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Eval VM for SharePoint 2010 RTM now available
Ben Hickman
pA virtual machine for the RTM 2010 wave of product releases is now available for download:/p blockquote pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ceamp;displaylang=en"2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM)/a/p /blockquote pThis environment is delivered in two virtual machines. VM “a” contains:/p ol liWindows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Contr [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
Cloud Computing link
Ben Hickman
Good article with Chris Capossela on A href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20001983-56.html" mce_href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20001983-56.html"Cloud Computing - it's not for control freaks/A.img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9993456" width="1" height="1"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BenHickman/~4/gl_W9XIlcHA" height="1" width="1"/ [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 9th '10 |
New Eval Guides for SharePoint 2010
Ben Hickman
pWe published evaluation guides for SharePoint 2010 at the conference a few weeks ago. Reading these guides is a great way to get familiar with SharePoint 2010 and get ready for the beta. Highly recommended:/p pa href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167123"IT Pro Eval Guide/a/p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cffb14e8-88a9-43bd-87aa-4792ab60d320amp;displaylang=en"Developer Eval Guide/a/pimg src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9916263" width="1" [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 2nd '09 |
How To Automatically Changing Permissions in a Doc Lib
Ben Hickman
Or, how do you get Item-Level Permissions settings for a document library? This frequently comes up for me with InfoPath forms libraries. For example, you are automating an HR performance review process with SharePoint workflow and InfoPath forms. Reviewers will go to a SharePoint form library, click New and fill out a performance review form for a coworker. User must be able to only see their forms. And managers must be able to see the forms for their direct reports. If you look at the Advanced [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 5th '09 |
SharePoint Designer Workflows – what user identity?
Ben Hickman
When a SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflow runs, it runs in the context of the workflow initiator. This is important to know if the initiator may not have permissions to everything that the workflow uses. An example: A broad set of users have permissions to load documents into a library named Active. A small set of users process the documents and change a Status column to Verified when done (it’s preset to New in the previous step). You want a workflow to move the documents from the Active li [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
Secondary Workflow Example in SharePoint Designer
Ben Hickman
I recently built a prototype to show how SharePoint and SharePoint Designer workflows can be used to automate an HR performance review process. I had to use a secondary workflow as described in SharePoint Designer: Create a secondary workflow, but had to come up with a different solution for how to set due dates. Following is an explanation of why I needed the secondary workflow for this example and how I got the due dates to work. The basic requirements are: A manager wants to start a performa [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
Accessing columns in the User Information List
Ben Hickman
I was recently asked how to programmatically retrieve custom fields from the User Information List via a Web service. It turns out that the GetUserInfo web method does not return any custom fields that you might add to the User Information List (aka People & Groups). Instead, just treat this as a regular SharePoint list and you can access the columns via the GetListItems web method from Lists.asmx. static void Main(string[] args) { ListsService.Lists svcLists = new List [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
Content Query Web Part example
Ben Hickman
I recently got deeper into using the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) than I had in a while and learned a few things. The first thing you should do to learn about the CQWP is read this article from Heather Solomon’s blog: Customizing the Content Query Web Part and Custom Item Styles. I follow the process she describes when using the CQWP. The Solution We built a Site Collection that included a top-level site with highlighted and summary content and a large number of sub-sites that included wikis [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
One Part of Microsoft.com now running on SharePoint
Ben Hickman
Yesterday http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint converted over to SharePoint and Silverlight. It’s nice to have a microsoft.com example to add to the list of public facing sites running SharePoint. There’s an upcoming SharePoint team blog posting on how it was done. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
SharePoint Server 2010 announced
Ben Hickman
I will need to switch from saying SharePoint 14 to SharePoint 2010 now. Details of the announcement are on the SharePoint Team Blog. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09 |
New Capabilities for SharePoint
