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Blog SharePoint links (weekly)
Patrick Sledz
Build and publish web databases – SharePoint Server – Office.com
tags: SharePoint2010 databases SharePoint
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 29th '12 |
Do you really need SharePoint Site Collection Quotas?
Patrick Sledz
Setting some context
Like on almost everything in life, there are different opinions on using site collection quota.
In his blog post “Controlling Sites Sizes with Quotas” Michal Pisarek proposes to use Site Collection Quotas and they should be one of the first things to be considered in your SharePoint Governance plan.
I do agree with him, but I also firmly disagree.
Why don’t I agree with the obsessive (IT) need to implement Site Collection Quota?
During a workshop I was delivering to [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 19th '12 |
Biwug3011: SharePoint 2010 Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Deep dive
Patrick Sledz
BIWUG is hosting an interesting evening on SharePoint 2010 Multilingual User Interface.
I also heard from the president of the BIWUG that the #SharePint will be organized with actually pints
So no #ShareCola or #ShareMinutemaid but actually real Belgian beer, hence a real #SharePint!
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 [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 12th '11 |
Speaking at BIWUG on October 27th about Governance
Patrick Sledz
On Thursday October 27th BIWUG organizes an evening full with great information. I’ll be a part of that, speaking about SharePoint Governance. Or we can also call it Governance for SharePoint. I’ll also participate in the second part of the evening where we’ll talk about the past, the present and the future of BIWUG. Oh yes, for the record, the third part of that evening will also involve some me, but in the form of attending and trying to get a good conversation and meeting great people a [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 12th '11 |
Moving files with metadata and permissions to another library.
Patrick Sledz
Business case:
We have a document library with files. These files all have specific files level permission. A user can only see files (s)he is allowed to see, and the permission level changes during a workflow. When the document get the status finished, a workflow will remove the contribute right for the contributors and set a read permission for these users. There are also about 30 metadata columns. Some of these columns are just status fields used in a workflow, other ones (about 22) are actu [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 25th '11 |
I’ll be speaking at Communityday Belgium 2011
Patrick Sledz
14 Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing event. Microsoft Community Day will take place on Thursday 23th June 2011 in Utopolis, Mechelen, where we will
bring together over 350 IT Pro’s and developers. Of course, some other people will also join the party, like the “functionals”
My session will cover this topic: “SharePoint Governance: Stop thinking about features features features when talking about governanc [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 20th '11 |
Creating an unique approval number in a workflow
Patrick Sledz
I was working on a workflow that assigns a unique approval number to an approved item. Despite the fact I made this workflow using Nintex, it is possible to create this workflow with SharePoint Designer (using the calculate function)
Requirements:
We have a list, where users can fill in a request to increase the quota of their site. The governance has decided that the IT department is responsible for the capacity, hence they need to be the approver of this request.
When a request has been appr [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 14th '11 |
SharePoint workflow status: How to use a workflow status in a view (based on a Nintex workflow)
Patrick Sledz
I wrote a post about how to use the workflow status in another workflow or in a view.
When I was changing views on a custom workflow that was created by Nintex I ran into issues. I wanted to display all items were the workflow was not Approved. So as a logical next step, I would just need to change my view and filter on the status (filter on “is not equal 16″). But this didn’t work. It showed all items, even the ones that were approved.
I then edited the list in Datasheet [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 9th '11 |
Best practices on working with documents and SharePoint.
Patrick Sledz
When you work with documents there are some best practices, and it will make yours and your colleague’s collaborative life a lot easier when you follow these simple guidelines. In this post I’ll try to explain what you better try to avoid when you work with documents and SharePoint. Whenever it is possible, I also advice you what to do
1. Give your document a reasonable filename, avoid long filenames.
Use the TITLE field in the office applications to give your document a title (and s [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 17th '11 |
How to add a Google or Bing map to your Collaboration Site
Patrick Sledz
In this article I will explain you how you can add a Google or Bing map to your Collaboration site. Actually, you can use this for all kinds of sources. Prerequisite: You need to have Site Owner rights to modify pages (adding web parts)
The first thing you need to do is to add a Content Editor WebPart
Click on Site Actions and then on Edit Page
Select the Web Part zone where you want to display the map
Scroll down to the Miscellaneous section and select the Content Editor Web Pa [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 8th '11 |
Using filtering in the DataviewWebPart
Patrick Sledz
As a result of the great interaction of the SharePoint community on twitter, I created this blog entry. 140 characters are definitely not enough to ask my questions, and Stump The panel doesn’t allow screenshot (I think). The content I provide is fictive, but the setup is real J. Please note, that the screenshots are from the test environment, and I blurred some thing due to confidentiality.
