:04 amFast development of technology and quickly spreading fast internet with new devices and technology open new ways for us to connect our homes with other family members. Windows Home Server is product that needs heavy refresh and one thing that Windows Home Server team must take seriously is changing current very limited licensing scheme. Here is the overview of situation and what needs to be done to get better licensing that fits for families better today. Family is connected now One main point that is changed over time: our houses are connected better than before. By example, my brother has… -
Creating dynamic pivot reports on SQL Server
2 Jan 2012 | 4:08 amIn one of my current projects I have some pivot reports that show count of issues in different states. Grouping depends on report. States are dynamic – admins can define new states and save them to states table. This means that I cannot hardcode names of states to queries. Instead I need dynamic pivots. In this posting I will show you how to write reporting procedures that offer dynamic pivoting capabilities. The trick here is to create dynamic list of all possible states and use this list in dynamically generated pivot query. Here is fragment of my database, names of tables should be… -
ASP.NET MVC: Helper method to display date ranges
31 Dec 2011 | 4:53 amI have events web site where I want to show events start and end time to visitors. I wrote simple extension method called DisplayTimeRange() to display event time range on user-friendly manner. My goal is to show times as 01.01.2012 10:00 – 14:00 and 01.01.2012 15:00 – 01.03.2012 18:00. It’s practically displaying time ranges is shortest possible way. In this posting I will show you how to do it using extension method. For events that happen only on one date I want output like this: For events that cover more than one date I want output like this: Here is my extension method for… -
Windows Azure error: An unsupported response was received. The response header 'MSDeploy.Response' was '' but 'v1' was expected.
31 Dec 2011 | 4:20 amYou may get the following error when deploying your web application from Visual Studio to Windows Azure using WebDeploy: Remote agent could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer. An unsupported response was received. The response header 'MSDeploy.Response' was '' but 'v1' was expected. The request was aborted: The request was canceled. COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used. If you monitor your HTTPS traffic you can find out that response to WebDeploy request was error 401 (not… -
The selected database contains foreign keys that create a cycle
30 Dec 2011 | 3:41 amYou may get the following error when creating data scripts with MSSQL 2008: The selected database contains foreign keys that create a cycle. Publishing data only is not supported for databases with cyclical foreign key relationships. This problem is caused by self-referencing tables and it is given even if you don’t export data from one of such tables. Here is simple and very dirty solution. If some of tables in the list of exported tables has circular references or some of these tables refers to table with circular references then this error occurs. As a very dirty workaround you can…
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SharePoint Reviews Articles
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2012 is the Year for SharePoint Governance
14 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pmIn 2012, governance is a hot topic in SharePoint. New adopters may wonder what all the fuss is about, but, as SharePoint continues to see double digit growth year after year, all those new users surging onto the platform will require care, channeling, guidance, and oversight. Governance can take many different forms; but, at its most elemental level, governance is really guidance. It not only keeps things on track, but it is an essential response to widespread adoption and a necessary component for fostering sustained growth and usage. As you might expect, there are many competing… -
Save Time with This New Product that Lets You Automatically Generate Documentation for Your ...
27 Nov 2011 | 7:53 pmDocumentation Toolkit for SharePoint is the first SharePoint add-on on the market that automatically documents all your SharePoint farm settings into a single document. The primary use of the Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint is streightforward – automatically documenting all of SharePoint farm configuration settings into a single, properly formatted and structured Microsoft Word document. Farm configuration settings can also be viewed through the software interface without exporting them to a document, providing all relevant setting information in one place instead of having it spread… -
Do You Agree with Windows IT Pro Editors' Best Award Winners in the SharePoint Category?
23 Nov 2011 | 7:51 pmEvery year Windows IT Pro Magazine’s Editors validate products and services worthy of their Editors’ Best and, based on their readers votes, Community Choice awards. For the Community Choice awards the editorial team asks the community to nominate their favorite products and then release a voting survey to let everyone participate in the final voting phase. Fair enough. Certainly, we trust the professional opinion of Windows IT Pro Editors, but here is your chance to share your opinion with the SharePoint Reviews readers as well. There are 29 award categories, and below are the… -
KM World’s Trend-Setting Products of 2011 – Congratulations to all Winners!
20 Sep 2011 | 5:21 pmEvery year, since 2003, KM World releases the list of trend-setting products for knowledge management. Initially organized into product categories, now it’s a flat ‘Knowledge Management’ list of products (and companies) that includes a broad spectrum of capabilities. Knowledge management isn't an application - it’s an approach to delivering the right information to the right people throughout the entire population of users. It includes Web and enterprise content management systems, enterprise search, document management tools, etc. ... Read more... -
SharePoint and Outlook Integration Drives User Adoption
6 Sep 2011 | 1:08 pmIn today's business environment, facilitating collaboration and providing ready access to important information is a necessity. For organizations that have chosen SharePoint as their enterprise content management system, extending its functionality through SharePoint/Outlook integration can drive immediate adoption gains. While SharePoint 2010 is a step forward in ease-of-use, in some cases, users may prefer working in Microsoft Outlook to SharePoint. With effective Outlook to SharePoint integration, users can manage email with SharePoint the way they do with Outlook; for example, by…
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Michael Greth [SharePoint MVP]
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SharePoint Kaffeetasse 263