Ben Hickman
Today we announced the ESP for SharePoint product that provides high end search capabilities within SharePoint. We also detailed the road map for the next version of SharePoint and how these high end search capabilities will be folded into the platform. Details are in the blog posting: Microsoft Unveils New Enterprise Search Road Map A few weeks ago, we also announced that our BI products, Performance Point, are also being rolled into SharePoint: Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy update a [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 11th '09 |
New SharePoint for Developers Ramp Up Training
Ben Hickman
As part of the MSDN Ramp Up training program, there is now a track for SharePoint Developers: SharePoint for Developers Track This track consists of 5 levels of training content: Web Parts Data Lists Event Handlers Workflow Silverlight Web Parts Each level contains a collection of articles, slide casts, code casts, and virtual labs. This is an awesome new resource to get up to speed with SharePoint development quickly. Do I mention it's free of charge? [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 13th '08 |
SharePoint Guidance from Patterns & Practices
Ben Hickman
The Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft has just released SharePoint Guidance documents. This is Microsoft's recommendations for how to design, develop, deploy and operate architecturally sound applications on the Microsoft platform. This guidance documentation set is targeted at helping you build intranet applications with SharePoint. It's not just a whitepaper. It includes a reference implementation of a training management application built on SharePoint. Meaning you get a better unde [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 7th '08 |
New Home for Ben Hickman's Blog
Ben Hickman
If you got a slew of RSS feed updates today it's because I moved my blog over to MSDN. I've moved all the old posts over here and this is the new home. [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 6th '08 |
Office 14 for the Web
Ben Hickman
Body:
Yesterday at the PDC2008 conference, we announced Office 14 for the Web. There is a great Channel 9 video with a demo:
First Look: Office 14 for Web
There are also some good screen shots on Joel Oleson's blog:
Office 14 Web applications in SharePoint
Office 14 will support rich desktop client, Web browser, and mobile versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. The browser versions will be cross platform and cross browser. These versions will also support simultaneous ed [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 30th '08 |
Office 14 for the Web
Ben Hickman
pYesterday at the PDC2008 conference, we announced Office 14 for the Web. There is a great Channel 9 video with a demo: pa href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/PDCNews/First-Look-Office-14-for-Web/"First Look: Office 14 for Web/a pThere are also some good screen shots on Joel Oleson's blog: pa href="http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d-183c-4fc2-8320-ba5369008acbamp;ID=121"Office 14 Web applications in SharePoint/a pOffice 14 will support rich desktop client, Web bro [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 29th '08 |
Good SharePoint Designer Book
Ben Hickman
Body:
It's good to see some SharePoint Designer books starting to appear. Even though I use Visual Studio .NET alot, I still use SharePoint Designer for master page development, the Data View Web Part, and simple workflows.
I picked up this book and it is especially good at covering the Data View Web Part:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step
by Penelope Coventry
Category: Development
Published: 10/1/2008 11:26 AM [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 2nd '08 |
Good SharePoint Designer Book
Ben Hickman
pIt's good to see some SharePoint Designer books starting to appear. Even though I use Visual Studio .NET alot, I still use SharePoint Designer for master page development, the Data View Web Part, and simple workflows. pI picked up this book and it is especially good at covering the Data View Web Part: pimg alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/imgt/12083.gif" pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/12083.aspx"Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step/a pby Pene [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 1st '08 |
You can just call me 1ed6
Ben Hickman
Body: I've been on vacation and attending conferences in July, thus no postings recently.
We now have Live ID integration on sharepoint.microsoft.com. However, my user profile name is now 1ed6eda2ee11919507f3ad941a791d33, as seen in the posted by on this blog.
You can just call me 1ed6 for short until this gets changed.
Published: 8/6/2008 3:15 PM [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 6th '08 |
Content Rating for MOSS Released on CodePlex
Ben Hickman
Body: I just found out that a Content Rating solution for MOSS 2007 was released to CodePlex earlier this month: Content Rating for MOSS 2007 This is very cool. Now you can build sites that allow users to rate and comment on SharePoint content. For example, create an FAQ site using the Wiki template and allow users to rate the FAQs. It's also used the in the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint so users can rate uploaded Podcasts. The solution includes a database schema, web parts, and fields.
