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SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach–Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach was a huge success again and a great way to kick off the new year. Attendance has really grown, and I believe there were close to 350 people there between the attendees, sponsors, speakers, and volunteers. Great job as always by the volunteers making this one of the best run events [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 9th '12 |
A Look Ahead
Mike Oryszak
The past year was an interesting one filled with highs and lows for me both personally and professionally. Looking forward to 2012 I am very optimistic that it will be a great year for many. This morning I received the email that I was renewed as a SharePoint MVP for another year; upping the total [...] [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 1st '12 |
SharePoint Saturday Richmond Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
SharePoint Saturday Richmond was a blast. Thanks to everyone that attended, hopefully the session was beneficial to the attendees. Here is a copy of the slide deck on Slide Share: Developing Resuable Workflow Features Here is a copy of the source code used during the presentation: SPBlueprints.Activities [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 5th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday Richmond
Mike Oryszak
SharePoint Saturday Richmond is scheduled for Saturday November 5th. It is a free event with great content for End Users, Power Users, Developers, Architects, and IT Pros. With a great lineup of speakers there is sure to be great content giving attendees a chance to expand their SharePoint knowledge and also to network with other [...] [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 22nd '11 |
CASPUG–Session Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
Great turnout for the September meeting of the Charlotte Area SharePoint User Group. Thanks to everyone that attended, hopefully the session was beneficial to the attendees. Here is a copy of the slidedeck on Slide Share: Developing Reusable Workflow Features Here is a copy of the sourcecode used during the presentation: SPBlueprints.Activities [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 24th '11 |
Presenting Charlotte SPUG–Developing Reusable Workflow Features
Mike Oryszak
I am scheduled to present at the September meeting for the Charlotte SharePoint User Group and will be presenting my session on planning and developing for reuse within workflows. A full session abstract is below. Session Abstract A key component to developing and maintaining a suite of workflow processes is consistency and reusable features. This [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 7th '11 |
User Profiles – Adding a Custom Tab and Page
Mike Oryszak
The User Profile Pages within the MySites area of SharePoint 2010 is significantly more robust than in previous versions. I really like the concept of making it a central/social hub and using it as a central place to hold and maintain content. While I generally shy away from major customizations to the Personal sites (aka [...] [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 3rd '11 |
Use the Status Bar to Display Active Workflows
Mike Oryszak
Over the past six months I’ve found myself moving more and more towards using the new Client OM for things that I used to use jQuery and SPServices for. While I still love SPServices, it is not always required and now that I am getting more knowledgeable about how to do things in the Client [...] [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 28th '11 |
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Mike Oryszak
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Posted: Sun, Aug 28th '11 |
SPS The Conference Slides and Additional Info
Mike Oryszak
SharePoint Saturday The Conference has been a pretty impressive event so far. It is amazing how well it has been run which is a real testament to the organizers and volunteers that have made it all happen. Both of my sessions seemed to go off fairly well, hopefully everyone managed to learn something and has [...] [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 12th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday New York– Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
SharePoint Saturday New York has been a lot of fun with a great set of speakers, volunteers, and attendees. A big thank you to everyone that sat through my presentation on Developing Reusable Workflow Features. The slide deck is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/nextconnect/developing-reusable-workflow-features And the Visual Studio project is available here: SPBlueprints.Activities I hope that the [...] [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 30th '11 |
Bulk Updates of User Profile Properties
Mike Oryszak
This past week fellow SharePoint MVP Yaroslav Pentsarskyy posted an excellent PowerShell script for doing bulk updates on the UserProfile properties via PowerShell. The Bulk Update SharePoint 2010 User Profile Properties is a great script that makes it extremely easy to populate any new fields that are not set to synchronize. My team has been [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 25th '11 |
A Portfolio Approach to Developing Workflows and Processes
Mike Oryszak
One of the common pitfalls I see with process optimization projects is that they tend to focus on a specific process at a time. This may be ok when you are just starting out, or working with informal processes, but as the number of complex processes improves it is important to try and take a [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 18th '11 |
Feedburner Test
Mike Oryszak
Test [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 8th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday The Conference DC
Mike Oryszak
I have been confirmed as a speaker at SharePoint Saturday The Conference in DC this year. The event will take place at the Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA Thursday August 11th through Saturday August 13th. This marks the first multi-day SharePoint Saturday event and it is expected that over 2500 people will be [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 7th '11 |
Quota Management and Storage Reports in SharePoint 2010
Mike Oryszak
A few years ago I wrote an article about how to enable and work with the Quota Management features in SharePoint 2007 (click here for article) which proved to be a popular post. Quota Management is a pretty important topic when it comes to SharePoint Governance and overall maintenance of the platform. While the overall [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 5th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday NY
Mike Oryszak
I will be presenting at the SharePoint Saturday NY event on Saturday July 30th at the Microsoft offices in Manhattan. Session Overview – Developing Reusable Workflow Features “A key component to developing and maintaining a suite of workflow processes is consistency and reusable features. This session will provide an overview of how to approach [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 15th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday Tampa Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
