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Introduction to SharePoint 2010 – Part 5 (Screencast)
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This entry is part of a series, Introduction to SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT
SharePoint eLearning
This is the fifth of the free videos. Feel free to download and distribute freely.
Creating and Customizing a SharePoint Page
This video shows a detailed demonstration of how to create and customize SharePoint pages using the browser. Many of the options in the ribbon are explored. First, a new page is created on the site then it is cus [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 27th '10 |
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 – Part 4 (Screencast)
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This entry is part of a series, Introduction to SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT
SharePoint eLearning
This is the fourth of the free videos. Feel free to download and distribute freely.
Changing the Theme of a Site
A Site’s Theme provides the look and feel of a site. The colors, fonts, images can all be changed by applying a new Theme to a site. Themes are packages of styles and images that can be applied to a site. Keep in mind t [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 26th '10 |
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 – Part 3 (Screencast)
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This entry is part of a series, Introduction to SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT
SharePoint eLearning
This is the third of the free videos. Feel free to download and distribute freely.
Change the Title, Description, URL and Icon for the site
If you are the administrator of the site, it is easy for you to change the title, description, URL and icon for the site. However, there are some gotchas that you should be aware of when doing this. [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 25th '10 |
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 – Part 2 (Screencast)
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This entry is part of a series, Introduction to SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT
SharePoint eLearning
This is the second of the free videos. Feel free to download and distribute freely.
Exploring a SharePoint 2010 Site
This video explores the makeup of a SharePoint site. The Quick Launch, Ribbon and Content Area of the site pages are discussed. Also, the navigation scheme of the sites is explored.
Your browser cannot play this video. [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10 |
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 – Part 1 (Screencast)
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This entry is part of a series, Introduction to SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT
SharePoint eLearning
Over the next few days, I will be posting a few free videos that we have made available at SharePoint-Videos.com to download. These are beginner level SharePoint 2010 videos to help folks to quickly ramp up on the new platform. Feel free to download and distribute freely.
Creating a SharePoint 2010 Site
This video shows a couple of differ [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 23rd '10 |
Driving User Adoption…Socially | SharePoint and Badges
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Guest Author: Daniel McPherson
zevenseas
I recently presented a session titled “How to be more Social” at the SharePoint Australia and New Zealand conferences. The basic premise was to talk about some of the experience I picked up helping large organisations do better Knowledge Management through “Social Computing”. It’s things like http://demo.zevenseas.com.
As the events got closer, I decided to include something a little “out there [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 20th '10 |
SharePoint 2007 style view selector for SharePoint 2010
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Guest Author: Alexander Bautz
SharePoint JavaScripts
I have just started to look at SharePoint 2010, but one of the first things I noticed, was how cumbersome it was to change view in a list or library. In the default “Browse” layout, you must use at least 4 clicks to change view.
I therefore made this solution to add a SharePoint 2007 style view selector to the top link bar:
As always we start like this:
Create a document library to hold your scripts (or a folder on [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 19th '10 |
SharePoint Community: Something old, something new, something borrowed something blue
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If you follow EndUserSharePoint.com on a regular basis, you know that we are in the process of reorganizing the site to make it more useable, more flexible, in the way that you can find information. As I thought through how I’d like to reorganize the site, it became apparent that my dilemma wasn’t a unique one.
The SharePoint Community in general is so wide and so diverse, it is difficult to create a simple way to organize information across different types of SharePoint sites. The [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 14th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Records Management Overview
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This entry is part of a series, Records Management Solutions» Guest Author: Michal Pisarek
Before we dive in to creating our Records Management solution its worth to overview the various tools and features that we will use to construct our solution. SharePoint 2010 has come leaps and bounds in Enterprise Content Management, a vast range of these tools can be applied to our Records Management solution as well.
In forming a solution it is worth to try to determine what we are trying to a [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 14th '10 |
Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 – Part 7: Live Bindings
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This entry is part of a series, Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Lee Richardson
http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/
ASP.Net AJAX Templating is a compelling new client side technology from Microsoft that allows developers to more quickly build responsive and maintainable AJAX applications. Because ASP.Net AJAX Templating and SharePoint 2010 both support the oData protocol they are a powerful combination. This post in the series will focus [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 12th '10 |
My Favorite SharePoint 2010 Search Features Include:
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This entry is part of a series, SharePoint 2010 Search Features» Guest Author: Agnes Molnar
This is the first article of my series about SharePoint Search, including FAST Search for SharePoint 2010.
