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Live Chat with the SharePoint MVPs on July 21
Darrin Bishop
pfont size="3" face="Tahoma"Got a question about SharePoint?  Join 18 SharePoint MVPs on a live chat  on July 21 where you get to ask the panel questions around SharePoint.  Eighteen  MVPs  are scheduled to answer your questions. The MVPs select for the July 21 chat session include those with administration, development, design and end user specialties.  /font/p pfont size="3" face="Tahoma"br / Visit a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10
Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 Released
Darrin Bishop
pfont size="2" face="Tahoma"Many of you know that I have been involved in an advisory role with the Patterns amp; Practice team for SharePoint.  Yesterday the Pamp;P team wrapped up the 2010 guidance for developing apps using SharePoint 2010.  If you are a SharePoint developer then at an absolute minimum, you MUST read the documentation that is included in the downloads.  The Pamp;P team has some of the best guidance on the various topics covered.  Also included in the download is code that [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10
SharePoint 2010 Hangs after Visual Studio 2010 F5 Debugging
Darrin Bishop
pfont size="3" face="Tahoma"Lately I have been having some issues with debugging a fairly simple Visual  Studio 2010/SharePoint 2010 project.   Whenever I deploy the project to the farm,  Internet Explorer launches, tries to connect to the SharePoint site and more often than not  the web server times out before the debugger is attached and the site is up and running.  Occasionally it loads after a long wait period but will normally time out before I get a chance to do any real debugging./f [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 24th '10
The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered
Darrin Bishop
pfont size="2" face="Tahoma"The SharePoint 2010 Management Shell shot me this message earlier this week. I was logged on as a local administrator and farm administrator to boot. I was able to manage the farm using the Central Administration site PowerShell simply refused to load the cmdlets.  /font/p pimg border="1" hspace="5" alt="Local farm is not accessable." vspace="5" width="400" height="199" src="/images/PSNotAccessable.png" //p pfont size="2" face="Tahoma"This warning is displayed when t [read].
Posted: Wed, May 26th '10
SharePoint Chat – April 27 and 28th !
Darrin Bishop
pfont face=""Get your SharePoint questions answered on April 27th at 4pm PDT by a collection of SharePoint MVPs and on April 28 9am PDT.  Join me and a handful of SharePoint MVPs on April 27th including  Bill English, Becky Bertram, Sahil Malik, Shane Young, Clayton Cobb, Asif Rehmani, Agnes Molnar, Matt McDermott, Rob Bogue, Sifullah Shafiq Ahmed, Serge Tremblay, Mike Oryszak  as we chat about SharePoint 2010. /font/p pfont face=""And if you do not get enough SharePoint chat on April feel fr [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10
Best of Mix April 20, Springfield, IL
Darrin Bishop
pfont size="3" face="Tahoma"Did not get  to MIX 2010? Missed all the great announcements? If you are in the Springfield, IL area on April 20th stop by for the Best of Mix.   Dave Bost of Microsoft will be in Springfield, Il to provide a Best of Mix session. Dave will recap  items such  as the Windows Phone 7, Silverlight 4, oData and IE9.  /font/p pfont size="3" face="Tahoma"To register for this free event go to:/font/p pfont size="3" face="Tahoma" font face=""a href="https://www.clicktoa [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10
Custome SharePoint Timer Job Stuck Initializing
Darrin Bishop
pfont size="3" face=""Simple enough, I was creating a timer job that got "stuck" initializing.  After a few resets  and reinstalls the custom timer job just would not exit from the initializing state.   After a few  IISResets and redeploys there was no change. The job would initialize but not complete. A check of the ULS showed errors associated with the new timer job:  /font/p pfont size="3" face=""em"The previous instance of the timer job 'xyz', id '{Cf27333E-482D-47CC-B098-38B86167DBCF} [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 25th '10
MVP Chat – March 15!
Darrin Bishop
pfont size="3" face="Tahoma"Get your SharePoint questions answered on March 15th at 9 PDT by a collection of SharePoint MVPs.  Join me and a handful of SharePoint MVPs including  Andrew Connell, Becky Bertram, Brendon Schwartz, Dan Attis, Daniel Larson, John Ross, Matthew McDermott, Mike Oryszak , Paul Galvin, Paul Schaeflein, Randy Drisgill, and Rob Foster as we chat about WSS, MOSS and SharePoint 2010.  This is the first event that will be repeated with different MVPs and topics./font/p [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 15th '10
SharePoint 2010 SneakPeek!
Darrin Bishop
Head to http://sharepoint.microsoft.com to view three videos of what you can expect from SharePoint 2010!  These are quick looks into what SharePoint 2010 might ship with.  Trust me there are some amazing demos in these videos. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09
SharePoint Saturday Chicago Schedule Posted
Darrin Bishop
For those who are registered for SharePoint Saturday in Chicago  you can find the schedule and information  at : http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/chicago/default.aspx Saturday Schedule   [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09
SharePoint Team Blog Announces Important SP2 Issue
Darrin Bishop
