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Another Year, Another Reason to Hate Technical Recruiters
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008
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Troubling MSDN Article Content
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2009 SharePoint Best Practices Conferences
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Early Impressions of the New MacBook Pro
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A Tale of Two Macs
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Happy Thanksgiving 2008
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New SharePoint Administration Book
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TechEd US 2008 IT Professionals, Day One
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New SharePoint Blogger Rajesh Satluri
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 16
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Web Interoperability Webcast
Thu, Nov 20th 2008 14
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SharePoint Designer Workflows, Tasks, and the Annoying “Access Denied” Error
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 12
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TechEd US 2008 IT Professionals, Day Three
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AC in da House!
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Site Definitions – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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TechEd TechTalk – SharePoint Different Views
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Tulsa Techfest 2008, Day Two
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Another Year, Another Reason to Hate Technical Recruiters 
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 12:02p Eric Shupps
Body: Here it is, almost 2009 and I've gone nearly the whole year without ranting about recruiters but I just can't take it any more. Way back in 2006 I penned an Open Letter to SharePoint Recruiters, begging them to stop trying to combine a developer and architect into a single position. A bit later, my good buddy Adam Buenz shot some arrows at the general recruiter community for not understanding anything about the positions they are trying to fill. Sadly, it seems that most recruiters have co [read] Keywords: forms
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008 
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 11:56a Eric Shupps
Body: One of the best parts of my job is being able to travel the world and meet new people everywhere I go. I have so many friends in so many corners of the globe that it's hard to keep track of them all. While everyone has a slightly different tradition over the holidays, I believe we all can agree that it's a time to set aside any differences we may have and revel in the joys of the season.
However you choose to celebrate, let us all be thankful for the blessings in our lives and look towards [read] Keywords: community
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Troubling MSDN Article Content
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 4:56p Eric Shupps
Body: Kim Nguyen over at Pariveda shot me an email today asking about some confusing terminology in this MSDN article. While I was perusing it, and marveling at how the author was able to completely mixup Site, Site Collection and Web object references with alarming regularity, I noticed the following paragraph:
"For example, if you configure confirmation and automatic deletion to happen on the fifth day of each month, make it a policy to back up your server on the fourth day. You can automa [read] Keywords: archive
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2009 SharePoint Best Practices Conferences
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 7:59p Eric Shupps
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This coming year we have not one but two Best Practices conferences on the calendar and the good news is that the folks across the pond are finally getting a chance to participate. The first conference is being held in San Diego, California on the 2nd - 4th of February. The second takes place in London April 6th - 8th. If you had a chance to attend the Washington, DC conference held earlier this year then you know that the quality of content is as good as it gets; if not, you really need [read] Keywords: designer
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Early Impressions of the New MacBook Pro
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 5:00p Eric Shupps
Body: Since I'm all into this Mac thing now, quite a few people have asked me for my impressions of the new unibody (late 2008) MacBook Pro. Here are my thoughts, in no particular order (thanks to John Holliday for getting me to write these down):
Construction – Can you say “gorgeous” about a computer without sounding like a freak? I don’t know, but this thing sure is well built. It’s solid as a rock and the ability to swap hard drives with the turn of a single screw is dyn-o-mite (we [read] Keywords: apple
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A Tale of Two Macs
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 12:55a Eric Shupps
Body: You may have noticed that there has been precious little blogging in this space recently. That's mostly due to spending the last few weeks trying to get my technology back in line so I could be at least halfway productive. After much gnashing of teeth and cursing the computer gods (both in Cupertino and Redmond) I have finally settled back into something of a groove.
As Sean Skinner detailed in his Unity post, when his Dell gave up the ghost one afternoon it put us in a bit of a bind. He w [read] Keywords: administration
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Happy Thanksgiving 2008 
Thu, Nov 27th 2008 11:56a Eric Shupps
Body: Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. Unlike Christmas, there's no commercialism, no gaudy, overwrought decoration, no pretense - it's all about family, friends and lots of good food. It's also a time to talk to our children about our unique history, all the things we have to be thankful for, and the price that many have paid to keep us safe.
