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Presentation from SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach
Geoff Varosky
A big thank you to the organizers, sponsors, and attendees of SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach! The event was well put-on, and it is a great location, with a great layout! I cannot believe it took me 4 years to get down there, I wish I had gone much sooner!
I am looking forward to the next #SPSVB, but in the meantime, you can find my presentation from my session, Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010 below… please leave any questions you have in the comments!
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Posted: Mon, Jan 9th '12 |
Internet Explorer Registry Shortcuts for Enabling and Disabling Scripting Error Notifications
Geoff Varosky
If you develop for websites, such as SharePoint, you probably are often enabling and disabling the Display a notification about every script error in Internet Explorer (especially version 9) often when testing and debugging JavaScript code in sites (see image below for reference).
While it is not the end of the world, it can be a few tedious extra clicks to enable and disable this as it is needed, as with IE9, it does not have the small icon with the Error on page text in the task bar like it d [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 4th '12 |
SharePoint Search and RTF File Indexing
Geoff Varosky
Found out today while answering a #SPHelp question for my buddy Eric Harlan, that SharePoint 2010 does not natively index RTF files, it requires an iFilter.
Luckily, there is an easy answer to it, which came back in a Google Books preview of Pro SharePoint 2010 Search. Click the link for details – http://go.gvaro.net/tLqruO
I also learned that FAST search does however index RTF files by default, thanks to @NauplisTrevor
The good news is – you can still learn something new every day! And b [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 30th '11 |
The New England SharePoint Community List
Geoff Varosky
New England is a bustling SharePoint community, and I am happy that I just happen to live in the area, and can experience most or all of what the New England area offers as far as SharePoint is concerned.
Since this is the season of giving, being the holidays and all, I thought this was a great time to inventory the resources in the New England area to allow people to give and to receive SharePoint community goodness. In building this list, I also learned that there are more SPUGs in New England [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 29th '11 |
How much storage space is my site collection using?
Geoff Varosky
NOTE: This post is just covering SharePoint 2010, and not earlier versions of the product.
A common question administrators have in their SharePoint environment is “How much storage space is my site collection using?”
Well, fear not, trusty SharePoint administrators! There are a few ways to skin this cat – and we’re going to take a look at them.
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Designer – what was once something administrators and power users shuddered at the mere mention of the [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 28th '11 |
Stay away from my search result pages [insert search engine name here] bot!!
Geoff Varosky
Now, this is a bit overkill, but, there are almost as many different ways a search crawler makes use of a robots.txt file as there are search engines (this may be highly over-exaggerated, but anyways…).
Now, one thing you probably do not want with your public facing site, is for the search engine to waste it’s time crawling your search pages. You don’t exactly want a high page rank for your site’s search results, do you?
What to do, what to do?
Well, if your search results pages happen t [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 27th '11 |
Office 365 + Outlook + My Site Social Connector – Hotfix Released 12/13/11!
Geoff Varosky
One of the features I have grown to love in Outlook 2010 is the Social Connector – that window below your emails which you can enable to view aggregations of social network updates (My Site, Facebook, LinkedIn, to name a few) as well as past conversations, calendar items, attachments, and more.
Up until this month however, if you were a user of Microsoft Office 365, then you could not connect to your My Site hosted on SharePoint Online, you would get this lovely error after entering in all of [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 27th '11 |
Are you suffering from TMSTGNS (Too Much Security Trimmed Global Navigation Syndrome)?
Geoff Varosky
Is your site collection acting sluggish? Seeing load times of 5-15 seconds on any page or resource? Are other web applications and site collections in your farm acting just fine? Are server resources not over utilized? You may be suffering from Too Much Security Trimmed Global Navigation Syndrome (TMSTGNS). We will walk through some background information, symptoms, diagnosis, as well as ways you can bring your site collection back to life, and still allow your users to get where they need to go [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 23rd '11 |
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Austin
Geoff Varosky
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at SharePoint Saturday Austin on January 21st, 2012, presenting my session on Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010, with my colleague Donal Conlon.
Information on the session is below:
Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010
Session Level: 300 Session Type: IT Pro / Admin Most companies, large or small, require contact and collaboration with external entities, whether they are vendors, clients, or contractors. Sh [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 23rd '11 |
Registration Open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 1/11/12
Geoff Varosky
Registration is now open for the January 11, 2012 Boston Area SharePoint Users Group Meeting in Waltham, MA.
January 11th, 2012 Meeting Information – Waltham PRESENTER The presenter for our next meeting is Scott Jamison, Chief Architect and CEO for Jornata. He will be presenting "Making SharePoint 2010 ROCK by Increasing Findability".
Session Abstract Want to make it easier for users to locate the right content, whether they’re browsing or searching in SharePoint? In this session, S [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 21st '11 |
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach
Geoff Varosky
I cannot believe it has been 4 years since SharePoint Saturday started, and I am honored to be speaking at the very place where it all started, at SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach! Who knew that in 4 years, SPS is now a GLOBAL phenomenon, in almost all parts of the world? I owe a lot to SharePoint Saturday, as it gave me my start in speaking on SharePoint almost 4 years ago in Boston.
I will be presenting “Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010”. I will also be giving away 2 [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 19th '11 |
Presentation and Resources from 12/14/11 FCSPUG
Geoff Varosky
It was earlier this year when I spoke with Bill Nagle of K2 about getting a user group up and running in Fairfield, CT. After many months later of successful meetings, I was happy to be able to go down and present to the group. The meetings themselves are hosted at Bigelow Tea, which was an interesting place – great facility, and the air smelled like tea They even gave me a variety box of teas for coming down – I fully intend to enjoy it all!
Thanks again to Bill Nagle of K2 for spearheadin [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 19th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Balsamiq Mockups Template
Geoff Varosky
If you haven’t used Balsamiq Mockups before, you should check it out. It is an awesome tool for generating on the fly wireframes for SharePoint, and just about everything else.
Now that you’ve had a chance to look at it (and download and play with it), you are probably thinking… hey, I work in SharePoint, is there a good starter template I can use? Well, I am glad you asked. My good buddy, and colleague, The James Sturges, came up with a great template for it. Go and check out his post on [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 17th '11 |
Presentation from 12/13/11 CTSPUG
Geoff Varosky
A big thank you to the Connecticut SharePoint User Group (CTSPUG) for having me down last night to deliver my presentation (slides below) on Best Practices in SharePoint Development. While the group itself has been around for 10 years (CT.Net), this was the second official SharePoint UG meeting, and I was happy to be a part of it! A big crowd too! The room was packed, and thankfully, I heard no snoring
As I mentioned at the beginning of the presentation, there are a lot of slides so you can ha [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 14th '11 |
Speaking at the Fairfield County SharePoint User Group (FCSPUG) on December 14th, 2012
Geoff Varosky
It appears next week is Connecticut week! In addition to speaking at the Connecticut SharePoint Users Group (CTSPUG) on December 13th, I will be headed back into The Constitution State again on Wednesday to deliver a presentation to the Fairfield County SharePoint Users Group!
