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Essentials for Samsung Series 7 Slate
Jeremy Thake
Body: So I have the Samsung Series 7 Slate for a while now, thanks to being giving it by Microsoft at the BUILD conference back in September. I actually immediately made it my production workstation…yep even though it is running Windows 8 Developer Preview! I absolute love the form factor of this device and have used various tablets in the past including a Fujitsu T5010 back in 2008. The battery wasn’t great on that and it was a little too heavy to carry and scribble on with the stylus. This [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 27th '12 |
Essentials for Samsung Series 7 Slate
Jeremy Thake
Body: So I have the Samsung Series 7 Slate for a while now, thanks to being giving it by Microsoft at the BUILD conference back in September. I actually immediately made it my production workstation…yep even though it is running Windows 8 Developer Preview! It’s great to see all the Sales VP’s who were awarded them at the Management Summit at beginning of January for hitting their figure using them. I absolute love the form factor of this device and have used various tablets in the past in [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 27th '12 |
CloudShare for proof of concepts
Jeremy Thake
Body: I’ve been working with CloudShare for a while now and I guess for me the biggest bonus has been not having to lug a stupidly oversized laptop with me to customer meetings and conferences to do demonstrations from. The second benefit is how stupidly quick you can have environments up and running. Chris Riley, Product Manager and Evangelist at CloudShare pointed out to me that there is a “SharePoint Showcase” where you can simply click on a link and it’ll “clone”/”share” a co [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 16th '12 |
Speaking at NYC User Group Feb 1st
Jeremy Thake
Body: I will be speaking at the NYC SharePoint User Group on Feb 1st at 5:30pm, be great to see you guys down there so please come say hello! Application Lifecycle Management in SharePoint 2010 Jeremy Thake, Enterprise Architect at AvePoint Inc and SharePoint MVP, will explain the principles of Application Lifecycle Management in SharePoint 2010. The session will suit SharePoint Developers, Team Leaders, Architects and Development Managers to understand how to approach ALM with SharePoint. [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 13th '12 |
Happy New Year and welcome to 2012! Here’s my plan…
Jeremy Thake
Body: First day back at AvePoint today, gently getting back into work mode by working from home…my new home as I moved in yesterday and waiting for Verizon guys to install very important internet connection and cable television! I’ve really enjoyed my time in New York since moving here in April 2010 to work for AvePoint. I’ve seen a lot of the states travelling to meet customers and attending conferences. 2012 will see me focus on public speaking at SharePoint community events evange [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 3rd '12 |
Windows Slate OS upgrade for me! #bldwin
Jeremy Thake
Body: I’ve been using a ASUS eee Slate since around June this year and absolutely love it on Windows 7 primarily replacing my iPad as a note taking tool via OneNote 2010. The deficiencies of the device were really more to do with the Operating System than the hardware itself as the eee Slate is packed with quad core i5, 4Gb RAM and 64Gb SSD to name the core specs. At the BUILD conference we were lucky enough to be given new Samsung developer preview Windows 8 slates. The form factor is slightl [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 18th '11 |
Speaking at the SharePoint Conference 2011 (#SPC11)
Jeremy Thake
Body: I’ve just got back from the BUILD conference with fellow colleague and SharePoint MVP, Dan Holme and totally looking forward to SPC11 which conveniently is at the same venue in Anaheim, California. After being one of 10 or so SharePoint people at BUILD from a cast of 5000 attendees it will be refreshing to be surrounded by 5000+ SharePoint fanbois! Hopefully of which 500 will be wearing NothingButSharePoint.com free t-shirts (register here). I would also highly recommend you register for [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 18th '11 |
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday The Conference
Jeremy Thake
Body: I’m really looking forward to presenting these three sessions next week in Washington DC especially after still riding the high of my first US SharePoint Saturday in New York. It will be great to see people there and please come say introduce yourself if we’ve not met before…I won’t bite! For more information please visit the web site. Governance Enforcement with out of the box SharePoint So you’ve heard about “Governance” from all angles in the SharePoint community – [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 4th '11 |
My top SharePoint blogs in last 30 days
Jeremy Thake
Body: It’s been a while since I posted this out. this is data from Google Reader. I subscribe to about 1200 subscriptions and try to read everything that comes through. It’s a great way to keep on the pulse of what is going on out there and often inspires my writing. I’m hoping in future, when I “Share” or “star” or “like” (seem to pretty much be same thing to me ) that it’ll integrate deeper with G+. For now, I am book marking these on Delicious.com/jthake and tagging them [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 23rd '11 |
I’ll be presenting at SPC11 on Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 sites!
Jeremy Thake
Body: I woke up this morning to an email from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference Team that I have had one of my sessions I proposed selected! How We Built Community Site NothingButSharePoint.com Essentially I’ll be covering off how I developed the NothingButSharePoint.com site on SharePoint 2010. I’ll be explaining the application life cycle management process working with the awesome designers that branded the site along with all the out of the box functionality I leveraged and all the [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 12th '11 |
Google playing catch up in Social World
Jeremy Thake
Body: I’ve been a huge consumer of online social communities for years now as a way of collaborating with like minded technical brains and catching up with friends and family. Google+ was released in private beta and I couldn’t resist seeing what they have tried to accomplish with it. First off, I use their search engine as my homepage and started using “+1”, use Google Reader for RSS, use Google Analytics for stats, use YouTube for hosting small webcasts and I also have used Picasa in t [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 8th '11 |
Cloud Focused Roundtable online July 21st 11am PST
Jeremy Thake
Body: I have the privilege to be on a roundtable discussion with key experts in the SharePoint Cloud arena from various walks of life: Hosting Company – Matt Lathrop, RackSpace ISV – Jeremy Thake, Enterprise Architect, AvePoint Inc. Microsoft – Mark Kashman, Microsoft Ecosystem – Owen Allen, SharePoint Directions Analyst – Peter Sharpe, Real Story Group Facilitator - Richard Harbridge,Senior SharePoint Evangelist, Allin Consulting The questions will be oriented around [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 28th '11 |
Expected more from New York Office 365 launch
Jeremy Thake
Body: There was an Office 365 launch event hosted by Microsoft at Chelsea Piers Brewery in New York today from 12 – 2pm. I was a little disappointed to be honest for a few reasons. Turn out The turn out was poor ( [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 28th '11 |
RunAsRadio interview with Richard Campbell on SharePoint 2010
Jeremy Thake
Body: Whilst I was at TechEd North America this year, I was fortunate enough to be invited by Richard Campbell or RunAsRadio and DotNetRocks fame to be on his pod show. We talked candidly about SharePoint 2010 from an IT Pro perspective. Please check out the download and also the rest of his podcasts…lots of great content there!
Published: 6/17/2011 5:55 AM
Attachments: http://wss.made4the.net/Lists/Posts/Attachments/879/image_2_7040C4A1.png http://wss.made4the.net/Lists/Posts/Attachments/879 [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 17th '11 |
DWTF: CRM Dynamics Online support
Jeremy Thake
Body: IT support guys have a rough time as they are expected to know everything. I was having a problem with configuring Microsoft Dynamics CRM add-in for Outlook 2010 on my Windows 7 machine. It worked fine on my laptop, but got connection errors on my shiny new Slate. The support guy had me on the phone uninstalling stuff, repairing stuff so I asked for all the steps which he provided me rather than waiting on the phone. In the end after following all he had, it still didn’t fix it and th [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 16th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Developer Do’s and Don’ts…and what NYC are generally doing
Jeremy Thake
Body: Last night I presented at the New York Developer SharePoint User Group in Manhattan. We had a great turn out for my session on “Developer Do’s and Don’ts”, the room was full and people were standing at the back (guessing 60-70)! Thanks to Kathryn Birstein for organizing the event and for Gig Werks for sponsoring the pizzas and drinks! I covered off a raft of things that I’ve seen in the field with SharePoint development. One thing that always shocks me is the amount of peo [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 16th '11 |
Microsoft missed an opportunity at TechEd 2011 with SharePoint
Jeremy Thake
Body: I was absolutely amazed by the shear scale of Microsoft TechEd 2011 North America this year with 10,000 attendees! I have been a few TechEd’s in Australia which get to around 4,000 attendees, but this really does make the Australian one look small. I have had time to reflect a little bit on this conference and believe that Microsoft’s SharePoint Product Team really did miss a great opportunity to educate and raise awareness to the attendees at this event. The focus on SharePoint at Tec [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 10th '11 |
Will Office 365 Work in a Leap Year Presentation
Jeremy Thake
Body: I have uploaded the slides from my Lunchtime keynote at SPTechCon Boston 2011. Thanks so much for all of you who gave feedback on my talk. Again it wasn’t a fire hose Kool-Aid approach and I gave very candid opinions on “The Cloud”. Take a look at my presentation titled Will Office 365 Work in a Leap Year. I will be writing more around this on NothingButSharePoint.com shortly.
Published: 6/2/2011 7:18 AM [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 2nd '11 |
Microsoft Technology Center Performs SharePoint Migration to Microsoft IT with AvePoint
Jeremy Thake
Body: The Microsoft Technology Centers migrated approximately 12,000 site collections and 200 custom lists from SharePoint 2007 to Microsoft IT hosted platform in six weeks with DocAve AvePoint, a proven leader in providing infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced that the Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs), a collaborative environment that helps organizations achieve their business goals using Microsoft and partner technologies, used DocAve to per [read].
Posted: Wed, May 18th '11 |
Why I have an iPad
Jeremy Thake
Body: I have been getting this question A LOT and always promised a blog post…so here it is. I have had an iPad since it was originally released in US, thanks to Mark Miller queuing for me at the Apple Store in New York and sending it to me in Perth My primary original reason for purchasing it was to replace my Fujitsu T5010 Windows 7 tablet PC as it is smaller and lighter. I had already retired this laptop as my primary workhorse…thanks to the massive requirements of SharePoint 2010 from R [read].
Posted: Tue, May 3rd '11 |
Backwards in coming forwards…the US EAD Form!
Jeremy Thake
Body: We’ve now been here for a few weeks, moving into our beautiful 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan on the 18th April. Luckily we didn’t need Social Security numbers to secure our place, as I only just got that last Thursday! Sadly I couldn’t get paid until I had my Social Security number, so the credit cards have taken a hammering. So lesson 1 in this post is always budget for not getting income for a while and also budget for 3x months worth of rent. The next thing that has tripped us [read].
Posted: Tue, May 3rd '11 |
First day at AvePoint
Jeremy Thake
So I had my first day today at AvePoint. Was really impressed as over the weekend the whole company had moved from 8th floor to new 9th floor location. Everything was working great so kudos to the IT and HR team organising this!
Got to meet lots of new people today, I apologise in advance if I've forgotten your names by tomorrow ;-)
Typical first day morning, with a thorough induction into the Compan workings, filling out forms and having a good chin wag with my new manager, Mario Carvajal. M [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 11th '11 |
How to pick which apartment in Manhattan
Jeremy Thake
So this afternoon, we've been taken around Manhattan's Chelsea district by the broker we selected from Australia before we arrived. Essentially we've spent the last few weeks looking at listings to find the price range, floor plans and location we liked. Today we visited 7 different locations that we liked. By the end of it at 18:00 I'd completely lost track of which place was which! Decisions have to be made quick in Manhattan as places don't stay available for long.
TIP #1 Ask if you can ta [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 7th '11 |
US Visa stamp in place!!!
Jeremy Thake
As I said before, I’ll be blogging about the experience of us moving to give others an idea of what is involved.
How are we getting there?
I went for my US Visa appointment at US Consulate in Perth yesterday and we received our Australian passports back Tuesday with a US E3 Visa stamp! AvePoint Inc. had already got my LSA forms approved in the US last week. It was just a matter of showing that paperwork, marriage certificates, birth certificates and a few other forms and we were approved!
The [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 30th '11 |
CKS:Dev Screen Casts - find out about this awesome dev tool!
Jeremy Thake
[cross posted on NothingButSharePoint.com Developer]
CKS:Dev is an amazing add-on for Visual Studio 2010 that every Developer should have in their tool box.
