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Resources From My Session At SharePoint Extreme Event
Itay Shakury
שלום לכולם, בתאריך 22.3.11 העברתי בכנס SharePoint Extreme ‘הרצאה בנושא שיפור ביצועים באתרי SharePoint. תודה לכל מי שהשתתף, ותודה לירון ורועי מתבונה-מילניום שארגנו את המסלול. מצורפת המצגת שהעברתי. שימו לב שבחלק הערות (Notes) של כל שקופית יש קישורים רלוונטיים. http://cid-3d176b702454b41b.office.live.com/view.aspx/blog/SPE%20-%2 [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 23rd '11
I Will Be Speaking at SharePoint Extreme Event
Itay Shakury
בתאריך 22.3.11 עד 24.3.11 יתקיים כנס SharePoint Extreme - שלושה ימים של סדנאות והרצאות שכולן על SharePoint. אני אעביר סשן ביום הראשון של הכנס, 22.3, יום שלישי, על ניתוח ושיפור ביצועים של אתרי SharePoint. ההרצאה שלי תארך כ 45 דקות, ותסקור את הכלים והשיטות שמסייעים למדוד ולשפר ביצועים באתר SharePoint. ההרצאה היא ח [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 20th '11
Joining The Mothership
Itay Shakury
Short Summary for English speaking readers: I’m Joining Microsoft, no longer MVP. חברים וחברות יקרים, אני שמח לבשר על הצטרפותי לחברת מיקרוסופט. לאחר תקופה נהדרת שבה הקדשתי את כל כולי עבורכם – קהילת SharePoint הישראלית - הדרך מובילה אותי קדימה אל מיקרוסופט. אני אשתדל להמשיך ולתרום, להשפיע ולעזור, כפי שעשיתי עד כה. עם [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 15th '11
SharePoint Group–1/11
Itay Shakury
שלום לכולם, מפגש ראשון של השנה החדשה יתקיים בתאריך ה 23/01/2011. את המפגש יעבירו יוני תורג’מן ואלכס לויטין מחברת גארדיאן. שימו לב, חובה להרשם על מנת להשתתף באירוע ולקבל חניה בבניין. תיאור המפגש: במפגש זה נעסוק בכל נושא העבודה מול ממשק ה-UI של SharePoint 2010. המפגש יתחלק לשלושה חלקים: 1. עבו [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 6th '11
SharePoint Group–Meeting 10 Summary
Itay Shakury
שלום לכולם, בתאריך 26/12/10 התקיים מפגש בנושא ALM With SharePoint 2010. את המפגש העביר אסף אבן מחברת אדוונטק. את המצגת, וחומרים נוספים מהאירוע, ניתן למצוא באתר האירוע, בכתובת הבאה: http://www.sharepoint-israel.co.il/events/SPG/SPG10 שאלות המשך, ניתן לשאול בפורום בכתובת http://www.sharepoint-israel.co.il/forums תודה לכל המשתתפים, נת [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11
How My Latest Post Can Help You Save Time
Itay Shakury
I recently wrote a post regarding a certain performance issue with SharePoint that we solved. I since got some comments and questions about when is this problem relevant. Well.. It’s practically everywhere ,in an isolated environment, and It’s very common for development machines (usually virtual) to be disconnected. The fixes suggested in that post can help you speed up your work in the following cases: A desktop application (WinForm\Console) that uses SharePoint APIs. STSADM.exe. PowerS [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 19th '10
SharePoint Is Slow On Isolated Environments
Itay Shakury
This is an interesting case that was solved thanks to the help of Nitsan Raz – an all mighty system administrator and SharePoint admin. Problem So I was asked to investigate a performance problem at one of my regular clients. To demonstrate the performance problem, the client’s developers showed me a simple WinForm application (on the server), that created an instance of an SPSite object. the code had 1 line of interest, which is: SPSite site = new SPSite("http://mySite"); That line a [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 15th '10
SharePoint Group – Meeting 10
Itay Shakury
שלום לכולם, בתאריך 26/12/10 יתקיים מפגש עשירי שלנו בנושא ALM in SharePoint 2010. את המפגש יעביר אסף אבן מחברת אדוונטק. הרשמה (ללא עלות): http://www.sharepoint-israel.co.il/events/SPG/SPG10 תיאור המפגש: במפגש זה נכיר את מתודולוגיות העבודה והכלים בתהליכי יישום ופיתוח בסביבת SharePoint 2010. נצלול אל התהליך החל מסביבת הפי [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 12th '10
Recording and slides from my session at Teched2010
Itay Shakury
עבור כל מי שהחמיץ את ההרצאה שלי בטק אד, או סתם רוצה להזכר בה, הקלטה מלאה שלה, והורדה של המצגת זמינים עכשיו בלינק הבא: http://techedagenda.mscom.co.il/Online/?pq=63 תהנו. [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 8th '10
Why You Should Come To My Session At Tech-Ed
Itay Shakury
שלום לכולם, רציתי לספר לכם למה לדעתי כדאי לכם לבוא להרצאה שלי בטק-אד, אפילו אם הייתם בהרצאה שלי על אותו נושא בעבר. (צר לי לאכזב אבל שוב מדובר בפוסט לא טכני בעליל.. אלו יבואו רק אחרי טק-אד) אז ככה: בשנה האחרונה יצא לי לדבר המון על “טכנולוגיות גישה למידע ב SP2010”. העברתי הרצאה על הנוש [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 24th '10
TechEd In Pictures
Itay Shakury
pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/TE_Bag_1_3661ED90.jpg"img style="background-image:none;border-right-width:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;padding-top:0px;" title="TE_Bag_1" border="0" alt="TE_Bag_1" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/TE_Bag_1_thumb_5025FDF2.jpg" width="147" height="244" //a#160;a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/TE_Bag_2_51A71A06.jpg"img style="b [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 30th '10
SharePoint Group - Meeting 9 Summary
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pשלום לכולם,/p pבתאריך 24/10/2010 התקיים מפגש בנושא BCS – Business Connectivity Services. את המפגש העביר אלכס לויטין מחברת גארדיאן./p pאת המצגת מהמפגש ודוגמאות קוד, ניתן למצוא באתר המפגש: br /a href="http://www.sharepoint-israel.co.il/events/SPG/SPG9"http://www.sharepoint-israel.co.il/events/SPG/SPG9/a/p pשאלות המשך, ומידע נוסף [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 27th '10
I Will Be Speaking At Tech Ed Israel 2010
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/speaker_sign-Blue_62D47565.jpg"img style="background-image:none;border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;display:inline;float:left;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;padding-top:0px;" title="speaker_sign-Blue" border="0" alt="speaker_sign-Blue" align="left" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/speaker_sign-Blue_thumb_5F72DDBD.jpg" width="185" height="160" //aטק אד [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 20th '10
SharePoint in Pictures
Itay Shakury
pSharePoint in Pictures is a new blog (from the guys at Microsoft) that will only post “diagrams that visualize SharePoint as a development platform”./p pI really like architectural diagrams like these. It help me bring together the little pieces and see the big picture. br /Also it’s great for anyone who is regularly lecturing, and needs pretty slides./p pSo check it out at: br /a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointpictures/"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointpictures//a/pimg src="htt [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 18th '10
Discovering Broken Links using IIS SEO Toolkit
Itay Shakury
pIIS SEO Toolkit is an add-on to IIS that can analyze your site, and provide some very helpful reports and insights about it’s structure. It’s goal is to help you optimize for search engine’s, but I also has some very nice features that can help in other areas./p pOne of them is discovering broken links. Once you setup the tool, it crawls through your site, and gives a report of broken links. You can also create custom queries and export data into other reports./p pHere’s how to get star [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 15th '10
SharePoint Group – Meeting 9
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pשלום לכולם,/p pבתאריך 24/10/10 יתקיים מפגש של קבוצת SharePoint בנושא BCS (Business Connectivity Services). את המפגש יעביר אלכס לויתן מחברת גארדיאן./p pתיאור קצר: br /במפגש זה נעסוק ב BCS – Business connectivity Services, יכולת שמאפשרת להתממשק מתוך SharePoint למערכות אחרות בארגון, וכן למקורות מידע חיצו [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 24th '10
ListData.svc is Case Sensitive
Itay Shakury
pNote to self: ListData.svc (aka SP2010 Data Services) is Case Sensitive./pimg src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/aggbug.aspx?PostID=713694" width="1" height="1" pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oAW4SOKZSEc6A-WTIKcY1c6e5lY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oAW4SOKZSEc6A-WTIKcY1c6e5lY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oAW4SOKZSEc6A-WTIKcY1c6e5lY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oAW4SOKZSEc6A-WTIKcY1c6e5lY [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10
MVP Award Kit
Itay Shakury
pGot my MVP award from Microsoft (the actual award, not the title) – Just wanted to share: (Thank you MS!)/p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/IMG_20100920_082811_2EED3272.jpg"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="IMG_20100920_082811" border="0" alt="IMG_20100920_082811" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/IMG_20100920_082811_thumb_7389A6E6.jpg" width="184" height="244" //a /p pa href="http://blogs.micro [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10
SPMetal Default Fields
Itay Shakury
pIn a a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/02/19/spmetal-missing-created-by-modified-by-fields.aspx"previous post of mine/a, I have talked about the fact that SPMetal does not generate properties for the “Created By” and “Modified By” fields. This was back in the beta phase of SharePoint 2010 and the workaround that I have suggested was to manually add the desired fields into the generated code file. br /Since then we have come to know SharePoint 2010 better, an [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10
SharePoint Group – Meeting 8 Summery
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pבתאריך 20/09/10 התקיים מפגש של קבוצת SharePoint בנושא SharePoint Designer 2010. את המפגש העבירה עמית אברהם./p pאת המצגת, תמונות וחומרים נוספים ניתן למצוא באתר המפגש: br /a href="http://www.sharepoint-israel.co.il/events/SPG/SPG8"http://www.sharepoint-israel.co.il/events/SPG/SPG8/a/p pבנוסף, תוכלו לשאול שאלות המשך למצגת בפורו [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 21st '10
SharePoint Group – Meeting 8
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pשלום לכולם,/p pאנו שמחים להזמינכם למפגש השמיני של קבוצת SharePoint. במפגש זה נדבר על היכולות והתכונות החדשות במוצרSharePoint Designer#160; 2010./p pהמפגש יתקיים ב 20/09/2010 במשרדי מיקרוסופט ברעננה, ותעביר אותו עמית אברהם מחברת אומניסיס./p pפרטים נוספים: br / a href="http://www.sharepoint-israel. [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 30th '10
Screen Cast - Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7
Itay Shakury
pI have put together a screen cast that walks through the process of installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 for development proposes./p pThe screen cast is based on the following MSDN procedure: br /a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx/a/p pThe screen cast is available for download at: br /a title="http://www.sharepoint-israel.co.il/blogs/itaysk/Videos/SP2010onWindows7.wmv" href="http://www.sharepoint-israel.c [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10
What does Microsoft Server Speech Platform has to do with SharePoint?
