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Best Practices Conference Slide Deck and Recap
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Wed, Sep 1st '10
Registration Open for Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) on September 8th, 2010
Geoff Varosky
h6Registration is now open for the 5th meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) taking place on September 8th, 2010, at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA, from 6-8PM. a href="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1m6QGBpYEXEUb_vOU8wict6CVowwSkg2Wh44d8yxa1nIvTnHym6SGTKipnXNFbH2O_eD0FZL30hjItTJgynxbdZxhbLFwpmKtZe1ZukYcMMM6zsb9aDjb6HvhcmNmBiUEnNtZ5Ji05cMFpLsvsno3sNQ/BASPUG_195square_initials[4].gif?downloadamp;psid=1"img title="BASPUG_195square_initials" border="0" alt="BA [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 30th '10
Registration Open for SharePoint Saturday Boston – 9/25/10
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Sun, Aug 29th '10
Speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2010 – Washington, D.C.
Geoff Varosky
pLooking through my posts recently, I notice I had left out a major conference! The Best Practices Conference in Washington, D.C.!/p pa href="http://www.bestpracticesconference.com/"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1ml1xQ1t9a7LNsxWK2MfsaOQ2P39X_SxjRWc_ouFKY2Yk8H6nCByRIqHnAcBdjLD2FU8_brPjrqqabT1lwQHP6jgQkzLUe2NhLnI [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 4th '10
Registration Open for Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) on August 11th, 2010
Geoff Varosky
pRegistration is now open for the 4th meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) taking place on August 11th, 2010, at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA, from 6-8PM. /p pWe will have Asif Rehmani, a SharePoint Trainer, MVP, and Consultant, will be presenting quot;Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath and Visioquot;. /p pstrongSession Abstract br //strongForms and Workflows are important for automating business processes. Companies usually rely on prog [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 27th '10
SharePoint Saturday Boston – Call for Speakers – 9/25/10
Geoff Varosky
pa href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston"img style="display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" alt="" src="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston/SiteImages/SharePointSatBoston.png" //a/p pThat’s right! The venue is confirmed, and we’re starting to open up the flood gates for speakers and sponsors. The call for speakers is officially open, with the sponsor call coming soon (later this week most likely – so stay tuned for that)./p pIf you are interested in speak [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 27th '10
Speaking at the SharePoint Nation Virtual User Group – July 21st, 2010
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Thu, Jul 15th '10
Hartford Code Camp 3 Session Materials
Geoff Varosky
pa href="http://ctdotnet.org/CodeCamp3.aspx"img style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px" align="right" src="http://ctdotnet.org/images/CTDOTNET-New.jpg" width="211" height="99" //aI had the pleasure (as well as a scenic country drive) to participate as a speaker at the 3rd Hartford Code Camp this past Saturday, just outside HFD in Bloomfield, CT. Unfortunately I could not stay past my session (9a - 10:15a), but, it was fun for the short time I was able to be there! From what I saw, both Bob and SB put to [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 22nd '10
Registration Open for Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) on June 14th, 2010
Geoff Varosky
pRegistration is now open for the 3rd meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) taking place on July 14th, 2010, at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA, from 6-8PM. pWe will have Bob German, a Technology Architect with Microsoft, presenting quot;Developing Great Solutions with SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight”. pstrongSession Abstract/strong br /SharePoint and Silverlight make an unbeatable combination for building great web applications. In this session, you will learn h [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 17th '10
Speaking and Sponsoring SharePoint Saturday NYC on July 31st, 2010
Geoff Varosky
pimg style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px;display:inline" alt="" align="right" src="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/ny/SiteImages/SharePointSatNY.png" /It has been a very busy week for me, so even though I received confirmation last weekend, I am just getting around to posting about it now. I was very pleased to find an email in my inbox to find that my session has been accepted for a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/ny/"SharePoint Saturday NYC/a!/p pSharePoint Saturday NYC will be held at th [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 11th '10