Page Content
To raise the awareness of the CKS:Dev add-on for Visual Studio 2010, the CKS:Dev Team have asked me to put together a series of screen casts to demonstrate the awesome functionality.
I have managed to get two off with everything that is going on around me at the moment with my move to New York. I promise to push more out i [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 26th '11 |
MVP Summit 2011
Jeremy Thake
Last July I was honoured to be awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for SharePoint Server. I was invited to attend the MVP Summit 2011 in Seattle, WA last week.
It was a whirlwind trip leaving on Saturday in Australia and arriving before I left due to 14 hour time zone difference!
Sunday was a Paintball day with 30 other SharePoint MVPs sponsored by Microsoft which was awesome, albiet a little bit cold! Top work to Rob Foster and the Microsoft team for organising the day!
Monday through Wednesd [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 6th '11 |
I'm moving to New York to work for AvePoint!
Jeremy Thake
I've been itching to announce this after signing my contract with AvePoint this week. I'm kicking of the e-3 visa process next week to migrate to Manhattern, New York in April to work for AvePoint at their HQ in Newport, New Jersey! Fingers crossed the visa process all goes smoothly.
The next month is going to be crazy as I go to sell our car *sob* (beautiful 2005 Mazda RX8 if anyone is interested in Perth!), pack our place up, rent out our apartment and find an apartment in Chelsea, Tribe [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 25th '11 |
AvePoint Webinar Series: Ask a SharePoint MVP!
Jeremy Thake
I'm honoured to be asked to be part of AvePoint's new webinar series called "Ask a SharePoint MVP". There are great sessions by fellow SharePoint consultants Elaine Van Bergen (MAP and also just came back from her MCM course in Seattle), Brian Farnhill (MVP) and also Rob Cheyne (vTSP).
My session details are available below and I'll be covering off some of the news things I've been writing about over at NothingButSharePoint.com.
Ask Jeremy Thake (MVP) - Smart SharePoint Release Managem [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 14th '11 |
Live Online SharePoint Conference - SPSEMEA
Jeremy Thake
"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 Timezone."
I'll be presenting at this, actually got the first session in track 1 straight after keynote due to the timezone I'm in (GMT+8) at the moment. The other reason being is, I'm actua [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 18th '11 |
Do's and Don'ts of SharePoint Development
Jeremy Thake
Presented at lunch on this. The slide deck is available here: http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/Perth/User%20Group%20Presentations/Usergroup%20Meetings/DosAndDontsforSharePointDevelopers.pptx
Please don't forget to leave your feedback on my presentation here if you attended: http://speakerrate.com/talks/5234-perth-sharepoint-user-group
And please take 2 seconds to vote for me on iiNET TOP Geek awards :-) http://bit.ly/voteJthake [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 16th '10 |
Microsoft Evangelism Academy Australia (#EvangelOz)
Jeremy Thake
I was extremely honoured to be among the first 8 to be selected by Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelists Team in Australia, headed up by Andrew Coates and Sarah Vaughan.
The group consists of:
James Bannan (@JamesBannan)
PowerShell guru
Jake Ginnivan (@JakeGinnivan)
VSTO/Windows Phone 7 guru
Steven Nagy (@snagy)
Windows Azure MVP
John O’Brien (@soulsolutions)
Bing Maps MVP
Mark Rhodes (@MRhodes)
SharePoint Infrastructure guru
Bronwen Zande (@BronwenZ)
Bing Maps MVP
Chris [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 16th '10 |
iiNet Top Geek - vote for me PLEASE!
Jeremy Thake
So I've entered a competition in Australia to be the "Top Geek". It's fairly simple, just visit this site and click vote!
I'd really appreicate your support, see it as a kind of thank you for all the blog posts you've read of mine or something ;-) [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 16th '10 |
NothingButSharePoint.com is alive
Jeremy Thake
For the last year I have been working in a SharePoint community team to launch a new SharePoint 2010 web site for the community.
I have also migrated the SharePointDevWiki.com, which I founded in December 2008, into the new site under the Developer section, much like Mark Miller has done with EndUserSharePoint.com into End User and Joel Oleson with SharePointJoel.com into IT Pro.
We're looking to release an article a day from people in the community which is a tough target, but we'll get t [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 10th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 with Live ID
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassE1DE20D1BC474D97816C4D218EFE49AA"pspan style="color:#1f497d"I got Live ID running in Production with SharePoint 2010 after getting approval from Microsoft. This is for the new SharePointDevWiki.com SharePoint 2010 Enterprise site hosted by fpWeb. It will also host EndUserSharePoint.com and SharePointJoel.com to cater for Developers, End Users and IT Pros. We're very excited about getting this launched for SPTechCon on 20supth/sup October. This project has been nearly a ye [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10 |
Join me for a chat with the SharePoint MVP Experts
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass58D830081DCD4A68945D9C9802D49DCA"pspan style="font-size:12pt"Next Wednesday, at 1am my time in Perth (EST noon), I will sit in the SharePoint a href="http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/" target="_blank"span style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"MVP/span/a Experts panel for a Qamp;A session where you can ask your questions about SharePoint. The SharePoint MVP Experts Qamp;A chat is your opportunity to chat and get instant answers about any SharePoint related questions, [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10 |
Building Solutions with Business Connectivity Services @ TechEd Australia (OFS302)
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass84F2B394D392410DBCAA5616765EA0BF"pI was lucky enough to be invited to present two session at TechEd Australia this year. One of which was co-presenting with William Cornwill, who is my manager in my Virtual Technology Specialist Role (v-TSP) at Microsoft in Australia. We decided to present BCS to the SharePoint contigent taking it first from a Power User perspective in SharePoint Designer and then onto from a Developer perspective with normalised data.
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Posted: Thu, Sep 2nd '10 |
A day in the life of a SharePointDeveloper @ TechEd Australia (DEV330)
Jeremy Thake
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/ppI was lucky enough to be invited to present two session at TechEd Australia this year. One of which was in the Development track with the mission to showcase the SharePoint Platform to ASP.NET developers. I was absolutely stoked with the turn out considering the room capacity was 200 and we had people lying in the aisles and on tip toes i [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 2nd '10 |
Australian TechEd 2010 in QLD (DEV330 and OFS3002)
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass4B1278BFC7014B2BB55ABB2CECA59A7C"p /p pa href="http://australia.msteched.com/"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://brianfarnhill.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/bb_180_illbethere_local_lg.jpg?w=510"/aI’m really honoured to be asked to present twice at the Australian TechEd 2010 conference in Queensland. I presented last year alongside Andrew Coates and had a [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 18th '10 |
I’ll be showing off Project Server 2010 at Perth SharePoint User Group tomorrow night
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassA024B24C81544D30883CD9D6D2C82E56"pI’ve been looking into Project Server 2010 for various clients lately and figured I’d show off it’s features at the User Group tomorrow night in Perth, Western Australia. Hope to see you there! pMy good mate, Jose Flores is also presenting on using SharePoint Designer 2010 to create data centric applications so hopefully he’s showing off the XSLT List View Web Part in all its glory etc! pDetails below…a href="http://perthsharepo [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 14th '10 |
zevenseas answer to the SharePoint App Store - webcast
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassD7308206360A4B1C86A4C6738613376D"pDaniel McPherson demoed me two products zevenseas have been working on, a href="http://www.tunnelpoint.com/"TunnelPoint/a and a href="http://www.tunnelpoint.com/"ProduShare/a. /p pDan really got me thinking about the possibilities here to write assembly free solutions such as .webpart, .stp and themes that can be deployed to ProduShare. These can be free products or licensed products. It was really cool to see how seamless it was to click [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 14th '10 |
I’ll be showing off Project Server 2010 at Perth SharePoint User Group tomorrow night
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassA024B24C81544D30883CD9D6D2C82E56"pI’ve been looking into Project Server 2010 for various clients lately and figured I’d show off it’s features at the User Group tomorrow night in Perth, Western Australia. Hope to see you there! pMy good mate, Jose Flores is also presenting on using SharePoint Designer 2010 to create data centric applications so hopefully he’s showing off the XSLT List View Web Part in all its glory etc! pDetails below…a href="http://perthsharepo [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 14th '10 |
Naming SharePoint 2010 Service Accounts and Databases
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass214B4D39C3624AEC98C1F1589E80FDEA"pAt a href="http://www.csg.com.au/"CSG/a we’ve been ploughing through SharePoint 2010 installations of late and have been trying to learn from our build experiences from SharePoint 2007. I just read a href="http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=155"Wouter’s post/a on naming service accounts that he’s just posted and figured I’d put my 2cents in./p h2strongService Account naming/strong/h2 pCompletely agree on [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 7th '10 |
Is honoured to be recognised as a SharePoint MVP!
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassA17BAC3EF3CE4531A5B81C5FD0F561D4"pimg src="http://www.ashwinkini.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/mvp_horizontal_fullcolor.png" width="260" height="105"/p pIt is a real honour to be recognised by Microsoft as an SharePoint MVP and to be associated with such amazing SharePoint Heroes of mine. Check out the list of SharePoint MVPs a href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvp.aspx?product=1amp;competency=SharePoint+Services"here/a and a href="https://mvp.supp [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 2nd '10 |
Photo from Australian SharePoint Conference #AUSPC
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass8F14DA703F2F41FC9DCF2E760DD8142A"pI had a great time at the a href="http://www.sharepointconference.com.au/"Australian SharePoint Conference/a (#AUSPC) thanks to Debbie Ireland et al for organising such an amazing event! Looking forward to the next one next year!/p pPart of the conference circuit is catching up with like minded SharePoint nutters from around the World. This time round I got to catch up with a href="http://www.paulswider.com/"Paul Swider/a (US), a href="ht [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 29th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Development with Feature Versioning
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassB94BB77DF2514F33B8EF7FDA9A020E27"pSo for those of you that were at the Australian SharePoint Conference a fortnight ago, hopefully you came and saw me present on the brand new v1 functionality in the SharePoint 2010 platform around Feature Versioning. No more deactivate, retract, remove, add, deploy and activate people! We have a new approach…albeit with some limitations and gotchas. Rather than me write a huge blog post a webcast paints a thousand words ;-)/p pI jump i [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 29th '10 |
Using Windows Live Writer with WSS 3.0 and CKS:EBE 2.0
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass3455C31BB3C34298A65AFD9C18F67309"pI had a very annoying issue with Windows Live Writer integration with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with CKS:EBE 2.0./p pIf you add a new Blog to Live Writer and just use the host address of your WSS 3.0 site it didn’t work for me and I was getting “Access Denied” errors in Live Writer./p pThanks to Ivan Sanders (a href="http://twitter.com/iasanders"@iasanders/a and a href="http://dimension-si.com/blog/default.aspx"http://dimensio [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 29th '10 |
Sandboxed Solution interview panel with Arpan Shah
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassF44EF8D9BF5B45C59B068939BCABE38C"pI was lucky enough to get some quality time with Arpan Shah from Microsoft in Redmond to facilitate an interview for the SharePointDevWiki.com with a panel of amazing SharePoint community member: Todd Bleeker, Paul Swider and Mark Rhodes. We discussed Sandboxed Solutions and the pros and cons from End User, IT Pro and Developer perspectives. /p pa href="http://wss.made4the.net/_attach/screen_2_31CEDED7.png"img style="border-right-width:0p [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 29th '10 |
Two weeks to the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney … see you there!
Jeremy Thake
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/em/span/pp style="text-align:center"span style="font-size:12pt"emOnly span style="color:#e36c0a;text-decoration:underline"TWO/span weeks to go! Don't miss out on a href="http://www.sharepointconference.com.au/"Australia's biggest SharePoint/a event of the year!/em/span
/ppspan style="color:#e36c0a"Something for everyone/span - one of the few IT events that specifically [read].
Posted: Sun, May 30th '10 |
Two weeks to the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney … see you there!