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pמישהו שם לב שברשימת הדרישות המקדימות של SharePoint 2010 קיימת הדרישה ל Microsoft Server Speech Platform? br /גם אני תהיתי איזה קשר יכול להיות למוצר שאמור לדובב טקסט עם SharePoint./p pמסתבר שזה חלק חשוב במנוע של זיהוי פונטי שנכנס ל SharePoint 2010, ואני אסביר: br /אני בטוח שכל אחד מכיר לפחות א [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10
Anonymous Access Permissions settings are disabled (grayed out)
Itay Shakury
pThis is something that drove me nuts – I wanted to make a list that allowed anonymous users to create items, but won’t allow those users to view them. I know, it’s not the most frequent request, but I had it, and I really needed it./p pFirst, Let me explain how I intended to implement this request: br /SharePoint has tow ways to controls list item’s permissions. One is the familiar permission management page, which allow us to select users or groups, and assign them permissions. The oth [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10
SharePoint Group – Meeting 7
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"שלום לכולם,/p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"בתאריך 23/8/2010 נקיים במיקרוסופט מפגש בנושא “חיפוש ארגוני ב SharePoint 2010 – הכרת היכולות והרחבתן”. br /במפגש זה נדבר על יכולות ותכונות החיפוש ב SharePoint 2010. נכיר את החידושים והשיפורים בחיפוש של SharePoint 2010 ונ [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 4th '10
SharePoint2010.co.il is now SharePoint-Israel.co.il
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pSharePoint2010.co.il התחיל את דרכו עם השקת הבטא של 2010, כאתר המיועד עבוד קהילת SharePoint בארץ, המספק כלים של מידע ותקשורת עבורכם./p pעם הזמן, הבנו שבחירת הכתובת של האתר – SharePoint2010.co.il מטעה חלק מהאנשים ואינה מייצגת את מהות האתר. הבעיה היא עם ציון הגרסא - 2010 בשם. האתר מיועד [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 3rd '10
SharePoint Group – Meeting 6 Summary
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pאתמול התקיים מפגש שישי של קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint. המפגש התקיים בשיתוף עם קבוצת ה BI, ובנוכחות אורחים מצוותי הפיתוח מיקרוסופט./p pלאחר הרצאת הפתיחה המשותפת שחשפה אותנו אל התהליכים של צוותי הפיתוח במיקרוסופט, אורי זהבי מחברת אופיסופט העביר הרצאה על Performance Point./ [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 27th '10
SharePoint Israel Group – Meeting 6
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pשלום לכולם! /p pאנחנו שמחים להזמין אתכם לאירוע חד פעמי ומיוחד המאחד את קבוצות המשתמשים של SharePoint ושל BI. br /במפגש נארח את צוות המוצר של Excel Services אשר מגיעים אלינו במיוחד מחוquot;ל ויקחו חלק באירוע. br /המפגש יפתח בהרצאה משותפת לשתי הקבוצות, אותה יעביר ערן מגידו, [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 18th '10
SharePoint 2010 Data Services – Part 3
Itay Shakury
pThis is the third post of a series about SharePoint 2010 Data Services: a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/06/21/sharepoint-2010-data-services-part-1.aspx" target="_blank"Part 1/a, a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/07/01/sharepoint-2010-data-services-part-2.aspx" target="_blank"Part 2/a, Part 3 (this one)./p pIn the previous post I talked about using SP 2010 Data Services via the browser, or passing the feed URL to some other component. T [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 10th '10
SharePoint2010.co.il - Israeli SharePoint Sites List
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pאזור חדש ב SharePoint2010.co.il – מאגר של אתרים מבוססי SharePoint. br /a href="http://sharepoint2010.co.il/customers"http://sharepoint2010.co.il/customers/a /p pהמאגר כולל שם החברה, מגזר, קישור לאתר, תמונה, וגרסאת SP של האתר. אפשר להשתמש בו כדי להדגים ללקוחות את בשלותו של המוצר, לקבל רעיונות מאתרים אחרים וגם סת [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10
Default MembershipRole Provider For a SharePoint 2010 Web Site
Itay Shakury
pWhen you setup the providers for the IIS web site, don’t change the default providers for Membership and Roles to your SQL Membership providers. It might appear as working, but problems will arrive sooner or later. br /I chose to emphasize this because some tutorials for SharePoint 2007 instructed to change the default provider. But in 2010, there’s the a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/05/17/sharepoint-2010-doesn-t-support-fba-with-classic-mode-authentication.a [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10
SharePoint 2010 Data Services – Part 2
Itay Shakury
pThis is the second post of a series about SharePoint 2010 Data Services: a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/06/21/sharepoint-2010-data-services-part-1.aspx" target="_blank"Part 1/a, Part 2 (this one), Part 3./p pIn this post we will talk about what it takes to get started with SharePoint 2010 Data Services./p pstronguInstallation/u/strong/p pAs I mentioned in the fist post, in order to use Data Services with SharePoint 2010, you have to install an update for .NET fra [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10
I’m an MVP!
