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Get the RC version of Visual Studio for SharePoint

pstubbs

8 Feb 2010 | 4:49 pm

Today the Visual studio team announced the availability of the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. I have been using this version internally for a little while and am very happy with the progress and performance of my SharePoint development. This build...(read more)
SharePoint 2010 Hands on Labs

pstubbs

30 Jan 2010 | 4:42 pm

Office and SharePoint hands on labs The best way to get started learning about Office and SharePoint is to use the Channel 9 training kits. The training kits contain and number of videos and hands on labs. In order to complete the hands on labs you will...(read more)
BizSpark Startups battle for best Web 2.0 SharePoint App

pstubbs

29 Jan 2010 | 8:43 am

Today is the last day of the SharePoint SocialFest event here in Mountain View, California. This week a number of BizSpark startups have been competing in a SharePoint Web 2.0 app building exercise. I have been down here all week along with others from...(read more)
Get live Help on new Channel 9 Show

pstubbs

27 Jan 2010 | 9:45 am

Today at 2pm PST channel 9 will start a new live help desk show on Channel 9. Today’s show includes a special appearance by Chris Pirillo . Watch the show Live today at 2pm PST. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NicFill/Help-Desk-with-Chris-Pirillo-on-Channel-9-Live-Pilot-Episode...(read more)
Video - Office 2010: Productivity Solutions Overview

pstubbs

26 Jan 2010 | 4:31 pm

Today my good friend, John Durant, released a new video talking about some of the resources available to Office developers. The Office and SharePoint platform are really becoming a powerful and easy way to deliver Business value through rich productivity...(read more)

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
December 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

sptblog

29 Jan 2010 | 9:09 am

December 2009 Cumulative Updates are available for download for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Cumulative Updates will now always be available at the Update Center For additional download information and detailed descriptions of the December 2009 Cumulative Update visit the Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx. Additional Resources Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products
Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010

sptblog

22 Jan 2010 | 2:55 pm

We've seen some confusion in the newsgroups and elsewhere on the versions and editions of Windows that SharePoint 2010 will run on. This post is meant to clarify some of the most common questions we have seen. SharePoint 2010 will support only 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2. SharePoint will not install at all on 32 bit Windows, or any earlier version of Windows such as Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003. SharePoint is not supported on 'Server Core' installations of Windows Server 2008 and R2. The Server Core installations of…
Try System Center Operations Manager Management Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta

sptblog

11 Jan 2010 | 1:37 pm

Management Packs allow users to monitor SharePoint 2010 with System Center Operations Manager. SharePoint Foundation Management Pack and SharePoint Server 2010 Management Pack enables monitoring of SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Search Server 2010 (These is separate management pack for FAST search), Project Server 2010 and Office Web Apps. Once management pack is imported to System Center console, based on console configuration it automatically discovers what SharePoint bits or servers are installed in the environment that is being monitored and start monitoring those…
SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 - Using the New SharePoint Lists

sptblog

8 Jan 2010 | 1:47 pm

Hi! I'm Jason Morrill, another Program Manager on the SharePoint team. I wanted to write a bit about what it feels like to use SharePoint lists with the new user experience. If you've got a SharePoint site sitting around, I'd encourage you to open it in another window and follow along as I talk about things. Let's start by just browsing to a document library with no content. The first thing you'll notice is that we've moved some of the navigation and menus around. The stuff right in the middle (Site Name > Document Library > All…
Planning for Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2010

sptblog

4 Jan 2010 | 10:01 am

In order to upgrade to SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010, you must first be running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 at SP2 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 at SP2, respectively. For customers running prior versions of SharePoint, including Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003, this means that you must first upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 prior to upgrading to 2010 versions. Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 with SP2 is available as a free download, and trial versions of…

Mike Walsh's WSS and more
WSS v3 FAQ CLXXXV - 10th - 16th January 2010

16 Jan 2010 | 12:24 am

Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at www.wssfaq.com (wssv3faq.mindsharp.com) daily.) From 10th - 16th January 2010 NOTE: Amendments to KB articles are now only listed when a version is x.0. MS no longer change the dates of KB articles when version changes are minor. I.1 2007 KB Articles New …
SharePoint Foundation 2010 additions and changes - 12 - 10th to 16th January 2010

16 Jan 2010 | 12:18 am

Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.) From 10th to 16th January 2010 NOTE: Amendments to KB articles are now only listed when a version is x.0. MS no longer change the dates of KB articles when version changes are minor. I.1 2010 KB Articles New or Modifed None II. Articles - 2010 Products New A. Office 2010 Server…
WSS v3 FAQ CLXXXIV - 20th December 2009 to 9th January 2010

9 Jan 2010 | 1:21 am

Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at www.wssfaq.com (wssv3faq.mindsharp.com) daily.) From 20th December to 9th January 2010 NOTE: Amendments to KB articles are now only listed when a version is x.0. MS no longer change the dates of KB articles when version changes are minor. I.1 2007 KB Articles New …
SharePoint Foundation 2010 additions and changes - 11 - 3rd to 9th January 2010

9 Jan 2010 | 1:19 am

Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.) From 3rd to 9th January 2010 I.1 2010 KB Articles New or Modifed None II. Articles - 2010 Products New A. Office 2010 Server Products http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=30b400a5-5253-4dc3-8de2-6b818b093e4a Query Integration in…
SharePoint Foundation 2010 additions and changes - 10 - 27th December to 2nd January 2010

2 Jan 2010 | 2:56 am

Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.) From 27th December to 2nd January 2010 I.1 2010 KB Articles New or Modifed None II. Articles - 2010 Products New A. Office 2010 Server Products http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee914605.aspx Using Kerberos for SharePoint Authentication (TechNet Mag, January 2010 -…

Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS]
Cleaning up your SubText database

Andrew Connell

8 Feb 2010 | 5:01 pm

I use the open source project SubText to power my blog and have been for years. For me, it works great. However there’s one little dirty secret about it: it logs every single inbound URL request for trackbacks & pingbacks… just like most blog software does. All of this gets logged to two tables: subtext_Referrals & subtext_URLs. After a while, these guys can fill up to be quite big… specifically the URLs table. Unfortunately there’s a TON of crap and spam in this data. Not only do spammers exploit it, but the hits coming from search engines causes it to bloat quite a bit as…
Stupid API Rant: the SalesForce Web Service API

Andrew Connell

2 Feb 2010 | 2:52 am

Sometimes throughout the course of your work you find something that just makes you wonder what the heck the developers were thinking. Recently that was me and working with the SalesForce Web Service API. So far there have been quite a few challenging things in working with this API that were new and strange to me… a big one being when you query for objects, you get an object back that has all the properties available, but if you didn’t explicitly put the field you need in the SELECT statement, the SalesForce Web Service would still return the field in the return result, but it just…
An op for Microsoft to nail the low hanging fruit: Cloudify every app’s settings/config

Andrew Connell

27 Jan 2010 | 1:36 pm

I’ve got an idea for something totally feasible and doesn’t seem like a ton of work for Microsoft to offer for free without a lot of investment but would be loved by many consumers: cloudify application settings. Many people use multiple computers. There are folks like I suspect most of my readers where you have one or more machines at home and one or more machines at work. Each application you use has different settings. Such as: Windows customizations Outlook’s signature files, reading pane config, category colors and so many other things in the Options section. Visual Studio’s…
I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16 & 18, 2010

Andrew Connell

21 Jan 2010 | 3:26 am

The folks who bring you SharePoint Connections, and this spring’s SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit in Las Vegas, NV, are putting on another free online virtual conference. There are two dates, February 16th for the North American crowd and February 18th for the European crowd. This one day show has a killer price point – it’s FREE!!! I’ll be presenting one session, Exploring the New Custom Service Capabilities in SharePoint 2010, on the new SharePoint 2010 service application infrastructure for developers. Hope to see you there! » SharePoint Connections - SharePoint 2010 Developer Virtual…
Help Haiti and Critical Path Training Will Help You

Andrew Connell

19 Jan 2010 | 11:46 am

By now I hope you’ve heard the news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti and how people are in need of your generosity. We are Critical Path Training want to help encourage others to donate to the American Red Cross by entering those who donate (or have donated) $25 or more to the Haiti Relief and Development fund for a free seat in our SharePoint developer deep-dive 5-day class (a $2,995 value) we’re offering in Reston, VA next week into a random drawing. We’ll draw two names (one on Thursday & one on Friday) for the free seat and notify you via email. Check our web site for more…

SharePoint Buzz
Download SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine

SharePointBuzz

26 Jan 2010 | 12:28 pm

The SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine aka 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) is now available for everyone! This is one day after Microsoft released the SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 virtual machine for SDPS Partners Only Microsoft has been kind to release a two Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Go ahead and download the SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 VHD Virtual Machine Contents Virtual machine "a" contains the following pre-configured software: Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an…
Download SharePoint 2010 Beta VHD for SDPS Partners Only

SharePointBuzz

24 Jan 2010 | 11:32 pm

The SharePoint 2010 VHD is now available for Microsoft SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) partners. The SharePoint 2010 VHD is a virtual machine that contains SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 that you can start using today. Go to your SDPS partner portal for further details! Here’s hoping the SharePoint Community at large will have access to this very shortly. As soon as SharePoint 2010 VHD’s are available for general consumption, I will post the link here! Please subscribe to SharePoint Buzz newsletter or the SharePoint Buzz RSS Feed to be notified. SharePoint Buzz is very…
SharePoint 2010 Beta Installation Roundup

SharePointBuzz

24 Nov 2009 | 12:22 am

UPDATE: Check out Download SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machine Many bloggers are posting their SharePoint 2010 Beta installation experiences, and I have collected all the posts that I could find for my reference as I setup my SharePoint 2010 development rig: Jie Li’s SharePoint 2010 Pre-Requisites Download Links and Installation Notice for SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Eric Kraus’ Automated SharePoint 2010 Install with PowerShell Tom Resing’s A SharePoint 2010 Install Experience George Khalil’s Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on a Windows 2008 R2 Server Alpesh Nakar’s SharePoint…
Calgary SharePoint User Group – Monday, November 23, 2009

SharePointBuzz

23 Nov 2009 | 6:02 am

Come and join us for our debut Calgary SharePoint User Group meeting! Bil Simser (Twitter: bsimser) will be presenting An Intro to SharePoint 2010 tonight! Description: Come join us for the debut gathering of the Calgary SharePoint User's Group and enjoy an introductory presentation by our own SharePoint MVP Bil Simser as he presents the hot new feature set of SharePoint 2010! Food and drink will be provided during meeting. Location: Room 214, 450 1 Street SW (The TransCanada Building), Calgary, AB - Second Floor next to Sunterra Time: 11/23/2009 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM Please join us for…
Download! SharePoint 2010 Beta

SharePointBuzz

18 Nov 2009 | 4:34 am

Kurt DelBene just made it official today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), that Microsoft is unveiling the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010 – source MS Press Pass. The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog has also made it official, that the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and more are available for public consumption. Download Microsoft SharePoint Server Enterprise 2010 Beta today According to Mary Jo, Microsoft is aiming to launch the final version of all of these Office…

EndUserSharePoint.com
Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 6: xsl:variable

Marc D. Anderson

9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).
Thank you SPTechCon Live Bloggers

EndUserSharePoint

9 Feb 2010 | 8:49 am

Once again the SharePoint Community has stepped up when it comes to helping those who can't participate. The live blogging at SPTechCon is done by volunteers who are attending the sessions and want to help those who couldn't come to the conference.
My Four Sessions at SPTechCon San Francisco

EndUserSharePoint

9 Feb 2010 | 8:07 am

I’m currently in the air, flying to San Francisco for SPTechCon 2010. In addition to coordinating the live blogging sessions, here’s my schedule for the rest of the week. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Recordings from Channel 3 of SharePoint Saturday EMEA Available

EndUserSharePoint

9 Feb 2010 | 6:27 am

I was having difficulty getting access to the recordings. When Michael heard, he jumped in, found the recordings and moved them up to public access on the SPSEMEA site.
Live from SPTechCon in San Francisco, it’s the EUSP Twitter Tracker!

EndUserSharePoint

8 Feb 2010 | 9:37 pm

If you missed all the live blogging fun and excitement at SharePoint Conference 2009, we're going to do the same thing at SPTechCon this week. We've got a bunch of people who who will be live blogging the sessions directly from the conference sessions.

