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InnerWorkings Adds SharePoint 2010 to its Learning Platform
SharePoint Magazine
San Francisco, CA — October 18, 2011.
InnerWorkings announced a major addition to its Learning Platform today with the release of self-paced SharePoint 2010 training for professional developers and software teams.
Working in partnership with the USPJ Academy, InnerWorkings is offering world class SharePoint learning solutions to its customers. USPJA boasts a team of industry renowned SharePoint experts whose approach emphasizes the real-world aspects of learning SharePoint — a perfect fit wi [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 19th '11 |
SharePoint Magazine PDF Edition Issue 4
SharePoint Magazine
We are happy to announce that the fourth issue of SharePoint Magazine PDF edition is now available for download. In this edition, beyond the regular articles, columns, and features, we also start a new series where in each issue you will receive one chapter of the full USP Journal issue 2/4 titled SharePoint Web Part Development (a $14.95 value!).
In this issue, among other things, you can read the following articles:
SharePoint Maturity Model: Does your intranet sound like a dial tone?
New Col [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 3rd '11 |
Silverlight in SharePoint: Developing Your Own Silverlight Web Part
SharePoint Magazine
In SharePoint 2010, we have an out-of-the-box Silverlight web part that can host almost any Silverlight application. But in this fourth part of the Silverlight series, we’re going to show how to build your own web part that hosts a Silverlight application.
In SharePoint 2010, we can develop two different types of web parts: a visual web part or a classic web part. With a visual web part, we can design the user interface within an .ascx user control. This control is then loaded in the web [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 3rd '11 |
SharePoint Sense’s “SharePoint ShortUrl”: Size Matters – Smaller is Better
SharePoint Magazine
Disclaimer: This article is a paid product review and the vendor has paid to have this article published in SharePoint Magazine. The author may have received compensation for writing this article, and SharePoint Magazine has received compensation for publishing it. However, payment for having an article published will not interfere with our strict publishing guidelines and the article has gone through the same or stricter editing processes to ensure accuracy and avoid unduly favorable content.
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Posted: Wed, Sep 28th '11 |
Taking Control of Governance
SharePoint Magazine
If your engineering team is building your governance plan, you’re doing it wrong.
The first mistake you made was ignoring the advice you received from Microsoft, from your consultants, and from the expert community, to build out a governance strategy as part of your overall SharePoint planning. Like flood insurance, most people don’t think about governance until they’re waist-deep in SharePoint sprawl and waking up at night in a cold sweat with change management nightmares. Don’t get me [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 26th '11 |
Great Benefits to SharePoint Site Definitions
SharePoint Magazine
The popularity of SharePoint as a collaboration tool has understandably skyrocketed in recent years. With its sheer volume of user empowerment, the collaborative adoption scenarios are almost endless. However, the novelty of elevated user empowerment can quickly erode if you are required to maintain any sort of control, standardization, or guidance for your SharePoint environment. For those first starting to tackle SharePoint head on, this is a daunting task. Several different means are availabl [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 25th '11 |
Why Lists and Libraries Make No Sense in SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
I can still count to five. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
I know my own name: Bjørn Furuknap (technically, it’s Bjørn Christoffer Aulie Thorsmæhlum Furuknap).
I am currently sitting in my home office in Oslo, Norway, and it’s Monday afternoon (5ish p.m.).
So, I am not mad, at least not more than usual, but I’ll still argue that lists and libraries make no sense in SharePoint.
SharePoint Lists and Libraries as Taxonomy Features Considered Harmful!
Before we become further acquainted, let me clarify the [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 19th '11 |
A jQuery Primer for SharePoint: Events and Effects
SharePoint Magazine
In previous articles, I have covered how you find things in the DOM and manipulate them; now let’s think about reacting to user actions with events and effects.
jQuery Core
Selectors
Attributes
Traversing
Manipulation
CSS
Events
Effects
Ajax
Utilities
jQuery UI
Events
As your users interact with pages in their browser, various events occur. The most familiar to you might be the click event or the hover event. However, the JavaScript event model provides you with a whole range of events i [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 15th '11 |
Silverlight in SharePoint: The Silverlight Client Object Model
SharePoint Magazine
In this third part of the series, I will build a Silverlight application that communicates with SharePoint to render data that is stored within a SharePoint list. The Silverlight app will again be hosted within the out-of-the-box Silverlight web part that comes with SharePoint 2010.
Through this series of articles we will build a SharePoint demo application that allows members to offer their services and accept another service in return. For example, John likes to garden, but he is lousy in the [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 26th '11 |
Letter from the Editor #4 – Vacation
SharePoint Magazine
No, we haven’t gone silent, but we’ve had some plans rearranged. Now we’re back, though, and as you probably know by now, we have some news of the interesting type for you.