25 Jan 2012 | 4:44 amAllgemein How are business using SharePoint in the Enterprise (2010 - conducted by Global 360) How are business using SharePoint in the Enterprise (2011 – followup survey from Global 360) Tools Muhimbi PDF Converter – Jetzt in Version 5.2 erhältlich Source code for the OneNote Table Sorter and Table of Contents powertoy Tipps Creating a custom XML indexing connector for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint SharePoint Designer 2010: Login with different credentials Die Transition von BPOS nach Office 365 und der technische Ablauf Business Connectivity Services Using… -
Business Intelligence mit SharePoint Foundation im SharePointPodcast 203
24 Jan 2012 | 5:34 amHeute ist mal wieder Markus Raatz zu Gast im SharePointPodcast und wir setzen unsere Reihe "Talkin' Insights" (SPPD198) über "Business Intelligence mit SharePoint" fort. Das Thema habt ihr uns diesmal gestellt (siehe Umfrage in Ausgabe 178): Business Intelligence mit SQL Server und SharePoint Foundation - Status-Listen, Chart Web Part, Reporting Services-Integration, Business Connectivity Services Hier geht es zum Podcast -
SharePoint ToolBox 42
23 Jan 2012 | 4:30 amDynamisches Inhaltsverzeichnis für SharePoint Foundation Listen-Wikis Version 2.0 Das Wiki Inhaltsverzeichnis von 1stQuad Solutions erstellt dynamisch über JavaScript eine Hierarchie aus den gefundenen HTML Header-Elementen (H1 bis H4, konfigurierbar) Chart Part für SharePoint 2010 Das grossartige Chart Web Part von Wictor Wilén (www.wictorwilen.se) für WSS 3 und MOSS, welches auf Codeplex (http://chartpart.codeplex.com) der Community zur Verfügung steht, ist eine saubere Gratislösung zur Gestaltung von Charts anhand von Listendaten. 1stQuad Solutions hat… -
SharePoint Veranstaltungen in den nächsten Wochen
23 Jan 2012 | 4:13 amUnglaublich, was in den nächsten Wochen wieder für Veranstaltungen im SharePoint Land anstehen (ausführlich in unserem Terminkalender) Usergroups 24.01.2012 18:00 Uhr UG Dresden (Dresden) 24.01.2012 19:00 Uhr XING UG Frankfurt (Frankfurt) 06.02.2012 18:30 Uhr UG München (München) 08.02.2012 18:00 Uhr UG Friedrichshafen (Friedrichshafen) 29.02.2012 16:00 Uhr UG Zentralschweiz Sursee (Sursee) 06.03.2012 18:00 Uhr UG Stuttgart (Stuttgart) Webcasts 26.01.2012 14:00 Uhr DocAve 6: Die Enterprise-Management-Plattform für SharePoint Governance (Webcast) 27.01.2012 14:00 Uhr Webinar: Verträge… -
SharePointPodcast 202 ist online
20 Jan 2012 | 10:28 amHeute gibt es den offiziellen Start der SharePointSocial.de Site. Außerdem beglückwünschen wir Sven, der die Verlosung des neuen Boddenberg Buchs in der 200. Ausgabe gewonnen hat. Im Talk haben wir ein Interview mit Kristina Kerr, SharePoint Groups Product Manager, Microsoft und eine Buchbesprechung mit Chris Müller. Den Podcast gibt es wie immer auf SharePointPodcast.de >>> SPPD202 Interviews mit Kristina Kerr und Chris Müller
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Furuknap's SharePoint Corner
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What’s Wrong with the SharePoint Community?
26 Jan 2012 | 3:13 pmOver the previous months, I’ve been both reading and hearing multiple comments about how the SharePoint community is going down the drain. I have some thoughts on the subject I’d like to share with you. Now, if you drink the Kool-Aid, you know that for several years, the SharePoint community has been a great place to hang out, with tons of learning, constructive debate, and a social atmosphere where both newbies and seasoned professionals can mingle with friendly peers. In fact, in a rather short list, I pointed out the SharePoint community as one of the primary reasons why I love working… -
Formal and Informal Learning
14 Jan 2012 | 12:51 amIt may come as a surprise to you, but formal learning isn’t the way most people learn today. It never has, which is why it is so strange that so much of our evaluation of others depend on their formal learning background. Wait! Hang on, what is formal learning? Why is it not good, and, far more importantly, what is the alternative? Formal Learning It stands to reason that the opposite of formal learning would be informal learning. Now, if we ask Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge, about informal learning, they certainly have an explanation on… -
Our Holiday Gifts
24 Dec 2011 | 3:25 amAs some of you may know, my wife and I don’t like to spend money on gifts for friends and family, whether that is for Christmas or birthdays, and instead prefer to contribute what we would otherwise spend towards helping those that really need it. This year, we have finally had the chance to go on our honeymoon, almost four years after we got married. During our stay in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, we met a very nice gentleman, Sombath, who had a small shop where he spent all the profits of his business towards realizing a dream of building a school for the children of his native village. The… -
SharePoint Server 2010 Isn’t Really Ready for Enterprise Applications–And What Microsoft Should Do About It
9 Dec 2011 | 4:15 amIn 2008, I started on a project to discover the real story behind SharePoint’s inner workings from a developer perspective. The result is the book Building the SharePoint User Experience, and it details, in as much detail as I was able to put in my grossly under estimated 350 pages, how SharePoint works. Not what the documentation tells you, nor how it would be logical that a feature worked, but really what the bits and pieces do when you put them together. With SharePoint 2010, there’s a new ballgame, but sadly, it’s riddled with bugs that prevent it from being a great platform for… -
Solving ‘The Ribbon Tab with id: "Ribbon.Read" has not been made available for this page or does not exist. Use Ribbon.MakeTabAvailable()’
23 Nov 2011 | 4:30 pmUpdate: Now with its very own Codeplex project: http://spwikidialogfix.codeplex.com/ I came across a problem a couple of days ago, which may be years in the past, or theoretically millennia in the past, if, for some reason, this blog survives and is discovered by future archeologists, in which case: Hi future creatures! I hope we kept the world more or less intact and I do hope that you can find a professor in ancient languages able to decipher this and other texts from our century. You see, I think we had a pretty interesting time, which I’m sure you do too, having advanced probably far…
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Perspectives on SharePoint from Learning Tree International
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Debugging with Your Hands Tied
9 Jan 2012 | 6:57 amThe scenario was as follows: As part of a SharePoint project a custom event handler was needed that looked across two libraries to assign some metadata automatically. This required a farm level solution created in Visual Studio. (Such development is covered by our course, Programming SharePoint® 2010 Applications with .NET.) I don’t have administrative access to the Server where the code will be deployed, but I do have design rights on the Libraries. After testing locally the packages were sent to the administrator who was in a different time zone. He installed the code and enabled the… -
What Is Metadata and Why Do We Care?