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass8C7561B0A8E54F9E86423F71E9A2D06D"p style="text-align:center"img alt=""span style="font-size:12pt"em
/em/span/pp style="text-align:center"span style="font-size:12pt"emOnly span style="color:#e36c0a;text-decoration:underline"TWO/span weeks to go! Don't miss out on a href="http://www.sharepointconference.com.au/"Australia's biggest SharePoint/a event of the year!/em/span
/ppspan style="color:#e36c0a"Something for everyone/span - one of the few IT events that specifically [read].
Posted: Sun, May 30th '10 |
My last 30 days most favourite SharePoint Blogs (May-2010)
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass6BAD83A0E6E24CE9B603D9C3429F3B24"pThis month's listings sees some new blogs that have caught my attention namely Waldek's who's smashed this month with some amazing articles of late! Yaroslav continues to pump out some great code snippets for working with SharePoint via the API. And the BCS team are pushing out some great content.
/ppTwo other blogs of note that are really producing some great stuff are 'SharePoint Blues' and 'Will Code for nuts'.
/ppIt's great to see so [read].
Posted: Mon, May 17th '10 |
Photos from Perth SharePoint User Group: Office Launch #ANZOfficeLaunch
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass1EDC115F542945E286B228A9CAE13EA0"font size="3"font face="Calibri"We had a great Perth SharePoint User Group meeting this week for the launch day. Sezai Komur did an awesome session on Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with a sample SharePoint 2007 site live in his presentation! Got some good laughs too as he wrote a web part that picked the winners of the raffle prizes. /font/font
p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"font size="3"font face="Calibri"We had reasonable [read].
Posted: Sat, May 15th '10 |
SPDispose…what...
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass291030C8EE2F4CBEA19DE5F4E85F3A23"pI've spoken at a few online and community events recently and have been really disappointed by the amount of people who had heard of SPDisposeCheck. This tool should be the first thing installed on a Development machine after installing Visual Studio 2008/10.
/ppI have also spoke to a few people who have attended SharePoint Development courses and have been really disappointed to hear that this tool is not recommended or mentioned. It is [read].
Posted: Sun, May 9th '10 |
SPDispose…what?
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass291030C8EE2F4CBEA19DE5F4E85F3A23"pI've spoken at a few online and community events recently and have been really disappointed by the amount of people who had heard of SPDisposeCheck. This tool should be the first thing installed on a Development machine after installing Visual Studio 2008/10.
/ppI have also spoke to a few people who have attended SharePoint Development courses and have been really disappointed to hear that this tool is not recommended or mentioned. It is [read].
Posted: Sun, May 9th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Office 2010 Australia New Zealand Launch Party - Perth
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass60604A5DF7A94D8BABFD10B205E53AAB"pspan style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12pt"Myself and Sezai Komur have organised the Launch Party locally in perth which will run in parallel to user groups in 7 other locations! Should be a good night please register below to attend!
/span/pp
/pp style="text-align:center"a href="http://www.aunz2010launch.net" target="_blank"span style="color:#ee6600;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline"strong [read].
Posted: Fri, May 7th '10 |
Feedback from HP TRIM Product team on my webcast
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassA226B70C888E4F18A11F00171E1C8800"pSo my a href="http://wss.made4the.net/archive/2010/04/16/sharepoint-2007-and-hp-trim-7-integration-screencast.aspx"screen cast/a on the HP TRIM 7 integration with SharePoint 2007 seems to have been popular which makes it all worth while re-recording it after the sound was so terrible from the live presentation!
/ppTo top this off I got lots of feedback from the HP TRIM product team answering both queries I had and also backing up their ar [read].
Posted: Wed, May 5th '10 |
Save as Template/Import WSP in VS2010 is as useful as sticking my hand in a blender
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassD14C58D59CBF4631AC2935B9990EB1DD"h2Developer Continuity
/h2pI have been hearing a lot in presentations about quot;Developer Continuityquot; in SharePoint 2010 Development but unfortunately I still don't think the tools are there still. A common scenario is for work to be done quickly in SharePoint Designer as a prototype, as let's face it, it's a lot quicker to do things in the Web UI/SharePoint Designer than in Visual Studio. A good example is adding a column to a list o [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 27th '10 |
SharePoint 2007 and HP TRIM 7 Integration Screencast
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass2DFB92165DC640C489743EA7D4560EF6"pspan style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10pt"As promised, I've uploaded a webcast that demonstrates and gives my opinion on the integration between SharePoint 2007 and HP TRIM 7.
/span/ppspan style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10pt"I did have to re-record this from the UG session because the sound didn't work (too much background noise). I have invested in a new Samson CO3U USB Condenser microphone on order [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 17th '10 |
My last 30 days most favourite SharePoint Blogs (Apr-2010)
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassDC6673FB663D4AD78E4D6E451161961C"pSo I have been keeping up again with my reading and here is this months most starred posts within the community from my opinion (mainly development focused SharePoint blogs).
/ppMarc and Yaroslav is continue to storm the top of this list and Corey Roth creeps to 3suprd/sup with Joel Oleson, Chris Givens and Sahil Malik pumping out some good stuff too!
/ppObviously strongno one/strong but the a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/"produ [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 17th '10 |
Introducing SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) Development to ALM (TFS2010) Screencast
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass78B955ACF872496587359A60D4AD60CD"p style="background:white"span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10pt"In this web cast a href="http://www.twitter.com/jthake"span style="color:#003366;text-decoration:underline"@jthake/span/a introduces SharePoint 2010 development in Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 targeted at a non SharePoint dev crowd including SharePoint Projects, F5 debugging experience, Solution Package designer, Static Code Analysis, check-in polic [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 17th '10 |
Technical Whitepaper: SharePoint Content Application Lifecycle Management Guidance
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass96C99297D1DC4399B11A9E1F010B18A6"pI'd like to announce the release of my Technical Whitepaper on SharePoint Content amp; Application Lifecycle Management Guidance.
/pdivtable style="border-collapse:collapse" border="0"colgroupcol style="width:638px"/colgrouptbody valign="top"trtd style="padding-left:7px;padding-right:7px;border-top:solid 0.5pt;border-left:solid 0.5pt;border-bottom:solid 0.5pt;border-right:solid 0.5pt"pspan style="color:black;font-family:Arial;font-size:10 [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10 |
My SharePoint 2010 Development with TFS 2010 webcast is available
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass7ED3EFFD8C1048A596F33C1FAF100C47"p style="text-align:justify"The great guys who organised a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/arabia/default.aspx"SharePoint Saturday Arabia/a (#SPSArabia) have uploaded the web casts from the online event done in LiveMeeting.
/pp style="text-align:justify" Check out the sessions, there were some great ones on the day!
/pp style="text-align:justify"Obviously I encourage you to watch my one which walks through using VS2010 and TFS 201 [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 7th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Development Environment Rig
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass9DD34EDA120C42968B54D0E03B1879D8"pSo I finally bit the bullet 3 weeks ago and decided that my Fujitsu T5010 Tablet with Windows 7 Ultimate 8Gb RAM (1033Mhz DDR3), G.Skill Vortex 128SSD and secondary 320Gb 7200rpm HDD was just simply not cutting it running VM's in VMWare Workstation 7.
/ppSo I invested in a new a href="http://shopap.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/auweb/LenovoPortal/en_AU/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=3634951826AE4D3881BFFF1AC5FC [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 3rd '10 |
Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010: Quota breach stops ALL solutions in Site
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass3859C8FE86F247C7BC6FA901C4F76A87"pI presented on Sandboxed Solutions at the Perth SharePoint User Group on Thursday night alongside Sezai Komur (he did Client OM). I went through the standard bits and pieces on Sandboxed Solutions (see references for more detailed info):
/pulliwhy
/lilibenefits
/liliwhat you can do
/liliwhat you can't do
/liliresource points and quotas
/liliabout the Services that monitor them and execute them
/lilihow to debug them
/li/ulpI then showed a [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 20th '10 |
My last 30 days most favourite SharePoint Blogs (Mar-2010)
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass52A990A7FD684F8EB9377AEAF31611B8"pSo I have been keeping up again with my reading and here is this months most starred posts within the community from my opinion (mainly development focused SharePoint blogs).
/ppGreat to see some new names near the top too…Marc has been pumping out some great XSLT content. Yaroslav is continue his storm on #SP2010 code snippets and has now started cross-posting on the SharePointDevWiki.com which is awesome! I encourage others to do the [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 16th '10 |
What will May the 12th mean to you?
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass6E04CAFBA9E740C1A3A03AD1989B254E"pAs announced by a href="http://twitter.com/arpanshah/status/10045361597"@ArpanShah/a via twitter yesterday SharePoint 2010 will be available in RTM quot;in Aprilquot; (no date yet) and the a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx"launch/a will be the 12supth/sup of May.
/ppI'm assuming this means that customers will be able to start using SharePoint 2010 in production sometime in Apr [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 7th '10 |
My initial thoughts on SharePoint 2010 Certification
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass9D06C5F898D0484B8640F3D22C5EE5A5"pI have commented on the SharePoint 2007 examples a few times in the past :
/pullia href="http://wss.made4the.net/archive/2009/10/26/factors.aspx"The 12 factors to turn ASP.NET developers to SharePoint 2010/a
/lilia href="http://wss.made4the.net/archive/2009/05/22/microsoft-infrastructure-administrators-need-to-face-the-facts…sharepoint-is-here-to-stay.aspx"Microsoft Infrastructure Administrators need to face the facts…SharePoint is [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 6th '10 |
SPoint.me is LIVE!
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass3B6E3BD96B434B3DA1A40D5A9C60B7D1"pArno Nell (a href="http://www.twitter.com/arnonel"@arnonel/a) has been working hard for over 18 months to come up with a href="http://spoint.me"SPoint.me/a which is a new social networking site just for the SharePoint community. He announced it a href="http://sharepointmagazine.net/featured/spoint-me-the-sharepoint-social-network"here/a on SharePointMagazine.net which he also founded. Yes, the community already has:
/pullia href="http://w [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
My last 30 days most favourite SharePoint Blogs
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass4602D19962B74B23B184CF44047E4FD9"pI read A LOT of blog posts in Google Reader, at last count it was around 500 feeds. I try to get through all of them and the way I've built up priorities on what to keep up with has been a challenge. For the last few months I have been quot;starringquot; and quot;likingquot; posts that have been of value to me. Basically unique content that isn't just cut and paste of MSDN or another site, or announcing something thousands on twitter have [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 16th '10 |
SPSPerth Feb 2010 Slide Decks published
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass8E81329964E4480B850AF2089603B414"pI've managed to chase down the majority of the speakers from SPSPerth and have uploaded all their slide decks. I've found in the past that just blogging that they are available doesn't raise interest. So below I have put some info on what they are about to rustle some larger interest in Global SharePoint Community ;-)
/ppA big thanks again to all the 18 speakers and also to all of the 125 attendees that turned up on the day! The event has [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 12th '10 |
SharePoint Conference 2010 Sydney, Australia
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass4FB511CCDE734D39A2AF3F3FB3F64682"pspan style="font-size:12pt"strong16th and 17th June, 2010, The Hilton, Sydney, Australia/strong
/span/pp
/ppspan style="font-size:12pt"Don't miss strongthe Australian SharePoint Conference for 2010/strong, proudly sponsored by Microsoft and leading partners, and organized by members of the Australian and New Zealand SharePoint community.
/span/pp
/ppspan style="font-size:12pt"I have submitted a few speaker sessions so hopefully y [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
I’ll be speaking at ALM conference in Sydney
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass0E5A3555B571485FA86FC2A1EF32FE9E"pa href="http://myvstsblog.com/"Antony Borton/a et al have organised a href="http://www.australianalm.com.au/"a Australia ALM Conference/a (Application Lifecycle Management) at Luna Park in Sydney on the 13supth/sup and 14supth/sup of April 2010.
/ppI will be speaking on quot;Introducing ALM to SharePoint Development Implementationsquot;:
/pp style="text-align:center"quot;The SharePoint Platform adoption is growing at a rate of knots among [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday Perth wrap up
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass36A71852F0AE4912AD05363CF13E8ACA"pSharePoint Saturday Perth was run on Saturday. I organised this over the last few months and from what I have heard, it was a very well received event. We had over 115 people attend with a full 100 at the keynote and wrap up sessions at the end! I think that makes it the biggest SPS in Australia to date which is awesome!