Presentation information below…
Title: The Ribbon UI and Custom Actions in SharePoint 2010
Abstract: Custom Actions control features in SharePoint such as the List Item Menu, the Site Actions menu, toolbars, and the link [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 5th '11 |
Speaking at the Connecticut SharePoint User Group (CTSPUG) on December 13th, 2012
Geoff Varosky
I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Connecticut SharePoint User Group (CTSPUG) next week on Tuesday, December 13th, from 6-8PM.
I will be delivering a presentation I normally do with one of my partners-in-crime, Mark Rackley (@mrackley), but I will be going solo on this one, so I may need a stand-in to poke fun at…
Session Title: SharePoint Development Best Practices a/k/a: Just Freakin’ Work! Overcoming Hurdles and Avoiding Pain with SharePoint Development
Abstract: [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 5th '11 |
Registration Open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 12/12/11
Geoff Varosky
Registration is now open for the December 12th, 2011 meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group.
Please note the date change for this month’s meeting!!
December 12th, 2011 Meeting Information – Cambridge
PRESENTER The presenter for our next meeting is Richard Harbridge, Senior SharePoint Evangelist for Allin Consulting. He will be presenting "Is Your SharePoint Really Healthy? What’s The Right Prescription?"
Session Abstract In many organizations SharePoint is a crit [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 2nd '11 |
Registration Open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 11/9/11
Geoff Varosky
Registration is now open for the November 9th, 2011 meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, at the Microsoft Waltham office located on the 6th floor at 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA.
November 9th, 2011 Meeting Information – Waltham
PRESENTER The presenter for our next meeting is Manmeet Chaudhari, Sr. Project Advisor for Advisicon Inc. She will be presenting "Project Management" – showcasing Project Server 2010 and its integration with SharePoint 2010.
Session Abstract [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 26th '11 |
Taking Screenshots Extracting Text from Images
Geoff Varosky
OneNote has become integral in my day-to-day work. Whether I am doing internal work, work for clients, or, writing a blog. Two of the main features I make use of are OneNote’s screenshot capability, as well as the capability for OneNote to extract text from images.
I regularly show people these things, since they seem to be features people are unaware of, so, I thought I would put together a quick blog post about it.
I was today, going through sites at a customer site, to review them for speci [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 24th '11 |
Secure Your SharePoint Extranet!
Geoff Varosky
Or any extranet really… I presented tonight at the Baltimore SharePoint Users Group on Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010, and had the idea to make a quick post like this.
If you are opening your organizations virtual doors to the outside world, please, please, PLEASE, only open up port 443, and use a secure certificate (or Secure Sockets Layer certificate), a/k/a, SSL certificate, to secure it.
Even if you do not have anything resembling a budget – you can still be [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 20th '11 |
Boston SharePoint Salon–Power View and Visualization
Geoff Varosky
The Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, SharePoint Saturday Boston, and The SharePoint Technology Conference Boston. We have a lot of SharePoint around here. And just when you think that there cannot possibly be any more local SharePoint events… think again.
Next Thursday, October 27th, the 2nd meeting of the Boston SharePoint Salon will be taking place at Eastern Standard in Boston.
We’re a small group of SharePoint professionals, to get together with a topic, and just talk. No presen [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 20th '11 |
ERROR: The column cannot be deleted because it is currently part of a composite column index.
Geoff Varosky
If you’ve ever seen this error before, chances are, you are attempting to delete a Managed Metadata navigation in your list(s) in SharePoint 2010.
The answer to this is simple – you have indexing enabled on your column, and you are indexing multiple columns together, to create a composite index. The fix? Also simple. Go into the settings for your list or library, and under General Settings, click on Metadata navigation settings. As shown highlighted below.
Now if we look at the page, we can [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 17th '11 |
Resources and Slides from Granite State SharePoint Users Group Meeting
Geoff Varosky
I had the pleasure of presenting my Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010 session at the Granite State SharePoint Users Group this past Thursday evening.
After a pleasant drive up to Nashua, I was met with a good sized crowd, and had fun presenting, as well as interacting with the crowd.
I would like to thank the #NHSPUG for allowing me to come up and present – and hope I get a chance to do it again soon!
Below is my deck from the session. Please feel free to contact me directl [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 17th '11 |
Slides from Week3 Session–Who? What? Where? Searching in SharePoint
Geoff Varosky
Thank you all who attended my Week3 webinar today! I always enjoy chances to speak, and enjoy being involved in Week3. Generally my sessions are more technical than not, and Week3 gives me a great chance to bring it down to the business user level.
As promised – here are the slides from my session today. Please leave me feedback letting me know how you thought it went, and if you have any questions!
Be sure to catch other Week3 webinars in the coming months – lots of good content from great [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 28th '11 |
Slides and Resources from SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire
Geoff Varosky
SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire was a great event! A job well done by the organizers. This was the first SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire, and there seemed to be a great turnout, and the location worked out well. Saw a lot of familiar faces, as well as was able to meet a bunch of great new people. This was also my first official event as a Jornata employee, even though today is officially my first day
This next part of this post is special for those who attended my session, it’s out littl [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 26th '11 |
One of the neater utilities I have come across lately…
Geoff Varosky
On twitter last night, Ruven Gotz had posted a link for a utility from The Garage, called Mouse Without Borders.
That’s all I will say on the topic, just watch the video, then download and install… absolutely amazing, and it works wonderfully.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2011/09/09/microsoft-garage-download-mouse-without-borders.aspx
Thanks Ruven! [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 22nd '11 |
The end of an era, and the start of a new one.
Geoff Varosky
Today marks the end of an era. An almost 7-year era for me…
I started with GraceHunt in early October, 2004, brought in by a former colleague and good friend of mine. Up until that point, I had not done much on the consulting side, except for a private web development business I ran on the side for years. I had jobs in the industry prior to GraceHunt has a Systems Engineer, Systems Administrator, Data Center Manager, Network Engineer, and yes, even a dial up support technician very early on.
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Posted: Thu, Sep 22nd '11 |
Generic Errors with Lists and Manage Content and Structure Tool
Geoff Varosky
An unexpected error has occurred. Yep. Very helpful! Recently, when attempting to use the Manage Content and Structure tool (found under Site Actions > Manage Content and Structure), I received the above error. Looking into the ULS logs, all I was able to get ahold of was a System.NullReferenceException. Again, not really handy, or useful, at all.