SharePoint Magazine Issue 3 Cut-Off Date
First of all, because this is of some urgency, the cut-off date for getting issue 3 of SharePoint Magazine print is on Wednesday, July 20. That means that if you want to get print issue 3 as part of your subscription, you need to sign up before then.
Sign up here: http://spm.to [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 18th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Backup and Recovery: Configuring Restore
SharePoint Magazine
The first part of this mini-series on configuring SharePoint 2010 backup and restore focused on the backup part. This part will introduce the basic setup for performing SharePoint 2010 restores.
In this article, we will address mainly the PowerShell approach, showing that this is the most complete and flexible approach when it comes to restore operations. All the PowerShell restore operations address well the flexible granularity of SharePoint 2010 restores, allowing farm-level, web/service [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 11th '11 |
Leading Change
SharePoint Magazine
I have been on the winning side of this SharePoint adoption battle for years, and our usage reports reinforce that those I support are not just checking the weather, reading a Dilbert cartoon, or viewing pictures of a co-worker’s baby. When I say usage, I mean SharePoint is integral to how we do business.
The following chart is from one of our most active team sites. On average, the employees there are hitting their site 230 to 260 times a day; maybe that isn’t so impressive until it is rev [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 6th '11 |
A jQuery Primer for SharePoint: Manipulation and CSS
SharePoint Magazine
In my previous article, I covered jQuery’s selectors, attributes, and traversing capabilities. Those three broad jQuery capabilities allow you to find what you want to work with in the page’s document object model (DOM). The next thing you will want to think about is how to change the elements, attributes, and/or CSS of the DOM that you have managed to find.
jQuery Core
Selectors
Attributes
Traversing
Manipulation
CSS
Events
Effects
Ajax
Utilities
jQuery UI
This is where manipulation and [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 5th '11 |
SharePoint Magazine PDF Edition Issue 2 – Free Download!
SharePoint Magazine
We’re again happy to announce that the second issue of SharePoint Magazine PDF edition is available for download.
As part of the celebration of USPJ Academy’s first birthday in May 2011, we are also happy to announce that this PDF issue will be cost free. You may download the issue using the link below.
Here is a list of content in issue #2:
Take 2 – Action!
The end of an Era: Joel Oleson Retires
New Series: Silverlight in SharePoint
Basics of “Hello World!”
The Silverlight Client Ob [read].
Posted: Sun, May 22nd '11 |
Letter from the Editor #3 – Bring out the Champagne!
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome to another letter from the editor, this time brought to you in the midst of celebrating USPJ Academy’s first birthday.
As you may have heard, we’re celebrating by giving away gifts and great offers throughout the organization, and SharePoint Magazine is giving out over $8,000.00 worth of prizes this week. I’m sure you’ll want to check out the Egg Hunt competition if you want a piece of that action.
If you’re looking for more extensive training, you may want to check out the ann [read].
Posted: Thu, May 19th '11 |
Happy Birthday USPJ Academy – SharePoint Magazine Egg Hunt
SharePoint Magazine
Happy birthday, USPJ Academy!
One year ago, on May 17, 2010, USPJ Academy opened its doors for the very first time. SharePoint Magazine is now part of the USPJA family, so we want to celebrate too!
Of course, we don’t expect you to send us gifts for the birthday party, we celebrate by giving gifts to you instead.
In fact, we’re giving away more than 100 subscriptions to SharePoint Magazine in our 7-Day Egg Hunt! For those of you with a calculator, you’ll quickly figure out that [read].
Posted: Mon, May 16th '11 |
Sun Tzu’s 5 Tips for SharePoint Success
SharePoint Magazine
You’d think that Sun Tzu, the great warfare strategist, wouldn’t know neither the up nor the down of modern software such as SharePoint. You’d be surprised at how much you can learn from ancient Chinese.
In this slightly cheeky article, I’ve adapted five passages from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to a more modern age and made SharePoint the main star of the story. Ideally, this will give you a bit of insight into how to achieve more success with your SharePoint implementations.
Therefore, [read].
Posted: Thu, May 12th '11 |
Herding Cats – How to Run a Successful Conference
SharePoint Magazine
They say running a conference is like herding cats. It’s more like herding cats, then feeding them, taking them to the vet, changing their litter boxes and showing them love while getting back a cold shoulder – all while avoiding scratches and fleas.
And that’s when they run smoothly!
I’ve been the technical chairman of SPTechCon – BZ Media’s SharePoint Technology Conference – since its inception, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that when all is said and done, som [read].
Posted: Thu, May 5th '11 |
Aspiring Author Finalists – Community, Start Your Voting!