My current setup. We’re working with MOSS 2007. There is a site collection with a root site, [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 27th '11 |
What I intend to ship in 2011.
Patrick Sledz
A new year, which has already been there for about 3 weeks, now gives me the opportunity to set some goals. While you could also do this on another date, the New Year seems to be the perfect timing for New years resolutions.
I didn’t document my shipping list for 2010 so I can’t do a retrospective, but I’ll not make that mistake twice. So for all my loved ones, all people that know me, and also all readers of my blog I will have a shipping list for 2011. But it will be a SMART [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 20th '11 |
How to display the week number in a SharePoint calendar
Patrick Sledz
I would like to display the week number in a calendar month view. I searched on Bing and google for a while, but all I could find was how to display the week number in a date picker.
Here is a screenshot of what I would like to have (or something similar) : [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 14th '11 |
Why I joined BIWUG as an active member last year.
Patrick Sledz
Last year (2010) I joined BIWUG as an ”active member”. BIWUG is the Belgian Luxemburg Information Worker User Group. A lot of people (including myself) had some criticism on BIWUG. Mainly on their on-line presence, the website (which is a WSS 2.0 website at the moment of writing) but also on the topics and subject that were presented during the BIWUG sessions.
The reason I started talking with the current board members was because I was a little disappointed in the content of the sessi [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 6th '11 |
Overview of available SharePoint books
Patrick Sledz
Since it is almost Christmas I decided to create a reading list to inspire people, and to have a quick overview of available reading material on SharePoint 2010 and related product. So if you’re partner is into SharePoint, you might find a last minute Christmas present in this list.
I have organized the books in 3 levels. The fist one are books for non-developers and non IT-PRO. They are high level SharePoint, organizational or quit generic. The second one are books for IT-PRO’s, and the thi [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 19th '10 |
Yahoo doesn’t like delicious, I did, but am looking for alternatives.
Patrick Sledz
As information for people not familiar with delicious, it is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, manage, save and share web pages. The links are stores in the cloud (on the delicious infrastructure) and are accessible from within most browsers.
On Thursday 16/12/2010 a slide from an internal presentation at Yahoo leaked out on twitter. The slide was posted by Eric Marcoulier, co-founder of MyBlogLog, another service that is listed in the Sunset column.
From that Thur [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 18th '10 |
Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe 2010 presentations are available online
Patrick Sledz
Some of you readers were fortunate to attend Tech-Ed Europe last week in Berlin (8-12th November 2010), others, like me, did not had the opportunity to attend. I consider Tech-Ed as a broad-based conference, while I (try) to focus on SharePoint only. So you’ll rather find me attending a SharePoint only conference like the European Best Practices SharePoint Conference, which is hosted by Combined Knowledge in London from April 11th-13th 2011. I’m also really interested in attending SharePoint [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 15th '10 |
SharePoint Connections PreConference day
Patrick Sledz
For the first time I have registered for a pre conference day. Actually I registered for the pre and post conference session.
The pre-conference workshop was delivered by Dan Holme ( and the topic was : “SharePoint Collaboration Masterclass”. It was an interesting session with a few new items for me but it definitely triggered some ideas.
Dan talked about the “administrator jumpstart”. Basically he explained which accounts you better create (actually you’ll need them) before you start [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 28th '10 |
Nintex Workflow for SharePoint 2010 released
Patrick Sledz
I guess it was not an accident that Nintex released Nintex Workflow 2010 on day 1 of #WPC, the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
When I was searching for some Nintex video’s on Youtube, I found this very nice video of Mike Fitzmaurice explaining with his well known and recognizable voice what Nintex Workflow 2010 is.