28 Dec 2011 | 2:49 pmMetadata is defined as “data about data.” This is a terrible definition; let’s see if we can make better sense of it. If we examine: What can we deduce? It’s a word file, created 24/11/2011, 26 KB in size and based on the file name, it’s a performance review for employee 1244. All this information about the file is metadata. Do we care about this information? No, we don’t; we care about the performance review, what is inside the Word document. However, we need this information so we can find the performance review for employee 1244 which we want to read. -
Make 2012 Better With a Survey and Workflow
23 Dec 2011 | 2:44 amHow well are we doing In earlier posts I gave some thoughts on information structure design which is just one part of the bigger process in implementing effective SharePoint solutions. Getting feedback from users is a valuable way of determining if your designs are working or not How to get Feedback – use a survey Surveys can provide a quick and easy way of getting feedback The following shows a single question survey That presents the responder with a choice of pre-determined answers The question is implemented as a column in the survey list. This can be seen from the survey settings page… -
More on Workshops (I.T. and the Users): My Thoughts on Structure Design, Part 3
19 Dec 2011 | 2:55 amIn my last post I mentioned how members of the I.T department should be included in requirements gathering workshops. Often dedicated business analysts are involved but members of the I.T technical team are not. The rationale being, that I.T. are concerned only with the back end infrastructure. Not so, I argue. I have seen the benefits of including a wide representation of departments including I.T and representatives of the senior management team, in both consultancy engagements and also while teaching on-site courses for Learning Tree. Is it a course or a workshop? On-Site courses are where… -
Dialog Mapping Requirements: My Thoughts on Structure Design, Part 2
14 Dec 2011 | 3:54 amIn part 1 I mentioned that mind mapping is a popular approach to documenting user requirements. I am a great fan of mind maps but I have seen them result in the representation of a structural SharePoint design losing other aspects of requirements. An alternative I am finding very useful that I suggest you consider is an approach known as dialog mapping. I first heard of this in the context of ”wicked problem solving.” To support the use of dialog mapping, Open University and Verizon offer a free tool called compendium. In requirements gathering a facilitation process can be used…
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SharePoint Geek
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Disable Adding Sites To A Content Database That Exeeds 100GB
24 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pmThe following content is from Microsoft TechNet: Some content databases are growing too large (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Edit the rule definition to prevent new sites from being added to these databases, and then move some site collections to other databases. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group. On the Central Administration Home page, click Monitoring. On the Monitoring page, in the Health Analyzer section, click Review rule definitions. On the Health Analyzer Rule Definitions page, in the Availability category, click… -
How To Move A Site Collection To A Different Content Database
24 Jan 2012 | 7:04 amUse the following PowerShell script to move a Site Collection to a different Content Database: Move-SPSite <http://ServerName/Sites/SiteName> -DestinationDatabase <DestinationContentDb> -
Remove Site Templates
20 Dec 2011 | 12:48 pmIn order to remove/disable site templates so that they don’t show up in the list presented by the Create Site wizard follow these steps: Open the following file: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Template\1033\XML\webtemp*.xml Find the template that you would like to hide and change the following line “Hidden” property of the <Configuration> element to “TRUE”. You may have to do an IISReset in order for the changes to take effect. Resources… -
SharePoint 2010 Web Parts Included In SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server 2010 Standard And SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
10 Nov 2011 | 12:17 pmThis list can be found at SharePoint Config: Below are a list of the web parts that are available when creating a team site in the various editions: Web Parts by Category SharePoint Foundation SharePoint Server 2010 Standard SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Description Business Data Business Data Actions x Displays a list of actions from Business Data Connectivity. Business Data Connectivity Filter x Filters the contents of Web Parts using a list of values from the Business Data Connectivity. Business Data Item x Displays… -
Text Characters That You Cannot Use In Names of Sites, Folders, And Files In SharePoint
10 Nov 2011 | 7:04 amThe information below is found in Microsoft Technet: Site names, subsite names, or site group names You cannot use the following characters anywhere in a site name, in a subsite name, or in a site or Active Directory group name: tilde (~) number sign (#) percent (%) ampersand (&) asterisk (*) braces ({ }) backslash (\) colon (:) angle brackets (< >) question mark (?) slash (/) plus sign (+) pipe (|) quotation mark (") You cannot start a site name, subsite name, or a site group name with an underscore (_) character or with the period character. You cannot use the period…
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Wictor Wilén
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Do you want to know more about the Microsoft Certified Master or Architect programs?
26 Jan 2012 | 4:03 pmI bet you will! The Advanced Certification Team at Microsoft Learning will start a new Live Meeting series where you can learn more about the Microsoft Certified Master and Microsoft Certified Architect programs. It will be regularly held meetings where they will go into details about the programs. The program managers will make you understand the program mission and vision, how to prepare for a certification, how to apply for participation and the value of the programs. If you're interested in one or more of these programs I recommend you to attend one of the live meetings or watch the… -
Encrypted e-mails causes corrupted Crawled Properties in SharePoint 2010 Search Service Applications
17 Jan 2012 | 11:45 pmFor a couple of weeks (ahem, months) I've been struggling with a strange Search Service Application issue. Some time back I went to check out on some Crawled Properties when making a tool to help copying settings between SSA's (more on this tool in another post). Then I noticed that there were tons of Crawled Properties with just garbled binary data(!) as the property name. I searched like crazy for a while to find where these came from, there was nothing in the logs of any kind related to this. I could not locate any documents related to the Crawled Properties. I could not delete them,… -
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview with the new SharePoint Developer tools
9 Jan 2012 | 11:25 pmVisual Studio 11 Developer Preview is now available for download für alles and it does not only include the Windows 8 stuff like the previous preview did - this one contains the thing we all want - the SharePoint Developer tools. Overall the performance of Visual Studio 11 is blazingly fast! I regret I tested it - since I will go back to 2010 tomorrow (or even tonight). They team has done a great job and included a lot of the PowerTools natively; such as the new Solution Explorer, the improved search feature etc. But, back to the SharePoint Developer tools 11! What's new for all the kool… -
Scheduled incremental crawls suddenly stopped due to a stale Timer Service in SharePoint 2010
2 Jan 2012 | 3:36 pmIt is always fun to get back on site after a couple of days off work. SharePoint 2010 is like an annoying little critter, if you're not there to cuddle with it it will do the most strange things. I currently have a support case open regarding some issues with crawled properties (I hope that will be another story to tell another day) and went into the Search Service Application admin pages in Central Admin to check some things. When poking around I noticed that the incremental crawl hasn't been run for a few days - actually it stopped working on the 31st of December last year (sounds like ages… -
Summing up the year of 2011 and embracing 2012
26 Dec 2011 | 9:43 pmIt's that time of the year, when you're thinking about what you've done and accomplished the last twelve months. I've been writing a summary for the last five years (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010) and I always think it's fun to look back at the year gone and do some predictions for the upcoming one. This year has been totally crazy - I've been enjoying my work and clients/projects at Connecta and I totally love that we have such a strong team and offering. I can really feel the momentum we have in our team and projects, and nothing is stopping us now... Writing As usual I've been jotting…
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The Scribble SharePoint Blog
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SharePoint in a virtual machine
26 Jan 2012 | 3:39 amI've just published an article over at cmswire.com about the options for trialling SharePoint, namely SharePoint Foundation or SharePoint Online.One of the comments on the piece, by Christian Buckley (check out his blog and twitter feeds - both very good), pointed out that another way of trying out SharePoint was to use a pre-compiled virtual machine made available by Microsoft. You can find a download link here. Be warned it's a pretty big download, but it does contain the following pre-configured software (across… -
A business analyst or a project manager?
