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Blog Title JOPX on SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 and Windows Phone 7
Blog Description Occasional rantings about SharePoint all the way - SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services,... as well as the SPS 2003 old school stuff. SharePoint architect by day - Windows Phone Developer by night
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Export timephased ( or timescaled) project data to Excel from MS Project 2010 with visual reports
Joris Peolmans
In MS Project 2003 you had a separate button – Analyze Timescaled Data in Excel, for those of you who are looking for this functionality in MS Project 2010 – take a look at the new Visual Reports feature in 2010. Tags van Technorati: Excel,MSProject,Microsoft [read].
Posted: about 15 hours ago.
The surprising truth about using [Today] in SharePoint 2010 Filters–showing items from the last 7 days
Joris Peolmans
When you want to show the items created in the last 7 days in a specific SharePoint view you need to keep two things in mind: Make sure that you remove spaces from the filter value – otherwise you will get “Filter value is not in a supported date format” – so “[Today]-7” works but “[Today] – 7” will not work Apparently the “[Today]” parameter is MUI aware – so when you creating a formula with Dutch as language you have to use [Vandaag] (For more about MUI check out Multi [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 30th '12
Book Review–Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook
Joris Peolmans
The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook is  an excellent book which is aimed specifically at getting things done in SharePoint without requiring development or hardcore administration skills. And I must say I like it.  This book is a must have reference guide for business power users who use SharePoint in their daily job but don’t need to know all the background about how SharePoint exactly works from a system perspective. It is however also very useful for SharePoint admi [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 26th '12
Microsoft Business Ready Security Trial Environment
Joris Peolmans
The Microsoft Business Ready Security trial environment contains an interesting set of VJDs that you can use to evaluate protection, access, management and identity technologies from Microsoft as a pre-configured set of VHDs and is using the following products: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange/Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint/Forefront Protection for Server Management Console Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Forefront Threat Management Gateway 20 [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 26th '12
My favorite 5 sessions for TechDays 2012 Belgium
Joris Peolmans
You smell that? Do you smell that? New technologies, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of new technologies in the morning… (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now) . Yep, TechDays 2012 is coming near, so don’t forget to register – there are still some seats available. If you don’t know what to choose, check out my list of favorite sessions below: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Better Together HTML5 Quick Start SharePoi [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 23rd '12
Wondering how companies are using SharePoint?
Joris Peolmans
Are you wondering how other companies are using SharePoint Server 2010? Then you definitely need to take a look at these different surveys which were conducted in 2010 and 2011: How are business using SharePoint in the Enterprise (2010  - conducted by Global 360)  How are business using SharePoint in the Enterprise (2011 – followup survey from Global 360) – also check out the related slideshare presenation on State of the SharePoint market TEC Survey (Quest, 2011) SharePoint, ECM [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 23rd '12
Outlook 2010 Quick Tip – Showing week numbers
Joris Peolmans
Just a reminder to myself – Outlook 2010 makes it possible to show week numbers in Calendar View. Go to the Outlook Backstage > Options > Calendarand check Show Weeknumbers in the Month View and in the Date Navigator Tags van Technorati: Outlook2010,microsoft [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 23rd '12
Final BIWUG Session for 2012 – SharePoint 2010 Variations (Level 400)
Joris Peolmans
In order to finalize the SharePoint multilingual sessions BIWUG ( the Belux Information Worker User Group) – www.biwug.be has a special evening planned. This session will cover level 400 topics on SharePoint 2010 Variations. The following topics will be covered: concepts and internals of variations (page vs. site variations), concepts and internals of configuration, variation Timer Jobs internals, different flavors of variations (automatic, manual, different site templates, same site templates [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 13th '11
How to install SharePoint Server 2010 Language Packs on Windows 7
Joris Peolmans
When trying to install SharePoint Server 2010 Language Packs on top of Windows 7 you might receive the following error – “Setup is enable to proceed due to the following errors: this product requires Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 …” – to work around this you can use the same procedure with the language pack installation files as the one outlined for the normal SharePoint installation on Windows 7 – a great walkthrough is Setting up the Development Environment for SharePoint 2010 [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 29th '11
Quick Tip – Solving WP7 DatePicker and TimePicker missing icons problem
Joris Peolmans
To see the correct ApplicationBar icons in the DatePicker and TimePicker, you will need to create a folder in the root of your project called "Toolkit.Content" and put the icons in there. The toolkit provides the necessary icons, but you have to copy them from the PhoneToolkitSample project. They must be named "ApplicationBar.Cancel.png" and "ApplicationBar.Check.png" and the build action must be "Content"! Source: WP7 DatePicker and TimePicker in depth | API and Customization Technorati Tags: W [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 11th '11
BIWUG session about the SharePoint 2010 Multilingual User Interface on 30th of November
Joris Peolmans
  Doing a SharePoint project in a multilingual environment can be tricky. In this BIWUG session we will focus on how the new MUI (Multilingual User Interface) allows for multilingual collaboration scenarios. We will show you how MUI and the SharePoint variations framework relate to each other. Next to showing the out of the box features we will do a deep dive for developers explaining how to use the MUI framework in SharePoint custom solutions. The session will wrap up with some best practi [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 10th '11
Supporting links for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Development training Part 2
Joris Peolmans
Module 8 – Sandboxed solutions SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions – Codeplex Creating Sandboxed Solutions with SharePoint 2010 (Training video – 1:06:08 and virtual lab) Developing, Deploying and Monitoring Sandboxed solutions in SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 Generic Solution Validator How to create custom feature and package validation rules for SharePoint solutions How to create and register a sandbox proxy Module 9 – SharePoint Web Services JQuery library for SharePoint we [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 7th '11
Presenting SharePoint 2010 - to pie or not to pie?
Joris Peolmans
I recently found an interesting discussion about the SharePoint pie – to pie or not to pie?  Most of you have probably use the image depicted below in presentations to potential customers – but is that such a good idea? Here are some of my ideas about this:The SharePoint 2010 pie makes sense to talk to technical people who have worked with previous versions of SharePoint – also check out this one – Making sense of the SharePoint 2010 pieIt is probably not the pie that matters but th [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 7th '11
BIWUG on SharePoint Governance and the past, the present and the future
Joris Peolmans
BIWUG is announcing another session about SharePoint on Thursday October 27th 2011 in the Microsoft Belgium offices. Agenda 18:00-19:00 Welcome with snacks 19:00-19:15 Introduction 19:15-20:15 SharePoint Governance (Speaker Patrick Sledz): Stop thinking about features features features when talking about governance. When designing governance for a SharePoint implementation, a lot (not to say all) energy and words go out to technical stuff, SLA's and not to the things that define the business va [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 28th '11
Supporting links for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Development training Part 1
Joris Peolmans
Module 3 – Object Model Debugging and logging capabilities in SharePoint 2010 ULS Viewer tool  How to create custom SharePoint 2010 Application Pages using Visual Studio 2010 and Creating Application Pages for SharePoint and Creating a SharePoint Site Page with Code Behind using Visual Studio 2010 Using Modules to include files in the solution Module 4 – Client Object Models SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course – Client Object Model – Videos and Hands On Lab Chapter 13: [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 11th '11
BIWUG Presentation about Office 365 but mainly SharePoint Online from a technical perspective available on Slideshare
Joris Peolmans
SharePoint 2010 Online from a technical perspective View more presentations from Joris Poelmans [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 10th '11
Attaching Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Joris Peolmans
Attaching VHDs in Windows 7 works quite easily – just go to Computer Management > Disk Management. Select the Attach VHD in the Actions menu. Works like a charm.Tags van Technorati: windows+7,vhd,microsoft [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 9th '11
Solving failed to lock the file error in VMWare on booting of virtual machine
Joris Peolmans
Just delete the .lck files that you see in the VM folder and your virtual machine will boot up again nicely. Apparently these .lck files are used for locking the VM storage files (VMDK files) – in case that your virtual machine stopped unexpected – these files were not removed automatically – so it is safe to remove them manually. Tags van Technorati: vmware,lock+error,lck [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 24th '11
Next BIWUG session September 8th at RealDolmen
Joris Peolmans
BIWUG, the Belux Information Worker User Group – www.biwug.be - is announcing another session about SharePoint 2010 on Thursday September 8th 2011 in the RealDolmen Huizingen offices. Agenda 18:00-18:30 Welcome with sandwich lunch 18:30-19:30 SQL Server for SharePoint Geeks (Speaker - Thomas Vochten – @Thomasvochten). Topics: which SQL Server editions to use, configuration best practices, common misconceptions and its impact on SharePoint. 19:30-19:45 Break 19:45-20:45 Office 365 – but [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 22nd '11
SharePoint 2010 Healthcare site templates freely available for download
Joris Peolmans
For SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft made the Fabulous 40 stie templates available as sample site templates but decided not to upgrade the Fabulous 40 to 2010 although you could do it yourself. But apparently Microsoft released a new set of application templates for SharePoint in June called the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Application Templates for Health Organizations: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Application Template for Health Organizations: Request for Proposal - The Request for Proposal applica [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 11th '11
Don’t forget service pack 1 for the SharePoint language packs
Joris Peolmans
Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2010 has been released a couple of weeks ago – check out Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers and Related Products for more details. Just don’t forget to install the service packs for the language packs as well - listed below are the ones for French (just switch language for the other languages: French language pack SP1 for SharePoint Foundation 2010 French language pack SP1 for SharePoint Server 2010 So if you have language packs availa [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 9th '11
Solving the No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator error when using Powershell to modify SharePoint 2010 user profiles
Joris Peolmans
SharePoint permissions can be quite tricky – yesterday I stumbled upon an error “No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator." when trying to update SharePoint 2010 user profiles using Powershell – luckily Steve explained what was wrong “No User Profile Application Available” Mystery in SharePoint 2010. You have to configure security in 2 different places: Click the administrators button on the Service Applications page and add yoursel [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 9th '11
Installing Office Web Apps on Windows 7 not supported
Joris Peolmans
Don’t try to install Office Web Apps on Windows 7 – apparently it is not supported – check out KB2276219 – When Installing Office Web Apps you get a message “Windows Server Features or Role Services required by this product are not enabled” Technorati Tags: office+web+apps,sharepoint,sharepoint+2010,sps2010,windows+7,microsoft [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 8th '11
SharePoint data visualization with the Silverlight Pivot Viewer
Joris Peolmans
A while ago I was looking for another way to visualize large dataset from within SharePoint – a cool way to do this is using the Microsoft Silverlight Pivot Viewer (check out The Silverlight Pivot Viewer Control documentation and videos  for more background info how to use this) – a great example of this is the Top SharePoint Internet Sites liver pivot . At first I thought about writing a generic webpart myself which would load the cxml file (this is basically a specific xml format for [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 8th '11
Setting up a Windows 7 with Boot from VHD option
Joris Peolmans
After finding out that VMWare and Windows Phone 7.1 beta emulator were not very likely to work together correctly – I decided to explore the Boot from VHD option in Windows 7 so that I would create a second “portable and bootable” partition using a VHD file which would contain a clean version of Windows 7. There is a lot of interesting guidance out there but finally I decided to not go for this option give the fact that I did not want to “generalize” my own portable to build the custo [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 7th '11
Third Microsoft MVP at RealDolmen–congrats Thomas
Joris Peolmans
RealDolmen has another MVP – congrats to Thomas Vuylsteke for being awarded MVP for Identity Lifecycle Manager . Definitely check out his blog – http://setspn.blogspot.com Tags van Technorati: MVP,RealDolmen,ILM,Identity+Lifecycle+Manager,Microsoft [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 6th '11
How search suggestions work in SharePoint Server 2010
Joris Peolmans
A while ago I wrote about one of the new features for end users with SharePoint 2010 is that suggestions are provided while you are typing a search query which is commonly referred to as search suggestions in SharePoint 2010. The TechNet posting Manage query suggestions (SharePoint Server 2010) now explains how and when these suggestions are added: Query suggestions are automatically created over time for any query that has a specified number of result click-throughs. By default, a query suggest [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 6th '11
Listing features on SharePoint 2010 with Powershell
Joris Peolmans
The Get-SPFeature PowerShell cmdlet allows you to list all the features for a specific scope – to list all features installed on the farm sorted by DisplayName you use the following 1: Get-SPFeature | Sort - Property DisplayName .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 4th '11
Two little known facts about the thumbnail and PowerPoint preview feature in FAST Search Server 2010
Joris Peolmans
Two interesting facts you should be aware of with regards to the thumbnail and PowerPoint preview feature – for those of you don’t know this – take a look at the screenshot below. For Word documents a preview will be generated of the first page – for PowerPoint files you get a scrolling view of your slides.You can actually get the thumbnail and PowerPoint previews to work without having to install FAST Search Server 2010 - the API’s used for generating the thumbnails and the PowerPoin [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 2nd '11
Help – Windows Phone 7.1 Emulator crashes my VMWare Workstation