So here's hoping that you have a safe and happy holiday(regardless of whether you actually celebrate it or not in your corner [read] Keywords: |
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New SharePoint Administration Book
Thu, Nov 20th 2008 7:53p 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] Keywords: admin
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Web Interoperability Webcast
Thu, Nov 20th 2008 4:52p 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] Keywords: microsoft
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Site Definitions – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 7:52p Eric Shupps
Body: Recently there has been a great deal of attention devoted to SharePoint Site Definitions in the blogosphere. A month ago I posted an article to the ISPA web site regarding the pros and cons of SharePoint Designer versus Custom Site Definitions. Just a few days ago, Joel Oleson wrote a blog entry lamenting the use of Site Definitions and had some rather strong opinions against them. He referenced a post from Andrew Connell earlier this year in which AC concludes that they aren't perfect but [read] Keywords: designer
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New SharePoint Blogger Rajesh Satluri
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 11:56a Eric Shupps
Body: Friend and fellow devhead Rajesh Satluri has (finally!) begun blogging on SharePoint development topics. Rajesh is a Senior Architect at Argus Software (www.arguszone.com is almost entirely his work). I've worked with Rajesh several times on various projects and he's one of the smartest SharePoint devs around. I've been pestering him for years to get a blog up and going and he finally got around to it. You can check out his posts on creating a custom People Picker control here and [read] Keywords: blogger
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SharePoint Designer Workflows, Tasks, and the Annoying “Access Denied” Error
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 4:55p Eric Shupps
Body: As most of you know, I try to avoid SharePoint Designer like that creepy distant relative at family reunions who always gives you the heebie-jeebies. But lately we've had some clients who insist on doing everything "out of the box", so I've had to grit my teeth and, with great trepidation, fire up ye old SPD for some simple workflow creation.
For the most part, SPD workflows are fairly innocuous, with the most pain coming from beating your head against the wall trying to make it do someth [read] Keywords: designer
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Tulsa Techfest 2008, Day Two
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 4:59p Eric Shupps
Body: Today is the second and last day of Tulsa Techfest 2008. The day started with Dennis Bottjer talking about SharePoint performance. He had some good tips for architects and administrations and event hit on some development topics. The second Birds of a Feather session went well, with my old Chicken Dancing buddy Steve Walker sitting in to answer questions and facilitate discussion. The afternoon started with some good chalk-talk by Jim Hudson and Richard Oltmann of Oaktree Software regardin [read] Keywords: development
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Tulsa TechFest 2008, Day One
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 11:55a Eric Shupps
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Tulsa TechFest 2008 kicked off today at the OSU Campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This year saw a big upswing in attendance with over 800 registrations – if this keeps up, David Walker will have to take over the entire campus to make room for everyone. There are 17 different tracks, covering everything from eMarketing to SharePoint; naturally, I'm on the SharePoint Nation track, along with Corey Roth, Michael Lotter, Dennis Bottjer, Jim Hudson and Richard Oltmann.
The day started with Corey [read] Keywords: application
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MVP Again!
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 4:53p Eric Shupps
Body: For whatever strange reason, the Powers That Be have decided that your humble Cowboy is deserving of being a SharePoint MVP for another year. I'm honored to be part of the big, crazy, dysfunctional family that is the SharePoint MVP group, at least until next October (or until they catch on that all we really do when we get together is get liquored up and out of control). Boo-yah!
