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SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night - Best Practices San Diego  
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 7:55p Andrew Connell
I won't be there, but Andrew Woodward stepped up to the plate and arranged a SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night at the San Diego Best Practices conference coming up in February. It's at the La Jolla Brew House on February 3rd at 7p until whenever. [read] Keywords: archive
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 7:56p Andrew Connell
Here's wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays... stop reading blogs and go spend time with family! ... but come back in a few days please. :) [read] Keywords: archive
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Working around the CEWP's absolute links...
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 7:56p Andrew Connell
[via Stefan Gossner & Maxime Bombardier] The Content Editor Web Part, as many people have realized who've tried to use it in Publishing sites and then extend multiple Web apps or leverage content deployment, stores links as absolute references rather than relative ones. For instance, if you have a link to http://staging.adventureworkstravel.com/pages/contactus.aspx in a CEWP on a page and then do content deployment to http://www.adventureworkstravel.com, the link will be pointing back to the [read] Keywords: archive
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Creating a Custom and Quiet Virtualization Rig with Microsoft's Hyper-V
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
Earlier this year I built a custom server with a few goals in mind: Very powerful & capable of running multiple machines for an extended time Must be quiet Fault tolerant Not requiring a hardware upgrade for a few years The specs for this box have made it something that's turned into a great business expense as I've got so much use out of it. It's a nice strong machine that runs VERY quiet: Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.33Ghz (8 cores total) 32GB RAM FBDIMM DDR2-800 1.5TB 7200 RPM fault tole [read] Keywords: archive
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When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices
Sun, Dec 21st 2008 7:56p Andrew Connell
[via SharePoint Security] I couldn't agree more with Adam's latest post. Too many people get hung up on "best practices" and thing they are the panacea in their SharePoint deployment when they should ALWAYS be taken at face value and used simply as a point of consideration in implementations. Great post Adam... » When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices Technorati Tags: sharepoint [read] Keywords: archive
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SharePoint workflow forms development with ASP.NET 2.0 pages... without the pain! 
Tue, Dec 16th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
[via Wouter Van Vugt] One of the biggest value add propositions of SharePoint's integration of Windows Workflow Foundation is the introduction of a human element. The biggest piece of this is likely the forms. Developers are given two options: ASP.NET pages (for WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007) or InfoPath forms (as long as you have a MOSS 2007 license). I usually prefer InfoPath forms because you can build and deploy a fully functioning form with zero or no code pretty quick. However, you're limited to ju [read] Keywords: designer
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Microsoft releases a WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint
Tue, Dec 16th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
Earlier today Microsoft released the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) toolkit on MSDN Code Gallery as a unsupported sample for SharePoint under the Ms-PL license. As defined by OASIS, WSRP: WSRP defines a set of interfaces and related semantics which standardize interactions with components providing user-facing markup, including the processing of user interactions with that markup. This allows applications to consume such components as providing a portion of the overall user application [read] Keywords: application
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*** NOW AVAILABLE *** Finding Developer Help for SharePoint Products and Technologies
Sat, Dec 13th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Finding Developer Help for SharePoint Products and Technologies, assists people in finding help and different resources when embarking on SharePoint projects. The trick is to know where to look to get good help: .NET SDK, WSS SDK or MOSS SDK. What about peer-to-peer help? Hopefully this article will attempt to nail these things down and point you in the right direction. Here's a summary on what the article is all about: Di [read] Keywords: archive
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DevExpress' SharePoint Control Demo Site
Sat, Dec 13th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
[via DevExpress] Check out DevExpress' SharePoint ASP.NET demo control site: http://sharepoint.devexpress.com/default.aspx This slick new SharePoint site is being used to host a few of their ASP.NET controls within SharePoint. The demo for their grid control (below) is very slick... you get the full featured capability to drag columns around and to put them in the gutter at the top for grouping: » DevExpress ASP.NET Controls for SharePoint (announcement) Technorati Tags: devexpress,sharepoint [read] Keywords: archive
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My Geek's Christmas Present Recommendations
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 7:56p Andrew Connell
So I see I've been tagged by both pals Nick Swan and Spencer Harbar for geek Christmas recommendations. So, these are the geek things I have that I absolutely love. All are for the road warrior, like me, except one that I've extracted the most value out of. APC Universal Battery Pack I love this thing... we've all got devices that are powered via USB from phones to games to bluetooth headsets to MP3 players. This little guy (and I mean little) charges super fast and can then be used as a power [read] Keywords: protector
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I'll be at the European Best Practices SharePoint Conference (April 6-8, 2009) in London
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 7:57p Andrew Connell
Subject says it all... I'll be at the European SharePoint Best Practices conference in London, UK April 6-8, 2009. This will be my first trip to London and I'm looking forward to it. Expect some SharePoint WCM related content from yours truly! Technorati Tags: sharepoint,wcm,moss,publishing [read] Keywords: archive
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Using a Minimal Publishing Site Definition in the field
Sat, Dec 6th 2008 7:55p Andrew Connell
Earlier this year I blogged about how you don't need to create site definitions. The gist of that post was this: Custom site definitions are not very flexible and hard to create/debug. Create lightweight site definitions; in essence copies of Blank Site with a new name & ID, but nothing else. Create Features and staple them to the new site definition you just created. This process allows for effectively changing the site definition down the road via adding/removing stapling Features. I don' [read] Keywords: template
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A slick free drive imaging solution
Sat, Dec 6th 2008 7:55p Andrew Connell
Last week I posted about doing a rebuild of my laptop so that I could run Leopard, Vista x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64 in a triple boot fashion, as well as run Vista virtually in Leopard via VMWare Fusion. I really like doing presentations & demos of SharePoint natively off the bare metal for performance reasons. However the challenge was having a reliable imaging solution. Thankfully I found something with the help of my friend Dan Holme: the Windows Installation Automation Toolkit. The W [read] Keywords: application
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Triple Boot Goodness on MacBook Pro... now running Vista x64 native AND virtual!
