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Posted by Andrew Connell on March 9, 2010
We at Critical Path Training announced a handful of free one-hour webcasts over the next three months devoted to SharePoint 2010. All webcasts are delivered by our premier SharePoint professionals such as David Mann, Asif Rehmani, Scot Hillier, Wouter van Vugt, Ted Pattison and myself. Topics include: PowerShell Boot Camp for SharePoint Professionals Exploring the New Service Application Framewo... [read more]
Posted by Offline SharePoint on March 9, 2010
During the Olympics, we were really pleased to learn that SharePoint mega-expert, author, MVP, and well known blogger, Dan Holme, was visiting Vancouver (Colligo’s home) as Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Sports. Of course I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to meet in person and host him at Colligo. He got an opportunity to meet a bunch [...]... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 9, 2010
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).... [read more]
Posted by Microsoft SharePoint Team on March 9, 2010
This is Tim McConnell, Program Manager on the SharePoint Foundation team. For the 2010 release, I’ve worked with SharePoint platform and partner teams to deliver powerful, reliable, accessible user experiences. Like Office, Office Web Applications, Windows, and teams across Microsoft, everyone in SharePoint strives to remove barriers that make software difficult to use. Sometimes improvements ca... [read more]
Posted by Liam Cleary on March 9, 2010
As you may all be aware SharePoint 2010 now supports the use of REST Services for retrieval of content from lists and libraries etc. This approach works well as the REST Services data can easily be consumed either inside or outside SharePoint. If we access a list within SharePoint we can see I have a tasks list with two items in it. I can view them normally in the UI as shown below: If ... [read more]
Posted by SharePoint Magazine on March 9, 2010
Welcome to the first of a 4 part series where I'll be guiding you through the do's and don'ts of setting up SharePoint FBA on different versions of the SharePoint platforms, being MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010.... [read more]
Posted by Andrew Connell on March 8, 2010
Going to the SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit Conference in Las Vegas the week of March 16-19, 2009? No? Well, are you a SharePoint person that’s going to be in the greater Vegas area? We’ll be doing another SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night in Las Vegas the night before the big show starts (or in the case if you’re one of the pre-conference session attendees, unwind): Tuesday, March 16, 2009 ... [read more]
Posted by Asif Rehmani on March 8, 2010
This week I have the privilege of teaching the first ever SharePoint Designer 2010 course. As far as I know, this is the first SharePoint Designer 2010 course ever being taught by anyone in the world (please correct me if I’m wrong here). A lot of blood, sweat and tears have gone into creating this [...]... [read more]
Posted by Asif Rehmani on March 8, 2010
The long anticipated release of SharePoint 2010 is almost here now! Arpan Shah, director of SharePoint, announced the official date of launch to be May 12th. The RTM is going to be even earlier, April, so you should be able to download the bits directly from MSDN or TechNet at that time. At the same time, [...]... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 8, 2010
If implementing SharePoint with another ECM solution, it is important to truly identify what role SharePoint will have in the organization to ensure proper planning for the implementation.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 8, 2010
I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box, generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”... [read more]
Posted by SharePoint Magazine on March 8, 2010
Mint Management Technologies (Pty) Ltd was established in 1971 and has rendered market intelligence gathering and deployment solutions to South African corporate and multi-national companies for over 38 years.... [read more]
Posted by Pierre Erol GIRAUDY on March 7, 2010
Published: March 06, 2010 18:03 PM by Bill English Powered by: Mindsharp and Summit 7 Basic Statistics 186 individuals completed the survey. There were no duplicate or secondary responses from the same organization, so our research represents responses from 186 different or... [read more]
Posted by Andrew Connell on March 7, 2010
Arpan Shah of Microsoft announced last Friday that they SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will RTM next month, in April 2010. This marks a big milestone… after a year of SharePoint and Office being in beta and available to many internal testers under the TAP program and a public beta late last year... [read more]
Posted by Rick Whitworth on March 7, 2010
Useful SCOM Queries I’m essentially mirroring this from the original one on my blog, but since I’ve decided to transition to a tech blog and a non-tech blog, it seems like a good idea. I’ve taken the listing of SQL queries from Kevin Holman’s original post, cleaned them up a bit, an... [read more]
Posted by Rick Whitworth on March 7, 2010
Planning to move SCOM database to new server, here are the notes. Updated: May 22, 2009 Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 SP1 After the initial deployment of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, you might need to move the Operations Manager data... [read more]
Posted by Offline SharePoint on March 7, 2010
As some of you may know, the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics were in our backyard during the last half of February. It was a great party and now we are experiencing Post-Olympics depression. So let’s brighten things up a bit. At Colligo, we had the pleasure to host some of the great peop... [read more]
Posted by Jeremy Thake on March 6, 2010
As announced by @ArpanShah via twitter yesterday SharePoint 2010 will be available in RTM "in April" (no date yet) and the launch will be the 12th of May. I'm assuming this means that customers will be able to start using SharePoint 2010 in production sometime in April, but I suspect n... [read more]
Posted by Jeremy Thake on March 6, 2010
I have commented on the SharePoint 2007 examples a few times in the past : The 12 factors to turn ASP.NET developers to SharePoint 2010 Microsoft Infrastructure Administrators need to face the facts…SharePoint is here to stay! The SharePoint Implementation Market needs to grow up!<... [read more]
Posted by Maurice Prather on March 6, 2010
The other day I ran across a little problem that was somewhat hard to track down. Here's the core scenario - web app set to use SSL with various calendar lists sync'd to Outlook. Everything was working as expected. Then suddenly it all stopped working. Outlook would rep... [read more]
Posted by Offline SharePoint on March 5, 2010
Awhile back I posted about a webinar I was doing with Tricia Bush of Microsoft entitled ”Is SharePoint 2010 Ready for Enterprise Content Management?” We presented it on Tuesday. It went very well with over 2,500 registrants. The webinar is available for instant replay here. In additi... [read more]
