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SharePoint June 2010 Cumulative Updates
Penny Coventry
Body: The June 2010 cumulative updates for WSS 3.0 and MOSS07 have been released, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joerg_sinemus/archive/2010/06/30/wss-and-moss-june-2010-cu.aspx.
Also Joerg Sinemus announces that the first CU for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - MSS2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 - MSF2010 has been delayed.
I have updated my SharePoint Versions page with the latest numbers.
Category: SP2010;WSS;MOSS
Published: 01/07/2010 00:38 [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 30th '10 |
SharePoint User Group UK Meeting - Nottingham
Penny Coventry
Body:
I'm presenting a session on Thursday 8th July 2010 at Nottingham. I'm giving the first session of a series of three that Mark Macrae is planning on Workflows. This first session is "back to basics". I'll briefly look at the out-of-the-box workflows that come with SharePoint Server 2007 and then how to use SharePoint Designer 2007 for building workflow solutions - pros/cons. The second session starts at 20:10 when Andrew Woodward will talk about Automated UI Testing. There will be [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 27th '10 |
Packing My Bags for TechEd North America
Penny Coventry
Body:
I'm packing my bags and getting ready to fly to TechEd North America 2010. This year it's in New Orleans: 7th to 10th June. It's not my first time to visit New Orleans. I was there in February 2000 for the Microsoft Technical Trainer's Conference and then again in October 2003 for the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference. But it has been a while, and I'm really looking forward to it.
Over the years I've helped out at many TechEd conferences - Hands On Labs (HOLs), Technical Learn [read].
Posted: Sun, May 30th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 flowers in UK sunlight this April
Penny Coventry
Body:
Well spring in the UK looks like it's here. It's a brilliant day today, blue skies and the sun is wonderfully warm – well at least by UK standards – and it looks like I'm not the only one to like April (my birthday's is this month). It's going to be an amazing month for SharePoint 2010 as well. SharePoint 2010 will RTM this month, with a launch date of May 12th. So there are a whole series of events that are occurring in the UK this April to celebrate, including:
Microsoft Tech D [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 8th '10 |
MVP for the Fourth Year
Penny Coventry
Body: It that time of year again, and is with much joy that I received my Congratulations email. Thanks to everyone who helped me or should I say allowed me to continue my passion for SharePoint.
Category: MOSS
Published: 01/04/2010 17:48 [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 1st '10 |
Discount on Microsoft Press Book's including SharePoint publications
Penny Coventry
Body:
Since the alliance between Microsoft Press and O’Reilly Media went live late last year, over 200 Microsoft Press titles have been released in eBook format, all DRM-free - including some of the ones I've authored or co-authored. More details can be found at: 'New Adventures in Tech Publishing, or, "O’Reilly and Microsoft Press, Together? What’s Going on Here?”' and here: http://microsoftpress.oreilly.com/. The Microsoft Press blog also details some discount codes:
Save 40% [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 17th '10 |
SharePoint User Group UK Meeting - Southampton
Penny Coventry
Body:
I'm presenting a session on Thursday 25th March 2010 at Southampton University. My session at 18:30 is titled: "Best Practice for Designing and Deploying Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2007". I'll briefly look at the out-of-the-box workflows that come with SharePoint Server 2007 and then how to use SharePoint Designer 2007 for building workflow solutions. The second session starts at 19:30 when Ian Woodgate will do a quick tour of records management in SharePoint Server 2010. There w [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 23rd '10 |
How to find the level of SharePoint you are running
Penny Coventry
Body: Back in May 2005 I started an article mapping SharePoint versions to service packs and hot fixes. Late last year, Mindsharp, who hosts my blog site, moved to another blog environment and therefore my old article has never had details of any updates since August 2008.
I have received several emails asking me to continue on with this list of updates to version numbers. Also Todd Klindt in several of his netcasts keep sending people my way. So I've created an article on this blog web sit [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 27th '09 |
Speaking at SUGIE and Learning Gateway Conference
Penny Coventry
Body: I'm presenting sessions at:
SharePoint User Group Ireland, 29th June 2009 at Radisson Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin
19:00 -20:00 This is a developer-oriented session using Data Views and ASP.NET controls with SharePoint Designer In this Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 session, you will learn how easy it is to create views of your data using the Data Views, also known as the Data View Web Part (DVWP) or Data Form Web Part (DFWP) - the Swiss Army knife of Web Parts. Then wat [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
SharePoint User Group Meeting - North West, UK
Penny Coventry
Body:
I'm presenting a session this Thursday, 28th May at CSC at Knowsley. There will then be an open session for questions and discussions. I have some SWAG that I've brought back from TechEd 2009, North America, to give away, so make sure you attend.