I was able to determine that it had to probably be due to a list… turns out, we had deactivated and retracted several features from our farm rece [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 18th '11 |
Speaking at Week3–Collaboration Technology Interest Group on September 21st, 2011
Geoff Varosky
One of the groups I help out with has been Week3. And while I have helped in the planning and marketing of it for some time, I have yet to speak for one of its online sessions. This is changing next month, I will be presenting a session on search. See below for more information on Week3, as well as the session, and I hope you can make it! (it’s free, and online!)
Who? What? Where? – Searching in SharePoint
This session will cover the importance of search in a SharePoint environmen [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 18th '11 |
Recap and Resources from SharePoint Saturday–The Conference
Geoff Varosky
Organizing and maintaining a SharePoint Saturday can be hard work. LOTS of hard work. Luckily, the way we run SharePoint Saturday Boston, we have less hard work than other SPS events. We put the responsibility of ordering shirts, pads, pens, food, etc. on the sponsor, so we do not only have to deal with the event, speakers, sponsors, etc., so we do not also have to order shirts, food, etc. It makes life a lot easier.
Then there are other SharePoint Saturday events, such as SharePoint Saturday Ne [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 17th '11 |
Recap and Resources from SharePoint Saturday NYC
Geoff Varosky
I have to hand it to the organizers of the event, Becky Isserman (@MossLover), Jason Gallicchio (@PrincetonSUG), Greg Hurlman (@ghurlman), and Tasha Scott (@TashasEv) as well as their volunteers, for putting together once of the best organized SharePoint Saturdays I have been to. Great job! Lots of great sessions, sponsors, and speakers made this quite the memorable event! I was able to connect with old friends, and meet plenty of new ones.
The organizers also did something very special and uniq [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 8th '11 |
Schedule Posted for SharePoint Saturday–The Conference
Geoff Varosky
If you’ve read my last post on the matter, or, if you are reading this for the first time, or, just do not remember anything I write… the schedule (or “shedjule” if you’re British, or, just are into non-American English dialect), has been posted for SharePoint Saturday – The Conference in (well, near) Washington, D.C.
Find it here: http://www.spstc.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=32
I’ve also copied and pasted it below, saving you a step! [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 28th '11 |
“Sign me in automatically” in Forms Authentication
Geoff Varosky
Now this is not just limited to SharePoint, but, since my main focus is SharePoint, this is where I come across this issue the most. When you log in with SharePoint via Forms Based Authentication, there is that little “Sign me in automatically” checkbox below the FBA login form. If you check this, you may realize that a few hours later, when you go to log back into the site, it does not seem to actually remember you at all. That is because by default, it will only remember you for 30 minutes [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 22nd '11 |
Registration open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 8/10/11
Geoff Varosky
Registration is now open for the August 10th, 2011 meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center (NERD) in Cambridge, MA.
August 10th, 2011 Meeting Information
PRESENTER
The presenter for our next meeting Paul Schaeflein of Schaeflein Consulting. He will be presenting "I need to make SharePoint look like that!"
AUDIENCE: Developer (Level 200) SESSION ABSTRACT How do we deploy custom branding to SharePoint? We will start with [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 21st '11 |
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday–The Conference
Geoff Varosky
The first event of it’s kind, SharePoint Saturday – The Conference (it’s not just for Saturdays anymore! However, this will end on one…), and I am pleased to be a part of it. I’m also very excited to see that SharePoint Saturday has grown so much over the past couple of years, and now there is a full 3-day conference. SharePoint Saturdays are great ways to share your knowledge with others, learn from peers, experts, MVPs and Microsoft Certified Masters. SharePoint Saturday holds a spec [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 14th '11 |
Imtech Content Query Web Part for SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
If you are running a publishing site in SharePoint, then you know the name Waldek Mastykarz. If you don’t, you should. His blog is filled with many posts on SEO, Content Query Web Parts, and much more. I had a client request to add some paging into the Content Query Web Part, and stumbled upon Waldek’s Imtech Content Query Web Part for SharePoint 2010. This was the perfect solution for my client, but I needed to make a few modifications… this post will go over the modifications and issues [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 11th '11 |
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday New York on 7/30/11
Geoff Varosky
I am pleased to announce (a bit belated) that I will be presenting at the next SharePoint Saturday New York on July 30th, 2011. I will be presenting Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010.
Most companies, large or small, require contact and collaboration with external entities, whether they are vendors, clients, or contractors. SharePoint gives us the ability to open up portals for collaboration with these external entities – this session will show you how to accomplish th [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 17th '11 |
Registration open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 7/13/11
Geoff Varosky
Registration is now open for the July 13th, 2011 meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, at the Microsoft Office in Waltham, MA.
July 13th, 2011 Meeting Information
PRESENTER The presenter for our next meeting is Scott Jamison, Managing Partner and CEO of Jornata. He will be presenting "SharePoint 2010 Usage and Adoption Best Practices"
SESSION ABSTRACT This session will cover best practices for usage and adoption of SharePoint 2010. We’ll answer questions for both the SharePoint [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 16th '11 |
PowerPoint Web App encountered an error. Please try again.
Geoff Varosky
Ever seen this error? I cam across this in a new environment and was befuddled for a short while. Then, also realizing it was a new environment, I’d thought to check the service applications in Central Administration (Central Administration > Application Management > Service Applications > Manage Service Applications).
There was the problem – there was no service application configured for PowerPoint! So, the moral of this short blog post is, when using Office Web Applications in S [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 16th '11 |
Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010-Part 3 “The Environment”
Geoff Varosky
I know quite a few people have been waiting for this post. In this post we’ll cover the environment itself, which I have made mention of in Part 1 of this series, and went through more of the configuration in during Part 2. I even made mention of it during my session at SharePoint Saturday Boston on the same subject. I have been extremely busy over the past two weeks with work, and finally had a chance today to finally put the finish touches and testing on the environment, and it is now ready [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 26th '11 |
Finally into the Office 365 Beta Program
Geoff Varosky
It seems that Microsoft has done another massive push into the Office 365 Beta program. So, yesterday, after months of waiting, I was finally able to get in. I most likely not be using this blog to market off the benefits (you can find those here: Top benefits), but rather, share my observations.
One neat thing which I did not expect… the Developer Dashboard is part of O365!
I thought that was a pretty cool inclusion they did for this. After all, this is a hosted version of SharePoint, and t [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 22nd '11 |
Registration open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 5/11/11
Geoff Varosky
Registration is now open for the May 11th, 2011 meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, MA.
PRESENTER The presenter for our next meeting is Carlos Valcarcel, FAST Technical Specialist at Microsoft. He will be presenting "Architecture: Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint".