Joris Peolmans
When reading about the Integrating SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Course on MSDN – I decided to immediately start trying out some stuff. Since I have some SharePoint 2010 VM instances already setup and I have the Windows Phone 7.1 Development tools installed (the training kit is still written for Windows Phone 7.0 though) – I thought about just using this setup. Remember that you can quite easily access your SharePoint running within the VM instance from your guest by using th [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 31st '11
Integrating SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Courses available on MSDN
Joris Peolmans
This thing got me really excited – Microsoft has released a new training course on MSDN for building Windows Phone 7 apps for SharePoint 2010.  The training kit is also available as an offline training kit – both the offline and online training kit contain a number of great modules and hands on labs. Enjoy … Introduction to Windows Phone 7 development  Setting up a SharePoint and Windows Phone 7 Development environment SharePoint 2010 Mobile Web Development Enable SharePoint [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 30th '11
Deploying farm based SharePoint solutions requires access to SharePoint databases
Joris Peolmans
Something you might overlook as a SharePoint developer is the fact that when you are using STSADM commands to deploy your solution you are running under your own account context. This in contrast with actions that you perform using SharePoint central admin which will typically run under the context of the farm service account. So if you need to deploy/upgrade farm based solutions using stsadm I would typically do the following: Add your account to the local Administrators group on the SharePoin [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 28th '11
Windows Phone 7 link collection June 2011
Joris Peolmans
Leveraging your Android development expertise to build Windows Phone applications Connecting to an SSL WCF service with Windows Phone 7 Emulator Sketchflow for Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone developer certification exam on the way HTML 5 Host Application Framework for WP7 Mango Windows Phone Marketplace heading to web in Mango Windows Phone 7.1 Beta Developers Tools available Mango feature list Even more Mango features hidden in the developer tools emulator Windows Phone 7 online service [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 25th '11
Introduction to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
Joris Peolmans
MSDN Live Meeting - Introduction to FAST Search Server for SharePoint Server 2010 View more presentations from Joris Poelmans [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 25th '11
Windows Phone 7 training resources for developers
Joris Peolmans
If you are new to Windows Phone 7 development – there are tons of resources out there – here’s just a small list to get you started (it did for me …) Windows Phone Programming in C# – 8 different sections with labs,presentations, etc … about Windows Phone 7 on Faculty Resource. Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes! (Beta) Video recordings for first Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart event Series of tutorials and example applications for Windows Phone 7 based on the 31 days of Apps TekPub –Wind [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 25th '11
MSDN Forum Assistant available for download
Joris Peolmans
You can now check out MSDN Forums and receive updates directly on your desktop with the MSDN Forum Assistant. Features include Ask a Question, Latest Post, Thread Updates, Priority Support, and Forum Q&A. You can download the MSDN Forum Assistant here: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=822a3787-89e8-4c6d-8fc4-a413437d86e9 You can find more information here: MSDN Forum Assistant Web Site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-sg/gg650455 Video Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYrN [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 23rd '11
Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 for Community Day 2011 on slideshare
Joris Peolmans
Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 for Community Day 2011 View more presentations from Joris Poelmans [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 6th '11
About collaboration, innovation and organizational success
Joris Peolmans
Next are a collection of links which I came across during my little stroll on the web when going through my RSS subscriptions which were tagged as interesting reads. Lots of with background information on collaboration, social software, organizational success … and off course SharePoint. The facets of collaboration Part 1 – Meet robot barbie The facets of collaboration Part 2 – Enter the matrix! The facets of collaboration Part 3 – The feature jigsaw The facets of collaboration Part [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 6th '11
Cleaning up a rogue SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Application
Joris Peolmans
A couple of weeks ago I run into problems with a SharePoint 2010 Search SSA which apparently did not work anymore. Nothing helped to get it working again so we decided to delete it. Unfortunately doing this through the UI did not work nor did using Powershell. So we decided to just delete the associated SQL database. Afterwards I needed to remove the reference in the SSA administration screen. Luckily there is a stsadm command to do this: Stsadm -o deleteconfigurationobject -id “GUID identifyi [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 25th '11
Seven useful tips and tools for Windows Phone 7 developers
Joris Peolmans
In order to develop a Windows Phone 7 app you need to understand some design tips – definitely download the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 – before you start building you can also mock up the screens with Photoshop using the Design templates for Windows Phone 7 To easily make screenshots of your Windows Phone 7 application you can download this nifty Windows Phone Screenshot tool from Cory Smith. You don’t want to build all of the controls for your Windows Phone 7 ap [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 7th '11
Windows Phone 7 and the LongListSelector
Joris Peolmans
If you are using a Windows Phone 7 you have probably seen the elegant way that you can navigate across all of your contacts in the People Hub by using a jump list with the first letters of the names. If you are not using WP7 take a look at this YouTube video explaining the concept: If you want to use something similar yourself in your own Windows Phone 7 apps, you should take a look the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit – one of the tools you will find in there is the LongListSelector [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 6th '11
Passing information across pages in Windows Phone 7 apps
Joris Peolmans
Probably the first thing I struggled with when building my first Windows Phone 7 app – how can I pass information from one page to another – here are some links which got me started: Windows Phone 7 – Passing arguments between pages and Input scope Windows Phone 7: How to store data and pass data between pages Page Navigation and passing, sharing and retaining data in Windows Phone 7 Technorati Tags: wp7,wp7dev,windows+Phone+7,development,microsoft,silverlight [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 2nd '11
Recommended blogs for FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint
Joris Peolmans
If you want to learn something about Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint - these are the blogs I recommend to follow: FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Newly Published Content Federated FAST Keenan Newton Knut Brandrud's blog Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog Neil on SharePoint On The Search Search Unleashed Sezai's - SharePoint Server 2010 - FAST Search for SharePoint - MOSS 2007 Blog FAST Search Experts Blog SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search and FS4SP Tech and me Technorati Tags: FAST [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 2nd '11
Having problems with FAST and the Microsoft Information Worker virtual image , try creating a new certificate …
Joris Peolmans
If you want to try out FAST and SharePoint without having to do a complete install yourself you can  use the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) image – which also includes FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Don’t forget to update the certificate though because this image uses a self signed certificate which has expired – for a detailed description how to do this correctly check out remember to give your SharePoint 2010 Information Worker Vi [read].
Posted: Wed, May 25th '11
Community Day 2011 registrations are open ….
Joris Peolmans
Registrations are open for Community Day 2011  - do not hesitate to register for this whole day of technical sessions – free of charge. Registrations will be handled on a first come first serve basis – so don’t wait. There are 2 SharePoint related sessions on the agenda as well … Tags van Technorati: community+day,community,microsoft,biwug [read].
Posted: Wed, May 25th '11
Using the default property extractors in FAST and how it works with the search refinements
Joris Peolmans
Property extraction in Fast Search 2010 for SharePoint is a process that extracts information from the textual content of an item which is crawled and then adds this information into a number of crawled properties. Afterwards you map these crawled properties to SharePoint managed properties and use it in your search – within the search refiners, within the search results and even as input for sorting of your search results. FAST has a number of standard extractors shipped with the product – [read].
Posted: Wed, May 25th '11
Introductory information about FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
Joris Peolmans
I will be presenting a MSDN live meeting on Tuesday the 24th of May about FAST Search Server 2010 from a development perspective. For those of you who want to attend – it might be useful to take a look at these links beforehand – since they present an overview of what FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint allows you to build as a developer: FAST Search for SharePoint demo video Building search driven applications with FAST Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Enterprise Search [read].
Posted: Sun, May 22nd '11
BIWUG on Community Day 2011
Joris Peolmans
This year’s Microsoft Day will take place on Thursday 23th of June in Utopolis, Mechelen. Community Day is a joint effort of the 14 Belgian Microsoft user groups and brings a whole day of sessions about Microsoft technology … for free. This year BIWUG (Belux Information Worker User Group) will bring two different sessions: Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint Server 2010 Demystified. In this session we will explore how claim based authentication allows for new ways authentication, autho [read].
Posted: Sun, May 15th '11
The difference between introvert and extrovert IT person?
Joris Peolmans
Heard on Wednesday on a seminar: What is the difference between an extrovert and an introvert IT person? The extrovert IT person will be staring at your shoes instead of his own when talking to you…. Technorati Tags: fun,LOL,IT [read].
Posted: Fri, May 6th '11
MSDN Live Meeting - FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint: a developers walkthrough
Joris Peolmans
I will be presenting a MSDN live meeting on the 24th of May around at 14:00 (GMT+1) around FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint from a developers perspective. Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint extends the SharePoint search functionality and provides an exceptional search experience by incorporating features such as an extensible content processing pipeline, contextual search, extensible relevance models and an advanced query language. This session will introduce the FAST search [read].
Posted: Tue, May 3rd '11
ECM Maturity Model and SharePoint
Joris Peolmans
If you don’t know the ECM Maturity Model – definitely take a look at http://ecm3.org/about/ – they are currently at version 2.0. The ECM Maturity Model provides a framework for creating a roadmap in the context of an overall ECM strategy. It categorizes an organization across 13 maturity dimensions into one of the 5 levels of ECM maturity: Unmanaged Incipient Formative Operational Pro-active I’m wondering if anyone has already applied this model to a typical SharePoint implementation. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 2nd '11
Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update
Joris Peolmans
Just finished installing the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 update. Now off to finalize my WP7 app. Expect more news about this in the coming weeks. Technorati Tags: windows+phone+7,wp7dev,visualstudio2010,development,microsoft [read].
Posted: Mon, May 2nd '11
How to get SharePoint 2010 people search to work together with FAST Search 2010
Joris Peolmans
If you install FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint you will notice that you get some extra service applications – a FAST Query Search Service Application and a FAST Content Search Service Application. The people search is actually handled by the FAST Query Search Service Application – so this is where you need to do some extra configurations: Go to Central Admin and click Manage Service Applications > Select the FAST Query Search Service App and click Manage in the Ribbon) Create a ne [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 9th '11
Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on a single box demo environment–the Excel file is corrupt using edit in Excel
Joris Peolmans
A typical SharePoint 2010 demo environment has everything installed on a single machine (Office 2010, SharePoint, etc…). Unfortunately this has some side effects – one of the things you might encounter is the fact that it seems that Excel integration does not work correctly anymore. Every time I uploaded an Excel document to SharePoint 2010 and tried opening it using the Edit in Excel option – I got an error stating that the file was corrupt. Luckily I knew this had something to do with th [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 9th '11
Installing client side TFS certificate on Windows 7
Joris Peolmans
Apparently with Windows 7 you can’t simply use the wizard to import the client certificates for Team Foundation Server connections. You will need to do this manually. Open Internet Explorer and go to Internet Options. Select Content and next the Certificates tab. Select Trusted Root Certification authorities when importing the certificate. Tags van Technorati: windows+7,development,microsoft,visual+studio,TFS,team+foundation+server [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 1st '11
Search suggestions in SharePoint 2010
Joris Peolmans
One of the new features for end users with SharePoint 2010 is that suggestions are provided while you are typing a search query - for a complete list of enhancements - check out – What’s new in Enterprise search(SharePoint Server 2010) . Now if you want to force these suggestions for demo scenario’s you can use some powershell scripts – the next code sample is meant to be used in a setup with Fast Search 2010: $SearchApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "FAST Query SSA" New-SP [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 28th '11
Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management NextGen and digital marketing
Joris Peolmans
One of my predictions for 2011 is that we will finally witness the boom or bust of social media apps within the enterprise for the Belux market. Here’s some background info that might get you thinking Second wave smart working : what role HRM? Collaboration by Design Knowledge management is not just information delivery and just in time is not enough Social Media is dead – Long live common sense  Social media in product management This is one of my pet peeves  about which I [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 10th '11
Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010 – some random links
Joris Peolmans
Mental reminder – check out this collection of links about Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010 Introducing web content management in SharePoint 2010 Introducing web analytics in SharePoint 2010 Accessibility and SharePoint 2010  Web Authoring in SharePoint 2010 How to apply corporate branding (themes) to all SharePoint 2010 team sites Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010 – Insights into reports  View changes makes in-browser content localization easier What’s new with t [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 10th '11
Porting oAuth with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 to RTM version
Joris Peolmans
