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Sat, Jul 4th     29 Reporting Services Integration in SharePoint 4 of 6 Mike Herrity . ReTweet . Clicks 29 Moving into Middle Leader and Class teacher analysis, yesterday we were looking at the department table which is pulled through Reporting Services into SharePoint. This is shown below and enables the Head of Department and Line Manager to examine differences in outcomes between individual classes. At this stage the Head of Department may want to drill into an individual class to look at the reasons for particularly strong or weak outcomes. They can do this simply by clicking on the class code o [read]. Posted: about 5 hours ago.     Fri, Jul 3rd     19 Experimenting with PowerShell Jose Barreto . ReTweet . Clicks 19 Powershell is a command line interface for Windows that offers a very powerful and flexible mode.In this post, I show some sample command that can help you understand some of the basic features and also some more complex ones. If you never played with it before, try running some commands in a PowerShell prompt. Shows a list of commands: Get-Command Shows the help overview: Get-Help Show the help for “Dir”: Get-Help Dir Let's use the Dir command now (actually an alias for Get-ChildItem) [read]. Posted: about 13 hours ago. 13 How to stop hotlinkers (and other amazing tricks) Todd Klindt . ReTweet . Clicks 13 Body: Last year I did a blog post on how I use Log Parser to peruse the IIS logs from this site to see how many people come here, what they look at, where they come from, etc. Those of you that have seen me at conferences or talked to me in person have no doubt heard the hilarious byproduct of that. Seems a few images on my web site are very popular with the kids at MySpace. They really like that yellow bird image as their background. While I'm flattered by the attention, honest I am, they seem [read]. Posted: about 14 hours ago. 27 Microsoft Virtual labs - getting the lab notes directly Serge van den Oever . ReTweet . Clicks 27 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 26 . Technorati Rank: 193,206 Microsoft has great virtual labs available, but it takes some time to get in there. If you just want the lab notes, type the following in Google: site:download.microsoftvirtuallabs.com filetype:pdf or just follow this link. [read]. Posted: about 18 hours ago. 18 Portuguese Sharepoint Community is also on LinkedIn Ricardo Magalh . ReTweet . Clicks 18 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 91 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 The Portuguese Sharepoint Community is also present in LinkedIn, you can find it in the following address: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=996587&trk=hb_side_g The objective is to have an interactive  group were the Portuguese developers can work as a community. [read]. Posted: about 23 hours ago. 20 Notes from the New Zealand SharePoint Community Conference Paul Culmsee . ReTweet . Clicks 20 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 30 . Technorati Rank: 208,190 Ah, lots of beers, staying out till 3am, taking an aspirin at 7am, breaking my 3 week coffee embargo.. Oh yeah – and there is this SharePoint conference on as well! In case you have been living under a rock, a bunch of us have been at the New Zealand SharePoint Community Conference for the last two days. This has been a fantastic experience for me for several reasons I come from Perth, an isolated city of around 1.8 million people. New Zealand cities are a bit smaller than this, but never [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 31 Re-using SharePoint controls Robin Meure . ReTweet . Clicks 31 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 79 . Technorati Rank: 603,937 This post is going to be a summary of some of some the SharePoint controls I regularly use in my solutions. Cool thing about re-using the controls that are already out there is, that saves time in re-inventing the wheel and you don’t have to worry about keeping the look&feel consistent ;) First, check out the following blog posts for more information on re-using the out-of-the-box controls of SharePoint Basically every page in the SharePoint controls section by Karine Bosch (really, reall [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 23 Andrew Connell, Indianapolis, August 26th: Building High Performance Features and Solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Robert Bogue . ReTweet . Clicks 23 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 27 . Technorati Rank: 200,447 I'm happy to announce that Andrew Connell of Critical Path Training has agreed to come to Indianapolis on August 26th (2009) to deliver his "world famous" session "Building High Performance Features and Solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" to the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN). If you've ever seen Andrew speak at a conference (Microsoft TechEd, SharePoint Connections, etc.) you know this will be a great presentation filled with tons of real world advice from the work A [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 24 I&rsquo;ll be presenting at the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas, NV (October 19-22, 2009) Andrew Connell . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 3 . Technorati Rank: 37,941 Looking for details on SharePoint 2010? The Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay October 19-22, 209 is THE place to be! I’ll be there in attendance, having a booth for my company Critical Path Training and also presenting! For now they haven’t announced the session lineup so I’m not sure about breakout sessions, but I am doing a post-conference all-day workshop with Ted Pattison. Space is very limited, so make sure you register today! This session is a dee [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 30 WSSDemo.com in need of a facelift and SharePoint Gives Back Ian Morish . ReTweet . Clicks 30 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 113 . Technorati Rank: 1,157,363 WSSDemo first went live on a beta of WSS 3.0 on 20/05/2006 (based on this resource entry ) and has pretty much looked the same for the last 3 years. The only thing that has really changed is the amount of content on the site. One area in particular that has grown is the list of public web sites that are built on the Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform. This list has grown to over 640 sites and I have included a highlight of 100 sites that I thought were the top ones that people might want to [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 22 SharepointGovernance.org Ricardo Magalh . ReTweet . Clicks 22 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 91 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 There is a new community web space called SharepointGovernance, the objective is for the community to share the good and the bad experiences and to access some of the Sharepoint Gurus. The focus is Governance and good practices! You can access this new site here. [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 31 SharePoint 2007 : patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance Philippe Sentenac . ReTweet . Clicks 31 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 50 . Technorati Rank: 325,375 je vous avais déjà parlé de ce projet Codeplex mené par l’équipe de P&P sur un guide des bonnes pratiques de développement dans des posts précédents. Nous en sommes au 12eme drop (Un drop par semaine) pour la version V2 et la documentation commenc... [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 28 Reporting Services Integration in SharePoint 3 of 6 Mike Herrity . ReTweet . Clicks 28 So far in this series we have being looking at the use of Reporting Services integrated into SharePoint for use by Senior Leaders to examine the performance at whole school and department level. Yesterday we looked at the All Subject analysis we do at Twynham School which is shown in the table below. All Subject analysis in reporting services From here the tool we have produced is particularly useful for looking at differences in performance between classes. This is where the Subject Leader sho [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 7 Consultants Digest auf dem .Net Forum gelistet Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 7 Nachdem mein Blog in der SharePoint Community gelistet ist (vgl. hier) habe ich heute Morgen festgestellt, dass er auch im .net Forum unter den dortigen Blogs aufgenommen worden ist. Ich hatte zu dem Thema vor zwei Monaten mal Kontakt zu Jan Welker, hatte das aber schon wieder völlig vergessen. Ich freue mich, dass das Interesse an meinen Artikeln da ist.     [read]. Posted: 1 day ago.     Thu, Jul 2nd     29 Finally joined Twitter Paul Papanek Stork . ReTweet . Clicks 29 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 89 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 Many people know that I've avoided joining Twitter for a long time.  But I finally got an offer I couldn't refuse.  I'm here at the New Zealand Community SharePoint conference and was on an expert's panel earlier today with Paul Culmsee, Chandima Kulathilake, Joel Oleson, and Steve Smith.  Before the questioning started Joel was giving me a hard time because I was the only panelist not on Twitter.  Then he gave me a choice.  Either join Twitter or join him in eating some Kina (Sea Urchin - [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 44 SharePoint vs. Google Search Appliance Relevancy Adam Morgan . ReTweet . Clicks 44 Body: I am continually amazed at the utter lack of humility at Google even in the face of arguably improved competition in the internet search space with Bing. Maybe people who live in glass houses...   Either way, the comments made by Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager for Google enterprise search, at the Enterprise Search Summit seem to show a lack of awareness for exactly how well the Google Search Appliance relevancy stacks up against SharePoint.   In the last three years as Ente [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 30 I've finally joined Twitter Paul Papanek Stork . ReTweet . Clicks 30 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 89 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 Many people know that I've avoided joining Twitter for a long time.  But I finally got an offer I couldn't refuse.  I'm here at the New Zealand Community SharePoint conference and was on an expert's panel earlier today with Paul Culmsee, Chandima Kulathilake, Joel Oleson, and Steve Smith.  Before the questioning started Joel was giving me a hard time because I was the only panelist not on Twitter.  Then he gave me a choice.  Either join Twitter or join him in eating some Kina (Sea Urchin - [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 25 Fill out a survey, win a chance for a SharePoint Conference 2009 pass Bill Simser . ReTweet . Clicks 25 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 15 . Technorati Rank: 119,564 Yeah, title says all. Mindsharp, Nintex, and Combined Knowledge are sponsoring a Global SharePoint Survey. This is an independent survey that you can fill out to let them know about your experience with adoption and usage of SharePoint from your perspective. The survey is quick (only 15 questions) and most questions are multiple choice. You could probably let your cat or two year old fill it out (I did) but also consider taking a few minutes to put some thought behind it (unlike what I did). In [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 21 What’s the plan….? Kris Wagner . ReTweet . Clicks 21 Body: I stumbled on this link today and thought it was funny… Take a look at the spelling of Windows Vista SP1 in the screen shot below, notice it's Wndows and not Windows. The first thought that might have entered your might have been "Vista was a mistake" (shhhh Windows 7 is almost here). Honestly, the first thoughts I had were: I'm dyslexic – How did I see that? Change control – How did that get published, where is the change control? Governance – I wonder what the plan of attack [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 24 SharePoint Conference NZ Joel Oleson . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 4 . Technorati Rank: 38,410 Body: Well done Chandima, Debbie Ireland, and Mark Orange.  I am so pleased with the fantastic and up beat crowd here in Wellington.  It’s very refreshing.  The energy around SharePoint world wide is so up beat. We opened up the conference with those 3 as MCs and doing the chand and mark show.  Most conferences of this size are run by events companies.  