SharePoint Saturday Tampa was a lot of fun, and there were a lot of great attendees there soaking up the SharePoint goodness. A big thanks to the organizers, sponsors and volunteers that made this happen. I also hope that everyone that attended my Planning for the User Profiles session got a lot out of it. [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 15th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday Atlanta Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
SharePoint Saturday Atlanta was a huge success. A big thank you to the participants, sponsors, speakers and of course the organizers that put so much effort into the event. I would also like to thank everyone that sat in on my session on “Getting the Most from the User Profiles” and hope that it does [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, May 9th '11 |
SharePoint Saturday Atlanta
Mike Oryszak
I’ll be presenting at SharePoint Saturday Atlanta on Saturday May 7th. The lineup is impressive and this is sure to be one of the bigger SharePoint Saturday events in the region this year. Session details: Getting the Most from the User Profiles This session will help you maximize the power and value of the SharePoint [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 26th '11 |
MSDN SharePoint MVP Chat–Wed April 20th
Mike Oryszak
The SharePoint Chats are back and the April Chat is scheduled for April 20th at noon EST (9am PST). I’ll be among the featured chatters helping to answer all of your SharePoint related questions. Q&A with the SharePoint MVP Experts Live! Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? Do [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 19th '11 |
New Blog Home
Mike Oryszak
For some time now I’ve been wanting to redo my blog. I really haven’t been happy with Blogger as a platform, and while I really wanted to do something hosted on SharePoint, WordPress at this time offers a better publishing platform for internet facing content. Of course that may change when the updates to the [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 4th '11 |
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Mike Oryszak
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Posted: Mon, Apr 4th '11 |
SharePoint Governance and Continuous Improvement
Mike Oryszak
There are a number of reasons why I have seen SharePoint Governance stall in many environments, but one of the most common reasons and the one I would like to address today, is the problem of trying to take or address too much scope at once. There are a lot of topics that roll into [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 4th '11 |
Keys to Long Term SharePoint Stability and Success
Mike Oryszak
Recently I have been called into a few environments where the customers were having some serious performance problems or had features that were no longer working. It really nailed home the point that Capacity Planning should really be Capacity Management as Microsoft now refers to it in their Capacity Management and Sizing Overview guidance for [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 4th '11 |
SPSVB – Developer’s Introduction to SharePoint Search
Mike Oryszak
The morning session on Search seemed to go over well with a lot of great questions. Here is the slide deck from the session: Spsvb Developer Intro to SharePoint Search View more presentations from Mike Oryszak Source Code for the Manager Web Part is below: using System; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 4th '11 |
Review – Pro SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design
Mike Oryszak
I was recently given a chance to review this book thanks to one of the books author’s John Ross. While my main focus is not on branding and user interfaces it is a critical component of the SharePoint solutions my team delivers and also one of the important things that can separate successful from failed implementations. This book does a great job of providing an overview of the branding options with SharePoint 2010 (Foundation and Server). It also does a really good job of showing [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 10th '11 |
SPSVB - Developer's Introduction to SharePoint Search
Mike Oryszak
The morning session on Search seemed to go over well with a lot of great questions. Here is the slide deck from the session: Spsvb Developer Intro to SharePoint Search View more presentations from Mike Oryszak. Source Code for the Manager Web Part is below: using System; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls; usi [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 8th '11 |
Event–SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach
Mike Oryszak
In a new annual SharePoint tradition, SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach is right around the corner. Virginia Beach was the location of the first SharePoint Saturday back in January 2009 and this makes the third straight year they will host the first weekend in January. The speaker list is beyond impressive; I don’t dare list them because I would literally have to list them all. The caliber is first class, it is amazing that so many people are so willing to go to great lengths to s [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 3rd '11 |
Shared Link: SharePoint 2010 Social Networking Diagram
Mike Oryszak
I do not often link to another blog post as part of one on my site, but this one was too good to pass up. For those of you interested in SharePoint 2010’s Social Features, here is great diagram of of how all of the components and services fit together. It is extremely valuable to understand this information when you embark on an implementation or need to troubleshoot why something is not behaving as expected. SharePoint Solutions Team Blog SharePoint 2010 Social Networking D [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
2010 Recap and Looking Forward
Mike Oryszak
Looking back at 2010 it is amazing everything that happened. It really was a whirlwind year that brought a lot of change to me both personally and professionally. A year ago today I received my first MVP award for SharePoint Server which was a pleasant surprise. At the time I was working for an organization I really liked, but in a position that just was not a good fit so last spring I decided to jump back into consulting and took a staff position with Intellinet. Matt R [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
SharePoint Log Viewer
Mike Oryszak
Anyone that spends much time administering or developing against SharePoint knows what a pain it can be to work with the log files in a text editor. The SharePoint LogViewer developed by Overroot provides a great interface making it easy to work with and filter down the log files. Give it a try here: http://sharepointlogviewer.codeplex.com/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 29th '10 |
Charlotte SPUG Warp-up–Planning for MySites and Social Features in the Enterprise
Mike Oryszak