With every award cycle comes changes – some old faces go away and some new faces come on the scene. I'd parti [read] Keywords: community
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Tulsa Techfest 2008
Mon, Sep 29th 2008 7:52p Eric Shupps
Body: It's that time of year again. Pumpkin patches are springing up, the stores are full of Halloween costumes, the Polka bands are warming up for Oktoberfest, and Tulsa Techfest 2008 is only a couple of weeks away. This is a great event held over two days on the Tulsa campus of Oklahoma State University. There's tons of .NET-related content and I'll be there to talk about performance and programming in SharePoint. The event is organized by my good friend David Walker who pulls out all the stop [read] Keywords: sharepoint
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The Hidden Value of Communities
Mon, Sep 22nd 2008 4:53p Eric Shupps
Body:
NOTE: This is a cross-posting from the ISPA web site. Original article located here.
As someone who travels around the world speaking to community organizations of all types and sizes, I've often been asked, and even wondered myself, about the true value of community. Why do we do it? What benefits does it provide? Who gets the most out of it? And is all the effort really worth it?
Naturally, these are subjective questions; value, like beauty, is often found only in the e [read] Keywords: agent
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TechEd TechTalk – SharePoint Different Views
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 6:53p Eric Shupps
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During TechEd 2008 North America, ASP.NET MVP and good friend David Walker asked me to join him in a recorded discussion on SharePoint and social networking. As many of you know, I'm not a huge fan of Social Networking implementations (to be clear, I support the concept just not the way it has been implemented thus far), so I thought it would be a good chance for us both to get our views out in the open. David and I sat in the 'bubble' for about twenty minutes, flipped on the cameras, an [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SEF 2008, Day Two
Thu, Sep 11th 2008 7:27p Eric Shupps
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One of these days I'm going to learn not to stay up all night drinking and hell raising when I have presentations to do the next day – but apparently I haven't learned this lesson yet. Fortunately, my first presentation, From .NET to SharePoint - Introduction to SharePoint Programming for .NET Developers, wasn't until 10:20; any earlier and I don't think I could have pulled it off. There's just no way to cover all the information in an hour but I think I got the point across without lo [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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User Groups Growing Like Crazy
Thu, Sep 11th 2008 7:27p Eric Shupps
Body: As many of you know, I split my time between the US and UK, supporting both my local user group in Dallas/Fort Worth and the SharePoint UK user group. The UK group is the largest in the world and has just surpassed 4,000 registered members (by way of contrast, the DFW group has almost a 1,000 members and it's one of the largest groups in the US). That's an unbelievable number; I have no idea how Nick and Steve keep up with all those people but they do a bang up job keeping everything runni [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SEF 2008, Day One
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 10:54a Eric Shupps
Body: Yesterday was the first day of the SharePoint and Exchange Forum 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden. As it turns out, fellow MVP Todd Klindt was on the same flight to London with me and, since we had a night over with nothing to do, I insisted on taking him around Soho for the first time. I'm not sure how impressed he was as he's not quite used to flying overnight, staying up all day, then hitting the pubs and clubs 'til the wee hours but he handled himself well. I also introduced him to the greatn [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SEF 2008 Presentations and Code Samples
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 8:53a Eric Shupps
Body: I'm presenting two sessions at SEF 2008 in Sweden - an introduction to SharePoint for .NET developers and performance optimization in SharePoint development. The presentations and code samples can be found here:
From .NET to SharePoint - Introduction to SharePoint Programming for .NET Developers [SEF2008]
Full Speed Ahead - Developing High Performance Applications for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 [SEF2008]
My thanks to everyone who is attending and willing to pu [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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In Memory of Patrick Tisseghem
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 12:53p Eric Shupps
Body: On Wednesday, September 3rd, fellow MVP and all-around SharePoint guru Patrick Tisseghem died from heart failure while in Sweden to teach a course.
Patrick was a good friend of mine (and many others in the SharePoint community) and we are all in mourning. It is hard to imagine the SharePoint world without Patrick.
