| Fri, Nov 21st |
|
Announcing SharePointReviews.com
Joel Oleson
Body: With a baseline of over 200 different SharePoint Webpart apps and SharePoint solutions in over 30 categories, this independent community driven site is sure to help solve one of the biggest problems we have in the SharePoint space... Lack of Awareness of SharePoint tools and solutions. At it's launch SharePointReviews.com has big goals to provide reviews for Training. , Seems like every time I go to a conference I see 20+ or so SharePoint related booth with 3-5 that are new to me, a [read]. Posted: 12:54 AM. |
|
Microsoft Certification Master for SharePoint - My Involvement in Helping Create the Certification Content and Some Thoughts...
Andrew Connell
Microsoft announced at TechEd EMEA 2008 two new certifications for SharePoint professionals. Both are additions to existing certification programs: the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) Programs. These build on existing certification programs which you can read about here if you’re unfamiliar with them. Instead of rehashing what the MCM & MCA are (read up on them using the above links), here’s my $.02: The MCM is the top Microsoft technical certif [read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
|
Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint
Spencer Harbar
During TechEd ITForum a couple weeks ago, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Pretty quickly a micro-debate started on this and a few people posted their thoughts on blogs. I promised at the time to do a post that detailed out the salient points, which unfortunately have been missed thus far. There has also been a lot of complaints regarding the associated cost. S [read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
|
Links (11/20/2008)
Steve Pietrek
Simple data access pattern for SharePoint lists
SharePoint DataLayers
SharePoint Data Access Layer Part II
I’d wish I knew about the SPPersistedObject a bit earlier..
Automatic removal of lists when deactivating ListInstance feature
Integrating SharePoint 2007 and jQuery [Part One]
Cool Web part - Content Type Toolbar
jQuery and SharePoint - Free “Search on this Page” web parts
Custom fields with custom properties - important link
SPWeb.AllUsers vs. SPWeb.Users
Creating a Custom CAS Policy [read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
|
How to Use SharePoint Discussion Boards in Outlook 2007
Sharepoint Solutions
As you can imagine, we are heavy SharePoint users here at SharePoint Solutions. Much of the work we all do every day is done with SharePoint. Unlike our instructors, consultants, and developers, everyone isn't a SharePoint expert. Just like in your own organization, we have many Information Workers. Recently, we've been utilizing SharePoint Discussion Boards more. So I sent an email to our internal staff letting them know they may find these discussion boards easier to use if they connect them t [read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
| Thu, Nov 20th |
|
New SharePoint Administration Book
Eric Shupps
Body: My buddies and fellow SharePoint MVP's Todd Klindt and Shane Young have a new book out on SharePoint Administration. I didn't even know - nobody ever tells us devs anything. If admin is your thing then go get it - these guys know their stuff.
(Psst - If you see Shane anywhere be sure to tell him how much you like Site Definitions. It's fun watching him sputter and turn red! Just kidding, Shanester - you know I love ya)
Published: 11/20/2008 6:07 PM [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Let me google that for you
Waldek Mastykarz
Getting tired of answering questions like: “What is SharePoint?” and “How can I create a Feature in SharePoint?”. Start answering: “Let me google that for you”
Technorati Tags: Google [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Site Collection and Variation relative URLs in Office SharePoint Server 2007
Waldek Mastykarz
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 provides architecture for designing and developing scalable solutions. Two of these concepts are Site Collections for separating information and Variations for delivering multilingual solution. While working with both concepts – especially in Web Content Management (WCM) solutions I have found out that there is no easy way to create Site Collection or Variation relative links.
SPSite.ServerRelativeUrl != /
Per definition SharePoint allows you to c [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
SharePoint Libraries, Folders and Content Types, Oh My!
Mark Miller
Written by Microsoft MVP Bob Mixon
Mixon Consulting
MasteringSharePoint.com
Recent Articles
A note from Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com
Recently, the topic of folders vs libraries started to show up on Stump the Panel and in my email inbox. I started to sketch out an article, but about five minutes into it, I said “What the hell are [...] [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
chi vincerà il concorso?
Romeo Pruno
Per la serie … Ve l’avevo detto io … ecco un articolo del corriere sul tema Baroni & Università. Anche in quelle realtà riportate dalle testimonianze sembra valere il detto: il vero vincitore del concorso è sempre il primo fuori borsa!
Technorati Tags: Baroni,Università,Gelmini,Concorso,Pubblica Amministrazione [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Free Whitepaper on Social Computing in 2009 and Beyond
Brendon Schwartz
Get a free white paper on the how to use Social Computing to be successful in the current economy. http://telligent.com/resources/white-papers/increase-the-impact-of-your-digital-marketing-spend-in-a-down-economy-how-to-use-social-computing-to-succeed-in-2009-and-beyond/ To see a list of all the avaliable White Papers and Web Casts from Telligent visit http://telligent.com/resources/ [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Why all this talk about Cloud Services
Brendon Schwartz
You might be asking questions like: I thought you liked SharePoint, why is there all of this talk about Online Servcies or Cloud Services? SharePoint is something I install in an Enterprise why would I care about services for Consumers? No company in their right mind would use Online Services, so what gives? The short story is that if you are looking to move to Enterprise 2.0 or any type of social computing applications you *SHOULD* care. If you are one of the people that are saying Online Ser [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
FolderShare moving to the Live family of services
Brendon Schwartz
FolderShare is finally being moved to the Live Family of Services similar to SkyDrive and Windows Live Mesh. This time FolderShare will be called Windows Live Sync. This is great to see everything moving into the cloud and into the Live Services. The only problem you might find is that your shared libraries. Make sure and copy them off before the move in December. What I still don't know for sure is what services I prefer. I use Windows Live SkyDrive the most for storing data, Live Mesh beta [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Video: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services
Mike Gannotti
URL: Video: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services
Body: During this weeks episode of the SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series I covered SharePoint and Forms Services. The presentation consists of three parts. First up is an overview of SharePoint, InfoPath, and Form Services. Secondly, I demonstrate converting an existing Word form in to an InfoPath form, publishing it to SharePoint, web enabling the form, and then applying a workflow to it. In the final portion I [read]. Posted: 4:54 PM. |
|
December 8th - BIWUG on SharePoint, Silverlight and e-ID
Joris Peolmans
We are ready to restart BIWUG so expect a number of planned sessions in the coming months. We start off by organizing another BIWUG meeting on December 8th: 18:00-18:30 - Registration and welcome 18:30-18:45 - Introduction 18:45-19u45 - Silverlight and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft recently released Silverlight 2.0 - it's latest version of the framework to build Rich Internet Applications. This session will start off with looking at how Silverlight works and how you can u [read]. Posted: 4:53 PM. |
|
SharePoint - it's all about making the right choices and decisions - Part I
Joris Peolmans
The key to a succesfull SharePoint implementation is making the right choices. Not only about choosing which functionality to implement first - see Leveraging the SharePoint platform - what capabilities to start with - but also about making the right choices when you try to extend the platform. This blog series will focus on making the correct customization/design choices. Let's explore one of the choices you have when looking at workflows in SharePoint. SharePoint Designer for workflows vs Visu [read]. Posted: 4:53 PM. |
|
Service Oriented AJAX: In Stores now!