Recently I stumbled upon this interesting blog post Windows Phone 7 with Twitter which showed how to use oAuth on Windows Phone 7 but it was unfortunately built with the beta versions of Windows Phone 7. As an exercise I decided to upgrade the code to get it to work with the RTM release. Some things which needed fixing or which bugged me during the upgrade You will need to remove references to Microsoft.Phone.Controls, Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Navigation, Microsoft.Phone.Controls.WebBrowser, Mi [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 10th '11
Tips to get the Social sample for SharePoint 2010 to work
Joris Peolmans
There’s an interesting code sample that you can download from MSDN called SharePoint to LinkedIn Connector which is part of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SDK. Here’s a number of extra steps that I took to get it to work on my SharePoint 2010 dev box. Some tips: I needed to add a reference to Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.dll assembly – you can find it underneath C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG\ADMINBIN. It has a hard coded reference [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 10th '11
Code profiler for Windows Phone 7
Joris Peolmans
EQATEC  has recently release comes a code-profiler that can profile your WP7 Silverlight app on real phone hardware, as well as on the emulator. The profiler is free for single-assembly applications. You can download it now from www.eqatec.com. For more info check out Channel 9 – World’s first profiler for Windows Phone 7 or the Eqatec  profiler website.   Technorati Tags: Development,visualstudio2010,vs2010,c#,windows+phone+7,wp7,wp7dev,microsoft [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11
Crop the webbrowser control in a Windows Phone 7 app
Joris Peolmans
When building my Windows Phone 7 app – I needed to login into LinkedIn – unfortunately the login page of LinkedIn does not seem to scale as well as the Twitter login page so I decided to only show a specific part of the page within the WebBrowser control for Windows Phone. I kind of got it working by using the Clip property (for reference see How to: Crop an object (Silverlight)) .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11
Windows Phone 7–Solving the missing dll issue in Training Kit Lab–Using Pivot and Panorama controls
Joris Peolmans
The lab Using Pivot And Panorama Controls seems to be missing file that supports the reference to the Syndication namespace - System.ServiceModel.Syndication.dll . You can copy that one over from the install directory of the Silverlight 3.0 SDK (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v3.0\Libraries\Client).  You can ignore the warning message when adding the dll – everything will work correctly. Technorati Tags: windows+phone+7,wp7,wp7dev,silverlight [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 16th '10
Slidedecks BIWUG on SPS2010 WCM and FAST Search 2010 available
Joris Peolmans
Thanks to the people who showed up on the december 2th BIWUG session despite 600 km of traffic jams  - the slide decks are now available only: Building a public website with SharePoint Server 2010 – the VIB case Introduction to FAST Search Server 2010 Also thanks to Sven and Pieter for delivering their presentation. Technorati Tags: sharepoint,sps+2010,biwug,community,microsoft,sharepoint+server+2010 [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 9th '10
Which business books influenced you?
Joris Peolmans
A while ago I tagged – 36 best business books that influenced Microsoft leaders – here are the ones I read and definitely liked together with some extra books (the ones in bold come from the original list): Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out o [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 22nd '10
SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management– talking about software boundaries and limits
Joris Peolmans
Some interesting stuff about software boundaries and limits in SharePoint Server 2010 – take a look at the table below. You should make a distinction between hard limits (which you simply should not exceed) and soft limits – which are a sort of recommendation. Soft limits 2007 2010 Content DB Size 100 GB 200 GB File Size 2 GB 2 GB DB’s per web app 100 300 Site collection size 100 GB 100 GB List items per view 2000 5000 Application Pools 8 per web server 10 per web se [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 15th '10
BIWUG Session on SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 on December 1th
Joris Peolmans
Agenda 18:00-18:30 Welcome with sandwich lunch 18:30-19:30 Building a public website with SharePoint Server 2010 – a practical case – www.vib.eu 19:30-19:45 Break 19:45-20:45 Introduction to FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 Location: RealDolmen, Industriezone Zenneveld, Vaucampslaan 42, 1654 Huizingen, Belgium Registration is now opened on the BIWUG site www.biwug.be Technorati Tags: sharepoint+2010,sps2010,fast,enterprise+search,biwug,community,microsoft [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 10th '10
SharePoint 2010–Training videos overview
Joris Peolmans
SharePoint 2010 on Chopsticks Belux The SharePoint Client Object Model – Part 1 (Serge Luca, MSDN Chopsticks) The SharePoint Client Object Model – Part 2 (Serge Luca, MSDN Chopsticks) SharePoint 2010 Connections event KEYNOTE: The Evolution of SharePoint from Two Pet Projects to a Multi-Company Ecosystem – Mike FitzMaurice MSC02: Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform – Steve Fox MSC03: Social Computing Overview – Daniel McPherson, Robin Meure, Mark van Lunenburg MSC0 [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 9th '10
Big Bang Theory and Information Management videos
Joris Peolmans
Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 1 – Introduction Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 2 – The Facebook Dilemma Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 3 – The mobile exigency Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 4 – The SharePoint Paradox Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 5 – The shutterfly effect Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 6 – The black swan [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 9th '10
MVP for another year
Joris Peolmans
About a month ago I found out that I have been renewed as SharePoint Server MVP. For people who don’t know what a MVP is– here’s Microsoft’s definition: “This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in SharePoint Services technical communities during the past year.” I became an MVP in 2005 and have been working with the Belgian SharePoint community e [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 9th '10
Rational Guide to Multi tenancy in SharePoint 2010
Joris Peolmans
Spence has an interesting series of articles about multi tenancy in SharePoint 2010 – a must read 1. Introduction 2. Planning your deployment 3. Example scenario and what multi tenancy brings to the party 4. Configuring the base infrastructure 5. Configuring Partitioned Service Applications 6. Provisioning Tenants Technorati Tags: sps2010,sharepoint+2010,multi+tenancy,administration,sharepoint,microsoft [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 9th '10
Quick Tip–Accessing guest from host with VMWare Workstation
Joris Peolmans
Most SharePoint 2010 developers probably use VMWare workstation (or Virtualbox). But what if you needed to access your SharePoint 2010 environment running in a VM from your host environment? I actually needed this to write a Windows Phone 7 app for SharePoint Server 2010 and since I can’t install the Windows Phone Developer Tools on Windows Server 2008 – I decided to use the install on my Windows 7 host and access SharePoint 2010 from there. Quite easy – just change network settings to use [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 8th '10
Overview of SharePoint 2010 powershell cmdlets
Joris Peolmans
Ever wondered how you can quickly generate an overview of the available Powershell commandlets for SharePoint 2010? Try the next command: Get-Command –PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” | select name, definition | format-list > C:\SP2010_PowerShell_Commands.txt Technorati Tags: powershell,cmdlet,sps2010,sharepoint,sharepoint+2010 [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 8th '10
BIWUG Presentations september 2010 online
Joris Peolmans
pThe presentations from the BIWUG session in september 2010 are available on a href="http://www.biwug.be"www.biwug.be/a in the meeting presentations document library :/p ul lia href="http://biwug.be.sharepoint3.hostbasket.com/Meeting%20Presentations/BIWUG%20-%20Migrate%20SP2007%20to%20SP2010.pptx" target="_blank"Upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010/a/li lia href="http://biwug.be.sharepoint3.hostbasket.com/Meeting%20Presentations/CustomerPresentation-SiteAdmin_RMSP_2010.pptx" target= [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 4th '10
SharePoint Server 2010 “System.ServiceModel.EndPointNotFoundException” in OWSTimer.exe
Joris Peolmans
pIf you get this error on your SharePoint Server 2010 development machine – quot;quot;System.ServiceModel.EndPointNotFoundException” in OWSTimer.exe – then you probably need to manually start the ForeFront Identity Manager Service – it did the trick for me …/p pa href="http://stefvanhooijdonk.com" target="_blank"SharePoint Stef/a provided the solution (and additional explanation) in his blogpost – a href="http://stefvanhooijdonk.com/2010/02/10/sp2010-system-servicemodel-endpointnotfo [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 23rd '10
Building a claims viewer webpart for SharePoint 2010
Joris Peolmans
pWhen running through the MSDN article – a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff699494.aspx" target="_blank"Claims Walkthrouhgh: writing claims providers for SharePoint 2010/a – I noticed that it did not clearly showed how the webparts where build which showed the overview of the claims for a specific request. a href="http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza/" target="_blank"Reza/a pointed me in the correct direction by sending me the link to a post from Steve Peschka (a must read blog fo [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 23rd '10
SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit – august 2010 release
Joris Peolmans
pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f" target="_blank"On september 9th a new version of the SharePoint 2010 SDK (august 2010) was released/a – a must have for every developer./p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:02953f40-60b5-4427-9b85-4cadec2f68d9" class="wlWriterEdi [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10
Form Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 and what it has to do with Claim Based Authentication.
Joris Peolmans
pStarting from SharePoint Server 2007 it is possible to use the ASP.NET membership and role provider for authentication purposes (meaning you are not limited to pure windows authentication). SharePoint Server 2010 extends on this model by providing claim based authentication. /p pFor authentication 2010 in SharePoint you can choose between 2 models:/p ul liClassic mode authentication /li liClaims based authentication mode/li /ul pClassic mode is provided mostly for legacy purposes since claims i [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 15th '10
BIWUG goes Facebook...
Joris Peolmans
I just started a a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=149948401704959"BIWUG group on Facebook/a - join us if you are interested in sharing information around the Microsoft Information Worker Community in Belgium and Luxemburgdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7753577-7610476877103291286?l=jopx.blogspot.com' alt='' //div [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 14th '10
Powershell changes from SharePoint 2010 beta to RTM
Joris Peolmans
pWhen testing some SharePoint 2010 Powershell scripts I noticed that there have been some changes in the naming from beta to RTM – for a good overview check out a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/2df70a87-9102-4a4a-bacc-61b222883546" target="_blank"Changes in SharePoint 2010 powershell commandlets/a/p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:07673 [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 8th '10
10 extra seats still available for BIWUG september 2010 session
Joris Peolmans
pThe number of available seats for the BIWUG session of september 2010 has been increased to 45 people (previously 30 people) so still 10 people can register – go quickly to a href="http://www.biwug.be"www.biwug.be/a/p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:e4627a6a-9095-4717-a7e7-a9a25b28e7ba" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"Technorati Tags: a href="ht [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 7th '10
Free Microsoft training sessions available at MIC Belgium
Joris Peolmans
pThe Microsoft Innovation Center in Belgium organizes a number of interesting events:/p ul liSharePoint Developers Day#160; - 15 september/li liClub des experts: BPOS amp; Office Online amp; Office Web App – 16 september/li liTesting Visual Studio 2010 – 21#160; september/li liSilverlight 4 – 7 october/li liClub des experts – SharePoint amp; gestion documentaire/li liConstruire son Mock up en quelgues heurs – 4 november 4t/li /ul pAll sessions are in French – and registration is poss [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 2nd '10
BIWUG IT Pro session on september 16th
Joris Peolmans
pBIWUG (a href="http://www.biwug.be"www.biwug.be/a) is announcing another session about SharePoint on September 16th at the Quest offices in Diegem. /p pAgenda/p ul li18:00-18:30 Welcome/li li18:30-19:30 SharePoint administration and granular recovery (Speaker Quest)/li li19:30-19:45 Break/li li19:45-20:45 Upgrading from SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 (Speaker – Karine Bosch)/li /ul pMore details and registration on the BIWUG site – a href="http://www.biwug.be"www.biwug.be/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 1st '10
SharePoint 2010 Meeting Workspaces and Blogs are not MUI enabled
Joris Peolmans
pA while ago I wrote about the new multilingual capabilities of SharePoint 2010 based on the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) – see a href="http://jopx.blogspot.com/2010/01/multilingual-user-interface-mui-in.html"Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in SharePoint 2010 – Part I/a and a href="http://jopx.blogspot.com/2010/01/multilingual-user-interface-mui-in_05.html"Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in SharePoint 2010 – Part II/a. But beware – apparently not all site definitions support the [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 27th '10
CustomErrors setting in SharePoint 2010 for debugging purposes
Joris Peolmans
pOn a SharePoint 2010 development machine you typically want to see the full stack trace when an error occurs. In SharePoint 2010 you will need to modify 2 web.configs:/p ul liUnderneath “[systemdrive]:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\virtualdirectories\lt;portgt;” /li liIn the layouts directory underneath the SharePoint root directory or 14 hive – “[systemdrive]:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS/li /ul pThe settings that you need to change are st [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 27th '10
SharePoint 2010 training material for developers
Joris Peolmans
pIf you are a SharePoint developer and you are planning to start with SharePoint 2010 – definitely take a look at these links:/p ul liDownload the a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26famp;displayLang=en" target="_blank"SharePoint 2010 SDK/a /li lia href="http://www.microsoft.com/info.aspx?na=47amp;p=1amp;SrcDisplayLang=enamp;SrcCategoryId=amp;SrcFamilyId=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26famp;u=details.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d83A80A0F- [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 28th '10
Access Services in SharePoint Server 2010
Joris Peolmans
pIn Access 2007 you were able to publish data to SharePoint 2007, Access 2010 – in combination with SharePoint Server 2010 extends this functionality by allowing you to publish full Access applications to SharePoint including forms, reports, queries, etc … This can be done without involvement of developers or server administrators. Once published, your Access application can be worked with from within the SharePoint native web interface. /p ul ul lia href="http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archiv [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 22nd '10
Access Services: solving this report failed to load because session state is not turned on.
Joris Peolmans
pI noticed the following error recently in one of the Access web databases driven by Access Services in SharePoint Server 2010./p pem“This report failed to load because session state is not turned on. Contact your SharePoint farm administrator. /ememTroubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. /ememCorrelation ID: 6968e6db-d139-4b88-bf5a-7c39c2e4a6be#160; /ememDate and Time: 6/16/2010 7:37:01 AM”/em /p p The strange thing was that the State Service was in running state (within S [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 21st '10