For the readers who are not familiar with Nintex workflow, it adds a drag-and-drop workflow designer, connectivity and advanced workflow features to the Microsoft SharePoint [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 16th '10 |
Why Microsoft is wrong in their SharePoint bring to market approach.
Patrick Sledz
Since a few years I execute the job of SharePoint consultant. SharePoint seems to be one of the most successful product, maybe even the most successful product Microsoft has launched. Then why should a guy like me complain about that Microsoft is wrong in their bring to market? They probably earn billion$ with SharePoint. And they should, because it is a great product! But at the end of this post, in the quote you can see my worry.
During the SharePoint Evolution conference SPEVO held in April o [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 8th '10 |
SharePoint Governance survey on site Closure by @Collabguy.
Patrick Sledz
A fellow consultant and blogger Michael Sampson @collabguy organized a survey on Site Closure.
Michael is the author of the book Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways, which I recently received from Combined Knowledge (many many thanks for that Zoé and Steve). I would recommend this book for everybody who is interested in empowering people and team with SharePoint.
But I don’t post this just to talk about this boo [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 8th '10 |
Last minute : How to Best Gather Requirements for SharePoint: free seminar by @meetdux
Patrick Sledz
Open Lecture – How to Best Gather Requirements for SharePoint
Monday, June 28, 2010 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM CEST
USPJ Academy invites you to the first open lecture of the academy. If you want to learn more about USPJ Academy, please visit our web pages at http://www.uspja.com/
Poor requirements can be attributed to failed SharePoint implementations. The key to successful SharePoint implementation is properly developing requirements. A lot of people know that this is important, however, onl [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 28th '10 |
Reusing a SharePoint list or library
Patrick Sledz
As you probably know there are different kinds of Lists and Libraries available in SharePoint (WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007). This table shows an overview of available lists and libraries for MOSS 2007 Enterprise.
Libraries
Communications
Tracking
Custom Lists
Web Pages
Document Library
Announcements
Links
Custom List
Basic Page
Form Library
Contacts
Calendar
Custom List in Datasheet View
Web Part Page
Wiki Page Library
Discussion Board
Tasks
KPI List
Sites and Workspaces
Picture Libra [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
GTD: I get stress from Actions that aren’t Actions, but should be projects (or several Actions)
Patrick Sledz
This is just a very short Blog Post but I thought it was important enough to post.
Since a few days I have a feeling of anxiety and stress. Even though I am following the rules of GTD and am doing weekly reviews. At least, I thought I was doing GTD. But then I took a small break to have a view from a distance and thought at what causes my fear. After a few minutes I think I found the reason. At least, I think that now, but we’ll see in a few days or weeks.
I had Actions that actually sh [read].
Posted: Thu, May 27th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 VHD files : download them now!
Patrick Sledz
Last week, exactly one week ago SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 got launched. More information on http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010launch
Since May 8th the Information worker VHD files are ready to be downloaded. You can find them at http://is.gd/cfVcv
You can also download them with the Akamai download manager
Virtual Machine 2010-7a parts 1-12
Virtual Machine 2010-7a parts 13-22, SFV & Setup Guide
Virtual Machine 2010-7b
The download is about 18 GB big.
This is the content :
Virtual [read].
Posted: Wed, May 19th '10 |
SharePoint Workflow Status: how to use the workflow status in a workflow (or a view)?
Patrick Sledz
Recently I had to configure a SharePoint workflow where an item had to be copied to another list when the Approval Workflow status is approved. It was ok to start the workflow manually. The workflow had to be created in SharePoint Designer 2007, since no other specialized workflow software is/was available.
The problem I had was that when I assigned a condition that would check if the Approval Status equals Approved. But this doesn’t work when you use this condition, it will be skipped, becaus [read].
Posted: Mon, May 17th '10 |
The New Nozbe 2.0 iPhone App: Review and What I think about it!