Posted by Microsoft SharePoint Team on March 5, 2010
Today, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010. It’s an exciting time for us! We hope you can virtually join us on May 12th at 11am EST to l... [read more]
Posted by SharePoint Team on March 5, 2010
Today, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010. It’s an exciting time for us! We hope you can virtually join us on May 12th at 11am EST to listen to Steph... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 5, 2010
You already knew this, but strong user preferences for SharePoint sites translate into value in many ways.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 5, 2010
Our keynote is being given by Rob Collie. He is a Microsoft Program Manager for PowerPivot. He also happens to live in Cleveland. Mark, this guy created PowerPivot! We are indeed lucky.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 5, 2010
The value of SharePoint is often best broken down and contextualized by organization, division and department.... [read more]
Posted by Rick Whitworth on March 5, 2010
Here Kevin discusses how to tune the settings for disk fragmentation that ship with the Base OS Management Pack. New Base OS MP 6.0.6667.0 adds file fragmentation monitor to all Logical Disks I recently blogged about the new Base OS MP that was recently released: HERE One of the t... [read more]
Posted by Rick Whitworth on March 5, 2010
Designing a custom performance report On February 27th 2009 I presented a TechNet Webcast to show how to author your own custom performance reports using Operations Manager 2007. The webcast can be viewed from https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032399073... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 5, 2010
Dux Raymond Sy, author of SharePoint for Project Management, is giving a free webcast next week on “Best Practices in SharePoint User Management“.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 5, 2010
I got a question in from Keith this afternoon and it kind of threw me. Here's the question and I'll follow with my response:... [read more]
Posted by Microsoft SharePoint End-User Content Team on March 4, 2010
Abstract: If you caught our earlier post SharePoint goes to the Opera, then you might be aware that the Office Intervention team has been working with Seattle Opera on their deployment and roll-out of SharePoint Server 2007. If you enjoyed the first video we shared in that ... [read more]
Posted by Andrew Connell on March 4, 2010
MSDN has been hosting chats on various topics such as Windows CE, SQL Server, Office development, .NET Development… you name it. In just over a week’s time they will be hosting another on SharePoint… co-hosted by myself and fellow SharePoint MVP Rob Foster (who’s also a co-host of the ShareP... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 4, 2010
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 4, 2010
There may be a couple of ways to accomplish what you need in your scenario, but the “List Relationships” is not one of them, unfortunately.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 4, 2010
We have taken the ideas behind those solutions and created an EUSP Live Online Workshop Series: jQuery Starter Kit for SharePoint.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 4, 2010
I don’t think I’ve worked with any client that was happy with the SharePoint look out of the box, generally that means a “make it look not like SharePoint”... [read more]
Posted by Microsoft SharePoint End-User Content Team on March 3, 2010
Abstract: Managing SharePoint Designer controlling how its used in your organization. Category: SharePoint 2010 Published: 3/9/2010 7:33 AM # Comments: 0... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 3, 2010
We needed a SharePoint Dashboard that the end user could select filter criteria once and it would be pushed to all pivot tables on multiple sheets within one workbook... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 3, 2010
I gave a presentation to the New York Smalltalk User Group at which... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 3, 2010
This workshop, Default Workflows in SharePoint 2007, gives you hands-on experience in creating Three-State Workflows and managing Approval/Feedback workflows in SharePoint 2007.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 2, 2010
About this time last year I receive a request form the Usability Study Group at Microsoft to help find people to be part of their usability study. Looks like it’s that time of year again.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 2, 2010
I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).... [read more]
Posted by Jeremy Thake on March 2, 2010
Arno Nell (@arnonel) has been working hard for over 18 months to come up with SPoint.me which is a new social networking site just for the SharePoint community. He announced it here on SharePointMagazine.net which he also founded. Yes, the community already has: EndUserSharePoint.com for end use... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 2, 2010
What am I providing in my SharePoint site that will be so enticing, so useful, so exciting, that my potential audience HAS to use my site or they feel they are missing something. What is the incentive for them to use SharePoint?... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 2, 2010
The most popular type of site template used in most SharePoint 2007 deployments is the Team Site template.... [read more]
Posted by SharePoint Magazine on March 2, 2010
It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to SPoint.me . SPoint is aiming to become the premier Social Network for people in the SharePoint Industry. Its a little bit of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and Wordpress, all rolled into one.... [read more]
Posted by EndUserSharePoint.com on March 1, 2010
On Tuesday, March 2 at 1:00pm, I am delivering a three session series of EUSP Live Online Workshops, Just for SharePoint Site Managers.... [read more]
Posted by Joel Oleson on March 1, 2010
In a recent discussion over email, Alexander Kirillov, Sean Livingston and myself had a great discussion about SharePoint 2010 Site Definition Upgrade Strategies and trying to understand the nuts and bolts. I was impressed with the dialogue and wanted to share what I could. Note: I’m sharing thi... [read more]
Posted by Microsoft SharePoint Team on March 1, 2010
In our last blog of this series Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010 Beta, we introduced how to create a simple “Hello world” external list in SharePoint 2010 Beta using Business Data Connectivity Designer in Visual Studio 2010 Beta. In this blog, we... [read more]
Posted by Master-SharePoint.com on March 1, 2010
SharePoint InfoPath Forms InfoPath forms can be a powerful tool for collecting organising, processing and submitting data of various types. Data Connections allow an infoPath Form to pull data from multiple data sources, including sharePoint. SharePoint InfoPath Forms can provide a rich interfac... [read more]
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