Fri, Nov 28th 2008 7:56p Andrew Connell
[via Spencer Harbar] A while back I posted about how I followed Spence's slick triple boot instructions to setup a MacOS Leopard, Vista x64 & Windows Server 2008 install. I love this setup... finally did my first presentations from a native Windows Server 2008 install for my three sessions at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona earlier this month. The performance was second to none... thrilled with what I got. In that process I screwed something up: I installed Windows Server 2008 first and thus, the b [read] Keywords: archive
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DevExpress CodeRush Shortscuts and Templates Cheat Sheet
Thu, Nov 27th 2008 7:56p Andrew Connell
[via Mark Miller] Mark posted earlier this week about a new cheat sheet for those getting into CodeRush. I often tell people it's a bit daunting using CodeRush for the first few weeks because it feels like the app gets in your way. Its similar to Photoshop for me... an app that's so powerful and complicated that it just takes time to get used to it... it isn't as easy as simply jumping in and using it right away and being efficient with it. Now you can grab a quick shortcut that should help in t [read] Keywords: archive
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Free MSDN Webcasts & HOLs for MOSS 2007 WCM Development
Tue, Nov 25th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
Earlier this year I participated in a campaign for ASP.NET 2.0 developers to learn the basics of SharePoint development. This campaign, www.mssharepointdeveloper.com, contained free webcasts, hands-on labs and a preconfigured virtual machine. Building off the success of that campaign, Microsoft is pushing out a new series of webcasts and hands-on labs around the area of building MOSS 2007 WCM Publishing sites. The series, SharePoint Products & Technologies for Internet Site Development, star [read] Keywords: application
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SharePointReviews.com - Independent Consumer Reviews on SharePoint Related Products and Services
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 7:59p Andrew Connell
When buying a car, lots of folks head to Consumer Reports. When I buy electronics, I go straight to CNET and Amazon to read their reviews, but most importantly, to see what customers are saying with respect to the pros and cons. Finally, we have something like this for SharePoint! SharePoint Reviews (http://www.sharepointreviews.com/) does this just. It's got a whole slew of SharePoint offerings provided by the now huge SharePoint ecosystem. Have you used something? Now you can head straight to [read] Keywords: archive
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Microsoft Certification Master for SharePoint - My Involvement in Helping Create the Certification Content and Some Thoughts...
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 12:53a 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] Keywords: application
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REMINDER: November 2008 Meeting: Creating & Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 7:53p 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] Keywords: administration
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Part 2 of my interview with the SharePoint Pod Show is up
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 12:53a 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] Keywords: application
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MSDN Developer Conference - Catch the best of PDC 2008 in Orlando & Atlanta!
Sat, Nov 15th 2008 7:53p Andrew Connell
Miss PDC 2008 but live in the greater Orlando, FL or Atlanta, GA area? MSDN is bringing the best of PDC 2008 to you for just $99. I was blown away attending PDC 2008 and learning so much about the future of .NET and the cloud. Register today for the Orlando or Atlanta area (other cities offered as well): Orlando, FL - December 11, 2008 Atlanta, GA - December 16, 2008 » MSDN Developer Conference - PDC 2008 Recap Technorati Tags: pdc08,pdc,msdn [read] Keywords: archive
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TechEd EMEA 2008 Developer - Session Recap
Sat, Nov 15th 2008 7:53p Andrew Connell
First, thanks to everyone who attended my talks this week at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developer in Barcelona, Spain. If you haven't submitted an evaluation, please do so! Not only do you have a chance to win the cool phone, but it helps the conference organizers and me as well. In my sessions I demonstrated a few things that I wanted to share in this post as some folks were trying to quickly take pictures or write done some command line stuff I did. I got a lot of questions about the sample site I show [read] Keywords: javascript
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Limiting the Page Payload with IIS HTTP Compression
Sat, Nov 15th 2008 7:53p Andrew Connell
This past week I presented a session at TechEd EMEA that covered various things you want to do before launching your anonymous, Internet-facing MOSS 2007 (WCM) Publishing site (session OFC309). One of the topics I addressed was striving for the smallest page payload for requested pages. The page payload is the combined total size of all files required for a page request which includes all HTML markup, images, JavaScript, CSS and other assets on referenced in the markup. The best way to address t [read] Keywords: javascript
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*** NOW AVAILABLE *** Implementing a Brand in a SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 7:53p Andrew Connell
An article I worked on has recently been published on MSDN. The article, Implementing a Brand in a SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site, discusses three options for deploying files used in branding a MOSS 2007 Publishing site including the advantages and disadvantages of each. Personally I strongly prefer the last approach, but it's good to see all your options. The paper does NOT talk about how to make your site not look like SharePoint. Here's a summary on what the article is all about: Mic [read] Keywords: archive
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New version of App Pool Manager out
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 7:53p Andrew Connell