Patrick Sledz
On May 11th, 10 days after my ‘The near future of Nozbe (on iPhone) looks promising.’ post, Nozbe 2.0 for iPhone was released in the AppStore. As I was waiting for this version, I downloaded the moment I could. In this post I’ll try to explain the (new) features, what it means to you and me and what I think about it.
Nozbe for iPhone v2.0
The first thing that has changed is the logo. The logo is refreshed and I like it. Nothing more to say about that, it is just a nice logo. The home scre [read].
Posted: Tue, May 11th '10 |
Using Email and Nozbe : One page to master it all
Patrick Sledz
I was recently searching on the exact syntax to add Actions and/or to email them so they’ll arrive , with or without notes in the Inbox or in a Project in Nozbe.
On the Nozbe blog there were several posts that refer to each other and my purpose is to create this one page overview with everything you need to know when sending email to Nozbe. Since GTD is also about having an ubiquitous capturing tool, this is the ubiquitous Email to Nozbe page.
So, here is my overview of everything you need to [read].
Posted: Sat, May 8th '10 |
Nozbe translations. My engagement to help the translations to Dutch
Patrick Sledz
A few weeks ago I started (re)using Nozbe after my "Remember The Milk" pro- account was expired. This forced me to use Nozbe more intensive and I also engaged myself to the community to translate from English to Dutch. I started actively and translated some chapters and received an E-mail from Delfina asking if I would like to be a moderator for my language. This would basically mean, I’d not only translate, but also "take care" of the translation in my language together with the Nozbe te [read].
Posted: Sat, May 1st '10 |
The near future of Nozbe (on iPhone) looks promising.
Patrick Sledz
Today Michael Sliwinski posted a new blog post on Nozbe.
For me the interesting part (at this moment) is the paragraph about the new iPhone. Nozbe has set up a partnership with Macoscope, a Polish software house that is specialized in development for the Apple platform.
The last modifications were done and the new Nozbe iPhone application is submitted to the Appstore. I can’t wait to start using it. It will be a paying App, and I hope it will not cost too much, but it will definitely add val [read].
Posted: Sat, May 1st '10 |
SharePoint Evolutions conference
Patrick Sledz
Yes, my ticket for Sunday to travel with the Eurostar from Brussels to London is booked. I called the Belgian call center this morning at 09:00 and they confirmed that there were no more places available to leave on Sunday. The operator I talked to yesterday confirmed me that at 10:00 Eurostar will announce extra trains, and they can book them as soon as they are announced. What I don’t understand is that the operator this morning didn’t provided/knew this information, even when I sp [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 17th '10 |
SharePoint evolutions conference in London transportation issues
Patrick Sledz
I was so happy that I could go to the #SPEVO SharePoint Evolutions Conference next week. I reserved an airplane ticket from Antwerp to London, but due to volcanic ash my flight was cancelled. Like many other people in the SharePoint community I have an issue to get to London.
So today I’ll try to book one of the (hopefully) extra scheduled Eurostar trains from Brussels to London. The call center opens at 09:00, so I still have to wait about 20 minutes.
Some people start to do roadtrips like @z [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 17th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 RTM
Patrick Sledz
Yesterday Jeff Teper announced on the SharePoint Team blog some great news
–quote–
Today we reached an exciting engineering milestone- the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010!
RTM is the final engineering milestone and a major achievement for all of the internal teams who worked so hard to get to this point. As tirelessly as our engineering teams worked, we would never have reached this milestone without incredibly active parti [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 17th '10 |
Nozbe and what to do on your IPhone when you changed you password
Patrick Sledz
I started testing with a free account of NOZBE and Since i am an Iphone user, installed the application on my Iphone. After changing the password in the webinterface of Nozbe my Iphone didn’t sync anymore because of the password mismatch.
On my iphone I couldn’t find the screen where I could change of enter my username and or password, so I started googling for it. After somewhate more then 10 minutes the answer was clear. Currenlty you can’t change your password on the Iphon [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 10th '10 |
My RememberTheMilk configuration
Patrick Sledz
Since a few weeks I have been following the #GTD hash on twitter and there are a lot of questions of which (web based) software to use. Therefore I have taken some screenshots of my RememberTheMilk configuration so you can actually see the difference between the default RememberTheMilk and the customized one. The customization is done with some Greasemonkey scripts. Hence, they only work on a Firefox based browser.