JOPX on SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010
Corporate culture, not technology, drives collaboration

jopx

3 Feb 2010 | 9:12 pm

This post in Webworker daily about the significance of corporate culture on collaboration within your organization reminds me of some other blog posts which I wrote a while back: Web 2.0 please but in your own time (and budget) Enterprise 2.0 and organizational culture Knowledge and talent in a people ready business Knowledge is power! So why share your knowledge? SharePoint and Web 2.0 The value in social networks The author clearly makes the statement that you first need a corporate culture which embraces a new work paradigm where you empower people to organize work in their own…
BIWUG on SharePoint 2010

jopx

26 Jan 2010 | 9:27 pm

On Tuesday, the 9th of February 2010 BIWUG organizes the first sessions about SharePoint 2010 in the new Ordina offices in Mechelen. We have a great line up amongst which 3 Belgian SharePoint MVP's presenting. Date and hours: February 9th, 2010 (The event is free, but registration is required.) Sessions: 18:00 - 18:30: Welcome 18:30 - 19:00: Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 (Joris Poelmans – SharePoint MVP) 19:00 - 19:30: LINQ to SharePoint (Stephane Eyskens – SharePoint MVP) 19:30 - 20:00: Client Object Model (Jan Tielens – SharePoint MVP) 20:00 - 20:15: Break 20:15 - 20:45:…
User activity statistic in SharePoint Server 2007

jopx

18 Jan 2010 | 12:24 pm

Did you ever wonder what the User Activity value means in the SharePoint site statistics? Apparently this is the total number of times the user accessed the site (or site collection) over the past 30 days, divided by 30 to give daily average. Great explanation on MOSS Usage Reports Explained Technorati Tags: sharepoint,sharepoint+2007,moss2007,moss+2007,usage+analysis
Office 2010 multiple upload with SharePoint Server 2007

jopx

16 Jan 2010 | 7:13 am

The new user interface for uploading multiple documents to a document library is actually part of the Office 2010 clients – so if you install Word 2010 you will also be able to use the new “drag & drop” upload control together with SharePoint Server 2007. Technorati Tags: sharepoint+2007,sharepoint,office+2010,office2010,moss2007,moss
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack v4 for Word, Excel and Powerpoint available

jopx

11 Jan 2010 | 11:11 am

A new version of the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and Powerpoint formats has been released for download . By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats in newer versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint . The Compatibility Pack can also be used in conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new formats. For more information about the Compatibility Pack, see…

Chris O'Brien
Ribbon customizations - dropdown controls, Client Object Model and JavaScript Page Components

Chris O'Brien

4 Feb 2010 | 4:21 pm

So far in my series on SharePoint 2010 ribbon development, we looked at creating new tabs, groups and controls and adding ribbon items into existing tabs/groups. Once you understand how to get your customizations into the right place in the ribbon, you may find you want to go beyond simply adding buttons and make use of other controls such as dropdowns, checkboxes, flyout anchors and so on. This type of ribbon development is fairly involved, but as with so many things in SharePoint development, once you’ve done it the first time you know the overall “template” for subsequent occasions -…
Adding ribbon items into existing tabs/groups (ribbon customization part 2)

Chris O'Brien

25 Jan 2010 | 3:50 pm

This is the second article in my series on ribbon customization. Last time we looked in detail at creating custom tabs, and in the course of that also looked at how to create "groups" on a tab, and also how to add controls. We mentioned that the container hierarchy is ribbon > tab > group > controls, and showed how to create all of those in my example (which also used SP.UI.Status/SP.UI.Notify in the Client OM). The XML there was fairly extensive, but in this post we’ll see things are somewhat simpler if you don’t need to create an entire tab and instead only need to…
Customizing the ribbon (part 1) – creating tabs, groups and controls

Chris O'Brien

17 Jan 2010 | 4:30 pm

Some good posts are starting to appear on SharePoint 2010 ribbon customization now, and over the next couple of articles I want to cover some key things you might want to do with the ribbon when developing your solutions. Broadly speaking, the plan for this series is:Creating tabs, groups and controls (this post) Adding items into existing ribbon tabs and groups JavaScript considerations when working with the ribbon Developing JavaScript page components for the ribbon Working with the ribbon programatically e.g. from web parts and field controls Diving straight in then, some ribbon…
Editing .cmp files to fix lookup field issues

Chris O'Brien

6 Jan 2010 | 4:25 pm

I ran into an interesting (well, it’s all relative) content deployment issue the other day, which I’m pretty sure will apply to both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. In preparation for some SharePoint training I was delivering at my current client, I wanted to move some real data from production into the training environment to make the training more realistic. To do this, I used my Content Deployment Wizard tool, which uses SharePoint’s Content Deployment API to export content into a .cmp file. (Quick background – the tool does exactly the same thing as ‘STSADM –o export’…
ECM platform enhancements - Content Organizer, List Throttling, Enterprise Content Types etc.

Chris O'Brien

15 Dec 2009 | 5:03 pm

This is part 2 of my write-up on my ‘ECM Enhancements in SharePoint 2010’ talk which I did recently. You can find previous parts here: Part 1: Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – a key ECM enhancement Part 1.5: Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 - some notes on the "why" Having spent some time on the taxonomy/metadata piece in the last articles, this post will delve into other ECM enhancements. ECM is quite a broad topic (Document Management/Collaboration/Records Management/Web Content Management), but it’s amazing just how much of the new stuff you can’t cover in such…

CleverWorkarounds
SharePoint Saturday Perth Wrap and SP2010 BOOTCAMPS!

admin

6 Feb 2010 | 5:48 pm

Well, the event that I never thought would ever happen in Perth happened, and not only did it happen, it had more interest than expected and some people unfortunately missed out. Jeremy, as a result, had to take many upset phone calls. It seems that for Perth, once a few people got wind of SharePoint Saturday, everyone wanted in. There were great sessions, great giveaways and I think overall, tremendous value for this free event. Seven Sigma sponsored the showbags, which we managed to fill with some awesome goodies, thanks to the generosity of Brett Lonsdale at Lightningtools, Michael…
SharePoint Saturday Perth is upon us

admin

11 Jan 2010 | 11:41 pm

Well I have to confess that I never thought it would happen in sleepy Perth, but thanks to the monumental efforts of Jeremy Thake, we are about to have our own little slice of SharePoint Saturday on Feb 6th! Jeremy has managed to secure a great selection of national speakers and even secured an international speaker making the 35 hour trip to our sunny shores! Ha Ha Michael Noel, welcome to Jeremy and my world! For those of you in Perth or surrounds who are not aware, SharePoint Saturday is a bit of a global phenomenon these days, with these FREE events being held all over the world. In fact,…
The problem with sales guys… (a peek into complex adaptive systems)

admin

17 Dec 2009 | 5:12 pm

Vulgarity warning. Its the silly season, I am winding down and being more low-brow than usual with this post There is this wonderful way to look at the world, through a lens of something called “Complex adaptive systems”. Unfortunately with a name like that, it is automatically doomed to be only spoken of and understood by, a small subset of those sort of dishevelled looking nerdy guys who others take the piss out of when they are not around. The notion of complex adaptive systems explains many things, including why salesman can unintentionally really be damaging to an organisation. I…
The rationale of a 5 year old

admin

15 Dec 2009 | 8:01 pm

Hahaha ahem – I found this funny. I am teaching my 11 year old daughter how to perform issue and dialogue mapping. Each night, we pick a relevant family topic, discuss all of the issues around the topic and my daughter maps the discourse. Recently and the root question of the day was whether her little brother (Liam) should get a cat for Christmas. We already have a cat named Jessica and a detailed conversation unfolded, where my 5 year old outlined his reasons to the family. We all had a good laugh and by the end if the session, my 5 year old changed his mind and decided that he’d rather…
SharePoint, Debategraph and Copenhagen 2009 – Collaboration on a global scale

admin

14 Dec 2009 | 4:15 am

Note: For those of you who do not wish to read my usual verbose writing, then skip to the last section where there is a free web part to download and try out. Unless you are a complete SharePoint nerd and world events don’t interest you while you spend your hours in a darkened room playing with the SP2010 beta, you would no doubt be aware that one of the most significant collaborative events in the world is currently taking place. The United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen this month is one of the most important world gatherings of our time. You might wonder why, as a…

Brain Dump: Posts
What’s new and interesting in the SharePoint universe for the week ending 2010/01/29

3 Feb 2010 | 8:04 pm

Body: Here’s my weekly roundup of what’s new and interesting in the world of SharePoint. The latest Patterns & Practices Guidance for SharePoint 2010 just dropped. http://spg.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=39393 If your blog runs on the Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE), you’re going to want to migrate from 2007 to 2010 soon. Enter the CKS:EBE 2010 Migrator project. http://cksebe2010migrator.codeplex.com/ Australian native, Tommy Segoro, added an “Upgrade” deployment step for Visual Studio 2010 Beta.

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
If you could go to one SharePoint Conference this year what would it be?

9 Feb 2010 | 12:18 pm

Body: I’ve seen and heard this question on twitter a couple of times now… I don’t think it’s a simple question with a simple answer. Definitely not tweetable. SharePoint Conferences and events have exploded this past year. Let’s break this down. (This is not exhaustive. If I’m missing important events I’m sorry, put them in the comments and I’ll consider putting it in the body, but no guarantees.) @ghurlman So if there's to be no #SharePoint conference from Microsoft, what's the best post-2010-RTM conference to hit? Who's going to fill that gap? @idubbs If you could…
The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops

3 Feb 2010 | 11:41 am

Body: In a discussion on twitter yesterday a number of people expressed their opinions on how best to run SharePoint in a dev environment or simply on your laptop. People are looking for easy to run and configure and minimize memory with validation, development, demos, and prototyping as goals. Quick Links to the SharePoint VHDs and Bits SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 Windows Server 2008 VHD (IW Demo) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD – You can use this to replicate your environment for sample upgrades or for testing upgrade Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 – You can use this to…
SharePoint 2010 Better Together with SQL 2008 R2 Database Enhancements Top 10

2 Feb 2010 | 3:19 pm

I’ve been thinking a lot about the SQL 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010 better together story and wanted to capture some of what’s been floating around in my head. I haven’t seen enough content and blogs on this stuff and hope that this will help spur more conversations on the topic. Mike Watson has put out a couple of well put together posts on SQL 2008 and SharePoint 2010 in his storage considerations post and on SharePoint 2010 high availability improvements. I also put some thoughts on why SQL 2008 for SharePoint from a while back. With the product team’s announcement of…

Jan Tielens' Bloggings
SharePoint Connections 2010 & SharePINT with Belgian Beer in Amsterdam

Jan Tielens

13 Jan 2010 | 10:44 pm

Next week (18th and 19th of January, 2010) the Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010 will be held in Amsterdam RAI (The Netherlands). There is a great lineup of speakers and sessions over there, so I'm sure it will be a very interesting event! I will be presenting three sessions, one on Monday and two on Tuesday: Client-Side Technologies in SharePoint 2010 Silverlight and SharePoint 2010: Better Together Advanced Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010 I'm also very proud to mention that U2U will be sponsering the SharePINT community event on Monday evening. As a Belgian company we are of…
May I introduce you to Lis Tielens

Jan Tielens

22 Dec 2009 | 1:33 pm

I'm very happy to announce that this morning our daugher Lis was born. She and her mother are recovering from the C-section but they are doing well. For more news (in Dutch), feel free to check out our family blog: http://kids.neleenjan.net.
Free BIWUG Event on SharePoint 2010 Development

Jan Tielens

10 Dec 2009 | 6:53 am

Next week (December, 17th) the Belgian Information Worker User Group (BIWUG, http://www.biwug.be) is organizing an evening full of SharePoint 2010 development topics. I'm talking about the Client Object Models at 19:30, but make sure to check out the full agenda: 18:00 - 18:30: Welcome 18:30 - 19:00: Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 (Karine Bosch – SharePoint MVP) 19:00 - 19:30: LINQ to SharePoint (Stephane Eyskens – SharePoint MVP) 19:30 - 20:00: Client Object Model (Jan Tielens – SharePoint MVP) 20:00 - 20:15: Break 20:15 - 20:45: Business Connectivity Services (Frank Cleynen)…
SharePoint 2010 Project Deployment Issues in Visual Studio 2010

Jan Tielens

26 Nov 2009 | 9:25 pm

Recently I ran into the following issue when I tried to deploy a SharePoint 2010 Project in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. In the output window the following message was displayed and the deployment failed:Error occurred in deployment step ‘Retract Solution’: The local SharePoint server is not accessible. Check that the server is running and connected to the SharePoint farm.It turned out (thank you Event Viewer!) that the account that triggers the Deploy action in Visual Studio 2010 (typically the account you used to login in Windows) needs to have permissions in both the Configuration…
SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Available on MSDN

Jan Tielens

16 Nov 2009 | 9:29 am

Finally the public betas of SharePoint 2010 (both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server), Office 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visio 2010 are available on MSDN Subscriptions, so start your download engines right now! :-) If you don't see the download, you can use this direct link (make sure you are signed in to the Download Center before you click the link).