Itay Shakury
pGreat news everyone, I’m a SharePoint a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Most_Valuable_Professional" target="_blank"MVP/a! BTW, The first SharePoint MVP in Israel./p pSpecial thank to a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/" target="_blank"Guy Burstein/a, the one and only :)/p pThanks Microsoft, for the recognition. I will keep up the good work!/p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/mvp_wide_5522FD88.jpg"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;b [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10
SharePoint Developers Group – Meeting 5 Summary
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pאתמול התקיים מפגש חמישי של קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint./p pבמפגש הרצה גיל זילברפילד מחברת TypeMock על פיתוח Unit Testing ב SharePoint./p pאתר המפגש, הכולל חומרים, מצגות ותמונות: br /a href="http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/SPExperts/SPE5"http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/SPExperts/SPE5/a/p pבסיום המפגש נערכה הגרלה של רישיו [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 24th '10
SharePoint2010.co.il Live Demo – Permissions issues solved
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pעבור מי שנתקל בבעיות התחברות לאתר הדמו, נפתרה הבעיה וכעת ניתן להתחבר עם שם המשתמש והססמא שלכם באתר.​/p pתודה על הדיווחים וגלישה מהנה./p /divimg src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/aggbug.aspx?PostID=666498" width="1" height="1" pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ITk7O1s_9Ctf7TXCdZ5x83hLuqo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 23rd '10
SharePoint 2010 Data Services – Part 1
Itay Shakury
pThis is the fist post of a series about SharePoint 2010 Data Services: Part 1 (this one), Part 2, Part 3./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/odata_76DDAB06.jpg"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;margin-left:0px;border-top:0px;margin-right:0px;border-right:0px;" title="odata" border="0" alt="odata" align="right" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/odata_thumb_66160058.jpg" width="108" height="108" //a There a lot of confusion surrounding this [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 21st '10
SharePoint2010.co.il is RTM
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pבשעה טובה ואחרי אינספור בעיות במעבר, סיימנו את שדרוג האתר לגרסא הסופית של SharePoint./p pלמי שעדיין לא מכיר, האתר a href="http://www.SharePoint2010.co.il" target="_blank"SharePoint2010.co.il/a הוא אתר קהילתי עבור משתמשי ומפתחי SharePoint בארץ. הדגש הוא על הארץ כך שהכל בעברית ומכיל חומר שרלוונטי אלי [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 13th '10
Office Web Apps SkyDrive
Itay Shakury
pOffice Web Apps are now fully functional and available on SkyDrive – Finale version – For free – To everyone./p pI’m especially super exiting about One Note. I am using One Note a lot on my laptop, and now hopefully I can take my notes on the go with my mobile./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/OneNote_1_39D473B5.png"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="OneNote_1" border="0" alt="OneNote_1" src="http://bl [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 9th '10
Setting FBA as Default Sign In Page
Itay Shakury
pA very common scenario is to setup a SharePoint 2010 site to use both Windows Authentication, and Forms Based Authentication./p pWhen a user opens your site, and click the “sign in” link, it get this page:/p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/signin_3_3FC50C8A.png"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;" title="signin_3" border="0" alt="signin_3" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/signin [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 1st '10
SharePoint Developers Group – Meeting 5
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"שלום לכולם,/p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"מפגש חמישי של קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint יתקיים בתאריך ה 23/06/2010 במשרדי מיקרוסופט ברעננה./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"הפעם נארח את גיל זילברפילד מחברת TypeMock אשר יספר לנו על Unit Testing בפיתוח עבור SharePoint./p p style="text-alig [read].
Posted: Wed, May 26th '10
SharePoint Developers Group – Meeting 4 Summary
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pאתמול התקיים מפגש רביעי של קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint./p pבמפגש הרצו ליאור ארביב, וגיל גבעתי על אריזת פתרונות והפצתם, ואיתור וניטור בעיות בקוד./p pתמונות מהאירוע, מצגות וחומרים נוספים ניתן למצוא באתר המפגש: br /a href="http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/spdg4"http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/spdg4/ [read].
Posted: Wed, May 26th '10
SharePoint 2010 Launch Event in Israel
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pSharePoint 2010 יצא בגרסה סופית לא מזמן. לפני כשבוע התקיימה ההשקה העולמית, ועכשיו תורנו. השנה מתכננים לנו אירוע קצת שונה - אירוע וירטואלי! br /האירוע יתקיים ב 8-9 ליוני. לשמירה ביומנים a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/2010golive/savethedate.ics"לחצו כאן/a./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/2010golive/savethed [read].
Posted: Wed, May 19th '10
SharePoint 2010 doesn't support FBA with classic mode authentication
Itay Shakury
pShort story: strongSharePoint 2010 RTM (as opposed to beta 2) doesn’t support Forms Based Authentication with Classic Mode, only with Claims Based Authentication/strong./p pLong story: SharePoint 2010 introduces a new authentication type – Claims Based Authentication. The old type that we know from 2007 is still available and is now referred to as Classic Mode Authentication./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/FBA2_6621460E.png"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inl [read].
Posted: Mon, May 17th '10
SharePoint 2010 Hebrew Language Packs are Now Available
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pנגמרו התירוצים :) – שוחררו היום להורדה חבילות השפה לעברית./p pSharePoint Foundation: br /a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=heamp;FamilyID=646e311a-aaf3-4d30-b03c-2f3c70d19a22"http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=heamp;FamilyID=646e311a-aaf3-4d30-b03c-2f3c70d19a22/a/p pSharePoint Server: br /a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?dis [read].
Posted: Tue, May 11th '10
Microsoft Israel’s news groups are offline
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"קבוצות הדיון של מיקרוסופט ישראל לא זמינות כבר מספר ימים./div div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"לפני שהם ירדו, הספקתי לראות הודעה אוטומאטית שהוצבה בפורומים שציינה שמיקרוסופט מפחיתה בהדרגה את השימוש בפלטפורמה הזו של News Groups ועוברת לפלטפורמה חדישה יותר של פורומים כמ [read].
Posted: Sun, May 9th '10
Working with SharePoint’s Discussion Lists Programmatically – Part 3
Itay Shakury
pThis is part of a series of posts about Working with Discussion lists programmatically: a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/05/02/working-with-sharepoint-s-discussion-lists-programmatically-part-1.aspx" target="_blank"Part 1/a, a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/05/05/working-with-sharepoint-s-discussion-lists-programmatically-part-2.aspx" target="_blank"Part 2/a, Part 3 (this one./p pIn the previous parts we talked about how SharePoint’s [read].
Posted: Sat, May 8th '10
Working with SharePoint’s Discussion Lists Programmatically – Part 2
Itay Shakury
pThis is part of a series of posts about Working with Discussion lists programmatically: a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/05/02/working-with-sharepoint-s-discussion-lists-programmatically-part-1.aspx" target="_blank"Part 1/a, Part 2 (this one), Part 3./p pIn Part 1, I have introduced the structure and inner workings of SharePoint Discussion Lists. Now, Lets take a look of some code samples with SharePoint’s Object Model, and LINQ 2 SharePoint./p pstronguGetting al [read].
Posted: Wed, May 5th '10
Working with SharePoint’s Discussion Lists Programmatically – Part 1
Itay Shakury
pI am currently involved in a project that requires a programmatic way to query a discussion list for it’s data, and create new items in it. br /As it turns out, SharePoint discussion lists are not so ordinary lists. They have a very complex structure to store it’s data. /p pI came across several resources that helped me figure out how this whole thing works, and they are listed at the end of this post. This post is the summary of what I learned, and an more dated version that apply to SP 20 [read].
Posted: Sun, May 2nd '10
SharePoint Developers Group – Meeting 3 Summary
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pאתמול התקיים מפגש שלישי של קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint./p pבמפגש הרצה ליאור זמיר על פיתוח לאופיס (באמצעות VSTO) והדרכים לפתח עבור SharePoint באמצעות VSTO./p pבאתר המפגש ניתן למצוא את המצגת, ואת דוגמאות הקוד שהוצגו: br /a href="http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/spdg3"http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/spdg3/a/p p [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10
SharePoint Developers Group – Meeting 4
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pהמפגש של חודש מרץ שהתבטל, נדחה לחודש מאי, והוא יהיה המפגש הרביעי שלנו./p pבמפגש זה נציג כיצד ניתן להתמודד בקלות עם האתגר בהטמעת פתרונות ופיתוחים לסביבת SharePoint על ידי שימוש ב Features ו Solutions. ולאחר שהטמענו בהצלחה, כיצד ניתן לזהות תקלות קוד ולשפר ביצועים באמצע [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10
The SharePoint 2010 Ribbon – Thoughts and Conclusions
Itay Shakury
pWith SharePoint 2010, comes a new design concept for the site.. and with it some new design questions. The biggest one has to be – What’s with the ribbon?? br /I think that designers and web developers, which up until now were quite comfortable with designing master pages for SharePoint, are somewhat puzzled now with this thing in the middle of their page./p pShould we ditch it? Can we? But we kind of need it, don’t we..? Is is the right place for it? br /In this post I will try to provid [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 24th '10
Editing the Ribbon’s “Browse” Tab
Itay Shakury
pSince the Browse tab is pretty much the first thing you see on a SharePoint 2010 page, you will probably want to edit it. /p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/browsetab_6BBBEFCF.png"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="browsetab" border="0" alt="browsetab" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/browsetab_thumb_4AC87D28.png" width="277" height="138" //a /p pAlthough it appears as a ribbon tab, it’s not. So [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10
Hiding the Ribbon for Anonymous Users
Itay Shakury
pIf you are designing a public facing internet site based on SharePoint 2010, you probably don’t want the ribbon in your design. Still, the ribbon provides the basic tools that your authors use, so you probably need a way to show it only to them./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/Ribbon_FormatText_413A6EE1.png"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="Ribbon_FormatText" border="0" alt="Ribbon_FormatText" src="http:// [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10
SharePoint 2010 is RTM!