Last week Spence posted that he updated and released a new version of his awesome Application Pool Manager utility that I've raved about. In this release he completely rewrote it from the ground up, added a ton of feature and also set it up so it would work for both IIS v6 and IIS v7. Check it out! » Application Pool Recycle Utility for SharePoint Developers Technorati Tags: sharepoint,utilities [read] Keywords: application
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Blast from the past: AC's MCMS Utilities
Sat, Nov 1st 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
Back in my days as a MCMS developer, I created a few utilities and posted them to GotDotNet. Unfortunately when I left that job to move onto new challenges, I forgot to get the code. Then GotDotNet was retired... and I forgot to snag my utilities. And thus, they were lost. Every few months I get pinged by someone asking for them only to sadly report "sorry, so sorry, but they have been retired in the global binary heap." :( No more! They have been found, thanks to my friend JakeW, and I've poste [read] Keywords: template
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I'll be at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developer
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
With PDC wrapped up, my next trip is to Barcelona, Spain for TechEd EMEA 2008 Developer. I'm heading over a few days early to tool around the city with my wife. I'm really looking forward to this trip as I've never been TechEd EMEA... actually haven't been to Europe since I was a kid (did a family trip to Ireland and on a school trip to Rome). I've got a few sessions @ TechEd EMEA. If you saw my previous blog post or voted on some of my sessions, you'll notice my agenda has changed. Shocker, I' [read] Keywords: archive
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PDC 2008 - Day 4
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
Ah... here I sit in the food court area where all the power is writing this last recap post, hanging with fellow SharePoint MVPs Spence, Andrew & Ben (only a few of us made it to this show). Kicked off the day with a session on REST & WCF where they announced the WCF REST Starter Kit. Next up I hit a pretty deep session on the Silverlight control model where the presenter was essentially going through the nuts and bolts on building reusable Silverlight controls and what's involved in ski [read] Keywords: document
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PDC 2008 - Day 3
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
I kicked off Wednesday (day 3) at PDC with Spence hanging with Fitz & Steve from Nintext. Fitz took the time to show me Nintex Reporting & Nintex Workflow... two very slick products. If you're looking for a reporting solution for your SharePoint farm (specifically getting a pulse on your deployment), you need to check it out. As for workflow... one word: WOW. I'm VERY impressed. If you're looking for a slick workflow solution for users that provides more control and power than SharePoint [read] Keywords: designer
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Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight Tools - RTW?
Thu, Oct 30th 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
It looks like the Silverlight development tools for Visual Studio 2008 were refreshed on Monday of this week for the final release (RTW) as the same link for RC1 is gone. At first I was skeptical as it had the exact same file size as the old one, but I uninstalled the old ones and installed the new. The installer definitely had a new step to it, forcing me to shut down IE. At any rate, go get 'em! » Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Technorati Tags: silverlight [read] Keywords: archive
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PDC 2008 - Day 2
Wed, Oct 29th 2008 6:53a Andrew Connell
Day 2 brought two more keynotes and more sessions. The first keynote was awesome where we saw the new Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 and a bit on Office. First off, Windows 7, was quite impressive. I walked away with the impression they are focused on working hard on the core and addressing some pain points with Vista. One of the coolest things I saw that SharePoint developers will like is native VHD creation & attachment. We can attach virtual disks with VMWare Worksation, but we can't creat [read] Keywords: designer
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PDC 2008 - Day 1
Wed, Oct 29th 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
The first real day @ PDC 2008 kicked off with the Ray Ozzie and friends keynote pimping Microsoft's new offering: Windows Azure. There are plenty of others who've blogged in detail about this so if you're interested in finding out the skinny, go check those posts out (Sam Gentile has a good rollup post). My take is that it is pretty much a game changer. Late in the day I went to a session that showed how to go about creating your first web application hosted in Azure. I was amazed how easy and s [read] Keywords: ray ozzie
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PDC2008 - Day 0
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 12:54a Andrew Connell
As my first PDC, I figured I'd blog a bit about my experiences. I arrived late Saturday night and headed straight to the hotel to crash. On Sunday AM I got up early to head to the LA conference center & register. Have to say I was quite taken back at how skimpy the attendee bag. Course I'm sure this has something to do with the fact that all attendees are going to get a 160GB USB drive (we don't get to pick it up until Tuesday-Thursday for a limited 2hr window each day). Fine by me... I know [read] Keywords: archive
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Check out my interview with the SharePoint Pod Show
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 12:54a Andrew Connell
Rob Foster & crew have posted the latest episode of the SharePoint Pod Show. I was recently in Nashville, TN teaching a class and since Rob lives there, we took the time to record a nice long bit for the Pod Show. They just released part 1 of the interview... we talk about all kinds of stuff including one very interesting Vegas phrase. :) » SharePoint development: using SharePoint as an application development platform and SharePoint Web Content Management / Publishing - Episode 9 Technora [read] Keywords: application
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SharePint makes the big site!