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog
Skewer Click Saves the Day – Page and Master Page Styling Tips

spdblog

12 Jan 2010 | 5:00 pm

Hi. Kolby here, a Program Manager on the SharePoint Designer team. Today I want to show you a couple nice tools that come in handy when modifying page styles and layouts that use CSS. I’ve personally found them very helpful when making custom master pages. I particularly want to highlight a new feature called Skewer Click, which is available in the Editing group of the Home tab in the page editor. Figure 1. Check out the new Skewer Click feature available in the page editor. This tool skewers a page a shows you each tag layer you went through. Often times with a complex page it is very…
SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 2 - Using the New SharePoint Lists

spdblog

8 Jan 2010 | 9:44 pm

Part 2 of the series has been posted to the SharePoint Team Blog. Happy reading!
Visualizing Data using XSLT: Following up on SPC 2009’s session on Building SharePoint Mashups With SPD, Bing Maps and REST Services

spdblog

18 Dec 2009 | 1:48 pm

There’s been a lot of interest in the demo that was done at the SharePoint Conference where we used XSLT to visualize a contact list as a map. We have existing information out there on this topic so we wanted to bring it all together in one blog entry. I’ll also walk through the XSL file that was used in our demo and provide some pointers on how to use it for your own development. For our demo, we mashed up a contacts list with a map and then created a detail page where we pull in information for a specific contact from Twitter and MSN Weather for our contact’s specific location. (To…
Video Blogging with Javascript and the Media Web Part

spdblog

11 Dec 2009 | 3:17 pm

Hi there, Mihai Coman here. I’m a new Program Manager on the SharePoint Designer team. Over the last couple of weeks you’ve gotten a better idea of some of the new capabilities of SharePoint Designer. There’s a ton of new features and UI components to play with, from Content Type workflows to XLV to summary pages . But if you’re like me, you’re probably itching to get your hands dirty and see how everything fits together. What better way to scratch that itch than with a practical project? We’re not going to work on just any old project here. In…
SharePoint 2010 List View Blog Series: Part 1 – Introduction to the new List View

spdblog

16 Nov 2009 | 3:46 pm

Hello. This is Greg Chan, a Program Manager on the SharePoint team. I am excited to kick-off a new blog series that will cover a wide spectrum of topics related to the new List View in SharePoint 2010. What is a List View again? Put simply, a List View is a view for displaying SharePoint list data. The concept of List View has been around since SharePoint v2. While there are other technologies being used for visualizing list data in different scenarios (e.g. Content Query Web Part), List View remains the default component for displaying list data in SharePoint 2010. List Views can be spotted…

Paul Andrew
I added a Web Part to my site home page which causes an exception

pandrew

25 Jan 2010 | 12:16 pm

How do I remove it? Since you need to view the page to edit it and delete the web part it's tricky when you add a web part to your page that causes an exception every time it's loaded. Here's two simple options: 1) retract the solution in Visual Studio 2) use the ?Contents=1 parameter on the web page to see the list of web parts without loading them. for example: http://intranet.contoso.com/SitePages/Home.aspx?Contents=1 Then fix your error or at least add exception handling
WebCast tomorrow on SharePoint 2010 for Developers

pandrew

18 Jan 2010 | 12:28 pm

I'm giving a webcast tomorrow on SharePoint 2010 and you're invited to join. Here is the sign-up URL. Title: MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 1 of 8): What's New for Developers (Level 100) Abstract: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 has many new developer-oriented features, so developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010. The new tools for SharePoint Server 2010 make developers more productive and new hosting options for SharePoint solutions provide more…
SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 published

pandrew

13 Jan 2010 | 11:03 am

Today we published a code sample that implements a List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint projects. This is available as sample code that you can reference for your own designers or you can build and use yourself. You can get the version for Visual Studio 2010 beta here. The extension adds an “Open in Designer” right menu command to list schema project items. Here’s what the designer looks like. Please send me feedback on the designer. We will do some more work on this and publish an update for the release of Visual Studio 2010.
Just published the Beta for the VSeWSS to Visual Studio 2010 Upgrade Template

pandrew

11 Jan 2010 | 2:10 pm

The VSeWSS project upgrade tools for Visual Studio 2010 beta is published here. It is planned to be published as sample code for the release of Visual Studio 2010. This is an additional project template for Visual Studio 2010. When you create a project from this template it will ask for an existing Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) project. When you select the previous project it will create a brand new Visual Studio 2010 project that uses the new SharePoint 2010 project templates which are built into Visual Studio 2010. Please review the README for the…
Removing the Kernel Debugger and Editing the BOOT.INI on Windows 7

pandrew

6 Jan 2010 | 10:10 am

The VHD base that I use for building Virtual Machine images for Windows 7 comes with the Kernel Debugger enabled. With the Kernel Debugger enabled you cannot start the Visual Studio 2010 debugger. Here's how I had to remove it. You can't just edit BOOT.INI any longer since these parameters are stored elsewhere and a new tool BCDEDIT.EXE must be used. Start an administrative command prompt. BCDEDIT /debug OFF It will say the operation completed successfully. Now reboot and then start Visual Studio 2010 again.

Not Fit For Print - Robert Bogue [MVP]
OnTaskCreated, DelayActivity, and PersistOnClose – How you can force the creation of a task

Robert L. Bogue

7 Feb 2010 | 1:44 am

I've been working on a rather complex SharePoint workflow and I've run into a few problems. The workflow does a parallel approval of a form – and well, I've discovered a few issues. First, there aren't many examples of how to do parallel approvals. This is particularly true when you need to keep unique instance data per iteration of the replicator loop. However, by scoping the correlation token to the inner sequence activity in the replicator, using a custom sequence activity to hold the additional parameters you need, and using the ChildInitialized event of the replicator that can be done.
SharePoint Saturday Wrap Up and Thank You

Robert L. Bogue

2 Feb 2010 | 8:33 am

Last Saturday, January 30th 2010, we did a SharePoint Saturday event here in Indianapolis. From the perspective of most folks it was a roaring success. Kevin Dostalek posted his recap already. David Petersen posted a few pictures before we got rolling. Woody Windischman, Chris Geier posted about their experiences and both Enrique Lima and Rob Wilson posted their slide decks. For me I felt like I was in the center of the storm. Officially the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana executed the event. (i.e. the users group held the money) However, I can honestly say that my introduction to the…
WhitePaper: Customizing the Content Query Web Part in SharePoint Server 2007

Robert L. Bogue

2 Feb 2010 | 8:05 am

The powerhouse of SharePoint publishing sites is the ContentByQuery web part – more affectionately known as the Content Query Web Part or CQWP. Last year I wrote a comprehensive article on customizing it that was published today at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff380147.aspx Check it out and let me know what you think about it.
Inside the Way Back Machine, Inside Access

Robert L. Bogue

17 Jan 2010 | 10:14 pm

This talk of Access Services got me to dig up my copy of Inside Access and take a few pictures: You may notice my name in the upper right – and the date near the lower left. This is one of the first two books that I worked on. (I think it was second but I'm actually not sure.) Some of you may not recognize what that second picture is of – it's a picture of a 5.25" floppy disk. That's right it's flexible. This one is available for read/write (see the notch on the upper right.) With 360K of storage and a 360 RPM speed this baby was all the rage – 17 years ago. In case anyone's…
SharePoint 2010 and Access Services Place

Robert L. Bogue

10 Jan 2010 | 8:46 am

I'm going to take a break for this post from what tends to be some very technical detail that you need to know. Instead in this post I'm going to talk about how one of the new features in the Office 2010 wave and the way these features may impact the market. Of course, this is a bit of prognosticating on my part but I think my perception should be on firm ground. Let me start by explaining. Back when Microsoft released Microsoft Access 1.0, I was working for Woods Industries as a network manager. At the time we were more interested in Borland's Paradox for Windows. However, I was interested…

Arpan Shah's Blog
Some New SharePoint 2010 Content

arpans

28 Jan 2010 | 10:21 pm

I wanted to quickly highlight some of the recent content we recently published: - You can download the SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine here. - Check out the What's New in SharePoint 2010 for Developers clinic; a free 2-hour e-learning course - Check out the What's New in SharePoint 2010 for IT Pros clinic; it's a 2-hour free e-learning course! If you’re looking for a good list of readiness/training content, I recommend taking a look at this post. I try to keep this up-to-date. I generally also tweet when new content is available. You can follow me @arpanshah.
SharePoint 2010 Webcast Deck

arpans

21 Jan 2010 | 10:10 am

I just did a SharePoint 2010 webcast and wanted to share the deck I presented. You can find it @ http://cid-ca582f2bc3ad1590.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Presentations/SharePoint%202010/sp2010.pptx I will update this post with a pointer to the recording when (if) it’s available.
SharePoint Online in the 2010 wave

arpans

12 Jan 2010 | 10:32 pm

I’m a big fan of SharePoint Online along with over one million other users out there. It’s a reliable, convenient service that allows companies to take advantage of SharePoint without having to host it themselves. It’s software-as-a-service at its best. SharePoint Online today, based on SharePoint 2007, does a good job providing some of the core SharePoint capabilities. In the second half of this calendar year, SharePoint Online will be updated to SharePoint 2010 at which point it will be even more powerful & provide even greater parity with SharePoint 2010…
SharePoint 2010 End-User Training

arpans

7 Jan 2010 | 8:04 am

Point8020 has released free SharePoint 2010 end user training that you can access from http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx. It includes 50 short videos for end-users & site administrators covering a number of different common tasks. These videos are consumable, easy to navigate and free! I highly recommend checking it out. Point8020 plans to release many more end-user training videos covering all aspects of SharePoint later this half!
SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

arpans

29 Dec 2009 | 7:39 am

I went to Bangalore, India, a couple weeks ago as part of the Microsoft team that hosted SharePoint 2010 Ignite Developer. I had an opportunity to meet 75+ sharp developers from various partner organizations like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Cognizant & Persistent just to name a few. As part of a summary session I delivered, I emphasized the upgrade options available along with 2010 system requirements & developer environment options that I wanted to highlight here (slides available here) . Upgrade Check out the upgrade & migration resource center @…

Chris Johnson
SharePoint 2010 Beta Virtual Machine available

chjohn

3 Feb 2010 | 1:22 pm

(Long time no post … sorry! we have been really busy!) Last week we released a new SharePoint 2010 Beta Virtual Machine. (GET IT HERE) This VM contains a bunch of pre-configured products including SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, SQL, Exchange, Office Communications Server & Visual Studio + a bunch more. We will also be releasing an RTM version of this VM when that time comes (stay tuned). This image is great if you want to get up and running with SharePoint/Office etc… and dont want to go through having to install and configure the products yourself. They are also really…
Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites

chjohn

4 Aug 2009 | 8:34 pm

We just went live with a brand new HUGE! two part whitepaper on branding SharePoint 2007 Publishing Sites. This is an awesome resource for getting up to speed on how to build cutting edge internet facing websites on SharePoint 2007. We take you step by step through the process all the way from the things to think about ... to wireframes, on to photoshop mockups & then on to implementation. It really is a facinating look to how to do this from the begining to the end. In the sample we take you through building a site and provide the download links to all the accompanying…
How we demo…

chjohn

3 May 2009 | 1:56 pm

I get a bunch of questions at events etc… on how our team do demos. I don't mean the content of the demos, i mean the actual setup and execution. You might think this is a simple question to answer, but it is more complex than you think. First up there is no single answer to this, but it basically boils down to what type of event you are demoing/presenting at. Here is how we break then down: Tier A: Big high profile keynotes demos, usually done by or for an executive. Think of TechEd keynotes, PDC keynotes etc… These are demos you never ever want to mess up…
SharePoint Conference Tweets

chjohn

27 Mar 2009 | 11:41 am

Letting blog readers know that the official SharePoint Conference tweet stream is up: http://www.twitter.com/SPConf Follow!
VS 2010 and SharePoint

chjohn

20 Feb 2009 | 9:21 pm

Soma posted on the new SharePoint and Visual Studio integration coming in the next release of Visual Studio. http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/19/sharepoint-tools-support-in-visual-studio.aspx This is something I have been working on with the developer division and it is very cool to see this finally being talked about! Great work Reza, Mike and the rest of the team. This is very exciting for SharePoint developers! -Chris.