In my RTM configuration I use 3 Greasemonkey scripts.
Remember The Milk – [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 10th '10 |
Whitepaper on business productivity Office and SharePoint
Patrick Sledz
Microsoft® has released a whitepaper on business productivity for SharePoint® and Office.
This paper shows how two products, Microsoft ® Office and Microsoft SharePoint ®, contribute to the powerful architectural design of the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI). The BPI stack approach suggests that only by thinking at a capability level (for example, “What do users want to do?), and then adding the right aspects of capability in each place (client, server, and services) [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 15th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 beta available on MSDN
Patrick Sledz
A nice day today. 2 days earlier than expected the SharePoint 2010 beta is released. It is available on MSDN (for MSDN subscriptions only)
If you have a MSDN subscription you can download it from this location https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx
SharePoint Designer 2010 BETA , SharePoint Foundations 2010 BETA (WSS 4.0) and Office 2010 BETA has also been released. Happy downloading and experimenting!
BUT… there are some issues. PLEASE read a http://bi [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 16th '09 |
Performing a mindsweep
Patrick Sledz
One of the base principles of Getting Things Done is to obtain a “Mind like water”. Your mind is good for having ideas, not for holding them. That’s why you need to capture everything out of your head, and into a trusted system.
But please pay attention. Its takes about 20 days before you really can trust your trusted system. You need to be able to change and to adapt these changes in your way of work.
Before you continue reading this article, please take a look at this one.
H [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 13th '09 |
Step 3: Organize
Patrick Sledz
The next step in the process work flow is organize.
You organize everything in a set of lists which you can use to track the items awaiting your attention. It doesn’t matter where this list is. You can have it on a computer, a PDA, IPhone, on paper, on your legs. It doesn’t matter (except for yourself, especially if the list is on your legs ) where you keep these lists, as long as you have it. I’ll provide my setup in a later post.
Next actions
All next actions are gathered [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 12th '09 |
The Next Action
Patrick Sledz
What exactly does the next action mean?
Well, the next action is the next physical action you need to do to in order to move the current situation to completion.
Some examples :
Talk to David about the book we need to buy (improve competence)
Call Vanessa to schedule a meeting for marketing activities next month (marketing campaign july 2009)
Make a mind map for items to blog about (update my blog)
These actions are real physical actions that need to happen. If I do them, I will move for [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 11th '09 |
What is stuff and how can you handle it? The ‘Process’ phase.
Patrick Sledz
We have a lot of stuff. Stuff is anything that is hanging around (on your desk, in your head, your e-mail in basket,..) where no action has been defined yet.
When you have collected the stuff, you must do something with it. Actually, this is a continuous process, and you process stuff all the time.
Processing means you determine what to do with it.
First of all you need to decide if the stuff is actionable. If it isn’t , there are three possibilities.
Trash it (many people forget to use [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 6th '09 |
What is stuff, where does it come from and what should you do with it? The ‘Collect’ phase.
Patrick Sledz
Stuff is all over. One of the basic principles of GTD is get everything out of your head, into a trusted system. I’ll explain more about my trusted system in a separate post.
Stuff is anything that you have allowed into your life (logical or physical), that doesn’t belong where it actually is, and you haven’t defined the desired outcome yet. It can occur to you in digital format, paper, email, voicemail, a small note you found in your jacket or it might be just stuff in your head.
But what [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 2nd '09 |
Information worker and the amount of information, work and stress.
Patrick Sledz
It has been a while since I blogged something. The main reason is that I was very busy. But being very busy is not a good reason. We will always be busy, all of our lives. I was just caught in the busy-trap. Busy doing what? Well, Iat this moment I am contracted in a large company in the energy market as a Domain Expert SharePoint (since 2008), and I run (with an associate) a company in IT (Retail, business to business). I am also married and have got kids. So what was I actually doing? To be ho [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 1st '09 |
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