Last night  Jeff Teper announced a SP2 issue where a product expiration date was improperly set. After installation the licensing may be set to Evaluation which will cause the farm to stop working after 180 days.  MS is working on a hotfix, but in the mean time your farms are fine. Even if you fail to install the forthcoming hotfix your farm will not be accessible to users but your data is safe and secure until the patch is applied. Soon there will be a KB article (971620) that will explain a [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09
Announcing the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group
Darrin Bishop
Please join us for the first meeting of the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group.  The  Central Illinois SharePoint User Group  provides a venue for anyone who is interested in learning more about Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.  We hope to provide a means for organizations within the Central Illinois region to connect and discuss all areas of SharePoint with the help of some great speakers.  If you are thinking about SharePoint, starting with SharePoin [read].
Posted: Tue, May 19th '09
Windows 7 Release Candidate Now Available
Darrin Bishop
Windows 7 Release Candidate is available for download today. It looks like you will only be able to download from TechNet or MSDN until May 5. I read somewhere that you would need to do a clean install from a Beta version of Windows 7.  I will probably spend the weekend backing up my Dell, wiping it clean and installing Windows 7.   [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 30th '09
SharePoint SP2 is Now Available
Darrin Bishop
Here are the links to SP2 for WSS 3 and MOSS.  Remember to install the WSS SP2 on MOSS before you install MOSS SP2.   Lots of fixes and updates to get us closer to SharePoint 2010. MOSS 2007 SP2 contains updates to MOSS,  Groove Server, Excel Services,  Forms Server, Project Server and Search Server.  Make sure you grab the correct platform version -x86 or x64. WSS 3.0 SP2 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B&displaylang=e [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09
vNext SharePoint is Officially Announced
Darrin Bishop
Sure we all knew the next version of SharePoint is under development but today Microsoft has released an official Press Release  refering to the next version of SharePoint as SharePoint Server 2010.    Yep the name Microsoft Office is not offically part of the name but I would not read much into that.   Read the press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx Adding the SharePoint team blog post url: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009 [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 15th '09
SharePoint Product Team TweetStream
Darrin Bishop
After a short pause the SharePoint Product Group is back onTwitter. http://twitter.com/SharePoint [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 26th '09
SPTechCon Day 3 Wrap Up
Darrin Bishop
I started day 3 delivering my session on PowerShell and SharePoint.  One of the first demos failed but we - the attendees and I recovered nicely.  Seems that most in the audience has had little exposure with  PowerShell but they were eager non-the-less.  We spent the session working with PowerShell and SharePoint using both the object model and STSADM.  The session actually went over by 15 minutes when one of the conference organizer stopped by to mention that it was time for a break.  Not [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 31st '09
SPTechCon - SlideDeck for SharePoint/PowerShell Session
Darrin Bishop
Here are the slides used in the SPTechCon's SharePoint/PowerShell session. SPTechCon_PowerShellSharePoint [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 29th '09
SPTechCon Day 1 Wrap Up
Darrin Bishop
Time to call it a night here in San Francisco.  Though I got in late today I did manage to run into a few friends here in the Hyatt.   Bob Mixon and I ran into each other a few different times tonight. Good discussions on PerformancePoint, PowerShell and SharePoint.   I never made it to the SharePoint/Share Pint  meet but instead met up with Shane Young, Todd Klindt and John Ross.  Between all of us we managed to solve all the SharePoint issues and a few pressing economic issues as well. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 28th '09
Arrived at SPTechCon in San Francisco
Darrin Bishop
Despite American Airlines cancelling my flight  the 24 before it took off,  despite the bad weather that had me leaving a day early for the airport and despite being delayed out of ST Louis for 40 minutes and barely making my connecting flight I made it to SPTechCon in San Francisco.   I was beginning to think that the deck was stacked against me. SPTechCon started today with in the Hyatt with four half-day  long  pre con sessions. Tomorrow  Tom Rizzo of Microsoft fame will be the keynot [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 28th '09
Big Changes in Performance Point Server and MOSS! I cant wait!
Darrin Bishop
This is great for the SharePoint world!  Last week Microsoft announced that anyone who purchased MOSS Enterprise with Software Assurance would now be able to access Performance Point Server with no additional CALs.   I had heard about this sometime ago.  But wait there is more Performance Point Server is actually "two" products : Planning Server - Supports the planning of an organization. Monitoring and Analytics Server  - Dashboards, charts, graphs and KPIs. Microsoft announced Friday th [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 26th '09
The New Laptop - ThinkPad W500
Darrin Bishop
Well I finally caved in and "replaced" my Dell XPS M1330 ( the machine with the faulty NVIDIA card) with a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad W500.   The W500 is the 15 inch rebirth of the T61P series which was the powerhouse line for ThinkPad. Not a bad deal, end-of-year,  got a nice set of rebates and discounts. I grabbed the middle of the road option for the W500 and upgraded the monitor and added an extra slot drive to replace the CD with a second SATA drive. The W500 has dual video cards, a high [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 17th '09