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pimg style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;margin-left:0px;border-left-width:0px;margin-right:0px;" title="sp2010" border="0" alt="sp2010" align="left" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/sp2010_66701FF8.png" width="187" height="111" /הגרסא הסופית של SharePoint 2010 מוכנה! (גם של Office 2010)/p pלקוחות ראשונים ( Volume licensed עם software assurance ) י [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 18th '10
IIS 7 Support for ASP.net Providers
Itay Shakury
pThe most Common method to expose SharePoint to extranet, is to use Forms Based Authentication, with ASP.net SQL Membership Provider. This topic has been covered a lot on many different places./p pThe thing is, when you setup for this scenario, you end up with everything working, but nor GUI to manage users in the DB./p pIIS 7 has built in management for ASP.net Providers such as strongMembership/strong, strongRoles/strong, and strongProfiles/strong. br /And it’s really helpful!/p pYou can see [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 18th '10
InfoPath – Limit the number of items in repeating table
Itay Shakury
pCredit for this cool trick goes to Ziv Cohen (from BSP)who found and showed it to me./p pIf you want to limit the number of items in a repeating table, there no apparent way in the UI to do it. Here’s a quick way to do it without writing code./p ol liOn a form with a repeating table. Pay attention to the Group that the Repeating table is bound to. br /a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/repeatingtable_1_422ABE15.png"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;bor [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 13th '10
SharePoint2010.co.il Live Demo Site
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pחלק נוסף באתר SharePoint2010.co.il עולה לאוויר. הפעם זהו איזור Live Demo./p pאזור זה הוא אתר SharePoint פשוט אשר פתוח לשימוש הציבור הרחב./p pהמטרה היא לאפשר ללקוחות לבחון את הכלי ולהתרשם מיכולותיו, מבלי להתקין סביבה עצמאית אצלהם, וללא עלויות מיותרות./p pהסביבה מציגה את יכולו [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 11th '10
SharePoint2010.co.il Forums
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pSharePoint2010.co.il כבר באוויר זמן מה בגרסת ניסיון, ולאט לאט אנחנו מוסיפים עוד חלקים לאתר. br /כיום פעיל איזור האירועים, והבלוגים, ועכשיו אנחנו מעלים את אזור הפורומים./p pהמטרה היא לספק פלטפורמה להעלאת בעיות\להתייעצויות\שאלות\הצעות בנושא SharePoint./p pנכון לעכשיו, המע [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10
SharePoint Official Product Teams Blogs
Itay Shakury
pMicrosoft, as a company uses the blog platform a lot. To push forward, and spread out it’s technologies, and to provide professional reliable information to the customer./p pThis also apply to the product teams developing the products we use./p pI have gathered a list of the different product teams that are relevant to me – mainly Office and SharePoint teams. (Yes there’s more that one team in the SharePoint product group./p pYou can download as an OPML file, that can be imported directly [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10
SPMetal and Tasks List
Itay Shakury
pAnother little bug (I think) with strongSPMetal/strong (SharePoint 2010 Beta 2)../p pI seems that strongTask lists/strong are created of type “Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq.EntityListlt;strongItem/stronggt;” instead of “Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq.EntityListlt;strongTask/stronggt;”./p pIt’s kind of funny considering that it already generates the “Task” class perfectly, but doesn’t use it anywhere./p pI solved this by manually fixing the code. br /That is – Locating the Tasks list pr [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10
Running SPMetal under Win 7 Development Machine
Itay Shakury
pTried running SPMetal on a stronguWindows 7/u/strong development machine, and got this:/p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/spmetal_non_admin_4132BECA.png"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="spmetal_non_admin" border="0" alt="spmetal_non_admin" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/spmetal_non_admin_thumb_11B42A31.png" width="644" height="81" //a#160;/p pTook me quite a while to figure out it’s a strong [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10
SharePoint Developers Group – Meeting 3
Itay Shakury
div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" pמפגש שלישי של קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint יתקיים בתאריך 25/04/2010 בין השעות 17:30 – 20:00 במשרדי מיקרוסופט ברעננה./p pהפעם ההרצאות יועברו על ידי ליאור זמיר, מרצה בכיר בחברת ג#39;ון ברייס הדרכה מקבוצת מטריקס./p pאתר המפגש: a href="http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/spdg3"http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/spdg [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 27th '10
Resources from my session at Developer Academy 4
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" align="right"היום נערך כנס המפתחים השנתי של מיקרוסופט – a target="_blank"Developer Academy 4/a, בו העברתי הרצאת דמו על גישה למידע ב SharePoint 2010./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" align="right"img alt="DevAc4Logo" src="http://www.microsoft.com/israel/msdn/DevAcademy4/Themes/devAc/images/logo.png" / /p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" align="right"לשימושכם, חו [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 22nd '10
SharePoint and organizational culture (and how to save some disk space)
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"הפוסט הזה הולך לדבר על נושא לא טכני לשם שינוי - הטמעה של SharePoint ועל תרבות ארגונית (וקצת על איך זה חוסך כסף לארגון וכאב ראש ל IT). הטריגר לפוסט הזה הוא מקרה אמיתי אצל אחד הלקוחות שיצא לי לבקר./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"stronguיותר מידי מיילים/u/strong/p p style="text-align:right;direct [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 16th '10
What is the size of a list item?
Itay Shakury
pEver wondered what’s the actual size on disk that a list item takes? br /It might be useful fact to know when planning for capacity, or investigating free space issues./p pWell.. If we think about it, a list item is just a row in the database.. isn’t it? Actually.. maybe it’s a few rows in different tables.. Wait, what about the item’s fields..? br /Coming to think bout it, this method of calculating the different parts of a list item is too complicated. We need another method./p pI act [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 15th '10
SharePoint 2010 (beta2) Features
Itay Shakury
pIn the past few months, I am learning and working with SharePoint 2010 Beta 2. I read articles, Go to Events, Listen to Web Cast, Participate in courses, Basically trying to absorb SharePoint 2010 in any way I can./p pDuring this process, every time that I bumped into something new, or improved with SharePoint 2010, I wrote it down. br /After a Few months, I ended up with this huge list of features. br /Some are trivial, some are repeated in different flavors, but if you think to yourself somet [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 14th '10
SharePoint Developers Group Meeting 2 is Canceled
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"פגישה מס’ 2 של קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint התבטלה לצערי, עקב בעיה ברישום./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"אלו שנרשמו אמורים לקבל אימייל על הביטול, וגם טלפון אם הזנתם מספר ברישום./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"מצטערים על אי הנוחות, המפגש הבא (25.4) מתקיים כרגיל./pimg src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 9th '10
Web Part Page’s Emergency Toolbox
Itay Shakury
pThis is probably the oldest trick in the book.. but still – Not everyone had read the book :)/p pHere’s 3 Query String parameters that I think every SharePoint Developer\Implementer must know about./p pstrongDisplayMode=Design br //strongWill take you to design mode when on a web part page (Where you can manipulate web parts and stuff)./p pstrongToolPaneView=2 br //strong This one will take you to design, and also show the good old web parts tool pane from WSS 2.0./p pstrongContents=1 br // [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 6th '10
Setting Initial Ribbon Tab on a Page
Itay Shakury
pWhen you link to a page in SP 2010, you can predefine which tab will show up as default when the page loads./p pYou can do this by adding a query string parameter called “InitialTabID” to the URL of the page./p pthe Value is any valid tab ID that exists on the destination page./p pIf you want to know what are the ID’s of the default tabs that comes with SharePoint, Take a look at “14\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML\CMDUI.xml” in your “14 Hive”./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/it [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10
Introducing SharePoint2010.co.il – Israeli SharePoint Community Portal
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl" align="right"חברים יקרים, מפתחים, אנשי סיסטם, מטמיעים, מיישמים, מאפיינים, עורכי תוכן, ומשתמשים. /p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl" align="right"אני שמח להכריז על אתר חדש שנוצר במיוחד עבורכם – פורטל SharePoint הישראלי./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl" align="right"stronguהאתר עולה ל [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10
SharePoint Developers Group - Meeting 2
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"להזכירכם, מפגש שני של קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint יתקיים בתאריך strong10/03/2010/strong בין השעות strong17:30-20:00/strong בstrongמשרדי מיקרוסופט ברעננה/strong./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"הרשמה: a href="http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/spdg2"http://www.sharepoint2010.co.il/events/spdg2/a/p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;"תיאור המפגש:/p p style="tex [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 1st '10
SharePoint Developers Group – 1st meeting summary
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl" align="right"אז a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2010/01/21/sharepoint-developers-group.aspx" target="_blank"מפגש ראשון של קהילת מפתחי SharePoint/a הסתיים בהצלחה!/p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl" align="right"במפגש הצגתי את הקבוצה ומטרותיה, והכרזתי על פתיחתו של פורטל SharePoint הישראלי בקרוב./p p style="te [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 27th '10
SPMetal – Missing Created By/Modified By fields
Itay Shakury
pI have been playing around with Linq 2 SharePoint (SharePoint 2010 beta 2), and noticed that SPMETAL fails to generate the appropriate fields for the ‘Created By’ and ‘Modified By’ fields. br /This is probably a bug with SPMETAL, but here’s a quick workaround./p pgenerate a code file with SPMETAL as usual, and look for the ‘Item’ class./p pAdd this piece of code inside the class:/p div style="border-bottom:silver 1px solid;text-align:left;border-left:silver 1px solid;padding-botto [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 19th '10
SPMetal addin for Visual Studio
Itay Shakury
pThe first thing that crossed my mind when I was learning about SPMetal, was why isn’t there an easier way to call it. Something like an addin for Visual Studio./p pIt was only a manner of time, but someone has already picked the glove (and beat me to it)./p pa href="http://blog.mastykarz.nl/" target="_blank"Waldek Mastykarz/a has extended SharePoint Explorer (that is part of Visual Studio 2010), to allows picking a site, and running SPMETAL at it./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 19th '10
SharePoint integration with Windows Phone Series 7?