It was great seeing everyone at the Charlotte SharePoint User Group today. Here are the slides for my session on Planning for MySites and Social Features in the Enterprise. Charlotte SPUG - Planning for MySites and Social in the Enterprise View more presentations from nextconnect. [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 17th '10 |
SharePoint Governance and Continuous Improvement
Mike Oryszak
pThere are a number of reasons why I have seen SharePoint Governance stall in many environments, but one of the most common reasons and the one I would like to address today, is the problem of trying to take or address too much scope at once.#160; There are a lot of topics that roll into SharePoint Governance; the SharePoint Governance Framework we use at my company identifies over 50 distinct topics.#160; In most cases it is not practical to take the full list of topics and work through a gover [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 25th '10 |
Event – Planning for MySites and Social Features in the Enterprise
Mike Oryszak
pOn November 17th, I will be presenting my session “Planning for MySites and Social Features in the Enterprise” at the a href="http://sharepoint.casug.org/" target="_blank"Charlotte Area SharePoint User Group/a.#160; /p pI will provide an overview and best practices for planning and deploying MySites in the Enterprise.#160; The session will cover how to determine organizational readiness, how to select features to implement, governance considerations, and the architectural impact on the farm [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 19th '10 |
Keys to Long Term SharePoint Stability and Success
Mike Oryszak
pRecently I have been called into a few environments where the customers were having some serious performance problems or had features that were no longer working.#160; It really nailed home the point that Capacity Planning should really be Capacity Management as Microsoft now refers to it in their a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758647.aspx" target="_blank"Capacity Management and Sizing Overview/a guidance for SharePoint 2010.#160; These environments also tend to have some [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 11th '10 |
Houston TechFest Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
pAs they say, “everything is bigger in Texas” and the Houston TechFest is a great example of that.#160; A large, independently organized event covering many diverse technical subjects and disciplines.#160; I really had fun and got to meet some interesting people./p pI enjoyed my session, and would like to thank everyone that attended.#160; My slide deck for the session is available here:#160; a href="http://cid-7bbd6854b10fc2a4.office.live.com/view.aspx/.Public/Houston%20TechFest%20-%20Share [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 9th '10 |
Review – SharePoint 2010 How-To
Mike Oryszak
pI was recently given the opportunity to review a href="http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/" target="_blank"Ishai Sagi’s/a new book a href="http://www.amazon.com/SharePoint-2010-How-Ishai-Sagi/dp/067233335X" target="_blank"SharePoint 2010 How-To/a.#160; The book provides an overview on many of the concepts and tasks that site users, authors, content managers, and site owners need to know.#160; The format of the book makes it a great Quick Reference for users not interested in reading it end to end [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 4th '10 |
Event – Dev Intro to SharePoint Search
Mike Oryszak
pI will be presenting my session strongemA Developers Introduction to SharePoint Search/em/strong for the a href="http://www.trispug.com" target="_blank"Triangle SharePoint Users Group/a on Tuesday October 5th.#160; The session will cover Search from a Developer’s perspective including Query Structure, how to configure the standard search web parts, how to format the results display along with how to extend search and integrate it into your customizations using the API for rich user experience [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10 |
MS Security Advisory Vulnerability in ASP.NET and SharePoint
Mike Oryszak
MS has released a critical Security Advisory about a vulnerability in ASP.NET which impacts SharePoint. br /br /See a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/09/21/security-advisory-2416728-vulnerability-in-asp-net-and-sharepoint.aspx"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/09/21/security-advisory-2416728-vulnerability-in-asp-net-and-sharepoint.aspx/a for details.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/68283 [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 21st '10 |
Event – September MSDN SharePoint MVP Chat
Mike Oryszak
pI will be participating in the September 29th SharePoint MVP chat on MSDN.#160; /p pLive Chats to Learn more about SharePoint - with 16 MVP Experts Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010? By popular request, SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in a live chat event about SharePoint. These Qamp;A events are a great opportunity to tap into the vast knowledge of these industry professionals who are regarded as the b [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 20th '10 |
White Paper – MS Office Compatibility with SharePoint
Mike Oryszak
pFor those that have been involved with SharePoint for awhile the document title “Good, Better, Best” should ring some bells.#160; There was a document with that title published with the last few SharePoint versions that compared the various MS Office suites going back to Office 2000 and detailed how they interacted with SharePoint features.#160; An updated version has been published in the form of a 37 page white paper called a href="http://download.microsoft.com/DOWNLOAD/2/A/A/2AA0D302-86A [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 20th '10 |
Event – Dev Intro to SharePoint Search at Houston TechFest
Mike Oryszak
pI am in the process of finalizing my presentation for the Houston TechFest on Saturday October 9th, where I’ll be providing strongemA Developers Introduction to SharePoint Search/em/strong.#160; The session will cover Search from a Developer’s perspective including Query Structure, how to configure the standard search web parts, how to format the results display along with how to extend search and integrate it into your customizations using the API for rich user experiences.#160; /p pWhile [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 15th '10 |
Disabling the “What’s Happening?” Display on the User Profiles
Mike Oryszak
pOne of the SharePoint 2010 features I really like is the user status information that is integrated into the updated User Profiles.#160; Unfortunately some organizations are not quite comfortable or ready to support the feature.#160; /p pHere is what it looks like with the user status set: br /img border="0" alt="User Profile with Status" src="http://avl31w.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pi1rslKg13YPAjmyo1QJuFjn8_DnTaxkQU6oyQJ_ccNIcGMw9PsttiFqlt2oFPslhQlNVbh_KdAuNfAj1YUdgY7u38FPs2k1V/profile_with_stat [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 13th '10 |
Keys to Planning For SharePoint Search
Mike Oryszak