Two New Asp.Net AJAX Books Going on the Shelf
Darrin Bishop
Picked up our own SharePoint MVP Rob Foster's  "ASP.Net 3.5 Ajax Unleashed" book for the ride home from MSDN DevCon.  So far this seems to be a great introduction into ASP.Net Ajax.  I have not spent that much time working with Ajax so I thought this would be a good read on the train.  I would catagorize Rob's book as a hands on type book, lots of easy examples to explain the basics of ASP.Net 3.5. It is not a hard or complicated read, simple and to the point. Now if you like something a l [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 15th '09
Chicago MSDN Developer's Conference Wrap Up
Darrin Bishop
Chicago MSDN Developer's Conference is a wrap.  The MSDN Dev Con's are put on by regional speakers using the same or similar slide decks from PDC.   We walked in a little late after breakfast to catch the end of the keynote speaker.  Very rarely do you find me watching the keynote.  The most interesting bit of information from the keynote was the ability of Windows 7 to natively  mount  VHDs, basically allowing you to access your Virtual PC files without starting up Virtual PC. Even bette [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 13th '09
SharePoint MVP - Renewed for another Year
Darrin Bishop
Another year has gone by. For myself the year end is marked with a flurry of paperwork for the good old government, last minute tech purchases for the business and writing out final expense checks.  The new year starts with  the wait for the SharePoint MVP renewal email.  Looks like once again I am in with the likes of Bob Fox, Andrew Connell, Todd Klindt and whole host of others too numerous to mention but all great SharePoint players.  This is my 4th award period , the first was way back w [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 2nd '09
St Louis Day of .Net
Darrin Bishop
Sitting at ST Louis Day of .Net. Over 250 attendees here listening to topics from SharePoint to Azure with SQL Server in the middle. I did my PowerShell and SharePoint sessions twice before lunch. I am sitting in Dave Bost's Azure talk. The morning sessions for SharePoint were about PowerShell and SharePoint and Updating SharePoint (J.D. Wade). This afternoon Becky is speaking on wild card search in MOSS and one on features. I plan on catching the wild card search, and then move on to some .Net [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 13th '08
MacBooks and NVIDIA GPU Failure
Darrin Bishop
Similar to Dell and HP Apple has released a tech notice about NVIDIA's acknowledgement of a "higher than normal failure rate" of some of their GPUs.  Apple  is providing free repairs for 2 yrs from the date of purchase regardless of warranty status. MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 13th '08
Need a New Laptop, Suggestions?
Darrin Bishop
My Dell XPS M1330 Laptop is having issues, again. It seems  that the NVIDIA GPU is having some issues  with overheating.  I have had the motherboard replaced once already and now it is acting up again.  Dell's current solution is a BIOS update that will basically run the fan non-stop. But that is a not a real fix.  I might replace the MB once more and that will be it. I loved the machine but it is proven to be untrustworthy and I rely on it too heavily to be without it while I wait for [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 5th '08
The Last Pint - Remembering a Friend
Darrin Bishop
I almost did not check my emails before I left the house today… One cannot explain the grief I felt when I checked the mail on the phone and realized the SharePoint community lost a dear friend. Wading though way too many eamils this morning to my disbelief I leaned that Patrick Tisseghem passed away. Patrick was practically a SharePoint icon, not only in the European community but world-wide.  Many of us have had the pleasure of meeting Patrick at one of his training sessions, SharePoint c [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 5th '08
SharePoint Integrated Reporting Services - Manifest does not match
Darrin Bishop
After a successful, long and painful installation and configuration of SQL Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode with Kerberos I finally forced SSRS to work very nicely with my R&D SharePoint lab this week. Yesterday I installed SQL Reporting Services and SP2 on an existing MOSS box in our integrated development environment. Installation and configuration of SSRS went smooth an easy up until I logged into Central Admin to configure Reporting Services.  I  received the followin [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 21st '08
AddSolution - Failed to extract the cab file
Darrin Bishop
Seems like I have been building and deploying features and solution for weeks. I have run into this error while attempting to  add a solution to the solution store:   Failed to extract the cab file in the solution. Seems like there is more than a few reasons why you might see this return from your STSADM addsolution command but for myself each time was this error was associated with a duplicate entry in my .ddf file. I spent some time trying to determine what was causing this error and then [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 13th '08
Social Computing In SharePoint, MS Resource
Darrin Bishop