Daniel Larson
Last December, I started writing "Developing Service Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Framework". It's finally done, and available at your favorite local neighborhood bookstore. If you're local to Denver, I have a 30% off coupon for Service Oriented AJAX from SoftPro books (Yosemite, just south of Arapahoe). Email "me at dan larson dot com" and I'll gladly send you a coupon. [read]. Posted: 4:53 PM. |
|
Tip # 743- Find JS Errors in Visual Studio2008 with Control Shift J
Daniel Larson
In Visual Studio 2008, Control-shift-J interprets the current JavaScript file in order to update the intellisense, and will also expose any errors in the Errors window. [read]. Posted: 4:53 PM. |
|
L'Università Ita(g)liana
Gabriele Del Giovine
Sto guardando AnnoZero di Michele Santoro. Si parla dell'Università Ita(g)liana. Tutti gli studenti vogliono fare i "ricercatori". Delle cose più disparate ma quasi tutte perfettamente inutili per il progresso dell'umanità. Dalla notte dei tempi nelle Università Italiane vige il Baronato e le cattedre vengono tramandate per censo e titolo nobiliare, per cui se non sei "figlio di" o "amico di" non diventerai mai nemmeno portaborse dell'assistente del titolare della cattedra. Ricordo ancora q [read]. Posted: 4:52 PM. |
|
Web Interoperability Webcast
Eric Shupps
Body: On December 16th I'll be doing a webcast on integrating Windows Live Services with SharePoint. I can only go so deep in an hour but there's some good code in there on hooking your SharePoint sites up to use Live ID and such. If you're interested, the link just went live for registration.
My goal is to have at least one person register so I'm not giving the presentation to myself - which is fine but I ask really dumb questions so I'm hoping someone will stay awake long enough to [read]. Posted: 4:52 PM. |
|
Free Scripts from the Migration Community
Tools for Collaboration
I would like to thank Mark Smith for contributing this IP and allwing me to blog this on his behalf for the benefit of the community.
Here is Mark's introduction...
"Mark is the Infrastructure Practice Manager and Principal Architect for Capax Global Consulting. He has been involved with Email/messaging systems since 1992 and with Microsoft Exchange since 5.0. Mark’s current work is with Microsoft Infrastructure products with a focus on upgrades/migrations to Microsoft Exchange Server. Mark ha [read]. Posted: 4:51 PM. |
|
Reminder: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services Today
Mike Gannotti
URL: Reminder: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services Today
Body: I am heading out the door for a client onsite this morning but just a quick reminder I will be having this weeks SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services at 12 noon est. The session will also be recorded and made available here either this evening or tomorrow for on-demand viewing. Time for me to motor…. talking Microsoft Search this morning.
Technorati Tags: Mi [read]. Posted: 11:53 AM. |
|
You can now login Webinar is starting
Joel Oleson
Register/Login on: http://tinyurl.com/5dqqne
I was able to get a preview for those looking for what this webinar is about.
www.colligo.com/Webinars/EmailTruths/Colligo-Oleson-Myth5/ [read]. Posted: 11:53 AM. |
|
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007 (part 14/20).Easy ASPX Association Forms-(my small generic framework)
Serge Luca
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 14/20). Easy ASPX Association Forms-(by using my small generic framework) By Serge Luca MVP step1 step2 step3 step4 step5 step6 step7 step8 step9 step10 step11 step12 step13 step14 Download the startup code Download the final code Download the framework code Introduction There are many reasons to associate workflows with aspx forms in Sharepoint instead of Infopath forms (IP): aspx forms are [read]. Posted: 11:52 AM. |
|
Integrating SharePoint 2007 and jQuery [Part One]
Jan Tielen
In the first part of this article I'll talk about how you can enable the jQuery JavaScript library in SharePoint 2007 sites and pages. The second part of this article will focus on using jQuery in SharePoint 2007 sites and pages. When I was at PDC’08, I attended a session about the jQuery JavaScript library (watch online). A few weeks before that Scott Guthrie announced that Microsoft would support, and even ship jQuery together with Visual Studio, along with Microsoft’s own AJAX implementa [read]. Posted: 11:52 AM. |
|
Video: Introducing And Explaining Backseat Driving Videos With Mikey
Mike Gannotti
URL: Video: Introducing And Explaining Backseat Driving Videos With Mikey
Body: I have been receiving numerous requests lately from customers, colleagues, and readers of this blog to start doing more interviews with subject matter experts in SharePoint, Office, and other Microsoft technologies. The challenge has been though that I am stuck geographically here in the Raleigh area of NC. Well I am happy to announce that I now have a way around that! I do have to admit though that in this case the [read]. Posted: 6:54 AM. |
|
Video: Webcast Tips From Lessons Learned
Mike Gannotti
URL: Video: Webcast Tips From Lessons Learned
Body: Today I have a new in the SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series, SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services, and I will be instituting some of the changes needed to provide a more optimal webcast experience. I have been learning as I have gone, school of hard knocks and all that, and definitely learned a lot after the last one. After last weeks session I took stock of lessons learned and tried to boil them down while driving to a client site in Charlotte [read]. Posted: 6:54 AM. |
|
Sharepoint Guidance - some references
Ricardo Magalh
From Joris Poelman (JOPX) blog a couple of posts on Sharepoint Guidance, always a good reminder for best practices.
Sharepoint Guidance and Best Practices
Guidance about Infopath Forms Services
You can find these posts here and here. [read]. Posted: 6:54 AM. |
|
Getting started with the Live Framework (Screencast)
Angus Logan
There are a few things you need to do to get started with the Live Framework. setup a demo LIve ID (recommended not to use your real Live ID because its a CTP and you may run demos or share your code. This is only necessary if you run demos) redeem the token install the local Live Operating Environment Download the SDK Install the Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Watch the screen cast below (new window or blip.tv or download) Click T [read]. Posted: 6:54 AM. |
|
Sweden SharePoint User Group – First meeting done
Tobias Zimmer
We had our first meeting this tuesday (November 18th) with about 30 people showing up. The interest is growing for the group, and as it looks now there’ll be more people coming to the next set of meetings. Fun! Thanks to everyone who contributed to the meeting taking place. In the picture I’m doin ... (More) [read]. Posted: 6:54 AM. |
|
Book winners
Todd Klindt
Body: The books have been shipped so it's time to reveal the names of the big book winners. In no particular order they are:
Ryan McCutchen
JD Wade
Jeff Tincher
Josh Flory
Kasi Krishnamoorthy
Congratulations to them all. Don't be afraid to put a glowing review up on Amazon. J
tk
Category: Sharepoint
Published: 11/19/2008 10:16 PM [read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
|
Windows Server 2008 R2 - three new documents available for download
Jose Barreto
Three documents providing some details about Windows Server 2008 R2 have been posted on the microsoft.com website. These documents provide some insight into this upcoming release of Windows Server. A pre-release version was also shared with partners and customers during a few recent public conferences (including the PDC 2008 and WinHEC 2008).