This one is run by SharePoint geeks, it’s a rich social experience. Above, @chandimak, Mark Orange, Debbie Ireland – All SharePoint [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 25 The secret to understanding governance Paul Culmsee . ReTweet . Clicks 25 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 30 . Technorati Rank: 208,190 I’m very tempted to start this post like a dodgy wealth-guru infomercial. You know the ones – with lots of imagery of people living the dream of financial freedom. I am thinking a montage of a resort, a large boat anchored in a topical bay, carving up the water with a jet-ski and then a shot of me standing next to my Ferrari, champagne in hand, with Megan Fox on my arm. My message would be that for a “small” fee of $10000, you too could learn the secrets to your financial freedom in an i [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 25 How to get a Yamaha WaveRunner with a new battery to start Greg Hughes . ReTweet . Clicks 25 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 49 . Technorati Rank: 309,064 I’m going to file this one here for my own use, and hopefully someone else will benefit in the process. I bought two new batteries for my late-90’s Yamaha WaveRunners because the old ones were dead. I got the batteries all prepped, charged them per the instructions, and went to install them in the watercraft. I hooked them up and tried to get the Wave Runners to start, but both were dead as a doornail. I checked fuses and electrical connections and all was good. Hmmm. But somethin [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 24 I&rsquo;ll be presenting at the Jacksonville Code Camp in Jacksonville, FL (August 29th, 2009) Andrew Connell . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 3 . Technorati Rank: 37,941 I mentioned there was an open call for speakers the other day… looks like my session was picked! Hope to see you there! High Performance Solutions on SharePoint Server 2007 Performance should be one of the top areas of focus on everyone's mind when embarking on a Internet facing SharePoint Server 2007 site. In this session we'll look at the built-in caching capabilities. Topics include object model techniques, how to properly manage memory in order to avoid the dreaded OutOfMemory exception, [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 27 DisableLoopbackCheck &amp; SharePoint: What every admin and developer should know. Spencer Harbar . ReTweet . Clicks 27 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 9 . Technorati Rank: 77,855 Earlier today a Twitter conversation amongst some SharePoint people including my good buddies Todd Klindt and Rick Taylor took place on the subject of the infamous “loopback fix”. I promised to do a follow up post here to clear up some misconceptions about this subject with respect to SharePoint. What is the issue? Windows Server 2003 SP1 introduced a loopback security check. This feature is obviously also present in Windows Server 2008. The feature prevents access to a web application usin [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 24 Hyper V – Failed to Start New Image Kris Wagner . ReTweet . Clicks 24 Body: Let's say someone dropped this new application in your lap called Hyper-V (which rocks by the way). They give you an already built, base image that's in the form of a .vhd file; this will be used when building new images for your virtual environment. When using the "New Virtual Machine Wizard" to build a new server off that base image.vhd file you may see the following error message when it starts if the read-only attribute on the file is set. "The server encountered an error while starti [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 5 Employee Training template, official release! Eric Alexander . ReTweet . Clicks 5 After developing this custom template for an internal project, I knew I would have to do some work to be able to recreate and reuse this internally. After a couple weeks of tinkering, deploying and troubleshooting, I have what I believe to be an easily deployable template to manage internal registrations for employee training. After about 10 to 15 minutes of simple configurations, you can have this up and running in your environment. All that is needed is Sharepoint Designer access and server ac [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 26 Why NOW is the Best Time to Get Started Developing SharePoint Designer Workflows Sharepoint Solutions . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 35 . Technorati Rank: 244,825 Regardless of the size of your organization, you are certainly looking for ways to save money in these difficult and uncertain economic times. That’s one of the reasons SharePoint has remained extremely popular during our present economic downturn—companies are only investing in those areas they know will provide huge returns quickly. One of the areas where SharePoint, even the free WSS (Windows SharePoint Services), can quickly provide very high returns for your company is in the area of n [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 26 My friend Matt is spreading his wings! Cornelius van Dyk . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 139 . Technorati Rank: 4,788,960 Body: I'd like to take a moment to congratulate my friend Matt Goebel on spreading his wings and venturing into the world of independent contracting!  Way to go!!! :-)   Later C Published: 7/2/2009 9:59 AM [read]. Posted: 1 day ago. 24 Add “Click to Call” to SharePoint People Search Matthew McDermott . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 93 . Technorati Rank: 770,942 At Catapult we recently implemented Unified Communications all the way to our phones. People Search There are two web parts that display the people results, “Search High Confidence Results” and “People Search Core Results”. Both need to be edited but the changes are the same. Begin by placing the page in edit mode. Site Actions | Edit Page. Once in edit mode choose the Edit menu on the People Search Core Results web part and choose Edit Shared Web Part. Click the XSL Editor button a [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 11 Reporting Services Integration in SharePoint 2 of 6 Mike Herrity . ReTweet . Clicks 11 Yesterday we looked at accessing data directly from within SharePoint using the very powerful tool Reporting Services. At the top of the pyramid of data we had senior leaders (and indeed all members of staff) being able to quickly pull up Headline data shown in the table below. The next stage for senior or middle leaders when results are in is to look at department level data to see how each department has performed. In the table above the top right corner contains the word GCSE. By clicking o [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 25 The ten commandments for SharePoint development by Joris Poelman Ricardo Magalh . ReTweet . Clicks 25 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 91 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 From JOPX (Joris Poelman) blog theten commandments for a Sharepoint development. They are so true . . . JOPX essentially states some of the choices one have to make starting a Sharepoint development project. You can find these commandments here. [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 21 Explorer View in IE8 not working !!! Ricardo Magalh . ReTweet . Clicks 21 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 91 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 Yes, it is true, in my Windows XP with IE8 I simply cannot work with the Explorer View in a document library, the message is : “Please wait while Explorer View is loaded. If Explorer View does not appear, your browser may not support it.“. It seems this is a known issue and it only happens in certain environments. [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 12 Performance – various methods to retreive one list item Ricardo Magalh . ReTweet . Clicks 12 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 91 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 A few months ago we had a workshop on MOSS from our ADC, and one of the topics he talked about was the performance in retrieving list items. This is so important for the performance of a website, so when I found the post from Waldek Mastykarz on the same subject I just had to highlight it. Just a quick peek, the methods tested were: SPQuery on the list instance GetItemById(int) method SPSiteDataQuery on the parent Web SPSiteDataQuery on the parent Web passing the List ID (using the SPSiteDataQu [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 13 Chris O’Brien’s Check List for Optimizing Sharepoint Sites Ricardo Magalh . ReTweet . Clicks 13 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 91 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 Chris O’Brienhas posted a very interesting article in his blog on optimizing a Sharepoint Site. One of the downs in Sharepoint sometimes has been performance. For the developer sometimes is frustrating after building performant code to have a slow Sharepoint site, this can happen due to the amount of JS and CSS that are used out of the box by Sharepoint. Is it possible to overcome this? Yes ti is . . . so a good start is Chris post. You can find this post here. [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 22 Bitte mitmachen Umfrage Global SharePoint Survey Michael Greth . ReTweet . Clicks 22 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 52 . Technorati Rank: 364,348 Mindsharp, Nintex und Combined Knowledge haben eine Umfrage zu SharePoint www.sharepointsurvey.com online gestellt mit der Informationen über den Einsatz von SharePoint in Unternehmen ermittelt werden soll. Unter allen Teilnehmern an der Umfrage (15 Fragen in ca. 5 Minuten) wird ein Ticket zur SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas verlost. Also bitte mitmachen. The Global SharePoint Survey is aimed at understanding the adoption and usage of Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technolo [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 18 patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Drop 12 Ricardo Magalh . ReTweet . Clicks 18 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 91 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 Well it is never to much to remember that the Sharepoint Guidance is being updated, so be sure to check the updates on the Codeplex. [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 2 Video: BackSeat Driving With Michael – Apple iPhone Mike Gannotti . ReTweet . Clicks 2 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 21 . Technorati Rank: 162,924 Body: As the proud owner of a Samsung Omnia I absolutely LOVE my Windows Mobile device. Loaded up with the SPB 3.0 user interface it is a slick device and has all the features and applications I need and want for my daily work/socialmedia life. However, many of you out there have your own love affairs with different mobile devices and platforms and have let me know. Well I am glad to welcome today’s BackSeat Driving guest and there phone/mobile platform, the Apple iPhone. The iPhone is a ver [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 21 Sprecher auf der ShareConnect 2009 Michael Greth . ReTweet . Clicks 21 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 52 . Technorati Rank: 364,348 Vom 21. bis 25. September 2009 findet in Mainz die ShareConnect 09 statt, auf der ich als Sprecher mit dabei sein werde. Ich habe zwei Vorträge vorbereitet: SharePoint und Enterprise 2.0 SharePoint stellt viele Grundfunktionen für Enterprise-2.0-Anwendungen zur Verfügung: Blogs, Wikis, MySites und RSS-Feeds, um nur einige zu nennen. In diesem Vortrag zeigen wir, wie Enterprise-2.0-Anwendungen mithilfe von SharePoint und verschiedenen Tools erstellt werden können und stellen das Podcastin [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 80 SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery Jan Tielen . ReTweet . Clicks 80 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 8 . Technorati Rank: 66,510 Already since a long time I’ve been thinking about a web part that would search-as-you-type using SharePoint’s search engine. The idea behind this concept is that while you’re typing a query in the search box, asynchronously the query is already executed and the results are being displayed. Every time the query is changed, the results will be updated dynamically. This will allow users to see the results without going to the Search Results page, and even more: they don’t have to go back t [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 35 Demo site for NZ Community SharePoint Conference Ian Morish . ReTweet . Clicks 35 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 113 . Technorati Rank: 1,157,363 This is the demo site I built during my presentation on the Data View aka Data Form web part presentation at the New Zealand Community SharePoint Conference today. The PowerPoint deck is also on this site. http://templates.wssdemo.com/sites/community/ Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback and the problem with one of the web parts in my demo was that I had select the wrong parameter value in the connection. That's what happens when you try and cram a 75 minute session into 45 minutes... [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 24 Demo site for NZ Community SharePoint Conference Ian Morish . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 113 . Technorati Rank: 1,157,363 This is the demo site I built during my presentation on the Data View aka Data Form web part presentation at the New Zealand Community SharePoint Conference today. The PowerPoint deck is also on this site. Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback and the problem with one of the web parts in my demo was that I had select the wrong parameter value in the connection. That's what happens when you try and cram a 75 minute session into 45 minutes... [read]. Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09     Wed, Jul 1st     13 Nintex Workflow 2007 Vortrag bei Microsoft in Wien Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 13 Im Rahmen des immer größer werdenden Interesses an Nintex Workflow 2007 und des damit verbundenen Know Hows hat es sich Anfang des Jahres ergeben, dass ich als Redner zu einer Veranstaltung rund um das Thema Workflows im Kontext von SharePoint mit dem Titel “Professionelle “low cost” Workflow-Lösungen mit Microsoft SharePoint, K2 [blackpoint] und NINTEX” in der Microsoft Niederlassung in Wien eingeladen worden bin. Nachdem nun der Termin (09.09.2009), die Örtlichkeit [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 13 Spirit Link veröffentlicht Artikel über “Human Centric Workflow” im DOT Net Magazin Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 13 Mein Kollege Marek Czarzbon hat einen wirklich guten Artikel zum Thema Human Centric Workflows im Dot Net Magazin veröffentlicht, welcher auch auf dem Titel des Magazins angekündigt wird. Der Artikel umfasst alle wichtigen Aspekte der Workflow Thematik mit SharePoint, wie Performance, Berechtigungen und Design Patterns. Urteil: Sehr lesenswert…. [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 12 Next Stop: 2.500 Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 12 After my last Blog Post about my Blog stats there was an interesting increase of Blog hits. I think this is because of my listing on the SharePoint Community. The last month was the one with the most hits ever. My next goal istthe 2.500 Hits /per Month… [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 25 I&rsquo;ll be presenting at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009 in Phoenix, AZ (9/14-17/2009) Andrew Connell . ReTweet . Clicks 25 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 3 . Technorati Rank: 37,941 What’s a SharePoint person doing at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009? As you may know, the two products, Office Project Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 have plenty of integration points and overlap between the two. Now, developers heading to the Project Conference 2009 in sunny Phoenix, Arizona September 14-17, 2009 can not get a SharePoint development primer as I’m presenting the only SharePoint development session there: Introduction to SharePoint for Developers Project [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 15 Session auf der ShareConnect 2009 Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 15 Spirit Link Technology wird in meiner Person als Sprecher auf der ShareConnect 2009 vom 21. bis zum 24. September in Mainz vertreten sein. Die ShareConnect 2009 findet im Rahmen der BASTA! statt und gibt dem Thema SharePoint, welches im letzten Jahr durch die SharePoint Special Days adressierten wurde eine eigene Bühne. Thematisch ist die Veranstaltung in vier Tracks gegliedert: Development, Administration, Management sowie Solutions & Key Studies. Als Folge daraus sind für verschiedene Zi [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 19 Retrieve XML from List and View Liam Cleary . ReTweet . Clicks 19 Recently I was asked if there was a way to retrieve and present XML from a list. This of course is very straight forward but the complication here was that it needed to be available to an anonymous user who would consume the XML stream. After a little thought I decided that we could use the "owssvr.dll" method. For those that have not used this before it is very simple. You make a call to the following URL: http://{siteurl}/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll Pass it a few parameters and then an XML stream i [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 17 Reporting Services integration in SharePoint 1 of 6 Mike Herrity . ReTweet . Clicks 17 One of the tools I have most wanted to talk about over the last few months but haven’t got to is Reporting Services. This is an astonishingly powerful tool for sharing and communicating key data in a school. At Twynham we have been using Reporting Services 2005 for 3 years to provide a rich stream of data which enables both teaching staff and middle and senior leaders to ensure our students are on track to fulfill their potential and make maximum progress. Since last summer we have taken [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 14 Gone fishing… End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 14 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 The family and I are headed for some down time in Black Mountain, N.C., so the site’s going to be a little slow with new content for the next week. No worries… we’ll be back at it again next Monday, July 6, with a fresh batch of ideas, articles and screencasts. Please have a safe and fun filled 4th of July. Regards, Mark [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 22 SDN Session Recap: SharePoint Architecture, Myths &amp; Kerberos Spencer Harbar . ReTweet . Clicks 22 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 9 . Technorati Rank: 77,855 I greatly enjoyed my recent trip to Houten, Netherlands to present at the SDN event. Many thanks to the SDN crowd and those that attended my sessions and of course the SharePint event afterwards. It was a very impressive event in terms of organisation and the other great speakers and content. Here are the slide decks from my three sessions as promised. Mythbusters: debunking common SharePoint Farm Misconceptions. Kerberos Part 1: No ticket touting here, does SharePoint add another head. Kerbero [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 24 Managing the Costs of SharePoint Governance Axceler Blog . ReTweet . Clicks 24 Just read a recent article on CIO.com that focuses on determining the "true costs" of Microsoft SharePoint. We've been saying all along that the ongoing resources and costs to manage SharePoint must be considered in any ROI or Total Cost of Ownership calculation. From the article:"Unexpected Costs It's the unexpected costs-the costs that IT leaders don't think to include into their business cases for SharePoint-that eat into their ROI. To get the biggest bang for your SharePoint buck, factor th [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 17 SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part Two Eric Shupps . ReTweet . Clicks 17 Body: Since I released Part One of this series into the wild there have been many heated discussions around SharePoint and Test Driven Development. As always, Andrew Woodward has a great deal to say on the subject; in fact, we recorded a SharePoint Podshow on this very subject at the European Best Practices conference (and traded a few well-meaning jabs during his presentation). During the discussion we came to the conclusion that there are some fundamental software development processes lacking [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 19 Renewed as an MVP! Paul Papanek Stork . ReTweet . Clicks 19 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 89 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 I'm in New Zealand this week speaking at the first New Zealand SharePoint Community Conference.   Since they are on the other side of the international date line it means that yesterday was July 1st here, but I had to wait until July 2nd (July 1st in North America) to find out whether I was re-awarded or not.  I was on pins and needles all day long waiting for my renewal email.  I had to keep telling myself it wasn't really July 1st yet. Anyway, the good news is that I have received an MVP [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 19 New Video Up Todd Klindt . ReTweet . Clicks 19 Body: While I was out at SPTechCon Laura Rogers and Mark Miller of EndUserSharePoint did a quick interview of me. They were really bored that day. It's a pretty short watch, about 6:30. MP3 version WMV version iPod version I also got the word today that I was reawarded the MVP award from Microsoft. It's been a great ride and I'm very grateful to have been given the opportunities I've been given. Congratulations to all the other MVPs that have gotten the nod today. tk Published: 7/1/2009 2:1 [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 33 What version of SharePoint am I running?? Susan Henry . ReTweet . Clicks 33 Body: On twitter the other day someone asked how they would go about finding out the version of SharePoint they are working with. A flood of responses came in because there are several ways to do this, it just depends on what level of access you have for the site, server, etc. Here’s an easy way to tell the version as long as you have access to the settings.aspx page. You can go to Site Settings and see the Version listed there under the Site Information heading at the top, like so… This [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 0 Using Information Rights Management and Workflows Eric Alexander . ReTweet . Clicks 0 My new article posted on EUSP about how to use the Information Management policy to use a workflow in managing a contract list. Enjoy! [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 18 Item Expiration End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 18 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 Guest Author: Eric Alexander, Moderator, Stump the Panel This article comes about from a question from illegal operation in Stump the Panel.  He writes: I’ve been expermenting with workflows, and have one almost working the way I want. Basically what I want to do is this. The list in question has these fields. Staff Contact Renewal Date The worksflow starts when the item is created, then pauses until the renewal date. On the renewal date, it sends out an email to the staff contact remind [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 26 SharePoint Files that should get backed up, but often don’t Phil Wicklund . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 110 . Technorati Rank: 1,120,441 So today I ran into a disaster scenario at a client where we needed to restore a SharePoint backup because the SQL instance got hosed. Turns out all the SQL database logins were deleted by accident and nobody could connect or login to the database server. What we needed to do was create a new instance of SQL on the same server and move the SharePoint databases from the old, non functional instance, onto the new one, and thereafter restore the farm backup.  This post is pretty good at describin [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 21 SharePoint Saturday NYC Announced Axceler Blog . ReTweet . Clicks 21 Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘SharePoint Saturday', on Saturday, September 12th, 2009. SharePoint Saturday will be an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 17 MVP Renewed for Office SharePoint Server Again! Reza Alirezaei . ReTweet . Clicks 17 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 51 . Technorati Rank: 343,793 Got the mail today with the great news that I got awarded for the forth time with the MVP Award. Looks like that my community works during 2008 were enough for Microsoft to renew my MVP status. This is just a awesome way to start my Canada day! Thread spMvp = new Thread(2009); spMvp.Start(); [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 21 Check Out These SharePoint Designer Workflow Essentials Videos! Sharepoint Solutions . ReTweet . Clicks 21 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 35 . Technorati Rank: 244,825 I recently recorded a bunch of videos that demonstrate how each of the activities in our Workflow Essentials product work. If you aren’t already familiar with Workflow Essentials, it adds more than two dozen activities and conditions to your SharePoint Designer workflows so you can can do so much more with them. Most of these videos are only 2-3 minutes long. But these activities are so easy to use that even in just a couple minutes you’ll get to see how to add them to your workflow project, [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 16 Make your SharePoint pages pop with the Content Editor Web Part Get the Point . ReTweet . Clicks 16 Abstract: The Content Editor Web Part allows you to add HTML, formatted text, tables, and images to a page to help clarify, explain, or add emphasis to whatever you’re trying to communicate on a SharePoint page. Category: Web Parts;Design Published: 7/1/2009 8:24 AM # Comments: 0 [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 86 SharePoint Worst Practices: 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid Dux Raymond . ReTweet . Clicks 86 In my post "Mr. Miyagi is Not a Direct Descendant of Superman" I mentioned that along with my colleague Mike Taylor, we presented: "SharePoint Worst Practices: Five Common Mistakes to Avoid" at the recently concluded SharePoint Technology Conference in Cambridge, MA.   