Selling ECM,WCMS, BPM ….
Joris Peolmans
pobject width="480" height="385"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XD2SdLqUizMamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XD2SdLqUizMamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"/embed/object/p pFunny video#160; -#160; a fictional discussion between a business software s [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10
Dear CEO , why you should really consider moving to Windows 7 from Windows XP
Joris Peolmans
pa href="http://segersbruno.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8C08E27D447F4396!1645.entry" target="_blank"Dear CEO/a, yes it is time to move away from Windows XP – here are some reasons why:/p ul lia href="http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gbamp;C2=1173" target="_blank"Mainstream support for Windows XP has already ended last year and extended support is available until 2014/a – so you probably won’t be able to wait until Windows 8. You can only hold off for so long …/li liYou might wa [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10
SharePoint Saturday Belgium Presentations and code samples
Joris Peolmans
pI finally collected all the presentations and code samples from the different sessions about SharePoint 2010 at our first SharePoint Saturday here in Belgium. Enjoy/p ul lia href="http://www.silver-it.com/node/61" target="_blank"Demos and slide decks of Stephane’s sessions about REST and WCF in SharePoint 2010/a /li lia href="http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!7526.entry" target="_blank"Serge Luca/a did a presentation about SPLinq – a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f58501 [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 2nd '10
Download links for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (WSS 4.0) and SharePoint Designer 2010
Joris Peolmans
pDid you know that there’s a great way to learn to work with the SharePoint 2010 platform. Just download SharePoint Foundation 2010 - if you would follow the logic of naming from the previous versions, this would have been Windows SharePoint Services 4.0 – together with SharePoint Designer 2010. These tools do not have any additional license cost. So why not try them out…/p ul lia href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb42 [read].
Posted: Wed, May 26th '10
SharePoint 2010 development random links
Joris Peolmans
pMental note – need to check links listed below about SharePoint 2010 – some interesting stuff in there. Probably something to do during the summer holidays…/p ul lia href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vssharepointtoolsblog/archive/2009/11/02/getting-started-with-the-sharepoint-packaging-designers.aspx" target="_blank"Getting started with the SharePoint 2010 packaging designers in Visual Studio 2010/a /li lia href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2009/11/16/sharepoint-2010-list-v [read].
Posted: Wed, May 26th '10
PowerPivot is the analysts/managers killer app
Joris Peolmans
pI did some demos recently at a SharePoint event @RealDolmen last week and one of the things I demoed was a href="http://www.powerpivot.com" target="_blank"PowerPivot/a – a technology not specifically linked to SharePoint but it can be integrated.#160; So here goes my PowerPivot elevator pitch:/p pemPowerPivot is a separate add-in for Excel which adds an in-memory cube which allows you import enormous quantities of data with incredible speed into Excel from different data sources.#160; You can [read].
Posted: Wed, May 19th '10
Business intelligence in SharePoint 2010
Joris Peolmans
pAs I already mentioned in one of the SharePoint 2010 practice sessions here at RealDolmen – Business Intelligence on the Microsoft platform is a great value proposition. With SharePoint as front end visualization plaform you can create amazing looking dashboards – here are a collection of links which came through in the RSS feeds I follow but I’m still surprised by how people still seem to ignore this great feature set./p ul lia href="http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!7B84B0F2C23948 [read].
Posted: Wed, May 19th '10
Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search 2010
Joris Peolmans
pHere’s a collection of links which will help you get started with Enterprise Search on the 2010 platform. With the addition of Fast#160; to the Microsoft Enterprise gamma the functional spectrum which is covered has broadened enormously. Have fun …/p pstrongStarting points:/strong/p lia href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=d7c0091e-5766-496d-a5fe-94bea52c4b15" target="_blank"Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products Visio schema/a#160; /li [read].
Posted: Tue, May 18th '10
Microsoft free e-books – Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2
Joris Peolmans
ul lia href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=12A6DE81-C633-4F2C-A35F-CEA6FE772712amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010/a : emThe book is not a language primer, a language reference, or a single technology book. It’s a book that will help professional developers move from previous versions of Visual Studio (starting with 2003 and on up). It will cover the features of Visual Studio 2010 through an application. It will go through a lot [read].
Posted: Tue, May 18th '10
SharePoint Snacks – Episode 2 – Multi user co-authoring
Joris Peolmans
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Posted: Sun, May 16th '10
SharePoint Snacks – Episode 1 – Office 2010 integration with the backstage view
Joris Peolmans
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Posted: Sun, May 16th '10
People you know and things you can do….
Joris Peolmans
pExcellent blogpost#160; - a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheContentEconomy/~3/GSscsyjuSGk/no-man-is-island-truer-today-than-ever.html" target="_blank"No man is an island – truer today than ever/a with a reference to this a href="http://www.boston.com/jobs/employers/hr/nehra/2009/05/survey_informal_networks_linke.html" target="_blank"interesting survey – Informal networks linked to success of change initiatives/a./p pemThe answer to the question about whether networking makes a diffe [read].
Posted: Sat, May 15th '10
Troubleshooting UserProfile import in SharePoint 2010
Joris Peolmans
pIf you need to configure user profile synchronization in SharePoint Server 2010 – you definitely need to check out the a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049(office.14).aspx" target="_blank"Microsoft Technet Documentation on SharePoint Server 2010 – Manage Profile Synchronization – configure user profile synchronization/a./p pThere is one thing however which helped me out which isn’t mentionned in the documentation – when trying to start the user profile synchroni [read].
Posted: Mon, May 10th '10
Getting Office 2010 to work on a single box SharePoint 2010 demo environment
Joris Peolmans
pLast week I finished installing a new SharePoint 2010 demo environment. As it is a demo environment I installed everything on one server – so Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 on one single machine. Unfortunately when I tried the “Edit in word” option in SharePoint 2010 it gave me an error “Word has encountered an error”. Same if I tried the “New document” option in a SharePoint 2010 document library./p br /a href="http://2.bp.blogspot [read].
Posted: Mon, May 10th '10
Solving could not load type error with ListData.svc in SharePoint 2010 RTM
Joris Peolmans
pIf you encounter the following error when you access the listdata.svc service in SharePoint Server 2010 RTM -/p pemfont color="#ff0000"Could not load type 'System.Data.Services.Providers.IDataServiceUpdateProvider' from assembly 'System.Data.Services, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'/font/em/p pyou are probably missing the latest update of ADO.NET Data Services for .Net Framework 3.5 SP1. There are two versions -/p ul lia href="http://www.microsoft.com/download [read].
Posted: Mon, May 10th '10
Don’t forget to start the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service …
Joris Peolmans
pWhen you want to use sandboxed solutions in SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010 you have to check that the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service is started. If it is not you will see the following errors:/p ul liYou will be able to upload sandboxed solutions to the solutions gallery but the Activate solution button will remain greyed out./li liWhen you try to deploy a sandboxed solution from within Visual Studio 2010 you will get the following error/li /ul br / [read].
Posted: Wed, May 5th '10
Which Visio version to install?
Joris Peolmans
pThere’s a great blog post on the a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/visio" target="_blank"Visio team blog/a – a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2010/04/09/visio-2010-editions.aspx" target="_blank"Visio 2010 versions overview which describes the differences between the standard, professional and premium edition/a. For integration with SharePoint and the new Visio Services you will at least need Visio Professional 2010. If you also want to design SharePoint workflows in Visio, you will n [read].
Posted: Tue, May 4th '10
SharePoint 2010 Tools Extensibility
Joris Peolmans
pVisual Studio 2010 allows you to extend the SharePoint 2010 tool support by creating custom extensions, this way you can for example create custom SharePoint Project Items (SPI’s) which are not available out of the box./p pThere are already some interesting examples out there of theses extensions and what’s all possible/p ul liExtend the functionality available on the SharePoint Explorer nodes and the available menus – a href="http://blog.mastykarz.nl/imtech-spmetal-definition-extension/" [read].
Posted: Mon, May 3rd '10
Office 2010 - default file format ballot OOXML or ODF
Joris Peolmans
pSomething I missed in the Office 2010 beta’s – apparently Office will ask you for the default file format you want to use - Office Open XML format or OpenDocuments Format - the first time that you open it./pbr /a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-egWXh2wlgk/S9iGHIQdIII/AAAAAAAAAHI/ILa0T77VbRg/s1600/defaultfileformat.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-egWXh2wlgk/S9iGHIQ [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 28th '10
Outlook 2010 is pretty smart …
Joris Peolmans
pI used to work with the a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3D003DA0-F684-4F4D-A9C8-8D15B84F60D1displaylang=en"Outlook Hotmail Connector for Hotmail /aduring the beta tests of Outlook 2010 but I decided to remove all beta components – but one way or another Outlook seemed to remember that I used to have a connection using the Outlook Hotmail connector and provided me with guidance directly in my Outlook user interface/pbr /a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-egWXh2 [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 27th '10
Office 2010 64-bit or 32-bit that’s the question…
Joris Peolmans
pI now have to decide whether to install the 64-bit edition of Office 2010 or the 32-bit edition. There’s some guidance available on a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681792(office.14).aspx" target="_blank"Technet – 64-bit editions of Office 2010/a/p pemThe recommendations for which edition of Office 2010 to install are as follows:/em/p ul liemIf users in your organization depend on existing extensions to Office, such as ActiveX controls, third-party add-ins, in-house solu [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 24th '10
Windows Phone 7 Development links
Joris Peolmans
pI just followed a great TechDays Belgium session about Windows Phone 7 and I must say this definitely rocks …. and it is really easy to get started as all the necessary Windows Phone 7 developer tools can be downloaded from a href="http://developer.windowsphone.com"http://developer.windowsphone.com/a. There are basically 2 models for building applications for Windows Phone 7 – either using the XNA model or using the Silverlight model./p pIf you download the developer tools you will notice t [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 31st '10
Windows Phone 7 Intro video
Joris Peolmans
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Posted: Wed, Mar 31st '10
SharePoint Saturday Belgium – 8th of may 2010
Joris Peolmans
pa href="http://www.biwug.be" target="_blank"BIWUG/a is organizing the first ever SharePoint Saturday in Belgium./p pstrongfont size="3"When:/font/strong Saturday 8th May 2010/p pstrongfont size="3"Where:/font/strong Hof Ter Helst, Kattenbroek 1, 2650 Edegem/p pWe will welcome you as of 9 o'clock for a coffee and sessions will start at 9:30. /p pstrong9:30-9:45 Welcome and Introduction/strong/p pstrong9:45 - 10:30 Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Karine Bosch)/strong/p pstrong10:40 - 11: [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 28th '10
Using MailServer for SharePoint 2010 development box
Joris Peolmans
pAs you probably know SharePoint 2010 development is only possible on Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 (all 64 bit versions). I still prefer using Windows Server 2008 so I need POP3 mail server functionality to test e-mail integration and so on…#160; I have used the a href="http://jebass.blogspot.com/2009/02/making-pop3-smtp-server-work-with.html" target="_blank"POP3 extender from Visendo/a in the past for this but it did not work quite as fluent as expected. /p pI just [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 20th '10
Folksonomy and Taxonomy – do you have to choose?
Joris Peolmans
pWith the introduction of SharePoint 2010 and the way that it supports free tagging (folksonomy) as well as a centrally managed controlled vocabulary (taxonomy) using the managed metadata column – the debate about taxonomy versus folksonomy will probably light up again. In my personal opinion – there is no need to choose between one of both. The way that SharePoint 2010 supports the notion of promoting free tags into a managed taxonomy demonstrates that a folksonomy can be used as a source t [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 10th '10
SharePoint 2010 – launch May 12th, RTM in April
Joris Peolmans
pJust picked this up from the a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx" target="_blank"SharePoint team blog – SharePoint 2010 amp; Office 2010 Launch/a:/p pemToday, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 amp; Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010.#160; /em/p pemIt’s an exciting time for us! We hope you can virtually join us on M [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 6th '10
BIWUG on SharePoint 2010 revisited
Joris Peolmans
pI have just upload the presentations and the code sample from a href="http://www.silver-it.com/node/52" target="_blank"Stephane on SPLinq/a to the a href="http://www.biwug.be" target="_blank"BIWUG/a site – if you want to see the sessions again – don’t forget to take a look at the a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/katriendg" target="_blank"BIWUG on SPS2010 recordings/a/p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; p [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10
Your favourite feature in SharePoint 2010?
Joris Peolmans
I did a little survey as part of the contest to a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/techdays/2010/"win a free TechDays ticket/a - with the question: What is your favourite feature in SharePoint 2010 - here are the resultsbr /br /a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-egWXh2wlgk/S4WCbVCuP-I/AAAAAAAAAGw/P3co9jcgyp4/s1600-h/Coolestfeature.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-egW [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 24th '10
SharePoint 2010 - the enterprise managed metadata (EMM)service, enterprise content types and content type syndication
Joris Peolmans
pDid you ever try to deploy content types across multiple site collections in SharePoint Server 2007 and keep them in sync afterwards? If so, you probably now that this is not that easy – there is not standard support for this in 2007. Some of you will have tried the a href="http://www.codeplex.com/SPConfigurator" target="_blank"SharePoint cross-site configurator on Codeplex/a. Luckily this issue has been solved with SharePoint 2010 which has built in support for central management of content [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 22nd '10
Taxonomy and the Managed Metadata service in SharePoint 2010 – great links
Joris Peolmans
pThe managed metadata service in SharePoint 2010 provides a central store for keywords and a hierarchically organized metadata - think of lookup columns but then a lot better with hierarchy support and central management across site collections, web applications or even farms.#160; If you’re new to the concept of the managed metadata service, managed keywords and the managed metadata field I strongly suggest that you take a look at the following links:/p ul lia href="http://geeklit.blogspot.co [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 18th '10