Erika Ehrli
What’s New for Developers in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010?

erikaehrli

8 Feb 2010 | 11:38 am

The upcoming release of Office and SharePoint offers a wealth of interesting new scenarios and solutions that can be built thanks to new features and improvements added to different Office and SharePoint products and technologies. There’s more possibilities to integrate Office and SharePoint to build rich client-server solutions using tools such as Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath 2010, and Access 2010. Some of you already had an opportunity to play with the Betas and write code, read lots of blogs, twitter feeds, and some MSDN articles and videos. Some others are…
Getting Started with Office 2010 Development

erikaehrli

18 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm

It’s been an exciting week with all the recent announcements at PDC. Today, at PDC we announced the availability of our public Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Betas. Lots of developers from the community who have been monitoring the new developer investments on Office 2010 can start creating solutions with the latest features. You can find links to all our downloads here: Download the 2010 Betas Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, Communicator, SharePoint Workspace, and Office Web Apps. Project 2010 Beta Project Server…
Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 for Developers + New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Centers

erikaehrli

19 Oct 2009 | 2:22 pm

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

erikaehrli

16 Oct 2009 | 11:39 pm

I know it’s late at night, but I couldn’t resist. The MSDN Office, SharePoint, and VSTO Developer Center are blue now and match the super cool new MSDN branding and experience. Go take a look and enjoy: Office Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx SharePoint Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx Office Development with Visual Studio Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsto/default.aspx More sites here: http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa/archive/2009/10/17/msdn-com-refresh.aspx Office and SharePoint devs - See you in…
Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 + MSDN Redesign + New MSDN Open XML Developer Portal

erikaehrli

1 Oct 2009 | 6:36 pm

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

Tam Tam Blogs
Visual Studio 2010 RC available on MSDN

Stef van Hooijdonk

9 Feb 2010 | 12:02 am

Great, the Visual Studio 2010 RC is available on MSDN! Including the .Net Framework 4.0 RC !
“SharePoint’s Sasquatch Memory Leak”

Stef van Hooijdonk

8 Feb 2010 | 10:40 pm

Todd Carter posted an article on an potential (huge) memory link in SharePoint 2007.
ULS Logs Viewer

Stef van Hooijdonk

8 Feb 2010 | 1:14 am

Seems to work for the SP2010 log files as well: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer/
Tools voor het meten van sociale media Deel I

Patrick Steenks

5 Feb 2010 | 6:54 am

Verleden week bespraken we een aantal metrics die van belang zijn voor het monitoren van je sociale media inspanningen. Maar hoe kan je nu op een gemakkelijke manier bijhouden wat er over je merk gezegd wordt? In dit artikel introduceer ik een manier om deze informatie vanuit verschillende sociale media te verzamelen op één plaats. Bij het meten van sociale media loop je tegen een belangrijk probleem aan: je kunt de informatie moeilijk bundelen. Bij een website installeer je Google Analytics zodat je alle informatie over je bezoekers, de verkopen en conversie op één plaats kunt…
Event: Online samenwerken voor non-profits 101

Dimi Albers

5 Feb 2010 | 5:04 am

Participatie, donateurs, kennisdeling, Ning, crowdfunding, Twitter, vrijwilligers, Hyves, Facebook, crowdsourcing... Tam Tam organiseert het "Online samenwerken voor non-profits 101" event. Niet alleen om inzicht in deze en andere trends en ontwikkelingen te geven. Vooral ook om te laten zien hoe je deze praktisch (morgen al!) en resultaatgericht kan laten werken voor je organisatie. Wellicht meer nog dan in commerciële organisaties draait het werk bij organisaties in de Non-Profit sector om (internationaal) samenwerken, netwerken en kennisuitwisseling. Recente ontwikkelingen en…

harbar.net
The best SharePoint Conference ever is back, with a vengeance!

Spence

8 Feb 2010 | 7:38 pm

No disrespect to the SharePoint Team at Microsoft. They put on a *great* show. But well, ya know, it’s an official Microsoft conference, and some things are just done better by the community. Last year in April I flew into London exhausted after a crazy six weeks in Redmond for the SharePoint Best Practices Conference. Despite really needing a months holiday, it was simply the best conference experience I’ve had in over 15 years. A *great* show, great content, great people, great organisation and great fun. By a country mile, the best SharePoint related conference ever. And it’s back,…
MUST READ: SharePoint’s Sasquatch Memory Leak

Spence

8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

Over on the rather natty looking new blog from PFE extraordinaire Todd Carter, there are details of a serious issue with SharePoint that everyone should be familiar with. Check it out. Todd's Blog | SharePoint’s Sasquatch Memory Leak
Tips and tricks for running SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7

Spence

7 Feb 2010 | 8:50 pm

Whilst I was one of the most vocal advocates for the ability to run SharePoint Server on the client OS, it wasn’t really something I ever thought I’d want to run myself. I understood why it was of critical importance to enable this scenario, but I’m a farm guy, topologies are my bag. When the beta release came about I slapped it on a old machine just to see it working and left it at that. I also checked out the quality documentation over on MSDN which provides the convoluted steps to get it singing. Such steps are a good thing, you need to really want to install it on your client – no…
TechNet Misinformation: How NOT to use Kerberos for SharePoint Authentication

Spence

12 Jan 2010 | 2:29 am

I’m somewhat aggrieved this morning, as I found a new article from TechNet entitled “Using Kerberos for SharePoint Authentication”. Now while this article is not supposed to be the be all and end all it is very depressing that still now, in 2010, such inaccurate and in some cases 100% wrong information is being put out there by the vendor. This is especially true given the work I have done in this space over the last 18 months. So what’s wrong with it? Well one of the reasons people find this area difficult is nobody seems willing to really understand it in order to explain in a…
Application Pool mis-configuration in SharePoint 2010

Spence

16 Dec 2009 | 4:34 am

As I’ve previously detailed there is a significant oddity with how SharePoint 2010 Beta creates Application Pools in IIS for the hosting of Service Applications and especially the two most important services in your farm, the STS and Topology. As mentioned these application pools are named with GUIDs. Unfortunately when creating a Web Application, SharePoint 2010 uses the SharePoint only property Display Name for the STS application. The STS application is required as part of every SharePoint 2010 Web Application and lives at /_vti_bin/sts. As the Web Application is being provisioned…

SharePoint Automation
Help Save "Reading is Fundamental"

8 Feb 2010 | 8:55 am

I normally never post non-SharePoint or editorial type stuff on my blog but this really pissed me off and I felt I needed to do something. President Obama, in all his wisdom, has decided to cut funding for RIF (Reading is Fundamental), the nations largest children's literacy organization. It really irritates me that we're able to find money to buy old cars or provide free materials and labor to insulate homes but there's not enough money to help our kids learn to read? What kind of message is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Growing the ShareSquared Team

24 Jan 2010 | 7:05 pm

It's great working for a small company but it's even greater seeing that company grow by hiring incredible talent - starting this Monday Paul Stork, MVP and general SharePoint extraordinaire, joins the ShareSquared team. You can read Paul's announcement at http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/PaulS/default.aspx. Welcome aboard Paul! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Creating a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Service Application using PowerShell

19 Dec 2009 | 10:08 pm

The information in this post is specific to SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and may need adjusting for the RTM version. In an effort to continue with my previous posts where I demonstrated how to build a basic farm and it's site structure using XML configuration files and PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 I would like to now share how to create a search service application. An automated install of the service applications is, without a doubt, the most difficult PowerShell task you'll undertake when... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SharePoint Saturday Denver 2009 Slide Deck

19 Dec 2009 | 9:30 am

I recently presented at the SharePoint Saturday Denver event where I, rather rapidly, went through some SharePoint 2010 PowerShell stuff - the presentation was not meant as a general PowerShell overview but instead assumed that you already had at least a basic knowledge of PowerShell in general so that we could focus on SharePoint specific things. In the presentation I went over how to find the SharePoint cmdlets, threading and disposal issues, usage scenarios, remoting, and building custom... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Getting SharePoint 2010 Managed Account Passwords Using PowerShell

18 Dec 2009 | 9:35 pm

Update 1/26/2010: I've been informed that the SecurePassword properties are no longer available on the SPManagedAccount and SPProcessAccount objects as of the Release Candidate thus making the code demonstrated in this post no longer valid. Personally I think this is crap as it now prevents users from doing certain scripted actions which require a PSCredential object thus requiring the user to know the password which may not be possible if SharePoint is managing the passwords. Please let... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Eli Robillard's World of Blog.
Toronto SharePoint Camp 2010 - Call for Speakers

erobillard

18 Jan 2010 | 8:29 am

The third annual Toronto SharePoint Camp is scheduled for March 20, 2010 . To be considered, please read the Call for Speakers ( attached to this post , below) and submit your abstract(s) using the form provided by midnight on Friday, February 12. This...(read more)
How to Build a SharePoint 2010 Development Machine (Part I)

erobillard

29 Oct 2009 | 5:46 am

I was going to hold off on posting this until the public beta drops, but anyone preparing for the drop will want to get the right hardware, OS and optionally virtualization in place now. Then when the beta drops I'll write more about specific steps to...(read more)
Tonight: First looks at SharePoint 2010

erobillard

28 Oct 2009 | 9:33 am

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

erobillard

24 Oct 2009 | 12:14 pm

Someone recently asked about test plans and how to test components during development so you can be comfortable they'll perform well when hosted on large farms. The short answer is that you want to create the best simulation you can, and that means creating...(read more)
Controlling SharePoint 2010 Deployment in VS 2010

erobillard

21 Oct 2009 | 4:36 pm

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

Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts
SharePoint 2010 Beta Demo Virtual Machine – Available Now

27 Jan 2010 | 1:54 pm

Body: Microsoft has released a demo virtual machine consisting of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Beta. The download titled “2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)” is a 2 part Hyper-V based virtual machines. Note that you will need to allocate at least 6GB to the primary SP2010 VM to be able to demo and work on this. The optimal recommendations are listed on the download page. http://tinyurl.com/IWSP2010 System Requirements: Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard In order to run this demo you will need the…
Online Resources for SharePoint 2010

25 Jan 2010 | 4:18 pm

Body: With the momentum growing for the next release of SharePoint there are quite a large number of pre-release (Beta) resources available now to get a head start for SharePoint 2010. Here are some of these that you can use to get started. Understanding the various versions of SharePoint 2010. – Networked world has this article titled “SharePoint 2010: A guide to the many versions - Network World” about the various options of this release. A good read if you want to determine what it is that you’d need to plan for. Operating System Requirements for SharePoint 2010 – For planning…
Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 4 – Using preupgradecheck

12 Nov 2009 | 5:53 pm

Body: Please refer to my previous three posts on Upgrade Planning for SharePoint 2010 – These previous posts outline some important scenarios for your upgrade planning process. SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Planning Part 1, SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Planning Part 2, SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Planning Part 3. In this post I’ll outline the supported scenarios for your SharePoint 2010 upgrade from SharePoint 2007 and how to determine a best approach for your upgrade. I have been working with a few clients who are currently on SharePoint 2007 and are looking to upgrade to SharePoint 2010. So I will try…

Serge van den Oever [Macaw]
Debugging executing program from PowerShell using EchoArgs.exe

svdoever

25 Jan 2010 | 3:22 pm

Sometimes you pull you hairs out because the execution of a command just does not seem to work the way you want from PowerShell. A good example of this is the following case: Given a folder on the filesystem, I want to determine if the folder is under TFS source control, and if it is, what is the server name of the TFS server and the path of folder in TFS. If you don’t use integrated security (some development machines are not domain joined) you can determine this using the command tf.exe workfold c:\projects\myproject /login:domain\username,password From PowerShell I execute this command…
WPK – 2: Some thoughts, and my first really small databound app

svdoever

25 Dec 2009 | 5:36 pm

My second article on using WPF from PowerShell. You can download WPK as part of the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack. When you can navigate to the folder <My Documents>\WindowsPowerShell\Modules you see the modules that are installed. The folder WPK contains the WPK module. On the Modules level a few documents are installed: Readme1st.txt – information on installing, using, uninstalling the PowerShellPack About the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack.docx – an overview of the available modules Writing User Interfaces with WPK.docx - the first place to get started when…
WPK - 1: Creating WPF applications using PowerShell

svdoever

24 Dec 2009 | 3:54 pm

My first article on using WPF from PowerShell. What is WPK? Were can you get it? How to get started? I have been programming in PowerShell since 2006. At Macaw we use PowerShell for most of the development on the Macaw Solutions Factory. I have written thousands and thousands of lines of code in PowerShell 1.0. Some of the GUI tools in the Macaw Solutions Factory are even written completely in PowerShell. We use PrimalForms for the generation of the PowerShell code to render the GUI. PrimalForms: PrimalForms Community Edition is a free GUI builder tool for PowerShell users. It edits and…
Fun: Quoted on SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio in InfoWorld Article

svdoever

18 Nov 2009 | 10:25 am

When I was at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Vegas I was sitting in the hallway working on my little white Mac Book writing a blog post on SharePoint 2010 when a guy passed by. “Can I ask you some questions?” “Sure”, I said. “If I did anything with SharePoint?” he asked me… Ok, sitting with a Mac on a Microsoft conference can be strange, but hey: VMware Fusion did let me run the Technical Preview of SharePoint 2010 on my little Mac Book with 4GB, which couldn’t be said of my Dell running Windows XP at the time, not supporting 64 bits virtualization with Microsoft tools. We…
The bear goes loose: Office 2010 public beta link (includes SharePoint 2010!)

svdoever

18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am

An old Dutch phrase… translated into bad English! But it is going to happen: the first public beta of the Office tools… including: SharePoint 2010! And where can you download it… I know it… download it HERE! This link is provided by Microsoft The Netherlands to a group of people called the “Wave 14” ambassadors. We have a small competition between the ambassadors: the one who gets the most clicks gets an XBox!! So help me out, click it… often! And I will make sure that I blog a lot about SharePoint 2010!

Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP
SharePoint Memory Leaks

Andrew Woodward

8 Feb 2010 | 2:16 pm

Normally I refrain for doing simple reposts of other people blogs, however having read the post SharePoint’s Sasquatch Memory Leak by Todd Carter I just had to help get the information out to as many people as possible. We are all being good developers and running SPDisposeCheck regularly on our code to make sure we don’t leak memory, however for some we still experience spiralling memory leaks that seem untraceable. until Todd’s post that is. Rather than hang around here you MUST read it now, and if your experiencing issues and have…
Namespace not updated in SharePoint SPIs

Andrew Woodward

30 Jan 2010 | 1:54 am

Firstly what is a SharePoint SPI? No it’s not another new version, it’s a generic term that is used to describe a SharePoint Project Item within the context of a Visual Studio project. Visual Studio 2010 has introduced a lot of great SharePoint specific features making it significantly easier to get started with SharePoint development. This post however is not about the tools, it is intended to point out one little bit of the hidden functionality that unfortunately didn’t get completed in time. The Visual Studio tools hide away so of the configuration options in .spdata…
SUGUK London Review

Andrew Woodward

30 Jan 2010 | 1:43 am

On Thursday, 28th Jan 2010, I made my way down to the London SUGUK event. I’ve been supporting the regional events and been unable to get down to London for a number of months. The number of attendees was amazing – I didn’t count be I guess we have over 150 people and filled the room at Microsoft. I did know quite a few regulars to the event, but the great news again is the number of new faces. SharePoint is really growing fast and wide and the need for information and community is growing with it. Big Kudos to Matt for organising the event, Matt has taken on the…
SharePoint 2010 – Health Analyzer is awesome

Andrew Woodward

10 Jan 2010 | 2:04 pm

Being mainly focused on development aspects of SharePoint 2010 I haven’t spent as much time as I perhaps should have looking at the new features that have been added to make Administrators lives easier. Having just upgraded one on my development machines from SharePoint 2010 Foundation to SharePoint 2010 Server for Internet Sites, which on a single box installation with AD and SQL local went without a hitch, I thought it worth looking at what the Health Analyzer was telling me. As you can see I have a few issues: Security The security Issue I can live with and I suspect everyone…
Migration to BPOS – Initial thoughts

Andrew Woodward

2 Jan 2010 | 4:15 am

Having completed the migration to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) on Christmas Eve, I thought it would be useful to post a few comments on how it has worked out in the first few weeks. I’ll start with a few of the disappointments first and then move on to the things that I have liked. Disappointments My biggest disappointment has to be with Office Communicator 2007 R2. Unable to do Video or Voice calls With Office Communicator you cannot do Voice or Video calls unless all of the machines in the call are on the same LAN! Really this is a major fail for something…

Matthew McDermott
Better Best Bets with JQuery

Matthew McDermott

3 Feb 2010 | 5:48 pm

I haven’t blogged in a while because I have been crushed with both project work and dog training. The project work has exposed me to some JQuery techniques that I have wanted to learn. I have also been reviewing the new features of SharePoint 2010 search and FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. There are some great new features coming out with both products, features that many of my clients have been asking for. One feature that is supported by FAST and not oob with SharePoint 2010 is the Visual Best Bet, essentially a best bet that uses HTML rather than just text like the Best Bets in…
Austin SPUG: Integrating External Data with the Business Data Catalog

Matthew McDermott

25 Jan 2010 | 6:56 am

This session will take an in-depth look into the Business Data Catalog (BDC) with Microsoft SQL Server. It will include an overview of the Business Data Catalog, an introduction to configuring the BDC, and a demonstration of integrating the BDC with list forms. During this meeting we will also share firsthand information and experience around the value of the Microsoft Certified Master program. These programs offer the top tier technical training and certifications available from Microsoft and will highlight the program in three areas including training, certification and networking.
Austin SharePoint User Group: Insights

Matthew McDermott

11 Jan 2010 | 12:09 am

Sid Atkinson, Sr. Lead Consultant, Catapult Systems, will provide an overview of the great new Business Intelligence features of SharePoint 2010. This session will cover the Insights Business Intelligence platform in SharePoint 2010. Microsoft made a significant investment in BI and has made available a broad range of tools and applications to service reporting and analytical needs. In this session we will cover enhancements to Reporting Services and its integration with SharePoint, Report Builder, Excel Services, PowerPivot and PerformancePoint Services. Time permitting, we will also…
Adding Search Refinements in SharePoint 2010

Matthew McDermott

9 Dec 2009 | 2:22 am

I have been playing around with SharePoint 2010 Search this morning. I love the new UI. The search refinements panel is just begging to be messed with. In my case I wanted to add the file extension JPG as an Image Type refiner. Simple Refiner Tweak Here is how you add a file extension refinement. Put the page in edit mode. Choose the drop down menu for “Refinement Panel” and choose Edit Web Part. Open the Refinement section and uncheck the “Use Default Configuration” checkbox. Then edit “Filter Category Definition” xml as follows. In my case I simply wanted to add a new file…
Hard Disk Optimization on Hyper-V

Matthew McDermott

5 Dec 2009 | 8:09 am

In order to support my SharePoint 2010 demo environment I have become quite a fan on Microsoft Hyper-V. I admit that I did not enjoy the learning curve and that there are a few “features” missing that would make it significantly easier to use as a portable demo environment, features that I have grown quite attached to in both Virtual PC and VMware. Now before you get all protective of Hyper-V I do understand that it is not intended for the use to which I am putting it. I mean, I suppose, drag and drop from host to guest could be considered a security hole in a production virtualization…

Mauro Cardarelli
How Many Site Collections Do We Need?

Mauro

31 Jan 2010 | 4:36 am

I get asked lots of questions about SharePoint. One of the harder ones to answer is “how many site collections do we need?” Why?... because, in my opinion, there is no right answer. SharePoint implementation is a very personalized experience where you, as a member of the implementation team, make many choices of what functionality to use (or not use) and to set a definition for how it should be used. Determining the appropriate number of site collections is (or should be) dependent on the choices you make in your information architecture and, in some ways, will…
SharePoint Admins - Can I get five minutes of your time?

Mauro

10 Jan 2010 | 5:15 am

Dear SharePoint Administrator, I know you are busy. I know those business folks and corporate executives are driving you crazy with demands for additional SharePoint functionality. I promise to be brief. Can I get five minutes of your time this week? I’d like you to perform the following five tasks. They shouldn’t take more than a minute each. The goal here is to give you a pulse on the health of your SharePoint environment. We’re not trying to fix anything as much as we’re being proactive and looking to not have anything break (forcing those long,…
Migrating to SharePoint 2010 is like…

Mauro

19 Dec 2009 | 5:41 am

One of my favorite roles is that of storyteller. I like to talk about real-life experiences and, when appropriate, use an analogy to drive home a message. With the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010, I have heard lots of questions about the new features as well as the potential challenges of upgrading. I’ve been struggling with finding a good analogy that offers fair perspective. Yesterday, my business partner, Scott Jamison, shared his opinion with me… “Going from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 is like moving from a 1-bedroom apartment to a 3-bedroom…
What If You Throw a Party and Nobody Shows Up

Mauro

9 Dec 2009 | 4:36 am

I was a panelist at a SharePoint 2010 session last week at the Gilbane Boston Conference. Good times. Best question? I was asked what I thought the biggest risk associated with SharePoint 2010 might be. I told a story from my early days in consulting as a Microsoft Office developer. I was helping a company transition from Lotus 1-2-3 to Excel and was charged with assisting users with the migration of their spreadsheets. During one of these interactions I met a user who (very passionately) explained to me that I could take Lotus 1-2-3 off her office desktop but…
Interesting Read: The new content editor WebPart in SharePoint 2010

Mauro

28 Nov 2009 | 4:29 am

Recently, Sahil Malik wrote an interesting blog post entitled “The new content editor WebPart in SharePoint 2010” where he highlights the exciting new updates to the CEWP. Read the full post here. I wrote years ago that I felt the most powerful web part in SharePoint’s gallery was the Content Editor. It gives the user full freedom to present content the way he/she chooses while not requiring HTML (i.e. “techie”) skills. One of the challenges with this empowerment, however, is that sometimes you are left to the limits of the technology. One example is the use…

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$40K Worth of SharePoint Stuff To Be Raffled on Feb 10, Wed - You In?

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

7 Feb 2010 | 8:30 pm

Thanks to all who supported Operation ShareLove: Haiti. The long anticipated raffle will be this Wednesday, Feb 10 at 5.30pm PT (8.30PM ET). I will be streaming live on MeetDux.com direct from SPTechCon in SFO - so stay tuned! I'll be raffling off the following: CorasWorks WorkPlace Suite ... (More)
A Shoemaker's Advice on SharePoint Training: It's Not Just About the Tools

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

27 Jan 2010 | 11:55 am

SharePoint empowerment includes instilling proper discipline. Being able to define a process and use SharePoint to support it allows users to reap the technology's promise of streamlining work, increasing productivity and improving business efficiency. Teaching how to define business processes i... (More)
Wanna Attend "Delivering SharePoint Success" Mentoring Workshop This Thursday, Jan 21, in Washington DC for FREE?

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

18 Jan 2010 | 12:12 pm

I will be faciliating "Delivering SharePoint Success" Mentoring Workshop this Thursday, 01/21/2010 in Reston, VA (Metro Washington DC). In this two-day interactive workshop, I'll step you through best practices and practical techniques in establishing executive buy-in, effectively ... (More)
Operation ShareLove: Support Haiti Earthquake Victims & Win!