We explo... (More) [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 13 NZSPC Update : Michael Sampson’s SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration Chandima Kulathilake . ReTweet . Clicks 13 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 75 . Technorati Rank: 510,341 Body: Michael Sampson will be giving a special offer to attendees of the New Zealand SharePoint Conference to get a copy of his latest book “SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration”. If you are an attendee at NZSPC visit the Knowledge Cue booth for your signed copy of his new book for only NZ$ 20. Please note Michael will only have 50 copies available at the conference. Follow the event on twitter at NZ SharePoint and also on the Facebook events page and on Flickr (NZSPC)! Technorati Tags: N [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 18 Silverlight Polling Duplex Channel is NOT a Scalable Solution Kevin Hoffman . ReTweet . Clicks 18 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 71 . Technorati Rank: 510,341 I've been seeing a lot of people hyping how awesome the Silverlight Polling Duplex Channel is and I just want to put a word of caution out there for developers of large-scale apps [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 16 SocialMedia Samurai Catch-Up, Gadget Guy Mike, Must Reads… Mike Gannotti . ReTweet . Clicks 16 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 21 . Technorati Rank: 162,924 Body: Morning everyone!! So what do you get when its the end of the fiscal year for your company, helping wife and daughter pack for a week out of town, and starting to set up a new site (http://gadgetguymike.com)? Mike not blogging here, that’s what.. Well Mrs. G and my daughter are out of town until Sunday night and I am done with work catch up so after today’s client onsite I can finally hunker down for some serious video catch up work here on SocialMedia Talk. I have a bunch of Ask the [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 24 Programmatically Create an InfoPath form with ASP.NET Mauro Cardarelli . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 64 . Technorati Rank: 440,533 I worked on a project a while back where I needed to develop a .NET based web application that collected data and submitted the results as an InfoPath form in a SharePoint form library. It had some very cool features (like binding dropdowns to SharePoint lists and hiding/showing administration fields based on SharePoint security... this allowed all adminstration to be done with the SharePoint UI). The coding was loosely based on this posting (http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/progra [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 21 Global SharePoint Survey – Win a Conference Pass to the SPC! Agnes Molnar . ReTweet . Clicks 21 The Global SharePoint Survey is just released! This survey is aimed at understanding the adoption and usage of Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technologies worldwide. The survey is open to both business and IT professional users of SharePoint...(read more) [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 34 The June cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday Stefan Gossner . ReTweet . Clicks 34 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 16 . Technorati Rank: 122,629 As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called April Cumulative Update. The so called "Uber" packages for MOSS will be released in a couple of days. Currently you can download the individual global and localized fixes for your specific language packs. This is the second Post-SP2 hotfix! That means it is highly recommended to install Ser [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 27 SharePoint event with Joel Oleson Sydney and Melbourne in AUS Kathy Hughes . ReTweet . Clicks 27 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 109 . Technorati Rank: 1,120,441 Quest are hosting a SharePoint event in both Sydney (7th July) and Melbourne (9th July).   I'll be doing a session on e-mail integration, management and storage in SharePoint - MOSS has mail! I'll be walking through the various options for routing e-mail to and sending e-mail from SharePoint, and pros and cons around using each one. As part of the overall equation, I'll be discussing the effectiveness of leveraging Exchange 2007 managed folders.   It's a free event. To register go to: ht [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 35 How to Upload Files to SharePoint Server 2007 from ASP.NET Web Applications Erika Ehrli . ReTweet . Clicks 35 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 83 . Technorati Rank: 664,578 var addthis_pub="erikaehrli"; Some time ago I blogged about How to: Uploading a File to a SharePoint Library Site from a Local Folder and How to: Magic with SharePoint 2003, uploading files using a Web service. Some people found these samples useful and some people asked if I could provide sample code that works with SharePoint Server 2007. For some time I asked around and realized that there are multiple possible ways to accomplish this task in SharePoint 2007. Here are some popular approa [read]. Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09     Tue, Jun 30th     36 I am now on Twitter (and more active on Facebook) Jose Barreto . ReTweet . Clicks 36 It started posting articles electronically back in the BBS days in the late 1980s.I create a web page with my own domain name in 1998 (back in Brazil with a ".br" domain name that I no longer own).I moved to a US domain when I moved to the United States in 2000 (it’s still there at http://www.barreto.us and it hasn't changed much in years).In July 2004 (around five years ago, almost to the day), I started blogging here at http://blogs.technet.com/josebda.It’s actually kind of fun to go back [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 22 Introducing the Content Monster Web Part by Todd Baginski &amp; Andrew Connell Andrew Connell . ReTweet . Clicks 22 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 3 . Technorati Rank: 37,941 At TechEd 2009 in LA a few weeks back, Todd Baginski and I co-presented a session OFC405 – Extending the Content Query Web Part to Aggregate Data Across Site Collections and External Sources where we introduced a solution that addresses a common challenge in today’s SharePoint sites: aggregating content ACROSS site collections. It took some time, but we finally got the code cleaned up and posted for you to download and kick the tires too. Now some will see this as a replacement to the Conten [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 26 Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 Owen Allen . ReTweet . Clicks 26 The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 is coming up quickly – July 13th – July 16th, in New Orleans! This is going to be a great event.  We are expecting more than 5,000 Partner Attendees!  What a great opportunity to hand out business cards and to talk about SharePoint!  Let me know if you are attending and would like to find a time to meet! REGISTER NOW Partner Registration Instructions:         Go to WPC event website / cli [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 26 What Students Are Saying About SharePoint Solutions’ Online Classes Sharepoint Solutions . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 35 . Technorati Rank: 244,825 Last week I taught our first live online class: Essentials of InfoPath and SharePoint Workflows. We had a fantastic group of students and I really enjoyed working with them. We’re offering this same class online again the week of July 27th and August 24th. Our online classes are taught by an expert SharePoint instructor with lots of knowledge and experience from the field. You’ll be able to interact with other students and do labs on your own just as if you were sitting in one of our classr [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 55 Free Web Part (limited time!) Lance Robinson . ReTweet . Clicks 55 RSSBus (@rssbus) is promoting a "limited time offer - one per company" free 10-user site license for the RSSBus SharePoint Web Part.  I don't know how long it will be available, but here is the link. The timing of this offer is quite nice for me since I have started the blog post series "10 DIY SharePoint Web Parts". Tags: SharePoint, RSSBus, WebPart [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 16 Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.2 available as a free download Jose Barreto . ReTweet . Clicks 16 Microsoft released the File Server Migration Toolkit version 1.2 (FSMT 1.2), which will help you migrate file shares from computers running Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Storage Server 2008 to computers running Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Storage Server 2008. You can use it to consolidate multiple file servers or simply to migrate files between servers. This is an update to the previous FSMT 1.1 that fixe [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 18 Setting up the Lenovo Telenor Broadband Connection on Windows 7 Mads Nissen . ReTweet . Clicks 18 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 85 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 I'm on Flesland right now and decided to get the free trial for the Telenor Turbo 3G for Lenovo a go. After applying here Telenor will instruct you to use Thinkvantage Access Connections to get online but this won't work with Windows 7 (or it might be...(read more) [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 25 10 DIY SharePoint Web Parts #1 Lance Robinson . ReTweet . Clicks 25 This post marks the beginning of a series of postings, containing examples of SharePoint WebParts that anybody can build all by themselves.  After that intro you’re probably already wondering what the catch is, and yep, there is one.  These examples will require the use of the highly acclaimed RSSBus SharePoint WebPart.  To read all posts in this series, or to get started with the RSSBus WebPart, go here.  And now…let’s get on with it! #1 – SharePoint Image Rotator Step one is to ma [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 20 What I’m Working On: Christophe Humbert End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 20 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 As those of you who follow EndUserSharePoint.com know, I have a high regard for the work being done by Christophe Humbert at Path to SharePoint. Over the weekend, he announced what he will be working on over the next few weeks, and some of this stuff looks VERY interesting. From Christophe Humbert: Just a quick heads-up on what you can expect on my blog and demo site in the weeks to come: Image rotator Easy Tabs Calendars jQuery HTML calculated column iframes Guest posts All of ChristopheR [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 26 How to choose a Microsoft SharePoint security solution Axceler Blog . ReTweet . Clicks 26 We just noticed this article on how to effectively secure Microsoft SharePoint by Shane Buckley. In it, Shane itemizes the top things a third party solution should do to help you secure your SharePoint environment. Fortunately, Axceler's product ControlPoint can help you with most if not all of these. "Inevitably, at some point in time, a breach or compliance violation is going to force a Microsoft SharePoint security solution purchase. When evaluating solutions that claim to provide secure acc [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 15 Final Call: Live Online Workshop - Create a Dashboard in WSS End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 15 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 Today, at 1:00pm EST, I’ll be moderating a live online workshop on how to Create a Dashboard in WSS. This is a hands-on session. We give you your own SharePoint sandbox where you can implement nine dashboard type solutions in WSS. Watch the screencast below to see the Visual Status solution and then read about the other solutions. I look forward to seeing you there. — Mark Visual Status Indicators in a WSS Dashboard eventbrite_event = "359573494"; eventbrite_view = "tickets"; ev [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 26 SharePoint, My Site & Managing User Profile Properties – Part 1/2 George Khalil . ReTweet . Clicks 26 A couple of months ago I posted an article introducing My Site and social enterprise networking with SharePoint, and focused the discussion around tracking colleagues via the colleague tracker web part. If you missed that article, you can access it here.  I also promised that I would provide future articles discussing other My Site features so here is a two part series on My Site and Managing user profile properties with today’s discussion around populating Windows Active Directory (AD).& [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 21 Response to negative, online reviews End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 21 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 26 Neues aus der Community Michael Greth . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 52 . Technorati Rank: 364,348 Was gibt es Neues in der SharePointCommunity ? Blogs Als neuen Blogger auf unserer Site begrüße ich Oliver Wirkus, der schon länger mit seinem Blog aktiv ist und jetzt auf die Community umgezogen ist. UserGroups Zwei weitere UserGroups sind im Aufbau: eine in Würzburg und eine in Friedrichshafen, für beide habe ich schon eine Gruppe auf der Community eingerichtet und die ersten Treffen sind noch im Juli geplant. Dank an Thomas Scheuermann (computer kreativ) und  Steffen Inderwies (C [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 16 Fix für SharePoint Service Pack 2 Expiration-Problem ist jetzt verfügbar Steffen Krause . ReTweet . Clicks 16 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 132 . Technorati Rank: 3,324,847 Das Update für das hier beschriebene Problem (SharePoint Server, Project Server und Search Server incl. Express werden Evaluierungsversion nach der Installation von Service Pack 2) ist jetzt verfügbar. Insbesondere bei Search Server Express ist die Installation...(read more) [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 26 SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (30Jun) Jeremy Thake . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 145 . Technorati Rank: 4,978,471 Think this is the biggest week yet! Please support my efforts to compile this by tweeting the link! Development Environment Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7) - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development Saved a few of my colleagues today playing with the new VPC stuff in Windows 7! Logging everything that is going on when an assembly loads using CThru - But it works on my PC! Some nice looking stuff here in terms of being able to trace your ap [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 30 Hands up if you hate STP’s Simon Binaryjam . ReTweet . Clicks 30 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 127 . Technorati Rank: 2,495,699 Is it me ?  Have I missed something ? Are STP’s the best thing on the planet for quickly creating SharePoint sites ? Or is it as I believe the biggest pain in the backside for SharePoint developers to pick up someone else’s SharePoint project to make changes to the site definition pages only to discover they were hacked together in the interface saved as an STP and included in your project. This is now the case for me on two of my inherited projects, I hate them.  Now I kno [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 28 Create A Sharepoint Dashboard(kpi) Paul Keijzers . ReTweet . Clicks 28 This morning when i was talking to my colleague at Spaarne ziekenhuis they were busy reading a interesting article of End User Sharepoint. this is a nice site to follow.   The nice thing is they show in a screencast how to make color full state bars. view the vid here:   as this screencas... (More) [read]. Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09     Mon, Jun 29th     18 The ordering of your CAML query matters… Henry Ong . ReTweet . Clicks 18 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 29 . Technorati Rank: 208,190 If you ever catch yourself having to create List or Document Library Views programmatically – beware the CAML monsters! J/K… But you really do want to look out for how you generate and order your CAML if you are creating filtered views. I was working with a colleague a little while back and had the most awesome 2 days worth of troubleshooting sessions you could ever imagine…Not! Here are the symptoms and how we troubleshooted: The custom Web Part creates a unique view to a Shar [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 10 Einladung zum achten Treffen der regionalen SharePoint User Gruppe Nürnberg Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 10 Ich möchte alle meine Blogleser hiermit gerne zum achten Treffen der ISPA SharePoint User Gruppe Nürnberg einladen. Diesmal konnte ich einen Referenten aus Österreich, genauer gesagt aus Linz gewinnen, der zu den folgenden Themen sprechen wird. Bildungsportal: Abbildung eines Veranstaltungskatalogs für interne Weiterbildungen in SharePoint und Realisierung des Anmeldeprozesses inkl. Schnittstellen zu SAP Abbildung des klassischen “Urlaubsantrages” und “Reiseantrages” [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 24 Netcast #14 – Not Dead Yet Todd Klindt . ReTweet . Clicks 24 Body: In this episode I talk about the topics that came up at SPTechCon and announce some sessions at the SharePoint conference. I also discuss the physics behind why a watched pot never boils. The video is jerky, it's not just you. (Unless you're listening to the MP3 version, then the video is great and I might be more handsome than ever) MP3 version WMV version iPod version tk Published: 6/29/2009 3:14 PM [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 14 5th Annual Jacksonville Code Camp &ndash; Saturday, August 29th (open call for speakers) Andrew Connell . ReTweet . Clicks 14 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 3 . Technorati Rank: 37,941 The 5th annual Jacksonville Code Camp is coming up… just under two months away! This year’s event will be held at University of North Florida and like all others, is free to all who want to register! Make sure you register early… it’s sure to “sell out” with an average attendance of 300+ in previous years. I’m helping them arrange a SharePoint track of sessions if we get enough speakers. Interested? Submit a session or two at the official site: » www.JaxCodeCamp.com Technorati Tag [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 20 Screencasts and Resources for Content Types, in Arabic End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 20 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 I have been working on a cross-cultural project with Ayman El-Hattab from the Egypt SharePoint User Group over the past month. He has put together a series of screencasts, in Arabic, regarding SharePoint Content Types. Ayman sent me a note, saying screencasts, a slidedeck and images from the most recent Egypt SharePoint User Group are available for download. I’m really happy to be presenting these. SharePoint is a world-wide community of users and this content proves it. Thanks, Ayman. Yo [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 15 Even the mighty stumble sometimes… Cornelius van Dyk . ReTweet . Clicks 15 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 139 . Technorati Rank: 4,788,960 Body: Well, I upgraded my iPhone 3G last week to the latest iPhone 3.0 OS and I like the new features such as search, snappier texting etc., but the most interesting thing to me was noticing something totally unrelated.  I’ve been playing Mafia Wars on iPhone for a while.  One of the great annoyances for me, and many other people if you read the Zynga message boards, has been that the game seems to leak memory and crash every so often.  When fighting, you can generally get about 30 figh [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 26 3 Minute Screencast: Create support links in a SharePoint WSS Dashboard End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 One of the recommendations I give in all of my SharePoint Site Administration Workshops is for every site to have contact information for the site manager in the top, right corner of the entrance page to every site. In this screencast, I show how to use LyteBox functionality to open a support contact page without losing the context of the underlying page. Embed this screencast on your site. Access to support pages, the use of LyteBox, and other techniques for creating dashboards in [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 7 MOSS WCM : attention à vos encodages ! Renaud Comte . ReTweet . Clicks 7 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 86 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 Merci à Guillaume pour son aide C’est un piège classique mais on peut se faire avoir aisément. Surtout si vous travaillez à plusieurs sur des sources et des VPC franco/US. Je parle des problèmes d’encodage qui vous amène à avoir des pages publiés av... [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 83 1 Hour Screencast: Build a Project Management Dashboard w/ SharePoint End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 83 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 I was able to hang out with my good friend Dux Raymond Sy at SPTechCon last week. When I walked into one of his sessions, he stopped his presentation to ask “What are you doing here? You’ve seen this SO many times!” Well, Dux, it’s good stuff! So good in fact, let’s take a look at his recorded screencast to see what techniques he uses when building a Project Management Dashboard w/ SharePoint. Visual status indicators, and other techniques for creating dashboards [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 17 SharePoint Saturday in Toronto (Speakers and Sessions) Richard Harbridge . ReTweet . Clicks 17 http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/toronto/default.aspx SharePoint Saturday is July 11th in Mississauaga (This is right beside Toronto in the province of Ontario, in the country of Canada, it also happens to be where I live ). If you read this blog, then you are probably someone who will enjoy and learn a TON from the wonderful speakers at SharePoint Saturday. I know I learn new things from many of the speakers on a regular basis. It’s a FREE event. Think about it, these speakers are expe [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 18 July Community Events Eric Shupps . ReTweet . Clicks 18 Body: Hard as it is to believe 2009 is already half way gone. It's been a hectic year for the SharePoint Community and, despite summer vacations and attempts to escape the heat, July is shaping up to be just as busy. Here's a quick update on some upcoming events: SharePoint Saturday Ozarks Join us for the first ever SharePoint Saturday event in Harrison, Arkansas on July 18th. Northwest Arkansas has a growing and vibrant SharePoint community and folks from all around the region will be attending [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 11 Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7) Tobias Zimmer . ReTweet . Clicks 11 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 55 . Technorati Rank: 386,527 Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction As you all know, most of the SharePoint people (architects, developers, testers, designers, ) are running our environments virtually. That rocks! But, there's some things one need to think of when you want to migra ... (More) [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 18 4 Minute Screencast: Dashboard Indicators in SharePoint WSS End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 18 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 One of the limitations of WSS is the lack of KPI and visual status indicators. In this screencast, I show a technique for displaying status information as a bar graph within any SharePoint list or library. Thanks to Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint for the original idea. Embed this screencast on your site. Visual status indicators, and other techniques for creating dashboards in WSS, are included in the Tuesday, June 30 live online workshop, Case Studies in SharePoint WSS [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 27 Submit this Form InfoPath Kathy Hughes . ReTweet . Clicks 27 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 109 . Technorati Rank: 1,120,441 Forms play a powerful part in a SharePoint implementation for obvious reasons. But which form solution is best for you - the OOB forms, InfoPath, customized .net Web forms or dataView/form Web part? It depends on a number of considerations, including requirements, server/infrastructure, licensing options, scalability and, importantly, education around what's available and what each option can do. For example, I get "oh, we knew about InfoPath but we didn't know it could do X,Y and Z". And it's r [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 21 NZSPC Update : SharePoint Ask the Experts Panel Questions at NZSPC Chandima Kulathilake . ReTweet . Clicks 21 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 75 . Technorati Rank: 510,341 Body: We recently announced to all our registered delegates about the “Ask the Experts” Keynote panel that will be held at NZSPC on Friday, July 03, 2009 starting at 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM (New Zealand Time) in the Duxton Ballroom. You can now post your questions on the user group site. So far we have received the following questions. We’ll take the best one’s and answer these at the conference. I will also post answers on my blog for some of these. Questions so far.. User Adoption - Ther [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 27 SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009 Tobias Zimmer . ReTweet . Clicks 27 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 55 . Technorati Rank: 386,527 Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com Introduction I previously posted a short post about some good links around SharePoint. It proved to be a popular post. Not only providing a set of good posts, but actually pointing to good posts that is worth readin ... (More) [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 21 Create a user-friendly media library using Lytebox: Update End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 21 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 Note from Mark Miller: Last week I did a quick screencast on an idea for a multi-media library. I love it when people take my ideas and expand on them. Keven Hughes improved the concept by making screencasts available through a dynamically generated query string. In addition, his improvements make it easy for an End User to simply upload a video or screencast and have it “discovered” as part of the library, without having to do any tweaks. This is an excerpt from his article. You c [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09 18 Been to the SDN 26-06-2009 Paul Keijzers . ReTweet . Clicks 18 Last Friday i was at the SDN in Houten for the Information Worker sessions with my Focus on SharePoint. I came in a little late which was bad for me because I am always on time or earlier.