I'll be presenting on Services Packs and Hot Fixes, where I'll cover why do you need to deploy them and how, plus what's in the latest service packs (SP2) and cumulative Update (April 2009); How to find out what level of software you have insta [read].
Posted: Mon, May 25th '09 |
Session Webcasts and HOL manuals available on MS TechEd Online
Penny Coventry
Body:
Many of the session that have taken place earlier this week are now available to attendees of TechEd 2009, on Ms Tech Online, as well as copies of the Hands On Labs (HOL) manuals.
The HOL manuals may not be available after the conference. So download them NOW!To download a copy of the labs:
Go to https://www.msteched.com.
If you cannot see Sessions/Evals as one of the top navigation tabs, click the Sign Out button in the middle of the page. Then click Sign In, and enter your email [read].
Posted: Thu, May 14th '09 |
I'm an MVP for the Third Year
Penny Coventry
Body: It is with much joy that I received my Congratulations email. Thanks to everyone who helped me on my journey the past year.
Category: MOSS
Published: 03/04/2009 17:46 [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 3rd '09 |
Moving My Main Blog Site
Penny Coventry
With the new introduction of the Mindsharp blog server, I have decided to use my http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/Blog/ web site as my primary blog site. I will be cross posting to this blog site as well. In the near future I will create a blog post with links to my blog posts on the old mindsharp blog server, that I still believe will be useful, as much for my own benefit as well as for others. [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 3rd '09 |
I'm an MVP for the Third Year
Penny Coventry
It is with much joy that I received my Congratulations email. Thanks to everyone who helped me on my journey the past year. [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 3rd '09 |
Speaking at the European SharePoint Best Practices conference, April 2009
Penny Coventry
I will be presenting three sessions at this, the first European, SharePoint Best Practices conference to be held at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, UK:
IW304 Best Practices for designing and deploying workflow using SharePoint Designer, Day 1, April 6th: 4.15 – 5.30
IW311 SharePoint Designer – Best Practices & Hints and Tips, Day 2, April 7th: 11.00 – 12.15
IW313 Shape up the bloated Content Editor Web Part, teaming up with Andrew Woodward, Day 3, Apri [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 21st '09 |
More Search Information
Penny Coventry
Even before the ink was dry on my previous post on search resources, more search information has surfaced:
Two new level 200 TechNet Labcasts coming soon:
Enterprise Search with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2), December 01, 2008 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Enterprise Search with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2), December 08, 2008 8:30 AM Pacific Time
Information on Satya Nadella announcements during his keynote speech at PubCon in Las Vegas on the 13th November.
Satya Nadella Keynote [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 13th '08 |
Search Resources - SUGUK and PDC 2008
Penny Coventry
I really am getting excited about the amount of information now available about Search and SharePoint.
SharePoint Server 2007 was a powerful search engine when it RTM'd back in November 2006, since then Microsoft have purchased FAST; and Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and SharePoint Server 2008 Express (MSSX) have been released. The extra functionality avaliable in MSS can be introduced into SharePoint Server 2007, when you install the Infrastructure Update.
Many organizations leave the sear [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 13th '08 |
Microsoft talks about Hotfixes, Service Packs and Project 14
Penny Coventry
Yesterday I listened to an excellent webcast organised by the Microsoft Project User Group (MPUG). Ludovic Hauduc, the General Manager of Microsoft Office Project, discussed hotfixes, service packs, the infrastructure update and Project 14. Much of what he said was also relevant to other Office products such as Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and SharePoint Server (MOSS). More information on this webcast can be found on the MPUG blogs.
He explained how Microsoft were now releasing community up [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 7th '08 |
PDC 2008 - nearly here
Penny Coventry
Well I'm soo.. excited. I attended PDC back in 2005 and the information I learnt there was a great basis for the next three years, so I have great expectation on this year's event - PDC 2008 in LA.