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

18 Jan 2010 | 9:34 am

On January 12th, 2010, the worst earthquake in 200 years - 7.0 in magnitude - struck less than ten miles from the Caribbean city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is estimated that 1/3 of the population perished or were displaced. As a part of this global community we live in, "Operatio... (More)
PM Podcast 138: Delivering SharePoint Success

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

17 Jan 2010 | 11:23 am

I had the great opportunity to speak with Cornelius Fichtner of PMPodcast last week and talked to him about the mentoring workshop I facilitate. We discussed the importance of having SharePoint projects get started the right way and I shared the first 3 steps to take if you are going to i... (More)

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Power of Content Editor WebPart article series started

Boris Gomiunik

8 Feb 2010 | 1:33 pm

Feedback from SharePoint Saturday EMEA online still brings good results. Not only did it make me cleanup quite some of my JavaScripts to prepare for presentation, but it also inspired me to start the "The Power of Content Editor WebPart" series of articles. It’s going to be an at-least 10-part series. Covering from basics to a bit more in-depth on how to use JavaScript to Change the looks of SharePoint pages Add features and functionalities to SharePoint Pages and list forms Read from and write data to SharePoint Lists using SharePoint’s Web Services. Some other stuff…
SPSEMEA Demo site and showcase

Boris Gomiunik

3 Feb 2010 | 1:31 pm

I’ve prepared a SPSEMEA Demo site that you can simply upload to your (http://[siteUrl]/_catalogs/wt) Site template gallery. You can download the .stp from CodePlex After you’ve uploaded the file to the Site template gallery you can create a subsite (English language) and from Custom you can select the uploaded template. Below’s a brief overview where you can find tricks. How it’s done – check for Content Editor WebParts in that page (using a “PageView=Shared&ToolPaneView=2” parameters in url (more info here)). All the files containing code are in a document library Sys.
Content from my presentation on SharePoint Saturday EMEA

Boris Gomiunik

23 Jan 2010 | 4:21 am

Thanks everyone that joined in to listen to my online presentation on SPSEMEA. I’ve zipped and uploaded all my script samples to CodePlex – click here to download the package. Let me just point out couple of resources used in those scripts: Jquery: http://jqoery.com I was mentioning the IE Developer Toolbar for IE 7 – available here Or just install latest IE (version 8 already has this built in) SharePoint web services description and usage on MSDN – just expand the service you wish to check and look for methods ERTE – I didn’t get to explain that one, but the usage is…
Week in month number calculated column

Boris Gomiunik

7 Jan 2010 | 4:50 am

If you need to determine which week of the month a particular date is in, use the following formula: =(DATEDIF(DATE(YEAR(Datum);MONTH(Datum);1)-(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(Datum);MONTH(Datum);1);2))+1;Datum+(7-WEEKDAY(Datum;2));"D")+1)/7 The formula above is for regions that use decimal comma format and week starts on Monday. If you use decimal dot and your weeks start on Sunday, use the following formula: =(DATEDIF(DATE(YEAR(Datum),MONTH(Datum),1)-(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(Datum),MONTH(Datum),1),1))+1,Datum+(7-WEEKDAY(Datum,2)),"D")+1)/7 The formula displays the week number in month, not…
SharePoint Document Library item title in Event Receiver AfterProperties

Boris Gomiunik

3 Jan 2010 | 11:32 pm

Here’s a short one worth taking note of. If you’re using SharePoint Event Receivers – more specifically synchronous event receivers (-ing) you might notice that if you try to set Properties.AfterProperties["Title"] in a document library for the strangest reason it doesn’t work. If that occurs, use the AfterProperties["vti_title"] And the Document Title can be managed. Like - Dislike Bookmark It Hide Sites

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NEW! Plan for Profile Synchronization

clake

22 Jan 2010 | 4:10 am

If you’ve had a chance to play around with the new profile synchronization capabilities in SharePoint Server 2010, you’ve probably discovered that there are a few things it would be nice to know before you got started. Well, we’ve put together a document that will help you properly prepare for setting up Profile Synchronization in SharePoint Server 2010. Plan for Profile Synchronization takes you step-by-step through the activities you need to perform in order to prepare for a successful roll-out of Profile Synchronization in your environment. These steps include the following:…
SharePoint BI

SteveH

14 Jan 2010 | 12:01 pm

Greetings from the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence (BI) UA team! We will be posting on the To the SharePoint blog going forward and would like to introduce ourselves: Joanne Hendrickson: Senior Writer -- PerformancePoint Services 2010, Access Services Norm Warren: Writer -- PerformancePoint Services 2010, BI Search Mike Plumley: Writer -- Visio Services 2010, Project Server 2010 Steve Hord: Writer -- Excel Services 2010 The services that we write about are all major features in SharePoint Products 2010 BI offering. We will be covering any and all issues, tasks, and BI…
*New* SharePoint 2010 content deployment poster

supotter

12 Jan 2010 | 2:28 pm

Check out our new content deployment poster, created by Cern McAtee: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de010583-e5fe-4c4b-a633-e57312336aef&displaylang=en Cern is a writer on the SharePoint Content Publishing Team, and he focusses on Web content and digital asset management for IT Professionals. Cern developed this poster in collaboration with customers and several internal groups at Microsoft. The poster provides an overview of content deployment and is intended to be read in conjunction with our in-depth technical articles. Find more Web Content Management…
Add-in for Manipulating Points on Charts in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010

SteveH

7 Jan 2010 | 6:36 am

The Microsoft Excel product team has listened to customer feedback and created the Manipulating Points on Charts (MPOC) add-in. MPOC provides Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 users the ability to resize or reposition points on charts. This feature was last present in Excel 2003 and later removed. Since then, customer feedback has shown this feature was used often and missed when it was removed. The Excel product team has responded with this add-in and they are assessing how to bring this back into a future Excel release. See the announcement at the Microsoft Excel 2010 blog site along with…
Profile Synchronization in SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2

clake

15 Dec 2009 | 9:36 am

In SharePoint Server 2010, you can use Profile Synchronization to synchronize user and group profile information that is stored in the SharePoint Server 2010 profile store with profile information that is stored in directory services across the enterprise. This profile information includes hierarchy and group information that can be used to drive functionality such as audiences or hierarchy-driven business processes. For Beta 2, we published documentation that explains how to configure Profile Synchronization. We recently updated these documents with feedback from you. This newly updated…

Waldek Mastykarz
SharePoint 2010 Content Query Web Part with paging

Waldek Mastykarz

1 Feb 2010 | 10:06 am

One of the coolest and probably most frequently used Web Parts in SharePoint 2007 was the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) – a great control that allowed you to display content aggregations to the users. Although it was pretty awesome, it had some serious drawbacks like for example the lack of a paging mechanism – something that almost every single Web Content Management project that I worked on required. Three years later in SharePoint 2010 the CQWP got a facelift and shipped with some seriously cool features like slots and the Content to Content concept. Unfortunately still no sign of…
Showing transient messages using the SharePoint 2010 Notification Area – SharePoint 2010 UI tip #2

Waldek Mastykarz

31 Jan 2010 | 1:23 am

Delivering a great User Experience for a custom application developed on the SharePoint application is really easy using the new SharePoint 2010 UI API. One of the new possibilities is to leverage the Notification Area to communicate the progress of an operation to the users to make using your applications more intuitive and responsive. Notification… what? Notification Area is one of the few new concepts introduced in SharePoint 2010 User Interface. It has been designed to deliver transient messages to the user to communicate the progress of an operation: The Notification Area can display…
Showing persistent messages using the SharePoint 2010 Status bar: SharePoint 2010 UI tip #1

Waldek Mastykarz

30 Jan 2010 | 2:24 pm

SharePoint 2010 ships with a brand new framework for delivering compelling user experiences for custom applications created using the SharePoint platform. One of the pieces of the UI framework is the Status bar which can be used to display persistent messages to the users. Working with the SharePoint 2010 Status bar is very easy. Its functionality is exposed through the SP.UI.Status namespace (defined in the 14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\SP.js file) in SharePoint 2010 JavaScript API. Displaying new message in the status bar In order to display a message in the SharePoint 2010 status bar you can use the…
Overloading functions in JavaScript

Waldek Mastykarz

30 Jan 2010 | 1:56 pm

If you are a SharePoint developer, or do some general .NET development, you probably work with overloading methods. Using the same name you can define multiple variants of the same method by specifying a different set of parameters. As SharePoint 2010 contains a large piece of very powerful API in the JavaScript: both for communicating with the SharePoint platform (also known as the SharePoint Client Object Model) and manipulating the UI, the odds are high that you will sooner or later start using JavaScript more and will extend the functionality provided by SharePoint to meet your needs.
Filling forms using data from EntityPicker aka EntityPicker with Callback

Waldek Mastykarz

25 Jan 2010 | 11:41 am

Windows SharePoint Services v3 ships with many controls that simplify entering data. One of such controls is the EntityPicker which allows users to search for data and then select the desired record(s). Not only is the EntityPicker very intuitive but also highly extensible. Did you know that you can extend the EntityPicker to make it fill the list form using the data from the entity that you picked? Imagine the following requirement: you have a document library that allows users to write letters. The contacts to whom the letters are being sent are stored in a CRM system. As soon as user finds…

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Bamboo HQ - Severe Weather Announcement

Lily

9 Feb 2010 | 5:07 am

Due to severe weather conditions in and around the Washington DC region, the Bamboo headquarters in Reston, Virginia has issued an inclement weather policy for our employees. As always we are committed to serving your needs, but we appreciate your flexibility and patience at this time. Thank you for your understanding.
Windows 7 Does Not Ruin Batteries; Google vs. Microsoft Marketing; Obama Suggests Agencies Use Cloud to Cut Costs

SharePoint Daily

9 Feb 2010 | 4:57 am

Top News StoriesMicrosoft Dropping Linux, Unix From Enterprise Search (InformationWeek)Microsoft is dropping its Linux and Unix search cores in the Fast Search and Transfer enterprise search products it has been providing since it acquired FAST two years ago. The announcement was made by FAST chief technology officer Bjorn Olstad in his blog. Olstad said FAST's next wave of products with Windows capability -- scheduled for release in a few months -- will be the last to include a search core that operates on Linux and Unix. Users Dispute Microsoft's Explanation of Windows 7 Battery…
As SPTechCon Beckons, Operation ShareLove: Haiti Prepares to Raffle Over $40K in SharePoint Prizes

John Anderson

8 Feb 2010 | 1:08 pm

I've been very much looking forward to my Wednesday afternoon flight out of the snowpocalyptic landscape that D.C. has become for the warmer climes of San Francisco to attend my first SPTechCon. Guess what? They're now calling for up to another foot of snow between Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, so I just got off the phone with an excellent United customer service representative who helpfully arranged to move my flight up to Tuesday afternoon, even generously waiving the standard change fees due to the oncoming storm. This is great news since it means I'll now be…
SharePoint911 to Present a Full Slate of Workshops and Sessions at SPTechCon

Jill Kunkel

8 Feb 2010 | 8:57 am

Bamboo is gearing up for the SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) this week in San Francisco, where our Partner SharePoint911 will be presenting a comprehensive lineup of workshops and technical classes. Not only will the sessions presented by SharePoint911 cover a wide range of topics, but they're targeted toward every level of SharePoint user, from end users to administrators. If you're going to be at SPTechCon, be sure to check out one of the many sessions and workshops presented by SharePoint911 team members: Managing SharePoint…
Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint RC Available; Google to End Support for IE6; Free Office 2010 Upgrade

SharePoint Daily

8 Feb 2010 | 5:25 am

Top News StoriesDownload Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate (RC) (Softpedia)Business customers that have deployed SharePoint Server in their infrastructure and looking for a security solution to protect the product’s libraries can now download and test drive Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate. The security solution is designed to safeguard SharePoint libraries from users that attempt to upload or download a variety of potentially malicious content, including documents infected malware, out-policy items, or sensitive data.

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VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available!

Erwin

9 Feb 2010 | 12:42 am

The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are available for MSDN subscribers, you can download them immediately from this location. The Release Candidate will be made available to the public on 10 February 2010. This release includes a “go-live” license for users who want to use VS in a production environment. Remark: Before installing the Release Candidate you will have to uninstall any previously installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 versions. Related posts:SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight 4 Beta available SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam Videos
SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam Videos

Erwin

8 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am

You can find most of the videos from the SharePoint Connections 2010 conference in Amsterdam by searching for the “SPC10” tag on Channel9. Related posts:SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight 4 Beta available
Metadata not saving when Office Document is password protected

Erwin

4 Feb 2010 | 2:31 am

This is a known issue. The metadata is actually stored within the document and gets read into SharePoint when being saved. Unfortunately, since the document is password protected, SharePoint cannot read the metadata values and therefore you lose them. More precise, if you open the document for example in Excel you will see in your Document Information Panel (DIP) that the metadata is stored (in the document), but you won’t see the metadata in SharePoint. You have 2 different options to password protect an Office document, you can enter a “password to open” and/or a…
SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight 4 Beta available

Erwin

20 Nov 2009 | 5:25 am

Microsoft announced the general availability for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/sharepoint-2010-public-beta-is-now-available-for-download.aspx At the PDC in n Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta: http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/silverlight-4-beta-is-now-available/ http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/ Related posts:Silverlight 3 Released SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam Videos VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available!
Bulk editing metadata in a Sharepoint Picture Library

Erwin

18 Aug 2009 | 12:28 am

One of our SharePoint users asked me if it was possible to select a range of multiple images in a SharePoint Picture Library and edit their metadata in one go? In a Document library you can do this by using the “Edit in datasheet” option, in the datasheet you can bulk edit the metadata, but for some reason the Picture Library doesn’t have that option. But, if you have Access 2007 installed on your pc, you can create an Access View which allows you to use Access 2007 to populate the metadata. 1. Go to your Picture Library and Create a new view 2. Choose Access View 3. Save the…

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SharePoint in Photographs

Office Talk

1 Feb 2010 | 4:41 am

Recently I had a new Blackberry and although my chubby fingers are slightly too wide for the qwerty keyboard I am getting use to it. Especially as I now know you don’t have to have it so it bleeps all night long every time a message arrives. With the add-on apps like Google Maps and mobile Facebook added it is sadly becoming a big part of my life. I can even view my SharePoint sites on there. Of course as is the norm these days every mobile device has to have an inbuilt camera. I mean I am typing away at the moment on my laptop and if I accidently press the wrong function key I will hear a…
Make SharePoint Count