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 6:56a Andrew Connell
Check it out, tomorrow night's SharePint event made it as a featured event on the PDC 2008 site! http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Registration/ RSVP here everyone: SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night - PDC 2008 Edition Technorati Tags: sharepoint,sharepint,pdc08 [read] Keywords: archive
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PDC 2008 - Here we go!
Sat, Oct 25th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
I'm giddy... I feel like I did when I was a kid at the top of my stairs with my brother on Christmas morning waiting for my parents to give the all clear that we could race down to see what Santa left us. Two years ago when I went out on my own, I swore I'd go to PDC, but alas Microsoft cancelled it [for good reason]. Next week's should be incredible... I can't wait! I'll be your classic conference newbie... likely snapping pix, posting updates to Facebook & Twitter (yes, I'm on the wagon. [read] Keywords: archive
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DevExpress ASP.NET control support for SharePoint coming soon!
Sat, Oct 25th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
Subject says it all... this is awesome news from the top notch UI control company out there! » SharePoint Products From DevExpress Coming Soon Technorati Tags: sharepoint,devexpress [read] Keywords: archive
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SharePoint Guidance by Microsoft's Patterns & Practices
Thu, Oct 23rd 2008 7:58p Andrew Connell
A few months ago I blogged about the work Microsoft' Patterns & Practices group has been working on, specifically in the area of providing SharePoint developers some good guidance. If you haven't taken a look at the stuff on the CodePlex project (http://www.codeplex.com/spg), you really should. If nothing else, go download the latest drop (released last Friday, October 17th) and look at the included CHM file. There's a ton of great guidance there! Here are a few teasers: Technorati Tag [read] Keywords: archive
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Chris O'Brien's Top 5 WCM Tips
Thu, Oct 23rd 2008 7:58p Andrew Connell
[via Chris O'Brien] Chris O'Brien has posted the details from his recent "Top 5 WCM tips" presentation at a user group in UK. He's got some pretty cool tips here... some things I hadn't seen or considered. BTW Chris, thanks for the shout out on for my book, blog & recent WCM guidance article on MSDN. Best thing about these kinds of posts is that not everyone will agree on the same tips... but getting different perspectives is always refreshing. I really like his tips (with subtips) #4: plan [read] Keywords: archive
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TechEd North America 2009 - Back to the 1 week format
Wed, Oct 22nd 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
THANK GOODNESS! I hated the 2 week format the moment I heard about it. Well it looks like next year's TechEd in Los Angeles has been switched back to one week! The new date is May 11-15, 2009. Wahoo!!!! » Microsoft TechEd 2009: Move back to 1-week format Technorati Tags: teched [read] Keywords: archive
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PDC 2008 Session Agenda / Timeline Posted
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
I hope all Microsoft conferences do it this way from here on out. Check out how the calendar was setup: https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/timeline.aspx There's this cool timeline where you can see all sessions going on for a whole day in a matrix with the sessions you've selected colored in. Then you've got a list of all the sessions that day at the bottom (where you can also select them) and see their details. But what's really cool is the .ICS link at the top where you can add the entire age [read] Keywords: archive
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Free MOSS 2007 WCM Webcast
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 1:00a Andrew Connell
Ever wanted to understand what capabilities Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 has for creating Internet-facing content-centric sites with a publishing infrastructure? Looking to use MOSS 2007 Web Content Management (WCM) for your next content-based site? In this webcast I’ll show you the basics of what WCM is all about, the opportunities for developers and site / content owners and explain what you’ll learn in my Ted Pattison Group class: WCM401 - Developing Publishing Sites with Office S [read] Keywords: archive
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SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night - PDC2008 Edition
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
Going to PDC 2008 in Los Angeles, CA in just over a week (or live in the greater LA area)? Interested in hanging out in a casual social setting with other folks interested in SharePoint? We'll be doing another SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night in LA the Sunday (October 26) @ 7p before PDC 2008 officially kicks off. So check into your hotel, drop your bags off and come on over to the Millennium Biltmore Hotel bar around 7p (till whenever) and join us (a few SharePoint MVPs will be there as we [read] Keywords: archive
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Trying Twitter out again...
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 12:56a Andrew Connell
OK Joel, I'll give Twitter another shake. This time around, it is easier for me to use & consume thanks to better apps (TweetDeck & Twitterific). So I'm trying it again under @andrewconnell. Technorati Tags: twitter,tweetdeck,twitterific [read] Keywords: apple
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I'm all geeked up about PDC 2008!