Itay Shakury
pIf you’ve been following the latest events from MWC @ Barcelona, You probably know that Microsoft is up to something big with Windows Phone Series 7./p pWatching the demos, and reading through the materials, I noticed the “Office” hub, that has a “SharePoint” tab on it. (click to enlarge)/p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/officehub_3213B54B.jpg"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="office-hub" border="0" [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 17th '10
SharePoint search file types configuration and the registry
Itay Shakury
pHere’s a quick tip that might help you some day. (It did for me..)/p pSharePoint stores some of it’s search configurations (that are usually configured through the SSP Admin UI) in the windows registry of the index server./p pNow, there are basically 2 search services for a typical MOSS farm: Windows SharePoint Services Search#160; Service (WSS Search), and Office Server Search Service (MOSS Search). The differences between them are explained here: a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 14th '10
Inefficient Queries with SharePoint 2010 Beta2
Itay Shakury
pLinq 2 SharePoint distinguishes between three types of queries: Normal Queries, Inefficient Queries, and Unsupported Queries. br /For more on that subject see the SDK article: a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee536585(office.14).aspx"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee536585(office.14).aspx/a/p pAccording to the SDK (at least as of today), you can execute inefficient queries if you set the AllowInefficientQueries property to true./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/bl [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 14th '10
How to make your page dialog aware
Itay Shakury
pLets say that I have a wiki page called “itaysk.1aspx”. and lets say that I use this page inside a SharePoint dialog./p pWhen I created the page, it looked like this:/p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/dlg_1_5301FB7F.jpg"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="dlg_1" border="0" alt="dlg_1" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/dlg_1_thumb_71887403.jpg" width="404" height="256" //a /p pAnd the dialog look [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 11th '10
SharePointReviews.com
Itay Shakury
pJust want to recommend a very helpful site: a href="http://www.SharePointReviews.com"www.SharePointReviews.com/a/p pIt catalogs, and reviews all the solutions for SharePoint that are out there. Can be very handy if you are looking for a solution, and don’t want to miss a product that didn’t show up in searches./p pa href="http://sharepointreviews.com" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="spr_logo[1]" border="0" a [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 11th '10
Quick Launch Bullets are not Aligned Correctly for Hebrew
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl"הנה פתרון מהיר לבעית לוקאליזציה קטנה שקיימת ב SharePoint מהגרסא הראשונה, ועדיין לא תוקנה./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl"כשמשתמשים בערכת נושא (Theme) שאינה ערכת הנושא המוגדרת כברירת המחדל, התבליטים (Bullets) שבתפריט הצידי (Quick Launch) מיושרים לשמאל ולא לימין./p p style=" [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10
SharePoint 2010 VM from Microsoft is available
Itay Shakury
pIf you just wanna quick look at SP2010, without the hassle of installing SP2010 Beta2 (and Windows, and SQL server, and all the pre reqs..) – You can now download the complete VHD from Microsoft. /p pHere’s the link:/p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c51819b-3d40-435c-a103-a5481fe0a0d2amp;displaylang=en"http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c51819b-3d40-435c-a103-a5481fe0a0d2amp;displaylang=en/a/pimg src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/ag [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 27th '10
SharePoint Developers Group
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl"אני שמח להכריז על strongua href="http://www.microsoft.com/israel/communities/usergroups/sp.mspx" target="_blank"קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint/a/u/strong./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl"קבוצת מפתחי SharePoint היא מקום מפגש למפתחים המתעניינים במשפחת מוצרי SharePoint ומהווה מקום מפגש טכנולוגי עבור כל מי שמתעניין במוצר [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 21st '10
About SharePoint and Alcohol (or what is claims based authentication)
Itay Shakury
p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl"אחד מהשינויים הפחות פופולאריים, אך היותר משמעותיים, ב SharePoint2010 הוא כל הנושא של Claims Based Authentication. עדיין אין יותר מידי תיעוד על הנושא, אך יש ברשת המון דוגמאות והסברים קונספטואלים ל-מה זה בעצם, ואיך זה עובד./p p style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;" dir="rtl"הדוגמא הרווחת היא [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 13th '10
Client OM and SharePoint Designer are not working problem
Itay Shakury
pI have installed SharePoint 2010 Beta 2, and couldn’t use Client OM nor SharePoint Designer./p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/spd_service_error_622071ED.png"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;margin-left:0px;border-left-width:0px;margin-right:0px;" title="spd_service_error" border="0" alt="spd_service_error" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/spd_service_error_thumb_7173D3FC.png" width="244" height="90" [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 20th '09
חומרים מיום עיון מה חדש למפתחים ב2010
Itay Shakury
p dir="rtl" align="right"כפי שהבטחתי, להלן הקלטות של 3 ההרצאות שהעברתי בכנס שותפים שהתקיים בנושא מה חדש למפתחים ב SharePoint 2010./p p dir="rtl" align="right"#160;/p p dir="rtl" align="right"stronguכלי הפיתוח החדשים ב VS2010 עבור מפתחי SP2010/u/strongbr / a href="http://www.screencast.com/t/N2NlMWJlYWI"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 19th '09
PowerShell 2.0 error during SharePoint 2010 beta prerequisites install
Itay Shakury
pI ran into a small problem when trying to install SharePoint 2010 beta 2./p pWhen I ran the prerequisites checker, it failed with the following error: br /em”The tool was unable to install Windows PowerShell(TM) V2 (CTP3).”/em/p pa href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/ps_error_1_62378B5F.png"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;" title="ps_error_1" border="0" alt="ps_error_1" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/ps_ [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 26th '09
חומרים רשמיים על SharePoint 2010
Itay Shakury
SharePoint Category @ MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776256.aspx SharePoint Category  @ TechNet - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422(office.14).aspx SharePoint Developers Center - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx White Papers @ Microsoft.com - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/results.aspx?freetext=sharepoint+2010 כמובן שיש עוד המון חומרים לא רשמיים.. אותם תמצאו בבלוגים למינ [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09
רשמים מנאום הפתיחה של סטיב באלמר
Itay Shakury
הסתיים נאום הפתיחה של סטיב. הוא דיבר הרבה על הדרך ש SharePoint עשה ואיזה מוצר מדהים הוא הפך להיות. על כך שהוא מטפל כמעט בכל נושא וב 2010 הרשימה תתארך. היו דמואים נחמדים של טום ריזו (מנהל המוצר) שדיבר קצת יותר טכני, סה”כ לא משהו חדש שלא ראינו בחומרים שדלפו עד היום. כמה נקודות מעניינות של [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09
SharePoint 2010 - the games begin
Itay Shakury
ברגעים אלו ממש מתקיים בלאס וגאס - SharePoint Conference 2009. ושהמספר בצד לא יטעה אתכם,הכנס הולך לעסוק בנושא אחד - SharePoint 2010. התוצר לוואי הנחמד של כל זה הוא שהחל מהיום בשעה 18:00 בערב (09:00 זמן פאסיפיק), מיקרוסופט מרימה את הוילון שהיה מוטל על SharePoint 2010 במשך כל הזמן הזה, ומאפשרת גם למשתתפי הכנס, וגם [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09
למה אפליקציות לאייפון הן לא העתיד אלא העבר
Itay Shakury
האייפון, אותו מכשיר מהפכני שהוצג לעולם לפני יותר משלוש שנים, באמת חולל מהפכה בתחומו בכך ששם את העוצמה של האינטרנט ממש בכיס שלך. חלק גדול מהיסטריית האייפון אפשר לזקוף לזכות ה App Store – חנות האפליקציות לאייפון. אותה חנות אפליקציות, מתהדרת במעל 85 אלף אפליקציות שונות ומעל מיליארד [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 13th '09
מנכ”ל אורקל מקטר על הענן
Itay Shakury
קטע מצחיק ביותר מתוך ראיון עם מנכ”ל אורקל – לארי אליסון – שבו נוגעים בנקודה הרגישה שלו: Cloud Computing.   [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09
Office Web Apps Starts Technical Preview Today
Itay Shakury
Today Microsoft has started a closed technical preview program for Office Web Apps. Apparently it will be accessible via (and integrated with) SkyDrive – so that’s great. As expected, new screen shots and screen casts are starting to emerge all around, but nothing we haven’t seen so far. Here’s a short intro from Microsoft that includes a tiny demo (That online collaboration features are just amazing) [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 17th '09