Although MOSS 2007 also has has very powerful Search capabilities, the SharePoint 2010 improvements are very impressive. In this article I’ll enumerate the most important capabilities of SharePoint 2010 Search, not including FAST Search. This one will be the topic of my next artic [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 5th '10 |
Consuming SharePoint Content Types in Office 2010
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Guest Author: Michal Pisarek
One of the many requests from users was the ability to create SharePoint content from within the Office clients. Instead of a user needing to navigate to a library to create particular item based on a Content Type it would be great if this could be done directly through Word, Excel, One Note or Powerpoint.
Not only would this save time but the ability to control and define templates within SharePoint, while allowing users the option to create to these Content Types f [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10 |
Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 – Part 6: Master-Details
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This entry is part of a series, Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Lee Richardson
http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/
ASP.Net AJAX Templating is a compelling new client side technology from Microsoft that allows developers to more quickly build responsive and maintainable AJAX applications. Because ASP.Net AJAX Templating and SharePoint 2010 both support the oData protocol they are a powerful combination. This post in the series will focus o [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 29th '10 |
Create a Records Management Solution in SharePoint 2010
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This entry is part of a series, Records Management Solutions» Guest Author: Michal Pisarek
There has been a lot of talk within the SharePoint community in regards to the new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features in SharePoint 2010.
Records Management had some weaknesses in MOSS 2007 which caused many customers reluctance in adopting the platform to truly manage content from creation through to disposition.
Fortunately in SharePoint 2010 there has been a significant investment in [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 24th '10 |
Taxonomy, Metadata and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010 – Series Summary and Conclusions
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This entry is part of a series, Taxonomy, Metadata and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Jeff Carr
Our enterprise systems themselves are only able to take us so far, and it’s crucial to be cognizant of the fact that there’s still a lot of outside work that needs to be done. The underlying foundation required to leverage our technological capability is derived from the establishment of strong publishing models, standard workflow processes, co [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 22nd '10 |
Workflow Designer in SharePoint Designer 2010
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This entry is part of a series, Asif Rehmani - SharePoint Designer 2010» Guest Author: Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT
SharePoint eLearning
This article is the third in the series trying to demystify all that SharePoint Designer 2010 has to offer. Check out the other two articles here:
User Interfaces of SharePoint Designer 2010
Site Level Customizations and Settings using SharePoint Designer 2010
Also, related to this article, you can watch the SharePoint Designer [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Importing Taxonomy Using the Managed Metadata Import File
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This entry is part of a series, Taxonomy, Metadata and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Jeff Carr
Taxonomy managed in another tool outside of the SharePoint environment may be imported into SharePoint 2010. Although Terms and Term Sets can be created manually using the functionality provided by the Term Store Management Tool, a significantly simpler approach to taxonomy creation is through importation.
Term Sets can be imported into existing Groups by Taxonom [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 15th '10 |
Site Level Customizations and Settings using SharePoint Designer 2010
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This entry is part of a series, Asif Rehmani - SharePoint Designer 2010» Guest Author: Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT
SharePoint eLearning
In the last article, I described the screens and interfaces that users would interact with in SharePoint Designer 2010 (SPD). This article will dig into working with specifically the settings and customizations you can make at the SharePoint site level using SPD. So let’s dive in!
As far as site creation is concerned, SP [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 14th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Administering Taxonomy Using Term Store Management
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This entry is part of a series, Taxonomy, Metadata and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Jeff Carr
Now that we’ve developed a fairly solid understanding of the importance of taxonomy as it relates to information management and the user experience, let’s take a look at how it’s administered. Taxonomy management in SharePoint 2010 sees a significant improvement over functionality offered by the product’s predecessors.
First [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 10th '10 |
How to Install SharePoint 2010 on Small Farm – Part 1: Full Installation on Small Farm up to Managing Service Applications
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This entry is part of a series, Install SharePoint 2010 on Small Farm» Guest Author: Fabian Williams
http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com
Synopsis: This is a two part blog, I will be focusing on the General Installation and configuration, then I will discuss how to set up User Profile Services which I know gives a few folks he willies in part 2.