I've posted an article regarding Patrick's untimely death on the ISPA web site. If you have any memories of Patrick that you would like to share with his fami [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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The First SharePoint Cowboy Podcast
Wed, Aug 27th 2008 12:52a Eric Shupps
Body: When I was in the UK a few weeks ago I sat down with my good friend and fellow SharePoint MVP Nick Swan to record an interview for the SharePoint Podshow. We talked about a wide range of topics, including my favorite subject, SharePoint performance, and it was good fun. Give it a listen and try to navigate the rough waters between Nick's proper English accent and my sloppy Redneck drawl to get to the meat of the discussion. I think we even said some interesting things – who'd a thunk it? [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Preventing Blog Spam, Part IV
Tue, Aug 19th 2008 2:53p Eric Shupps
Body: So here I go again, attempting to find creative ways to prevent spambots from slamming my blog with junk postings. A number of people have complained about the my removing anonymous access from the Comments list and since I still haven't had time to create a Captcha custom field type, I'm trying Mo Omar's method of using a required date field in the Comments list.
We'll see how it goes...since I'm heading out to get my hunting license today, I feel I should lobby for an open se [read] Keywords: |
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The Great Debate: SharePoint Designer vs. Custom Site Definitions
Mon, Aug 18th 2008 10:53p Eric Shupps
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I often get asked about the pros and cons of using SharePoint Designer versus custom site definitions for branding purposes. There seems to be a great deal of confusion surrounding this topic so I'll offer my two cent's worth in hopes that it clears the air and helps you, the SharePoint developer or administrator, make a more informed decision on which to use and where.
First, let's be clear on the difference between the two. SharePoint Designer is an off-the-shelf tool that provides a [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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D/FW SharePoint Community August Meeting
Sat, Aug 16th 2008 8:53a Eric Shupps
Body: Just a reminder that the August meeting of the D/FW SharePoint Community is Tuesday the 19th. K2 will be presenting one of their workflow applications and my friends over at Barracuda Software will be talking about user permission management and their DeliverPoint product.
In the Developer breakout session we will be discussing the use, creation and deployment of custom site definitions. This is a deep topic that lots of folks have asked about so we'll go into specifics on how to do them, [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SUGUK Presentation Wrap-Up
Sat, Aug 16th 2008 8:53a Eric Shupps
Body: Last night I presented Full Speed Ahead - Developing High Performance Applications for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to the SharePoint UK User Group in London. We had a record turnout of 139 people; in fact, so many showed up that we ran short of pizza and drinks. Fortunately, the local pub was a quick stroll down the road and we invaded it like a geek army on a seek and destroy mission. I don't think they were quite prepared for that many SharePointers in one place at one time.
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The Ongoing Saga of WinMac – Back to Vista
Fri, Jul 25th 2008 2:52a Eric Shupps
Body: For about a month now I've been running Windows Server 2008 on a Macbook Pro. My initial theory was that Win2k8 + Hyper-V + Macbook Pro would beat the pants off of any Vista system in terms of virtual machine performance. My experience running this configuration validates that theory – Win2k8 on this machine is F-A-S-T. And running Hyper-V was fantastic; I could finally work with my virtual machines as if I was on a native desktop. But, alas, there were a few major issues that forced me [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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ISPA is Here!
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 6:52p Eric Shupps
Body: Today marks the official launch of the International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA). This is an exciting project that I have been involved with for some time. Go to the ISPA web site and Bob Fox's blog to get the official lowdown.
From my perspective, what excites me the most about this organization is the tremendous people that we have involved who all share a singular vision – to provide first-class support to SharePoint communities around the world. Sure, there are bigge [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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D/FW SharePoint Community July Meeting
Tue, Jul 8th 2008 11:53a Eric Shupps
Body: Join me at the July meeting of the D/FW SharePoint Community. I will be doing a presentation on Configuring MOSS for Optimal Performance (hey, me, doing an Admin talk? What's the world coming to?) and Idera will be discussing various management and monitoring tools for SharePoint. During the Developer breakout sessions Rajesh Satluri will show an extension of the SharePoint people picker which utilizes custom data sources and I will demonstrate how to use event receivers to track project t [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Happy Independence Day
Fri, Jul 4th 2008 6:53p Eric Shupps
Body: To all of you in the US, and those Americans currently residing in other countries, I'd like to wish you and yours a very happy Independence Day (or, as my friends in the UK like to call it, "Getting Rid of the Colonies Day"). May your beer be cold, your barbecue spicy, and your fireworks explosive.