Juggling with Site Collections and Managed Paths
Itay Shakury
After applying SP2 on a MOSS farm, search indexing stopped working. We were getting errors like: ”The object was not found. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)” Googling the error, we found out that the problem is not appearing if you have a site collection in the root path of our web application (in example http://myserver/ ). Actually, I have blogged about this issue before, regarding a different problem. It seems that SharePoint [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 6th '09
Explorer View doesn’t work on port 80
Itay Shakury
Today I visited a client that has built a simple windows application, that works with files from SharePoint based on their UNC. (something like \\mySharePoint\MySite\MyDocLib\MyDoc.docx) Everything worked fine until he tried to work with another web application that’s on port 82. You would presume that changing the UNC path to \\mySharePoint:81\MySite\MyDocLib\MyDoc.docx will do the trick.. But no. It appears that UNC access and drive mapping are one of the features that’s exclusive to the [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 23rd '09
Resources from SharePoint Designer Instruction
Itay Shakury
היום התקיימה הדרכת SharePoint Designer 2007 במשרדי מיקרוסופט, בשיתוף עם SRL. תודה לכל המשתתפים שהגיעו, ותודה לכולם על הפידבקים החיוביים. ביקשו ממני את המצגת שהשתמשתי בה, אז הנה קישור: SPD.pptx אני רק אזכיר ואומר שהמצגת מכילה רק שקופיות פתיחה וסיום, ושכל ההדרכה עצמה התבצעה באופן מעשי. נתראה בה [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 28th '09
SharePoint 2010 SDK
Itay Shakury
SharePoint 2010 SDK is out in a primary version. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94afe886-3b20-4bc9-9a0d-acd8cd232c24&displaylang=en Right now it contains API reference, along with a white paper for how to customize the ribbon. Ribbon customization is done using features that use the CustomAction command. nothing special here. Going through the API reference I have discovered some very interesting stuff. My favorites are: JSGrid web control – [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 26th '09
What’s New in InfoPath 2010
Itay Shakury
There are some public details about InfoPath 2010. to summarize: Pre-built page layouts and section layouts. New Controls: Picture buttons. Hyperlink capabilities. Date and time picker. Person/Group pickers – Updated. Signature Line (Editor Only). New supported in browser controls: Bulleted, numbered, and plain lists. Multiple selection list boxes. Combo boxes. Choice group and sections. Filtering. Quick publish. Use InfoPath to create initiation and task forms for workflows [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 17th '09
SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peak Videos Summary
Itay Shakury
Microsoft’s SharePoint site, has new content for SharePoint 2010. There are 3 “Sneak Peak” videos, one targeted for developers, one for IT Pros, and an overview video. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx I must warn you they are pretty long (especially the overview), so prepare for several hours of SharePoint joy. I have summarized the key new features presented in each video: (click on the pictures to enlarge them) Overview Video Multi Select inside lists. [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 14th '09
SharePoint 2010 News
Itay Shakury
As details about Office and SharePoint 2010 are becoming more clear , There a lot to blog about, and there going to be even more. So I thought I might as well start a series of posts, conveniently named: SharePoint 2010 News. This Post is an Index to the series, and will be updated as more posts and news are coming. I – ScreenShots, SharePoint gets Ribbon! -- My name is Itay Shakury and I’m a SharePoint Consultant -- [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09
SharePoint 2010 News – I – ScreenShots, SharePoint gets Ribbon!
Itay Shakury
You’ve all probably heard about the availability of Office 2010, at WPC09. Well, between the many new video clips, sharp eyes can spot some SharePoint 2010 Screens. Most of them are in the SharePoint Workspaces 2010, and in the Office Web Applications videos. This is the first official public appearance of SharePoint 2010. As we can see SharePoint gets a ribbon! and some very sleek UI. Nice job. If you the quality of the pictures isn’t too bad, check out the original videos: http://www.micro [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09
Introducing Microsoft Office 2010
Itay Shakury
Today, at WPC09, Microsoft has announced that Office, SharePoint, Visio, and Project 2010 are entering Technical Preview stage. Along with the announcement, There are some new sites and content online: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/ The official Office 2010 site, featuring short summary and a video clip for each product. http://www.microsoft.com/officebusiness/office2010 The Office 2010 Business targeted site, featuring some more videos and content. http://www.office2010themovie.com/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09
Can’t wait for Office 2010 Web Apps? Zoho now integrates with SharePoint
Itay Shakury
Zoho is an online document editing and collaboration suite. Today they have released a SharePoint integration, which integrates Zoho’s web based document editors directly into SharePoint (using Microsoft Office formats), integrating into SharePoint UI, and the best feature by far: simultaneous collaboration on a single document by multiple users. Check out this brief, and Zoho’s site for more info:   -- My name is Itay Shakury and I’m a SharePoint Consultant -- [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09
Import Spreadsheet Error
Itay Shakury
Here’s a quick one: If you want to import excel file to SharePoint (create->import spreadsheet), you have to have a site collection provisioned in the root managed path in order to connect via excel. If not, you will get “Method ‘Activate’ of object ‘_Worksheet’ failed” error. In example, if you are working in the site : http://server/sites/itaysk, you must have a site in http://server/ for the import to work. -- My name is Itay Shakury and I’m a SharePoint consultant -- [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 17th '09
SharePoint Designer Instruction at Microsoft
Itay Shakury
הנכם מוזמנים להדרכה בנושא SharePoint Designer 2007 שתערך בתאריך ה 28.7.09 במשרדי מיקרוסופט ברעננה. להרשמה לחצו כאן בקצרה, זאת הדרכה עבור לקוחות אשר אינם מכירים או שהיו רוצים להכיר יותר טוב את SharePoint Designer ואת כל הדברים שאפשר לעשות איתו.   תוכן ההדרכה: הדרכת SharePoint Designer - איך לגרום לאתרים שלך [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 15th '09
SQL server data in SharePoint
Itay Shakury
You want to show some data from SQL server in your SharePoint site. It's a very common requirement since the core purpose of portals is to be the single place to look for information and data, no matter where it comes from. In this post I will try to list all of your options. I hope I got them all.. If you think I'm missing something, please write a comment. Data View Web Part Data View Web Part (DVWP) allows us to display data from different data sources in any form we want. It can wo [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 10th '09
News from Tech-Ed North America 2009
Itay Shakury
It’s Tech-Ed time at LA, and there’s some pretty interesting stuff going on there.. You can watch the Keynote here: (it’s about 2 hours long!) http://www.msteched.com/online/channels.aspx?cname=track&channel=Keynote The News: First and foremost - You can now sign up (or at least request) for Office 2010 Technical Preview! (about 16 minutes into the keynote) Office is opening a TP program in July. Everyone can request an invitation, but not everyone will be answered. Signing is throu [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09
What’s “Dublin Core” content type?
Itay Shakury
Ever wondered why SharePoint 2007 has a built in content type called “Dublin Core”? From Wikipedia: “The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an organization providing an open forum for the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models…  The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It provides a simple and standardised set of conventions for describing t [read].
Posted: Tue, May 12th '09
Bye Bye Internet Explorer 6
Itay Shakury
Today the SharePoint Team has announced that IE6 will no longer be supported in SharePoint 2010! A bit about IE6’s bad reputation: IE6 has always been the most hated piece of software around. It has lots of bugs, security issues, instability issues, doesn’t fully support modern web standards and the list goes on. There was even some campaigns out there trying to get people not to use IE6 (stopIE6, bringDownIE6). Despite all of the above IE6 still enjoys a fair market share even today when t [read].