In this blog we will run through the process of installing SharePoint 2010 in a small Farm Environment. In this topology we have two ser [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 9th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Using Retention Stages to Manage the Lifecycle of Information
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This entry is part of a series, Taxonomy, Metadata and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Jeff Carr
With hundreds or thousands of employees generating information on a daily basis, there’s bound to be a buildup of ROT (content that is “Redundant, Outdated or Trivial”). When left unattended, this content can quickly evolve into a negative user experience, particularly in search as users are forced to sift through pages of irrelevant [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 8th '10 |
Understanding Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010: its Impact on Taxonomy, Navigation and Search – Part 2: Focusing on Content Organizer, Routing Rules, Content Types and Search
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This entry is part of a series, Understanding Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Fabian Williams
http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com
Synopsis: Building on my previous post Understanding Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010: its Impact on Taxonomy, Navigation and Search we discussed how Managed Metadata may be used to build out a Sites Taxonomy and Folksonomy, aid in Navigation and compliment or extend Search. In this post we will discuss the role of the Content Orga [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 7th '10 |
Navigating SharePoint 2010 – Part 2: The Quick Launch
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This entry is part of a series, Navigating SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Adam Macaulay
The Quick Launch is a site by site navigation panel which you can use to access any link that has been specified. By default you will see options such as Libraries, and Lists. Technically the Recycle Bin and (View) All Site Content are not a part of the Quick Launch and are instead their own links that live beneath the Quick Launch.
The Quick Launch hasn’t changed much since 2003 except i [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 4th '10 |
SharePoint: Build your Taxonomy in MindManger and Import it to the Term Store
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Author: Ruven Gotz
Fabian Williams has done a fabulous job explaining how to work with managed metadata in SharePoint 2010. Like Fabian, I too was intrigued with Wictor Wilén’s Excel script for generating the required CSV more easily. But then my mind started to turn over: I love building my metadata taxonomies in MindManger. I wondered if I could somehow create a taxonomy map that would allow a user to really see and work with their taxonomy, but that would then generate [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10 |
Create SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata with Excel 2010
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Guest Author: Wictor Wilén
Building the metadata structure in the Term Store Manager in SharePoint 2010 is not the most convenient way. I prefer working with the metadata structure and terms in an Excel document so that I can discuss the structure with colleagues and clients before implementing it.
The Term Store Manager allows you to import a comma separated text file containing a Term Set. By default the Excel 2010 Save as CSV does not save in the correct format and for that I have [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 2nd '10 |
Understanding Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010: its Impact on Taxonomy, Navigation and Search – Part 1: Focusing on Managed Metadata, Term Store, Navigation and Search
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This entry is part of a series, Understanding Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010»
Guest Author: Fabian Williams
http://fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com
Acknowledgement:
First I would like to thank Wictor Wilén (MVP / Author / MCT / MCTS / MCP / MSc) out of Sweden who’s article Create SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata with Excel 2010 was instrumental in speeding up the process of creating my Managed Metadata Term Store for both a live project and this blog. I wou [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 1st '10 |
To Do or Not to Do, That is the Question: Styling the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon
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Marcy Kellar, The SharePoint Muse, is working with me to help redesign the interface for EndUserSharePoint.com so that content can actually be found. The site is being built from the ground up with the help of Marcy, Jeremy Thake from SharePointDevWiki.com for the Develper issues and Joel Oleson from SharePointJoel.com for the ITPro issues.
Jeremy sent Marcy and me a note pointing to an article by Tom Wilson: “Guys just read Tom’s post on this . I think you should do something similar to [read].
Posted: Mon, May 31st '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Share Content Types Across Site Collections
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This entry is part of a series, Taxonomy, Metadata and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010» Guest Author: Jeff Carr
Working through the process of developing an enterprise information management strategy uncovers elements common across the organization. These commonalities should result in the establishment of a set of core content types, each with a standard set of metadata attributes. A fundamental challenge faced by organizations with respect to specifying content types and [read].
Posted: Mon, May 31st '10 |
The Transformation of EndUserSharePoint.com: The Page Layout Button
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I hit my first stumbling block when building out the architecture for the new SharePoint 2010 site. I don’t like the default publishing page, so I figured I’d go in and delete the areas on the page that were hogging the entire space. No go. These are fixed areas that can’t be deleted or moved.
I tried everything I could think of… change the page type, look for web part zones, delete the areas. Nope. This 2010 thing is a real beast. I hit twitter to see what I could find [read].
Posted: Fri, May 28th '10 |
The Transformation of EndUserSharePoint.com Begins
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This is the first of a series of articles documenting the process of moving content from a WordPress blog, a bbPress PHP forum, and a SharePoint 2007 MOSS site into SharePoint 2010.
On May 13th I wrote an article describing the growing pains EndUserSharePoint.com is having. We’re closing in on 1600 articles and 11,000 comments, making it nearly impossible to find anything on the site. Not only that, it’s hard to find specific areas of content based upon user level. My answer: let [read].