pOf the core planning areas in SharePoint, Search seems to get very little attention.#160; I find this surprising since one of the most common complaints from SharePoint implementations (or any Enterprise Information System) is that users cannot find “anything” in the system.#160; Most of the environments I go into have Search configured in only a very basic sense; a search site was created and crawling is scheduled.#160; To really get value out of the search features, and to greatly enhance [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 12th '10 |
SharePoint Blogging Tips
Mike Oryszak
pI am seeing more and more interest from organizations wanting to use SharePoint’s Blogging capabilities internally.#160; Blogging can be a great way to communicate and collaborate in an organization, but it is just now getting the mainstream attention and consideration.#160; Here are some tips and considerations that can help your organization maximize the effectiveness./p h4New Communication Uses/h4 pWhile the feature has not changed much, it is being perceived differently now.#160; In some [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 30th '10 |
SharePoint Designer 2010 Available Workflow Actions
Mike Oryszak
pA colleague of mine was asking for a comprehensive list of available workflow actions in SharePoint Designer 2010.#160; I did some searches and couldn’t find the details so I thought I would provide them here./p h5Core Actions/h5 ul liAdd a Comment#160; /li liAdd Time to Date#160; /li liDo Calculation#160; /li liLog to History List#160; /li liPause for Duration#160; /li liPause until Date#160; /li liSend an Email#160; /li liSet Time Portion of Date/Time Field /li liSet Workflow Status#160; /l [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 28th '10 |
Event – SharePoint Saturday Tampa Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
pAnother SharePoint Saturday is in the books.#160; As always it is great to see the interest and how people can come together to share their experiences./p pA big thank you to everyone that attended my session, to the event sponsors and of course to all of the event coordinators and volunteers that made it happen./p pDespite the technical issues with my VM, hopefully there was some good content shared during the demo.#160; For anyone interested, here is my slide deck:#160; a href="http://cid-7bb [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 26th '10 |
User Profiles – Driving Business Process
Mike Oryszak
pThe workflow features first introduced in WSS 3.0/MOSS in 2007 and enhanced in the 2010 offerings present an opportunity for organizations with SharePoint to start to automate the coordination of their business processes.#160; While many have been working with it, one of the limitations I have seen is that everything is localized to a particular site or process.#160; In many cases there are configuration or user attributes managed in a local list that can be used as a data source.#160; /p h4Man [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 23rd '10 |
User Profiles – Creating Custom Properties
Mike Oryszak
pThe User Profiles in SharePoint Server represent a very robust and flexible way to manage information about the members of your organization.#160; It can be used to fill the roll of a searchable Employee Directory, used to drive business processes and workflows, and also makes it easier to find people in the organization based on their expertise and user property attributes providing social networking functionality.#160; /p pThe default properties that are created at the time of installation ar [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 21st '10 |
Event – June MSDN SharePoint MVP Chat
Mike Oryszak
pAnother SharePoint MVP chat has been scheduled to take place next week.#160; Here are the details:/p blockquote pLive Chats to Learn more about SharePoint - with 17 MVP Experts Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010? By popular request, SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in a live chat event about SharePoint. These Qamp;A events are a great opportunity to tap into the vast knowledge of these industry profession [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 18th '10 |
Configuring SharePoint 2010s Social Aggregation Jobs
Mike Oryszak
pSharePoint 2010 includes a number of useful features to enhance Social Collaboration by aggregating and surfacing social data.#160; By default, these jobs may be disabled or at the very least not set to update frequently enough.#160; Like all Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010, these jobs can be configured to meet your needs./p pYou can find the jobs by navigating to strongemCentral Administration/em/strong, selecting the strongemMonitoring/em/strong option, and then clicking the strongemReview job [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 14th '10 |
Review – Pro SharePoint 2010 Development
Mike Oryszak
pI was given the chance to review the a href="http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-SharePoint-2010-Development.productCd-0470529423.html" target="_blank"Pro SharePoint 2010 Development/a book recently and I jumped at the opportunity.#160; I thought that the book for 2007 was critical reading, and with the new changes that come to the 2010 platform it is even more true of the updated book./p pIt does an excellent job of giving an overview of what is new with SharePoint 2010, what t [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 9th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Migration versus Upgrade
Mike Oryszak
pNo doubt there are hundreds of companies currently reviewing or planning the move to SharePoint 2010 from previous versions.#160; The excitement and business interest around the technology is very encouraging.#160; Before picking an “upgrade” path though, I would encourage teams to compare the Migration paths in addition to the normal Upgrade paths.#160; /p h4Migration Path/h4 pTaking a Migration path means you are going to build a new farm or environment and then move content to it.#160; T [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 7th '10 |
Event – SharePoint 2010 Personalization
Mike Oryszak
pI am excited to announce that I will be presenting one of my favorite topics at a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/tampa/default.aspx" target="_blank"SharePoint Saturday Tampa/a on June 26th.#160; I’ll be presenting an overview and walk through of the personalization features in SharePoint 2010 including the MySites, User Profiles, Wall, Notes, Tagging and the Newsfeed. Using these features will make it easier to find relevant information and increase team collaboration.#160; I will al [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10 |
Unlocking The Potential of SharePoint With Remote Access
Mike Oryszak
pI have been putting a lot of work lately into some general 2010 presentations and one of the messages I’m really concentrating on is strongemConnect anywhere, from any device, with any browser/em/strong.#160; I think this is a critical ingredient in enabling SharePoint to be a great Unified Business Collaboration Platform.#160; It comes down to removing all of the unnecessary hurdles of accessing and working with the content in a secure manner.#160; While there are some technical changes that [read].