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 7:59p Andrew Connell
With PDC 2008 around the corner, I'm all kinds of geeked up! You see, I'm a PDC virgin. I never could get approval to go to PDC at former jobs... frankly it was hard to justify it. When I went out on my own almost 2 years ago, one thing I said to myself was "I'm going to PDC no matter what" as I had no boss to check with (well, except the one at home). Unfortunately that year they canceled PDC, and I went crying all the way home (not that long of a commute considering I work from home). This tim [read] Keywords: workflow
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Into SharePoint & Podcasts? You've got to check out the SharePoint Pod Show
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 7:59p Andrew Connell
I've been catching up on some unread blog feeds & listing to a few podcasts. One podcast I'm way behind on is the SharePoint Pod Show hosted by friends Rob Foster, Nick Swan and Brett Lonsdale. They've done seven shows so far and I've been quite pleased with them... lots of good info and content. You can download the show from their blog (linked below) or through iTunes (just search for SharePoint Pod Show). Next week I'll sit down with Rob and record a session on MOSS 2007 Web Content Manag [read] Keywords: archive
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***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: Prescriptive Guidance for MOSS 2007 WCM Sites
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 8:05p Andrew Connell
An article I worked on has recently been published to MSDN. The article, Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites, addresses some common things you should keep in mind in planning, architecting, designing and implementing your Publishing sites. I worked hard to make sure the term "best practices" was not used as it's a term I despise. Why? One man's or woman's best practices could be very different from someone else's or another organization's practices. No o [read] Keywords: archive
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Publishing sites: field controls or Web Parts... that is the question
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 8:05p Andrew Connell
[via Enterprise Content Management Team Blog]
This entry is cross posted from my guest blog entry on the Enterprise Content Management Team Blog.
One of the most common problems I see with people developing Publishing sites stems from the lack of understanding in the core differences between Web Parts & Field Controls and when to use them. Many a consultant have dug a deep hole in this area. My goal in this post is to make you aware of the differences to make educated decisions when selecti [read] Keywords: rich text
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So what's on your SharePoint development machine?
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 7:59p Andrew Connell
Occasionally I get a comment from someone who hit an old page on my blog called What's on My PC... an oldie that others were doing at the time. In the last few weeks I've been hit by a higher than normal amount of these in part due to my Setting up your SharePoint development environment post at the end of August. After migrating my virtualization rig to Hyper-V last week, I build out a brand new clean SharePoint development machine. So I figured I'd document what's on my primary SharePoint deve [read] Keywords: designer
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Custom SharePoint Caching
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 12:55a Andrew Connell
[via Vincent Rothwell] Vincent Rothwell (aka "the kid") has recently put up a great post on doing custom SharePoint caching with SharePoint file dependencies... very cool and a useful read! » SharePoint caching and CacheDependency Technorati Tags: sharepoint,cache [read] Keywords: archive
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Changing my virtualization strategy
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 12:52a Andrew Connell
A few months back I talked about building a monster virtualization rig and installing VMWare Server 2.0 on Windows Server 2008 to host a handful of VMs. It's been running fine for a while, but kept seeing minor networking and lag issues here and there. In addition, I get VMs from clients at times to test configurations, do performance testing, etc... and most of these are VHD files, Microsoft virtual hard disks for use with VirtualPC 2007 or Hyper-V. Most of my customers don't give me VMWare vi [read] Keywords: admin
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Filtering in/out page layouts & site templates
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 12:52a Andrew Connell
This is going to be one of those posts some people brush aside saying "duh, I've known that" but for others will be the "ah, finally!" reaction they've been looking for. Nothing epic here... I frequently get a question that comes in one of two flavors: Why can't I create Blogs, Wikis, Team Sites or Blank Sites in my Publishing site collection (created with the Publishing Portal site template)? Why can I only create certain pages in the Search Center site in my Publishing site? To cut to the cha [read] Keywords: template
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Free webcast on content replication in SharePoint: Colligo and Syntergy
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 6:53a Andrew Connell
People that know me know I'm a fan of Syntergy's Replicator product for complex and robust replication in SharePoint as well as Colligo's Contributor product for taking SharePoint sites offline. I just saw this come across my inbox for anyone who's interested: Colligo VP Ed Kaczor will share how client software increases SharePoint adoption by enabling users to easily access, modify, and create SharePoint content through familiar desktop interfaces. Learn how you can help your customers solve t [read] Keywords: connections
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Ted Pattison Group on Facebook
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
We just setup a new group on Facebook for fans ofthe Ted Pattison Group. Come join to find out about news and upcoming events. » Fans of Ted Pattison Group's SharePoint Training http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12476014979 I've also created a group for alumni of my Developing Publishing Sites with MOSS WCM class I teach through the Ted Pattison Group. If you've taken my class, please join... it's an easy way for us to share information with each other, new sites that launch, and a [read] Keywords: archive
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New SharePoint design (not SPD) book available
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
My buddy Randy Drisgill (aka: MOSSMAN) just announced his new book (with friends) is now available. The book, Professional SharePoint 2007 Design, is all about implementing a custom brand in a SharePoint site. I had the privilege to review a lot of the content in this book and was quite impressed. It makes a great companion to my WCM development book! Technorati Tags: sharepoint,wss,publishing site,design [read] Keywords: archive
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Two new MOSS WCM sites recently launched
Wed, Sep 24th 2008 6:52a Andrew Connell
I love hearing back from customers and former students of my MOSS WCM development class when they launch a new public facing Publishing site. In the last two weeks I've heard back from two class alumni who launched brand new Publishing sites recently that are brand new sites on the platform (they didn't come from MCMS 2002).