SharePoint 2010 and content organizers
Joris Peolmans
pContent organizers allow for content submitted to SharePoint to be rerouted to the correct location based on a number of routing rules which use both content types and it’s metadata to provide a certain routing logic. It’s actually an improved version of the routing logic which was available in the SharePoint 2007 records center. There are some excellent blog posts out there if you want to learn more:/p ul lia href="http://blogs.technet.com/speschka/archive/2009/10/30/sharepoint-2010-conten [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 17th '10
Information Architecture, SharePoint and metadata – some theoretical background
Joris Peolmans
pSome interesting links that I found when preparing my chapter about the new metadata features in SharePoint 2010 – it is sometimes refreshing to take a step away from the product and look at some theoretical background postings and articles. Have fun./p ul lia href="http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/InfoArchitecture.html" target="_blank"Origin of the phrase, “Information Architecture”/a /li lia href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262985.aspx" target="_blank"W [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 16th '10
Folders and metadata – again ….
Joris Peolmans
pAnecdote about a href="http://veroniquepalmer.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/sub-folders-vs-metadata-a-story-about-resistance-and-changing-jobs/" target="_blank"Subfolders versus Metadata – a story about resistance and changing jobs/a. Sounds familiar – take a look at these postings#160; - a href="http://jopx.blogspot.com/2008/10/follow-up-folders-in-sharepoint.html" target="_blank"Follow up – Folders in SharePoint document libraries#160; - Why???/a/p pLuckily location based metadata in SharePo [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 15th '10
SharePoint Server 2010 – Social Data Statistics Web Part
Joris Peolmans
pCheck out - a title="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/socialstatswebpart" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/socialstatswebpart"http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/socialstatswebpart/a/p pemThis sample consists of a Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Visual Web part project. After you build and deploy this project on your Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 site, you can add this Web part to any page where you want to display statistics for the social tagging activities of your users. The Web part [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 15th '10
Looking for application data folder in Windows 7?
Joris Peolmans
pIf you need to find the Application Data directory, just type b%appdata%/b in the Run dialog box, the Start menu search box, or at the command prompt. This will open the correct folder./p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f5faff1b-5469-41c8-a926-ad8aae91d02e" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"Technorati Tags: a href="http://technorati.com/tags/windows [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10
Win free ticket for TechDays 2010 Belgium with BIWUG
Joris Peolmans
pa href="http://www.biwug.be" target="_blank"BIWUG/a (The Belux Information Worker User Group) is giving away a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/techdays/2010/" target="_blank"a free ticket for TechDays 2010/a. So how can you get this free ticket – very simple: please provide an answer to the following questions:/p p1.What is the coolest new feature in SharePoint 2010?/p p2. How many people will have send in their vote for the coolest feature by Friday 19th of February?/p pSend me an email [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10
SharePoint 2010 – new developer training material including full virtual machine download
Joris Peolmans
pLots of new SharePoint 2010 training material released in january:/p ul lia href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c51819b-3d40-435c-a103-a5481fe0a0d2amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta)/a – fully functional virtual machines to demo Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. /li lia href="https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=160329amp;tab=overview" target="_blank"Free E-learning: What [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10
Corporate culture, not technology, drives collaboration
Joris Peolmans
pThis post in a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/10/23/corporate-culture-not-technology-drives-online-collaboration/" target="_blank"Webworker daily about the significance of corporate culture on collaboration within your organization/a reminds me of some other blog posts which I wrote a while back:/p ul lia href="http://jopx.blogspot.com/2009/03/web-20-please-but-in-your-own-time-and.html" target="_blank"Web 2.0 please but in your own time (and budget)/a/li li#160;a href="http://jopx.blogsp [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 4th '10
BIWUG on SharePoint 2010
Joris Peolmans
pOn Tuesday, the 9th of February 2010 stronga href="http://www.biwug.be" target="_blank"BIWUG/a /strongorganizes the first sessions aboutstrong SharePoint 2010 /strongin the new Ordina offices in Mechelen. We have a great line up amongst which strong3 Belgian SharePoint MVP's /strongpresenting./p pb/b/p pbDate and hours:/b/p pFebruary 9th, 2010 br /(The event is free, but registration is required.)/p pstrongSessions:/strong/p ul li18:00 - 18:30: Welcome /li li18:30 - 19:00: Introduction to Share [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 27th '10
User activity statistic in SharePoint Server 2007
Joris Peolmans
pDid you ever wonder what the User Activity value means in the SharePoint site statistics? Apparently this is the total number of times the user accessed the site (or site collection) over the past 30 days, divided by 30 to give daily average./p pGreat explanation on a href="https://sharepoint.missouri.edu/wiki/Wiki%20Pages/MOSS%20Usage%20Reports%20explained.aspx" target="_blank"MOSS Usage Reports Explained/a/p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; d [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 18th '10
Office 2010 multiple upload with SharePoint Server 2007
Joris Peolmans
pThe new user interface for uploading multiple documents to a document library is actually part of the Office 2010 clients – so if you install Word 2010 you will also be able to use the new “drag amp; drop” upload control together with SharePoint Server 2007./p br /a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-egWXh2wlgk/S1HXwaM-sjI/AAAAAAAAAGo/amawLSiF7Wc/s1600-h/multipleupload.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 230 [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 16th '10
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack v4 for Word, Excel and Powerpoint available
Joris Peolmans
pA new version of the a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466" target="_blank"Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and Powerpoint formats has been released for download/a . /p pemBy installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the /ema href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074"emfile formats in [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 11th '10
Bitnami – setups and virtual machines for open source web applications
Joris Peolmans
pIf you want to try out some open source web applications but don’t want to go through the hassle of setting up everything up yourself – a href="http://www.bitnami.org" target="_blank"BitNami/a is the place to be./p pHere you can download complete setup packages or even virtual machines with a href="http://bitnami.org/stack/alfresco" target="_blank"Alfresco/a, a href="http://bitnami.org/stack/joomla" target="_blank"Joomla/a, a href="http://bitnami.org/stack/drupal" target="_blank"Drupal/a, a [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 9th '10
Windows 7 – Godmode folder
Joris Peolmans
pCreate a folder with the magic name “GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}”. The folder's icon will change to resemble a control panel and will contain dozens of control options. Quite interesting but not really divine …/p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b78580ee-52be-4720-87e4-bec1de86fcc5" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"Technorat [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 9th '10
Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in SharePoint 2010 Part II – Adding alternate languages with Powershell
Joris Peolmans
pYesterday I talked about how the a href="http://jopx.blogspot.com/2010/01/multilingual-user-interface-mui-in.html"SharePoint 2010 Multilingual User Interface feature/a allows for multilingual collaboration scenario’s without the need for additional third party addons. One of the things which bugged me though is that you need to enable the multilingual feature on a per site basis. So I wrote this little powershell script to activate the multilingual feature for all sites in a site collection a [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 5th '10
Installed programs on my Windows 7 PC
Joris Peolmans
pI finished reinstalling my portable with Windows 7 over the weekend and I must admit it was a smooth experience. So what do I install on my Windows 7:/p ul lia href="http://download.live.com/writer"Windows Live Writer/a – my favorite blog writing tool – I also use the a href="http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=1f57bd9b-a692-4593-9e9e-e2962d9c0eeeamp;bt=9amp;pl=8"Insert Code for Windows Live Writer plugin/a. There are a whole bunch of other a href="http://gallery.live.com/results [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10
Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in SharePoint 2010 – Part I
Joris Peolmans
pSharePoint finally provides a decent out of the box multilingual user experience for collaboration scenario’s with the introduction of SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010. After you installed the necessary language packs you will have the option to enable the multilingual user interface (MUI) on a per site basis using site settings (this is also possible using the SharePoint Object Model – using a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spweb.add [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10
Troubleshooting Zune software installation error
Joris Peolmans
pWhen I tried installing my Zune software on my new Windows 7 PC I got this interesting error stating:/p pemfont color="#ff0000"Operation error failed with 0x8007047F: The specified program is not a Windows or MS-DOS program. Can't find the media for installation package 'Windows Media Format SDK.' It might be incomplete or corrupt. Error Code: 0x80070002/font/em/p pfont color="#000000"Apparently this was caused by the fact that a href="http://jopx.blogspot.com/2010/01/windows-7-ultimate-n-and-w [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 2nd '10
Windows 7 Ultimate N and Windows Media Player 12
Joris Peolmans
pFor those of you living in Europe – you will probably notice that when installing Windows 7 there are some versions with a “N” behind the name such as Windows 7 Ultimate N. Apparently this is a version of Windows 7 without Windows Media Player.Apparently we have the European Union to thank for this – see a href="http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49303415,00.htm"Windows 7 N Explained/a. Fortunately there is a separate download called a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 2nd '10
Last chance to register for BIWUG on SharePoint 2010
Joris Peolmans
pToday is the last chance to register for the BIWUG a href="http://www.biwug.be/" target="_blank"session about SharePoint 2010/a – with 90 people registered there are only 10 seats available…./p pPS I will do the Introduction to SharePoint 2010 …/p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:34cb8d23-68f2-4e7f-9259-15d48563f2c8" class="wlWriterEditableSmartC [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 16th '09
Solving ThreadOptions error in the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell
Joris Peolmans
pI noticed that when I tried to open the a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee537913(office.14).aspx" target="_blank"SharePoint 2010 Management Shell/a on my machine I got an error stating:/p pemfont color="#ff0000"Exception setting quot;ThreadOptionsquot;: quot;This property cannot be changed after the Runspace has been opened.quot; At C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG\POWERSHELL\Registration\SharePoint.ps1:2 char:48 br /+ if ($ver.Versi [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 16th '09
SharePoint 2010 – Client Object Model
Joris Peolmans
pThe SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model feature is definitely in my top 10 list of SharePoint developer enhancements. It basically provides an abstraction layer so that client apps can interact with SharePoint – there are basically 3 flavors of Client Object Models:/p ol liFor .Net managed clients – uses the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll in the “14\ISAPI” folder /li liFor Silverlight clients – uses the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight.dll from the “14\LAYOUTS\ClientBin” f [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 13th '09
SharePoint 2010 development – don’t forget to change the target platform
Joris Peolmans
pThis is something which will probably bite you in the **s, when you start developing against strongSharePoint 2010/strong. Don't forget to change the strong“Platform target” to x64 or AnyCPU/strong br /a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-egWXh2wlgk/SyPgKP76-II/AAAAAAAAAGQ/IREI-V0rsWc/s1600-h/x86error.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-egWXh2wlgk/SyPgKP76-II/AAAAAAAAAGQ [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 12th '09
What’s in a name – SharePoint Online, BPOS and Microsoft Online Services
Joris Peolmans
SharePoint Online, Microsoft Online Services or BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) are terms which you hear flying around when you look for information about Microsoft’s endeavors in the cloud. Here’s some more background information: SharePoint Online : is a collection of web-based collaboration tools built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and provided by Microsoft as a hosted service. For some more information check out Service Description for Microsoft Office SharePoint [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09
PDF Annotations
Joris Peolmans
A common requirement for PDF files is the ability to add comments and annotations. Docutrack has an interesting tool called PDF-XChange viewer (which is free) which allows you to do just that. Tags van Technorati: PDF,PDF+tool,annotations [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 9th '09
Free Documentum Developer Edition available
Joris Peolmans
On june 2d EMC announced  a free developer edition of EMC Documentum Content Server 6.5 which you can download from the ECM Developer Community. To get you started take a look at the Content Server Developer Edition Install instructions. What’s a little bit weird is that Windows Server 2008 seems to be missing from the list of supported OS – I tried installing it anyway but it failed with this error -  DIWAOEMExecuteConfigurationscripts failed - "creating index agent" failed. Runti [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 7th '09
Add some spice to your Powerpoint decks with PPtPlex
Joris Peolmans
Last week somebody told me about Prezi.com – which seems to be some kind of Web 2.0 example of how you can build more interactive presentations with zoom effects and so on … It kind of reminded me of something which I saw a couple of months ago – PptPlex from OfficeLabs pptPlex uses Plex technology to give you the power to zoom in and out of slide sections and move directly between slides that are not sequential in your presentation. Watch the videos below to see how pptPlex can help you o [read].
Posted: Sun, May 31st '09
Web Testing (and load testing) SharePoint 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
Joris Peolmans
Testing a SharePoint project is quite a tedious job – there are a lot of floating parts out there which make it complicated and time consuming. So everything which makes it a little easier is interesting. (Another reason for using it was to generate usage logs so that I could start working on my SharePoint extensions – Usage Statistics again) The last couple of days I have been looking at how I can use Visual Studio 2008 Test Edition to test SharePoint Server 2007 (this would also work with [read].
Posted: Tue, May 26th '09
SharePoint Server 2010 – some random info on the web
Joris Peolmans