(took the wrong exit) The first session was of Spencer Harbar(site , twitter) It was about MythBusters – d... (More) [read]. Posted: Mon, Jun 29th '09     Sun, Jun 28th     14 Downloads of my SPTechCon Boston Sessions Shane Young . ReTweet . Clicks 14 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 25 . Technorati Rank: 193,206 Last week I had the privilege of speaking at the SharePoint Technology Conference in Boston. Too cool. Got to meet several new people from the Twitterverse (I am @ShanesCows in case you were wondering). I would list the people but I never know if that is appropriate or not. Anyway. I promised a download PDF of all of the sessions I did so here they are. Todd Klindt and I did a whole day workshop on being a SharePoint administrator. For that session I have two decks. The SharePoint Admin deck i [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 6 Links (6/28/2009) Steve Pietrek . ReTweet . Clicks 6 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 46 . Technorati Rank: 309,064 Creating Wireframes for Page Layouts Getting all documents in document library inside all folders SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 Ninja Debugging SharePoint Tool Basket SharePoint Check Calendar Availability Custom Column (Beta) Case study: KPI roll-up in MOSS (Part II) SharePoint: Redirecting to a page after adding a New item to a list Implementing the AJAXControlToolkit AutoCompleteExtender inside SharePoint Sahil Malik on Silverlight and SharePoint [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 32 What we know or can infer about SharePoint 2010 - as of June 23, 2009 Michael Blumenthal . ReTweet . Clicks 32 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 60 . Technorati Rank: 411,814 Body: Although no beta code has been released to the public, and I personally have had no access to it via other channels, we know or can make some intelligent guesses about a few things. First, what we know: 64 Bit!  SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64 bit only.  That means that the web front ends and application servers will run best on the x64 versions of Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 (due out this October). Note that it WILL NOT run on Windows Server 2003, x64.  SQL Server has to be 64 bi [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 34 How to Build a Change Control System in SharePoint Dux Raymond . ReTweet . Clicks 34 Have you ever experienced ...     Customers adding scope halfway through the project?   Management cutting your project budget?   Project resources performing unplanned project tasks   because the customer says so? In project management, having a sound change control process is important to a... (More) [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 25 SharePoint End User Adoption Framework demo at New Zealand SharePoint Conference Chandima Kulathilake . ReTweet . Clicks 25 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 75 . Technorati Rank: 510,341 Body: End User Adoption Framework Demonstration by Steve Smith (MVP) Come and see Steve Smith owner of Combined Knowledge and SharePoint MVP demonstrate the brand new End User Adoption software from Combined Knowledge. After a year of development this framework solution is designed to fill a very big hole in any SharePoint deployment - User Adoption. Key points this product solves and covered in the demonstration include : Why companies don't get the most out of SharePoint once deployed Increa [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 14 SharePoint SharePint DC - 30 June Dan Usher . ReTweet . Clicks 14 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 112 . Technorati Rank: 1,120,441 It’s Summer time, which means it’s time to kick back and relax with your colleagues in the SharePoint community, share a pint of your favourite beverage and network a little.  Besides, it’s warm outside, you’ve been inside developing solutions and working on configuration settings - relax and breath, get out of the office and enjoy an opportunity to network with others before hitting the road or metro home. What: SharePint, an opportunity to get together with other Share [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 32 New Article &ndash; SharePoint 2007 Ninja Debugging Sahil Malik . ReTweet . Clicks 32 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 20 . Technorati Rank: 144,219 Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). This feed URL has been discontinued. Please update your reader's URL to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/winsmarts Read full article .... [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 16 Silverlight and SharePoint &ndash; DNRTV Episode is now online Sahil Malik . ReTweet . Clicks 16 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 20 . Technorati Rank: 144,219 Ad:: SharePoint 2007 Training in .NET 3.5 technologies (more information). This feed URL has been discontinued. Please update your reader's URL to : http://feeds.feedburner.com/winsmarts Read full article .... [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 29 Community Kit For SharePoint David Mann . ReTweet . Clicks 29 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 38 . Technorati Rank: 280,000 Just a quick note here…the Community Kit for SharePoint is ramping up again – new projects, continuing old projects, new approach and new goals. Stay tuned for more info on the projects we're looking to introduce and the approach and standards we will be supporting. I've been quite busy with this and a few other pet projects (plus that pesky day job…) lately but will soon have more info to post…  Dave [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09 51 SPD workflows: “ERROR: request not found in the TrackedRequests” Paul Culmsee . ReTweet . Clicks 51 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 30 . Technorati Rank: 208,190 I’ve written this post to document a dumbass thing that I did and the error that it caused. Hopefully it might help someone googling in desperation sometime… The popularity of the “Tribute to the humble leave form” series over at SharePoint Magazine, has meant that we actually get a few gigs implementing, surprise surprise, InfoPath leave forms with SharePoint Designer workflows! This was actually quite unexpected, as I wrote that series as a joke and for end-user training purposes. Now [read]. Posted: Sun, Jun 28th '09     Sat, Jun 27th     23 Site Highlight: WMPoweruser.com Tariq Ayad . ReTweet . Clicks 23 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 94 . Technorati Rank: 833,592 If you are a Windows Mobile User, then this site should be one of your frequent haunts. Its not? well take a look-see anyway it has a whole bunch of reviews and news. http://wmpoweruser.com/ Crossposted from tariqayad.com [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 24 Windows 7 - Home Premium is $49.99 on Amazon as well Tariq Ayad . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 94 . Technorati Rank: 833,592 Amazon is offering pre-orders for Windows & Home Premium at $49.99 as well. Just a heads up because I thought previously thought the offer was only from store.microsoft.com Link:http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Home-Premium-Upgrade/dp/B002DHLUWK Crossposted from tariqayad.com [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 19 One of more field types are not installed properly S.S. Ahmed . ReTweet . Clicks 19 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 81 . Technorati Rank: 603,937 Here is another small tip. If you get the following error, change the field name that you are using in your SPQuery to the "internal" field name and that should resovle your issue. One of more field types are not installed properly Well, I won't...(read more) [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 22 Did you know: Did you know that VWD 2008 can load class libraries as well. Tariq Ayad . ReTweet . Clicks 22 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 94 . Technorati Rank: 833,592 Did you know that Visual Web Developer 2008 can load class libraries as well. It can with SP1 installed, and it seems a bit hidden to expose this functionality. The trick is to enable "Show Solution" in the solution pane. here is the tip on the official blog. Once you have the solution showing on Solution Explorer, you can your class library projects. Please note this requires VWD 2008 SP1. [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 55 SharePoint Performance and Load Testing resources Larry Kuhn . ReTweet . Clicks 55 Body: This is a great post that nicely summarizes and links to a wealth of useful information on this topic:   http://blogs.msdn.com/sanjaynarang/archive/2009/04/18/sharepoint-performance-stress-load-testing.aspx   Category: Search;SharePoint Published: 6/27/2009 9:58 AM # Comments: 0 [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 20 Important - SharePoint SP2 Update KB 971620 Kris Wagner . ReTweet . Clicks 20 Body: The following article covers the issue with SharePoint where SP2 converted SharePoint Licenses to "Trail"… You must either re-enter the SharePoint product key or apply the following update. If you don't apply the following update prior to the 180 day expiration users will not be able to access the SharePoint site. Remember if you already downloaded SP2., this package contains the code that converts the product to a trail. Once Microsoft releases the new package make sure to replace it. T [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 9 Office Live Workspace Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 9 Ich habe gerade den Artikel von Fabian über Office Live Workspace gelesen und hab das dann gleich mal ausprobiert und bin von den Funktionalitäten für meinen privaten Einsatz völlig überzeugt. Dem geneigten SharePoint Nutzer wird die Oberfläche sehr bekannt vorkommen, da sowohl das Look and Feel als auch die Funktionalitäten auf WSS 3.0 basieren. Ich werde die Möglichkeiten evaluieren und ggf. auch ein Teil meiner Kundenkommunikation hierüber abwickeln, da der Aufwand weit geringer ist [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 16 Buch Review – SharePoint Sever 2007 – Praxisbuch Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 16 Im Rahmen meiner Vertriebstätigkeit bin ich Kontakt mit dem Hanser Verlag gekommen, der zum damaligen Zeitpunkt auf der Suche nach Autoren für SharePoint Bücher verschiedener Ausprägung war. Grds. finde ich das Thema Autor und SharePoint interessant, leider ist es aber in der aktuellen Auslastung nicht möglich, solch zeitintensive Themen anzugehen. Nichts desto trotz hat mir der Hanser Verlag ein Exemplar seines neuesten SharePoint Buches zukommen lassen mit der Bitte, dieses ggf. in der U [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 25 SPTech Conference Recap Mauro Cardarelli . ReTweet . Clicks 25 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 64 . Technorati Rank: 440,533 I spent a few days this week at the SPTech Conference in Boston, doing a session on requirements gathering for SharePoint and working the Nintex booth with Mike Fitzmaurice. First, some observations… · Solid attendee base. Given the economy, I wasn’t sure how attendance would look but there were lots of eager SharePoint’ers from all over the country. · There are still lots of people brand new to SharePoint. Very cool! I especially like their commitment to “going s [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 26 Test Post from Live Writer (please ignore) Tariq Ayad . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 94 . Technorati Rank: 833,592 Please ignore this post and a couple of others that will appear subsequently, I am testing an xml-rpc plugn I wrote, Cheers [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09 27 Automated Builds with VSeWSS 1.3 Paul Andrew . ReTweet . Clicks 27 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 5 . Technorati Rank: 41,372 I just came across this blog post from John W Powell detailing his experience creating automated builds with VSeWSS 1.3. [read]. Posted: Sat, Jun 27th '09     Fri, Jun 26th     26 Pre or Post SP2 Hotfix for SharePoint Matthew McDermott . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 93 . Technorati Rank: 770,942 The Trial Licensing issue that was introduced by SharePoint SP2 has been resolved by the product team. If you are affected (or wish to avoid the problem) you can install the fix before or after you deploy SharePoint SP2. The details are available on the SharePoint Team Blog. [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 26 Catapult Awards and Windows 7 Video Contest Matthew McDermott . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 93 . Technorati Rank: 770,942 As Microsoft Gold Partner and National Systems Integrator (NSI) Catapult enters in all kinds of contests for recognition with Microsoft. Most recently we were awarded the Partner of the Year award for Custom Development Solutions, Web Development. We are also competing in a Windows 7 video contest. You can bop over to Digital Forum TV and check us out. I love the pace and message of the video. Looks and feels like a Microsoft production, but we did it ourselves! If you like it, sign in with yo [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 21 HTML Dog: Cool content for a hot summer Friday Get the Point . ReTweet . Clicks 21 Abstract: From the Beginner HTML Tutorial to the more Advanced HTML Tags and CSS Properties references Patrick provides easy to read, step-by-step instructions, unraveling the seemingly deep, dark mystery about how HTML and CSS works. He augments the tutorials and references with articles, examples, and an invaluable list of external links. Category: Cool Content;Building Solutions;Design;Publishing;Site Admin Published: 6/26/2009 2:02 PM # Comments: 0 [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 28 Silverlight Coding Competition &ndash; win USD $10,000! Tim Heuer . ReTweet . Clicks 28 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 2 . Technorati Rank: 14,464 I was honored to be asked by ComponentArt to participate in a judging panel for their just now released 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition.  