/ppThe speakers had great feedback on their sessions with Information Worker, IT Pro and Developer tracks.
/ppstrongSli [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Independent SharePoint Consultant for hire
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassDC6F079E8DC344B7884988CBEDBE318E"pI have decided to move on from my role as Principal Consultant at Readify after handing in my notice last week. As of March, I will be pursuing a career as an Independent SharePoint Consultant in the Perth area.
/ppI am looking to assist customers to lead and mentor their teams on SharePoint based projects or simply review or architect their solutions up front and oversee the project throughout its lifecycle. I am also happy to work with [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
I am now a Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass316010B25BD34A81BECF928FD189008F"pToday I went and signed a contract with Microsoft here in Western Australia to join the quot;strongVirtual Technical Specialist/strongquot; programme. I've had plenty of questions on what this role actually is…so here goes from what I know already.
/ppEffectively as a Virtual Technical Specialist I will be reporting to William Cornwill (@codejedi) who is based in Victoria as a SharePoint Technology Solutions Professional for Microsoft. [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 4th '10 |
Quest Site Administrator Reports for SharePoint OnDemand - Quick thoughts
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass6A8213E0FD9E4902B01ED68213700C9B"pI saw a tweet from the Quest guys promoting their new cloud based app called 'a href="http://queststratusbeta.cloudapp.net"Site Administrator Reports for SharePoint | OnDemand/a'. A bit of a mouthful, but a pretty compelling little tool!
/ppEssentially you download an app to your local machine and then it opens up the cloud based app in a browser again (not sure what client app is for, maybe a requirement for some security bits the app do [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 27th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday Perth Event!
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClass367AFAF415EC4048BE37B1828801B5F3"pI have organised a SharePoint Saturday Event with the help of a few other guys in Perth for 6supth/sup February, if you happen to be in the area…please come along!
/ppspan style="font-size:10pt"span style="color:black"Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/2010 for 'SharePoint Saturday' event. /span
/span/ppspan style="font-size:10pt"span style="color:blac [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 11th '10 |
SharePoint Dependent Assemblies in Event Receivers
Jeremy Thake
div class="ExternalClassA9A08BABC1894788BA731FDF8EE226A0"pI got bitten today by having an EventReceiver in a separate assembly to my actual WSP Visual Studio Project. The EventReceiver was using the Unity and OpenXML framework and I had not referenced these in my WSP Visual Studio Project. When I deployed my WSP and ran a FeatureReceiver that was adding this EventReceiver programmatically to a List I was getting the below error:
/ppspan style="font-family:Microsoft Sans Serif;font-size:8pt"Featu [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
The 12 factors to turn ASP.NET developers to SharePoint 2010
Jeremy Thake
I’ve already posted a webcast and created a wiki page that has caused a lot of discussion on the wiki on “How ASP.NET developers can leverage the SharePoint 2007 Platform”. This post will reflect on the SharePoint 2010 conference last week and to nominate 10 factors that will hopefully be the tipping point for ASP.NET developers to start leveraging the SharePoint 2010 platform. I will be using my ASP.NET Readify colleagues as a good bench mark on how successful the adoption of development [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 27th '09 |
Thoughts on SharePoint Conference 2009
Jeremy Thake
So I’m sitting at San Francisco airport, terrible international area by the way *sigh*. Anyways, thought I would start to write my thoughts on #SPC09. The Keynote It was very exciting to see Steve Ballmer start the keynote off with so much energy and knowledge of the platform, but it slowly went from him being very business focused to the other guys coming on and jumping directly into a technical extravaganza. Internet Facing Sites Steve managed to shock me by stating that “MOSS2007 was ne [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
Does JavaScript/jQuery Enhancements to SharePoint Count as Development?
Jeremy Thake
I had a great twitter discussion today with @bsimser & @sympmarc about SharePoint and jQuery which was triggered by an End User SharePoint post by @sympmarc. I pointed them to my “jQuery: The SharePoint band aid” and @bsimser came back with well does jQuery enhancements in SharePoint count as development? So here’s my opinion on this: Are jQuery enhancements development? YES! jQuery is a JavaScript library which is executed on runtime within the client browser. People may say that beca [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th '09 |
MySPC 09 schedule
Jeremy Thake
So I’ve spent a while coming up with my schedule. My main criteria was to stay development track focussed and as many Level 400’s as possible, I can watch the Level 200’s at 4x later ;-) There were some tough calls, but have to stay focused on the dev tools over specific features. Also going to be busy in the evenings too, but that’s the way I like it! No plans for Friday yet, was thinking maybe Grand Canyon or Hoover Dam if anyone is keen? [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 13th '09 |
#SPC09 Sessions for #SP2010 conference!
Jeremy Thake
I’ve quickly taken screen shots of the sessions in the schedule builder for SPC09. Full credit to them in producing a usable Session Builder unlike the interface provided for Australia Tech.ED this year which was terrible! There’s a lot of sessions with only 8 level 400 Developer sessions and 35 Level 300 ones. I’m guessing they’ve been a bit more honest with the levels as this was another thing that deceived people at #AuTechEd too. Now I’ve got to start filtering my selections down t [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 13th '09 |
SharePoint 2010: The Enterprise Platform
Jeremy Thake
I’m repeatedly cornered to discuss SharePoint and a common discussion that occurs is the wide spread usage of SharePoint as an “Enterprise Platform” or “Enterprise Portal”. SharePoint in Organisations (state and local government, private enterprises, etc.) are moving towards a Microsoft Platform in droves and migrating their SAP, Oracle, BEA, IBM, OpenText and EMC enterprise stacks. I’m exaggerating slightly as this is the Organisations I’m exposed to, but hear me out. How did thi [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 9th '09 |
Last call for free #SPC09 SharePointDevWiki.com t-shirts
Jeremy Thake
I’m just about to order the t-shirts…this is your last chance to contact me with your Twitter name and US t-shirt size for a free t-shirt! The Twitter names will be above the logo on the back so people will be able to recognise you at the SPC09 conference! Also looking for more sponsors if you’re interested in sponsoring a series of shirts. More info at SharePointDevWiki.com. [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 7th '09 |
How to manage the noise of #SPC09
Jeremy Thake
So the more I speak to people on NDA e.g. MVP’s,people on the TAP etc. the more I get concerned about how much content is going to burst at the seams after the NDA is released on SharePoint 2010. So here is my advice on how to manage this information once the gun goes off on the starting line! Just like “SharePoint Designer is free!” syndrome, there's going to be a lot of this going on on Twitter, RSS and other social media sites! My advice would be as follows: Twitter Noise Searching on t [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
SharePointDevWiki: SharePoint 2010 hub #SP2010
Jeremy Thake
So I have finally had time to create a new Confluence Wiki Space for WSS 4.0 and SP2010. This wiki will grow as more information about the platform becomes available and it will be a central hub for me whilst at SPC09 to log all the information I find. I want to try and make this a collective site to map all the information on WSS 4.0 and SP2010 from around the web in blogs, forum, twitter and web sites around the Internet. This should allow people to start here and either take a shallow dip in [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 26th '09 |
Lessons learnt from attending #AuTechEd09 and plans for #SPC09
Jeremy Thake
I’m currently a few thousand feet up in the air travelling back from Brisbane to Perth after a intensive week at TechEd Australia 2009. It’s been a great week and I’ve got to meet some amazing individuals in the Microsoft ecosystem for the first time such as Reed Shaffner, Alistair Speirs, Ian Palangio, Gayan Peiris, Christian Longstaff, Andrew Parsons and Sara Ford. I also got to meet some familiar faces again such as Dave Glover, Andrew Coates, Catherine Eibner, Michael Kordahi and the e [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 13th '09 |
#SP2010 New sessions announced for #SPC09
Jeremy Thake
Another few sessions have been announced for #SPC09. I’m getting so excited about all this stuff! Check out the full information on the #SPC09 web site [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
#SP2010 New sessions announced for #SPC09
Jeremy Thake
Another few sessions have been announced for #SPC09. I’m getting so excited about all this stuff! [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 8th '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 (Las Vegas) (+ join the tribe!)
Jeremy Thake
So I’ve decided to bite the bullet and drag myself over on a 30 hour flight to Las Vegas for the public unveiling of SharePoint 2010! WOOOOO! I’m extremely excited not only to see everyone from across the globe attending in the SharePoint community in one place…but also to see all the Microsoft Product team and MVPs present on all the new functionality within SharePoint 2010! You can guarantee that I will be tweeting and adding massive amounts of content to the SharePointDevWiki.com so if [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
TechEd Australia 2009 & SharePoint Presentation #DEV340 #AuTechEd
Jeremy Thake
TechEd Australia is on next week in the Gold Coast. I’ve never been to a TechEd before so I have no idea what to expect really. I went to the SharePoint Conference in Sydney in 2007, but TechEd is going to be a lot bigger than that! I am actually speaking at the event, co-presenting with Andrew Coates on VSTO and SharePoint Development (#DEV340) and am really looking forward to it! We’ve got a great demo VM sorted that show’s off a lot of cool SharePoint and VSTO stuff! Please come say h [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 4th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (01Sep)
Jeremy Thake
TOP THIS WEEK Deployment Survey If you haven’t already filled in the survey on how you do Deployment in SharePoint…please please please fill it in! Put a clients hat on and fill it in as if you are them…just need more data ;-) PowerShell for developers - Waldek Mastykarz Waldek keeps keeping on keeping on with his guidance…this time around PowerShell! JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): SharePoint as a development platform - 7 reasons why I like it ... Another great post on S [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 1st '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (25Aug)
Jeremy Thake
TOP THIS WEEK How I Benefit from Native Boot From VHD Reza Alirezaei’s Blog All the cool kids are doing it! Even me! Love it! Pre-filling fields on EditForm.aspx Great work by Andy Burns on Event Receivers! How to Create Killer SharePoint Applications with Four Simple Techniques Some good advice around leveraging the SharePoint Platform from dev perspective Server-side Office Development with SharePoint - Things that Should be Easy Awesome post on how to use SharePoint as dev platform! [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 25th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (18Aug)
Jeremy Thake
[Cross Posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] TOP THIS WEEK Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Solutions : SharePoint Products and Technologies White Paper “oldie but a goodie” Virtual User Group Meeting Featuring a Developer Panel! SharePoint 2007 Weblog » Blog Archive » SharePoint Nation! - “this is on tomorrow” Getting Your Feet Wet Writing Code For SharePoint – Part 2 of 5 PODCASTS/WEBCASTS Water Cooler Interview with Shane Yo [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 18th '09 |
#SharePoint Site Collections and 100Gb Content Database guidance
Jeremy Thake
I’ve been in Adelaide for a few days reviewing a company building a product on top of SharePoint. Some of the team had been on the 4 day “boot camps” that are run here in Australia that cover developing solutions with SharePoint. One of the common things I continue to see in the “wild” is the fact that developers tend not to keep track of the information published on TechNet and MSDN. Some of this information is absolutely necessary to be aware of when developing on SharePoint, such as [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 14th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (11Aug)
Jeremy Thake
TOP THIS WEEK Bad Practice #1: Not using Solutions for deploying artifacts to the server(s) - Ben Curry, CISSP, SharePoint Server MVP I want to sing this from the rooftops…use Solution Packages pleeeasssseee! Getting Your Feet Wet Writing Code For SharePoint – Part 1 of 4 Very good introduction to SharePoint Development TOOLS/ENVIRONMENT Carsten Keutmann: WSPBuilder Extensions ver. 1.0.6 - (WSPBuilder Version: 0.9.9.0728) More info on WSPBuilder releases…great news that Cartsen is bu [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 11th '09 |
#SharePoint Implementations: the 80/20 rule
Jeremy Thake
I had an e-mail from Mahdi Sheikhi who was asking me to talk more about the 80/20 rule which I mentioned in a previous article: “if you can earn 80 percent of your requirement with current SharePoint features and need to development for other features , SharePoint is your solution.” SharePoint is a Development Platform with lots of functionality available out of the box. SharePoint MVP, Sahil Malik, also recently did a podcast show where he also quoted the 80/20 rule. So what is it? When you [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 11th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (04Aug)
Jeremy Thake
[Cross posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] Top This Week SharePoint Deployment survey Building a Knowledge Blogging System in SharePoint - brainlitter.com :: Ramblings from the Victoria SharePoint Trenches Automatically add ‘Search As You Type’ to every SharePoint page using Infuser Storing SharePoint List meta data without adding an column #SP2010 I think everyone is too busy playing in their private betas to blog about #SP2010 :-( *sigh* Tools/Environment Things that Should be Easy: C [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 4th '09 |
SharePoint Application/Content Lifecyle Management anonymous survey
Jeremy Thake
“Content management, or CM, is a set of processes and technologies that support the evolutionary life cycle of digital information. This digital information is often referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content. Digital content may take the form of text, such as documents, multimedia files, such as audio or video files, or any other file type which follows a content lifecycle which requires management.” WikiPedia The SharePoint Platform is the next step forward in Content Mana [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 29th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (28Jul)
Jeremy Thake
[Cross posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] Top This Week SharePoint; from an Engineer's Perspective : MOSS Pre-Installation Health Check Awesome blog post on great way to check the health of your farm! Copy Sharepoint SPD workflows in a few minutes « Sharepoint applied Yes SPD workflows have some limitations, but this seems like a nice workaround to one of the show stoppers! SharePoint Logging Library By Ayman El-Hattab – Home A very nice SharePoint Logging Framework all wrapped up ready for [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 28th '09 |
SharePoint 3.0/2007 PSconfig error: IIS not installed
Jeremy Thake
So I’ve been using psconfig to build SharePoint Farms rather than using the SharePoint Configuration Wizard as I can automate it with scripts with environment variables. One thing I came across was that the Wizard does more validation for me. I was getting an error on step 2 in creating the Configuration Database: 07/22/2009 13:22:18 7 ERR Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception 07/22/2009 13:22:18 7 ERR Exception: System.Runtime.Inter [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (21Jul)
Jeremy Thake
[Cross posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] No surprises that #SP2010 is the big hitter again this week. Also seems everyone is quiet…no doubt a lot of the MVPs are quietly off playing with SharePoint 2010 and it’ll be nuts once it goes public after conference…I’m sure they are all drafting lots of posts to pull traffic to their blogs ;-) Important June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Download Yes, SP2 is probably still on your TODO list, but now there is the June CU too! Idealware: W [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
Is VSeWSS 1.3 CTP ever coming out of CTP?