23 Jan 2012 | 4:33 amI saw this very interesting article at the tail end of last week, over at nothingButSharePoint.com. Have a read for yourself, but the in summary it discusses the important of having a business analyst on a SharePoint project. I couldn't agree more (checkout my previous posts on the subject) and totally agree that rushing into a project without fully understanding the problem is often the cause of untold issues on many IT projects.A little snippet at the start of the article states that BAs are seen as 'junior project managers' in the authors organisation. This is something I hear time… -
Useful links from Twitter this week
19 Jan 2012 | 9:04 amSome interesting links and articles you may have missed from Twitter in this last week. Follow the Scribble Agency on Twitter to stay right upto date.SharePoint:Interesting interview with Jared Spataro, director of SharePoint -http://bit.ly/wZwXta SharePoint is a 'document coffin', says IBM - bit.ly/zwsEB0 Office365 vs GoogleApps http://bit.ly/AtDKpD 39 Solutions for Doing Social Business with SharePoint - http://t.co/8Wm6DPJgMicrosoft:Microsoft confirms Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, now working on Xbox - zd.net/AlDw4y… -
Let Scribble manage your Twitter feed
16 Jan 2012 | 7:41 amHopefully you are avid followers of the Scribble Twitter feed, a great place to stay upto date with SharePoint and Microsoft related news and articles. If you work at a SharePoint consultancy or web development firm, you might want to talk to us about how we can help you with your Twitter feed. Scribble offers a number of services designed to help you keep on top of social media.So why not outsource the hassle and work of maintaining your Twitter feed to us? Get in touch -
A quick visual tour of Office365 for new users
13 Jan 2012 | 9:47 amOffice365 is Microsoft's cloud offering - featuring SharePoint, Outlook, and Office Web Apps. It's huge product with many features, and I will be covering it more and more on this blog over the next few weeks. In this post I simply want to give you a quick tour and overview of the key components. What follows is screen shots of the main areas, which will hopefully give you a good feel for what is available.Note: Each image isn't huge here, but click on it to get a larger version.Administration screens - Home, domain, and usersAdmin home: This is the first…
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Office and Business Productivity
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Do you really need SharePoint Site Collection Quotas?
19 Jan 2012 | 2:56 pmSetting some context Like on almost everything in life, there are different opinions on using site collection quota. In his blog post “Controlling Sites Sizes with Quotas” Michal Pisarek proposes to use Site Collection Quotas and they should be one of the first things to be considered in your SharePoint Governance plan. I do agree with him, but I also firmly disagree. Why don’t I agree with the obsessive (IT) need to implement Site Collection Quota? During a workshop I was delivering to the business key stakeholders for a SharePoint project (it was a workshop to gather business… -
Biwug3011: SharePoint 2010 Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Deep dive
12 Nov 2011 | 1:48 pmBIWUG is hosting an interesting evening on SharePoint 2010 Multilingual User Interface. I also heard from the president of the BIWUG that the #SharePint will be organized with actually pints :-) So no #ShareCola or #ShareMinutemaid but actually real Belgian beer, hence a real #SharePint! Doing a SharePoint project in a multilingual environment can be tricky. In this BIWUG session we will focus on how the new MUI (Multilingual User Interface) allows for multilingual collaboration scenarios. We will show you how MUI and the SharePoint variations framework relate to each other. Next to… -
Speaking at BIWUG on October 27th about Governance
12 Oct 2011 | 3:57 pmOn Thursday October 27th BIWUG organizes an evening full with great information. I’ll be a part of that, speaking about SharePoint Governance. Or we can also call it Governance for SharePoint. I’ll also participate in the second part of the evening where we’ll talk about the past, the present and the future of BIWUG. Oh yes, for the record, the third part of that evening will also involve some me, but in the form of attending and trying to get a good conversation and meeting great people at the #SharePint. During this session I want to give the attendees a different view on Governance. -
Moving files with metadata and permissions to another library.
25 Jun 2011 | 5:26 amBusiness case: We have a document library with files. These files all have specific files level permission. A user can only see files (s)he is allowed to see, and the permission level changes during a workflow. When the document get the status finished, a workflow will remove the contribute right for the contributors and set a read permission for these users. There are also about 30 metadata columns. Some of these columns are just status fields used in a workflow, other ones (about 22) are actual properties of this document. The library is used to collaborate on files that have a limited time… -
I’ll be speaking at Communityday Belgium 2011
20 Jun 2011 | 5:12 pm14 Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing event. Microsoft Community Day will take place on Thursday 23th June 2011 in Utopolis, Mechelen, where we will bring together over 350 IT Pro’s and developers. Of course, some other people will also join the party, like the “functionals” ;-) My session will cover this topic: “SharePoint Governance: Stop thinking about features features features when talking about governance. When designing governance for a SharePoint implementation, a lot (not to say all) energy and…
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Yaroslav Pentsarskyy on SharePoint Development
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Come join me for the first ever office 365 saturday in Redmond this Feb
27 Jan 2012 | 1:19 amThat’s right, first ever Office 365 Saturday is taking place in Redmond this Feb. I’ll be speaking on branding of Office 365 sites and you will also find many other innovative speakers Here is the general info on the event: Office 365 Saturday Redmond is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected technology experts and community leaders, covering a wide variety of topics focused on Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 Saturday Redmond is FREE, open to the public, and is your local chance to immerse yourself in Office 365 including topics related… -
Unauthorized when using SharePoint PowerPivot document from Report Builder or Excel?