SESSION ABSTRACT With the new release of SharePoint comes a plethora of new features: linear scalability, support for more languages, better relevancy, and support for [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 20th '11 |
Getting DLLs OUT of your non-managed code SharePoint solutions in Visual Studio 2010
Geoff Varosky
Ever notice, that no matter what you package in Visual Studio 2010, even if it is a no-code solution? See the output of a build from a CustomAction below.
—— Build started: Project: Test.SharePoint.Features.MyCustomAction, Configuration: Debug Any CPU —— Test.SharePoint.Features.MyCustomAction -> c:\DevProjects\Test.SharePoint.Features.MyCustomAction\Test.SharePoint.Features.MyCustomAction\bin\Debug\Test.SharePoint.Features.MyCustomAction.dll Successful [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 12th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday Boston 4–Recap and Materials
Geoff Varosky
What an event! This will be the 3rd SharePoint Saturday Boston event that I had the pleasure to help organize with Talbott Crowell and Pradeepa Siva. This was by far the smoothest as far as getting the gears cranking on it. Once the engine started, it virtually ran itself… I think our only real issue the day of, is that the breakfast caterer did not pick up their coffee containers, that and we could not figure out the AC situation, or lack there-of in some of the conference rooms. No speaker c [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 10th '11 |
Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010–Part 2
Geoff Varosky
In Part 1 of this series, we walked through creating of the actual databases for managing our FBA users, as well as the general scope of this blog series. Today, we are going to focus on the configuration of SharePoint [insert crowd roar here]. Ok, ok, I know you are excited, this however, is the hardest part IMHO, so, please pay attention, and try to color inside the lines to the best of your ability while we are following this exercise.
Membership and Role Providers
First, let us do a [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 1st '11 |
My Site Quick Launch Navigation in SharePoint 2010 Defaults
Geoff Varosky
In SharePoint 2010, it is very easy to modify the tabs that appear on the profile pages
These are managed by the Quick Launch. To edit these, just go to Site Actions > Site Settings > Look and Feel > Quick launch
So you can add and remove to your heart’s desire. However – this will affect ALL profile pages, not just your own, so, you do need the proper permissions.
So, I routinely have clients that are looking to remove some of these tabs, since there is no option to hide them. So [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 31st '11 |
PowerShell script to list all Webs and Site Templates in use within a Site Collection
Geoff Varosky
And one more quick post today, this PowerShell script will iterate through all Webs within a Site Collection, print out their Title, URL, and WebTemplate (Site Template) name.
1: $site = Get-SPSite "http://yoursite"
2: foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {
3: $web | Select-Object -Property Title,Url,WebTemplate
4: }
5: $site.Dispose()
And again, before you use this – please read this: http://gvaro.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/test-out-your-powershell-scripts-first-in-a-non-production-en [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 30th '11 |
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Filename: redirection.config
Geoff Varosky
If you see this error when activating a feature which makes use of the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace, and the account you are using to activate this feature does not have permissions to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config, chances are, you will see this error.
The fix – give that account access, or use a higher-privileged account.
If there are other solutions out there that people have come into, please let me know, I would love to hear them. [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 30th '11 |
LotD: Using PowerShell to Approve List Items
Geoff Varosky
The Link of the Day (LotD) goes out to Eric Shupps for this quick PowerShell snippet http://www.binarywave.com/blogs/eshupps/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=89cbe813%2D99f7%2D4257%2Da23a%2D5fefc377336b&ID=241&Web=c7893495%2Dbe3b%2D4d73%2D9875%2D28b039760651. This PowerShell code will loop through a list of your choice and approve list items. This is a huge timesaver for me right at the moment. Thank you Shupps!
I do have some slight changes to the code. There is no need to open the site colle [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 29th '11 |
Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010–Part 1
Geoff Varosky
For my SharePoint Saturday Boston session on April 9th, I will be delivering a presentation on Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010. As I am building up my virtual environment for this presentation, I thought I would also write a blog series on the subject. The abstract for the session is below, and, if you can make it to SharePoint Saturday Boston, I hope you’ll come and see the presentation.
Most companies, large or small, require contact and collaboration with external enti [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 28th '11 |
TEST OUT YOUR POWERSHELL SCRIPTS FIRST IN A NON-PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT FIRST
Geoff Varosky
You may be wondering why I applied such bad grammar to the title of this post, it came from a comment on this: https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/itpro/Pages/Seven-Virtues-for-the-SharePoint-IT-Pro.aspx
PowerShell is a beast. Sure, it’s hard to learn the syntax, and there are 600+ commands that come along with SharePoint 2010. But, it also gives you direct access to the API for SharePoint. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, under [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 25th '11 |
Description Meta Tag in SharePoint Publishing Pages
Geoff Varosky
I guess the title is a bit misleading, because in SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, the Description meta tag does not exist.
After a bit of googling on Bing, I came up with several free solutions people have written, such as Waldek Mastykarz Mavention Meta Fields, WCM Utilities on Codeplex, to name a few. But the solution I landed on was so simple, so easy, so perfectly perfect, I went with it. I found it here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointecm/thread/d3583140-62de-4e5d [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 24th '11 |
Delete a master page in SharePoint using PowerShell
Geoff Varosky
Had one of my group approach me today inquiring about deleting a master page from a site collection using PowerShell. Quick and simple way to do it…
1: $web = Get-SPWeb "http://prototype"
2: $lib = $web.GetFolder("_catalogs/masterpage")
3: $file = $lib.Files["v4_copy(1).master"];
4: $file.Delete();
5: $web.dispose();
So I thought I would share. Enjoy! [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 17th '11 |
Registration Open for SharePoint Saturday Boston – 4/9/11
Geoff Varosky
I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for SharePoint Saturday Boston! Register today to reserve your spot. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Event Details
SharePoint administrators, end users, architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies will meet for the 4th SharePoint Saturday Boston event on Saturday, April 9th, 2011 at the Microsoft Office located at 201 Jones Road in Waltham, MA, 02451. SharePoint Satur [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 17th '11 |
PerfomancePoint Dashboard Designer “Code blocks are not allowed in this file”
Geoff Varosky
If you are configuring PerformancePoint in SharePoint 2010, and you are attempting to launch the Dashboard Designer ClickOnce application from the Business Intelligence Center site you have created, you may encounter this error. Some books and blog posts on the subject of configuring and running PerformancePoint services do not seem to touch on this – SharePoint by default, does not allow in-page code.
To get around this, you will need to modify the web.config file for the web application in w [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 21st '11 |
New England Give Camp 2011
Geoff Varosky
At a Glance
When: April 29th – May 1st, 2011
Where: Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Contact Email: negc2010@hotmail.com
Twitter: @NEGiveCamp
Coding for Charity
New England GiveCamp is a charitable event at which software developers, designers, and other technical volunteers donate their skills and expertise to support area non-profit organizations.