I'm usually so busy leading up to conferences, that I don't get to choose my sessions until the day before, but I have some time next week to really enjoy the event before I arrive and ponder over the 188 sessions available. You should too. Go to the PDC Session page, sign-in and click on My Sessions [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 14th '08 |
SEF 2008
Penny Coventry
I am presenting four sessions at the Swedish SharePoint & Exchange Forum. The four sessions are:
Day 1: 8th September
09:30-10:30 "Creating business application using Access 2007 and SharePoint":This session looks are how to use Office Access 2007 to build applications with Windows SharePoint Services. The integration of these two products allows for better manageability of the data and ownership of the solution by the business.
13:00-14:00 "Business Data Catalog (BDC) Crash Course for IT [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 28th '08 |
MVP Summit and How to Configure Stress Test Projects for SharePoint 2007 using Visual Studio Team Suite 2008
Penny Coventry
I'm a bit late with this blog as this new whitepaper was on the Combined Knowledge Web site earlier this month, but I've been at the 2008 MVP Global Summit in Seattle, and may I say it was awe inspiring. It was my first MVP summit and the other SharePoint MVPs and Lawrence Lui made it an event, that I will not forget for sometime. Thank you all! Look at: "SharePoint MVPs know how to have fun .. and give constructive product feedback", for more on what it was all about.
Well back to the subjec [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 18th '08 |
Sign up for the Biggest UK User Group Gathering on 8th-9th April
Penny Coventry
The annual User Group Community event is to be held on April the 8th and 9th at Microsoft Campus, Reading. There are four sessions each day, three of which are product specific break out sessions. There are nearly thirty of these breakout sessions for you to choose from: http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk/SessionTable.html. Details of each session can be found at: http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk/SessionDeatils.html.This includes six sessions by the UK SharePoint User Group: http://www.suguk.org:
Day 1: [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 31st '08 |
MsPress book: Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step, is now in the book shops
Penny Coventry
My new book, Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step is now released. ISBN-10: 0735625336 ISBN-13: 978-0735625334
The book is aimed at the experienced Information Worker, someone who has been using the browser to work with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). The book will also be useful to developers and administrators who are new to SharePoint Designer. If you are new to SharePoint then I suggest you read Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3. [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 20th '08 |
How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008
Penny Coventry
Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge and I have produced a new white paper "How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008 (RC1)" that you can find here: http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads%202007.htm. We provide step by step instructions on how to:
Install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008, using the 64-bit version of both products.
Join an existing farm and creating the new Web front end and application servers.
Moving [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 16th '08 |
New White Papers
Penny Coventry
Combined Knowledge have released a number of new White Papers:
How to move the Shared Service Provider Search database
How to configure a content Source to crawl Exchange 2003 public folders in MOSS 2007
How to configure Email Enabled Lists in MOSS 2007 RTM using Exchange 2003
How to configure Email Enabled Lists in MOSS 2007 RTM using Exchange 2007
Securing Central Administration in SharePoint 2007
Business Data Catalog WhitePaper Part 1
You can find them at: http://www.combined-knowle [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 28th '07 |
Should you activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature on all site collections in a MOSS 2007 implementation?
Penny Coventry
If you have installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, either the standard or enterprise editions, then you have one or more site collections based on the Collaboration Portal and / or Publishing Portal site definitions. Within each of these site collections you will have a number of subsites based on Web Content Management-enabled SharePoint site definitions, which I refer to as publishing sites and a number of sites based on non-publishing site definitions or templates, such as, [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 28th '07 |
Excel 2007 can now do two-way sync to a SharePoint List
Penny Coventry
In Excel 2003 you were able to sync amendments both from a Excel 2003 spreadsheet to a SharePoint List and from a SharePoint List to an Excel 2003 spreadsheet. But in Excel 2007 this is no longer the case... Well it was until Microsoft released an Excel 2007 Add-in. This is a must install if you are upgrading to Office 2007 from Office 2003, otherwise your users will cry.
The Excel 2007 Add-in, can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=25836e52-1892-4e17-ac [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 15th '07 |
SharePoint Upgrade - Prescan - content Migration
Penny Coventry
I recently received a query concerning the SharePoint content migration upgrade approach. The customer was attempting to attach the databases to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installation. They then tried to run prescan.exe, which complained, stating that they must have Windows SharePoint Services v2 (WSSv2) installed.
Prescan must be executed whist the content databases are in a WSSv2 (SPS03) environment, then the prescan'd databases can be upgraded using any of the three upgrade op [read].
Posted: Thu, May 31st '07 |
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