I happen to be tracing down a specific Microsoft Press release and happened across Microsoft's "Learn more about Social Computing" a set of SharePoint Social Computing resources. This site contains many resources about social computing using SharePoint including case studies, white papers and news. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/collaboration/social.mspx   [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 2nd '08
Infrastructure Update Issues
Darrin Bishop
Microsoft's Infrastructure Updates have been out for about a week now. There does seem to be some potential big issues with the updates breaking third party products. Microsoft also has posted a KB article on Alternate Access Mappings issues associated with the Infrastructure updates. Here are a few key posts you should be looking at if you have installed or are considering installing  the Infrastructure Updates: AAM issue with Infrastructure Update Description of the Infrastructure Update for [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 24th '08
Free Vista SP1 Support From Microsoft
Darrin Bishop
Microsoft has announced free, unlimited installation and compatibility support for Vista SP1 starting right now until March 18, 2009.  Don't you love that word Free! The deal is Telephone support available world wide, chat and email support US and Canada only. Information and details are available at: http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx?rdpath=1&prid=11274&gprid=500921 [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 17th '08
Announcing the International SharePoint Professionals Association
Darrin Bishop
SharePoint Professionals Association, also known as ‘ISPA’, is an independent, not-for-profit, community-driven organization dedicated to support SharePoint professionals and groups all around the world.  The primary mission of ISPA is to promote the global adoption of SharePoint Technologies by providing support and guidance to the SharePoint community as a whole – by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals, groups, resources, education and information.  ISPA is led an [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 16th '08
SharePoint Magazine Is Live
Darrin Bishop
SharePoint Magazine is a new online resource for your SharePoint information. Arno Nel from South Africa is the Magazine's editor.  Check it out at www.sharepointmagazine.net [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 16th '08
Speed up PowerShell Startup
Darrin Bishop
I caught this little gem (Update-Gac.ps1) on the PowerShell Team blog while I was catching up on posts. This script will Ngen the PowerShell assemblies for a quicker start up. Ngen is a .NET utility that will create a native images that are stored in a cache which can be then used by the framework alleviating some of the JIT-ing at startup. I ran this script and noticed a big difference in the start up times. I will run this on all my machines.  [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 15th '08
Daniel Larson's new Service-Oriented AJAX Book - First Preorder Wins!
Darrin Bishop
Many of you probably have seen Daniel Larson speak at one or more SharePoint conferences and know that he is big into Ajax.  Daniel's newest book from MSPress - "Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft® Platform" is now available from Amazon for preorder.  Check out Dan's blog post "Pre-order on Amazon: Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft® Platform". Dan is going to give away the first confirmed  pre-order book. Good Luck. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 14th '08
GetActiveFeatureDefinitions - A SharePoint PowerShell Function
Darrin Bishop
Here is one more feature-related PowerShell script to quickly display which features are active based on a given SharePoint url. This script takes a SharePoint end point (url) as the first parameter and optional exclude parameters for each of the possible feature scopes.  This function will output SPFeatureDefinition objects that will display in the PowerShell host or can be used further in the pipeline as SPFeatureDefinitions.   I want to point out that this function returns SPFeatureDefin [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 14th '08
GetFeatureAndDependencies - A SharePoint PowerShell Function
Darrin Bishop
As stated in my previous post, GetFeatureDefinition - A SharePoint PowerShell Function, I have been  working on deploying a solution that contained multiple features which lead me down the road of feature activation dependencies. My current client's hosting environment has me looking to see just what I can pull off with hidden features and cross-scope dependencies.  In searching out any best practices around solution and feature packaging Scott Hillier suggested that I dig into the MOSS publis [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 7th '08
GetFeatureDefinition - A SharePoint PowerShell Function
Darrin Bishop
I cant believe I have not posted this simple PowerShell function. I have been doing some packaging of features and solutions lately so many of my feature-related scripts come to the foreground. The GetFeatureDefintion function will return either a single Feature Defintion (SPFeatureDefinition)  if you pass in a Feature Id or all feature definitions ( Array of Feature Definitions)  on the farm .  This is a great little function to include in your profile.  Before you attempt to use this funct [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 3rd '08
A Problem Is Preventing Windows From Accurately Checking the License for this Computer
Darrin Bishop
Instant Karma for taking a break from work to attend Tech Ed 2008….  Return my "office"  which is affectionately known as the Data Center to find the R & D computers acting strangely.  A reboot of all the machine is in order which fixes all but one virtual machine.  The offending VM is the R & D Performance Point  and ProClarity server and the error message is a ambiguous:  "A Problem Is Preventing Windows From Accurately Checking the License for this Computer".  I have no ide [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 23rd '08