Posted: Fri, May 28th '10 |
The Transformation of EndUserSharePoint.com: Blogs vs Publishing Pages
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I had a conversation with Marcy Keller last night about the best way to expose the amount of content we have on EndUserSharePoint.com when migrating to SharePoint 2010. I hadn’t even thought of an alternative to using a blog, but she’s convinced me that a publishing site is a viable alternative.
We have about 10 authors posting content on a regular basis, so publishing pages give them the ability to come in and hammer out a new page pretty easily. There’s a built-in rating syst [read].
Posted: Fri, May 28th '10 |
Content Organizer in SharePoint 2010
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Guest Author: Robert Bogue
There are so many new features and enhancements in SharePoint 2010 that it’s hard to keep track of all of the great things going on. One of the interesting new enhancements is the Content Organizer. It started out its life in SharePoint 2007 as the records routing available only to records centers. However, In SharePoint 2010 it’s been set free for use in any type of site. There are a few unique ways that it can be used – and a few quirks you shou [read].
Posted: Fri, May 28th '10 |
Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 – Part 5: Modal Dialogs
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Guest Author: Lee Richardson
http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/
A significant portion of SharePoint 2010’s Web 2.0 look and feel derives from its use of modal popups. This post deviates briefly from the ASP.Net AJAX Templating discussion to explore how to open remote pages as modal dialogs, how to open dialogs based on local HTML, and how to respond to OK or Cancel events.
Modaling to Another Page
To get started let’s throw an edit icon onto the index cards we [read].
Posted: Thu, May 27th '10 |
Using a SharePoint Sandbox Solution
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Guest Author: Adam Macaulay
You may or may have not heard about a new type of Solution in SharePoint 2010 called the “Sandbox Solution.” Simply put, a Sandbox Solution (SBS), is a compiled application which will run in a controlled environment, known as the Sandbox. Because it runs in a controlled environment, elements such as resource throttling, access permissions, etc… can be managed by the Administrator protecting the Server Farm from the negative effects of c [read].
Posted: Wed, May 26th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Using Taxonomy Metadata to Improve Search Discovery
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Guest Author: Jeff Carr
Search is typically thought of as a black box, with functionality that is commonly misunderstood by most users. People often turn to search as a result of a breakdown in information architecture, and tend to have high expectations based on experience gained outside the organization through the use of technologies such as Google. Unfortunately, inside the firewall, search quite often develops into more of a random document generator than a useful tool, as heaps of unstruct [read].
Posted: Tue, May 25th '10 |
How Do the SharePoint Alternatives Stack Up?
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Guest Author: Wahid Saleemi
http://wahidsaleemi.com
I recently spent some time looking at SharePoint Server 2010 and it’s competition from vendors like Oracle, IBM, and Google. Key focus areas for me were ECM, Collaboration and integrating existing Busines Intelligence applications. Each vendor spent a day talking about their latest products and here’s what I learned.
Oracle
Oracle had a great presentation and they showed a demo of Oracle WebCenter Spaces. During the demo, [read].
Posted: Mon, May 24th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Content Types: What are they and why should I care?
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A note from Sharon Richardson of JoiningDots.net:
The following is a short presentation about content types in SharePoint – what are they and what’s new in SharePoint 2010.
This is the second in a series of short presentations exploring what’s new and improved in SharePoint 2010. You can find previous (and future presentations) in the SharePoint 2010 Handbook online at http://www.sharepointsharon.com/resources/handbook-2010/
SharePoint 2010 Content Types
View more presentati [read].
Posted: Fri, May 21st '10 |
Navigating SharePoint 2010 – Part 1: Introductions
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Guest Author: Adam Macaulay
SharePoint 2010 meet World, World meet SharePoint 2010. With the release of 2010 and the new UI users will get lost and could use some instruction on how to use and manage navigation within their sites. This article will attempt to help you understand what navigation exists and how to leverage it.
List Navigation
We will begin with List navigation as this is where you will do most of your work. When you enter a list you will notice that the new SharePoint 2010 Ribbon [read].
Posted: Fri, May 21st '10 |
Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 – Part 4: jQuery Integration and Persistence
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Guest Author: Lee Richardson
http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/
In parts one and two of this series I described how WCF Data Services in SharePoint 2010 exposes list data as both XML and JSON. In part three, I showed how to set up ASP.Net AJAX Templating and how to write a simple application that displays a list of user story list items.