24 Jan 2012 | 5:23 pmHere is the scenario: You’ve got WFE Server which is also an app server with PowerPivot set up, we’ll call it SPWFE. You also have the database server which is a SharePoint database, let’s call it SPDB. That same server hosts reporting services. Lastly you’ve got a 3rd database server hosting some data, let’s call it the LOBDataDB. So you have a PowerPivot workbook sitting in your SPWFE PowerPivot library, the data retrieved being retrieved from LOBDataDB. When you execute the workbook right from the PowerPivot library – the workbook renders no problem. -
Troubleshooting PowerPivot: Unable to refresh data for a data connection in the workbook
22 Jan 2012 | 1:42 pmIf you’re trying to explore one of the cool new integrations in SharePoint 2010 BI stack, PowerPivot, you might run into the problem where your PowerPivot workbooks will return the following error, when you try clicking on the slicer in your excel sheet in attempt to filter the data: Unable to refresh data for a data connection in the workbook. Try again or contact your system administrator. The following connections failed to refresh Data Now, the first you might think – that the issue is related to the data refresh, and there is plenty on the internet related to the data… -
Creating custom SharePoint site templates for the cloud
17 Jan 2012 | 1:28 amBy this time you’ve probably had a chance to create SharePoinnt site templates for on-premises hosted environmenets. Learn how you can create new SharePoint 2010 site templates for cloud hosted environments such as office 365 etc. This will allow your users to create new instances of sites based on your custom definition. Enjoy! -
SharePoint branding with SharePoint Designer – screencast
11 Jan 2012 | 11:24 pmIf you’re involved in a SharePoint branding project and it’s a new topic for you, you’ll love this screencast which is going to go over tons of gotchas in about an hour It was recorded recently and I`ve got some really good feedback on it, so I hope you`ll like it. Enjoy!
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SharePoint Tutorial
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SharePoint Template - Business Intelligence Center
18 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pmThis article describes the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Center… a SharePoint template which “[…] enables you to collaborate, discover and manage the information you need to drive the business forward. With Business Intelligence, users are empowered with the right business insights enabling them to make informed decisions, and move the business forward, one activity at a time.“ You can find more descriptions of SharePoint templates at: SharePoint Template The team site template is available for SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise SharePoint 2010… -
SharePoint Template - Visio Process Repository
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pmThis article describes the SharePoint 2010 Visio Process Repository… a SharePoint template intended “[…] for teams to quickly view, share, and store Visio process diagrams. It provides a versioned document library for storing process diagrams, and lists for managing announcements, tasks, and review discussions. “ You can find more descriptions of SharePoint templates at: SharePoint Template The Visio Process Repository template is available for SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise SharePoint 2010 Screenshots Here are some screenshots where you can see how the… -
SharePoint Download - December 2011
16 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pmThis post covers all SharePoint downloads available due to the Microsoft Download Center in December 2011… some of them were posted using Twitter or Google+. Downloads related to Office 365 are not listed. You can access the list and downloads related to other products using the following link: Microsoft Download Center. Administration and Operation These downloads are intended for IT professionals but may be interesting to end user or developers. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Add or Remove an Index Column Microsoft System Center Configuration Pack for Microsoft Office… -
SharePoint Download - November 2011
20 Dec 2011 | 1:00 pmThis post covers all SharePoint downloads available due to the Microsoft Download Center in November 2011… some of them were posted using Twitter or Google+. Downloads related to Office 365 are not listed. You can access the list and downloads related to other products using the following link: Microsoft Download Center. Administration and Operation These downloads are intended for IT professionals but may be interesting to end user or developers. Microsoft Visio 2010 for SharePoint Network Topology Infrastructure Planning and Design Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack… -
SharePoint Download - October 2011
14 Nov 2011 | 1:00 pmThis post covers all SharePoint downloads available due to the Microsoft Download Center in October 2011… some of them were posted using Twitter or Google+. Downloads related to Office 365 are not listed. You can access the list and downloads related to other products using the following link: Microsoft Download Center. Administration and Operation These downloads are intended for IT professionals but may be interesting to end user or developers. Service Pack 3 for Windows SharePoint Services 2007 (KB2526305), 64-Bit Edition The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 3 (SP3),…
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Christian Brix
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Datenimport-Überlegungen (MS-CRM)
23 Jan 2012 | 6:22 amDieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Fragestellung, wie vorgegangen werden kann, wenn Daten aus einem beliebigen System oder einer Datenquelle in MS Dynamics CRM importiert werden sollen. Dabei sind verschiedenste Vorbereitungen zu treffen, und man sollte nicht zu hastig dabei vorgehen, sondern jeden Schritt überprüfen und mit Testdaten verifizieren, um zu vermeiden im Nachhinein sehr viel manuelle Arbeit leisten zu müssen, oder unvollständige oder inkonsistente Daten im System vorzufinden. Inhalte: ·Analyse der vorhandenen Daten und Zuordnung zu den CRM Entitäten ·Aufbereitung von… -
Vorhandene Projekte in Project Server hochladen
20 Dec 2011 | 5:41 amWenn Project Server ausgerollt wird, sind meistens bereits Projektdateien vorhanden, die nun im Project-Server verwaltet werden sollen.Hier ein kurzer Artikel zum Vorgehen beim Hochladen von vorhandenen Projekte in den MS-Project Server. (more…) -
Project-Server Pro und Contra
18 Dec 2011 | 4:46 amEinige Gedanken zum “Für und Wider” hinsichtlich des Einsatzes von Microsoft Project Server im Unternehmen. Ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit eine Sammlung von Argumenten und eine kleine Lizenzkostenberechnung. (more…) -
Project-Server 2010 Project Web Application (PWA)
17 Dec 2011 | 12:31 pmProject Server 2010 1Project Server Web Application PWA. Häufig auch als Project Server Web Access bezeichnet. Diese Web-Anwendung basiert auf der MS-SharePoint-Technologie und ist als solche in die MS-SharePoint-Foundation integriert. 1.1Was ist das? PWA ist ein Teil des Project-Server 2010. Während der Project Server 2010 selbst aus einer Vielzahl von Komponenten besteht, die unter anderem dafür sorgen, dass Workflows abgearbeitet werden können, Berichte generiert werden, und viele andere Funktionen automatisiert ausgeführt werden, ist die PWA eine Browser basierte Oberfläche, die… -
Migration MOSS 2007 nach Sharepoint 2010 Schrittweise (Step by Step)