Office Talk

22 Jan 2010 | 6:33 am

If you are a regular reader to my SharePoint blog you will have guessed that the only place to start this week is by congratulating Aston Villa on reaching the Carling Cup Final. There were joyous celebrations on Wednesday following a game that had more goals than you get site templates in the popular ActionSharePoint Bumper Bundle. Yes, at 6-4 (sounds like a tennis score) it wasn’t always easy to keep track, so this week I am going to discuss some of the unused ‘Totals’ features in SharePoint. The BBC must have been delighted with ten goals, a sending off and incidents galore. I have…
SharePoint Awards 2010 - Nominations

Office Talk

15 Jan 2010 | 2:42 am

In England we will soon know the finalists of the first football tournament of the year and after last night I am very hopefully I will be visiting the new Wembley for the first time on Sunday 28th February. After the success of last year's Andy Dale SharePoint Awards I have decided to repeat the awards this year and I am seeking nominations for 2010. The closing date for all nominations will be 28th February 2010, yes the date of the Carling Cup Final. A few things I ask though, firstly please do not nominate yourselves and secondly let's stick to WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 applications. Then in…
Snow Go SharePoint

Office Talk

11 Jan 2010 | 7:00 am

Unlike many other countries a few inches of snow in the UK means that everything grinds to a stop. This week was one of those weeks when thousands of schools closed, many roads became impassable and worse of all the Villa’s Carling Cup Semi Final was cancelled. But things have changed lately and it was interesting to see how many Facebook status updates told us the person was working from home (I don’t know when Facebook became part of working from home) . Now with the rapid improvement of Broadband technology around the world it has made ‘working from home’ a real option. No longer…
SharePoint 2010 - The Story Continues

Office Talk

5 Jan 2010 | 11:38 am

So we enter a new year and a new decade. We have said goodbye to 2009 a year that saw the first nearly black US President, Tiger Woods playing a few extra rounds, MPs fiddling more than Nigel Kennedy, Michael Jackson never performing at the O2 and England cricketers regaining that little urn. It seems impossible to believe that it has been ten years since the Millennium celebrations, but I suppose a lot of things have changed in those ten years (apart from Ryan Giggs, of course). The biggest change has probably been in technology with smart-phones, digital cameras, Ebay and of course…

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SPS Indy a Success

Woody Windischman

1 Feb 2010 | 11:23 pm

As most of you know, I was a speaker at the Indianapolis SharePoint Saturday event. We had close to a capacity crowd, with over 250 attendees. Not bad for a little town in the Midwest. OK, Indianapolis isn't all that small. There are a few events that draw more people - like the Indianapolis 500. And I hear there's also a football team... (just kidding - Go Colts!). My Session Nevertheless, there were 20 sessions, in four tracks. My session was the first of the day in the "No-code solutions" track. I gave an Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 (click the link to download a PDF…
On Ends and Means

Woody Windischman

21 Jan 2010 | 3:19 pm

The Answer may be SharePoint, but Don't Forget the Questions! One of the biggest reasons some SharePoint deployments fail is because they are "SharePoint Deployments". People hear the buzz, and want to jump on the SharePoint bandwagon. They buy servers, attend training, install the software. Big bux are spent customizing and branding a SharePoint home page. Maybe there's a big roll-out promotion. Everybody says "Look! We've rolled out SharePoint!". And then... Crickets. All Dressed Up, and Nowhere to Go But, you ask, what about all of those stories you hear about…
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis

Woody Windischman

9 Jan 2010 | 5:55 am

On the Road Again... Well, 2010 has just barely gotten started, and SharePoint Saturday's are already in full swing. I'm pleased to announce that I've been selected to present at the SharePoint Saturday in Indianapolis, Indiana. This takes place on January 30th, 2010, at the Gene B. Glick Junior Achievement Center. Click on the link or logo above for all the details, including registration, a list of the other presenters, as well as the Twitter feed of #SPSIndy commentary. A SharePoint Saturday is a free to attend event that serves as a mini SharePoint conference. You get some of the same…
Looking Back on 2009

Woody Windischman

27 Dec 2009 | 11:11 pm

The Obligatory Year-end Report It is now the last week of December, and you know what that means. Lying in wait among the crumpled wrapping paper, danced-out sugarplums, and pine needles (not to mention the feathers and other "presents" from all those birds your true love gave to you) you'll find year-end wrap-ups from every corner imaginable. This is mine. :) I'll get to the more general stuff in a moment, but there was one personal SharePoint-related thing that stood out for me in 2009, and that happened the very first day. I Became a Published Author While I (along with Asif and…
SharePoint 2010 - Everything Old is New Again

Woody Windischman

13 Dec 2009 | 2:36 am

"You Must Un-learn what You Have Learned!" The public beta of SharePoint 2010 has been out for a few weeks now. Many people are discovering and blogging about some of the great new features you're going to find. Yet there have also been some significant changes to existing features. These are things you may have been using every day in SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0, but which in SharePoint 2010 have moved or changed in ways could cause confusion to experienced users. In this article I'm going to focus on changes the typical end-user would see. In future articles I'll talk about…

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SharePoint Conference 2010 Sydney, Australia

Jeremy Thake

8 Feb 2010 | 5:42 pm

16th and 17th June, 2010, The Hilton, Sydney, Australia Don't miss the Australian SharePoint Conference for 2010, proudly sponsored by Microsoft and leading partners, and organized by members of the Australian and New Zealand SharePoint community. I have submitted a few speaker sessions so hopefully you'll get to see me present there! For details and registration, visit the following site: http://www.sharepointconference.com.au
I’ll be speaking at ALM conference in Sydney

Jeremy Thake

8 Feb 2010 | 1:28 pm

Antony Borton et al have organised a Australia ALM Conference (Application Lifecycle Management) at Luna Park in Sydney on the 13th and 14th of April 2010. I will be speaking on "Introducing ALM to SharePoint Development Implementations": "The SharePoint Platform adoption is growing at a rate of knots among the customers of the development community. With the new SharePoint 2010 platform arriving in the first half of 2010, it is important to understand how ALM can be introduced in SharePoint implementations. This session will cover how SharePoint Development implementations can…
SharePoint Saturday Perth wrap up

Jeremy Thake

7 Feb 2010 | 3:18 pm

SharePoint Saturday Perth was run on Saturday. I organised this over the last few months and from what I have heard, it was a very well received event. We had over 115 people attend with a full 100 at the keynote and wrap up sessions at the end! I think that makes it the biggest SPS in Australia to date which is awesome! The speakers had great feedback on their sessions with Information Worker, IT Pro and Developer tracks. Slide Decks I will be publishing the slide decks shortly once I've got the final decks off the speakers. Webcasts A few of the speakers recorded their sessions on Camtasia…
Independent SharePoint Consultant for hire

Jeremy Thake

7 Feb 2010 | 1:27 pm

I have decided to move on from my role as Principal Consultant at Readify after handing in my notice last week. As of March, I will be pursuing a career as an Independent SharePoint Consultant in the Perth area. I am looking to assist customers to lead and mentor their teams on SharePoint based projects or simply review or architect their solutions up front and oversee the project throughout its lifecycle. I am also happy to work with existing Service Integrators teams in this offering too. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) I will also be looking to help training companies with their…
I am now a Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist

Jeremy Thake

3 Feb 2010 | 5:43 pm

Today I went and signed a contract with Microsoft here in Western Australia to join the "Virtual Technical Specialist" programme. I've had plenty of questions on what this role actually is…so here goes from what I know already. Effectively as a Virtual Technical Specialist I will be reporting to William Cornwill (@codejedi) who is based in Victoria as a SharePoint Technology Solutions Professional for Microsoft. The role is there so that I can assist the local sales team with their technical queries around SharePoint. This is because William and Gayan Pieris are the only full time…

Wictor Wilen
SharePoint 2010 tools in Visual Studio 2010 violates basic naming conventions

Wictor Wilén

6 Feb 2010 | 7:35 pm

The SharePoint 2010 Development Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is great and I really like the way that the project is built using the different artifacts. One thing really annoys me though and that is the way that the code is generated and named when you add items. For example if you create a project and then add a Web Part item to that project then Visual Studio will create a Web Part class with a namespace and class name like this: namespace Wictor.CodeAnalysis.WebPart1 { public class WebPart1 : WebPart { } As you can see the namespace and the name of the Web Part has the same name. This is a…
A request to the Microsoft SharePoint Product Team

Wictor Wilén

5 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

SharePoint is an amazing product and there are some fantastic opportunities to make awesome applications. It also has a great API which has had improved further in the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release. But there are several features available in the platform/API that just isn’t available to all of us, unless we sit in Redmond and are building the actual product. There are so many classes or methods that are marked internal or sealed, that I really would like to use. I’m not going to nag about the search Web Parts this time, but instead focus on some classes that I really would like to be…
I am now an approved SharePoint 2010 Ignite instructor

Wictor Wilén

24 Jan 2010 | 10:30 pm

A couple of weeks ago I participated in the SharePoint 2010 Ignite training and after a great, but quite hard, interview and discussion I have been approved as a SharePoint 2010 Ignite Developer trainer. I really look forward getting out there and teaching developers about all the awesome features and improvements in SharePoint 2010. If you are interested in training don’t hesitate in contacting me. Together with AddSkills I have planned for a couple of SharePoint 2010 upgrade classes this spring. Take care and see you out there…
SharePoint Bad Practices are still around!

Wictor Wilén

19 Jan 2010 | 2:14 am

It is 2010 now and SharePoint 2007 have been out forever, it feels like it anyways. The last two years has been about best practices in SharePoint both for developers and IT-pros and especially the Disposing of SharePoint objects has been discussed in absurdum. So I guess we should have to talk about it - but guess what - we certainly do! The reason I bring this up today is that I was about to join a new WFE to a farm and it failed once it started to provision the web applications. Using the logs I found the source of the failure, it was some kind of component that threw an unhandled…
Creating a SharePoint 2010 Ribbon extension - part 2

Wictor Wilén

11 Jan 2010 | 1:57 am

This is the second post in my mini series on how to extend the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon. First post can be found here. The goal with this excersice is to extend the Editing Tools Insert tab with a smaller Insert Web Part drop-down, so we don’t have to expand the whole Web Part Gallery to insert a Web Part. In the last post we created a Visual Studio 2010 solution and added the drop-down to the correct tab in the Ribbon using the CustomAction element and some new SharePoint 2010 XML syntax. Readers with good memory/eyes see that I made some more enhancements to the drop-down… Step 3: Create…

Mark Harrison
Free Silverlight eLearning Courseware player

9 Feb 2010 | 5:04 am

Point8020 have decided to give their Silverlight eLearning Courseware player away for free. It allows you to display videos and other training resources (such as PPTs, PDFs, Docs, etc in a nice format like the following: http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx )The free software is called Point8020.CourseViewer and you can grab it from:http://www.point8020.com/services.aspxMark Harrison
SharePoint 2010 VM Download

28 Jan 2010 | 1:13 pm

Want to demonstrate the latest beta of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in an information worker scenario to customers? Download the two newest virtual machines (VM) with pre-configured versions of Office 2010 Beta and SharePoint 2010 Beta from the Microsoft Download Center.In order to run this demo you will need the following hardware:- Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled- Intel VT or AMD-V capable processor- 8 GB or more RAM- 50 GB of NTFS-formatted hard disk space required for installDownloadMark Harrison
SharePoint eMagazine

19 Jan 2010 | 1:45 pm

SharePoint eMagazine ... lots of great SharePoint 2010 content .Mark Harrison
KODU Game Lab download

14 Jan 2010 | 1:46 pm

KODU is a visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone.Originally designed as a learning tool for youngsters using Xbox 360, KODU is now available in a public beta for the PC.KODU downloadMark Harrison
2010 CES Keynote Address

7 Jan 2010 | 5:59 am

Watch video of Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach delivering the opening keynote address for CES 2010.Mark Harrison

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Visual Studio 2010 RC is available

DigiMortal

9 Feb 2010 | 1:30 am

VS2010 RC is out now and available for MSDN users since now. Other guys have to wait until tomorrow when VS2010 RC is made publically available. Reading first news I discovered that most important thing is hardly improved performance of VS2010 RC IDE. All your feedback is welcome to VS2010 RC Connect site. To find out more follow these links: VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate VS 2010/.NET 4 Release Candidate is Available for MSDN subscribers Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) Before installing RC you must uninstall all previous versions of VS2010 and .NET Framework…
IL perversions: throwing and catching strings