The grand prize is USD $10,000.  Yes, that’s right: USD $10,000! ComponentArt is even kicking in 2 runner-up prizes of licensing to their products, which is also a sweet deal!  The contest is simple, and you are not required to use ComponentArt controls…in their words: Applicants are not required to use ComponentArt's products to enter t [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 23 Public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue Keith Richie . ReTweet . Clicks 23 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 40 . Technorati Rank: 309,064 Head up!   The update to the SharePoint Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available. Direct download links: x86: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/5/2F51AB71-1325-49D2-9CB9-18DEC4780E99/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x86-glb.exe x64: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/B/5BBD34A9-C528-42B0-8A5F-9A8997B25C32/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x64-glb.exe For more information on the original issue, see the following posting on the SharePoint Team Blog: Attention: Imp [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 27 How many DFS-N namespace servers do you need? Jose Barreto . ReTweet . Clicks 27 Introduction Whenever you’re deploying Windows Server DFS-Namespaces, you will need to figure out how many servers will be required. Since I moved to the role of DFS-N PM, I noticed that the specific information on how many namespace servers you need is something that isn’t clearly posted anywhere. Although we never really had any problems with performance of the namespace server themselves, the question of where to place them is quite common.Hopefully, this blog post will help clarify the [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 21 2 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Conference 2009 Interface Suggestion End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 21 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 The submissions for the SharePoint Conference 2009 interface design competition have been completed and they are now in the process of selecting a winner. I’ve created a quick, two minute screencast to show how a tabbed interface might be incorporated into the winning site design, whatever that might be. This is a full sized screencast, 800 x 600, so you might have to scroll down a little bit to hit the start button when the page opens. I used a WSS plain vanilla site to incorporate the ta [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 24 SharePoint Saturday July 11th in Toronto Axceler Blog . ReTweet . Clicks 24 Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘SharePoint Saturday', on Saturday, July 11th, 2009 at the Microsoft Canada headquarters located on 1950 Meadowvale Blvd in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. SharePoint Saturday will be an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturda [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 24 SharePoint Saturday July 25th in Dallas, TX Axceler Blog . ReTweet . Clicks 24 Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘SharePoint Saturday', on Saturday, July 25th, 2009 in Dallas, TX. SharePoint Saturday will be an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoin [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 22 Post Conference Session at SharePoint Conference Todd Klindt . ReTweet . Clicks 22 Body: In last week's netcast I hinted that I'd be at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference and had something to announce. The story broke earlier this week. Shane and I will be doing a post conference workshop on Friday October 23rd. We will be covering, in excruciating detail, SharePoint 2010 installation and upgrading to SharePoint 2010 from SharePoint 2007. There will be lecture as well as a couple of hands on labs. If we have time we may even cover how to stick Teflon to a pan when nothing sti [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 11 Shane Young's TechTalk on SharePoint Installation Axceler Blog . ReTweet . Clicks 11 This is from May but is worth repeating. Shane Young and Todd created a quick TechTalk - SharePoint: What could possibly go wrong? "SharePoint environments are like snowflakes. Each one is intricate and it seems no two are alike. In this TechTalk, Shane and Todd talk about some of the things done wrong in SharePoint installations they've seen. They also talk about how to fix those things." Available for a free viewing here [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 7 Hot Fix for SP2 available! Paul Papanek Stork . ReTweet . Clicks 7 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 89 . Technorati Rank: 739,956 Occasionally when you install Service Pack 2 on a MOSS installation it will reset the license code so that SharePoint thinks it is an evaluation copy that will expire in 180 days.  It doesn't actually break any functionality, at least not until the 180 days is up.  But it can be a bit disconcerting if you look at the licensing.  You can read more about the problem in the following KnowledgeBase article:   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620   The SharePoint product team issued a Hot Fix [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 26 SharePoint Kaffeetasse 118 Michael Greth . ReTweet . Clicks 26 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 52 . Technorati Rank: 364,348 Tools Sharepoint Workflow Migrator SP Workflow Migration Tool allows to migrate workflows created with Sharepoint Designer from one site collection to another. It also allows to migrate site content types across site collections Create field lookup and associated list as a feature This codeplex project allows developers to package list lookup columns as a feature and as part of a content type. Tipps INFO: SharePoint 2007 VM’s NLTM Authentication Failure  Use SharePoint and Silv [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 33 TGIF, Samsung Omnia, Samurai Videos, Blog Building, SharePoint Saturday Toronto, and…. Mike Gannotti . ReTweet . Clicks 33 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 21 . Technorati Rank: 162,924 Body: TGIF Everyone!!! Been a long week with much of it spent on the road. I know I am woefully behind in answering questions for my Ask A Samurai. My wife and daughter are heading out of town to visit friends in Pennsylvania June 30th – July5th though so I will be able to catch up on those as well as finish off my SharePoint 101 series and get started on some others folks have been asking about. I am a week now in to the use of my new Samsung Omnia and that will definitely be the star of o [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 19 Video: BackSeat Driving With Michael – Xbox Gaming Discussion At SharePoint Saturday Mike Gannotti . ReTweet . Clicks 19 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 21 . Technorati Rank: 162,924 Body: Today's BackSeat Driving with Michael video marks the last of the special edition videos from SharePoint Saturday Charlotte. Earlier in the week you will recall I posted a video featuring gaming guru Tiffany as we talked about the use of Xbox Live as a means of building community. In this episode I dive a little deeper with a couple of very passionate, youthful, gamers as we motor around the Microsoft Charlotte offices parking lot. They are two great young gentlemen and I was a pleasure [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 31 SharePoint SP2 and expired license update René Hézser . ReTweet . Clicks 31 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 99 . Technorati Rank: 833,592 If you ran into the expired license issue after applying the Service Pack 2, you will be happy to know Microsoft has released an update to resolve the issue. Quote from the SharePoint Team Blog: The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation.  If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expirat [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 46 SharePoint 2007 SP2 - Update Agnes Molnar . ReTweet . Clicks 46 The SharePoint 2007 SP2 bugfix is ready: “ The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation.  If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during...(read more) [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 25 SharePoint Best Practices Conference Arpan Shah . ReTweet . Clicks 25 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 17 . Technorati Rank: 129,100 I’m going to be keynoting at the upcoming SharePoint Best Practices Conference in DC on August 24th. It’s a great conference with high quality content where you can learn real best practices from experts in the field. It has a very strong speaker line-up and this year it also includes a SQL track! I’m really looking forward to this conference & hope to see many of you there! For those of you at the Worldwide Partner Conference, I’ll be speaking there as well on July 14th. [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 23 SharePoint SP2 Hotfix now available Kathy Hughes . ReTweet . Clicks 23 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 109 . Technorati Rank: 1,120,441 See details on the Microsoft SharePoint Team blog post - http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/25/service-pack-2-update.aspx -   The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation.  If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Ser [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 19 SharePoint 2007 Services Pack 2 Update Michael Greth . ReTweet . Clicks 19 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 52 . Technorati Rank: 364,348 Microsoft hat eine Update-Package für das Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Servcie Pack 2 veröffentlicht mit dem der Bug mit dem Produkt-Ablaufdatum behoben wird (siehe Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2). Der Patch muss vor dem Einspielen des Service Packs 2 angewendet werden, eine aktualisiertes SP2 soll in den nächsten 4-6 Wochen erscheinen. Installation instructions and download links for x86 and x64 are available in this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620 [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 28 Michael Sampson’s New Book – SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration Barry Jinks . ReTweet . Clicks 28 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 111 . Technorati Rank: 1,120,441 Our good friend Michael Sampson has just written a new book – SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration. You might recall that Michael participated in our webinar last February entitled “7 Ways to Get More from Your SharePoint Deployment”, and was a guest blogger here. The site set up for the book describes it as follows: SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration is the indispensable guide for IT and business people wanting to use SharePoint to enhance business collaboration. The roadmap [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 15 Service Pack 2 Update Ali Mazaheri . ReTweet . Clicks 15 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 143 . Technorati Rank: 4,978,471 The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download. The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2. More info here. [read]. Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09     Thu, Jun 25th     10 Service Pack 2 Update. SharePoint Product Team . ReTweet . Clicks 10 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 1 . Technorati Rank: 9,039 The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download.  The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation.  If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2. The update is applicable to [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 22 Hotfix for the SP2 issue is available now Natalya Voskresenskaya . ReTweet . Clicks 22 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 68 . Technorati Rank: 472,890 Service Pack 2 Update. The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download. Whoo-hoo, I hope that you caught this one! The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2, it removes the expiration date incorrectly set during installa [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 4 Links (6/25/2009) Steve Pietrek . ReTweet . Clicks 4 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 46 . Technorati Rank: 309,064 Using the Today token in a CAML query Be selective about how you get items from an SPList Using KeywordQuery to search in your SharePoint site Use SharePoint and Silverlight to display a summary of SharePoint blog posts on any site page How Page Parsing functionality in SharePoint (SPPageParseFilter) works with the constructor of a webpart How to use SharePoint Rich-Text Editor in Webparts and Controls Inconvenient PublishingScheduleControl SharePoint Task Master: My Web Part Misses its Cache, a [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 30 Update available for 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 Get the Point . ReTweet . Clicks 30 Abstract: An update for Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 is now available. Published: 6/25/2009 6:06 PM # Comments: 0 [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 30 MSDN Office Developer Center – Pre Office/SharePoint 2010 Update Erika Ehrli . ReTweet . Clicks 30 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 83 . Technorati Rank: 664,578 MSDN Developer Centers pull together content and resources around specific products and technologies. They connect developers with code samples, community sites, technical articles and documentation, upcoming events, and much more. The MSDN Office Developer Center (ODC) provides a developer roadmap to understand and work with Office System programs, servers, services, tools and technologies. As we prepare for our next product release (Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010), we worked on a set of site [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 18 Reports: Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50 S.S. Ahmed . ReTweet . Clicks 18 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 81 . Technorati Rank: 603,937 Reports say Michael Jackson has died after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 50. It is indeed a very sad news. He was the king. I was a big fan of him. http://www.edmontonsun.com/entertainment/2009/06/25/9936706.html...