Posted: Thu, May 27th '10 |
Event – MSDN SharePoint MVP Chats
Mike Oryszak
pThanks to the success of the previous SharePoint MVP chats, two additional chats have been scheduled this week.#160; Come and ask your pressing SharePoint questions or follow the chat stream and learn more about the SharePoint platform./p pa href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125568720803118" target="_blank"Chat 1 – Tuesday May 25th –7pm EST/a/p pa href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123658667663045" target="_blank"Chat 2 – Wednesday May 26th – 12pm EST/a/p pTo particip [read].
Posted: Tue, May 25th '10 |
Event – SharePoint Presentations in Charlotte, NC
Mike Oryszak
pOn Thursday May 27th I’ll be presenting two sessions at a Business Productivity Conference at the Microsoft offices in Charlotte, NC.#160; Both sessions will cover the features and value offered by Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010./p pThe first session, “The Value of Connecting People, Process amp; Information” will be largely targeted to decision-makers./p pThe second session, “Office 2010: A Technical Dive into The Next Wave of Productivity” will be how all of these fe [read].
Posted: Fri, May 21st '10 |
SharePoint Saturday DC Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
pSharePoint Saturday DC was a huge success.#160; There were some great session and most everyone had a great time.#160; The official attendee count came in at 929 making this the largest of the onsite SharePoint Saturday events to have taken place./p pFor anyone interested in my slide deck, it can be found here:#160; a href="http://cid-7bbd6854b10fc2a4.skydrive.live.com/view.aspx/.Public/SPS%20DC%20May%202010/SharePoint%20Disaster%20Recovery%20Planning.pptx" target="_blank"Keys to Establishing a [read].
Posted: Sat, May 15th '10 |
Content Classes in SharePoint Search
Mike Oryszak
pContent Classes make it possible to get the specific types of content you want returned from a search request.#160; This can be from an interactive search executed by a user or by an automatic search configured to supply content across a SharePoint farm.#160; /p pHere is a list of Content Classes as well as an overview on how specific list, library, and item classes can be structured./p ul liSPSPeople – Will return only user profile objects./li liSTS_Site – Will return only site collections [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10 |
Events – MSDN SharePoint MVP Chats Scheduled
Mike Oryszak
pThanks to the success of the recent a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx" target="_blank"MSDN SharePoint MVP Chats/a two more are being scheduled.#160; The times for the chats have been staggered to help accommodate the community members around the globe./p pstrongApril 27, 2010/strong br /4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Pacific Time/p pstrongApril 28, 2010/strong br /9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time/p pHere is an overview:/p blockquote pDo you have tough technical questions regarding Shar [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 21st '10 |
Content Aggregation in SharePoint 2010
Mike Oryszak
pOne of the areas I continue to see companies struggle with is sharing and reusing content.#160; Many will cram everything into a single site collection, or worse yet a single web so that everything is in one spot and available.#160; A little over a year ago I wrote an article titled “a href="http://nextconnect.blogspot.com/2009/03/importance-of-content-syndication-and.html" target="_blank"The Importance of a Content Syndication and Aggregation Plan/a” where I covered a few of the method use [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 19th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday DC – DR Planning
Mike Oryszak
pa href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc/default.aspx" target="_blank"SharePoint Saturday DC/a is shaping up to be a great event.#160; With a plan to support up to 800 attendees and over 100 sessions submitted the coordination team is putting in overtime getting everything ready./p pI’m happy to announce that my session “a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc/meetings/128/KeystoEstablishingaDisasterRecoveryPlan.aspx" target="_blank"Keys to Establishing a SharePoint Disaster Recove [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 14th '10 |
Event – RTP Corporate Efficiency Meetings
Mike Oryszak
pOn Friday April 23rd I’ll be joining the team at Ultimus to show businesses how to improve Business Processes using SharePoint and Beyond.#160; I will be primarily covering how to realize the value of the SharePoint platform and the team from Ultimus will show how their BPM suite can leverage and any existing SharePoint investments./p pThere are two sessions, a a href="http://www.mmsend9.com/ls.cfm?r=233722856amp;sid=9169537amp;m=978187amp;u=ULTIMUSamp;s=http://www.ultimus.com/rtpbreakfast/" [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 13th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday Wrap-up
Mike Oryszak
pSharePoint Saturday Charlotte was another great community event.#160; The organizers and volunteers did a great job keeping things running smooth and everyone appeared to have a good time.#160; A big thank you to everyone that came out and a special thank you to the sponsors that made it all happen.#160; /p pHere is the slide deck for my session on#160; a href="http://zt1mnq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pc6ZaOawFnvAFHam-ZsMptqhIr6yjXOgK8iN-F3gdyniuLl7aYkfJbNxgLRIpSUbsLvOe3gCSTDfzTnGxUKFM8ypNoSIh8yRA [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 10th '10 |
MSDN SharePoint MVP Chat – Transcript Posted
Mike Oryszak