More and more information starts to spread about SharePoint Server 2010 – here are some links to get you started. As with most information at this stage, it is not sure that it will be a 100% accurate – and a lot of speculation is going around - but still … Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 beta in two months - Microsoft will launch an invitation-only SharePoint Server 2010 beta test in July with a select group of customers and then follow the program up with a public testing phase ahead o [read].
Posted: Mon, May 25th '09
Community Day 2009 – don’t forget to register
Joris Peolmans
Don’t miss the biggest Belgian Community event - Community Day 2009!  This year, Community Day will take place on Thursday 25th June 2009 in Utopolis, Mechelen. The Community Day 2009 is supported by BESUG, BIWUG, IT-Talks, MVUG (Microsoft Virtualization User Group) , Pro-Exchange, SCUG, SQLUG, VBIB (Visual Basic in Belgium), Visug, WinSec, XNA-BUG. Register now for free for this all day event on www.communityday.be ! Tags van Technorati: biwug,community,community+day,belgium,microsoft [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Microsoft Outlook
Joris Peolmans
Since I need to work with Dynamics CRM quite a lot lately I decided to give Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Microsoft Outlook a spin. This is basically an addin which allows you to work with Dynamics CRM directly from within Outlook. Allthough I like the functionality a lot I’m under the impression that it slows down Outlook quite a lot and it definitely is a memory hog. I also noticed that when your CRM server has gone down, your CRM addin can completely lockup Outlook. Anyone care to share ti [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09
PHP SDK for Windows Azure
Joris Peolmans
Not really my cup of tea but still … http://phpazure.codeplex.com  - kudos to Maarten for another great initiative. As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. PHPAzure is an open source project to provide software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Tables & Queues PHP SDK for Windows Azure is an open source collaboration project driven by RealDolmen and Micro [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09
BIWUG presentations about SCOM, SharePoint and SharePoint Designer 2007 online
Joris Peolmans
I just uploaded the presentations of yesterday’s BIWUG session to our site www.biwug.be (check out the Meeting presentations doclib). Thanks again to Alexandre from SCUG (System Center User Group) Belgium for the presentation. In case you missed it – the presentation should be available in the coming weeks on MSDN Chopsticks as well. Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,scom,system+center,biwug,spd+2007,sharepoint+designer+2007 [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09
How to configure the SharePoint people picker to search for users in other domains
Joris Peolmans
The people picker will by default show the users in the forest that the SharePoint farm is installed (that is, the resource forest). According to the documentation Peoplepicker-searchadforests: stsadm property (Office SharePoint Server) – it should also display users in all two way trusted domains and forests but you can still use the stsadm command to be sure. For one way trusted domains (or forests) you will need to do some extra stuff. In a one way trust you will probably need to specify a [read].
Posted: Tue, May 19th '09
Tip of the week : search for documents in SharePoint Server 2007 from within Office or Internet Explorer
Joris Peolmans
Sometimes small things make the difference between a good and a great platform. This is the first of a small tips which will make your daily interaction with SharePoint a lot more productive – let’s call it SharePoint Lifehacking Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane If you have a tip you want to share   - leave a comment. Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,sharepoint+2007,sharepoint+hacking,microsoft [read].
Posted: Tue, May 19th '09
BIWUG on SharePoint, SCOM and SPD
Joris Peolmans
Another BIWUG event is planned on the 20th of may in the RealDolmen Offices in Huizingen - doors open at 18:00. Agenda: Introduction: 18:30 - 18:45 SharePoint and SCOM: 18:45-19:45 System Center Operations Manager 2007 is THE end to end Monitoring Solution. In this session we will discuss what you, as SharePoint guys, find relevant to be monitored. System Center Operations Manager uses a SharePoint Monitoring toolkit for monitoring the SharePoint Environment. This toolkit consists of a set [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09
Price and value
Joris Peolmans
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." (Warren Buffett) [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 29th '09
TaxOnWeb down …
Joris Peolmans
It is that time of the year again …those dreaded brown enveloppes with tax forms just arrived in our mailbox. Just out of curiosity I decided to take a look at TaxOnWeb.be where Belgian citizens can submit their taxes online – unfortunately no luck – the site is down. [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09
A Web 2.0 solution for dying plants
Joris Peolmans
“Homegrown Terra-rists” Ignite Video - The Botanicalls system and applications use networked open source hardware and software to allow plants to communicate with people on people’s terms - using the telephone, text messages or twitter. Tags van Technorati: LOL,fun,web2.0 [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 6th '09
Exploring Identity LifeCycle Manager 2007 R2
Joris Peolmans
A common issue in organisations is how to effectively and efficiently manage identities of users since data about users is maintained in a number of different systems (HR systems, AD,CRM, etc …) and needs to be pushed to a number of target systems such as SharePoint, Exchange, etc … Identity LifeCycle Manager 2007 is a product which provides an integrated and comprehensive solution for managing the entire lifecycle of user identities and their associated credentials. The next version of Micr [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 4th '09
SharePoint Designer 2007 available as free download
Joris Peolmans
From April 1st onwards SharePoint Designer (SPD) 2007 is available for free, customers with Software Assurance (SA) who bought SPD 2007 are entitled to Expression Web. An interesting statement in Q&A on SharePoint Designer 2007 licensing changes is the following SharePoint Designer “v-next” will be available simultaneously with the release of the next version of SharePoint, and it will also be a free download. Related resources: Video – SharePoint Designer 2007 (April 2009 announcemen [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 4th '09
Ferrari.com powered by SharePoint Server 2007
Joris Peolmans
This looks really look – Ferrari.com – for some more public SharePoint Server websites check out Ian’s Top SharePoint WCM Web sites (with thumbnails) PS Would have been even cooler if they had added some Silverlight stuff in there … [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 4th '09
Try out Live Mesh
Joris Peolmans
I must agree with Andrew – Get Hip to Mesh … it rocks  - I use it for synchronizing my Windows Live Writer Drafts folder on multiple computers – quite handy… PS I haven’t tried Expanded Live Mesh for Mobile CTP but it definitely sounds cool as well. Tags van Technorati: live+mesh,mesh,windows+live,blogging [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 4th '09
SharePoint Server 2007, Office and Windows Server 2008
Joris Peolmans
After 5 years of working with Windows Server 2003 and SharePoint using Windows Server 2008 is a little different – as well as the installation experience – for some interesting links – check out Installing SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008. If you are setting it up as a demo machine on to which you also install Office 2007 remember that you will need to add the Desktop Experience feature without  it you will not be able to  save documents directly from your Microsoft [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 4th '09
BIWUG April 2009 – Change of agenda
Joris Peolmans
Because of some unforeseen interference we needed to change our agenda. The session about System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) will be postponed to the next BIWUG session. Next week we will have a session from the guys of Ometa who will be talking about their experience with SharePoint and ERP integration and next a session about migrations with Tzunami. The BIWUG board apologizes for this last moment change – if you are interested you can still register. Tags van Technorati: biwug,sharepoi [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 1st '09
Change keyboard layout during login on Windows 2008 Server to Dutch(Belgian)
Joris Peolmans
The same trick as for Change keyboard layout during login on Windows 2003 Server apparently seems to work for Windows 2008 Server as well. Tags van Technorati: windows+2008,w2008,keyboard,regional+settings [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 31st '09
Running a 64-bit guest in 32-bit host
Joris Peolmans
Just tried something new – I needed to setup a virtual image for a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 on my laptop which is still running 32-bit Windows XP. Luckily VMWare Workstation 6.0 (or higher) to the rescue – which allows you to do just this. If you want to know if your hardware support actually support 64-bit. If you go to the VMWare Drivers & Tools section you will find a processor check for 64-bit compatibility. Then the next hurdle – the Lenove T61 supports Intel Virtualization Tec [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 31st '09
Web 2.0: Please, but in your own time (and budget)?
Joris Peolmans
I picked  up this title from an intriguing blogpost (in Dutch) -  Web 2.0: Graag, maar in eigen tijd ?! This posting will retake some quotes from this post (in italic) on to which I will add my own thoughts about this. I think this is an interesting topic so do add your own comment if you have another point of view. “We need to share knowledge, innovate, bind talent and be open. So we need a platform to support this,… so' let’s define a publication protocol and add it to our qual [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 28th '09
Sixth sense devices – Surface vNext
Joris Peolmans
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Posted: Sat, Mar 28th '09
SharePoint and Enterprise 2.0 – The good, the bad and the ugly
Joris Peolmans
Interesting post – SharePoint and Enterprise 2.0 – The good, the bad and the ugly – written with a lot more nuance then a number of other readings out there about SharePoint and Enterprise 2.0. Related posts: The problem is bigger than SharePoint [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 28th '09
Typealyzer – What personality is behind that blog?
Joris Peolmans
Apparently the writing style of my blog reflects that I’m a guardian. Guardians: The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done. Once they have made up their mind on something, it can be quite difficult to convince otherwise. They listen to hard facts and can have a hard time accepting new or innovative ways of doing things. The Guardians are often happy working in highly structured work environments where e [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 26th '09
Architects?
Joris Peolmans
Kind of sad – if you read this – I guess this is just another case of overinflated expectations surrounding another personae in the software industry – Architect is a swear word. [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 24th '09
BIWUG April 2009 - SharePoint, SCOM and Tzunami
Joris Peolmans
Another BIWUG session is planned on april 7th  - here are some more details about the agenda: 18:30-18:45 Introduction 18:45-19:45 Using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor a SharePoint environment:  System Center Operations Manager 2007 is THE end to end Monitoring Solution. In this session we will discuss what you, as SharePoint guys, find relevant to be monitored. System Center Operations Manager uses a SharePoint Monitoring toolkit for monitoring the SharePoint Envi [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 24th '09
TechDays 2009 - Enhancing the SharePoint developer experience - Supporting links
Joris Peolmans
There were a number of resources I mentionned in my talk which were not listed in the slidedeck. I promised to add them to my blog so here you go: Adding intellisense when editing XML files in WSS v3/MOSS 2007 (using the core schemas) and using CAML.Net Intellisense for SharePoint (using the extended schemas) SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example Caching in Office SharePoint Server 2007 - used by CBQ web part Right-click  a .WSP to add solution Test Driven development a [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 11th '09
Microsoft's vision of the future
Joris Peolmans
Cool video [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 5th '09
SharePoint Diagnostics Tool
Joris Peolmans
The latest release of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit now also includes the SharePoint Diagnostic tool (SPDiag) version 1.0 which allows ot create a unified view of data about SharePoint from ULS logs, IIS logs, performance counters, WMI instrumentation data and event logs. This way you can identify possible issues with SharePoint environment in a more efficient fashion by defining your own specific reports. Make sure that you also download the SharePoint Diagnostics Tool user guide to get [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 5th '09
SharePoint unit testing
Joris Peolmans
As the kind of solutions we built on SharePoint become increasingly more complex it might be an interesting idea to take a look at creating unit tests for your solutions (allthough some people might disagree - see Peter Seale - SharePoint: not unit testing ). There are also some challenges when trying to create unit tests for SharePoint development  as outlined in Unit Testing SharePoint 2007 Applications.  An interesting approach is using Isolator for SharePoint which allows unit test [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 4th '09
Boy bands - how to understand the site definition/template debate ...
Joris Peolmans
LOL - quite geeky  - Boy bands - how to understand the site definition/template debate. [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 2nd '09
Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) 2.0 planned for release
Joris Peolmans
Interesting announcement on the HiSoftware site - two new releases to expect around accessibility and SharePoint in the coming weeks: AKS 2.0:  Monday, March 9, 2009 HiSoftware aRTE for SharePoint v1.0:  Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Related links: SharePoint accessibility - alternatives to AKS Accessibility and SharePoint - the story continues Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,accessibility,sharepoint+2007,microsoft [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 2nd '09
Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint
Joris Peolmans
This is not new - there was already some information released at TechEd Europe  about VS2010 and SharePoint - but still some interesting info which show the continued investment of Microsoft in enhancing the SharePoint developer experience. Somasegar's weblog: SharePoint tools support in Visual Studio 2010 Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,visual+studio,vs2010,office+14,microsoft,development [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 2nd '09
Office 14 = Office 2010?
Joris Peolmans
Interesting quote: "From a strategy perspective, the next big innovation milestone is Office 14, our next Office release, which will not be this year," Ballmer told the Wall Street crowd. "There's a version of SharePoint. There's a version of Exchange. There's a new version of Office Live." Source: Office 14: worth a wait? Tags van Technorati: office+14,office,sharepoint,microsoft [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 2nd '09
Presenting @ TechDays 2009 - Enhancing the SharePoint Developer Experience
Joris Peolmans
It's kind of becoming a tradition - I'm presenting a session about SharePoint at this year's TechDays on th 11th of march at 14:30 PM. The session will focus on best practices for SharePoint development based on lessons learnt. You will learn how to approach SharePoint development to build solutions in an effective way. This is not only about knowing the right tools and techniques to speed up the SharePoint development process but also about how to avoid mistakes and making the correct design de [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09
Congrats to winner of the free TechDays 2009 ticket
Joris Peolmans
As you might have read - BIWUG - thanks to Microsoft has given away a free ticket for TechDays 2009. Congrats to Miro for guessing the correct number of replies ... Hope to see you guys at the BIWUG booth at TechDays 2009. Tags van Technorati: techdays+2009,microsoft,biwug [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09