Converting the SharePoint and Office 2010 Information Worker Virtual Machines to VMWare from Hyper-V
Geoff Varosky
pI had a problem. My laptop (my main computer), runs Windows 7. The 2010 Information Worker (RTM) virtual images are Hyper-V. I run all of my development images off of (2) 1TB external ESATA 7200RPM drives using VMWare Player, since Virtual PC is no longer useful for the most part./p pSo, a few months ago, I started poking around, to see what the options were out there for converting Hyper-V images to VMWare… the pickings were thin. I had some conversations at a href="http://www.sharepointsatu [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10
Links to .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit Downloads
Geoff Varosky
pI am always searching these out for myself, finding myself running a search each time I need to grab it (most of the time for a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ex0ss12c(VS.80).aspx" target="_blank"GACUTIL/a). I know lots of people who are always running a search for them as well, so, I thought I’d share, for both x86 and x64 platforms, the shortened links are below./p ul li.NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x64) : a title="http://go.gvaro.net/cu2g8Q" href="http:/ [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10
Hiding the Search Scopes Drop-Down in WSSv3/MOSS 2007
Geoff Varosky
pIn WSS v3 and MOSS 2007, you may be inclined to hide the search scopes drop-down control from a specific page. This article will tell you how to do just that. While this may translate to 2010, I have not tried it as of this point./p pstrongWhat is this ‘Search Scopes’ control you speak of?br //strongThe Search Scopes drop-down control you will find to the left of the search box in SharePoint by default. If you are running WSS, or have this on a team site, you will generally see this populat [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10
Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – June 9th 2010 Meeting Update
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10
SharePoint Designer 2007 Error: The folder ‘http://servername’ isn’t accessible. The folder may be located in an unavailable location, protected with a password, or the filename contains a / or .
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Fri, May 21st '10
SharePoint 2010 SDKs Released Today
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Thu, May 20th '10
SharePoint Saturday DC 2010 Recap and Session Materials
Geoff Varosky
pWhat a weekend! With over 900 attendees (929 I think was the number), over 90 speakers, and over 30 sponsors – this was the largest event of its kind ever held, and it went extremely smooth, thanks to the efforts of a href="http://meetdux.com/" target="_blank"Dux Raymond Sy/a, a href="http://www.sharepointdan.com/" target="_blank"Dan Usher/a, Gino Degregori, Jennifer Davis, and all of the volunteers who helped keep it together. To grasp the size of this event, most SharePoint Saturday events [read].
Posted: Wed, May 19th '10
Registration Open for Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) on June 9th, 2010
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Wed, May 19th '10
Importing Lists and Content Types into Visual Studio 2010 from Site Templates for Packaging in SharePoint 2010 Solutions
Geoff Varosky
pSo, here is the scenario – we’ve prototyped out a content type, named strongemNew CT/em/strong, added a few default columns into it (strongemTitle /em/strongand strongemURL/em/strong), and attached that content type to a list named strongemNew List/em/strong. Now, we need to package this up in a SharePoint Solution Package (WSP) in Visual Studio, so we can re-deploy it elsewhere./p pHere is how you can go about doing this…/p pFirst, let us save this off as a template, but going to strongS [read].
Posted: Tue, May 11th '10
VMWare Player Error: “Failed to open virtual machine: Failed to query source for information.”
Geoff Varosky
pI was converting over one of the last of my few Virtual PC images to VMWare today, and received this error. I had to do a little searching before I found what the problem was, it was due to the Virtual Machine Configuration file (*.vmc), being in a separate directory than the VHD that it was referencing./p pMy scenario:/p pVMC file located in emJ:\Virtual Images\Server2003_01.vmc/em/p pThe VHD file was located in emJ:\Virtual Images\Server2003_01\Server2003_01.vhd/em/p pMoving the VMC file into [read].
Posted: Thu, May 6th '10
Just two more weeks until SharePoint Saturday DC!