pOn May 15th the team at Microsoft organized a chat giving the community access to SharePoint MVPs to help answer their questions about SharePoint.#160; I was fortunate enough to participate in the event and found it a lot of fun.#160; It was great to see the strong interest from the community and I think there were about 265 unique individuals who tuned in along with a number of the SharePoint MVPs.#160; /p pThe transcript for the chat was just posted here:#160; a title="http://msdn.microsoft.c [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 9th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday Charlotte
Mike Oryszak
pIn a little while I’ll be heading to Charlotte, NC for this weekend’s a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/charlotte/default.aspx" target="_blank"SharePoint Saturday/a event where I’ll be presenting on a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/charlotte/meetings/27/SharePoint2010PersonalizationOverview.aspx" target="_blank"SharePoint 2010’s Personalization features/a.#160; This is really one of my favorite topic areas since I think this is a key area that can make the difference be [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 9th '10 |
Integrating Open Source Software and Components
Mike Oryszak
pOver the past few years there has been tremendous progress in making many components and solutions available in the open source markets like a href="http://www.codeplex.com" target="_blank"CodePlex/a, a href="http://sourcefordge.net" target="_blank"SourceForge/a, or even individual blogs and sites.#160; Many of these are community driven projects supported by individuals, with some by commercial companies.#160; For some reason many companies avoid or strictly limit allowing these solutions to b [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 1st '10 |
MySite Provisioning Methods
Mike Oryszak
pA number of times over the past few years I have stumbled into discussions (in person or online) about how to automate the creation of MySites for all users in the organization.#160; Creating the sites programmatically is actually pretty simple, but the real question is “emWhy do you want to do that?/em”#160; There are advantages and disadvantages to automating the process, but for me it almost always comes down to two big things; Governance and Business Reason.#160; /p h4MySite Governance/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 29th '10 |
Finding the Sweet Spot with Process Improvement
Mike Oryszak
pToday while visiting a grocery (super-)store I witnessed a strange event in the parking lot where a couple of guys were “pushing” carts.#160; This is something I did in high school so it is a task I understand very well.#160; They had a 60’ plus train of carts along with a motorized device at the end that helped to push which is what grabbed my attention.#160; My assumption is that since they had the motorized device (technology innovation) they could take on more work (process efficiency [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 22nd '10 |
Riding the 2010 Wave
Mike Oryszak
pThe blog has been a bit quiet the past few months.#160; Like many of my fellow SharePoint professionals I’ve been spending much of my free time getting up to speed on the next wave of tools between Office, SharePoint, and Visual Studio.#160; It is an incredible amount of information to digest so even though I have a few hundred hours on it there always seems to be more to dig into.#160; I feel like I got into it a bit late due to some other project commitments last fall.#160; Since then most [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 9th '10 |
Office and SharePoint 2010 Launch Info
Mike Oryszak
pThe official launch date for the Office and SharePoint 2010 versions has finally been set.#160; To kick off the festivities Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft’s Business Division will be delivering a keynote speech on Wednesday, May 12th at 11am EST./p pAdditional details, resources, and a link to add the event to your outlook calendar are available on the a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx#fbid=Tsv6q5uwmW4" target="_blank"offici [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 5th '10 |
MSDN – SharePoint MVP Chat
Mike Oryszak
pOn Monday March 15th MSDN is hosting a SharePoint MVP chat to answer questions on all topics related to SharePoint.#160; I am incredibly honored to be participating in the event and hope that it is the first of many in the months to come./p blockquote pMarch 15, 2010 br /12:00 PM EST (9:00 AM Pacific)/p pDo you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? Th [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10 |
Presentation - SharePoint 2010 Personalization Overview
Mike Oryszak
pOn Thursday, March 18th I’ll be presenting on SharePoint 2010’s Personalization features for the a href="http://www.sharepointgroups.org/sites/SSPUG/default.aspx" target="_blank"Sandhills SharePoint User Group/a in Fayetteville, NC.#160; While the group is relatively new, I know there is strong interest in SharePoint so I look forward to the opportunity to present on one of my favorite topics.#160; I look forward to seeing everyone there!/p pAdditional details can be found on the group’s [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 25th '10 |
Keys to Establishing a Disaster Recovery Plan
Mike Oryszak
pToday I put the finishing touches on a SharePoint Disaster Recovery presentation I’ll be delivering at the a href="http://www.trispug.com" target="_blank"Triangle SharePoint User Group/a meeting this week.#160; Part of the presentation goes into the regular technical aspects of backing up and restoring SharePoint, but the second half goes font color="#000000"into how I approach a Disaster Recovery plan./font#160; /p h4Prioritize Your Content/h4 pNot all sites, nor all types of content are the [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 1st '10 |
Service Applications in SharePoint 2010
Mike Oryszak
pI’ve spent a fair amount of time recently getting up to speed with SharePoint 2010.#160; One of the features that surprised me the most is the new Service Applications framework.#160; /p pTechNet defines a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263121%28office.14%29.aspx#section2" target="_blank"Service applications/a as “a resource that can be shared across sites within a farm or, in some cases, across multiple farms.”#160; Previously resources were shared between sites using [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 25th '10 |