In this part of the series I’ll show how to integrate with jQuery to display the user stories as draggable index cards on a virtual c [read].
Posted: Thu, May 20th '10 |
SharePoint: Taxonomy for Sale
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Guest Author: Christian Buckley
http://buckleyplanet.net
On a swing through Oregon in March, Joel Oleson and I presented to the Portland SharePoint User’s Group on topics surrounding social computing, metadata and taxonomy within SharePoint, and someone asked a great question: why can’t you just purchase a pre-defined taxonomy?
One of the most important aspects of a successful SharePoint deployment is a well-defined taxonomy and metadata library. Taking the time to define yo [read].
Posted: Wed, May 19th '10 |
Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 – Part 3: ASP.Net AJAX Templating 101
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Guest Author: Lee Richardson
http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/
As I’ve described in Part One and particularly Part Two of this series, WCF Data Services is an extremely compelling element of SharePoint 2010. However, as powerful as it is, programming against it directly would still be somewhat painful. Fortunately, a new related technology – ASP.Net AJAX Templating – integrates beautifully with WCF Data Services and allows for quickly building pretty, main [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 11: Creating Web Applications and Site Collections
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
Continuing with Configure Kerberos authentication (SharePoint 2010) in the SharePoint Server 2010 Library on TechNet, I created the Intranet and My Site web applications. As mentioned in Part 8, for each web application I used a host header and a separate application pool with a unique managed account. I also made sure Kerberos authentication was selected.
Creating a web application from within Central Administration is done via Application Management, Manage [read].
Posted: Tue, May 11th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Using Taxonomy Metadata to Improve Navigation Browsing
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Guest Author: Jeff Carr
Metadata represents the foundation for a large range of functionality across sites in SharePoint. The goal of metadata lies not in the tagging of content itself, but rather in the potential it offers for the improvement of findability via navigation.
A new feature offered in SharePoint 2010 is Metadata Navigation, which provides users with navigational elements constructed from tags that have been applied by publishers to content. The purpose is to filter or refine the r [read].
Posted: Mon, May 10th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Using Social Features for Personal Classification Improved Findability
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Guest Author: Jeff Carr
Social technologies in the enterprise are becoming a key enabler for establishing common connections between employees with similar interests, resulting in increased levels of innovation through knowledge exchange and information transfer. A large part of the functionality offered by SharePoint 2010 revolves around the idea of social collaboration in the enterprise through blogs, wikis, content syndication, discussions and social tagging.
While the first approach to tagg [read].
Posted: Fri, May 7th '10 |
Inconvenient Content Query Web Part slots
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Guest Author: Waldek Mastykarz
Innovation Matters
We all know Content Query Web Part (CQWP) – probably the greatest Web Part provided with SharePoint Server that allows you to build dynamic content aggregations in a matter of minutes. CQWP is known not only for its great performance but also for its flexibility and extensibility capabilities.
In SharePoint Server 2010 the Content Query Web Part introduces even more functionality including the slots – a cool feature that a [read].
Posted: Thu, May 6th '10 |
How to Jumpstart SharePoint Governance
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Guest Author: Christian Buckley
http://buckleyplanet.net
One of the most common questions surrounding metadata and taxonomy management is ‘How do you begin?’ As with most user-driven technologies, SharePoint is often “unleashed” without proper planning or governance structures, and most administrators find themselves needing to retroactively apply standards across their environment. Companies tend to hoard information and may find themselves overwhelmed b [read].
Posted: Wed, May 5th '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 10: Configuring Search (Kerberos cont’d)
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
In my last article I left off ready to configure Search services, as specified by Configure Kerberos authentication (SharePoint Server 2010) in the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta Library on TechNet. The documentation’s example scenario calls for the Index and Query services to be on dedicated servers. I had only my one SharePoint server and so adjusted the instructions accordingly.
I was first supposed to start the “SharePoint Foundation 2010 [read].
Posted: Tue, May 4th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Using Taxonomy Controlled Vocabulary for Content Enrichment
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Guest Author: Jeff Carr
The semantic enrichment of content through the application of metadata tagging is a critical activity in the creation of a well managed and usable information environment. There are a number of reasons why tagging is so important to enterprise information, including the enhancement of navigation (filtering/sorting mechanisms, guided navigation), improvement of search (relevancy, faceted search and best bets) and personalization (suggestions for related content, job role, [read].