DigiMortal

8 Feb 2010 | 2:30 pm

Inspired by Mohamed Mahmoud’s blog posting How to: Create Interfaces with Static Methods via IL? I wrote another sick example on IL (Intermediate Language) to show you how different is the world behind compilers. Tonight I have enough of exceptions, I want to throw some strings! Let’s do it! Throwing exception in IL As a first thing take a look at the following code written in IL. In short this code defines class with two methods. Run() is entry point and it is run automatically when compiled assembly is executed from command line. ThrowSomething() is method that throws exception. This…
Writing object to object mapper: first implementations

DigiMortal

7 Feb 2010 | 4:09 am

I wrote some object to object mapping code and introduced it in some of my previous postings about performance. As I received 22x performance raise when trying out different mapping methods and it is now time to make my code nice. In this posting I will show you how I organized my code to classes. Yes, you can use my classes in your work if you like. :) To get fast overview of my mapping journey so far I suggest you to read the following postings from this blog: Using LINQ and reflection to find matching properties of objects Performance: Using dynamic code to copy property values of two…
ASP.NET MVC Performance II: Optimizing resources

DigiMortal

7 Feb 2010 | 1:26 am

In my previous posting about ASP.NET MVC performance I showed you how to combine resources like scripts, style sheets and images. In this posting I will show you how to minimize resources so we don’t waste the bandwidth we got. Optimizing scripts and style sheets Scripts and style sheets can be optimized by removing unnecessary characters from files. Usually these smaller versions are called minimized scripts and style sheets. For smaller resources you have no remarkable effects but for larger resources you may win in tens or even hundreds of kilobytes of file sizes. The process of…
ASP.NET MVC Performance I: Combining resources

DigiMortal

6 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

I wrote a small postings series about how to optimize ASP.NET MVC applications. This posting is small introduction to series and it also introduces first two optimization steps: resources and images combining. Totally non-optimal page As this posting is also introduction to this little series I give you short overview about what is non-optimal page. Main characteristics of non-optimal page are: too heavy mark-up (contains a lot of constructs that can be avoided by using style sheets), non-minimized resources like scripts and style sheets, non-combined resources, repeatedly used images are…

SharePoint Reviews Articles
Two Key Roles and Requirements for SharePoint Farm Administration

31 Jan 2010 | 7:38 am

Since Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an application platform, not just an application, maintaining and managing a SharePoint farm requires many skills. The level of complexity is comparable to SAP, although SharePoint does much more than SAP. The required skills are so broad it’s almost impossible to find them in one person. However, most of what’s required can be found in two roles: System Administrator and SharePoint Development Leader (in many environments, some parts of the System Administrator role can be handled by standard server operation procedures (anti-virus,…
Operation ShareLove: Support Haiti Victims & Win!

30 Jan 2010 | 12:56 pm

On January 12th, 2010, the worst earthquake in 200 years - 7.0 in magnitude - struck less than ten miles from the Caribbean city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is estimated that 1/3 of the population perished or were displaced. As a part of this global community we live in, "Operation ShareLove: Haiti" Fund Drive organized by our friend Dux Sy supports our brothers and sisters in Haiti. Participate in it today and not only are you helping out those that are in need, you can benefit too! Visit meetdux.com to see how you can participate.
Win a SharePoint Summit 2010 Conference Pass

21 Jan 2010 | 12:10 pm

Starting next month, we will be giving away 2 full conference passes to the SharePoint Summit 2010 conference in Montréal, Qc Canada. As always, these are absolutely free, and each pass is valued at $1,395 US! We will select one SharePointReviews.com contributor at the end of the month to receive a pass, and the other will be given away at some point on Twitter. Read more...
Virto's Workflow Activities Kit Gets 5 Stars at a University

18 Jan 2010 | 5:39 pm

(Rating: 5 out of 5) by Kevin Gunther-Canada, University of Alabama at Birmingham Working in higher education, I see the need for business process automation on an almost daily basis. Unlike traditional businesses, academia is a difficult environment to attempt to create or impose standardized automated business processes in any real way, since such institutions tend to be highly decentralized and complex environments. SharePoint is a tool that seems to have been developed to address these kinds of business needs: it offers a foundational architecture that suffers from relatively few of the…
Content and Code's 1OrgChart Makes Your Life Easier

22 Dec 2009 | 9:07 am

(Rating: 4 out of 5)Most businesses want an open and communicative environment. This most commonly includes the display of an organization chart on the company intranet. For the growing number of companies who implemented SharePoint as their intranet, Microsoft left a gaping hole in the out-of-the-box functionality of both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 when it comes to addressing this need. Content and Code’s 1OrgChart is one of the better products that has appeared on the market to fill the gap ... Read more...

Michael Greth MVP SharePoint Blog
SPPD134 SharePointPodcast

Michael Greth

7 Feb 2010 | 12:15 am

Direkter Download: SPPD-134-2010-02-07 (Please visit the site to view this media) Diese Ausgabe des SharePointPodcast wird präsentiert von Share4Suite – Innovative Lösungen & Produkte für ein optimales SharePoint-Projektmanagement 5 Jahre SharePointPodcast Feedback von Ingo Google und Bing suchen nach SharePoint Veranstaltungen ppedv SharePoint konferenz 2010 – Die Sessions CeBIT kostenlose DVD mit Microsoft Webcast 2009 ShareCamp 2010 SharePointUserGroups Treffen Tipps Fallstudie zu SharePoint 2007 Suche SharePoint 2007 December Cumulative Update Tipp…
Und wieder mal 6 neue SharePoint Projekte auf CodePlex

Michael Greth

5 Feb 2010 | 8:02 am

Sharepoint Permissions Manager SharePoint Permissions Manager (for WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007) This tools provides management of permissions for your entire site in only one page. MAPILab Explorer for SharePoint MAPILab Explorer for SharePoint® is a universal accessory tool for simplifying the development of solutions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider User Profile Property Reordering Tool User Profiles Property Ordering Tool will…
SharePoint Kaffeetasse 159

Michael Greth

5 Feb 2010 | 7:52 am

SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Designer 2010 Edit in Advanced Mode SharePoint 2010 Better Together with SQL 2008 R2 Database Enhancements Top 10 The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade PowerShell To Change SharePoint Diagnostic Log File Location Office 2010 The Access Show: Classified ads demo Create a Loan Calculator using the InfoPath and Excel Web Parts Create a SharePoint list using InfoPath 2010 Office 2010 Improvements for Cropping Pictures Tipps Get the GUID Out of SharePoint…
SharePoint 2007 December Cumulative Update

Michael Greth

1 Feb 2010 | 1:33 am

Über das Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies sind die Cumulative Updates December 2009 für WSS 3.0 und MOSS2007 erhältlich. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB 977027) Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB 977026) Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePointCommunity,MOSS, SharePoint 2010, Michael Greth, Office 2010
SharePoint Kaffeetasse 158

Michael Greth

29 Jan 2010 | 5:18 am

SharePoint 2010 Minimal master page file for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Community Input: SharePoint 2010 Webcast Web Content Management mit SharePoint Server 2010 zum Download E-Learning What's New in SharePoint 2010 for Developers clinic E-Learning What's New in SharePoint 2010 for IT Pros clinic Office 2010 Schnell und einfach: Office 2010 testen ohne lokale Installation Sign up now for the InfoPath 2010 Academy Live Series! Business Intelligence Features in Excel 2010 Tools CodePlex: Microsoft Solution Framework for Editorial Collaboration and Mobile Journalism Technorati:…

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SharePoint Connections Look Back

Daniel McPherson

8 Feb 2010 | 8:48 pm

I was lucky enough to present at the recent SharePoint Connections conference held here in our very own Amsterdam. It was a fantastic event, great venue, lots of SharePoint people and good sessions. My first session was titled SharePoint 2010 Social Computing Overview, and it was done in true social style, with the help of Mark and Robin. We added an “Experimental” twist to the session because we wanted to demonstrate some of the SharePoint Social capabilities without having to swap backward and forwards between users on a single screen. Instead we setup a server, and actually connected…
Are you the BEST SharePoint Developer in India?

Daniel McPherson

14 Jan 2010 | 2:35 pm

Are you smart and get things done? Do you dream in SharePoint? Do you think there must be more to being a Software Engineer out there? If so, then we are offering the opportunity to be part of a global team that thinks and works just like you. It’s an environment where you will be challenged everyday, where you have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, on the latest technologies, and most importantly, where you will learn and grow with people you enjoy working with. While enthusiasm is important to us, please only send your resume if: You have been working with SharePoint for more…
Its Conference Season!

Daniel McPherson

11 Jan 2010 | 7:33 pm

Just wanted to let you know about a couple of upcoming conferences that I will be presenting at. The first one kicks off next week, in my home town of Amsterdam, SharePoint Connections 2010. There is a great line-up of speaker and I’m looking forward to catching up with them. I will be presenting two sessions, the first one solo, and the second one with an “experimental” demo setup by Mark and Robin (which should be fun!). MSC08: Server Free Solutions: Sandboxed and Client-Only Solutions with SharePoint Daniel McPhersonWant a customised SharePoint experience but not the custom code…
Assembly Free Twitter Solution Improved

Daniel McPherson

17 Dec 2009 | 6:35 pm

I received an email last week from Tulasi Talakola (Twitter: talakola2009) which included a new version of our assembly-free Team Status (“Twitter”) template for SharePoint. The new functionality provides for the ability to “Follow” only a subset of users within the site. We agreed that I could post it here, and I really like having others take our solutions and make them even better. DOWNLOAD Thanks Tulasi!
Announcing Discussion Central for SharePoint

Daniel McPherson

7 Dec 2009 | 9:28 pm

We released Blog Central (Demo Site) a little over 4 months ago and it has always been our intention to grow it into a suite of products that perform two core functions: Aggregate and summarise information from across your SharePoint farm. Extend the out-of-the-box templates with small additional features that add a lot of value. I’m pleased to announce our first addition to the Central suite, our beta release of “Discussion Central” (Demo Site). Discussion Central provides a “Jumping Off Point” into Discussions that are happening across your organisation. It does this by…

Furuknap's SharePoint corner
SharePoint 2010 Release Candidate Prerequisites

Bjørn Furuknap

8 Feb 2010 | 10:32 am

As you may or may not know, the first release candidate of SharePoint 2010 is just around the corner. Here are the pre-requirements for SharePoint Server 2010, RC 1, build 4730: Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client Hotfix for Microsoft Windows (KB976462) Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405) Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64) Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET Microsoft Server Speech Platform Runtime (x64) Microsoft Server Speech…
Here’s What I Have Been Doing Lately

Bjørn Furuknap

1 Feb 2010 | 10:55 am

Yeah, it’s been dead quiet here for a while. Here’s why: http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/training/ .b
Going Freelance Once Again

Bjørn Furuknap

12 Jan 2010 | 6:13 am

I mentioned last fall that I had taken the big plunge and taken on a full-time position at ErgoGroup in Norway. I have now quit that job, and to avoid speculation, I’d like to explain at least the outline of the reason. First of all, the SharePoint team, including the bosses of the SharePoint and portal departments at Ergo, are a great bunch of people, highly skilled, passionate, and very friendly. However, I have been working freelance for all my life, more or less, controlling every aspect of my work. I probably have grown too accustomed to that freedom to fit into a huge and highly…
What Are Your SharePoint Learning Challenges?

Bjørn Furuknap

10 Jan 2010 | 8:48 am

I mentioned before Christmas that I’m working on a new service that will focus on providing SharePoint training on a whole new level. Based on the initial feedback I’ve received from those few people who have heard about or seen the early stages, I still stand by my promise to blow your minds :-) However, I could really use your assistance. I have created a very simple and short survey that I need you to answer. The survey is so simple, it has only a single question. If you have a minute available, please stop by and help me create the best training resource for SharePoint: Click here to…
Adding Custom Actions in SharePoint Designer 2010

Bjørn Furuknap

8 Jan 2010 | 6:56 am

In previous editions of SharePoint, adding custom actions required adding features with XML code and was generally a bit troublesome for non-developers. However, in SharePoint 2010, everything gets a bit easier, especially since you can now add at least some types of custom actions using SharePoint Designer 2010. Open your Shared Documents library settings in SPD2010, assuming you have a Team Site–based site. If not, just choose any list or library. Go to the Custom Action menu, and select the Display Form option on the Ribbon. Doing so launches a pop-up dialog box where you will configure…