TriSPUG Feb Meeting – SharePoint Disaster Recovery
Mike Oryszak
pI’ll be giving a presentation on SharePoint Disaster Recovery at the a href="http://www.trispug.com" target="_blank"Triangle SharePoint User Group’s/a February 2nd meeting./p pDuring the presentation I’ll give an overview of SharePoint Disaster Recovery including identifying where things are stored, different approaches and tools for performing back ups and how to recover from a couple of common disaster situations within different types of SharePoint farms.#160; I hope to provide plenty [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 19th '10 |
Troubleshooting Page Loading Issues
Mike Oryszak
pThis article will cover some techniques that I typically use for troubleshooting performance issues when loading a particular page in SharePoint.#160; Troubleshooting the overall platform and member servers are outside the scope of this article./p pOn occasion I have run into situations where a specific page or collection of pages take longer than expected to load.#160; I say longer than expected because everything is relative to your content, user activity and your underlying server architectu [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 18th '10 |
Site Topology Planning and Taxonomies
Mike Oryszak
pIn the previous article a href="http://nextconnect.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharepoint-site-topology-planning.html"SharePoint Site Topology Planning/a I discussed some of the technical implications of organizing the the sites within one or more applications, site collections, and sub-sites.#160; The article started to get pretty long so I decided to save the taxonomy part of the discussion for a separate article./p h4Organizing Sites/h4 pIn the a href="http://nextconnect.blogspot.com/2010/01/sharep [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 13th '10 |
SharePoint Site Topology Planning
Mike Oryszak
pThis is the next in a series of articles addressing core SharePoint implementation topics.#160; I hope that this is valuable to both groups looking to implement SharePoint for the first time as well as groups planning planning for an upgrade or migration to SharePoint 2010./p h4A Series of Containers/h4 pI tend to think about SharePoint from a container perspective.#160; Each of the containers has a set of settings and features that can be configured and administered for all of the containers w [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 11th '10 |
My Sites in the Enterprise: Today and Tomorrow
Mike Oryszak
pAs we inch closer to SharePoint 2010 and the vast improvements made to the My Sites feature set I thought it might be time to revisit some key concepts when looking to leverage My Sites in an organization.#160; In many organizations I see My Sites as still under deployed and under utilized.#160; In some cases it is because leaders do not know what to do with it while in others they are not sure how to support it.#160; I hope to address both of those issues here along with offering some other ad [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 10th '10 |
SharePoint Saturday Anniversary
Mike Oryszak
pThis weekend is the one year anniversary of SharePoint Saturday which kicked off in Virginia Beach, VA last January.#160; I’m not sure what Michael Lotter and the other originators were thinking when they put it together, but surely it has surpassed their wildest imaginations.#160; There were at my count, 27 events last year.#160; That is amazing given that this was a new idea and is a volunteer based, community driven activity.#160; None of the organizers or speakers are paid and yet great c [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 9th '10 |
Raleigh SPTweetup and SharePint – Wed Jan 6th
Mike Oryszak
pFor anyone in the central North Carolina area, there is going to be a SharePoint Tweetup / SharePint on Wednesday January 6th at 6:30PM at a href="http://www.dannysbarbque.com/html/morrisville.html"Danny’s BBQ in Morrisville/a, NC.#160; SharePoint Joel will be passing through on a cross-country bbq tour and meeting up with some of the local SharePoint people.#160; /p pLooks like we should have a good turnout with some great company.#160; It is pretty informal, if you are available come on out [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
SharePoint Dev and Customization Paths
Mike Oryszak
pMicrosoft’s technology stack has traditionally offered a lot of good options leaving the developer or architects to choose the best path.#160; Even still there there have been people camping out on one side or the other.#160; In the early days when VB first came out the hardcore devs didn’t take it seriously, and I remember hearing a lot of negative comments from traditional C++ developers.#160; VB devs didn’t have to understand concepts like threading and memory allocation and the VB cod [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
New Year Kickoff
Mike Oryszak
p2010 has been shaping up to be a very exciting year for the SharePoint community and practitioners.#160; The community is always a buzz when a new release is on the horizon and the SharePoint community is bigger and livelier than ever.#160; This morning I had the added surprise of being awarded the MVP recognition for SharePoint Server.#160; It is a real honor and a humbling experience.#160; I hope I can continue to support the community and help others leverage SharePoint to add value in their [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 1st '10 |
jQuery Random Quote Viewer
Mike Oryszak