25 Sep 2011 | 5:06 amDie Migration von MOSS 2007 nach Sharepoint 2010 habe ich im folgenden als kleine “Checkliste” sowohl als Mindmap, als auch als Word- und OpenOffice Dokument bereitgestellt. Anhand der MindMap-Grafik kann die Migration schrittweise abgearbeitet werden. Die beigefügten Dokumente können sowohl als Checkliste, als auch als Dokumentationsgrundlage für eine Migration verwendet werden. Mindmap Migration MOSS 2007 -> SP 2010 Open Office Dokument Word Dokument Die beiden Dokumente liegen als ZIP-Dateien vor. Die Bilddatei im Browser öffnen und mit der Zoom-Funktion (STRG-Mausrad)…
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Tech Talk PT
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New certification done – 70-576: PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications
26 Jan 2012 | 10:07 amLast monday I have passed my latest exam regarding the 70-576: PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications exam. This exam is a good challenge even to experienced Sharepoint 2010 professionals. Now I have to start working for my next certification. -
Add link to approval task in notification email
3 Oct 2011 | 9:49 amOne of the annoying things in Sharepoint 2010 is related to the workflows, if you are using Outlook 64 bits (or Word 64 bits) and try to use the “Open this Task” button in the email message (ribbon) this will not work, why? Known Issue!!! Is there a fix? I have not found one that didn’t included editing registry entries . . . So we can provide a workarround and include a link to the task in the email body. This is quite simple to do and it calm down your users. How can we do this? 1 – Open the Sharepoint Designer 2010 2 – Open the desired workflow 3 – Edit… -
Co-authoring documents in Sharepoint 2010
28 Sep 2011 | 6:09 amOne of the questions most customers ask me regarding the collaborative work of documents is if more than one person can edit the same document at the same time. The classic approach using Sharepoint was to edit a document from a document library and this would enable you to do your work while everybody else would have access to a read-only version. With the release of Office 2010 Microsoft enabled a very cool functionality, the co-authoring! Basically this enables a document to be edited by more than one person at the same time, restricting the zone that is being edited and allowing every… -
SharepointPTDay is coming . . .
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Cannot open files from document libraries without save
6 May 2011 | 11:49 amWhen your users want to open a document (PDF, MSG, etc…) from a document library and it keeps asking them to save instead of simply open them, you will have a lot of complaints to answer . . . but don’t quit your job yet, there is a solution. Usually this happens due to security policies in the browsers and Sharepoint by default sets it’s browser file handling settings to Strict. If you search for a solution you will find hundreds of articles saying that all you have to do is to set this browser file handling configuration to Permissive and that will do the trick . . .
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Series solutions on document management for officer - Part 3
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How to Customize SharePoint List Content Display using Content Query Web Part
26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 amMelick describes how to use a Content Query Web Part to Style a SharePoint List. -
What can InfoPath do for you - Part 7
26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 amIn this part of my InfoPath series I want to show you how you can use the SharePoint web services. -
SharePoint Ribbon ToggleButton: creating multiview pages
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RBS (Remote Blob Storage) - Part 3
25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 amA configured and running Remote Blob Storage (RBS) is a ticking time bomb until you’ve configured the Maintainer to run.
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T3chnicalLead
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WCM in SharePoint–Page Content Column
22 Jan 2012 | 11:26 amA bad workman always blames his tools and in the case of SharePoint, I have run into people from time to time that are, let’s just say, less than thrilled about some of SharePoint features. A message I have across the board is this; Be sure that you are using the correct part of SharePoint for the task at hand. This is of course assuming that SharePoint was the correct tool in the first place, let’s move on. Example When building public facing websites, article pages are used to create content, both static and dynamic. One of the native columns that ship with an article page is the… -
Solved: SharePoint Returning a Blank Page
4 Jan 2012 | 3:26 amAfter installing SharePoint Server 2010 on my fresh copy of Windows 7 I was seeing a completely blank page when hitting the site. Central admin was showing an empty page too. The blank page showed up almost immediately after navigating to the url, so it appeared to not even be trying to load. After much digging and prodding I stumbled across the answer: I had forgotten to tick the Windows Authentication box when installing the IIS7 features. So I enabled it like this: Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off >Internet Information Services > World… -
Blast from the Past: Service Packs–SPS 2003
22 Dec 2011 | 10:41 amI recently did a bit of work on one of our legacy clients. The environment still runs SharePoint Portal Services 2003 and it was pretty interesting getting stuck into the now “old school” Central Administration and so forth. As I was having trouble restoring an old portal I turned to trying to validate what the service pack for the environment & machines were. I used the following resources to get some answers: Stuart’s Tech Punch – http://techpunch.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/sharepoint-portal-services-team-services-determine-service-pack-version/ Microsoft… -
Random Musings: MS Project and SharePoint 2010
28 Nov 2011 | 7:10 amSharePoint 2010 is months away from being “old news”, but the amazing thing about the update from MOSS 2007 –> SharePoint 2010 is that it was so packed with updates, we can still blog about cool features. Today, I’ll discuss the Project Task list and it’s integration with Project Professional. For anyone that has ever needed to run a project in the Microsoft ecosystem, I’m pretty sure you cracked open Project Professional and built a plan. For those that have been Project Managers you’ve probably worked with Project Professional in conjunction with Project Server, which… -
Project Governance
10 Nov 2011 | 1:18 amAs I was driving to work this morning, I started thinking about some of the projects I had worked on the last couple of years. Some brilliant, some not so much, others mentally challenging and a couple just very basic. One thing that hit me, was how different the project delivery industry (e.g. IT) is to other industries. I guess that is a fairly generic statement, but what got me thinking is how the IT industry seems to have a lot of grey area. Although consultants work on an hourly rate (for time and material projects) I still find that there are many clients that expect a…
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Randy Drisgill - SharePoint Branding and Design
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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… -
Come see me present at Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim
31 Aug 2011 | 1:07 pmIf you are planning to attend the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, Oct 3rd-6th 2011, come on out to one of my sessions and say hello. I was fortunate enough to be selected to co-present a couple different sessions with John Ross this year. SharePoint911 will also have a booth at the show and a good portion of the team is likely to be hanging around there at any given time AND we should have our brand new (top secret) squishy farm animal to give away. Here are the sessions I will be co-presenting. I think the session date and times are still somewhat tentative so be sure to check the schedule… -
Pre-Announcement – IT Camp #3 – Orlando, FL (Saturday Jan 21, 2012)
16 Aug 2011 | 2:01 pmI know there is going to be a SharePoint Saturday in Austin Texas around this same time, which should be a blast. But for those that don’t want to travel to Texas, we are going to have an entire SharePoint track at Microsoft’s IT Camp #3 in Orlando, Florida on January 21, 2012. For those that don’t know what the IT Camp is, here is a description as well as a link to the previous camp in Tampa: Join system administrators IT professionals and database professionals in addition to managers at all levels in Florida that work with Microsoft technologies for a “IT Camp Saturday” event on… -
CSS Chart for SharePoint 2010
8 Aug 2011 | 1:47 pmPersonally I prefer to use the IE Developer Toolbar and Firefox for manipulating CSS in SharePoint 2010 but I know from the 100’s of people that have asked me that CSS charts are something people really want. Heather Solomon had the first CSS chart back in the SharePoint 2007 days and recently she has posted a preview of a new chart for 2010 and it looks like it should be a nice resource for everyone: SharePoint 2010 CSS Reference Chart -
SharePoint 2010 Mobile Devices and Scrolling
6 Jul 2011 | 3:05 pmThis was a posted a little while back, but I’m guessing some of you haven’t seen it yet. Over at the SPTechWeb site I wrote an quick article where I reviewed three of the more popular ways (they weren’t pioneered by me btw) of handling scrolling in SharePoint 2010 specifically as it relates to mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad, and Android. The post was inspired by all the SPTechCon attendees that asked about mobile devices as well as my co-worker Todd Klindt for wanting to push the boundaries of SharePoint 2010 blogging for a public facing site. SPTechWeb – SharePoint 2010: Mobile…
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Giles' SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans
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Missing Server Side Dependencies–Useful links for diagnosis and removal #SP2010 #PS2010 #SharePoint #ProjectServer #in
17 Jan 2012 | 11:15 amSome quick links to help diagnose the “Missing server side dependencies” errors from the health check analyzer in SharePoint 2010. Helps remove features via a GUI interface (be careful with this tool!) MissingFeature Codeplex Solution: http://featureadmin.codeplex.com/ Removes feature dependencies from the database via PowerShell (be care with this script!) MissingFeature Removal PowerShell: http://get-spscripts.com/2011/06/removing-features-from-content-database.html Once you have removed the dependencies, re-run the health check analyzer for the “Missing server side dependencies”… -
I’m speaking at Project Conference 2012 – Integrating #SP2010 and #PS2010 #PC12 #SharePoint #ProjectServer #in
16 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pmApologies for the lack of updates on the blog, the Christmas / New Year holidays have been really busy. Anyway, just a quick blog post to announce that I will be presenting at this years Microsoft Project Conference in Phoenix, Arizona in March this year. My Company: Corporate Project Solutions Microsoft Project Conference 2012 Full Session Details If you are attending the conference and you would like to meet up, just let me know. You can contact me here. Further Details: Session Title: Integrating SharePoint and Project Server 2010 – Deployment Approaches, Integration Options… -
#SPSUK 2011 Slides and Blog Links #SharePoint #SP2010 #PS2010 #MSProject #ProjectServer #in
22 Nov 2011 | 4:35 pmApart from the usual networking you can do at a SharePoint conference, it is also all about the learning of new products, techniques and experiences from fellow like minded individuals. I personally found the presentations I went too invaluable in confirming decisions I had taken in my own projects as well as learning new subject matters. So with this in mind I have set about trying to collate the various slides from the events so that I can refer back to them in the future and I thought I would share my results. Not all slide decks are up yet, but I will endeavour to update this list as they… -
Feedback from the few sessions I attended at Sharepoint Saturday UK, 12th Nov 2011
19 Nov 2011 | 7:38 amAs Giles Hamson mentioned I too went to the “Sharepoint Saturday” meet-up in Nottingham for the first time. Since I was on a course this week and driving 3 hours every day I didn’t get much chance to give my feedback, so with a lot of delay here are my personal notes I jotted down in mymemory. To my surprise, or just because I didn’t actually read the Sharepoint Saturday website much when I registered, I was amazed by the venue, the quality of the speakers (a lot US citizens Sharepoint faces coming just for the occasion) and the attendance. I thought not many… -
Created by the #SharePoint community – The SharePoint 2010 Handbook #SP2010 #ProjectServer #MSProject #SPSUK #SUGUK #in
15 Nov 2011 | 6:13 am** UPDATE ** Thank you for the overwhelming feedback, A Kindle version of the book is in the works and we will keep you posted. Back in June 2011 Paul Beck asked the community for authors to contribute to a community book on SharePoint 2010 (original post). Various authors have stepped up to the plate and the book has now been released. So without further ado… The SharePoint 2010 Handbook A Collection of Short Chapters for Delivering Successful SharePoint Projects The SharePoint 2010 Handbook aims to explain some of the key topics of SharePoint 2010 as well as to broaden the…
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SharePoint Search Tips and Tricks
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Free Search Result Action Web Part from SurfRay
22 Jan 2012 | 4:31 pmSurfRay has just released a free search result action web part for anyone using SharePoint 2010 or FAST. This free result action web part adds four of the most commonly used document action menus to SharePoint search results. The updated Core Search Results...(read more) -
Five Roadblocks to SharePoint Search Maturity
22 Jan 2012 | 4:09 pmSharePoint is designed to evolve with your business, but using SharePoint to its full potential presents plenty of challenges. In this presentation, Sadalit Van Buren, author of The SharePoint Maturity Model and Senior Software Engineer at Blue Metal...(read more) -
Using FAST Search for SharePoint Pipeline to Improve Search
22 Jan 2012 | 3:52 pmEveryone knows that great metadata is key to a great user search experience, but what can you do if your existing content falls short? The FAST Search for SharePoint pipeline provides a way to enhance document metadata during the indexing process so your...(read more) -
Effective Requirements Gathering for Search in SharePoint 2010
11 Nov 2011 | 2:25 pm“Better Search” and “Effective Search” are not requirements! SharePoint MVP, Michal Pisarek, illustrates how to execute search requirement workshops, how to map certain requirements to OOTB configuration options, and how to measure effectiveness of your...(read more) -
Search Analytics in SharePoint 2010