Tech Ed 2008 - OFC07-TLC - Building Windows PowerShell Cmdlets for Microsoft SharePoint
Darrin Bishop
For those that attended OFC07-TLC - Thanks! Here are the files and slide deck  for OFC07-TLC  Building Windows PowerShell Cmdlets for Microsoft SharePoint. The demo builds a simple Get-Web cmdlet and a Web Feature Provider.  Remember this is "conference" code and not production code :) demo purposes only! As always, I am interested in comments and feedback about the demo, slides, or session. File: http://www.darrinbishop.com/files/OFC07_TLC.zip   [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 22nd '08
Speaking at a Free Half Day SharePoint Seminar in Springfield, Il.
Darrin Bishop
For those of you located in or around Springfield, Illinois there will be a half day session on SharePoint at the Springfield Crowne Plaza on Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Crowne Plaza Hotel 3000 S. Dirksen Parkway Springfield Illinois 62703 There will be an opening session presented by Microsoft for everyone and followed by sessions in two tracks each with two break-out sessions. Register at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032376658&Culture=en-US Here is a breakdo [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 21st '08
SharePoint and Videos
Darrin Bishop
I was asked earlier this week if I knew of any SharePoint Web Parts for Media Player.   After looking around and asking a few other SharePoint people I have come up with a short but quick list of ways to integrated video with SharePoint. 1) Media Player Web Part  - http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ajp/archive/2007/07/18/media-player.aspx. I have not used this yet but it is a Web Part that with an embedded instance of Media Player. 2) Microsoft Interactive Media Manager - http://www.codeplex.co [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 17th '08
Find Me at the Bloomington .Net User Group
Darrin Bishop
Find me in Bloomington, Illinois in January.  I will be speaking at the  Bloomington .NET User Group on January 8 2008. I will be covering SharePoint and PowerShell  ( one of my favorite subjects ).  For those of you in the Central Illinois area please stop by. Get the details at:  http://bloomingtondotnet.org/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 17th '07
SharePoint Designer SP1 Download
Darrin Bishop
And here I thought that SharePoint Designer was part of the Office Suite. Apparently not to be confused with the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite download… Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Here is what is included in the O2007 Office Suite SP1 according to the download page… ( though it seems like Front Page is not included even though it is listed)  Microsoft® Office Basic 2007 Microsoft® Office Enterprise 2007 Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 Micr [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 11th '07
Office Servers, Clients and WSS v3 SP1 Now Available for Download
Darrin Bishop
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1) 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)   [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 11th '07
WSS Resource Center Launched!
Darrin Bishop
Check out the newly redesigned WSS Resource Center with links to: Administration Pages and User Interface Provisioning Security Web Parts Follow the links to find the information you are looking for. [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 9th '07
4 Gigs on the Laptop
Darrin Bishop
In the last couple of months I finally upgraded my Dell XPS M1330 from 2 GB to 4 GB and what a difference it makes!  Yes, since I am running 32 bit Vista my machine only sees about 3.5 gig of the total  4 gig.  With 4 GB of memory (and a 4 GB SDHC card for ReadyBoost) I see a remarkable improvement when using my Virtual Machines on the 1330. Now that I actually have enough RAM to run my Vista host system  (~1.5GB) and a SharePoint VPC  (2GB) I find that I spend more time designing from the [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 6th '07
Five Simple But Powerful PowerShell Functions/Filters for SharePoint
Darrin Bishop
To start out, a function in PowerShell  is similar to a function in any  other development language. (See my last post  "Commands in PowerShell" for a little PowerShell basics on command and functions.)  It takes zero or more inputs,  runs zero or more statements and possibly returns one or more values.  Functions in PowerShell are a way to gather up multiple statements into a functional, reusable piece of code.  Below is a shell of a basic function in PowerShell. Function DoThis($var) [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 28th '07
SharePoint Pro Online Live
Darrin Bishop
 I know this is last minute but I Daniel Larson passed this around last night….  SharePoint Pro Online Live This is a free online event for those that can attend  on October 17, 2007 starting at 11:00 EDT. If you register and listen in you can catch the following free sessions: Melissa Fraser Configuring Content and Document Management within SharePoint Portal Server Andrew Connell Introducing Features! A Deep Dive into the New "Feature" Infrastructure in Windows SharePoint Services Da [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 17th '07
Updated WSS and MOSS SDK Ready for Download
Darrin Bishop
The newest version of the WSS and MOSS SDK has been posted to Microsoft Download. It is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en   [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 22nd '07