Starz Entertainment
space150, an agency, recently launched the new Starz Entertainment site (www.starz.com) that serves as the home for Starz Movie Channel, Encore and few [read] Keywords: archive
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Jacksonville Office Geeks: September 2008 Meeting: Enterprise Content Management - Document Retention
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 2:52a Andrew Connell
Our next meeting is on Thursday, September 18, 2008. Here's the session title & abstract to help you get a better idea of what we'll be discussing:
Enterprise Content Management - Document Retention
Document retention is an important part of content management. SharePoint provides out-of-the-box support for managing document retention using the built-in expiration policy feature of the information management policy framework. The built-in expiration policy feature includes the ability [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Content Management Interop Services (CMIS) Spec Announced Today
Wed, Sep 10th 2008 10:15p Andrew Connell
[via ECM Team Blog] This is great news from Microsoft in the area of SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM) on the ECM Team Blog today. From the blog post: Today, we're excited to announce the launch of a standards effort for Enterprise Content Management systems that Microsoft has been driving with several other major vendors (IBM, EMC, Alfresco, OpenText, SAP, Oracle) called "Content Management Interoperability Services" (or CMIS, for short). The goal of CMIS is to define a web servic [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Ah... AC is a happy boy... it's football season again!
Sun, Sep 7th 2008 10:53p Andrew Connell
Finally... the season is back! College has been going for a week, but the NFL starts up for real this weekend (sans last Thursday night's game). I LOVE football! My Florida Gators are in prime position to make a run for the national championship (I've got my tickets for the UF-UGA matchup on November 1 in Jacksonville... doing a red-eye back from PDC to make that game) and LSU in Gainesville with 90k strong Gator Nation in October. In the NFL, my Jags are also in great shape to make a run at the [read] Keywords: archive
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Join My Blog Network on Facebook
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 10:53p Andrew Connell
Want to be part of the conversation on this blog and general SharePoint development or WCM topics? Maybe just join a network on my blog... at any rate, you can join my network by clicking on this link: Join AC's Blog Network on Facebook. [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Patrick, you'll be greatly missed...
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 10:53p Andrew Connell
Yesterday I got word that the legendary SharePoint developer, presenter, author, instructor, and friend Patrick Tissghem suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. I had just talked to him over IM just a day earlier. If the name isn't familiar to you, well you have surely used some of this work. From the blog posts, the books, the screencasts... you name it, he's been instrumental in the SharePoint world for years. But it isn't just SharePoint. Patrick was a great person... someone who was a ton of [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Customizing SharePoint Search Results
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 1:56a Andrew Connell
My buddy Matt McDermott, fellow SharePoint MVP as well as the one who contributed the search chapter in my WCM development book, has recently blogged about customizing the search results page to show image thumbnails. This is a great, detailed view of customizing search results: » SharePoint Image Search: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 Check out his slick XML test page for search results post too! Technorati Tags: sharepoint,wss,moss,search results [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint Performance, Capacity Planning & Best Practices Resources Centers
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 1:56a Andrew Connell
Two new great resource centers filled with lots of good content are now available: Performance & Capacity Planning Resource Center for MOSS 2007 ... allow me to introduce the (begin drum roll here) Performance and Capacity Planning Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007... We’ve rigorously reviewed, analyzed, folded, starched, ironed, and consolidated every existing bit of performance and capacity planning content available today in one easy-to-use page. Best Practices Resource Center [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007) SDK Updated August 2008 (v1.4)
Mon, Sep 1st 2008 11:53p Andrew Connell
[via SP Content & Resources Blog] Microsoft just posted an update of the WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2008 SDKs. As always they come in two flavors, online & downloadable offline CHMs: WSS 3.0 SDK (online) WSS 3.0 SDK (downloadable CHM v1.4) MOSS 2007 SDK (online) MOSS 2007 SDK (downloadable CHM v1.4) This update has some great new and updated content: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - new content NEW: Programmatically working with backup/restore UPDATED: to the Web Parts section NEW: Externall [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Virtual Conference: SharePoint Mastery Online
Mon, Sep 1st 2008 10:53p Andrew Connell
I've been meaning to blog this but it slipped my mind. Then I'm thumbing through the latest issue of Windows ITPro (SEPT-2008) looking for anything related to SharePoint. I find an article on page 10 "Relieve Your SharePoint Pressure Points." So as I skim it, I see my name. Whoa... I don't remember being interviewed... oh yeah... now I know what this is about...