During GiveCamp weekend about 100 software professionals from around New England will conver [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 21st '11 |
SharePoint Site Collection backup failed–site left locked.
Geoff Varosky
Ran into an issue the other day. Was running a site collection backup from Central Administration, when it just flat out failed with a generic error. Didn’t think much of it, until a user could not add any data, nor see the Site Actions menu within a site under that site collection.
I started to investigate – all signs pointed to the content database being locked, but no matter where I looked, I was unable to find just where it was locked up.
First, in Central Administration, I checked to [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 21st '11 |
SPTechCon 2011 San Francisco Recap and Slides
Geoff Varosky
Need I say more? I had never been out to San Francisco before, so, I had a couple of chances to get out and explore the city. Knocking off the following on my trip:
M5 Industries (Mythbusters!)
The Winchester Mystery House
Fisherman’s Wharf
The Golden Gate Bridge
Marin Headlands
WWII-era forts
Lombard Street
Alcatraz
Oh right, and also, there was this SharePoint Technology Conference going on. SPTechCon San Francisco was a great conference. Kudos to the BZ Media Team again for putting on o [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 16th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday Hartford Recap and Session Materials
Geoff Varosky
I was pleasantly surprised when about a week or so before SharePoint Saturday Hartford came around on January 29th, to hear the news that the event had sold out! We have had lots of success with SharePoint Saturday Boston, however, I was unsure if this was going to be overkill for the region, if it would all be SPS Boston attendees looking for their “fix” between our 6-8 month cycle there of events, I honestly was not sure what to expect, but, wanted to help get it going anyways, so I offere [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 31st '11 |
GraceHunt.SharePoint.PowerShell.Scripts
Geoff Varosky
I am pleased to announce, that after a long hiatus – I’ve updated our CodePlex project site with some additional tools. I am going to try to build up a list of useful PowerShell scripts. To start this off, I’ve got one in there.
GH-SetDeveloperDashboard.ps1
This script will assist in setting the options for the developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010.
Here is also the code, so you can see how it works. Simple, but, a timesaver so you do not need to remember the cryptic PowerShell code requi [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 26th '11 |
A giant lobster crawls out of Boston harbor…
Geoff Varosky
Joel Oleson approached me at the SharePoint Technology Conference in Boston, and asked me to answer a few questions. This would be the result of that…
For some odd reason, I want to head down to Providence to Hemenway’s for some Lobster. I have no idea why… [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 26th '11 |
Helpful Resources for Troubleshooting Issues with Membership Providers in SharePoint
Geoff Varosky
When configuring membership providers for Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint – you often run into some troubles. These are just a couple of links that I have found useful in the past to assist in the configuration process.
ERROR: “The password-answer supplied is invalid”
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1445709/error-while-creating-a-membership-user-the-password-answer-supplied-is-invalid
LINQ Configuration: http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/SharePoint+Development [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 26th '11 |
Microsoft.BusinessData.Runtime.ExceededLimitException: Database Connector has throttled the response.
Geoff Varosky
If you’ve created a BCS list before (such as defined by the excellent tutorial put together by Laura Rogers for connecting to a SQL data source using a SQL account – http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=90), and received this error on your Read List view page:
Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft SharePoint Designer. If the problem persist [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 26th '11 |
Slides from SharePoint Saturday EMEA 2011 Presentation
Geoff Varosky
Although it happened quite early for me in the morning yesterday (January 22st, 2011), SharePoint Saturday EMEA was a great event to be a part of. Although it lacked some of the main aspects I love at SharePoint Saturdays, such as networking, meeting new people, interacting with the crowd, etc., it was kind of nice to wake up, slug down a few cups of coffee, and present my session.
The EMEA team did a great job of managing this virtual SharePoint Saturday, and I hope to be able to present at fut [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 24th '11 |
Server Admin Quick Tip – “Access is denied” when saving a text file with Notepad
Geoff Varosky
Seen this error before when trying to save a text file, such as a web.config? Frustrating isn’t it? It’s Notepad! It should be able to walk to school, in 3 feet of snow, without shoes, uphill, both ways, without so much as a whimper. Well, apparently it has it’s limitations, as it so easily let you know.
The quick fix? Run it as administrator. Yep! You can definitely do this with Notepad, just like other applications, like the command prompt, and Internet Explorer. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 17th '11 |
Integrating Social Media into the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon
Geoff Varosky
I think the image above says enough for itself. Came across this link today (http://shojeeb.com/sharepoint/custom-social-bookmarking-ribbon-tab-in-sharepoint-2010/) by Zubhair Ahmed. Very cool integration of social media controls into SharePoint 2010, and just had to share.
A few other people think so as well… [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 17th '11 |
Quick Tip – Using the Resources List in Central Administration
Geoff Varosky
Let’s face it, both in SharePoint 2007 and 2010, Central Administration does require a bit of clicking around. Some features and functionality you will use on a daily basis, but others, not so much. While the UI for Central Administration got a great overhaul, navigating around can be tedious.
Not that it is any rocket science here either, however, I rarely come across client environments where this is used at all. The list was available in 2007, as well as 2010. When you log into Central Admi [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 13th '11 |
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Geoff Varosky
Wow, it’s been a busy few weeks, and lots of acceptances and confirmations have come through over the past couple of weeks, enough so that I have not been able to get out posts for each one. So, I thought I would cover a few bases at once, and get all of these out there. I also keep an updated speaking and event calendar hosted here: http://gvaro.wordpress.com/calendar/.
January, 2011
January 22, 2011: SharePoint Saturday EMEA – Live, Online
Presenting “The Ribbon UI and Custom [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 11th '11 |
Speaking at SPSEMEA on January 22, 2011
Geoff Varosky
Found out a few moments ago that I am officially slated to present at SharePoint Saturday EMEA.
What is SharePoint Saturday EMEA?
SharePoint Saturday EMEA is a loosely knit group of SharePoint evangelists from around the world. We are working together, using SharePoint as a collaboration tool to sponsor live, online global events.
On January 22nd, 2011, we will hold our 2nd annual, live online SharePoint Saturday event in the EMEA Timezones.
Oh, and it’s free.
What will I be pres [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 4th '11 |
The request failed with the error message: Object moved (SharePoint 2010, Web Services & FBA)
Geoff Varosky
Ever seen this message?
Sure, some simple code to loop through the User Profile store in SharePoint 2010 via a console application using web services. It can be a frustrating message indeed. However, there is a simple resolution.
The Problem
The problem is – you are not authenticated. Even if you are passing credentials in your code, it is not going to work. You need to be authenticated to get to the web service itself. In this instance – we are using Claims Based Authentication, and [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 4th '11 |
SharePoint & PowerShell 101: Finding Cmdlets
Geoff Varosky
I recently did a post on Listing all available PowerShell commands in SharePoint 2010. That is all well and good, if you want to manually browse through all of them. But what if you want to search for them?