Posted: Mon, May 3rd '10 |
SharePoint Blog platform enhancements in 2010 and what’s missing
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Guest Author: Jeremy Thake
SharePointDevWiki.com
Some of the community jumped on board the SharePoint Blog platform in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 such as myself, Andrew Connell, Joel Oleson, Rene Hezser, Todd Klindt, Wictor Wilen, Tobias Zimmergren and ZevenSeas and plenty more. Most of the WSS3.0 platform blogs out there are running CKS:EBE 2.0 to get round the limited functionality provided in the base platform.
With SharePoint 2010 these enhancements have stepped up a notch. This [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 30th '10 |
Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 – Part 2: WCF Data Services
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Guest Author: Lee Richardson
http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/
As I mentioned in Part 1, WCF Data Services is one of the most compelling new features of SharePoint 2010 from a developer’s perspective. In this post I’ll describe what it is and how it works. I’ll leave implementing something with it using ASP.Net AJAX Templating to subsequent articles in the series.
Confused Yet?
The chances are good you’re familiar with the technology, bu [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 29th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – What You Need to Know About Taxonomy, Metadata Information Architecture
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Guest Author: Jeff Carr
As a follow up to last week’s guest post on AIIM’s Digital Landfill blog and the official launch of SharePoint 2010 only weeks away (May 12 at 11 a.m. EST), I thought I’d take some time and put together a series of posts that dig into further detail around each of the 8 things you need to know about taxonomy, metadata and information architecture in SharePoint 2010. Topics in the will series include:
Using Taxonomy and Controlled Vocabulari [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 28th '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 9: Post Installation Event Log Warnings and Errors
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
Before proceeding with the next step in the TechNet article Configure Kerberos authentication (SharePoint 2010), configuring Search, I opened Event Viewer and reviewed the Application and System event logs for errors and warnings. I also reviewed the Operational log that SharePoint adds to Event Viewer. This log, highlighted in the screenshot below, can be found under Applications and Services Logs:
The Applications and Services Logs is a new category of log [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 27th '10 |
Manage Agile Projects in SharePoint
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A note from Mark Miller: At SharePoint Summit 2010 in Montreal last week, Sébastien Leduc did a session titled “Being Agile with SharePoint“. When Andrew Woodward heard about it, he reminded me about the tool he has created for managing Agile projects in SharePoint. This article is a description of the tool and how you can use it for your next SharePoint project.
Guest Author: Andrew Woodward, SharePoint MVP
Having been an advocate of SharePoint and Agile development for some time [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10 |
Client Side AJAX Applications in SharePoint 2010 – Part 1: Introduction
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Guest Author: Lee Richardson
http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/
From a developer’s perspective WCF Data Services is one of the most compelling new features of SharePoint 2010. Using this technology in conjunction with ASP.Net AJAX 4.0 Templating, SharePoint developers can quickly build rich, responsive, web 2.0 user interfaces. And unlike with Silverlight based solutions end users won’t need anything beyond a modern browser.
But best of all, solutions based [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10 |
The SharePoint Social Evolution – Part 1: The Blog as a Collaboration Tool
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Guest Author: Christian Buckley
http://buckleyplanet.net
The concept of blogging is not as new as you may think – only the technology is young. Well, younger than the average teenager, at least. Blogging came into the mainstream conscience by the late 1990’s, but had its beginnings in the early days of the world wide web, back when the internet was the private network of a privileged few.
For a full history of blogging with important names and dates, you can always read [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 22nd '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 8: Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta with Kerberos
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
Kerberos is a network authentication protocol developed by MIT and named after the three-headed dog in Greek mythology, Kerberos. The Latinized name is Cerberus. For an explanation of the protocol see TechNet: Kerberos Explained and Wikipedia. For those who are curious about the dog, see Wikipedia with pictures. Kerberos has been a standard in Windows operating systems since Windows 2000 and the default used in Active Directory environments. Prior Microsoft ope [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 21st '10 |
First Impressions: SharePoint 2010 for Law Firms
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Guest Author: Mark Gerow
Fenwick & West
SharePoint 2010 will bring significant changes that will likely be both empowering and disruptive for law firm users and technical staff. Unlike SharePoint 2007, which was released when SharePoint adoption levels were still low, the 2010 release finds its predecessor with over 100 million licenses sold and well entrenched in law firms of all sizes. Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 will therefore have a significant impact on both firm users and clients.
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Posted: Tue, Apr 20th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Taxonomy Management Overview
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Guest Author: Stephanie Lemieux
I finally got around to reading the preliminary info on MSDN in regards to how SharePoint 2010 will be treating taxonomy and metadata. As most of you know, MOSS 2007 had some serious challenges in this regard that caused IAs like me much consternation when trying to implement effective content structures (e.g. no hierarchical metadata, no sharing controlled vocabularies across site collections, etc.).