On September 30, I'll be presenting 3 sessions for the SharePoint Mastery for Developers online "conference". For just $99, you can see [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Setting up your SharePoint development environment
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 10:53p Andrew Connell
I frequently get questions people asking how they should go about setting up their development environment. Many people take different approaches and one size does not fit all as some are big development teams and some are more like me, single man shop. You basically subscribe to one of two approaches, either: Working within a virtual machine where everything (OS, SQL, SharePoint & development tools) runs in a self-contained environment. This could be a machine on your local desktop (using [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Microsoft Patters & Practices: Creating Good Guidance for SharePoint Developers
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 10:53p Andrew Connell
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of spending a day with the Microsoft Patterns & Practices group which is working on developing some good guidance for SharePoint developers. I'm real excited to see this being developed for those of us in the SharePoint development community. However, I'm even more excited that they are heavily relying on input and feedback from the community at large that sits outside the walls of Microsoft. I'm honored to be a part of this process which is a ton of fun [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Keeping your SharePoint installations Updated
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 10:53p Andrew Connell
James Waymire, a Microsoft SharePoint support engineer, has a great recent post on his blog talking about patching SharePoint. In this post he addresses a common question support guys get (not to mention consultants) from customers: What patches do I need to keep my SharePoint [WSS/MOSS] Updated?" While it is quite straightforward to may folks, it isn't to others. I'd recommend this as a good read for anyone who's a bit fuzzy on the subject: » Patching SharePoint: getting up to date with the m [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint and TDD
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 8:53p Andrew Connell
Fellow SharePoint MVP Andrew Woodward has posted a paper on doing test driven development with SharePoint. His paper walks you through building a Web Part the TDD way... a great read! Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development Technorati Tags: sharepoint,wss,web part,tdd [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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I'm the rain man apparently...
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 12:53a Andrew Connell
So I get swamped at home (Jacksonville, FL) last week from Tuesday through Saturday thanks to Tropical Storm Fay... then it rains all afternoon on Sunday when I fly out to Seattle. I get to Seattle and it's raining for the two days I'm there, but it was nice when I flew out on Tuesday AM. On the way to San Antonio we stop in Houston where, sure enough, it was raining. Today (Wednesday), it poured in San Antonio... On the way home tomorrow and I would put money on the fact it will be raining in A [read] Keywords: archive
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Trouble installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1? A simple solution...
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 9:53p Andrew Connell
While I had no problem installing VS2008 SP1 on my virtual machines, I've been having a heck of a time installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on my host OS ever since it came out. Since it shipped as an ISO, I simply mounted it using a virtual DVD drive. However every time I tried to install it, it would error out. I dug into the log file and found the following: Patch (F:\vs90sp1\VS90sp1-KB945140-X86-ENU.msp) install succeeded on product (Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition [read] Keywords: archive
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New SharePoint MSDN Forums
Mon, Aug 25th 2008 12:54p Andrew Connell
One of my favorite ways to get support is customer-to-customer (aka: peer-to-peer). It's usually quicker but more importantly, there's tons of info in forums and other communities to usually find your issue and it's resolution from someone else having the problem. Let's face it, we aren't all that special and we aren't the first to see a bug. Like me right now having fits getting VS2008 SP1 installed. Microsoft has offered up newsgroups & Web-based forums in the past. The Web-forums were qui [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Jacksonville Code Camp Recap
Sun, Aug 24th 2008 11:01a Andrew Connell
The folks who put on the Jacksonville Code Camp did one heck of a job pulling it off. They were able to, at the very last minute, switch it around to a different location due to tropical storm Fay & the fact is flooded the area of the original location. Great event! I've posted my sample code & slide decks to the two talks I did at the Jacksonville Code Camp on my speaking page for those who are interested. Technorati Tags: sharepoint,wss,moss,jacksonville code camp [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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HOWTO: Optimize MOSS 2007 WCM Sites for Search
Sat, Aug 23rd 2008 12:54a Andrew Connell
It's been a long week being preoccupied with tropical storm Fay. Usually you keep a close eye on these things for a few days and then they are gone. But this one... this one was REAL annoying. This one did everything it wasn't expected to do including stalling out for almost two full days dropping more than 30" of rain on Melbourne, FL (a few hours south of me in northeast Florida, about half-way between Jacksonville & St. Augustine). Then it just hung out... took forever to get out of here [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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In search of ISA experts... want a free MSDN Team Suite subscription?
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 6:53p Andrew Connell
So I'm trying to setup ISA on my home network... but not as a firewall. There are just two things I want: VPN server - I've got stuff hosted inside my home network that I'd like to gain access to while remote, but not expose it. Such as source control, network shares, personal WSS sites used for organization and storage of stuff... etc. So basically all I want is to connect using the OOTB Vista client connection, using my home AD login, and be assigned an IP on my private network and act like [read] Keywords: archive
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***NOW AVAILABLE*** Two Chapters from my Pro WCM Development Book on MSDN
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 4:57p Andrew Connell
MSDN has just published two chapters from my Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development book in their entirety. Enjoy! Chapter 14: Authoring Experience Extensibility Chapter 20: Incorporating ASP.NET 2.0 Applications Technorati Tags: sharepoint,wss,moss,wcm,publishing site,msdn [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Jacksonville Code Camp - Saturday, August 23, 2008
Sun, Aug 17th 2008 11:53p Andrew Connell
We're right around the corner from the next Jacksonville, FL Code Camp. It's next Saturday, August 23, 2008. If you're going, make sure you register & check out all the great sessions & speakers @ http://www.jaxcodecamp.com. I'll be presenting two sessions related to SharePoint: Introducing Features! A Deep Dive into the New "Feature" Infrastructure in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Structured Approach to Building SharePoint 3.0 Sites See you there! Technorati Tags: sharepoint,wss,moss [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Jacksonville Office Geeks: status & upcoming meetings
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 3:53p 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. It's been a few months since we've had a Jacksonville Office Geeks (JOG) meeting. We've got a few reasons for this. First, its no surprise we haven't had a great response with the JOG meetings. We've decided to move away from a monthly meeting schedule in an effort to possibly get a bigger attendance. Secondly, with only one [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Using VMWare Server 2.0 RC1
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 11:52a Andrew Connell
Last month I blogged my saga of building a rig dedicated just for hosting virtual machines. So far I have been incredibly happy with the hardware. In the last week I've been going through the process of consolidating physical machines into virtual ones. Today I have a physical machine that acts as my (a) home AD domain controller, (b) SQL Server, (c) file share and (d) host for virtual machines. For all that stuff it works great, except it's a bit limited in size (trying to put virtual machines [read] Keywords: archive
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Two weeks later with an iPhone...