Get-Command
Get-Command is a highly useful cmdlet in PowerShell. Today we are just going to use a basic functionality of it, to help us find and locate the cmdlets we need to use. Today, we need to do some work with the User Profile Service. However, we don’t know what the command n [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 4th '11 |
List View Web Part Toolbar Types in SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
When adding a List View Web Part to your pages in SharePoint 2007, you had 3 options:
Full Toolbar
Gave you the library controls on a toolbar above your headers and list items, but no “Add new document” or “Add new list item” link below your data, because it was available in the toolbar above.
Summary Toolbar
Gave you the “Add new document” link below your data
No Toolbar
Nothing!
In SharePoint 2010, things are slightly different. Let’s take a look at our options, [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 3rd '11 |
The One Thing: Geoff Varosky and SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
So there I am, making phone calls to my broker, instead of running SharePoint Saturday Boston, and up walks Christian Buckley, asking what I think is one of the best new features of SharePoint 2010. Well, this is the result of that.
[read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Wildcard Search for Forms Based Authentication Users in the SharePoint 2010 People Picker Not Working
Geoff Varosky
The Problem
Ran into an issue today with a client. We have their site configured for mixed authentication in SharePoint 2010 – using both Windows Authentication for internal users, and Forms Based Authentication (FBA) users, using the default SQL Membership Provider. The problem was that we could wildcard search Active Directory users, but, not FBA users. Interesting. If we typed in their username exactly, it came up just fine. Otherwise, well… nothing.
I had no idea what the issue could hav [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Virtual Machine Performance Tip: Defragmentation
Geoff Varosky
Last week, I posted another Virtual Machine Performance tip on Anti-Malware software and virtual machines, and have another one for you this week. Just like your physical hard drive, disks get defragmented, which can affect performance. Be sure to regularly defragment your virtual hard drives occasionally to keep it running in tip-top shape.
If you are running VMWare Workstation, you can get down to this option by going to Edit virtual machine settings from the Commands window
Then selecting yo [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Create a Custom Action to Satisfy Your “All People” Needs.
Geoff Varosky
Thanks for the intro Carl! Much obliged! Well, in your SharePoint world, your “Pale Blue Dot” view of all of the people in your site collection is the “All People” view, you know, the User Information List.
Almost two months ago, I wrote an article on how the “All People” link in SharePoint 2010 is, well, it’s gone MIA. It is easy to get to via link. And, if you’ve got one site collection to manage, well, its as simple as adding a link somewhere, like in a link list within [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
2010 in Review
Geoff Varosky
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,500 times in 2010. That’s about 23 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 102 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 220 posts. There were 321 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 15mb. That̵ [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Virtual Machine Performance Tip: Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware Software
Geoff Varosky
NOTE – THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS TO BE USED AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Being that I have quite a bit of history over the years in dealing with computer and network security, I definitely believe that your environment should be as secure as more-than-humanly possible, even if it causes some inconvenience. It’s all fun and games until your network gets compromised, or worse, all of the thousands of photos of your children are deleted from your hard drive by some unsuspecting virus, intruder, etc.
No [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 21st '10 |
Registration open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 1/12/11
Geoff Varosky
Registration is now open for the January 12th, 2011 meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, MA.
PRESENTER Our presenter for our next meeting is Scott Jamison, Managing Partner at Jornata. He will be presenting "SharePoint 2010 Usage and Adoption Best Practices".
SESSION ABSTRACT This session will cover best practices for usage and adoption of SharePoint 2010. We’ll answer questions for both the SharePoint adoption team and users alike [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 16th '10 |
New Version of SPDisposeCheck Released Today (12/13/10)!
Geoff Varosky
Saw a tweet from J.D. Wade (@JDWade) today, that Roger Lamb released a new version today of SPDisposeCheck. If you’ve been in my Best Practices for SharePoint Development session I do with Mark Rackley, or, if you are a SharePoint developer, you should know what this is.
But, in case you do not know what it is, here is a comment straight from the linked post below:
SPDisposeCheck is a tool to helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object M [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 13th '10 |
Identifying Field Mappings in the User Profile
Geoff Varosky
Now, generally speaking, the field labels within the Edit Profile screen for User Profiles in SharePoint 2010 should map to their display name (see below)
Or, when in the Edit screen for the property, you can see what the Display Name is, as well as the internal name above the highlighted section as Name.
However, there may be instances where this is being overridden somewhere, maybe in the master page through some JavaScript or something. Or, perhaps something else altogether. If you look at [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 13th '10 |
Deploying and Activating Features in SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell
Geoff Varosky
I was looking at an article on MSDN blogs today for customizing My Sites in SharePoint 2010. This post is not about that, but rather PowerShell that were there for deploying and activating a feature. Here is the text, direct from the site itself. This installs a feature (a), enables the feature (b), and then activates the feature on each site (c).
a. Install-SPFeature -path "MyNewNavFeature" b. Enable-SPFeature -identity "M [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 13th '10 |
Options for Deploying Reusable Workflows in SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
With SharePoint 2010, we have two new workflow types we can create, a Reusable Workflow, and a Site Workflow. Today we’ll concentrate on reusable workflows. And if you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, let me first explain…
In WSS v3, we could create “reusable” workflows in Visual Studio, and through some third party applications, however, in v3, lots of workflows were generated in SharePoint Designer. And a lot of times, people found out the hard way, that you could [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 11th '10 |
Grace-Hunt SharePoint Webinar Series – What’s SharePoint 2010 and how can it help my organization?
Geoff Varosky
Join us on Thursday, December 16th, from 11:45am – 1pm, for the first of many Grace-Hunt webinars. We will start this one off with Charlie Delong and Mike Davenport presenting “What’s SharePoint 2010 and how can it help my organization?”
There is a lot of buzz around SharePoint 2010 and all the great things it can do to help your organization. Join us and see real world examples of how SharePoint enhances business process, streamlines communications, and increases collaboration. If you a [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 10th '10 |
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Hartford – 2011
Geoff Varosky
I found out this afternoon from Pradeepa Siva (@PipsTips), that I will be having two sessions at SharePoint Saturday Hartford! SharePoint Saturday Hartford will be taking place just outside Hartford, on January 29th, 2011. The other details have been kept secret up until this point… maybe we’ll host it inside an abandoned submarine in the middle of downtown Hartford? Or even better yet, the HARTFORD CIVIC CENTER! I hope I can do my session in the locker room of the Big Whale. That would rock [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 10th '10 |
Content Query Web Parts, Anonymous Access, and the Dreaded CopyUtil.aspx in SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
I spent some decent time over the past couple of days trying to get a Content Query Web Part in SharePoint 2010, that was aggregating blogs from several different sites to “just work”, and was not having any luck. Basically, the CopyUtil.aspx page, which resides in the SharePointRoot/TEMPLATE/LAYOUTS/ folder, redirects you based on the ListID, ItemID, and WebID of the target item within the Content Query Web Part.