It would appear that SharePoint 2010 includes many new features [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 19th '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 7: Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta Take 1
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
The SharePoint 2010 Beta installation and product configuration went smoothly. There is not much to the process, which is rather straightforward. We ran into a show stopper post-installation when manually creating a few of the service applications. The problem also occurred on my home server, leading to a reformat/reinstall of that server as part of the troubleshooting process. That in turn led to an opportunity to install SharePoint using Kerberos authenticati [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10 |
8 Features in SharePoint 2010 That Rock
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Guest Author: Chris Caplinger
http://chrislcap.spaces.live.com
1 — Business Connectivity Services.
The Business Connectivity Services (BCS) used to be called the Business Data Catalog (BDC). It provides access to your external data sources such as databases, external business systems and web services. Using BCS, External Content Types can be created that allow read/write access back to the external data sources. External lists, which operate much like normal lists can be created in Sh [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 15th '10 |
10 Ways SharePoint 2010 Improves Findability
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Editor’s Note: In a new series of articles, I will be introducing you to some of the speakers who will be presenting at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference in London next week, pointing you to articles on their sites, offering downloads of white papers, and publishing articles on their subjects of expertise. — Mark Miller
Guest Author: Ari Bakker
Findability is one of the most important factors in the success of a SharePoint site. If users cannot find what they are looking they will quickl [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 14th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Business Connectivity Services Tooling
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Guest Author:Brett Lonsdale
Lightning Tools Ltd
Microsoft got it right this time around! The Business Data Catalog (BDC) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 was missing one vital ingredient when trying to use the BDC. The missing ingredient was a tool to generate the Application Definition File (ADF) which was imported into SharePoint and described the data that you are connecting to and how to connect to it. Without tooling you had to create the Application Definition File by hand. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 13th '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 6: Installing SQL Server Analysis Services
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
SQL Server Analysis Services installation went smoothly. When I reached Installation Type I again chose “Add features to an existing instance” as I wanted to add AS to the Default instance:
Feature Installation section came next and I checked Analysis Services. The Server Configuration section followed, and I remembered to take a screenshot of the Collation tab, which shows the default:
The red x on the Service Accounts tab is because [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10 |
Configure Item Level Permissions for Document Libraries – Part 2 – SharePoint 2010 edition
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Guest Author: Toni Frankola
SharePoint Use Cases
Every once in a while your customer might ask you to customize permissions for a document library in such a way that authors can only change their own documents. There was no such feature for document libraries in SharePoint 2007, and the “problem” is still present in v2010. (Both versions support automatic item-level permissions OOTB for other lists like Tasks).
In Part 1 of this article I tried to solve the problem for Shar [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 9th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – Metadata and Site Columns
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Guest Author: Jeff Carr
SharePoint 2010 offers centralized taxonomy and metadata management as part of the Term Store Management Tool. What it does is enable you to organize your vocabularies into Groups which are then comprised of one or more Term Sets. Vocabularies within a Term Set can be either a flat list or hierarchy of individual Terms. Term Sets, or subsets thereof, can then be bound to Managed Metadata columns and surfaced to users as part of the tagging process. These columns can be as [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 8th '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 5: Installing SQL Server Reporting Services and Configuring for SharePoint Integrated Mode
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
The Installation Process
The process for installing SQL Reporting Services (RS) is the same as the DB Engine, starting from the Installation section of the SQL Server Installation Center.
The first part of the setup process, the setup files rules check, setup files installation, and setup support rules check, breezed through those with no errors. Next up was Installation Type. As I wanted to install RS into the same instance as the DB Engine, I selected & [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10 |
SharePoint 2010: What’s Hot and What’s Not – #3 Social Networking
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Guest Author: Clare Stone
Pentalogic Technology
This is the final part in our occasional series on what’s hot and what’s not for the end user in SP 2010.
A couple of weeks ago we focused on our favorite new feature for end users: FAST Search, which we think is going to make a huge impact on how people store and search for content in SharePoint 2010. Last week we took at pop at Business Connectivity Services – which we feel could cause more problems than it solves [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 6th '10 |
Introduction to SharePoint 2010 SandBox Solutions for Site Collection Owners
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Guest Author: Toni Frankola
SharePoint Use Cases
If you have been reading about exciting new features of SharePoint 2010 you’ve probably heard about something called SandBox Solutions. In this post I will try to explain what SandBox Solutions are and how you, as a Site Collection Owner / End User / Non Developer type, can benefit from these solutions.