For all of my friends currently serving in the military, both at home and abroad, my hearfelt thanks for all you do for us. Freedom isn't free and you pay the highest price of all s [read] Keywords: |
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System.IO.IOException Error in the Configuration Wizard
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 11:53a Eric Shupps
Body: To make a very long story very short, I'm rebuilding a production server farm from the ground up due to improper sizing of the server root partitions when the project was initiated. Fortunately, I built the farm with full redundancy so I can pull servers out, have them rebuilt, and put them back into production without too much undue interruption. Early on in this process, when we discovered that the C:\ drive on each server was way too small, I tweaked a number of settings to keep various [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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WinMac – The Ongoing Adventure of Running Windows Server on a Macbook Pro
Sun, Jun 29th 2008 2:52p Eric Shupps
Body: I posted last week on my decision to ditch the Tablet PC platform and switch to a Macbook Pro. Unlike many others who run some flavor of Windows in conjunction with the Mac OS, I have absolutely no interest in using OS X, Y, Z or any other flavor of Jobsian operating systems. My primary reason for buying a Macbook Pro was to get the most powerful machine possible in the smallest form factor. After much research I determined that the Macbook Pro fit this bill better than the Lenovo T61P or [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Adios Tablet PC, How I Will Miss Thee
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 7:53p Eric Shupps
Body:
Let me begin by saying that I absolutely love the Tablet PC form factor and the Inking experience. There is nothing more intuitive than picking up a pen and interacting with a digital interface (short of touch but that falls short when you want to write something down). If you don't believe me, put a normal PC with a mouse and a Tablet PC with a pen in front of a three-year-old and watch what happens. They'll have a masterpiece drawn in fourteen different colors on the Tablet befor [read] Keywords: apple
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The SharePoint Cowboy Saddles Up for the Land of ABBA
Mon, Jun 23rd 2008 1:53p Eric Shupps
Body: Thanks to fellow SharePoint MVP Goran Hussman I'll be presenting two talks at the SharePoint and Exchange Forum (Warning: Link is a machine translation – please don't blame me for the garbled Swedish!) near Stockholm, Sweden in September. I'm really looking forward to this trip for a few reasons: 1) I've never been to Sweden but I have some good friends who are Swedish and I've always wanted to visit, 2) I hear the nightlife is fantastic, 3) It will be a welcome change from 100+ degrees [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Trapping XML Errors Using SharePoint Web Services
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 12:53p Eric Shupps
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At the DFW SharePoint Community meeting this week we had a lively discussion about SharePoint web services and how difficult they are to debug. This actually has nothing to do with SharePoint per se – all methods that return nothing but strings are hard to debug – but it is a common pain point so I promised to post a code sample of how I deal with it.
A common scenario when working with web services is to pass in a batch to perform some operation, such as updating items in a list. [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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DFW SharePoint Community 2nd Anniversary Meeting
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 9:55p Eric Shupps
Body: Many thanks to friend and fellow SharePoint MVP Andrew Connell for presenting at the June meeting of the DFW SharePoint Community last night. Andrew talked about developer and administrator tools to a packed house (the slides can be downloaded here). Afterwards, the Developer community spent some additional time discussing various toolsets, looking at the new Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS), and sharing tips and techniques for making SharePoint development more productive [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Stacy Draper’s Favorites Add-In for Word
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 6:52p Eric Shupps
Body: I author all of my blog posts in Word 2007. Why? Well, first, I'm in Word all the time anyway and it's a familiar environment; second, the blog template allows me to work offline and compose my posts for uploading later; and finally, because the formatting (especially of code blocks) is much closer to what SharePoint uses in the WSS blog site definition. I do get frustrated, though, especially when I constantly have to look through my favorites in IE to get the blog URL's for other MVP's a [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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AC in da House!