Jeremy Thake
So with the message from Paul Andrew on the Sneak Peek webcast to start using VSeWSS now so that you will be familiar with Visual Studio 2010 tools, I started to take a look at VSeWSS 1.3 CTP (March not Feb). It is truly painful to work with compared to WSPBuilder and STSDev. The community has been maintaining this page on the comparison between the tools and I’ve been adding a few extra bits today on simple things like creating features and feature receivers using it. Don’t write off 2007 g [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 16th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (14Jul)
Jeremy Thake
[Cross Posted on: SharePointDevWiki.com] Ok, so I’ve managed to start breathing again over the excitement of the Sneak Peak of SharePoint 2010…but also of being on the Office 2010 Technical Preview too (more to come!). SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview SharePoint 2010 ”Sneak Peak” at SharePoint 2010…lots revealed Developer Changes in SharePoint 2010 My opinion on what was peaked at Oh good they got rid of the SharePoint 2007 Pie…oh crap they replaced it with a SharePoint 2010 Pi [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 14th '09 |
Oh good they got rid of the SharePoint 2007 Pie…oh crap they replaced it with a SharePoint 2010 Pizza
Jeremy Thake
This is not just a “SharePoint Designer free” blog spam post…so please read on ;-) First impressions of the new SharePoint 2010 sneak peak…and the new Overview Video by Tom Rizzo. “Value Pillars” Connect and Empower People Heavily pushing on multiple devices: multiple Browers (IE, Safari, Firefox); mobile Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure One platform with multiple solutions Rapidly Respond to Business Needs Quickly skin SharePoint and “mash it up”…see my latest post [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Developer Changes in SharePoint 2010
Jeremy Thake
Paul Andrew talks about the new Developer functionality in SharePoint 2010 in a webcast on the new SharePoint 2010 site. The is also a download of 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation too. The webcast goes through and shows the new SharePoint integration with Visual Studio 2010 which I’m hoping will be available in the next public beta as it got missed out of the first. Paul also seems to concentrate along time on the BDC stuff which I believe is because it’s not heavily been u [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
#SharePoint 2007 SP2 Preupgradecheck rocks the earth – use it now for health check!
Jeremy Thake
At @JoelOleson’s presentation on Friday, he highlighted the features available in preupgradecheck. For a developer/administrator this is awesome as it’ll highlight lots of issues that are good to know now, regardless of SharePoint 2010 next year! Feature References One of the big ones is highlighting the Features that are not installed in a farm but referenced somewhere! The below log highlights four features in a farm I picked at random that are missing from the farm! The htm report below h [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Joel Oleson visits Perth
Jeremy Thake
It was great to finally meet @JoelOleson again and I really appreciate he making the effort to fly to Perth to present at the SharePoint User Group. It was really surreal actually, much like meeting the Brisbane crew a few weeks ago. You speak to these guys on Twitter, read their blogs, add them as a friend on Facebook and yet you still are not sure what to expect when you meet them in person! It’s another joy of being part of such a great community and I look forward to meeting more of the co [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 11th '09 |
I will be presenting at #AUTechEd
Jeremy Thake
With the announcement yesterday, I can finally openly jump up in the air and celebrate being asked to speak at TechEd Australia! The session got published yesterday on the TechEd web site that I am co-presenting with Andrew Coates (@coatsy) from Microsoft! It is a real honour for me to be able to present at TechEd, but also to be presenting alongside someone I have so much respect for also! One of my blogs most popular posts was triggered from discussions had with Andrew at a Perth SharePoint U [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 9th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (07Jul)
Jeremy Thake
[completely biased] How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast @jthake (me) presents on the findings from the collaborative efforts on the SharePointDevWiki.com page…a huge thanks to the community on this! SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part Two - Eric Shupps @eshupps continues the discussions around TDD referencing big guns like Sahil Malik and Andrew Woody! More TDD here JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ): The ten commandments for SharePoint development [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
Jeremy Thake
I presented at the Perth dotNet User Group last Thursday, if you didn’t happen to make it I have recorded the presentation. Click here to download the web cast as a WMV. More Info More information is also being collaborated on at the SharePointDevWiki.com so feel free to comment here! I’d just like to say a big thanks to the community for collaborating on this. Speaker Rate As mentioned on the web cast, I’d really appreciate your feedback so please visit Speaker Rate to rate this web ca [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 6th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (30Jun)
Jeremy Thake
Think this is the biggest week yet! Please support my efforts to compile this by tweeting the link! Development Environment Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7) - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development Saved a few of my colleagues today playing with the new VPC stuff in Windows 7! Logging everything that is going on when an assembly loads using CThru - But it works on my PC! Some nice looking stuff here in terms of being able to trace your ap [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 30th '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (23Jun)
Jeremy Thake
It seems every week more and more great content appears! These could almost become daily Coffee break posts! WSP Carsten Keutmann: Beginning SharePoint Development (Bonus part #3 WSPBuilder overview) Hot off the press! Carsten has released a fix for an installation issue with WSPBuilder! This man is the shining light of all things SharePoint Dev Tools! Planning SharePoint Solution Packages (WSPs) - Eli Robillard's World of Blog Eli has done a great job of articulating the most generic way o [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09 |
SharePoint Development Weekly Roundup (16Jun)
Jeremy Thake
[Cross Posted on SharePointDevWiki.com News] SharePoint Saturday Sydney (8th August) @BrianFarnhill et al are organising Australia’s first SharePoint Saturday. @DanielBrownSA is also organising one in Adelaide too. Winsmarts SharePoint WCF Support @SahilMalik has gotten around to releasing on CodePlex the Solution Package with a feature to activate WCF for SharePoint. Great work! I’m making a grand assumption that SharePoint 2010 will have this as default, so always good to get comfort [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
Importing a stsadm export package from a MOSS Farm to a WSS Farm
Jeremy Thake
So I’ve been doing some work in a MOSS Farm Development VM for a release to a WSS Farm. I created a a Site Collection using the Collaboration Team Site Definition thinking it wouldn’t use any of the MOSS Features (as you may know that MOSS is a superset of WSS). When I did an stsadm –o export from my MOSS Farm and then did an stsadm –o import into my WSS Farm I got the following errors: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN>stsa
dm -o import -url [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09 |
Results from the SharePoint Implementation Approach Survey
Jeremy Thake
A big thank you to the 182 people that responded to the Survey! It has been a real eye opener for me in terms of the amount of approaches that are available out there! Here’s summary: So many not on 64bit SharePoint Dev environment yet! Most are working off laptops with their environments Most are running their environment in a Virtual Machine Too many not running VM off a separate physical HDD! Not enough running Server 2008 and SQL 2008 WSPBuilder rules over VSeWSS and STSDev by a long sh [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09 |
SharePoint Web Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite beta
Jeremy Thake
So I’m sitting on the plane on the way back to Perth for the weekend and thought I’d throw together a post on the new improved Web Testing capability within Visual Studio Team System 2010 beta . I remember first getting Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and trying the Web Testing capabilities with SharePoint. It failed horribly due to the way in which SharePoint renders it’s XHTML. Fortunately with 2010, the approach has got a lot better, but will still require some custom coding. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
FACT: You can’t be a SharePoint Developer unless…
Jeremy Thake
I’ve just been on a training course and was shocked to find out that some of the Developers hadn’t heard of various SharePoint Resources online, including the SharePointDevWiki.com . I know, I know! Where have they been since December last year! LOL Seriously, it wasn’t so much the wiki, as I know that it is only promoted in various inner circles and not as mainstream as MSDN as a resource. I will say though, that I really appreciate the continued support from the community in promoting a [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
SharePoint User Profile Updates and AD Synchronisation
Jeremy Thake
I have been focusing my efforts recently on client projects around SharePoint User Profiles which are part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Editions (Standard and Enterprise). The User Profiles are one of numerous components making up Shared Service Providers (SSP’s) which also include Excel Services, InfoPath Forms Services, Business Data Catalogue and Enterprise Search. User Profiles The role of User Profiles is to store information about Users. The information out of the bo [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
Microsoft Infrastructure Administrators need to face the facts…SharePoint is here to stay!
Jeremy Thake
I have been on the Microsoft Partner Services training for Collaboration and Portal technology for two days presented by Ian Morrish from MCS NZ. @IMorrish is well known in the community for http://www.wssdemo.com/ . One thing that just niggled at me over the two days was the massive pressure that is on SharePoint Architects’ to take responsibility not only for SharePoint as a Platform but also for all the underlying technology stack. I’ve discussed this before, but it just rang loud and cle [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
Reviewing open source SharePoint products: First look at CompleteSharePoint.NET v2.0
Jeremy Thake
CompleteSharePoint.NET v2.0 was released today by Tommy Segoro, another local Perth SharePoint Developer. This open source project provides functionality to Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) 3.0 similar to the Publishing Feature within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Right now I’m sitting on a plane on the way to Sydney and figured this was a great time to deploy the source to a Windows Server 2008 VM and give it a run for its money. Especially as I’m currently looking at build [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
SharePoint Development MVP Panel Discussion Review
Jeremy Thake
So if you watch one web cast this year…it has to be the MVP Panel Discussion SharePoint Development recorded at TechEd in LA (#TeLA09). It included Rob Bogue (@RobBogue), Matthew McDermott (@MatthewMcD), Todd Bleeker (@ToddBleeker), Eric Shupps, Andrew Connell (@AndrewConnell), Todd Baginksi (@ToddBaginski), Maurice Prather and Scott Hillier. Some crazy pictures of the crew can be found on Rob’s blog ;-) Productivity Tools It was interesting hearing that a lot of them use different tools: V [read].