Here is some additional information on these three documents:
Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2
Document outline:
Powerful Hardware a [read]. Posted: 12:52 AM. |
| Wed, Nov 19th |
|
REMINDER: November 2008 Meeting: Creating & Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services
Andrew Connell
The Jacksonville Office Geeks is a user group / special interest group that covers developer topics surrounding the 2007 Microsoft Office System, based in Jacksonville, FL.November 2008 Meeting: Creating & Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services SharePoint introduced the concept of timer jobs, or scheduled services, that run within the SharePoint platform in WSS v3. These timer jobs are used by SharePoint for numerous things such as cleaning up old sites (aka: dead Web cle [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content.
Zlatan Dzinic
So you have the following error: "Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content" in your Event Log and you have no clue why your Search Content Service Account can't access the data for indexing, although it has all the right permissions and you double checked that it does.
Well then your SharePoint 2007 server instance is most likely running on a Windows Server 2003 SP1 and you're using different of [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
We are looking for a sales person
Nick Swan
We're growing the team and looking to take on a sales person at www.lightningtools.com. Here's the deal... Lightning Tools are a small, growing and profitable, SharePoint Web Parts and Tools company. We are looking to expand our team and revenues for next year and therefore wish to recruit a technical sales person to build and lead a sales strategy for the company. The role would include: - input in the generation of sales material - contacting potential customers - closing sales and selling sup [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Sleep Experiment - update 1
Nick Swan
5:45 a.m. I am starting to type this on the start of what is the 3rd day, although really Monday wasn't really a proper day of the experiment so this is the start of the second real day. Yesterday I realized quickly that 6 hour periods wouldn't be possible and so have switched to the more standard 4 hour blocks of 3hr30 being awake, 30 min sleep. During the day has been fine, and I've been able to get some sleep at each of the set time periods, but for some reason I haven't been able to sleep a [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
jQuery and SharePoint - Free “Search on this Page” web parts
Mark Miller
As a follow up to Waldek’s article on Monday, “Search on this Page using jQuery”, I have created drag-and-drop web part components to create a searchable highlighting functionality within a SharePoint page. The solution is done with Content Editor Web Parts so you won’t have to have server access to use it.
The web parts shown [...] [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
What are the most valuable subjects for beginning users of SharePoint?
Mark Miller
I am putting together the schedule for live online workshops that will run from January - March, 2009. I’m looking for your input on what you see as the most valuable subjects, the ones that will help you the most in your day-to-day work with SharePoint.
Here’s the short list so far.
Site Planning - [...] [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
A better way to obtain objects from cache
Waldek Mastykarz
Last week I have posted a better approach to getting field values from an SPListItem. Today I’ve found out that you can actually use almost the same approach to get stuff from the ASP.NET cache.
Once again it’s an extension method which can be used in an intuitive way. The only difference is the type of the key: while getting a field value we’ve been using a GUID and now we’re using a string.
Using the above method you can now easily obtain various items from the cache in a type-safe m [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Largest Global SharePoint Webinar/Webcast Ever!
Joel Oleson
Debunking Myths on Email and SharePoint Management T-15 hours: I'm getting excited about this upcoming webinar. I blogged about it a few weeks ago, but the momentum has been building. A few people have been asking me who should attend. The audience for this one is really IT, IT management, across SharePoint, Exchange, Public Folders, SMTP, Notes, Websphere or anywhere where responsibility falls in ownership, configuration, or planning around the following: Managed Folders Public Folders A [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting, November 27th
Spencer Harbar
We are pleased to be back again at the Scottish Parliament for another evening of SharePoint at 6.30pm, November 27th. Many thanks to Stephen Hynds for facilitating the event.
If you want to come along, please go here and register your name, otherwise the security peeps won’t let you in the building, this is after all the seat of the Scottish Government. There will doubtless be a few sherberts following the event.
Spencer Harbar SharePoint MVP - MythBusters – debunking common SharePoint Farm [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Issues with my Hosting provider
Spencer Harbar
I'm currently having "issues" with my hosting provider, and you will notice that some recent posts are missing. I'm working on getting these back. Please bear with me - normal service will be resumed shortly (I hope). [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Publication of ISO/IEC 29500:2008
Romeo Pruno
Mi è arrivata poco fa la notizia
Publication of ISO/IEC 29500:2008, Information technology - Office Open XML formats
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1181
Il download delle specifiche può essere effettuato direttamente da ISO, qui. Lo stesso è composto dalle seguenti 4 parti:
ISO/IEC 29500-1:2008, Information technology – Document description and processing languages – Office Open XML File Formats – Part 1: Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference (5 570 pages)
Spe [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
http://feedproxy.google.com
Romeo Pruno
Finalmente google mi ha comunicato stamattina del completamento della migrazione del servizio offerto da feedburner verso questa nuova piattaforma. Ancora la migrazione non è automatica per tutti gli iscritti a feedburner ma occorre richiedere il trasferimento da qui.
Non ci sono novità importanti, in materia di servizi offerti se non per la possibilità di includere ad-sense all’interno del proprio feed (cosa che personalmente considero indegna dell’essere umano).
Per gli abbonati a quest [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Working on updating my Silverlight 2.0 stuff to RTM
Ed Hild
And of course there would have to be an error that I had to work around... I had built several samples with the pre-release stuff of Silverlight 2.0 and just started the processing of updating my environment. So I uninstalled everything in my dev environment related to silverlight and started over. This included Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Expression Blend 2 SP1, as well as the new Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio. After getting everything in the environment, I created a simple Silverlight app al [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
You SLACK B’tards - WSS Team
Simon Binaryjam
I’ve been scratching my head this morning. I have some list templates as part of my feature that I have defined and I don’t want anyone to be able to create them again once the ListInstance is there.
So as part of my manifest file I have the following.
Yet the damn thing keeps showing up on the create lists page and it shouldn’t. Well according to the wss.xsd schema file this is a valid attribute and value yet it doesn’t work.