Posted: Tue, May 12th '09
A glimpse into SharePoint 2010 by looking at SP2
Itay Shakury
SharePoint SP2 is here, and with it, the pre upgrade checker. This is a tool that scans your SharePoint farm, and produce a report with all the issues that might be problematic when upgrading to SharePoint 2010\WSS4. This is very interesting.. Think about it.. this tool “knows” what’s in the next version of SharePoint, and checks if your farm suits with it. So I ran the tests to see what’s it gonna say. Well, it was mainly informative stuff.. just to remind you what’s in your farm. Bu [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09
Downloadable Lists of MOSS/WSS/Office SP2 Fixes
Itay Shakury
Here’s the complete lists of fixes\changes in SP2 in downloadable Excel format. Recommending everyone who works with SharePoint to browse the lists. I have learned about some fixes to interesting problems, and anyway, it’s good to know what problems you can face on pre SP2 farms. (I found the ones regarding SharePoint Designer to be the most interesting ones) WSS: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/A/3/7A3E2E01-5454-4427-95CB-28CE84523B0A/Windows%20SharePoint%20Services%203.0%20Servi [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09
Analyzing The SharePoint 2010 Announcement
Itay Shakury
Yesterday Microsoft has officially addressed the next wave of Office System products. As there isn’t much information yet, This post is just my opinions and takeaway from the announcements. The original announcements: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx   The Name The fist thing that pops into sight is the name of the product. Look [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 17th '09
Microsoft Office Web Applications 2010
Itay Shakury
This post is a summery of what is currently known about Office Web Applications 2010. Announced at the last PDC, Microsoft Office Web Applications is basically a lightweight version of Office for the web. It has web versions for all the major Office client applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Even OneNote (Finally a web based one note). The applications will be provided for a regular consumers via Office Live, and for businesses as part of SharePoint 2010. For the regular consumer [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 17th '09
Service Pack 2 for 2007 Office System Was Announced
Itay Shakury
Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Office System Products was just announced (not released). So far the announcement contains a limited list of features that was compiled by asking “the individual teams in Office to come up with a list of changes that they were most proud of and felt would be most beneficial”. Apparently we will get more info on April 28th. Read the announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/15/service-pack-2-for-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-wi [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 16th '09
Contains Operator disappeared from Advanced Search
Itay Shakury
The “Contains” operator was removed from Advanced Search UI, by KB950437, and all hotfixes and updates to follow.   You can restore the original behavior by setting in the properties definition XML. More info and a step by step guide here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mmcintyr/archive/2008/09/29/hotfix-for-advanced-search-issue-in-moss-950437.aspx   -- My name is Itay Shakury and I’m a SharePoint Consultant -- [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 16th '09
SharePoint Designer Becomes FREE
Itay Shakury
Microsoft has decided to make SharePoint Designer a free product. it can be downloaded for free from it’s product page at Microsoft.com: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163419.aspx The announcement states that future versions of SharePoint Designer will also be free. Customers that have already purchased SharePoint Designer 2007, and are in SA agreement will get Expression Web license in addition. This part is actually very interesting, because as of now, Expression Web have very l [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 3rd '09
Copied folders are not indexed bug
Itay Shakury
Problem + Steps to reproduce: Take a folder (SPFolder object) in a SharePoint list (or Document library). Make a copy of the folder in any of the following methods: Explorer view. SharePoint Designer. Code: SPFolder.CopyTo(string path). Start an incremental crawl to index that folder. The folder will not get indexed. Even if you add new items (or documents) to the copied folder, it will not get indexed with incremental crawl. Workaround: If you want to make sure it is being indexed, start [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09
LovelyCharts.com – Easily Create Some Lovely Charts
Itay Shakury
Lovelycharts.com הוא שירות ווב שעושה מה שהוא מבטיח - מאפשר ליצור תרשימים יפים בקלות. פעמים רבות אני נדרש לשלב תרשים (בד”כ במסמכי אפיון) ואישית, עבודה עם VISIO יכולה להוציא אותי מדעתי. בשביל הצרכים הפשוטים שלי – LovelyCharts עושה את העבודה, ונראה ממש טוב. www.lovelycharts.com -- שמי איתי שקורי ואני יועץ Sh [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09
SharePoint Calendar Hard Limit
Itay Shakury
SharePoint’s calendar has a hard limit of 1000 items per calendar month. (this is not documented) I am not calling this a bug, because it seems intentional and planned. I am calling this a HARD limit, because 1000 is actually the exact number for upper boundary. To demonstrate, I wrote a script that populates a calendar list with events, and let it create over 1000 events. I then saw that only 1000 items are shown, the 1001st item will not be displayed. What I mean by “calendar month”? t [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09
Cellcom.co.il turns MOSSy
Itay Shakury
חברת “סלקום” חידשה את אתר האינטרנט שלה, ונראה שגם הוא מבוסס MOSS. משמח לראות עוד אתרים רציניים מנצלים את היתרונות של SharePoint. למה אני כותב על זה? כדי לנפץ 2 מיתוסים: 1. SharePoint לא חייב להיות מכוער:) 2. SharePoint לא רק עבור פורטל פנים ארגוני הבהרה: אין לי שום קשר לאתר, או לתהליך בנייתו. אי [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 5th '09
Microsoft BI Roadmap Update – SharePoint gets Performance Point
Itay Shakury
Microsoft has updated it’s roadmap for Business Intelligence products. The new roadmap consolidates into SharePoint Server, leaving SharePoint, Excel, and SQL Server the primary components of a BI solution. I have summarized the important notes and implications of this announcement: Starting today, Businesses that operate under SharePoint Enterprise CAL SA licensing, can use Performance Point Server at no additional cost. Performance Point Server’s features will be incorporated into futu [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 24th '09
Visual studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.3
Itay Shakury
Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (aka VSeWSS) is out for CTP in a new version - 1.3. The full list of new features is listed below. Tow annoying frequent developing activities, that now should be easy to do, are the ability to refactor Web Part names, and to include assemblies in the solution manifest. Personally, I wouldn't use it in large scale projects because it is not flexible enough. Don't get me wrong, I DO think that these solution generators are important [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 12th '09
SharePoint Localization
Itay Shakury
הרבה פעמים אני שומע תלונות על הגיור של מוצרי מיקרוסופט שונים.. הכוונה היא לתרגום לעברית, ובואו נהיה כנים.. לפעמים זה לא הדבר המושלם בעולם. אחד הלקוחות שלי, החליט שזה מספיק מספיק מפריע לו, וביקש למצוא פתרון לבעיה ספציפית: באתרים מסוג בלוג, תירגמו את המילה Comments ל"הערות" (הערה, וכו [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 10th '09
A new player in the field of online collaboration
Itay Shakury
Yesterday, Apple has announced a new web based service called iWork.com aimed for online collaboration. If you wann'a skip directly to the bottom line, I personally don't think it will be a great success, and wouldn't be using it myself. iWork is a software suite for mac that has been around for a few years. It includes a word processing software called Pages, a spreadsheet software called Numbers, and a presentation software called Keynote. Today Apple has announced iWork 09 and wit [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 7th '09
Getting Query String Parameters with JavaScript in SharePoint
Itay Shakury
The JSRequest class is a JavaScript object that lives on all SharePoint Pages, and allows us to simply and quickly get query string parameters using JavaScript. It has 3 fields: QueryString, FileName, and PathName. QueryString - is an array of key\value pairs representing the current query string parameters. FileName - is a string containing the current name of the current page. PathName - is the server relative path of the current page. Usage: //First we must call the EnsureSetup method JSRequ [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 30th '08
Google Chrome doesn't work with... Google!
Itay Shakury
I have started using Google Apps heavily for personal purposes. When I tried getting to my Apps management site using Chrome, I got this message: Funny huh..? Don't worry, If you ignore that message everything works fine.. [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 24th '08
SharePoint Designer Data Form Web Part context menu bug - Part 3
Itay Shakury
This is an update and closing post for the SharePoint Designer \ Data Form Web Part context menu bug. First post introduced the bug and suggested a fix: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2008/05/07/sharepoint-designer-data-form-web-part-context-menu-bug.aspx Second post showed a way to permanently fix the problem: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2008/07/11/sharepoint-designer-data-form-web-part-context-menu-bug-part-2.aspx This post just let you know that recen [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 18th '08
Off to a new start
Itay Shakury
אחרי שנתיים של עבודה באדוונטק, הגיע הזמן לעזוב. לחברים באדוונטק, אני רוצה להודות לכם על שנתיים מעניינות, ומאתגרות. היה כיף לעבוד איתכם, ואני מאוד מאוד מקווה שעוד נוכל לעבוד ביחד בעתיד! החל משבוע זה, הצטרפתי לקבוצת SRL. התפקיד שלי בחברה יתרכז, מן הסתם, בעיקר סביב SharePoint, ותחום ניהו [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 17th '08
Tow tips about MOSS search managed properties
Itay Shakury
Here are tow facts I have discovered about property search in MOSS. Just to be clear, when I say property search, I mean searching by any one of the managed properties defined, using keyword query, or advanced search. Property search example using keyword search - Property search example using advanced search - Once we got that settled, lets talk about what happen when you search by properties. Properties automatically support wildcard search Yes that wildcard issue again. We all know wi [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 8th '08
My Feed Burner RSS address
Itay Shakury
I know I'm late by ages with this feed burner thing... but I am starting to realize that some people read my blog regularly :) So for all of you loyal readers, please update your RSS readers to the following address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Itaysk Stay tuned for more good stuff! [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 28th '08
Collapsible Web Parts
Itay Shakury
Here is something cool I have recently made. It's an add on to SharePoint, that allows a user to temporarily collapse (or minimize) Web Parts, and restore them, by clicking on their titles. Just click on the Web Part's title to collapse, and click again to restore. Your users doesn't need any special permissions to use this (works with anonymous as well). No SharePoint personalization involved. Collapsing occurs instantly (no postback). Everything is temporary, when the user retur [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 12th '08
Getting current events from a Calendar list
Itay Shakury
You have a calendar list. You want to query it for events that happen right now. Not today, not this week, right this moment. Yes, including reoccurring events. I really thought it would be easier, or at least hoped to find a working example somewhere... Anyway, here is the CAML that I ended up with: The first part gets all the events for today, including reoccurring events, and the second one checks for the time. Put the [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 25th '08
SharePoint Designer Data Form Web Part apostrophe bug
Itay Shakury
Problem: You try to use a Data Form Web Part (Data View Web Part) to display a document library in an XSLT view. You find out that documents that include an apostrophe character (') in their file name, cannot be opened or viewed. (There might be other problematic characters beside apostrophe, I haven't checked that) Steps to reproduce: Create a document library. Add some files with apostrophe in their name to the library. Click on one of those items. The file opens as expected. Open [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 25th '08
Using rad Editor for MOSS Lite in Publishing Pages (WCM)
Itay Shakury
Update: After writing this, I found out that there are detailed instructions for this in the official documentation that you can download from telerik's site. HOWEVER, I haven't found anything online when I searched for the first time, so I decided to publish it even so. I have written before about rad Editor for MOSS, and how great it is. When you install it, you can add the new rad Editor Web Parts instead of the usual Content Editor Web Parts, and also replace the default content edit [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 17th '08
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers
Itay Shakury
A new update is available for your SharePoint farm! The updates mainly applies to tow of MOSS's features: Search, and Content Deployment. (The Infrastructure Update has more to offer for other Office products, but for us SharePoint guys those I listed are the relevant ones.) Search Earlier this year Microsoft has released a new product called Microsoft Search Server 2008. This product was the successor of MOSS for Search and provided with an extensive search solution for the enterprise. Base [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 16th '08
SharePoint Designer Data Form Web Part context menu bug - Part 2
Itay Shakury
In one of my last posts I wrote about a bug that we found in SharePoint Designer's 2007 Data Form Web Part (DFWP), and how to fix it. (Look at the original post for a detailed description of the bug) Microsoft Support guys has read that post and provided an additional tip for permanently fixing that bug. They have also confirmed my solution is correct. Tough the fix that I suggested works great on existing DFWPs, here is how to prevent it from happening again: Go to the folder where ShareP [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 11th '08
Profile Pictures Library
Itay Shakury
I have created a deployment project for Steven Van de Craen's solution for managing user profile pictures from a single picture library. About the original project: The project itself is a simple event handler that synchronizes a picture library with user profiles pictures. When a picture is added to the library, it is automatically paired with the relevant user profile. Pairing is based on the file name of the picture, which has to match the user's login name in AD. More on the proje [read].