Geoff Varosky
pimg style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px;display:inline" alt="" align="right" src="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc/SiteImages/SharePointSatDC.png" /That’s right, we’re getting down to the wire (and I need to work on my presentation!)/p pJoin myself, and at the moment, roughly 1099 other people signed up to attend this historic (for SharePoint Saturday) event!/p pSome quick statistics (taken from the a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc" target="_blank"SharePoint Saturday DC/a website [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 30th '10
Using a SharePoint Designer Workflow to Build a URL to Populate a Multi-Line Rich Text Field with a URL
Geoff Varosky
pIt’s been quite some time since I have had this exact problem surface for me, so, I had to run through it real quick on a development site to test out the feasibility to do this, and thought I would share... /p pThe requirement that came to me was based on information in one list, build up a URL and some additional text to drop into a multi-line rich text field within another list, using a SharePoint Designer workflow, so no custom code was being installed on the server. The URL we will be re [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10
Speaking at the SharePoint Technology Conference 2010 in Boston
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10
SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 Available for Download!
Geoff Varosky
pThat’s right, if you look at the pages, you will no longer see any “Beta” tags on them. That’s right. On the same day that we get the Server and Office bits on MSDN and TechNet subscriptions, the rest of the world can get the free stuff. SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 are now available to the world to download from Microsoft./p pSharePoint Foundation 2010 - a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4 [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 22nd '10
SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 RTM Versions Available for Download on MSDN!
Geoff Varosky
pYou heard that correctly! For all of you who have an MSDN subscription, after what seemed like forever, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 (x86 and x64), Office 2010 (x86 and x64) are now available for download on MSDN! There goes my weekend :)/p pa href="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mLZeeP2mydySOo758OhfPWIJ1kCBdWcQh3tZBonduXxFGJjfePYG7Ks3KpMYnJYHp1MAv0_NodvJukI2btjOf2DLAO9ftly4Us1V3UTLqngj3j1qfzQM9T0Ao1J3OsueOVjSn2vYYxLl3jPRCkJhbMg/image[15] 3D2DCB27.png" rel="WLPP"img style="border- [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 22nd '10
New England Give Camp 2010
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Tue, Apr 20th '10
Quick Command Line Tip – Preserving Your History…
Geoff Varosky
pA lot of administration work can be done from the command line using STSADM. Adding and retracting solutions, resetting IIS, interfacing with GACUTIL, adding users, creating sites and webs, and the list goes on and on and on… after a while, you may want to keep a record of the operations that you had performed. This is very helpful in keeping a server log together, so you can always go back and trace what has been done./p pBy using the following command: strongDOSKEY /history/strong, you can [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 20th '10
Title Field GUID in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
Geoff Varosky
pThis is just a quick reference post. I often find myself looking for the GUID of the Title column, which is a default column on all lists. The GUID for this is the same in WSS and MOSS, as it is part of the Item content type, and will always have this GUID, at least as far as I know, in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. So, here it is!/p p align="center"strong{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}/strong/p p align="center"strong/strong /p div style="padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;padding- [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 19th '10
Office, Visio, Project and SharePoint 2010 Reach RTM!
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10
Working with Web Parts in SharePoint Designer 2010
Geoff Varosky
pAnother tidbit I wanted to share regarding SharePoint Designer 2010 that may be of interest to a lot of developers, site administrators, designers, and power users alike. If you have the permissions, you now have options directly in the interface of SharePoint Designer, to save your web parts out to a local file, or, push it into the Site Gallery!/p pIn SharePoint Designer, let’s add a Data View Web Part to our page, by going to the strongInsert/strong ribbon tab, selecting strongData View/st [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10
Speaking at the Hartford Code Camp 3 on June 19th, 2010
Geoff Varosky
pa href="http://ctdotnet.org/CodeCamp3.aspx" target="_blank"img style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px;display:inline" align="right" src="http://ctdotnet.org/images/CTDOTNET-New.jpg" width="211" height="99" //aAfter speaking at the a href="http://gvaro.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B06529FD3FC75473!1175.entry"New England Code Camp 13/a last month, I am excited that I will be speaking at another local code camp so soon. I submitted and will be presenting two sessions at the 3rd Hartford Code Camp, taking plac [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 15th '10
Boston Area SharePoint Users Group Registration Now Open!