In the documentation its a val [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Free Card Sorting Application – StickySorter
Ian Morish
For those who were at Sydney partner training I delivered yesterday, this is the application I said should be available any day;-)
StickySorter is an Office Labs sponsored spare-time project by two Microsoft employees, Julie and Sumit. The idea sprung from the need for project teams all over the world to gather and organize data using a collaborative process known as affinity diagramming. Since its inception, StickySorter has evolved into a desktop application so anyone can use it to collaborate [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Guidance about InfoPath Forms Services
Joris Peolmans
InfoPath Forms Services is like one of those hidden gems in SharePoint Server 2007 (SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition only). It still is a little rough on the edges but if you know it's limitations and take a look at some good documentation it will get you going quite quickly. Great place to start is the blog series on the InfoPath blog - these guys have been busy during the summer season - some nice reads for those long winter nights: Designing browser-enabled forms for per [read]. Posted: 4:54 PM. |
|
SharePoint Guidance and best practices
Joris Peolmans
If you are an architect who is new to SharePoint development - you should start of by looking at the latest updated version of SharePoint guidance - SharePoint Guidance - Patterns & Practices [MSDN]. Definitely take a look at SharePoint Guidance on Codeplex and download SharePoint guidance for November 2008. This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation (RI) demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development an [read]. Posted: 4:54 PM. |
|
Personal On-line Backup Mini-Review: Mozy
Paul Galvin
One of the ... side effects ... of working for a giant corporation is that I get a lot press releases in my inbox every month. I'm still new to the EMC world, so a lot of these press releases are, basically, inscrutable. This or that company purchased these or those EMC products, blah blah blah. I'm not complaining. I actually take this as an incentive to learn more about EMC as time goes by so that I better understand the big picture of what EMC is all about (hint: it's about Informatio [read]. Posted: 11:53 AM. |
|
Yet Another Color Coded SharePoint Calendar
Mike Gannotti
URL: Yet Another Color Coded SharePoint Calendar
Body: Quite a while back I had posted a blog entry on “Color Coded Calendar Web Part” that got a lot of folks excited. With that post being over a year old I hadn't thought much about it until today. Christophe, posted up a comment on the piece indicating his own work he has just completed and posted. It looks pretty interesting and definitely deserves a good look. I love seeing how folks keep coming up with innovative ways of extending ShareP [read]. Posted: 11:53 AM. |
|
Open Forum Session With Michael December 1st: Bring Those Questions
Mike Gannotti
URL: Open Forum Session With Michael December 1st: Bring Those Questions
Body: With the holiday season upon us I m happy to announce the second monthly Open Forum with Michael session. Taking place December 1st from 12pm –1pm est, this is an open Q&A LiveMeeting session where you can ask me just about anything. Knowing we are all looking to maximize our purchases this holiday season I am dedicating this Open Forum session to the eHome. Below you will find the session description that appea [read]. Posted: 11:53 AM. |
|
Got Zune? Get The Update! Plus Some Of My Reasons Why I Love Zune
Mike Gannotti
URL: Got Zune? Get The Update! Plus Some Of My Reasons Why I Love Zune
Body:
So I got up bright and early this morning and to get my morning right fired up my Zune software to select a nice morning wake me up music playlist and ……. Shazaaaam! What greeted me? A Zune update. The update was both my software as well as my Zune players (and yes the update worked for my original 30gb models as well. Gotta love the continued support and updates for them as well as newer editions). I also saw an [read]. Posted: 11:53 AM. |
|
Sharepoint Miscelaneous Links
Ricardo Magalh
Today I want to post a list of links on many diferent subjects that I have checked on my RSS feeds.
Limiting the Page Payload with IIS HTTP Compression - Andrew Connell
BKS (Barrierefrei-Kit for SharePoint) - Codeplex (Acessibility Kit)
SharePoint Farm Site Collection Backup - Codeplex
Best Practices for SharePoint Development from Microsoft - Michael Blumenthal
Guide to SharePoint workflow development - JOPX (Joris Poelman)
Sharepoint Access Checker Web Part - Codeplex [read]. Posted: 6:52 AM. |
|
Live Mesh for your tablet PC : Student Tablet User Group video
Angus Logan
I didn’t even know the STUG existed but it is cool. "About Tablet Tips: Tablet Tips is an informational video podcast produced by students at the University of Louisville's Speed School of Engineering to help educate students and faculty about the use of Tablet PCs in an academic setting" One their show (link & below) they outline some online backup and sync tools and talk quite a bit about Live Mesh. Much better hearing how cool Mesh is from Jared instead of me :) [read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
|
Shizzow grows up, expands into California
Greg Hughes
Portland's Shizzow,
a thankfully-simple service that you can use to "shout" to your people and let them
know where you are, has announced they're expanding into the California market. The
service got its start here in Portland, Oregon and the team has methodically built
it out and run it in the home market up until now.
The basic idea of Shizzow is this: A quick and easy social networking service that
lets you quickly and easily communicate to your friends about where you are so you
[read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
|
Part 2 of my interview with the SharePoint Pod Show is up
Andrew Connell
Part 1 was posted back on October 27th... part 2 went up on November 16th. Enjoy! Technorati Tags: sharepoint pod show,sharepoint,wss,moss,wcm [read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
|
Connect to a SharePoint list via OLE DB
Matthew Cosier
How cool is this? Connect to SharePoint through OLDE DB connection string. You can then do things like SELECT * FROM listName; etc. Here’s how:
Read and write
Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;WSS;IMEX=2;RetrieveIds=Yes; DATABASE=http://pp1webofficelivecom.officelive.com/Documents/;LIST={5999B8A0-0C2F-4D4D-9C5A-D7B146E49698};
The keyword “Database” specifies the SharePoint URL
The keyword “List” specifies the GUID value for the desired SharePoint list (list=table [read]. Posted: 12:52 AM. |
| Tue, Nov 18th |
|
Sorting Calendar Items in the Calendar View
Paul Galvin
I'm using a calendar to track panel discussions on a given day. I have two sessions: morning and afternoon. I want to create a view that shows morning sessions only listed alphabetically via a session ID. This is a little tricky to accomplish (unless I missed something real obvious). I can easily create a filtered view showing just that day's events. The calendar will show all those events and if they all take place on the same hour, it lists them side by side in the hour slot. That's [read]. Posted: 7:55 PM. |
|
Book Giveaway Update
Todd Klindt
Body: Well folks, that went fast. I have my five winners. Thanks to everyone that emailed in. I appreciate it. :)