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SharePoint Resources


Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (PRO-Developer) by Patrick Tisseghem


Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server MCMS: Working with the Publishing API, Placeholders, Search, Web Services, RSS, and Sharepoint Integration by Lim Mei Ying


Professional Microsoft Search: SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008 (Wrox Professional Guides) by Tom Rizzo


Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Ryan Teeter


SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform by Seth Bates


Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices by Ben Curry


Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step by Penelope Coventry


Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers by Jeff Webb


Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Woodrow W. Windischman


Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Programmer to Programmer) by Amanda Murphy


Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by Olga Londer


Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed by Michael Noel


Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Vanessa L. Williams


The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users by Robert Bogue


The Microsoft SharePoint Step by Step Kit: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Step by Step and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Bpg-Other) by Olga Londer


SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint by Dux Sy


Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Göran Husman


Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Programmer to Programmer) by John Holliday


Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) by Ted Pattison; Daniel Larson


Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion by Bill English


Professional SharePoint 2007 Design (Wrox Professional Guides) by Jacob J. Sanford


Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by P. Tisseghem


Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Programmer to Programmer) by Robert Bogue


Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by C. A. Callahan


Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007 (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) by Ed Hild


Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft® SharePoint® Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (BP-Other) by Michael Sampson


Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Andrew Connell


Building Web Applications with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by John Jansen


Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Bible by Vikram Kartik


SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide by James Pyles


Microsoft SharePoint 2003 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Vanessa L. Williams


Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word (Expert's Voice) by Michael Antonovich


Building Content Type Solutions in SharePoint 2007 by David Gerhardt


Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by Olga Londer


MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-630 by James Pyles


Inside SharePoint Administration by Steve Caravajal


Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes by Colin Spence


Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Quick Source Guide by Quick Source


Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Administrator's Pocket Consultant by Ben Curry


SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Sharepoint) by Mark Gerow


Essential SharePoint 2007 by Scott Jamison


Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Workflow Programming by Dr. Shahram Khosravi





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