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Thu, Apr 15th '10
Even more on Correlation IDs within SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
pI briefly talked about log correlation IDs in two previous posts (a href="http://gvaro.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B06529FD3FC75473!1165.entry"More on Correlation IDs in SharePoint 2010/a and a href="http://gvaro.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B06529FD3FC75473!928.entry"The SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard/a), and am also including a bit from yet another post (a href="http://gvaro.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B06529FD3FC75473!783.entry"Diagnostic Logging Enhancements in SharePoint 2010/a). When you get t [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 14th '10
Locate a List Template Identifier in SharePoint 2007
Geoff Varosky
pI a href="http://gracehunt.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=209110amp;ANCHORamp;ProjectName=GraceHunt" target="_blank"received a comment/a on the a href="http://gracehunt.codeplex.com/releases/view/27712" target="_blank"GraceHunt.SharePoint.Features.CompleteTask/a project on a href="http://gracehunt.codeplex.com/" target="_blank"CodePlex/a yesterday, and while responding, I thought I would also put together a post on locating the List Template ID for a list within the SharePoint UI./p pQu [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 13th '10
New England Code Camp 13 Slide Decks and Code Samples
Geoff Varosky
pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/NewEnglandCodeCamp13TheSchedule_DF6A/Code Camp 13_2.jpg"img style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px" title="Code Camp 13 Logo - Courtesy Grey Wolf Design" border="0" alt="Code Camp 13 Logo - Courtesy Grey Wolf Design" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/NewEnglandCodeCamp13TheSchedule_DF6A/Code Camp 13_thumb.jpg" width="161" height="161" //a p/p pThe 13th a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday DC on May 15th, 2010
Geoff Varosky
pimg style="display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" alt="" src="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc/SiteImages/SharePointSatDC.png" //p pIt appears that this SharePoint Saturday will be like no other, and I am excited to be a part of it. SharePoint Saturdays seem to usually number from anywhere from 75-275 attendees, and from about 20-30 speakers, just based on the ones I have attended, or know something about. a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc" target="_blank"Sh [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10
SharePoint 2010 Certifications
Geoff Varosky
pAnd another short post for today – this time relating to SharePoint 2010 Certifications./p pThere has been a lot of speculation and wonder in the SharePoint community about what the 2010 certification path would look like for the next release. Well, the good news is, as of about a month ago, some information started to come out from Microsoft, from several outlets, but, my information came from the a href="http://borntolearn.mslearn.net" target="_blank"Born to Learn blog/a at a href="http://w [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10
More on Correlation IDs in SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
divA while back, a href="http://gvaro.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B06529FD3FC75473!928.entry"I did a post on the new developer dashboard in SharePoint 2010/a, I've also discussed this topic in several presentations on What's New for Developers in SharePoint 2010, and I've talked about the wonderful new feature of correlation IDs that now appear in the developer dashboard, and other error messages, that help with tracking down errors within your logs./div div /div diva href="http://www.wictorwilen. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10
2009 SharePoint Conference Developer Session Slide Decks Available from Microsoft
Geoff Varosky
pI just came across these a few minutes ago, and needed to share this resource. I have had access to these since the conference, however, those that were unable to attend may find these useful. On February 22nd, Microsoft released the following slide decks to the public for developers…/p ul liBuilding Solutions with Business Connectivity Services by Using Visual Studio 2010 * liDeep Dive into Open XML 2.0 and the Open XML SDK 2.0 liDeveloping Advanced Access 2010 Web Databases amp; Publishing [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10
Andrew Connell's SharePoint Site Collection Keep Alive Job Utility
Geoff Varosky
divHad to share this quickly with my few readers - if you are a presenter, or if you are a developer, or both for that matter, a href="http://www.andrewconnell.com/" target="_blank"Andrew Connell /awrote a great little utility for SharePoint 2010, which will keep a site, or sites, alive. Usually when you are presenting or developing, you warm up your site collections that you are working with first, so they are compiled in memory, but, if your application pool recycles, etc., you need to go thro [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 6th '10
New England Code Camp 13 Schedule Posted!