SharePoint logs - Tracing Service lost trace events
Joris Peolmans
When troubleshooting problems with SharePoint one of the first places to look is the SharePoint ULS logs (also see Troubleshooting errors for InfoPath forms deployed on SharePoint). Last week I noticed something weird in the ULS logs - the only thing which seemed to be logged was "Tracing service lost trace events" log entries. The first thing to try to solve this is restarting the Windows SharePoint Service Tracing service. It definitely did the trick for me .... Tags van Technorati: sharepoint [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 25th '09
Free TechDays 2009 ticket
Joris Peolmans
BIWUG is giving away a free ticket for the TechDays 2009. This year it is organized on march 11th and 12th in Metropolis Antwerp. For more details check out biwug.be . Technorati Tags: biwug,community,techdays,microsoft,sharepoint [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 24th '09
Maturity of the IT industry
Joris Peolmans
A fellow SharePoint geek pointed me to this transcript of the Inquiry into Identity Cards - the next part is sadly enough quite recognizable... Q373 Mr Cameron: The question I would like to ask all of you, to which a yes or no answer is sufficient, is: do you see the public procurement difficulties as insuperable? Professor Thomas: Yes, I do. I would like to tell you something that you will not believe but which I think it is important that you hear, and that is that almost every IT supplier [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 13th '09
Top SharePoint Blogs - Joel's list
Joris Peolmans
Check it out  -  Back by popular demand ... the top SharePoint blogs Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,microsoft,blogs,sharepoint+2007 [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 8th '09
Creating custom SharePoint alert handlers
Joris Peolmans
If you need to create your own custom alert e-mails in SharePoint - definitely take a look at this one - Custom Alert Handlers: part 1 of 2 (Unfortunately part 2 was never written but part 1 will get you started just fine) Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,sharepoint+2007,microsoft,alerts,development [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 8th '09
Reminder - Pet project idea
Joris Peolmans
This has been on my radar for quite a while - Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Sample : Using Excel 2003 to Manage Project Sites with Windows SharePoint Services 2003 . If I find the time I would like to upgrade this concept to Excel 2007 and WSS 3.0 ... or maybe some of you have already tried this? Leave a comment if you did... Update : Here's the MSDN article which accompanies the source code. Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,excel,pet+project,microsoft,vsto,visual+studio,wssv3,wss,sharepoin [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 8th '09
Accelerators for Dynamics CRM 4.0 Part I - Enterprise Search
Joris Peolmans
The Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 are finally available on Codeplex . The purpose of these accelerators is to showcase how the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 platform can be  extended to broaden marketing, sales and service capabilities – with a big focus on integration scenario’s. One of the most interesting ones for a SharePoint developer is the Enterprise Search Accelerator which contains a Business Data Catalog (BDC) definition file for the different entities in CRM 4.0. T [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 21st '09
Windows Live Writer 2009 released
Joris Peolmans
Windows Live Writer 2009 is finally available … my two favorite new features: Better photo support Integrates with YouTube for video support Technorati Tags: windows+live,microsoft [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 17th '09
Installing Microsoft CRM 4.0 – a SharePoint developer perspective
Joris Peolmans
Trying out integrating SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft CRM has been on my to-do list for quite a while now. I finally found some time so you can expect some blog posts about this in the coming weeks. First thing to do installing Microsoft CRM 4.0 on my SharePoint developer VPC. Make sure that you check out the requirements – so download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation guide – first thing I had to do is installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. Other warnings are unfor [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 17th '09
LOL - Macbook wheel
Joris Peolmans
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 6th '09
Why to stay away from the SharePoint External Storage API
Joris Peolmans
I got this question when teaching a class about architecting Document and Records Management solutions with SharePoint - is it possible to store the documents outside of the SQL database and the metadata within SharePoint? Yes, this is possible - take a look at the External storage option for Binary Large Objects (BLOBS) in Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. However, there are some reasons to stay away from it - at least for now - recently some more informat [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 5th '09
SharePoint in the Life Science sector and beyond ...
Joris Peolmans
Life science companies are traditionally strongholds for typical ECM vendors such as IBM FileNet and EMC Documentum. But what about SharePoint Server 2007? My guess is that SharePoint is being adopted but not as an alternative to the traditional ECM players but as a complement. Especially the collaboration part is being strongly embraced  but with regards to pure ECM functionality I have my doubts - and trust me I'm a strong believer in SharePoint. Traditional players seem to draw the "be n [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 5th '09
Google Insight for Search
Joris Peolmans
Something cool to take a look at -  Google Insight for Search I just tried it out to check out how "SharePoint Server 2007" search usage evolved over time - [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 2nd '09
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Joris Peolmans
[read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 27th '08
Presentations BIWUG december 2008
Joris Peolmans
The last BIWUG session was a success with over 60 persons present. Unfortunately I had to send out a mail to some people to tell them that we were overbooked. I just uploaded the presentations on our BIWUG site: Introduction to Silverlight 2 Silverlight meets SharePoint - Enriching the SharePoint user interface If you are interested in presenting a session just leave a comment. Tags van Technorati: biwug,microsoft,sharepoint,silverlight,sharepoint+2007,moss,moss+2007,PKS [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 11th '08
Installing Expression Encoder 2.0 on Windows Server 2003 SP1
Joris Peolmans
I had some problems when installing Expression Encoder 2.0 (Available through MSDN or download Expression Encoder 2.0 Trial) on my Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1. It kept on nagging about an incorrect version of Windows Installer. Setup requires a minimum Windows Installer version 3.1.4000.2435 and detected version 3.1.4000.1830. Please update your system and run Setup again. But when you look for the latest version of Windows Installer you will find this one - Windows Installer 3.1 Red [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 3rd '08
SharePoint Governance Presentation
Joris Peolmans
Thursday I will be doing a session at the CM Innovation Event about SharePoint Governance. Session abstract: Because of the viral nature of SharePoint -  without effective governance - SharePoint will only replicate your business’ existing problems at a faster rate and on a larger scale than you thought possible! In this session we will focus on some key principles for developing a SharePoint Governance plan and show you how you can manage risks when deploying or running a SharePoint [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 2nd '08
SharePoint - It's all about making the right choices and decisions - Part II - One or multiple site decisions
Joris Peolmans
Part 1 - It's all about making the right choices and decisions: Visual Studio Workflow Extensions vs SharePoint Designer Site collections allow for your intranet to scale as well as provide for a model where it is easier to delegate control to power users for specific subsets of your portal. Most people will tell you that you will need to have multiple site collections because of the database size restrictions but this is just a myth. There is no physical restriction on your database size, ther [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 1st '08
LOL - The Simpsons mock (M)Apple
Joris Peolmans
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/the-simpsons-mocks-m-apple/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 1st '08
SharePoint WCM - Quick start guide
Joris Peolmans
If you walk through the next links you will be up and running with SharePoint WCM development in a couple of hours: Customizing the look and feel of SharePoint Sites (Webcast 00:59:21) Creating a custom page layout with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Webcast 00:20:29) How to : create a minimal master page (MSDN) Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features Customizing and Brand [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 29th '08
Dynamics AX 2009 - Enterprise Portal link bonanza
Joris Peolmans
It has been a while since I wrote about Dynamics AX 2009 and SharePoint and I don't seem to find the time anymore to play around with it but here's a collection of links which might of interest to people who need to work with it as their daily job :-) ... AX 2009 Workflows: A Quick overview Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009 Role Centers in Microsoft Dynamics Ax Microsofty Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal / Role Centers - Deployment Tips-n-Tricks - 1 EP/Role Centers in WSS vs [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 26th '08
Shift Happens
Joris Peolmans
I just stumbled upon another YouTube video (based on the original Did you know video) about the change we will be facing - this time in Dutch - Shift Happens. The message is quite clear - change is omnipresent and it's pace will only accelerate. This message is very powerfull but still lots of organizations don't seem to grasp it's impact. This is my favourite quote out of the vid: We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein The orig [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 22nd '08
December 8th - BIWUG on SharePoint, Silverlight and e-ID
Joris Peolmans
We are ready to restart BIWUG so expect a number of planned sessions in the coming months. We start off by organizing another BIWUG meeting on December 8th: 18:00-18:30 - Registration and welcome 18:30-18:45 - Introduction 18:45-19u45 - Silverlight and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft recently released Silverlight 2.0 - it's latest version of the framework to build Rich Internet Applications. This session will start off with looking at how Silverlight works and how you can u [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 20th '08
SharePoint - it's all about making the right choices and decisions - Part I
Joris Peolmans
The key to a succesfull SharePoint implementation is making the right choices. Not only about choosing which functionality to implement first - see Leveraging the SharePoint platform - what capabilities to start with - but also about making the right choices when you try to extend the platform. This blog series will focus on making the correct customization/design choices. Let's explore one of the choices you have when looking at workflows in SharePoint. SharePoint Designer for workflows vs Visu [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 20th '08
Guidance about InfoPath Forms Services
Joris Peolmans
InfoPath Forms Services is like one of those hidden gems in SharePoint Server 2007 (SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition only). It still is a little rough on the edges but if you know it's limitations and take a look at some good documentation it will get you going quite quickly. Great  place to start is the blog series on the InfoPath blog - these guys have been busy during the summer season - some nice reads  for those long winter nights: Designing browser-enabled forms for per [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 19th '08
SharePoint Guidance and best practices
Joris Peolmans
If you are an architect who is new to SharePoint development - you should start of by looking at the latest updated version of SharePoint guidance - SharePoint Guidance - Patterns & Practices [MSDN]. Definitely take a look at  SharePoint Guidance on Codeplex and download SharePoint guidance for November 2008. This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation (RI) demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development an [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 19th '08
SharePoint Accessibility
Joris Peolmans
About a year ago the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint was announced but lately some new options became available to built an accessible website on SharePoint. One of them is the Alternative Rendering Framework (ARF) for SharePoint. Another option is the Barriere-frei kit for SharePoint (BKS). BKS was developed according to the Access for All (AA+) guidelines and will help to make the Internet more accessible. For example BKS helps to annotate pictures with a meaningful description, which can eas [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 18th '08
Mental Note - SharePoint and WCF
Joris Peolmans
Just a reminder for myself to check out the following blogposts about the SharePoint and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): Super Easy way to add WCF to SharePoint Hosting WCF in SharePoint Silverlight WCF References in SharePoint - the right way Using a WCF client to talk to SharePoint OOTB web services Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,wcf,windows+communication+foundation,microsoft,moss,moss+2007,sharepoint+2007 [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 17th '08
Talking about Microsoft Master Data Management or Bulldog
Joris Peolmans
Master Data Management (MDM) comprises a set of processes and tools that consistently defines and manages the non-transactional data entities of an organization (also called reference data). MDM has the objective of providing processes for collecting, aggregating, matching, consolidating, quality-assuring, persisting and distributing such data throughout an organization to ensure consistency and control in the ongoing maintenance and application use of this information. (Source: Wikipedia MDM) I [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 17th '08
Office 14 hits the web
Joris Peolmans
Lot of buzz around the Office 14 webapps - basically web -based versions of Word, Excel and OneNote, using  Silverlight and Ajax. One of the things which excites me most is collaborative editing of documents, with automatic synchronisation of changes when multiple users are editing a document. For more info take a look at Channel 9 Webcast - Office 14 for the web . And for some excellent screenshots of Office 14 webapps take a look at  Microsoft Office 14 Web Applications Preview as we [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 16th '08
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint
Joris Peolmans
Jason Zander just announced support for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010 at TechEd Emea. For those still working with Visual Studio 2005 - take a look at Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 1.1 (VSEWSS 1.1) - or VSEWSS 1.2 when you are using Visual Studio 2008. Some interesting features for SharePoint developers - (taken from Paul Andrew's blog) Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio. Apparently they extended the current Serv [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 14th '08
SnagIt Tip : Capturing Windows Media Player media files
Joris Peolmans
I like SnagIt - it is one of the best capturing tools that you can find on the market but today I had some troubles when trying to capture images from a media file which was playing in Windows Media Player - everything time again it produced a black screen. Luckily I found the workaround on the Techsmith site - Black or blank video and image captures - I needed to disable hardware accelaration.... [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 14th '08
SharePoint Security Access Check Codeplex
Joris Peolmans
A colleague of mine just pointed me to this interesting tool ... http://www.codeplex.com/AccessChecker Quickly check what objects within a Sharepoint site hierarchy a user has access to.  The Access Checker Web Part is a Windows Sharepoint Services Web Part, for use within Windows Sharepoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, that displays a tree view showing permissions on objects for a user scoped to a Site hierarchy. It also has a second mode which will show the pe [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 14th '08