This work is being done for a client, who is migrating their public website fr [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 10th '10 |
How SharePoint determines what node in the global navigation is currently “selected”
Geoff Varosky
Simple – by placing a hidden span in there with the inner text of “Currently selected”. Just came across this today and thought it was a neat little find, and thought I’d share.
[read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 9th '10 |
What’s that? You missed a Week3 Presentation??
Geoff Varosky
Please, have no fear. In fact, instead of sitting on the couch, attempting to overcome your Turkey, Turducken (I could be so lucky…) or Tofurkey coma on Friday and over the weekend, it may be a good time to pick out the bits of cranberry sauce from your keyboard, and head on over to http://www.Week3.org, and catch some recorded webinars from Week3, specifically, at this page here: http://www.week3.org/Pages/Sessions.aspx
What is Week3? (Hint: it takes place on the 3rd week of the month…)
We [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 24th '10 |
New England IT Community Leaders Meetup
Geoff Varosky
A big thanks goes out to Dan Stolts for organizing this gathering yesterday at the Microsoft office in Waltham. We had over 20 people in attendance on Tuesday afternoon, both physically there, as well as remote, connected via Microsoft Lync. What was this “gathering of the minds” you ask? Well, we had a great mixed audience, of those that run the BUG (Boston User Groups) site, Windows and Unix System Admins who run local User Groups, MVPs, Virtualization User Group organizers, and of course [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 24th '10 |
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Firestarter Event in Waltham, MA.
Geoff Varosky
I was at a “User Group for User Groups” (VERY simplified version – more on that to come soon!), and found out from our local Microsoft Evangelists, Chris Bowen and Dan Stolts, that there are some great local Firestarter events. These are described, on the site, as “Heat up your skills with the all-new Firestarter event series. Each day tackles a single Microsoft technology, including free sessions presented live by Microsoft developer and IT pro evangelists and technology specialists [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 23rd '10 |
Registration open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 12/8/10
Geoff Varosky
Registration is now open for the December 8th, 2010 meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, back again on our home turf at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, MA.
PRESENTER
Our presenter for our next meeting Is Marc Anderson, President and Founder of Sympraxis Consulting. He will be presenting "Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier".
SESSION ABSTRACT
While most of the market focus in SharePoint development lies with .NET skills and techniques, there is a rich middle gr [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 22nd '10 |
iPad – thoughts after a week of ownership…
Geoff Varosky
So, I did it. I was out to dinner with a great client of mine, and some friends from Rackspace, Jeff DeVerter (@jdeverter) and Matt Lathrop (@MatthewRAX), to talk some shop. After dinner, the plaza we were in had an Apple store, and I casually mentioned to Jeff as we were walking by, that I was seriously on the fence about getting an iPad. He then proceeded to tell me how much he loves it.
I was in need of a new Mac, since my mini died over a year ago, I needed something with a full-fledged Safa [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 18th '10 |
“All People” view in SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
One thing we have seemed to have lost is the “All People” link when managing users and groups from SharePoint 2007 in 2010, as shown below from a 2007 site.
However, in SharePoint 2010, this link does not exist… Have no fear however. If you have copy & paste skills, you can get back there. It still exists. Just copy the URL from your 2007 site
http://my2007site.grace-hunt.com/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0&FilterField1=ContentType&FilterValue1=Person
And drop the p [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 11th '10 |
“Fab 40″ Templates for SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
While I have not tested these out as of yet, I did want to share the link I came across from the Bamboo Solutions SharePoint Daily. This is a current topic for me, as it came up in a discussion with a prospective client on Monday. Khalil @ TechSol has either re-created or converted 32 out of the “Fab 40″ templates released by Microsoft for SharePoint 2007. Nice work!
http://techsolutions.net/Blog/tabid/65/EntryId/17/Fab-40-Templates-for-MOSS-2010.aspx [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 10th '10 |
Using PowerShell (and SQL) to Copy Users from SharePoint 2007 to 2010
Geoff Varosky
PowerShell is a neat tool. There. I said it. What, you already knew that? Oh well… I still think it’s cool. You may have guessed, that due to recent posts (and a few yet to be posted), focused around PowerShell, I’ve been using it quite a bit. Today’s post is on how to get users out of your 2007 environment, and into 2010, specifically around FBA users.
I’ve been working with a new client recently, and we are migrating a 2007 based internet site to a 2010 based internet site, which ha [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 9th '10 |
Errors when writing applications for SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
So, you’ve opened Visual Studio 2010, say, for instance, a console application to start pecking away at writing some simple application via the API. Nothing major, maybe in fact you are just re-using code from 2007 you’ve written, but, you just want to play with the API, after you’ve finished drooling over the new UI. Great! So, you’ve written your code, you press F5 to debug run your program, and [insert failure sound from The Price is Right here] – you get an error. The error makes n [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 8th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series Recordings
Geoff Varosky
Good evening! We announced this on Friday during Richard Harbridge’s webinar on Friday, and I also wanted to push this out here. We have been recording the webinar series, and are now posting the recorded videos of the presentations by our great presenters, at the SharePoint Saturday Boston webinar series page here: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston/Pages/SPSBos3WebinarSeries.aspx
Within a week after each session, barring any unforeseen obstacles (acts of god, clients, etc.), I will get [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 8th '10 |
Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Geoff Varosky
If you are not aware of this, and you are consistently connecting from server to server to server to server to server to server… (you get the point). Well then, consider this making you aware of it, as before today, I had completely forgotten about it entirely!