tk
Category: Sharepoint
Published: 11/18/2008 6:33 PM [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
Book Giveaway
Todd Klindt
Body:
Today is a happy day at the Klindt household. I got my copies of the new book. Woo Hoo! That means it's a good day for my blog readers. As I mentioned before, I am giving away five copies of the book out to my blog readers. This the official giveaway post. I will send a free copy of my new book to the first five people that send an email to freebook@toddklindt.com with the subject line of "free book" and a link to the sender's favorite post on my blog. The email should look like this:
[read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
SharePoint PodShow music survey
Nick Swan
We've been having some discussions about whether we should change the intro music on the SharePoint PodShow. A survey seemed the most democratic route, so we'd be really interested in your vote! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bcfGBkLyc17yy8e5vSWdeg_3d_3d ps I want to change the intro music! [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
SharePoint Designer Data Form Web Part context menu bug - Part 3
Itay Shakury
This is an update and closing post for the SharePoint Designer \ Data Form Web Part context menu bug. First post introduced the bug and suggested a fix: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2008/05/07/sharepoint-designer-data-form-web-part-context-menu-bug.aspx Second post showed a way to permanently fix the problem: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2008/07/11/sharepoint-designer-data-form-web-part-context-menu-bug-part-2.aspx This post just let you know that recen [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
Are you smarter than a 6th grader? (continued)
Natalya Voskresenskaya
Congratulations to all the winners: David Welker jabs Pedro Caligari Ula U Pedro Miguel vera73 Thank you all for your participation, You are smarter than 6th grader or maybe on the same level :-)... just kidding. You all got it right! Some of you were impatient to get the correct answer so I'm doing this post a bit earlier than I should. All of you that are interested in the answer to the problem that I posted yesterday, click on the following link and read comments. http://spforsquirrels. [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
Creative Labs SharePoint
Michael Greth
Creative Labs - Home of SoundBlaster - nutzt SharePoint (WSS) als Kommunikationsmedium für Entwickler, Partner und Endkunden Creative Labs: Connect allows our developers, end-users, and partners to connect to us and exchange feedback, previews, and resources. Drivers and applications provided are for testing and evaluation only, and should not be placed in a production environment. When final drivers and applications are released, they will be posted at http://us.creative.com. Technorati: Sha [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
ISPA Regional Evangelist and how can one help you, the community member
Zlatan Dzinic
I recently became an ISPA Regional Evangelist for Southern Africa Region! What does that mean you might ask? Well to save me some typing, check out the insert from the email that I got when I became one:
"As Regional Evangelist, you are the primary representatives of ISPA for your region, and as such, the first line of contact for individuals within your region. These individuals could be users looking to find a local group in their area, or user group leads looking for assistance finding meet [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
Information Worker Community and ISPA
Zlatan Dzinic
Our own Information Worker Community is now an ISPA approved international community and you can see it listed on the ISPA website (http://www.sharepointpros.org/Pages/SharePointUserGroups.aspx) along with all the other SharePoint communities worldwide. Cool hey:)
Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA)
Zlatan Dzinic
For those of you that don't about this yet, here is a quote from their press release on July 16th 2008:
"The International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA) is an independent, not-for-profit, community-driven organization dedicated to supporting SharePoint professionals and groups around the world. The primary mission of the ISPA is to promote the global adoption of SharePoint Technologies by providing support and guidance to the SharePoint community as a whole – by establishing [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
SharePoint Analyzer da Bamboo Labs
Igor Macori
Bamboo Labs, il laboratorio di ricerca e sviluppo di Bamboo Solutions, ha rilasciato qualche tempo fa un tool gratuito chiamato SharePoint Analyzer.
Grazie a questo strumento è possibile analizzare la composizione della SharePoint Farm, scendendo via via alla scoperta dei diversi elementi che la compongono.
Grazie a SharePoint Analyzer gli aministratori possono verificare lo stato dei servizi, della loro configurazione e corretta attivazione.
Ecco il link per il download. [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
Report on which web2.0 technologies work for the enterprise
Paul Culmsee
I thought that this article was topical given that I am writing on how organisational culture and behavioural style impacts the sorts of collaborative tools that individuals and organisations gravitate to and find useful.
The reports cover 11 common Web 2.0 technologies that can potentially find value in the enterprise:
microblogs,
prediction markets,
social networking, [...]No Tags [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
Best Practices for SharePoint Development from Microsoft
Michael Blumenthal
Body: Microsoft's Patterns and Practices group recently released a whole bunch of guidance on SharePoint development. www.microsoft.com/spg www.codeplex.com/spg In addition to requiring Windows Server 2003/8, .NET Framework 3.5, WSS 3.0 or MOSS, VS2008, and VSeWSS 1.2, it also requires Typemock Isolator v5. There's a heck of a lot of stuff there to digest. Additionally, there is a tool to make sure you are calling Dispose on your SharePoint objects - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/ [read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
SharePoint Connections Day 1
Michael Blumenthal
Body: Added breadcrumbs to one of my presentations on the flight over. These help me keep the flow of the presentation. Keynotes this evening: Got into the first keynote late, sat in the back, and the audio was completely unintelligible. On the screen, which was not that easy to read, someone was doing something in Visual Studio. The second Keynote however, was by Steve Riley, and was very interesting. I would write more, but my priority now however is to practice my presentations.
[read]. Posted: 7:54 PM. |
|
Simple data access pattern for SharePoint lists
Chris O'Brien
So, you're in the early stages of your project and coding has started. It's already becoming apparent that some abstraction is needed for accessing data in a few key lists, but you're not sure what. Of course there's no 'one-size-fits-all' answer to this question, but let's run through some options: Use LINQ4SP Use the Repository pattern shown in the recently released SharePoint Patterns and Practices documentation Build your own Data Access Layer Do nothing - allow the calling code to [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
le programme Connect de Creative : oh du SharePoint !