Posted: Thu, May 14th '09 |
“#IfIHadAYearAtMicrosoft I would…”, the SharePoint Product team and SharePoint 2010 migration path…
Jeremy Thake
So last night before calling it a night I decided to post a tweet: #IfIHadAYearAtMicrosoft...I would ensure #SharePoint UI was 100% W3C compliant & be able to develop remotely off the server and got a reply within an hour from @LougeFlyZ aka Chris Johnson from the SharePoint Product team headed up by Arpan Shah (@arpanshah): @jthake one year?!? You can't do these things outside of a release cycle. They effect millions of users and create back compat issues. The reason I stated those two issu [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
Perth SharePoint UG Web Cast on approaches to deploying artefacts
Jeremy Thake
I finally got round to uploading the User Group web cast where i talk about the approaches of deploying artefacts into a SharePoint environment. I discuss multiple approaches and also show the SPSource product that i have been on with @RichFinn. Check it out here: Download WMV Watch in Silverlight Player [read].
Posted: Wed, May 13th '09 |
Help the SharePoint Community out of the Twitter/Social bookmarking blur!
Jeremy Thake
After reading @JoelOleson’s latest post on how the Community has evolved I thought I’d raise some ideas to save all of our time ;-) As we’re all very busy people! The main reasons I use Twitter is: to discover new people in the community talking about twitter…and discover their blog…and subscribe to their RSS feed to try and answer peoples’ questions around SharePoint to ask questions to the SharePoint community to hear the SharePoint news before it even hits blog posts to promote m [read].
Posted: Sat, May 9th '09 |
SharePoint MVPs vs SharePoint Knights
Jeremy Thake
So the title got your attention, @JoelOleson posted quite a controversial post (in my opinion) today proposing a new group be setup called the SharePoint Knights. You can read about it and then come back to this post asI have put my thoughts down in this post. Why do we need this group? Being extremely blunt, the reason it appears this is needed is because the SharePoint MVP group does not award everyone who ‘deserves to be acknowledged’ due to various political reasons. The MVP Award is run [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
SPSource v1.0.0.0 Released!
Jeremy Thake
SPSource will reverse engineer: Site Columns, Content Types, Modules (Master Pages, Page Layouts, CSS Files, XSLT Files, etc.) and new List Templates functionality in your existing Solution Package Visual Studio Project structure. It will also automatically add entries into your existing Feature file (feature.xml) to include these entries providing a completely automated process. Why use it over VSeWSS Solution Generator? Solution Generator uses a different approach to reverse engineer List Tem [read].
Posted: Mon, May 4th '09 |
SharePoint Implementation Environment Survey – Please complete it
Jeremy Thake
Thought I’d post this so that those of you not in the Twitterverse don’t miss out ;-) I have created a survey quickly in my lunch break yesterday…and was quite impressed with the flow of it and beta tested it with a few guys: Andrew Cox (Readify) and Kristian Kalsing. I put it live pretty soon after that and am humbled by how many people have re-tweeted and given positive feedback. The survey tries to focus on what tools you have in your toolbox as well as how you configure your SharePoint [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 22nd '09 |
‘The password specified for the username account is invalid’ on Install of SharePoint
Jeremy Thake
I had an issue today when specifying the details for the specific content access account e.g. the Farm Account as specified in the MSDN guidance. Now according to the documentation SharePoint should provision all the necessary privileges for the Farm Account, but it didn’t! Having a look at the event viewer showed the error below: After looking around on the web, basically the client had some Group Policy for server machines that took off some default things. One of these was affecting the [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 22nd '09 |
SPSource Webcast: Reverse engineer Lists to ListTemplates and much more
Jeremy Thake
Rich Finn released SPSource on CodePlex a while ago…something very similar to what I had on my mind to do, because of seeing how poorly VSeWSS Solution Generator reverse engineered Lists to ListTemplates (another post to explain this). You could use other tools to reverse engineer Content Types and Site Columns, but it meant a lot of cut and pasting. SPSource takes all that away and even updates your feature.xml files and creates you element manifest files too! It supports WSPBuilder and STSD [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 14th '09 |
The Essential SharePoint RSS Feeds to follow and how I manage my reading
Jeremy Thake
So I’ve been reading over 450+ feeds for the best part of 2 years now and have come up with a system to ensure that I always get round to the essential ones. When I discover a feed it goes in the ‘SharePoint X’ bucket. I have 3 other buckets ‘SharePoint Priority 1’, ‘SharePoint Priority 2’ and ‘SharePoint Priority 3’. I ensure that I always every day keep up to date with the 1’s and without fail by the end of the week clear 2’s and 3’s. Then X’s I read whenever I get [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 10th '09 |
Site Definition Issues - File or arguments not valid for site template 'CustomPortalTemplate#0'
Jeremy Thake
I’ve recently had to finally take a look at Site Definitions after always taking the approach of creating a blank site and using Features to build up a site. 03/31/2009 20:32:52.05 Quest.PowerGUI.ScriptEditor.exe (0x102C) 0x11B0 Windows SharePoint Services General 8e27 Medium Ensuring module folder _catalogs/masterpage 03/31/2009 20:32:52.13 Quest.PowerGUI.ScriptEditor.exe (0x10 [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 31st '09 |
SharePoint Development with Unit Testing webcast
Jeremy Thake
[Cross Post] The web cast is up for last nights user group on SharePoint Development with Unit Testing and here a few links discussed in it to: web cast SharePointDevWiki.com Unit Testing Jeremy Thake's blog (wss.made4the.net) Unit testing sharepoint 2007applications SharePoint Guidance (P&P team) TDD - Eric Shupps - Binary Wave Thanks for those of you who turned up last night and thanks for those who had our first Perth SharePint too! Next meeting we have Paul Culmsee talking about [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 25th '09 |
SharePoint WCM at Western Australia Tourism Part 2 Web cast
Jeremy Thake
[Cross Posted] As promised, I have encoded the presentation that Michael Hanes presented this afternoon and is available for your viewing pleasure. WEBCAST Click here if IFRAME doesn't show A big thanks again for Michael doing the presentation today! Please remember that there is a SharePoint Development with Unit Testing presentation on next Wednesday at 17:30 at Microsoft HQ in QV. The PDF slides to accompany this video with notes provided is here. [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 17th '09 |
New SharePoint Development User Group in the evening
Jeremy Thake
[Cross Posted] I'd like to thank Domenic Chiera from Microsoft for allowing us to run another User Group meeting on the last Wednesday of every month at the Microsoft Offices. These meetings will be targetted purely at SharePoint Developers, with a strict rule of "Visual Studio only" presentations. Based on feedback, Developers prefer attending after work rather than at lunchtime. It also means us Developers can go for a pint at afterwards, so ensure you have the pink slip from the better half ; [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 16th '09 |
Issues from the field: SharePoint Development Environment Limitations
Jeremy Thake
There has been some debate on the OzMoss List Serve here in Australia regarding the inability to develop with SharePoint on an XP/Vista machine properly. The reason for this requirement by so many people is because of the controls put in place by organisation dictating that Developers HAVE to use an SOE workstation and typically these are locked down to XP/Vista and only have 2Gb RAM. Common Steps in the Process Admin Rights The first battle for developers within these organisations is trying [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 25th '09 |
jQuery: the SharePoint Band Aid
Jeremy Thake
Ok, so now I've got your attention you eager beaver SharePoint End Users...Power Users...etc. I thought I'd just put a few things out there from the other side of the fence! So there's lots of hype around jQuery and SharePoint on various resources such as EndUserSharePoint.com and some of my other personal SharePoint Developer heroes: Joel Oleson, Jan Tielens, Waldek Mastykarz, Nick Swan, Paul Grenier (aka AutoSponge) and David Kitchen. There is a great summary post on jQuery here by Vedant Kuls [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 23rd '09 |
The Ultimate SharePoint Development Tool and the new release of VSeWSS 1.3 CTP and STSDev 2008 v2.0
Jeremy Thake
I've been tweeting lately on SharePoint Development tools and @MattBremer kindly pointed out that STSDev 2008 v2.0 was released last week. What is STSDev? STSDev codeplex project originally started by the Ted Pattison Group David Mann is currently the lead on this although there have been no updates for a long time. STSDev v1.3 is a stable product which is widely used across the community, along with WSPBuilder. I won't repeat what has been compared already on the Wiki (definately worth a read! [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 23rd '09 |
VSeWSS 1.3 CTP - why does it require SQL access?
Jeremy Thake
So the new VSeWSS 1.3 CTP creates a Web Application to host a WCF web service. Nice to see the SharePoint Development Product team playing with new technology. In my experience of installing it into a Development environment where I follow Least Priviledged installation approach recommended by Microsoft I found that you'll receive an error when trying to Package any VSeWSS Project in Visual Studio 2008: Error 1 VSeWSS Service Error: Assembly C:\Documents and Settings\admin\My Documents\Visual S [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 22nd '09 |
How we did WA.com with SharePoint WCM - Perth SharePoint User Group February Presentation Web Cast
Jeremy Thake
Cross Posted here It's great to finally get round to posting up a webcast of our Perth User Group for those that couldn't make it either due to living the other side of the World or being flat out at work! I spent the best part of the flight over to Sydney syncing the PowerPoint slides to the voice recording I made. I've watched through it and it's a great presentation to keep referring back to if you are dealing with WCM! Thanks again to Michael Hanes for presenting last week! Great j [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 21st '09 |
Some advice for SharePoint Community Bloggers to up their game!
Jeremy Thake
I've noticed that there are plenty of bloggers out there that don't have a few social networking tools hooked up as well as some obvious tweaks. This will not only encourage more traffic to their own blog but also help the community to spread the word! So here goes: Full Posts in RSS Feed Don't cut your posts to summary fields in RSS feeds. If people want to pull down all the communities posts to read on a plane or car journey etc. If they are offline...they won't be able to see all your content [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 21st '09 |
SharePoint Link Love 21-Feb-2009
Jeremy Thake
Understanding SharePoint: List Forms « SharePoint Internals - Hristo Pavlov’s Blog Custom code with SharePoint Online and Windows Azure Why Your Vendor Screwed Up Your SharePoint Project - Elumenotion Blog Performance, Scalabilty and Architecture - Java and .NET Application Performance Management (dynaTrace Blog) » SharePoint: Performance Problem with LookupField Control SharePoint Backup and Restore Strategies WebCast Deck, with Q and A - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land SharePoi [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 21st '09 |
SharePoint Link Love 20-Feb-2009
Jeremy Thake
Kristian Kalsing: EP/MOSS portal technology strategies SharePoint and TDD – The other view | Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP Sending alerts to groups in Sharepoint 2007 « Gavin’s Sharepoint Blog SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part One - Eric Shupps Simple SCRUM with SharePoint 2007 and Outlook 2007 in Agile Product Development « Vontlin’s SharePoint Tip #15. Do you know “that users in SharePoint groups affect crawling performance [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 20th '09 |
The SharePoint Implementation Market needs to grow up!