Posted: Wed, May 28th '08
SharePoint Designer Data Form Web Part context menu bug
Itay Shakury
This bug was confirmed by Microsoft after we opened a "Severity A" issue on it. The original response from the support guy was : "oh my god!" :) because this kind of bugs are really easy to track down in a superficial QA testing. Eventually the support guys couldn't help us and registered that as a SharePoint Designer bug. But worry not - Itaysk to the rescue.. Problem: You try to use a Data Form Web Part (Data View Web Part) to display a document library in an XSLT view. You find out that t [read].
Posted: Wed, May 7th '08
אתר השב"כ מבוסס MOSS
Itay Shakury
לא שחסרים אתרים גדולים ומפורסמים מבוססי MOSS, ולא נראה לי שהשב"כ מתחכשים לעובדה שהאתר שלהם מבוסס MOSS, סתם תגלית מעניינת... :) עמית לעבודה הפנה את תשומת ליבי לאתר של השב"כ באינטרנט... יותר נכון למבנה כתובת ה URL של האתר: מוכר למישהו? גם לנו זה היה מוכר. בדיקה פשוטה בקוד המקור של הדף (View S [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 18th '08
.NET Framework 3.5 and Infopath compatibility issue.
Itay Shakury
Bottom line: Be very careful installing Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 on a machine that works with custom InfoPath solutions. One of my clients has a customized InfoPath 2007 (Not browser enabled) form, that recently went into production. As it was exposed to a lot more users, each running a different environment configuration, we began to receive complains from people who can't use the form. They were getting the following error message: Because we know the form DOES work on some computers [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 18th '08
Silverlight on iPhone
Itay Shakury
Just came back from Tech Ed Eilat, where I attended a session about Silverlight 2.0 by Laurence Moroney, Sr. Tech Evangelist at Microsoft. Overall it was a nice lecture, at the end there was some Q&A time so I hit Laurence with the big question: What about Silverlight support for iPhone??? What Laurence told me, is that there are some technological issues, mainly because iPhone currently runs on AMR processor. This will also require tight cooperation with Apple's development team. But te [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 9th '08
כנס גיטר הירו אילת 2008 הסתיים
Itay Shakury
טוב.. אז כנס Guitar Hero, אילת 2008 שהתקיים בחסות מיקרוסופט הסתיים... היה כיף לא? (http://www.flix.co.il/tapuz/showVideo.asp?m=2467585) [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 9th '08
מתנות לילדים
Itay Shakury
לא התקמצנו עלינו (הבלוגרים) בטק אד הזה. כל בלוגר קיבל חבילה מלאה במתנות. הנה המתנות שקיבלנו (בגדול כל דבר שיש לו יציאת USB היה שם): [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 7th '08
Have a nice flight
Itay Shakury
במיקרוסופט דאגו שיהיה לנו מה לקרוא במהלך הטיסה: על כל מושב במטוס היה קומיקס מגניב שכמובן מדבר על מומחה IT שיוצא להציל את העולם :) [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 6th '08
Am I the Last one to announce he is going to Tech Ed?
Itay Shakury
WELL.... I was quite busy lately, and it shows by my lousy posts count. Anyway, I too was fortunate enough to be invited by Microsoft to Tech Ed 2008 (Thanks guys!), And you to are invited to meet me at Eilat. So click here to schedule a meeting with me (איתי שקורי, Itay Shakury) if you are interested in: SharePoint! (WSS, MOSS, Whatever..) iPhone :) me :-O Segway ?? (keep reading) Advantech, The company I work for, has rented some Segways for us to play with between lectures. S [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 1st '08
Microsoft Search Roadmap
Itay Shakury
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express is available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/download.aspx Microsoft Search Server 2008 will be available for purchase in April (Next month). The Federation and Administration features of Search Server will be available for download and install on MOSS2007 in Q2 of 2008 as a feature pack. Just reminding you: Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 Express is a free product that provides the basic e [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 4th '08
עברית וערבית בעיני מיקרוספט
Itay Shakury
עדכון: כותבי הבלוג אמרו שהם רק ציטטו את מיקרוסופט, ושהם שינו את כל ההתיחסויות מעברית לערבית. (התגובה המלאה בפוסט שלהם) נתקלתי היום בפוסט שמתאר בעיה, שבמקרים מסויימים, לוח השנה של SharePoint הופך ללוח שנה בעברית. הנה התמונה שצירפו כדי להוכיח שלוח השנה הפך לעברית: משעשע הא..? הבלוג הו [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 29th '08
Filter Content Query Web Part by file type
Itay Shakury
CQWP doesn't have a "file type" property in it's filter drop down. This is how you add it: Insert a CQWP to a page and configure it as you would like. Export the web part and save it as ".webpart" file on your local computer. Open the ".webpart" file in a text editor. (I use SharePoint Designer) Look for the following line: Replace it with the following line: DocIcon,Lookup This will make the CQWP retrieve also the DocIcon field that basically include the file extention. Look for the [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 26th '08
Blog posts Tags standardization
Itay Shakury
לאחרונה ניסיתי להשתמש בענן התגיות הכללי בדף הבית של אתר הבלוגים כדי לנסות ולחפור (Drill Down..?) ולהגיע לנושא מסויים. זה היה מאוד קשה בגלל תופעה של ריבוי תגיות דומות \ זהות שנכתבות בצורה טיפה שונה אחת מהשנייה, ולכן מזוהות כנושא שונה לגמרי. לדוגמא, אני יכול לתייג פוסט בנושא .net כ .net , .Ne [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 26th '08
Put you sidebar into good use with Nokia's Text Messenger
Itay Shakury
I like were this is going.. This gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar will display text messages from your mobile right on you desktop. It's called Nokia Text Messenger and you can get it here: http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/textmessenger I Personally don't own a Nokia phone, but I like the fact that Nokia is doing something to make phones and computers work together. [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 26th '08
Resources from Search Round Table at Microsoft
Itay Shakury
חומרים ולינקים משולחן עגול בנושא חיפוש שהתקיים ב 05.02.08 במשרדי מיקרוסופט ברעננה. החלק הראשון היה תיאורטי. המצגת שהשתמשתי בה: *לינק כרגע לא זמין עקב בעייה טכנית. מקווה שבימים הקרובים תיפתר. החלק השני היה שאלות ותשובות. לא ירדנו לפרטים טכניים אבל הזכרתי מסמך עזרה שכתבתי (מדריך ב [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 12th '08



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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


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