Publish [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 24th '08 |
Content Rating for MOSS Released on CodePlex
Ben Hickman
pI just found out that a Content Rating solution for MOSS 2007 was released to CodePlex earlier this month: blockquote pa href="http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=sptoolboxamp;ReleaseId=13878"Content Rating for MOSS 2007/anbsp; a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/ben_hickman/WindowsLiveWriter/ContentRatingforMOSSReleasedonCodePlex_A644/ContentRating_2.jpg"img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="185" alt="Conte [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 24th '08 |
SharePoint Licensing info
Ben Hickman
Body: I gave an overview presentation last week on SharePoint for Internet and extranet sites. During the Q/A, I got some questions about licensing of WSS and MOSS for these scenarios. There are a number of different parameters that affect licensing and here is a good FAQ on the topic: MOSS 2007 FAQs: Licensing http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101655351033.aspx#2
Published: 6/17/2008 11:40 AM [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 17th '08 |
SharePoint Firestarter Recordings
Ben Hickman
Body:
The recordings of the SharePoint Firestarter event that I presented at last week are now online:
Introduction To Day & Keynote: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032380419&role=attend
Whirlwind SharePoint on Visual Studio: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032380419-1&role=attend
Silverlight on SharePoint: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032380419-2&role=attend
Web Parts on SharePoint: https://www.livemeeting.com/c [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 17th '08 |
New Portland User Group Web site
Ben Hickman
Body: I am very happy to announce that the kind folks at Netropole have created and host a site for the Portland SharePoint User Group: http://www.portlandsharepoint.com. You can use this site to stay up to date on upcoming meetings on the Events calendar (RSS feed). You can also subscribe/unsubscribe from the newsletter on the Home page. We use this list to send out meeting announcements via email. Any suggestions, please leave a comment!
Published: 6/17/2008 10:21 AM [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 17th '08 |
June 2008 PSUG Meeting
Ben Hickman
Body: For June we have a great presentation from James Curry, an instructor with Mindsharp. We also have a fantastic give-away this month. Mindsharp has generously donated a $3,000 voucher for admission to their upcoming training event in Portland! The training event is from July 28 – August 1 and includes the following sessions: 5-day WSS 3.0 Developer (syllabus) 5-day 2007 SharePoint Designer (syllabus) 3-day 2007 SharePoint Power User (syllabus) Mindsharp is also offering a 15% discount to [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 17th '08 |
SharePoint and Web 2.0 Developer Event
Ben Hickman
Body:
Very late notice, but I am presenting at a great day long event on SharePoint & Web 2.0 technologies next Wednesday (6/11/2008). There will be a day full of great developer topics presented by our internal experts. Not to be missed.
You can attend in person in Redmond, WA or via Live Meeting. We have already expanded capacity once, so this event is likely to fill up:
Register NOW to attend In-person!
Register HERE to attend via Live Meeting!
Agenda
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Breakfas [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 6th '08 |
Now Here's a T-Shirt
Ben Hickman
Body: "My WebPart can beat up your server control." Warms the heart of a SharePoint Developer.
Category: Development
Published: 6/2/2008 2:31 PM
Attachments: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/BenHickman/Lists/Posts/Attachments/12/MyWebPartCan_3.jpg [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 2nd '08 |
New Resource for SharePoint Developers
Ben Hickman
Body: We have a new site to help .NET developers get going with SharePoint development: http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com The site is organized by SharePoint artifacts that developers can create to extend SharePoint: Web Parts Data Lists Event Handlers Workflows Silverlight Web Parts Page Navigation Page Branding Web Services Content Types User Management I often talk to IT developers about SharePoint the development platform. The majority of intranet and Internet applications that you pic [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 2nd '08 |
Connecting the dots
Ben Hickman
Body:
Here is an MSDN article I co-wrote a looong time ago:
ATL Server and Visual Studio .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301340.aspx
and here is an MSDN author RSS feed in case I ever write anything again:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300998.aspx?pr=blog
Published: 4/15/2008 12:35 PM [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 2nd '08 |
Released: MOSS Search Connectors for FileNet and Documentum
Ben Hickman
Body: We have released indexing connectors for IBM FileNet and EMC Documentum for crawling and returning search results from these repositories. These work with MOSS 2007, Search Server 2008, and Search Server 2008 Express: Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC Documentum
Category: Enterprise Search
Published: 5/30/2008 4:38 PM [read].
Posted: Fri, May 30th '08 |
May Portland SharePoint User Group Meeting
Ben Hickman
Body:
We had a great SharePoint user group meeting this week here in Portland, OR. Jason Noble from Neudesic gave a great presentation on Master Pages in SharePoint Designer. Not only did Jason cover master page controls and structure, he also described a process for going from requirements to completed master page. Neudesic also threw in a Zune give-away, which was awesome.
Jason has shared some documents from his presentation:
Jason Nobel - Mastering Master Pages presentation
Jason's Minim [read].
Posted: Thu, May 29th '08 |
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