In a nutshell, SandBoxed solutions allow you to:
Deploy custom code you have developed or downloaded from the Internet
The custom code [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 5th '10 |
My Favorite Features in Office 2010 – Part 1
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Guest Author: Hersh Ajgaonkar
lifewithsharepoint.com
I am having a great time using the Office 2010 beta installed on my Windows 7 OS. So far, from my two most used applications (OneNote and Outlook), here are the new features that I love.
OneNote
I use OneNote extensively and have always had a problem taking notes in a meeting where I also have to refer to a document or a web-site since I keep having to switch between the different windows. Well – don’t have to do that any [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 2nd '10 |
The Top SharePoint Server 2010 Feature Set You Probably Don’t Know About
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Guest Author: Doug Ware
Elumenotion, LLC
On Sunday I flew to Minneapolis to film the first SharePoint 2010 video for AppDev. The course is entitled Exploring SharePoint 2010 and it’s as complete an overview of the 2010 stack as I could reasonably fit into 10 hours. Amazingly, SharePoint 2010 is such a deep and wide platform that there are some very interesting and exciting features that I won’t be talking about because there isn’t enough time!
Over the last few months I̵ [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 1st '10 |
SharePoint as a Disruptor
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Guest Authors: Christian Buckley and Joel Oleson
Back in October at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, the two of us had a conversation about what it means for a product or technology to be a “disruptor” and whether SharePoint (and SharePoint 2010, specifically) fit the criteria. According to the universal source of knowledge and wisdom, Wikipedia, a disruptive technology describes an innovation that “improves a product or service in ways that the market does n [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 31st '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 4: Configuring Ports and Protocols
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
With the SQL Server Database Engine installed, I needed to open the necessary ports in the Windows Firewall and enable the TCPIP protocol in SQL Server in order to permit network communication to SQL Server.
Opening Ports
This can be done before or after installation, through the Windows Firewall UI (User Interface, also referred to as GUI or Graphical User Interface) or command prompt. I found a comprehensive script posted by various folks who referred to this [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10 |
The Ultimate Programmer’s Disclaimer
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“Let me be very clear. You should NEVER download and execute PowerShell code you find on the Internet, ESPECIALLY if it’s something I’ve written.
“I’m an idiot and honestly I’m surprised that works, let alone works well. For all I know that code may delete your SharePoint farm, format your server, and let the air out of your tires. Whenever you grab a PowerShell script from the Internet read it over and understand what it does before you use it.
“And d [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 29th '10 |
Microsoft SharePoint: Investment In = Value?
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Guest Author: Shaun Morgan
Sharepoint 2010 is due to be released soon and promises a more intuitive interface, improved integration with Microsoft Office and a whole host of improved features, so it’s a good time for organisations to consider taking the plunge.
But its adoption is not a minor undertaking for most organisations. A clear strategy, commitment from senior management and staff members and access to expert advice, will all lead to a transformation in business processes and impr [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 29th '10 |
Life is Just a Bowl of SharePoint – Part 3: SQL Server Database Engine and Management Tools Installation
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Guest Author: Joan Resnick Ehrlich
You cannot have SharePoint without SQL Server in one edition or another.
I decided to install SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise CTP in three steps: the Database Engine (DB Engine) and Shared Features first, followed by Reporting Services (RS) and finally Analysis Services (AS). The Shared Features include the Management Tools.
Analysis Services can be installed in “traditional” mode and beginning with SQL Server 2008 R2, in “AS with Sh [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 26th '10 |
Whitepaper on SharePoint Upgrade
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Guest Author: Anders Rask
I have finalized my whitepaper on upgrading SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
The document should be seen as a work-in-progress, since the subject is still fairly untested. I will add to the document as I upgrade sites and as i hopefully get some feedback on the document.
In the whitepaper I try to cover both the tools available for operations and developers when you upgrade sites and solutions to the new version of SharePoint.
Some parts of the documents only reall [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 25th '10 |
Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010
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Guest Author: Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT
SharePoint eLearning
Back in 2008, Woody Windischman, Bryan Phillips and I (Asif Rehmani) teamed up to write a book on SharePoint Designer 2007. The main reasons we wrote that book are because we really believe in SharePoint Designer and felt that there was just not enough ‘good’ information out there in the market about how to use it effectively. In fact, even till this day if you go to Amazon.com and read the reviews fo [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 25th '10 |
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