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 3:54p Andrew Connell
After my last post on the iPhone, I went out and put an order in for a white iPhone 3G. I've now had it for just over two weeks and thought I'd had enough time to give it a report. First of all, I just love this device. Make note I'm not calling it a phone... because it isn't... its a device. I've set it up to sync with my Exchange mailbox for email, contacts and the calendar. I can sum up my thoughts to be in line with the mantra so many Apple junkies: it just works.
Some thoughts:
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Teaching WCM in LA week of August 4th and Two User Group Talks in So Cal
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 9:56a Andrew Connell
I'm teaching my WCM401 Developing Publishing Sites with SharePoint Server 20007 WCM the week of August 4-7 at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Irvine, CA. There are still a few open seats available, so if you're interested, go here to get more info & register. There's a special 15% discount code available to people in the area on the SoCal .NET Events site that you can use when you register for the class. While in California I'll be speaking at two user groups in the area. First on T [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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ISPA - For the community, by the community
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 8:55a Andrew Connell
Last week Bob Fox announced the International SharePoint Professionals Association (www.sharepointpros.com). Best explained on the homepage... The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is the first independent, community-run, not-for-profit organization designed specifically for SharePoint Professionals. ISPA is a professional association dedicated to the promotion and global adoption of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. The Association provides support [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007) Infrastructure Updates Available
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 8:55a Andrew Connell
In case you missed it, last week Microsoft released something they call the Infrastructure Update for WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007. This update adds some search features to SharePoint that were introduced in the Search Server products, fixes a lot of performance and scaling issues and content deployment fixes. The whole thing is outlined on the ECM team blog: » ECM Blog: Content Deployment & the Infrastructure Update The Infrastructure Update is not a service pack, but you could almost treat i [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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I wonder...
Fri, Jul 18th 2008 4:52p Andrew Connell
I wonder where Starbucks employees go when they need to "make a run" ? Everyone I know makes Starbucks Runs when they need a break or a boost in the afternoon. Wonder where Starbucks people go? One of the reasons for the "runs" is to get out of the office or just a break... so they have to get out. Maybe Dunkin Donuts? Have a great weekend all... [read] Keywords: archive
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Apple's iPhone 3G is pretty darn impressive
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 9:53a Andrew Connell
When the first iPhone came out I dismissed it pretty quick because I was addicted to my AciveSync DirectPush on my Windows Mobile (WM) 6 device and because the ATT network it was tired to is just slow. All the while I switched my MP3 player over to an iPod Touch and fell in love with the UI & iTunes. Then, upon hearing Apple was adding support for 3G, a GPS receiver and ActiveSync support made me come back and check it out. I've read up, especially over the weekend and played with one in the [read] Keywords: apple
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Triple Boot Goodness on the MacBook Pro
Thu, Jul 10th 2008 4:53p Andrew Connell
Last week I got a call from the local Apple store that my replacement MBP was in. This was to replace my lemon MBP where the keyboard & trackpad kept dying on me. Finally they caved and cried uncle giving me a brand new machine. Cool thing is that this is one of the Penryn based models that gives me multitouch on the trackpad (ala zoom via pinching the trackpad) and a motherboard that can handle 8GB (albeit not officially). This time I elected to pave the machine the moment I got it. Went wi [read] Keywords: apple
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Following me on Twitter? I don't recommend doing that...
Thu, Jul 10th 2008 12:53p Andrew Connell
Little public-service-announcement here. A few months back I created a Twitter account and followed a few friends. I gave it a chance... but personally I think Twitter is a grand waste of time. I know, many people disagree, but for me, it's like walking into a bar at happy hour and hearing every single conversation at the same time. That's not a positive... that's a negative. It's too much effort to get anything of value. So if you happen to find me on Twitter, you can follow me, but you'll be s [read] Keywords: archive
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The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 3
Thu, Jul 10th 2008 11:54a Andrew Connell
In part 1 of this series I explained the reasoning and background on why I'm building a virtualization rig. In that post I included my experience with trying to get an OOTB Dell PowerEdge 2900 III. In part 2 I discussed the parts, buildout and price list. In this post I want to talk about the setup, install and performance testing. Burnin: Testing power & heat (and fans) Setup of the vRig was a piece of cake.. hardware wise it wasn't bad at all. Installing Windows 2008 Server was a piece of [read] Keywords: archive
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