I was aware of its existence, and, I apparently even had it installed already today, when I downloaded it and went to install it again, as it asked me to repair or remove it. What is it? Well, think of it as RDP, but, with a sprinkling [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 6th '10 |
Listing all available PowerShell commands in SharePoint 2010
Geoff Varosky
Wanted to share this with my handful of readers, as it is a reference I use often, and also what comes back first in a search. The following blog has two commands for listing out all SharePoint-related PowerShell commands in 2010. In an effort not to steal his thunder, I’ll just post the link here so you can go get those commands.
http://sptwentyten.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/list-all-sharepoint-2010-powershell-commands/ [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 6th '10 |
Registration open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 10/21/10 – Hosted by the SharePoint Technology Conference
Geoff Varosky
pFor our October 21st meeting, we are joining forces with the SharePoint Technology Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge (see a href="http://www.sptechcon.com/"www.sptechcon.com/a for more information on the venue). BASPUG members who sign up for this special meeting of the group, will be admitted free attendance to the SPTechCon Exhibit Hall Attendee Reception. Browse vendors, enjoy some food and drink starting at 5:45PM, and then, we will be getting together at about 7PM in one of the [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10 |
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
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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
pa href="http://www.bostonsharepointug.org" target="_blank"img title="BASPUG_195square_initials" border="0" alt="BASPUG_195square_initials" align="right" src="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mgb7Y--IT891JCaU1MZGqpVpERjxtnXLXP--0pdTTpyhnudnyfLlHMpEA-VS0CHjTUoURDLKYoMhueBqgkH-chQIOsRzfLaIg6JOxgdgr9FcJcFmMegXsaqFbh2J0kOhWEIEVr586RmvQfmdeNqM8GQ/BASPUG_195square_initials_thumb[1].gif" width="199" height="199" //a pUnfortunately, Craig Pilkenton was called out of town for a long term client eng [read].
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
p align="center"a href="http://www.sptechcon.com" target="_blank"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px" title="SPTCon_BOSTON728x90" border="0" alt="SPTCon_BOSTON728x90" src="https://tpbmwg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mH-nHeYXQUAKkT-mQwBp2b8qOGPScVul3Kh3SJu-RbLQ2HwGG-eJPl8GJfN2hH--y3Frqb0EoF_PQnqsXquYEt5NkIAZBlINzM-ARGzaonHptC7N9okBN03o2bXuZWp4iZ-du2MsWuz6APxFXJIA-ZQ/SPTCon_BOSTON728x905.png" width="604" height="79" //a/p p [read].
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
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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
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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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Blogs
Frode Aarebrot
Arild Aarnes
S.S. Ahmed
Eric Alexander
Reza Alirezaei
Owen Allen
Paul Andrew
Axceler Blog
Tariq Ayad
William Baer
Todd Baginski
Jose Barreto
Alexander Bautz
Paul Beck
Becky Bertram
Urs Bertschy
Simon Binaryjam
Darrin Bishop
Chrissy Blanco
Todd Bleeker
Michael Blumenthal
Robert Bogue
Hans Brender
Broculos
Christian Buckley
Daniel Bugday
Gary Bushey
Sean Cantellay
Joe Capka
Mauro Cardarelli
Todd Carter
Julien Chable
Eric Charran
CipherPoint
Liam Cleary
Dave Coleman
Communardo Techblog
Renaud Comte
Andrew Connell
William Cornwill
Matthew Cosier
Penny Coventry
Paul Culmsee
Marek Czarzbon
Jeff Dalton
Gabriele Del Giovine
Tim Dobrinski
Stacy Draper
Zlatan Dzinic
Erika Ehrli
Enterprise Search
eusp2010
Christopher Even
K.Mohamed Faizal
Lars Fastrup
Jon Feilding
Mike Fitzmaurice
Torsten Flegel
Rob Foster
Bob Fox
Toni Frankola
Bjorn Furuknap
Amar Galla
Paul Galvin
Mike Gannotti
Ariel Garcia Sobrino
Rob Garrett
Sebastian Gerling
Get the Point
Stefan Gossner
Brian Gough
Michael Greene
Michael Greth
Matthias Groenert
Daniele Guarneri
Portals & Integration
Mike Hacker
Mike Hamilton
Giles Hamson
Thorsten Hans
Spencer Harbar
Richard Harbridge
Marcus Hass
René Hézser
Sascha Henning
Susan Henry
Serve Hermans
Mike Herrity
Tim Heuer
Ben Hickman
Ed Hild
Thomas Hildebrandt
Scot Hillier
John Holiday
Greg Hughes
Matthew Hughes
Christophe Humbert
Patrick Ige
Randall Isenhour
Becky Isserman
Barry Jinks
Chris Johnson
Adis Jugo
Kit Kai
Mattias Karlsson
Ingo Karstein
Paul Keijzers
George Khalil
Noorez Khamis
Todd Klindt
Steffen Krause
Westin Kriebel
Larry Kuhn
Chandima Kulathilake
Andre Lage
Gary Lapointe
Daniel Larson
Eric Legault
Dan Lewis
Paul Liebrand
Bas Lijten
Bryant Likes
David Lim
Locatech
Angus Logan
Serge Luca
Gregory MacBeth
Igor Macori
Ricardo Magalh
Sahil Malik
Giuseppe Marchi
Waldek Mastykarz
Jean-Francois Mathieu
Andrew May
Ali Mazaheri
Matthew McDermott
Daniel McPherson
Jason Medero
Oscar Medina
Alexander Meijers
Robin Meure
Ryan Miller
Bob Mixon
Agnes Molnar
Ian Morish
Mart Muller
Amanda Murphy
Arno Nel
Mads Nissen
Chris O'Brien
Michael O'Donovan
Joel Oleson
Johan Olivier
Henry Ong
Doug Ortiz
Mike Oryszak
Veronique Palmer
Paul Papanek Stork
Joris Peolmans
Shane Perran
Pieter Pieter
Steve Pietrek
Maurice Prather
Stuart Preston
Adam Preston
Romeo Pruno
Chris Quick
Shereen Qumsieh
Dux Raymond
Tom Resing
Keith Richie
Tom Rizzo
Eli Robillard
Lance Robinson
Patrick Rogers
Eugene Rosenfeld
Zach Rosenfield
Ishai Sagi
Paul Schaeflein
Arnt Schoning
Brendon Schwartz
Philippe Sentenac
Arpan Shah
Itay Shakury
End User SharePoint
To The SharePoint
SharePoint Blues
Sharepoint Design Team
Sharepoint Developer
SharePoint Magazine
SharePoint Product Team
Sharepoint Solutions
SharePointHosting Blog
Steve Sheppard
Eric Shupps
Bill Simser
Scott Singleton
Patrick Sledz
Mike Smith
Heather Solomon
Thomas Sondergaard
Clare Stone
Nick Swan
T3chNicaL.LEad
Marwan Tarek
Jeremy Thake
Jan Tielen
Tools for Collaboration
Torsten Hufsky
UK SharePoint Team
Understanding SharePoint
Dan Usher
Serge van den Oever
Cornelius van Dyk
Xavier Vanneste
Geoff Varosky
Pierre Vivier-Merle
Christoffer von Sabsay
Natalya Voskresenskaya
JD Wade
Kris Wagner
Mike Walsh
Doug Ware
Michael Watson
Bart Wessels
Phil Wicklund
Wictor Wilen
Ivan Wilson
Woody Windischman
Daniel Winter
Wolfgang Miedl
Andrew Woodward
Chris Wright
Shane Young
Mohamed Zaki
Tobias Zimmer
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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