pWhile doing some housekeeping recently on my personal site I was tinkering around with a pre-jQuery ajax enabled web part I had written to display random quotes from a SharePoint list on the site. The code was pretty ugly so I decided to adapt the web service call to use jQuery instead in line with the similar functions displays I’ve been deploying lately./p pI thought I might take the time to share it as well since jQuery is still a hot topic./p pHere is what the display looks like.img src=" [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 30th '09 |
Social Computing - Communities
Mike Oryszak
pI was very excited when heard that “Communities” was going to be one of the pillars for SharePoint 2010.#160; I think the Social Computing and Communities aspect is where SharePoint has the potential to really revolutionize business collaboration and computing.#160; Administrators and Developers don’t have to wait until upgrading to SharePoint 2010 though to start taking advantage of some of these concepts.#160; By making the adjustment now you and your end users will be better positioned [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 13th '09 |
Overcoming Obstacles in SharePoint and Ent 2.0
Mike Oryszak
pOne of my favorite general IT blogs is a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/" target="_blank"Michael Krigsman’s IT Project Failures/a blog.#160; Michael provides a balanced view with great insights into the failures of many organizations.#160; These are lessons that every implementer, integrator, or system stakeholder should pay attention to./p pIn a recent post titled a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=6885amp;utm_source=feedburneramp;utm_medium=feedamp;utm_campaign= [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 13th '09 |
The SharePoint in the Cloud – SharePoint as a Service
Mike Oryszak
pThe cloud debate continues to rage in the offices of many business and IT executives.#160; They look for it as a way to control or reduce costs and to better focus on their core business functions instead of managing complex IT systems.#160; As a technologist though I see the cost benefit not just in dollars but in opportunity and the potential for the system to enable the organization to innovate and collaborate in ways they were not able to in the past./p pI see plenty of value in SaaS for co [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 30th '09 |
TriSPUg Dec Meeting - Microsoft FAST Search with Adam Morgan
Mike Oryszak
pAdam Morgan the Enterprise Search lead for Microsoft in the SE will be presenting on a href="http://www.trispug.com/meetings/11/MicrosoftFASTSearch.aspx" target="_blank"Microsoft FAST Search/a at the Triangle SharePoint User Group meeting on Tuesday December 1st at TEKSystems Raleigh.#160; /p pFAST is quickly getting a foothold in the Enterprise Search market and it should play an important role in many Enterprise SharePoint environments.#160; /p pI hope to see many of the locals there./pdiv cl [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 24th '09 |
Using jQuery to Customize the User Profile Display
Mike Oryszak
pThe User Profile engine in MOSS Enterprise is pretty powerful.#160; Out of the box it has some great capabilities and is very easy to setup.#160; There is support for wide range of field level attributes along with global and personal privacy policies.#160; The main profile block rendered on the page is very dynamic./p pThe one big short coming of this approach is a lack of formatting control in the output.#160; You have the option of a custom display but then you have to try and reproduce all [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 23rd '09 |
Exposing Custom Web Services to the BDC
Mike Oryszak
pI recently had a lot of trouble getting some data exposed to the BDC.#160; I found the documentation pretty light and leading to a pretty frustrating experience./p pIn my case there are three scenarios:/p pstrongReturn All Records, No Finder /strong– This one is pretty easy and it is clear that you need to return a collection of records.#160; /p pstrongReturn One Record, Specific Finder /strong– This one is pretty simple as well and it is clear that you will get back a single record./p pstr [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 21st '09 |
Site Requests, Provisioning, and Governance
Mike Oryszak
pYesterday I posted a link to a href="http://www.michaelsampson.net/" target="_blank"Michael Sampson’s/a survey on a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLPMDT9" target="_blank"Site Creation Rights/a which is intended to collect information on the process and governance around who can request new sites and how they are provisioned or “actioned.”#160; This is an important topic, so I’m looking forward to seeing the results./p pThis is a topic I have had to put a lot of thought around rece [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 19th '09 |
SharePoint Site Request and Provisioning Survey
Mike Oryszak
a href="http://www.michaelsampson.net/" target="_new"Michael Sampson/a (a href="https://twitter.com/collabguy" target="_new"@collabguy/a) has posted a survey to collect information on the Site Creation Rights topic relating to SharePoint governance. While it is a brief survey, I think the questions are good and I look forward to seeing the results.br /br /The survey can be found here: a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLPMDT9" target="_new"Site Creation Rights/adiv class="blogger-post-footer [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 18th '09 |
SharePoint Saturday Raleigh Announced
Mike Oryszak
The Raleigh edition of SharePoint Saturday has been announced and will be taking place on Saturday November 7th. br /br /Additional information and updates can be found here: a href="http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/raleigh/default.aspx" target="_new"http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/raleigh/default.aspx/abr /br /If you are on Twitter you can follow the dialog using the #spsraleigh hashtag.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 1st '09 |
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