28 Oct 2011 | 5:20 pmIn this presentation, Robert Piddocke explains the basics behind search engine ranking and general behaviors of users when interacting with search. He then shows how to use search analytics in SharePoint to build Best Bets and synonyms to improve the...(read more)
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William's Blog | CorasWorks
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Secret Sauce of Top 10 Custom Solutions of 2011 Powered by CorasWorks v11 Solution Platform
17 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pmWelcome to 2012! I want to start the year off properly by providing a solid plug for the CorasWorks v11 solution platform. Last month, we released our Top 10 of 2011 list of Custom Solutions built with CorasWorks. We got a lot of interest. We also got some feedback saying basically, “You all need to talk more about these custom solutions and the power of the CorasWorks v11 platform?”. It is true. Last year we spent a a lot of time communicating about our productized solutions for Social Collaboration, Idea Management, Project Portfolio Management and… -
Put a little Managed Work behind your Collaboration and Make Things Happen
18 Dec 2011 | 4:44 pmIn my post Top 5 Collaborative Apps to Liven Up SharePoint in 2012 I gave you some ideas to get people off to an engaged and lively collaborative start to the year. A good dose of lively, self-managed, engaged collaboration is fantastic and it will grow on people. And, if you prepare to drop a little Managed Work into the apps I mentioned you’ll really get a boost. Here is how it works… You set up your engaging collaborative community. Let’s take the Workplace Concierge Community (one of the 5). People are asking questions, answering them and helping each other… -
Top 5 Collaborative Apps to Liven Up Your SharePoint Environment in 2012
17 Dec 2011 | 3:42 pmOver the last year I’ve worked with CorasWorks customers on lots of deep and broad collaborative systems leveraging the social business collaboration capabilities of CorasWorks Cim on SharePoint 2010. Examples of some projects are broad idea and innovation management systems, process-intensive knowledge management systems, deep multi-phase R&D innovation processes, and complex enterprise best practices systems. Its been an intense year. During this holiday season I am transitioning to 2012 and lightening up a bit. Here is my thought – start 2012 with some… -
Why would you want just a Social Intranet?
4 Nov 2011 | 3:57 pmI recently read an article by Toby Ward posted October 18th, entitled Despite SharePoint’s Success, The Social Intranet is Still Rare. He talks of the massive adoption of SharePoint. He does a good job of describing how Intranets are evolving and the use of social media tools to create a Social Intranet. Then, he provides data showing that users of Intranets with social media tools actually are showing low levels of satisfaction. He also says that enterprise Social Intranets are rare, particularly on SharePoint. Bottom line is that I agree with what he writes. In this article, I’ll… -
Drive exceptional results by combining social business collaboration and project management
17 Oct 2011 | 9:47 pmWe kicked off October as an exhibitor at the SharePoint Conference in Los Angeles. At our booth, we were showing our two core solutions for SharePoint 2010 – CorasWorks Cim for Social Business Collaboration and CorasWorks PPM for Project Portfolio Management. These are two robust solutions that work great stand alone. However, we got people really excited by demonstrating business scenarios where the two are combined to drive a new experience. In this article, I’ll cover the three combo scenarios that we were showing and give you an explanation of how they come…
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SharePoint Dragons
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Claims documentation
27 Jan 2012 | 9:38 amSo far the best resource we’ve found online about claims authentication and SharePoint 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27569 -
Number of logged on users in SharePoint
26 Jan 2012 | 6:54 amNice: http://blog.furuknap.net/find-number-of-users-currently-logged-on-to-a-sharepoint-site A very reasonable approach to finding the number of users currently logged on to SharePoint. -
Little InfoPath trick
26 Jan 2012 | 1:14 amPlace two buttons on an InfoPath form, and give the first button the label ‘5’ and the second button the label’ ‘6’. Then select both buttons and select the font Marlett. The labels 5 and 6 will be replaced with arrows. -
The SharePoint Language Store
23 Jan 2012 | 3:29 amWe feel the SharePoint Language Store ( http://splanguagestore.codeplex.com/ ) is an interesting idea for situations where you don’t want (or are not allowed to) to roll out a new resource file every time there is a change in the UI multilingual text. -
Want to use a different user account when logged into SharePoint Designer 2010?
17 Jan 2012 | 9:39 amSomebody asked this exact same question, and we were wondering how to do it. It turns out that, once connected to a SharePoint site, there is a very small icon at the bottom left that allows you to switch user accounts: check out http://www.sharepointkings.com/2011/08/login-with-different-user-sharepoint.html
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Mike Smith's Tech Training Notes
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Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Lightning Round in February!
22 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pmThe Cincinnati SharePoint User Group meets the first Thursday of every month at 6:00 PM at MAX Technical Training in Mason, Ohio (directions). The next meeting is 2/2/2012. Lighting Round! February is our "Lighting Round" meeting where everyone is welcome to submit a proposal to speak for anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes. These have been a lot of fun in the past and no matter your -
What Time is it in SharePoint Land? (I missed your meeting because of the time listed in the calendar!)
19 Jan 2012 | 10:15 pmLuis is SharePoint user working on a SharePoint installation installed in the corporate headquarters in Los Angles. The server there is setup on Pacific Time (UTC-08:00). Sam is a team member based in the Atlanta office who has changed his Regional Settings to Eastern Time (UTC-05:00). Sam schedules a Team Meeting for 10:00 AM. Luis checks the team calendar as sees: Luis is in -
SharePoint Cincy 2012 Early Bird Discounted Registration Now Available
17 Jan 2012 | 4:11 pmNeed I say more! Go here http://www.sharepointcincy.com/ and click Register Now before 2/29/12. . -
Adding JavaScript to a SharePoint 2010 Wiki, and other Wiki Tips and Tricks
17 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pmThe SharePoint 2010 Wiki has a few interesting changes… some I personally think are oversights, some are SharePoint trying to keep you “out of trouble”. Some of things I will look at here: Why can’t I see a list of all of the Wiki pages? The Rename Page button in the Ribbon is grayed out! How can I insert JavaScript and other content not supported by the Ribbon? Why can’t I -
SharePoint: Hide List and Library Column Headings
13 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pmI have updated the “Hide List and Library Column Headings” article to add notes for SharePoint 2010 and Office 365! Go here for the details: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/06/sharepoint-hide-list-and-library-column.html Before (2007): After (2007): Before (2010): After (2010): Note: after this customization the checkbox column disappears, at least until