Jeremy Thake
We've all watched the industry make the most of the "SharePoint boom" that Microsoft has created by releasing SharePoint 2007 in 2006. This led to various problems in the market surrounding the product. How did this unravel? significant issues in the initial RTM release no governance up front by Microsoft on how to implement solutions on top of SharePoint immature SharePoint Solution Integrators (SI's) who implemented poor solutions slightly more experienced SI's going in and patching up the [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 16th '09 |
SharePoint Community Content - Where to find it
Jeremy Thake
Blogs / RSS Feeds I am subscribed to over 500 active SharePoint blogs from around the World and try and ensure that I keep up with my reading on these on a daily if not weekly basis (depending on how busy I am). I find this is the only way to keep up with developments within the community. There are some blogs that constantly produce awesome content and I have had to start prioritising which blogs I definitely keep up with every day over those that I try and cover in my spare time in front of t [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 15th '09 |
SharePoint Link Love 07-Feb-09
Jeremy Thake
Now available: 0.2.4.0 alpha for Orcas RTM - LINQ to SharePoint SPDiag Tool Released - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog VSeWSS 1.3 CTP Feedback and Feature Requests - Corey Roth - DotNetMafia.com - Tip of the Day Site Life Cycle Management V2 .. Why V2? - Robin | zevenseas | SharePoint Blog Download details: Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training Adding a file to a document library with meta data - Thinking out aloud - Dave Hunter's SharePoint Blog LINQ for SharePoint Looks Promis [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 7th '09 |
FREE Technical Training by Readify in Perth, WA
Jeremy Thake
February RDN | Perth Wednesday 25 February, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Cliftons, Australia Place, Corner St Georges Terrace & William Street, Perth ReadiPrimer* Topic: ‘UX: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly’ Presented by Quinten Miller, Senior Consultant – Readify In this ReadiPrimer session, Quinten Miller will identify common UX faux pas and how to best avoid them. He will discuss design guidelines that will assist you in producing a consistent UX and highlight the new tools and work hab [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 6th '09 |
SharePoint Link Love 02/05/2009
Jeremy Thake
Eric Kraus' SharePoint/.NET Blog : Filter SharePoint Event Log Entries Demystifying SharePoint CSS Links - Elumenotion Blog Sharepoint Training: Sharepoint Portal Server Training Kristian Kalsing: Positioning SharePoint against competing products Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007 Two SharePoint Experts in a Room -- Can they agree? - Robert Bogue [MVP] Making external repositories work like document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (and a cool e [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 5th '09 |
SharePoint Search and Longitude - Perth SharePoint User Group
Jeremy Thake
Clinton Cherry presented at the Perth SharePoint User Group on Tuesday and has kindly put up the slides from the lunchtime meeting. Unfortunately I couldn't make it as I have been on a Australia Institute of Management (AIM): Training and Assessment course to sharpen my skills some more for the SharePoint Development Training I run! Had a great time, lots of stuff to share with my readers on this in the next few weeks! I have not had any experience with Longitude yet, but am interested to see pe [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 25th '09 |
Threat Modelling in the Software Development Lifecycle - Upcoming Security Presentation in Perth
Jeremy Thake
A fellow SharePoint Consultant in Perth mentioned that there is an inaugural presentation, jointly organized by Australian Information Security Association (AISA) and Open Web Application Security Project OWASP, being held in Perth for free at The Ernst & Young Building, 11 Mounts Bay Road at 5.15pm on 5th February 2009. If you are interested please RSVP to perth@aisa.org.au. More information can be found here. Please note this is scheduled on the same night as the .NET User Group, not the [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 25th '09 |
SharePoint Unit Testing Guidance and SharePoint Dev Wiki progress!
Jeremy Thake
If any of you follow my Twitter feed you would notice that I've been having various discussions with SharePoint people regarding Unit Testing, Mocking and Test Driven Development (TDD). Andrew Woodward (@21Apps) is the leader in the SharePoint TDD field by a long way. I wanted to get some stuff up on the wiki to try and give another angle to this and also leverage the power of the wiki to let people collaborate on the pages and see it grow over time. Please check out the pages. There are externa [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 15th '09 |
Perth SharePoint User Group on BA-Insight's Longitude
Jeremy Thake
Clinton Cherry will be presenting at the Perth SharePoint User group on the 20th January 2009 at 12:30 at Microsoft in QV1 Building. Clinton will be talking about his experiences with BA-Insights Longitude for SharePoint 2007 which is a Seach add-on for the Platform. "'Longitude' is a third party product by BA Insight which extends SharePoint's search capabilities to deliver document page previews, relevance optimization, parametric navigation, enhanced sorting and a number of other additional f [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 12th '09 |
SharePoint December Cumulative Update Error and Resolution
Jeremy Thake
Error I ran the CU on my Development Environment and had some errors in my Logs! Central Admin was working fine, but my Web Application wasn't. Action 12.1.5.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSearchDatabaseSequence failed. And my web application in IE showed this error: Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96177 I found this on TeEchNet with "This is a bug in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007". But no explanation whether SP1, Infrastructure Updates or Cumulative Updates [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 21st '08 |
My SharePoint Development Best Practices SharePointPodShow Interview is live!
Jeremy Thake
Last month I was interviewed by Rob Foster from the SharePointPodShow and we discussed SharePoint Development Best Practices. It was great fun discussing my experiences and back then SharePointDevWiki.com was just a twinkle in my eye! I recommend that you hook these guys up to your iTunes if only to hear my cheery english accent mixed with some aussie slurs! LOL I discuss my 8 part series Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 16th '08 |
SharePointDevWiki making great progress!
Jeremy Thake
Thanks to everyone that has contributed to the SharePointDevWiki already. It's made great progress since being launched with over 4000 page views and just under 200 page edits already! Check out the activity for yourself here! I've set up a new page on how to support the SharePointDevWiki and would really appreciate it if like minded Developers would add the badge to the site using the code allocated. This will probably change over time as I get a designer to have a look at so reference the one [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 14th '08 |
SharePointDevWiki.com comes alive
Jeremy Thake
Don't take my word for it....check out the new site! As promised I have managed to pull some strings and get a Atlassian Confluence license and also some hosting space on Tatham Oddie's boxes. Please feel free to submit your comments on the proposed approaches to the content on this wiki...its a community affair after all! Please spread the word on this site by every means possible! Rather than build the structure and populate the content I really wanted to get people involved at the early step [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 3rd '08 |
Where to draw the line between SharePoint Customisation and SharePoint Development
Jeremy Thake
I was recently on a client site where they have spent the best part of a year going through the process of making the decision and getting approval to purchase Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition. Part of that presales process actually included attending one of my discussions on Enterprise 2.0 along the lines of "Facebook for the Enterprise" with a 15 minute segment at the end that demonstrated what MOSS 2007 had out of the box that could be used. There seemed to be a larg [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 26th '08 |
The SharePoint Development Community need our help!
Jeremy Thake
As any seasoned SharePoint Developers will point out, SharePoint has come along way in the Development journey since it's beginnings in 2001 to what it is today. It has still got a long way to go for a variety of reasons, some of which I have covered in my 8 part series. vNext Hype There is much hype surrounding Visual Studio 2010 starting to be spun by Microsoft after PDC with regards for its native support for SharePoint Development. This does indeed look like a great step from what is availab [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 25th '08 |
TypeMock Isolator for SharePoint Announced
Jeremy Thake
Testing SharePoint was always an issue, because SharePoint has number of classes that are sealed and/or does not have public constructors. SharePoint's API consists heavily of sealed classes and classes with internal constructors. None of existed unit-testing frameworks provided ability to mock such classes.
Guys from TypeMock (http://www.typemock.com) did fantastic work, providing really powerful framework to mock such classes, which were not covered with existed frameworks, like RhinoMock and [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 24th '08 |
Shared Services Provider Provisioning Failure
Jeremy Thake
I'm building a completely new farm with all the latest patches and when I create the SSP it lets me create individual Application Pools for MySites and the SSP itself and I can confirm creation which gives me the lovely spinning icon: And it just sits there for 10 minutes...I didn't want to clos ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 12th '08 |
WARNING: Joining a SharePoint Farm with updates already installed
Jeremy Thake
1: 11/12/2008 10:00:40 8 INF Creating connection string for config db SharePoint_Config server SOMSQL01\SQLMOSS
2: 11/12/2008 10:00:40 8 INF Creating connection string for admin content db SharePoint_AdminContent_c6 ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 12th '08 |
MCP Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Jeremy Thake
So the SharePoint Team Blog announced two new certifications around SharePoint. The Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and the Microsoft Certified Architect. Resources We were having discussions internally about this at Readify just today and what we look for in an individual. There was hot debate a ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 11th '08 |
SharePoint Development Tools future and give them your opinion!
Jeremy Thake
New Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development tools were announced at TechEd EMEA last week. Paul Andrew discusses what features will be available. You can actually provide feedback on the current Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 v1.2 at the Visual Studio Gallery site wh ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 11th '08 |
SharePoint Developer Resources not to be missed! Not just a repeat announcement of SharePoint Guidance ;-)
Jeremy Thake
SharePoint Guidance : P&P The new SharePoint Guidance was released last week. There's a whole CodePlex source control project that covers how the team have implemented particular areas Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. They have taken a Contoso scenario to show how the solution could be im ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 10th '08 |
Developing a InfoPath Solution using a Solution Package
Jeremy Thake
I've had a request from @julioc for my Solution package that deploys: Site Collection Feature InfoPath Form Automatically to Central Administration Forms Templates Site Feature InfoPath Form Library Provi ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 8th '08 |
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Surveys and Mobile Limitation
Jeremy Thake
So I had a SharePoint Bat Phone call today about a client of Readify's that had created a Survey in WSS 3.0 with two simple questions and wanted it to be viewed on a Windows Mobile Device. They were aware that SharePoint had a out of the box Mobile view of all it's pages. It's one of the top 10 reas ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 6th '08 |
SharePoint Link bait
Jeremy Thake
So I've noticed a few people now are starting to post their favourite daily/weekly links: Michael Gannotti EndUserSharePoint.com Steve Pietrek Bamboo There's also a community one called SharePointPedia that Lawrence Liu tried to get running but I think with the ease of some of the other tools o ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 3rd '08 |
SharePoint Development Best Practices Presentation
Jeremy Thake
I ran my SharePoint Development Best Practices Presentation at the Readify RDN session last night in Perth, Australia. Thanks for the 60+ attendees that turned up to hear me and Hadley Willan present. I have published my slides online and sample code for you to look at if you couldn't make it, or if ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 31st '08 |
InfoPath Form Services: Manage Form Templates stuck on Installing
Jeremy Thake
I was having an issue with a InfoPath Form I had deployed wrapped up in a Solution Feature that just wouldn't budge from a FormTemplateStatus of "Installing". I tried deleting it in the UI in Central Administration and also via STSADM and get the old chestnut of 'Object Reference not set t ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 28th '08 |
InfoPath Form Services error message
Jeremy Thake
I've built a clean MOSS development environment deployed an InfoPath form using Sahil Malik's technique of wrapping it up in a feature and leveraging the Receiver Class. Works great. It seems to register the form as a fully trusted form. I then add the generated content type (same name as form) to ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 28th '08 |
Microsoft Office activation
Jeremy Thake
So I had some fun today with Microsoft Office and having to ring up to activate the product as it was hosted in a Virtualised Machine and the host was my new Tablet PC. I couldn't activate online as it didn't like doing this over a proxy that requires authentication! When I rang and read out the ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 27th '08 |
Perth Special Event - Tag Driven Information – Customising the Document Information Panel in Office
Jeremy Thake
I'm really looking forward to finally getting to meet William Cornwill (aka CodeJedi) when he presents in two weeks for our Perth SharePoint User Group! Should be really good to see him show off the deep integration in Word 2007 with SharePoint! Would strongly advise all spectrums of the SharePoint ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 22nd '08 |
Readify SharePoint RDN RSVPs at 75! and 45+ at Perth SharePoint User Group!
Jeremy Thake
Wow, we've got over 75 people registered for the Readify RDN on SharePoint! I'm really pleased with this response and am looking forward to the discussions over a pizza and a beer afterwards on my presentation and Hadley Wilan's also. If you're not registered yet and can make 17:30 in Perth on the ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 22nd '08 |
Noticed a drop in my RSS subscriptions
Jeremy Thake
I've noticed a bit of a dive in RSS feed subscriptions and think it is because I was interleaving my diigo social book marking in there. I've deactivated this feature, but if you are still interested in what I'm bookmarking...please take a look at my extensive collection which I update as I read thr ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 22nd '08 |
SharePoint Podcasts - Start listening!