(read more) [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 11 Mr. Miyagi is Not a Direct Descendant of Superman Dux Raymond . ReTweet . Clicks 11 I just got back from Boston where I presented at the SharePoint Technology Conference. I had a great time meeting a lot of new friends and reconnecting with old buddies. To get a glimpse of what happened during the conference, here are the #sptechcon tweets.   In the session that I presented wit... (More) [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 25 Andy Dale’s SharePoint Awards 2009 Owen Allen . ReTweet . Clicks 25 I’m a fan of the web site SharePointReviews.com.  It’s a great site to point anyone who is looking for SharePoint add-ons and third-party applications to add to their SharePoint farm.  While catching up with the site the other day, I saw Andy Dale’s guest blog entry on Mike Ferrera’s OnPoint blog, where he handed out some SharePoint awards for 2009.  Thanks for the great list, Andy!  While I’m listing the awards here, please click through to his entry to see his co [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 0 Employee Training Comments Eric Alexander . ReTweet . Clicks 0 Michael Gannotti posted the video that we shot at Sharepoint Saturday Charlotte. If you have any specific questions or comments on how I did something, leave a comment and I’ll get back with you. I am hoping to release an updated STP of the template soon. [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 17 Silverlight Coding Competition &ndash; win USD $10,000! Tim Heuer . ReTweet . Clicks 17 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 2 . Technorati Rank: 14,464 I was honored to be asked by ComponentArt to participate in a judging panel for their just now released 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition.  The grand prize is USD $10,000.  Yes, that’s right: USD $10,000! ComponentArt is even kicking in 2 runner-up prizes of licensing to their products, which is also a sweet deal!  The contest is simple, and you are not required to use ComponentArt controls…in their words: Applicants are not required to use ComponentArt's products to enter t [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 17 Profile properties import through BDC connection to Oracle SAP Natalya Voskresenskaya . ReTweet . Clicks 17 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 68 . Technorati Rank: 472,890 Interesting fact was uncovered during our enterprise deployment project, and I wanted to share it. The client has Oracle SAP that they are using across the globe, and we were supplementing user profile properties that have very limited information in AD through BDC to Oracle. Import through BDC was very slow, I mean VERY slow. If AD full import was taking 1 1/2 hour to import 70,000 user profiles, then BDC part would take around 20+ hours. with this numbers, there was no way for us to meet SLAs [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 14 MOSS, Monitoring und Performanz - Teil 2 Torsten Flegel . ReTweet . Clicks 14 So endlich mal zu den Maßnahmen die man zur Perfomanzsteigerung durchführen kann. Ich gliedere das mal in zwei Bereiche, denn es gibt allgemeine Tips und einen speziellen für ein weit verbreitetes Problem: Problem: Die SharePoint - WebSeiten dauern beim ersten Aufruf extrem lange - auch der Aufruf von stsadm ohne Parameter in der Kommandozeile hält  20-30 Sekunden inne bevor die Hilfe erscheint. Während man auf die Webseiten warten ist keine Last auf dem Server, er scheint nichts zu tun. [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 9 Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar!: Workshop Full! End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 9 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 Good news for us. Bad news for you. Tickets went really fast for tomorrow’s workshop. As of now there are two slots still pending for tomorrow’s live online workshop, but that’s it. If you missed the workshop registration, signup for the announcement list, beneath the screencast below, and we’ll get you advanced notice for the next session. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Watch this quick screencast and then register to receive advanced notice. eventbrite [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 20 58 New SharePoint Blog Readers in 2 Days! Tom Resing . ReTweet . Clicks 20 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 118 . Technorati Rank: 1,364,756 .ExternalClass252FAAB8897A45E6BB1E2839C69BAB12 #tabs {margin:1em 0 0 0;} .ExternalClass252FAAB8897A45E6BB1E2839C69BAB12 #tabs li {display:inline;} Thanks to all my new readers. I was surprised to see my Feedburner Chicklet showing 135 readers today and I wondered what caused the huge jump. You’ll have to tell me if I’m correct, but my sleuthing showed an interesting coincidence. Did you subscribe because I removed all those Links from my feed? It was a feature called Feed Splicing from Fee [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 28 Publishing Search Results in MOSS Natalya Voskresenskaya . ReTweet . Clicks 28 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 68 . Technorati Rank: 472,890 Never noticed it before, but after checking it on several installations of MOSS, it appears that the search is “ignoring” “start Date” on publishing pages and includes all documents that had not been published yet. If you create for example an article and set publish date one week from now, you have to modify your search not to include these articles into search results until this date had been reached. [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 13 Converting Hyper-v VHD to VMware Natalya Voskresenskaya . ReTweet . Clicks 13 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 68 . Technorati Rank: 472,890 Real bummer. I had to power off my server that was running Hyper-v and the whole bunch of VMs. Until I get the hyper-v host back, I decided to continue my development on one of the machines by converting it into vmware. The general VMware converter that allows you to convert from VHD is not working with POWERED OFF hyper-v VHD. apparently you can convert it only as a physical machine by giving the IP address, which in my case is not possible as I do not have another Hyper-v host. I guess I have [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 24 Create a Dashboard in WSS: High Priority Indicator End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 One of the big limitations in analyzing data within a SharePoint site is the apparent inability to create dashboards from data within a site. In this screencast, I demonstrate how calculated columns might be used to present information in a graphical format without the need for third party web parts. Embed this screencast on your site. This technique was originally introduced by Christophe Humbert, Path to SharePoint. If you like what you see here, we’d like to see you at the [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 24 PSA: My social networking / contact method TOS Andrew Connell . ReTweet . Clicks 24 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 3 . Technorati Rank: 37,941 Man that blog title sounds so darn official! A public service announcement (PSA) for my terms of service (TOS)? That’s not how I mean it to sound, but it will at least catch someone’s eye. The purpose of this post is to have something to point folks back to in the future and hope some people take note of it going forward. Like many other people, I’m on Twitter (@andrewconnell), Facebook and LinkedIn. Each of those services have ways to send private messages to other users… and for the mo [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 20 Inconvenient PublishingScheduleControl Waldek Mastykarz . ReTweet . Clicks 20 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 23 . Technorati Rank: 180,050 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 ships with a rich Web Content Management (WCM) System functionality. Among lots of functionality which simplifies managing content on websites, MOSS 2007 allows you to schedule the publication of your Publishing Pages. The process is as simple as enabling versioning, approval and items scheduling on the Pages Library and editing the desired publication and expiration dates on the Publishing Page. Could you imagine that even something as simple as th [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 3 Person.aspx Navigation Becky Bertram . ReTweet . Clicks 3 Body: For those of you who might have noticed, the top navigation disappears when you're viewing someone else's profile using the Person.aspx page. This behavior seems very mysterious, considering the navigation appears on the other pages in the root "My Site" site collection. I ran across this post on Bob Moore's blog, where he describes how he disassembled the code and discovered that there's code in Person.aspx that explicitly looks for the Content control that contains the top navigation, [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 17 Live, from Best Practices Conference, it’s Arpan Shah! End User SharePoint . ReTweet . Clicks 17 . Planet SharePoint Rank: 10 . Technorati Rank: 79,317 Arpan Shah is keynoting the Best Practices® Conference in Washington, D.C. Arpan is a Director on the SharePoint Product Management team in Redmond. He has been in the Internet business space for over 10 years and started his Microsoft career in 2001 to lead the Content Management Server (CMS) technical product management effort. Over the last 8 years, Arpan has been involved with subsequent SharePoint releases including SharePoint Server 2007. He currently manages the team that owns audience [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 25 Display Random Tips & Tricks in a Web Part Susan Henry . ReTweet . Clicks 25 Body: I was asked by a customer if it was possible to take a list of MS Office Tips & Tricks and display a random tip on the homepage of their SharePoint portal every time a user hits/refreshes the page. I had seen something similar at the End User SharePoint site. They have a couple posts that show you how to use a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) with some jQuery to do just that for a "Quote of the Day" web part.   Essentially, what I'm looking for is the same thing, so I basically le [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 12 Consultants Digest ist auf der SharePoint Community gelistet Sebastian Gerling . ReTweet . Clicks 12 Habe gerade über meine Blogstatistik erfahren, das mein Blog auch unter der SharePoint Community gelistet ist. Unter dem Punkt “Blog” findet man den SharePoint Mirror, eine Sammlung von SharePoint Blogs. Ich befinde mich dort in der illustren Gesellschaft von René Hézser und der Siller AG. Ich muss sagen, dass mich das wirklich gefreut hat!         [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 22 Simple Spam Blocker for your SharePoint blog... Susan Henry . ReTweet . Clicks 22 Body: I got this tip from Mike Gannotti (AKA SharePoint Samurai) at the SharePoint Saturday Charlotte event this past weekend and it is an awesomely simple fix for spam comments on a SharePoint blog.   Thanks Mike for sharing this easy fix, because honestly when you're pressed for time, quick fixes are pure gold... Speaking of gold, I was really tired of getting comments from someone trying to sell me gold watches! :P   Ok, so here's it is...   Add a Single line of text column to your [read]. Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 18 Hotfix for SP2 issue that reverts SharePoint products to Trial Version has been released Liam Cleary . ReTweet . Clicks 18 In case you have not seen this already, a hot fix has been released to fix the Service Pack 2 issue of setting your license key to a trial one. Here is the original post from Stefan.   Microsoft has released a fix for the SP2 problem that reverts the license into a Trial version after installing Service Pack 2. More details can be found in the following KB article: 971620 - When you install the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2, the product expiration date is activated incorrectly As [read]. 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