Sun, Jun 15th 2008 12:53p Eric Shupps
Body: Just a quick reminder that Tuesday, June 17th 2008 is the next monthly meeting of the D/FW SharePoint Community. SharePoint MVP and WCM expert Andrew Connell will be dropping by to give us all some guidance and tools for SharePoint developers and administrators. He'll then be joining the Developer breakout group for a more in-depth discussion on the same topic and a recap of TechEd 2008. Be sure to join us at the Microsoft Campus in Las Colinas (Building LC1) for refreshments, knowledge, a [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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TechEd US 2008 IT Professionals, Final Thoughts
Sat, Jun 14th 2008 4:52p Eric Shupps
Body: Well, it's finally over. My two week marathon stint at TechEd has come to a close and I'm so happy to be out of here that I would do a dance if I had any energy left. I spent so much time on my feet and walking back and forth across the mammoth OCCC building that I fear my feet are going to simply fall off when I remove my boots. Here are a few thoughts on how things went:
Conference Format
Sorry to point out the blatantly obvious but the new split format for TechEd just sucks. Everyone I [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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TechEd US 2008 IT Professionals, Day Three
Sat, Jun 14th 2008 4:52p Eric Shupps
Body: Another day on booth duty. Not much excitement here but the motorcycle giveaway by Avepoint drew a pretty big crowd. The SharePoint Nation is well represented in the exhibit hall; the only partner zone banner hanging this week was for SharePoint. I didn't take a formal survey but it seemed as if there were at least five or six rows of nothing but SharePoint-related products and services. We were positioned across from Syntergy and next to The Dot Net Factory and BPA Solutions. I felt a bit [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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TechEd US 2008 IT Professionals, Day Two
Sat, Jun 14th 2008 4:52p Eric Shupps
Body: The worst part about being an exhibitor at these events is that I don't have any time to spend at the Office TLC or at breakout sessions. My day is completely consumed talking to customers about Sonar and trying to find small snippets of time to eat; which, considering the deplorable quality of food this year, probably meant I was better off not being able to actually sit down to any kind of meal. I can tell you this – whoever decided that Pepsi should have the contract to provide bevera [read] Keywords: office
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TechEd US 2008 IT Professionals, Day One
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 4:53p Eric Shupps
Body: Tuesday kicked off TechEd 2008 North America IT Professionals week. Attendance is fantastic, with nearly 10,000 people attending from all around the world (that's an unofficial estimate; I'm sure Microsoft will publish official numbers after the event). We're exhibiting in the SharePoint Partner Zone, talking to everyone we can about Sonar. A lot of people are interested in SharePoint performance and we've had a great deal of traffic so far. The vendor expo was amazing, which I'm sure is d [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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TechEd 2008 Developer Speaker Idol Videos
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 1:55p Eric Shupps
Body: Well, it was bound to happen. The TechEd Online team has started posting videos of the Speaker Idol competion from last week. If you have absolutely nothing better to do, or you just need a good laugh, you can watch me go toe-to-toe with the other competitors in the semi-finals here. I'll post a link to the video of the finals when it goes live.
Published: 6/12/2008 10:35 AM [read] Keywords: microsoft
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TechEd US 2008
Fri, Jun 6th 2008 5:59p Eric Shupps
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As usual, TechEd 2008 has been a complete whirlwind. This year the conference is split into two tracks, one for Developers this past week and one for IT Professionals next week. Instead of blogging day by day, I thought I would break down the highlights of the week.