Jeremy Thake
I was extremely dubious at first with the whole podcast scene, I'd rather read about it than listen to someone discuss it. But recently I moved closer to the city here in Perth, Australia and walk to work and have found myself listening to some podcasts. I have found them extremely informative and a ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 22nd '08 |
Perth SharePoint gurus getting kudos in the big pond
Jeremy Thake
So I woke up this morning and saw a great set of tweets between Joel Oleson and Arno Nel (of SharePointMagazine.net). These mentioned both myself and Paul Culmsee as people to watch in SharePoint space, which is a great honour as I have a lot of respect for all three of these guys! Made my weekend! ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 11th '08 |
SharePointMagazine.net: Leveraging the SharePoint Platform (Part 3)
Jeremy Thake
Arno Nel has just published my latest article on SharePointMagazine.net please go and check it out and let me know what you think! Starting to write the next one already which will also coincide with my RDN presentation at the end of the month! [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 7th '08 |
Limitations of SharePoint Wikis
Jeremy Thake
I was at a client site yesterday and they wanted to set up a Wiki. Now I knew from reading various posts over my time that they weren't as great as some of the open source wikis out there. For me, Wikis certainly are a "tick in the box" as I discussed in my articles on SharePointMagazine.n ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 7th '08 |
Free Readify RDN Perth Presentation by yours truly
Jeremy Thake
I'll be stepping up onto the Readify pedestal on the 29th October to present 'SharePoint Development Best Practices'. After the presentation we'll be uploading our slides for those who can't make the Perth event. Hadley Wilan will be priming the audience and I'll be going into depth on SharePoint De ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 7th '08 |
Microsoft SharePoint ISV Partner Ecosystem
Jeremy Thake
I was amazed at the amount of ISV's in the SharePoint marketplace that I hadn't heard of. I am subscribed to well over 300 SharePoint Blogs and thought I was covering enough SharePoint ground, but clearly there a few lurking in the darkness. I didn't actually make it to the Australian TechEd this y ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 4th '08 |
Perth gets it's first SharePoint MVP - Sezai Komur
Jeremy Thake
Congratulations to Sezai Komur out at Ignia. Sezai has presented a few times now at our Perth SharePoint User Group and specialises in Web Content Management Systems on top of both Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
Sezai wrote an ex ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 3rd '08 |
Perth User Group Meeting: Presenting external data sources using SharePoint Business Data Catalogue (BDC) and SQL Reporting Services.
Jeremy Thake
It's the first month I've put my hand up to help with the Perth User Group with organisation. I've presented a few times in the past and I've managed to convince (bribe with beer) my good friend Richard Greene to present. He will be talking about "Presenting external data sources using ShareP ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 2nd '08 |
Best Practices for deploying to the 12 HIVE
Jeremy Thake
I've had yet more discussions in the office about best practices, this time referring to deploying to the 12 Hive. Here are some hard and fast rules. Don't modify out of the box (OOTB) files There's always a way around modifying OOTB files...even if it does mean selling a extra step to ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 26th '08 |
SharePoint Site Templates VS. Solution Features
Jeremy Thake
I've been putting a few development standards together recently to drive the way things are done in a SharePoint development environment. One of the discussions that introduced discussion was Site Templates. Site Templates can be created from the Web User Interface or SharePoint Designer. A Site T ... (More) [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 26th '08 |
SharePoint + Silverlight = ?
Jeremy Thake
I attended the Perth SharePoint User Group meeting today kindly presented by Young Oh of ReachPoint title "SharePoint + Silverlight = ?". Young covered: Silverlight – What, How, and Why? Silverlight for SharePoint – extending SharePoint capabilities with Silverlight SharePoint fo ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 17th '08 |
SharePointMagazine.net: Leveraging the SharePoint Platform (Part 2)
Jeremy Thake
So I've posted the second part in my series on SharePointMagazine.net. Big thanks goes out to Richard Greene and Ryan Liu for reviewing my post before I submitted it to Arno Nell's online magazine. Looking forward to some great debates that hopefully are triggered from me putting my thoughts on Qu ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 2nd '08 |
SharePoint is not all of the problem, it's People too!
Jeremy Thake
I have been writing an article for Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net and have been repeating some things I've said in User Groups over the last two years of working with SharePoint 2007. The biggest thing for me is how oversold SharePoint 2007 is as a solution, for example, how Organisations can ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 31st '08 |
SharePoint Error: HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close
Jeremy Thake
Had this little error recently and thought I'd blog about it just incase anyone goes Googling for options on resolving it. HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:40:55 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.6039 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET In my cas ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 26th '08 |
Readify SharePoint Training in Perth, Australia
Jeremy Thake
Since arriving in Perth Readify have noticed the strong demand for SharePoint services locally and have reacted quickly to this market need. Readify have brought me onboard as their SharePoint Senior Consultant as of the 1st September so Readify can better address the SharePoint consulting demand lo ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 21st '08 |
First Article on SharePointMagazine.net: Leveraging the SharePoint Platform
Jeremy Thake
Arno Nell has published my first of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. Have a read and let me know what you think! [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 14th '08 |
Joining the Perth Readify Team!
Jeremy Thake
I've just accepted a position as a Senior Consultant at Readify and will be located here in Perth. I'm really excited about the role and having the chance to work alongside people I have respected in the industry for a long time: Mitch Denney, Joe Sango, Paul Stovell, Paul Glavich, Chris Burrows, Pe ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 6th '08 |
Error: Failed to compare two elements in the array
Jeremy Thake
I tried to do an stsadm -o export today on our Production farm and got this lovely error: [7/28/2008 11:53:56 AM]: FatalError: Failed to compare two elements in the array. at System.Collections.Generic.ArraySortHelper`1.QuickSort[TValue](T[] keys, TValue[] values, Int32 left, Int32 right, IC ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 28th '08 |
SharePoint MSDN Forums and SharePoint Community Trends
Jeremy Thake
I'm really impressed with the new forums that have been migrated to MSDN Forums v3.0, changes are listed here. One thing to note is the "proposed answer" functionality which I think will help people mark answers easier than the last interface. Of interest was the fact that the SharePoint ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 24th '08 |
Perth SharePoint User Group Presentation Slide Deck: SharePoint Governance
Jeremy Thake
Thanks for those who braved the rain to come and listen to my presentation on SharePoint Governance. I've uploaded the slide deck here. Some of the key areas that came up during the talk I've noted below: SharePoint Designer is the Evil I've mentioned it before, but I finding it's dangerou ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 16th '08 |
Perth SharePoint User Group Presentation
Jeremy Thake
I'll be doing a presentation at lunchtime in Microsoft's Perth office on Tuesday 15th July 2008 at 12:30 for the Perth SharePoint User Group. Last months presentation by Sezai pulled a big audience and he has put his presentations up on the User Group web site. My presentation will be on the articl ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 13th '08 |
Approved Page Layouts not showing in PublishingWeb
Jeremy Thake
Had a "great" morning this morning involving releasing to our SharePoint 2007 Production environment which has been in place for nearly 18 months now - 6 server farm. Our UAT environment was built by myself last month which "matches" Production as closely as possible in terms s ... (More) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 12th '08 |
Solution Development for SharePoint 2007 Part 8
Jeremy Thake
OK, so there's plenty of hype at the moment for ASP.NET developers to "leverage the platform"...being SharePoint and a really flash (I mean silverlight) interface for them to click around on with the title "Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint". This made me cringe after the ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 9th '08 |
Solution Development for SharePoint 2007 Part 7
Jeremy Thake
"Event Receivers and Page Creation" In the last week or so I've been doing a lot of work with creating pages with content on it automatically based on event receivers firing when items are created on Lists. To follow on with the TV show Schedule scenario when a new schedule is created, I ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 8th '08 |
Solution Development for SharePoint 2007 Part 6
Jeremy Thake
So far I've shown you guys how to deploy web parts and add them to pages with all of the related files. What I haven't shown you is how to deploy these things in a UAT or Production environment where STSDEV in Visual Studio won't be available.
So how should it be done? Well there are a few approach ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 7th '08 |
Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 5
Jeremy Thake
So the next part in my series will basically show you how to deploy a Content By Query Web Part (CQWP) and also it's associated elements. The screenshot below shows the structure of my project file now. The Solution package can be downloaded here.
Deploying the Content By Query Web Part
... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 7th '08 |
Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 4
Jeremy Thake
Adding extra assemblies to your Solution
Just had to post about this because it's been driving me crazy. I've got various Solutions now that have been built using STSDEV 1.3 in Visual Studio 2008. There are common classes I've been using and was scratching my head to get the dll to deploy with the ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 7th '08 |
Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 3
Jeremy Thake
As promised I've uploaded the 3rd webcast to show how Chapter 3 is implemented. I've also posted the sample code below for you guys to pick and chose as you please. Click here to watch the webcast. The .zip of the solution can be downloaded here too.
Site Collection Feature.xml [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 4th '08 |
Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 3
Jeremy Thake
As promised I've uploaded the 3rd webcast to show how Chapter 3 is implemented. I've also posted the sample code below for you guys to pick and chose as you please. Click here to watch the webcast. The .zip of the solution can be downloaded here too.
Site Collection Feature.xml [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 4th '08 |
Solution Development in SharePoint 2007 Part 2
Jeremy Thake
"Previously on 'Prison Break'...I mean 'Solution Packages for Developers'"
My blog got quite a few extra visitors over the last couple of days since writing about SharePoint Development and "doing things the right way". A few people have been giving me "gentle" and ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 3rd '08 |
Solution Development in SharePoint 2007
Jeremy Thake
I was scouring over my feed reader this morning and came across this post on the MSDN forums asking:"Any one please give me a step by step implementation of deploying a SharePoint application...(Modifying the SharePoint website content and deploying it to the SharePoint server)?"
Now, ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, May 26th '08 |
Leveraging the Platform
Jeremy Thake
I attended the Perth SharePoint User Group today and we were lucky enough to have Andrew Coates (Microsoft Developer Evangelist) presenting. Before I begin, I'd just like to say what an amazing presenter Andrew is and that hopefully one day people will say those things about me when I'm out Evange ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, May 21st '08 |
Empower Users to manage Workflow (Part 1)
Jeremy Thake
I've repeatedly stated that there are certain areas of the SharePoint 2007 stack that are not true Enterprise level features. Workflow is one of them and various other bloggers and reports have stated this, my research links are a testimony to this.
I believe Microsoft have confused the SharePoi ... (More) [read].
Posted: Sun, May 18th '08 |
How to prevent derailing SharePoint
Jeremy Thake
I've read Paul Culmsee's articles with great interest on Project Failure and will be helping him continue his series in the next few days on Development Failures. Joel Olsen, SharePoint God, also has found keen interest in it and has written some of his own experiences with it.
It's interesting ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, May 7th '08 |
SharePoint and Service Desks - Organisational Responsibilities
Jeremy Thake
I attended a great Information Management morning in Perth last week and bumped into a fair few clients that I had engaged with in my previous Pre Sales role working for a Solution Integrator before moving to the dark side working internally in a SharePoint team.
One of the guys asked me a questi ... (More) [read].
Posted: Mon, May 5th '08 |
SharePoint 2007 SSP User Profile Import Connections Limitations
Jeremy Thake
The organisation I am working for at the moment has an Active Directory set up of Users and Contacts.
Running a ldifde query to output all Users and Contacts (below) provides me a list of 936 items.
ldifde -f usersindomain.csv -r "(&(objectCategory=Person)(|(objectClass=User)(objectCla ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 23rd '08 |
The description for Event ID ( 27745 ) in Source ( Windows SharePoint Services 3 ) cannot be found
Jeremy Thake
Got a beauty of an error on our Production farm every few seconds:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: General
Event ID: 27745
Date: 23/04/2008
Time: 9:23:24 AM
User: ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 22nd '08 |
Errors when deploying Software Updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Jeremy Thake
These errors are mentioned on the Deploy Software Updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 right down the bottom.
The Error
Finding Cause
Look in the linked log and search for 'ERR' matching case.
04/16/2008 16:37:17 6 ERR Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Faile ... (More) [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 16th '08 |
Server X does not have any search query servers associated with it to serve queries
Jeremy Thake
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Posted: Wed, Apr 16th '08 |
Shared Services Provider: The operation completed successfully...but didn't
Jeremy Thake
I was configuring a User Profiles and Properties Import Connection today and kicked off a Full Crawl.
As you can see from the above screen it states 'The operation completed successfully'...but it did not obviously crawl my entire domain as there are only 4 user profiles.
I viewed the Imp ... (More) [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 15th '08 |
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