Guide to SharePoint workflow development
Joris Peolmans
Introductory material - things you should know before opening Visual Studio :-): SharePoint Workflow - Workflow Basics (Training course) SharePoint Workflows -  How to collect feedback for a file (Training Course) Introduction to workflows - Windows SharePoint Services (Introductory article) Intermediate and advanced resources MSDN - Delivering Modular SharePoint workflow functionality (Part 1 of 2) MSDN - Delivering Modular SharePoint workflow functionality (Part 2 of 2) SharePoint [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 14th '08
MS Project 2007 Visual Reports
Joris Peolmans
Cool new feature in MS Project 2007 - Visual Reports Visual Reports is a new feature in Project Standard and Professional that allows you to report on your project’s data in Excel using PivotTables and PivotCharts, and in Visio using a new feature called PivotDiagrams (think fancy WBS charts). Using Visual Reports you can now easily create eye-catching reports that are also informative off data from your project using formats that are familiar to your target audience. To help get you start [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 13th '08
SPLongOperation and Threadabortexception
Joris Peolmans
SPLongOperation allows you to show the nice SharePoint spinner page when you have code in a SharePoint application page which runs for quite a while  (See for example Compiling SharePoint 2007 audiences using the SharePoint object model (C# code sample) ). Unfortunately there is not a lot of documentation about it the use of it out there. So when I stumbled upon a ThreadAbortException when trying to create a new SharePoint site in my application page. Apparently the only way around it was a [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 12th '08
Follow up - Folders in SharePoint document libraries - Why???
Joris Peolmans
Last week I wrote a posting about the use of folders in SharePoint document libraries. After reading the comments I must admit  that I probably took a too rigid approach. There are valid reasons why you can still use folders in SharePoint document libraries but are are also a lot of cases in which metadata/libraries or views are a better approach. When migrating documents from file share into SharePoint the easiest approach is to copy (and paste) all of the documents including the existing [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 29th '08
LOL - Der Untergang-Bedrijfsuitje [Dutch-speaking only]
Joris Peolmans
[read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 29th '08
First JBoss User Group Belgium event
Joris Peolmans
Since I'm a strong believer in the power of the community - here a quick promo for the the first Belgian JBUG event - for more details check out Joram's blogentry - Announcing- The first JBoss User Group Belgium event! PS And no, I'm not going to convert to the dark side :-) ... Tags van Technorati: jbug,jboss,community+event,community,usergroup [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 29th '08
Using Windows Mobile ActiveSync via Bluetooth
Joris Peolmans
I needed to sync my Windows Mobile smartphone with my portable - so when looking for some guidance - I stumbled upon this excellent walkthrough - Setup ActiveSync via Bluetooth Tags van Technorati: activesync,windows+mobile,bluetooth,smartphone [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 26th '08
Read the web.config inside a SharePoint Timer Job
Joris Peolmans
This is something I needed today - luckily Koen has a interesting workaround - Sharepoint Timerjob: Read the web.config inside a Timer Job Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,microsoft,development [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 24th '08
Building a SharePoint custom site definition with a project tasks list and a listviewwebpart in Gantt view on the homepage.
Joris Peolmans
The next walkthrough will show you how you can create custom site definition with specific lists and their associated listviewwebparts on the homepage - as an example I will use the new Project Tasks list type in SharePoint 2007.  To get you going first take a look at Creating a custom site definition in WSS V3/MOSS 2007. Start off with something simple such as a completely blank custom site definition. Next let's add a new list instance of type Project Tasks to the site definition - to do [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 23rd '08
SharePoint and it's partner ecosystem - addons to extend the platform
Joris Peolmans
The success of a platform is best measured by the success of its partner ecosystem. With over 3300 certified partners who provided solutions on the SharePoint platform 2 years after the launch I guess it is safe to say that SharePoint has gone mainstream. Lately some new interesting addons where released. Next is a list of some recent announcemnt with regards to released addons (Remember - this is not an exhaustive list - if you think there is something missing leave a comment):   Vitrium [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 22nd '08
Updating my SharePoint-Silverlight developer VPC
Joris Peolmans
After some issues with regards to lack of space on my SharePoint Developer VPC (See Extending an existing Windows 2003 system VHD image) I finally got around to complete the installation of the new Silverlight 2 development tools - things you might want to take a install yourself to start experimenting Silverlight 2  - the latest build is Silverlight 2 RTW (2.0.31005.0) Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 RC1 - make sure that you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed otherw [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 21st '08
Extending an existing Windows 2003 system vhd image
Joris Peolmans
When you try to install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you will notice that you will need a lot of free space on your system drive. Unfortunately this was not the case with my SharePoint development VPC. Luckily it is possible to extend your existing C-disk. Download VHD Resizer from vmtoolkit.com Next boot up your VPC with the newly resized disk as a secondary disk (This is important since you can't resize a system or boot volume) - and use Diskpart Go to command prompt Type diskpart Type list volume [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 19th '08
Folders in SharePoint document libraries - Why???
Joris Peolmans
This is something which happens everytime again when you look at users who start working with SharePoint. They start creating folders within document libraries. NOOOOO .... metadata is the way to go in SharePoint - if you use metadata you can use search, filters and custom views to organize your documents. This provides for a lot more flexiblity. But unfortunately people are not eager to change the way they are working. So maybe it is possible to combine the best of both worlds - it would be ni [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 16th '08
Introducing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification
Joris Peolmans
On september 10th the  new Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification was submitted to Oasis. The goal of this specification is to define a web service standard which will allow easier interaction between different ECM systems such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet P8, etc ... Some interesting background info is to be found on the Microsoft ECM blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2008/09/09/announcing-the-content-management-i [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 15th '08
Updating to Zune 3.0
Joris Peolmans
I just tried installing Zune 3.0 using the standard Zune setup package (which contacts Windows Update) but it failed with the error -  Can't contact Microsoft Update. Please try again later. (Check out http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/944938?sd=zune for more error details).  Luckily there is a full download of the Zune 3.0 client software and after this everything went quite smoothly. The Zune.Social functionality is not available in Belgium however. But I still think th [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 14th '08
SharePoint at PDC08
Joris Peolmans
Not a lot of sessions about SharePoint at PDC08 - but if you look very hard you will find a couple :-) ... Dublin" and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to the Cloud FAST: Building Search-Driven Portals with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Silverlight SharePoint 2007: Advanced Asynchronous Workflow Messaging SharePoint 2007: Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2008 Sharepoint Online: Extending Your Service For more details check out Paul's [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 14th '08
Microsoft releases Silverlight 2
Joris Peolmans
Check out the press release -  Microsoft releases Silverlight 2, already reaching one in four customers worldwide - some interesting details: Microsoft announced plans to support additional tools for developing Silverlight applications by providing funding to Soyatec, a France-based IT solutions provider and Eclipse Foundation member, to lead a project to integrate advanced Silverlight development capabilities into the Eclipse IDE. Soyatec plans to release the project under the Eclipse Pub [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 13th '08
Wordle
Joris Peolmans
I just created a Wordle of my current site feed ... pretty neat - try it out yourself http://wordle.net/create [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 13th '08
Clusty - The clustering search engine
Joris Peolmans
Interesting concept - try it out at http://clusty.com/ - I found this information about the way that it works ... Rather than focusing just on search engine result ranking, we realized that grouping results into topics, or "clustering," made for better search and discovery.... Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam t [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 13th '08
Interesting thing to know about Definition Extraction in SharePoint
Joris Peolmans
Apparently the definition extraction feature in SharePoint Server 2007 does not use security trimming - for more info take a look at I don't like the Definition Extraction Feature . Fortunately, you can just disable it all together - go to the Search Center Results page - Modify the Search Core Results web part, and turn off ‘Display Discovered Definition’. Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,search,moss,microsoft [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 12th '08
Photosynth - How to get synthy
Joris Peolmans
If you are into photography you should definitely take a look at Photosynth. Photosynth allows you to reconstruct a scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs. It allows for an interesting new new photoviewing experience. Photosynth also uses the Deepzoom (originally called Seadragon) capabilities which you can use in your own Silverlight apps. For more information about similar projects take a look at the Microsoft LiveLabs. Tags van Technorati: photosynth,deep+zoom,seadragon,livelabs [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 12th '08
Installing Office 2007 SP1 - make sure you have enough free disk space
Joris Peolmans
I got this error when installing Office Enterprise 2007 SP1 on a VPC where I only had 400 MB of free disk space on C-drive Product: Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 -- Error 1307.There is not enough disk space to install this file: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MODI\12.0\XIMAGE3B.DLL.  Free some disk space and click 'Retry', or click 'Cancel' to exit. After I freed up 1 GB everything went smoothly... Tags van Technorati: microsoft,office+2007 [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 8th '08
Moving the ServicePackFiles directory in Windows Server 2003
Joris Peolmans
My installation of Office 2007 SP1 just failed because of insufficient diskspace on my virtual disk. So I decided to clean up some space - if you look in the c:\Windows directory you will notice a directory ServicePackFiles. Instead of deleting it, you can also move it to another disk - if you do this you will also need to update the registry - go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup and change the pointers to a new location. For more information check out Can I [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 6th '08
Quick tip: Search Center and SharePoint site collections
Joris Peolmans
You might notice that when you you upgrade a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 setup to MOSS 2007, sites are upgraded to site collections. If you look at the  search scope dropdown for these upgraded sites, you will only see the "This site" option. Correcting this is quite easy - just go to Site Actions > Modify All Site Settings > Search Settings (Underneath Site Collection Administration). Check Use custom scopes and fill in the URL to the Search Center (default /SearchCenter/pages/). T [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 4th '08
[MVP] Congratulations ! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award
Joris Peolmans
Yep, this is the 4th year in a row that my title of MVP Windows SharePoint Services  is renewed. Thanks to everyone who in one way or another contributed to my (re)nomination. Here are the things that I plan to do in the next few months: Further add stuff to my SharePoint Extensions Codeplex project Finally finish off some blog series - Integrating MOSS 2007 and Dynamics AX - I will restart this one and will focus on the Dynamics AX 2009 version. Same goes for Getting started with SharePoi [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 2nd '08
Compacting virtual harddisks (vhds)
Joris Peolmans
When you are busy setting up a new virtual environment you will notice that dynamically expanding disks only grow in size - they don't compact automatically when you clean up your disks. If you want to reduce the size follow the next steps: Load your virtual pc image and from the the CD menu, select Capture ISO Image and browse to the Virtual PC additions directory, which is %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual Machine Additions by default. Mount Virtual Disk Precompactor.iso. The preco [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 25th '08
Troubleshooting errors for InfoPath forms deployed on SharePoint
Joris Peolmans
I was deploying some InfoPath forms today and testing them out when I stumbled on the not so helpfull error "An error occurred while submitting the form". Luckily SharePoint offers a logging system which allows you tune at what level you want to get error logging. So I went to SharePoint Central Admin > Operations > Diagnostic Logging (Underneath the Logging and Reporting section). Next select the Event Category - Forms Services Runtime and change the Trace Log to Verbose. This showed me t [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 23rd '08
[FUN]Joepiee ...
Joris Peolmans
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Posted: Sun, Sep 21st '08


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Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (PRO-Developer) by Patrick Tisseghem


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Professional Microsoft Search: SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008 (Wrox Professional Guides) by Tom Rizzo


Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Ryan Teeter


SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform by Seth Bates


Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices by Ben Curry


Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 Step by Step by Penelope Coventry


Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers by Jeff Webb


Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Woodrow W. Windischman


Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Programmer to Programmer) by Amanda Murphy


Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) by Olga Londer


Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed by Michael Noel


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Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) by Ted Pattison; Daniel Larson


Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion by Bill English


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Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by P. Tisseghem


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Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft® SharePoint® Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (BP-Other) by Michael Sampson


Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Andrew Connell


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Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Bible by Vikram Kartik


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