Renaud Comte
Creative, un de ces grands du monde du matériel PC avec ses fameuses cartes son SoundBlaster (mon premier kit 5.1... souvenir), vient de lancer un site Connect
Le but : permettre le partage et l'échange entre la communauté et le team Creative sur les... [read]. Posted: 4:54 PM. |
|
SharePoint Accessibility
Joris Peolmans
About a year ago the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint was announced but lately some new options became available to built an accessible website on SharePoint. One of them is the Alternative Rendering Framework (ARF) for SharePoint. Another option is the Barriere-frei kit for SharePoint (BKS). BKS was developed according to the Access for All (AA+) guidelines and will help to make the Internet more accessible. For example BKS helps to annotate pictures with a meaningful description, which can eas [read]. Posted: 4:53 PM. |
|
Webcast Alert: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services
Mike Gannotti
URL: Webcast Alert: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services
Body:
Do your business units struggle with information capture and management? Attend this Thursdays SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series: SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services to see how you can empower your lines of business to easily create business forms for the capture of key business data. The LiveMeeting log-in information is located below as well as the iCal meeting invite. I have also listed links [read]. Posted: 11:57 AM. |
|
Video: Michael on the Go – Podcasting Kit For SharePoint Recap
Mike Gannotti
URL: Video: Michael on the Go – Podcasting Kit For SharePoint Recap
Body:
Last week we had a presentation of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint by Microsoft Group Manager Ludovic Fourrage. In this Michael on the Go video segment I recap the main points covered by Ludo around PKS functionality, customization, and opportunities. I am also happy to announce that we will be having a follow-up session on implementation considerations and lessons learned by a Podcasting Kit for SharePoint implement [read]. Posted: 11:57 AM. |
|
NJ SharePoint User Group Meeting With Dave Mann ... Or .. What Bob Said
Paul Galvin
Bob Fox lets us know that Dave Mann, SharePoint workflow genius, is speaking at the NJ SharePoint user group meeting on Wednesday evening, 11/19/08. Don't miss it. (Sadly, my corporate overlord has scheduled a big group meeting Wed night and I will miss it). Click here to register and get more details. Here are some session details: Session Title “Deploying Workflows in a Large Scale SharePoint Environment” Workflow in SharePoint is an exciting new capability. However, it is a capability [read]. Posted: 11:55 AM. |
|
New Online SharePoint Ramp-Up Training
Paul Andrew
Check it out here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/rampup/dd221355.aspx...(read more) [read]. Posted: 6:57 AM. |
|
Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint : Project Templates or Item Templates
Paul Andrew
Probably the first thing you play with in the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint is to create a web part. The default project naming can take a little to get used to however. Here's the common path that leads to confusion: Create your first...(read more) [read]. Posted: 6:57 AM. |
|
Installer WSS en StandAlone : attention à la position des fichiers de données de WMSDE
Renaud Comte
Quand vous installez une ferme SharePoint en Standalone, soit le moteur FrontEnd + la base de données en locale, le processus d'installation vous déploie une version toute particulière et dédicacé de SQL Server : WMSDE Cette version du moteur SQL d... [read]. Posted: 6:56 AM. |
|
wow – when did MapMyRun become so cool?
Angus Logan
A while ago my sister got me onto MapMyRun. I don’t run seriously and because I always run wierd routes in different cities I like to know how far I went. Updating MapMyRun tonight it offered to publish my training long to some of my favorite news feeds, Twitter and Facebook (coming soon). I love this! But it could be cooler. Imagine if I could choose to expose my Windows Live Messenger presence using the IM Control and people could search for a route, and then IM with the person who submitted [read]. Posted: 6:56 AM. |
|
Reward: Missing Ice Cream Scoop
Daniel Larson
Have you seen this scoop? [read]. Posted: 6:56 AM. |
|
Links & Recent Announcements mentioned at TechEd Developer
Arpan Shah
I just got back from Europe where I participated in TechEd Developer and internal Microsoft meetings. I recapped a few recent announcements & resources in my session and wanted to share more broadly. (This list is not comprehensive by any means): SharePoint Development - http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/ (redirects from http://mssharepointdeveloper.com as well) SPDisPose Check Tool - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/12/announcing-spdisposecheck-tool-for-s [read]. Posted: 6:55 AM. |
|
Team Foundation Error: Windows Live Messenger is not running.
Stuart Preston
If you have installed the October 2008 TFS Power Tools (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68BF0&displaylang=en) and you are running the latest Windows Live Messenger Beta (http://download.live.com/messenger), you may come across the following error when opening Team Explorer: Using the trusty Process Monitor to look for evidence of what the power tool is doing, we can see by filtering on devenv.exe that some calls are made to the r [read]. Posted: 6:51 AM. |
|
NJSPUG November meeting with David Mann
Bob Fox
Body: On November 19th at the NJ Microsoft Offices we will be holding our monthly user group meeting. I am pleased to announce that my buddy Dave Mann will be presenting on, what else? Workflows. Dave as many of you will remember many years back (ok maybe one year back) wrote the first book on Workflows with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I have seen Dave present many times and this should be a great session. Register for this session HERE Session Title “Deploying Workflows [read]. Posted: 12:52 AM. |
|
Creating a SharePoint list from an Excel spreadsheet
Todd Klindt
Body: Last week a friend of mine asked a fairly innocent question, "Can I import a spreadsheet into SharePoint?" My answer to almost all SharePoint questions is, "Of course you can, and it'll rock!" Of course this is no exception. I thought I'd write up a quick blog post to show some of the ways it rocks.
I started out with this spreadsheet:
Pretty simple. Of course he could have just uploaded this spreadsheet to a document library, but then anyone that wanted to add vales would need to have E [read]. Posted: 12:52 AM. |
| Mon, Nov 17th |
|
He leido "Code Clean", de Robert C. Martin
Carlos Segura Sanz
He terminado de leer el último libro de Robert C. Martin, Clean Code.
De Robert, había leído otros dos libros, “UML para programadores Java”, una guía práctica
y sin rodeos de cómo usar UML en proyectos reales; y cuando digo práctica es que no
se anda por las ramas y en ocasiones en un tono incluso “irónico” explica perfectamente
cómo debemos usar UML.
>
El otro libro es Agile
Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series),
que puedo decir [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Upcoming SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series Events Calendar Through March 5th
Mike Gannotti
URL: Upcoming SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series Events Calendar Through March 5th
Body: Tomorrow I will posting a comprehensive update here as to some of the guest speakers coming up on the SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series but in the meantime if you have not added the events calendar to your favorites then……. you SHOULD!!! With all the technical issues solved the calendar is now locked and loaded through March 5th with a combinations of events that I will lead, events featuring other special [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
XTOPIA Silverlight
Michael Greth
Vortrag von Oliver Scheer über "Rich Internet Applications mit Silverlight 2" - zeigte ein paar sehr schöne Demos Memorabilia.hardrock.com und die Patient Journey Demonstrator Microsoft Health Demo (praktische Anwendung u.a. für den Deep Zoom Composer) - www.codeplex.com/silverlight Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePoint 2007, SharePointCommunity, MOSS 2007, Xtopia [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
XTOPIA Tag 1
Michael Greth
Mittagspause in Berlin, Zeit für ein paar Zeilen im Blog: Windows Azure wird uns wohl in den nächsten Monaten immer stärker beschäftigen, z:zt. noch viel Konzept und Ideen, Anwendungen werden kommen. Kernaussage: Vor Ort Software und Cloud Services werden parallel existieren. In der Ausstellung gibt es mehrere Surface-Tische zu sehen, werde ich mir heute nachmittag mal ausführlich ansehen. Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePoint 2007, SharePointCommunity, MOSS 2007, Xtopia [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
XTOPIA - Good Morning
Michael Greth
Heute auf der XTOPIA 2008 in der Bloggerzone. Bin auf die Vorträge gespannt insbesondere zum Thema Azure und Silverlight. Ich habe auf der SharePointCommunity.de eine Seite aufgesetzt http://www.sharepointcommunity.de/xtopia, auf der ich die verschiedenen Kanäle, über die ich von der XTOPIA berichte, zusammengefasst habe: Coveritlive, QIK, Twitter, Blog und Mogulus. Der Coveritlive Client bietet übrigens auch die Möglichkeit zum direkten Feedback per Chat Funktion, über Fragen und Komme [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
“Search on this Page” using jQuery
Mark Miller
This article by guest author Waldek Mastykarz, describes how to use the free javascript library, jQuery, to create specialized search capabilities on large web pages.