SharePint by Night
Monday night Andrew Connell organized a SharePint by Night event at BB King's. Along with AC, we had John Holliday, Darrin Bishop, Robert Foster, Brad Smith, Eugene Rosenfeld, Robert Bogue, Ted Pattison [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Sonar Standard Version 1.1 Now Available
Sun, Jun 1st 2008 8:43p Eric Shupps
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It's been an interesting few months since the release of the first version of Sonar. We've had thousands of downloads, lots of good press, and a great deal of interest from SharePoint developers and administrators around the world. Like any first version, Sonar had a few rough edges, and we've been working diligently to fix issues, respond to feature requests, and improve some of the ancillary areas like installation, user registration, license activation, and the like. Today we're relea [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Off to TechEd US 2008
Fri, May 30th 2008 7:46p Eric Shupps
Body: I'm busily trying to wrap up all my loose ends before heading off to Orlando for TechEd US 2008. As usual, I'll be filing daily reports on the various goings on, both at the show and at all the after-hours functions (see this post for a list of activities). Unfortunately, I will be working the Office TLC booth most of Developer week and the BinaryWave booth during IT Pro Week so I won't have many reports from the sessions. I'd really like to see AC's various talks, drop in on my friend Tod [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Timer Jobs, Alerts and the Daylight Savings Time Hotfix
Fri, May 23rd 2008 6:49p Eric Shupps
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Not too long ago I had a problem with MOSS timer jobs delaying execution until an hour after they were created. I was puzzled, as the farm I was working on was a clean install of slipstreamed SP1. After some searching, I found the KB941422 post-SP1 hotfix. The install was no walk in the park - it was as intrusive as a service pack, forcing me to bring down every server in the farm - but once it was in place my timer jobs started behaving themselves.
Just a couple of days ago [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint After Hours Is a Hit!
Wed, May 21st 2008 10:17a Eric Shupps
Body: Thanks to all who attended our first SharePoint After Hours session at the D/FW SharePoint Community meeting last night. It was a very interactive group and we went deep on building features and solution packages. A special thanks to Phillip Wheat, Microsoft Architect/Developer Evangelist, for his assistance, advice and insight.
For those who attended, be sure to email me your contact information so we can add you to the distribution list for future events. Also, if you have any topics you [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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TechEd 2008 Schedule
Mon, May 19th 2008 10:31a Eric Shupps
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Call it lucky or unlucky but I will be in Orlando for two weeks in June for both sessions of TechEd 2008 – and I'm not even speaking! Here's a rundown of the planned activities (this post subject to frequent updates as the event approaches):
Developer Week (June 3rd – 6th, 2008)
Monday, June 2nd
7:00pm - ???
SharePint by Night with Andrew Connell
Tuesday, June 3rd
9:00am – 5:00pm
Microsoft Office and SharePoint Technical Learning Center
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D/FW SharePoint Community - SharePoint After Hours
Fri, May 9th 2008 10:46a Eric Shupps
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To all the developer types who attend the D/FW SharePoint Community meetings, the schedule is pretty full for the May 20th meeting and we might not be able to squeeze in the break-out sessions as part of the regular agenda. Fear not - we can still crunch some code after everyone else has left, even if we have to move the session down to Starbucks.
If there are any particular topics you would like to cover, post a comment and we'll try to squeeze it in. For starters, I have s [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Welcome to the Un-Social
Fri, May 9th 2008 12:08a Eric Shupps
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Whenever a new platform, technology, or computing paradigm comes along there is the inevitable rush to proclaim it the greatest thing since sliced bread, the cure to all of mankind's ills, the savior of civilization. What usually starts out as a worthwhile experiment in solving a particular problem with some out-of-the-box thinking quickly mushrooms into a hodgepodge of nonsensical concepts and reality-stretching terminology once the marketing types take over. Sadly, this usually leads t [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Flame and Ye Shall Be Flamed in Return
Tue, Oct 16th 2007 2:49p Eric Shupps
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I was all geared up to author a scathing respone to this ridiculous post but I was struggling with some way to write it without using the words 'idiot', 'imbecile' and 'moron' all in the same sentence. Sometimes, I just can't get beyond the urge to reach through my computer and slap the bejeezus out of some SharePoint-hating dolt. Fortunately for me, Bil Simser, Tony Bierman, and Bob Mixon beat me to it and they managed to be much nicer than I would have been.
Wasn't there a [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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