Geoff Varosky
pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/NewEnglandCodeCamp13TheSchedule_DF6A/Code Camp 13_2.jpg"img title="Code Camp 13 Logo - Courtesy Grey Wolf Design" border="0" alt="Code Camp 13 Logo - Courtesy Grey Wolf Design" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/NewEnglandCodeCamp13TheSchedule_DF6A/Code Camp 13_thumb.jpg" width="161" height="161" //a/p pJust a quick update regarding this upcoming weekend’s New England Code Camp 13…. the [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 23rd '10
Introducing the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group
Geoff Varosky
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Posted: Fri, Mar 19th '10
Better Late Than Never… Wrap-Up of SharePoint Saturday Boston 2/27/10
Geoff Varosky
p align="center"a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston"img style="display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mU9bQ7X_zXV0ZShJNC6YPVYtDesjKe2mj0DwnhHLCyyoL-SkW2DJrUmwSkIwlMxuCVWjSVntPYG2rzL6w0tb9biJWfLNbtW8GHz5dN3c6zFvbr_KhoOsT9zEESYJyWRihfWiUkgcIhY6lPs7Ln5htzQ/image[4] 754B3C00.png" width="244" height="104" //a/p pIt has been an absolute whirlwind since a few weeks before the a href="http [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 18th '10
Registration Now Open for SharePoint Saturday DC!
Geoff Varosky
p align="center"a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc" target="_blank"img alt="" src="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc/SiteImages/SharePointSatDC.png" //a /p p align="left"Ladies and Gentlemen, registration has now opened up for a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc" target="_blank"SharePoint Saturday DC/a! Information taken right from the site -/p p align="left"Registration has now opened for SharePoint Saturday DC on May 15. In addition, you can optionally donate $20.10 to t [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 12th '10
Save the Date – Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Launch
Geoff Varosky
pa href="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mLsa7Vj8dYDjNo5b4vcoKxJELhYK-R6TRPpK9c1cJUj1BXA1cvfcNhNHYJACJ2Wa_eQC8gFn3moEgrIhWyo7tqTzxoatmPC4fPI5GnLh70Hsrz1DI9EIsyhsYu-OBA7NDAnMVzKVmqgx4IOugR8pGvg/image[3] 6D50CCB6.png" rel="WLPP"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mO7f-n_0XPd-nZCaet-DmesieLbBzv6UocS0lg_6t2ij5PnB [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10
AvePoint Releases FREE BLOB Management Tool for SharePoint 2007 and 2010
Geoff Varosky
pa href="http://www.avepoint.com/?nr"img style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px;display:inline" alt="AvePoint - SharePoint Backup and Administration Software" align="right" src="http://www.avepoint.com/mysite/images/header/logo.png" //a/p pA few weeks back, I had written a quick post about a title="BLOB (Binary Large OBject)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_large_object"BLOB (Binary Large OBject)/a storage in SharePoint. Well, one of our partners, a href="http://www.avepoint.com/" target="_bla [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10
Speaking at New England Code Camp 13 : Spring Back Into Code
Geoff Varosky
pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingNewEnglandCodeCamp13_B8B8/Code Camp 13_2.jpg"img style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px;display:inline" title="Code Camp 13" border="0" alt="Code Camp 13" align="right" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/AnnouncingNewEnglandCodeCamp13_B8B8/Code Camp 13_thumb.jpg" width="167" height="167" //a/p pI am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the a href="http://www.thedevcommunity.org/" target="_bla [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 3rd '10
Just a Few More Days Until SharePoint Saturday Boston
Geoff Varosky
pWe’re closing in on a great event for SharePoint Saturday here in Boston, and, we still have seats available. a href="http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=145192" target="_blank"Click here to register to attend today!/aa href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston"img title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" src="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mU9bQ7X_zXV0ZShJNC6YPVYtDesjKe2mj0DwnhHLCyyoL-SkW2DJrUmwSkIwlMxuCVWjSVntPYG2rzL6w0tb9biJWfLNbtW8GHz5dN3c6zFvbr_KhoOsT9zEESYJyWRihfWiUk [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 23rd '10
Blogroll
Geoff Varosky
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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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