A followup article will demonstrate how to implement Waldek’s solution in SharePoint using a SharePoint library and the Content Editor Web Part.
Overview
Every modern browser provides the ability to search for [...] [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt3
Mark Miller
I see four levels of JavaScript problem-solving. Your approach will depend on some of the factors we discussed in part 1. If we agree that JavaScript is a hammer (a very useful tool in many but not all situations), we must also determine at which strength to employ our hammer. Hammering too hard or too [...] [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Protocollo stssync
Igor Macori
Credo sia capitato a molti di scegliere l'azione "Connect to Outlook" da liste e document libraries di SharePoint per collegare gli elementi di queste al proprio Outlook (2003/2007).Il meccanismo, che consente di sincronizzare (anche offline) gli elementi, utilizza uno specifico protocollo denominato stssync. Il protocollo è pubblico, e può essere utilizzato anche da altre applicazioni (anche custom).Stssync potrebbe essere una buona strada per gestire forme di integrazioni tra SharePoint [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
“Search on this Page” using jQuery
Waldek Mastykarz
Every modern browser provides the ability to search for text within a page. In most cases that functionality is underserved and allows you to find only one instance of the text at a time. Google Chrome recently presented improved version of search which searches for the given text as you type and highlights all instances found on the current page. But wait a minute: is this functionality limited to Google Chrome only?
Check out my article @ End User SharePoint.com: “Search on this Page” usin [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
IE8 Beta 2 - NTLM 401.1 (Not good for SharePoint developers)
Andrew Woodward
Found a really annoying bug this week after upgrading one of my Windows 2003 SharePoint development Virtual Machines to IE8 Beta 2.
HTTP 401.1 - Unauthorized: Logon Failed
As most people do I make use of the HOSTS file to allow the use of FQDN to remove the need for high port numbers (i.e. http://agile.21apps.dev). First thoughts were this was down to the zone within IE, but changes here had no affect. All of the web sites continued to work in Firefox so there was no issue with ShareP [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
November SharePoint User Group Meeting - Wellington - NZ
Chandima Kulathilake
Body:
Session Topic: Unleashing the Power of Data Views using SharePoint Designer 2007
This month we have Alex Dean giving you the ins and outs of mastering SharePoint Designer and how easily it can beused to create rich applications in SharePoint. Alex plans to demonstrate the following.
Introduction to using List Views in SharePoint
Demonstration on how to create a custom view on a SharePoint list and apply conditional formatting
Demonstration on using Data Views to show SQL driven data i [read]. Posted: 7:53 PM. |
|
Flying lesson update: Flew solo for the first time
Greg Hughes
I wrote all about it on my flying blog, but Sunday was an exciting and cool day, because I
flew an airplane solo, all by myself with no one else in the plane, for the first
time. This whole flying thing might work out, after all!
The full story is
documented on my "Coordinated Flight" blog, should you care to read all about
it.
greghughes.net weblog - copyright 2003-2008 - licensed under a Creative
Commons License. [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
SharePoint v4 : Developpement avec Visual Studio 2010
Philippe Sentenac
Voilà un sujet croustillant qui est depuis trop longtemps sous NDA et dont je voulais absolument vous parler. Bonne nouvelle, la NDA est tombé après l'annonce de Paul Andrew lors du Teched EMEA à Barcelone, il y a quelque jours.(http://blogs.msdn.com/... [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Are you smarter than a 6th grader?
Natalya Voskresenskaya
Try your problem solving skills. Here is the problem I was presented with at the SharePoint Connections 2007. For some reason SharePoint folks did not want to hang out with me, so I've found myself in the company of "SQL Geeks" ... SQL is my OTHER favorite thing... So here is the thing, one of the SQL gurus tells me the "problem" he had to solve at his job placement interview, he also specifically mentioned that the problem might not have a solution, it is just a way to explore your way of think [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Polyphasic Sleep Experiment
Nick Swan
I've often thought about trying to cut down on the amount of sleep I have. Generally I need to have about 8 hours a night, or if I have less I take a power nap at some point during the day - the pleasures of working from home. I'd seen about Polyphasic sleep before on the BBC breakfast program when one of the presenters did the experiment. Basically you stay awake for 4-6 hours, then have a nap of about 30-60 mins. There are more details about it here on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Lightning Tools BDC workshop
Nick Swan
Want to know more about the Business Data Catalog and will be around Tampa, Florida on 11th December, then register for the 1 day Business Data Catalog Workshop! https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=133493 It's a nominal $99 to attend but we'll give you this as a discount to BDC Meta Man after the event. Brett is going to be teaching this workshop so you'll certainly be learning a lot in a single day! We're planning on organizing these in other places also. If you'd like to attend [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
SharePoint User Group UK Meetings in November
Nick Swan
We have two great meetings planned for SharePointers in the UK this month - London and Edinburgh. London - 25th November First session we've got is one that scored very highly in the topic survey we did a number of months ago - seems a lot of people want to know about customizing and deploying search so Ben Robb is going to give us a run through. Second we have Rickard Lofberg speaking on how they have deployed and managed MOSS 2007 in Credit Suisse. It'll be great to hear how they manage data g [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
SharePoint PodShow with Andrew Connell posted
Nick Swan
The second half of the interview with Andrew Connell has been posted over at www.sharepointpodshow.com. Here's a direct link to the page: Interview with AC. We hope you are enjoying listening to the shows - we're having a great time putting them together! [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Event in Cape Town on the 26th of Nov 2008 – Creating Solutions with the Business Data Catalog (BDC)
Zlatan Dzinic
SADeveloper.NET and Information Worker (www.informationworker.co.za) are bringing you the following event on the 26th of November 2008:
Creating Solutions with the Business Data Catalog (BDC)
I will be presenting on this event so please come and join us, say hello and catch up.
Event will be held at Microsoft in Cape Town and yeah there will be pizzas and drinks as usual :)
Please click on a banner above, or go to http://www.informatioworker.co.za/ and follow the link there to register (you wi [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
SharePoint Conference in Slovenia Afterthoughts..........................
Zlatan Dzinic
Wow what a great time I had, with great people, great food in a great country that is Slovenia.
Being one of the foreign speakers we were first welcomed with a dinner in one of the Slovenia's traditional restaurants and wine cellars for some wine tasting and later some deer, wild boar and pheasant specialities, what a feast that was.
Then the conference came....
Preparing for the presentation
The organisation of the conference was impeccable and the venue was great, presenters received a ro [read]. Posted: 7:52 PM. |
|
Off to a new start
Itay Shakury
אחרי שנתיים של עבודה באדוונטק, הגיע הזמן לעזוב. לחברים באדוונטק, אני רוצה להודות לכם על שנתיים מעניינות, ומאתגרות. היה כיף לעבוד איתכם, ואני מאוד מאוד מקווה שעוד נוכל לעבוד ביחד בעתיד!
החל משבוע זה, הצטרפתי לקבוצת SRL. התפקיד שלי בחברה יתרכז, מן הסתם, בעיקר סביב SharePoint, ותחום ניהו [read]. Posted: 7:51 PM. |
|
Mental Note - SharePoint and WCF
Joris Peolmans
Just a reminder for myself to check out the following blogposts about the SharePoint and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): Super Easy way to add WCF to SharePoint Hosting WCF in SharePoint Silverlight WCF References in SharePoint - the right way Using a WCF client to talk to SharePoint OOTB web services Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,wcf,windows+communication+foundation,microsoft,moss,moss+2007,sharepoint+2007 [read]. Posted: 4:55 PM. |
|
Talking about Microsoft Master Data Management or Bulldog
Joris Peolmans
Master Data Management (MDM) comprises a set of processes and tools that consistently defines and manages the non-transactional data entities of an organization (also called reference data). MDM has the objective of providing processes for collecting, aggregating, matching, consolidating, quality-assuring, persisting and distributing such data throughout an organization to ensure consistency and control in the ongoing maintenance and application use of this information. (Source: Wikipedia MDM) I [read]. Posted: 4:55 PM. |
|
Announcing - the Winnipeg SharePoint User Group!
Eric Legault
http://www.sharepointgroups.org/wsug/default.aspx
Sponsored By:Zoom OfficeCollaborative InnovationsMicrosoft
The first Winnipeg SharePoint User Group event will be happening this month! D'Arcy Lussier, Gérald Danais, Juan Larios, Jason Miller and myself all put our heads together to bring this group to life very quickly. Come join us!
Ed Musters on SharePoint Customization and Best PracticesDate: November 25 (Tuesday)Time: 5:30 PMLocation: One Lombard Place (Richardson Building), 17th floor [read]. Posted: 4:54 PM. |
|
SharePoint October 2008 Update
Paul Andrew
Joe Rodgers keeps a blog identifying the latest updates available for SharePoint. The October 2008 hotfix package is the latest set of updates now. The KB articles have good descriptions of the included patches....(read more) [read]. Posted: 4:54 PM. |
|
Getting 403 forbidden error when accessing SharePoint usage reports??
Jason Medero
Hey guys/gals, Just wanted to pass on a solution to a problem that I ran into today in case anyone else runs into it. So today I had a customer who was simply trying to access their SharePoint Usage reports . Unfortunately when they were going into site...(read more) [read]. Posted: 4:53 PM. |
|
Local Live Operating Environment benefits elude me… think harder.
Angus Logan
Dare wrote a good post about the Live Framework (is it Microsoft’s GData or something else) but one thing kinda jumped out at me in his summary: the client-side Live Operating Environment is a technology whose benefits elude me. I admit it is kind of cool but I can't see its utility I haven’t got much time but luckily this is simple. Why do you want a local instance of the operating environment running? here are a few quick and dirty bullets: SYNC BABY! Sure offline is a benefit, but SYNC [read]. Posted: 11:53 AM. |
|
Resumen del DevCamp en NavarraDotNet
Carlos Segura Sanz
Un "poquito" tarde (y con mucha ayudita) os dejo el resumen con todos
los detalles del DevCamp en el blog de NavarraDotNet
http://www.navarradotnet.com/post/navarradotnet-en-el-7bdev_camp7d.aspx
Y la información sobre el próximo evento el University Tour
http://www.navarradotnet.com/post/el-University-Tour-viene-a-la-UPNA.aspx
(Para
los que no lo sepan, en la Upna se esta organizando un DotNetClub)
http://www.navarradotnet.com/post/se-esta-cociendo-un-DotNetClub-en-la-UPNA!!.aspx
[read]. Posted: 11:53 AM. |
|
SharePoint Tutorial Web Part Updated
SharePointHosting Blog
Body: We recently updated our screencast tutorial web part (see at the left). This is a standard SharePoint list which has been saved as a convenient .stp file which you can add to your list template gallery on your SharePoint site and then add to any page with a web part zone on your SharePoint site.
The download is located here, http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/Downloads/tutorials5.stp.
Once installed, you can search your SharePoint site for keywords included in the tutorial description. For [read]. Posted: 11:51 AM. |
|
Entertain Me! - Links to SharePoint Videos and Podcasts
Joel Oleson
Body: I was trying to scour the web for the best SharePoint Videos, Podcasts, and interesting Vlogs. I haven't found an inclusive good list of all of them anywhere. I'm sure I'll miss some, but I promise to link to this list from my home page so we can gather a complete list via comments... Please help me find the best and don't miss my upcoming featured webinar on SharePoint and Email Myths on Nov 20, 11am EST! Podcasts! SharePoint Podshow - Rob Foster @lespaulrob, Nick Swan, Brett (All 3 S [read]. Posted: 6:53 AM. |
|
Pdf et SharePoint : icone, ifilter, acrobat 8 et ifilter 6, MOSS, WSS, ...
Renaud Comte
Ce genre de post existe déja mais je préfère en faire un pour le retrouver plus aisément quand le besoin arrive Donc rien de bien neuf, quoi que : Icon PDF : (17x17) A télécharger sur : http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html#pdficon ... [read]. Posted: 6:52 AM. |
|
Webcast Issues And Resolution Steps Taken
Mike Gannotti
URL: Webcast Issues And Resolution Steps Taken
Body: Okay, figure I need to post this under the live and learn category. This past week we had a lot of interest in my SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series due to featuring the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint. We had much larger turnout than in previous sessions and a number of issues popped up which were all of my making. I apologize for delivering an experience that was than definitely less than optimal and I take full responsibility for it. The issues [read]. Posted: 12:53 AM. |
|
Root Causes of Communication Fragmentation: Organisational Culture
Paul Culmsee
This is the second article in a series of articles which examine factors causing the sort of organisational inefficiencies that lead people to use products like SharePoint. My first article in the series examined individual learning and behavioural styles and their impact on communication and how those same learning and behavioural styles still manifest themselves [...]No Tags [read]. Posted: 12:52 AM. |
|
Root Causes of Communication Fragmentation: Learning styles and behavioural styles
Paul Culmsee
This is the |