SharePoint Magazine
After several weeks of hard work from many competing authors, the SharePoint Magazine Aspiring Authors jury has reached its decision on the three finalist entries. Since then, we have gone through an accelerated editing process to get these finalist entries ready. Today, we’re making the finalists known along with their entries.
Now it is time for the community, meaning you, to decide which of these entries and authors deserves the grand prize.
The Entries
We have now posted each of the fi [read].
Posted: Mon, May 2nd '11 |
Three Main Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to FAST for SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
Please note: This article is a finalist entry for the Aspiring Authors Competition 2011. To vote for this article as the winner, please use the Like button below, or read the contest details on http://sharepointmagazine.net/aspiring-authors-competition-2011.
Since May 2010 we have been reading the product sheets and been given marketing pitches from Microsoft regarding the different search offerings in SharePoint 2010. Looking at the feature comparison chart (Figure 1) for the three different S [read].
Posted: Mon, May 2nd '11 |
Best Practices for SharePoint Groups
SharePoint Magazine
Please note: This article is a finalist entry for the Aspiring Authors Competition 2011. To vote for this article as the winner, please use the Like button below, or read the contest details on http://sharepointmagazine.net/aspiring-authors-competition-2011.
SharePoint permissions are confusing for most new site admins. At my company I see the majority of site admins (we call them site owners) struggle with them. The topic is complex because SharePoint provides so many options for managing per [read].
Posted: Mon, May 2nd '11 |
A Guide to Leaving Lotus Notes and Moving to Microsoft SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
Please note: This article is a finalist entry for the Aspiring Authors Competition 2011. To vote for this article as the winner, please use the Like button below, or read the contest details on http://sharepointmagazine.net/aspiring-authors-competition-2011.
The battle for the collaborative application space has been long fought. Two key players, Lotus with their Notes/Domino platform and, more recently, Microsoft with SharePoint, have established their own collaborative platforms having differ [read].
Posted: Mon, May 2nd '11 |
Is SharePoint Ready for Enterprise-Strength Applications?
SharePoint Magazine
SharePoint is increasingly being deployed not just for simple collaborative tools, but as a robust platform for enterprise-wide requirements, for supporting numerous departments in mission-critical processes.
A case in point is automated contract lifecycle management, which in our own experience, we are seeing a growing number of companies adopting, across multiple departments.
When we were designing our own contract lifecycle management system, because we were starting from scratch, we were a [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 27th '11 |
Letter from the Editor #2 – Writing for SharePoint Magazine
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome to the second letter from the editor. I hope you are all enjoying SharePoint Magazine and that you’ve received your copies of SharePoint Magazine print or PDF if you are a subscriber. We’ve received some amazing reviews and it’s only going to get better in the next issue.
I particularly hope you’re enjoying the new Silverlight in SharePoint series by Karine Bosch. We have some pretty nifty things coming up in that series, both in the form of content and in features, to help you m [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 26th '11 |
Silverlight in SharePoint – Basics of Hello World!
SharePoint Magazine
In this second article of the series, I’m going to build a Silverlight application that can be hosted from within a SharePoint web part. We will use Visual Studio 2010 to build a simple “Hello World” type application, but add a few touches to make our application configurable.
In SharePoint 2010, we have an out of the box Silverlight web part that can host almost any Silverlight application. For now, we will utilize this built-in web part and later in the series, we will create [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 20th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Backup and Recovery – Configuring Backup
SharePoint Magazine
Even before installing SharePoint 2010 it is good practice to deal with business continuity management – in other words: backup and recovery of SharePoint 2010 farms. Many things became easier in the newest release of Microsoft’s composite collaboration platform, but certain manual configuration steps cannot be avoided.
This mini-series of articles attempts to give you the nuts and bolts of backup configuration and performing it, as well as dealing with how to recover the backup. Obv [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 18th '11 |
SharePoint Magazine PDF Edition Issue 1
SharePoint Magazine
We are happy to announce that the first issue of SharePoint Magazine PDF edition is now available for download.
In this issue, you can read the following articles:
Welcome to SharePoint Magazine
Print Edition Exclusive: Understanding the Middle Tier of SharePoint Development
7 Pre-Game Questions Executives Must Ask to Win at SharePoint
SharePoint Content Types: Why Should I Care?
jQuery in SharePoint Series: A jQuery Primer for SharePoint
Social Features in SharePoint 2010
Dean’s Corner: Ana [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 14th '11 |
Letter from the Editor #1
SharePoint Magazine
Hello,
This isn’t your typical SharePoint Magazine article. In fact, this is an entirely new section of SharePoint Magazine, and its just one of many new features we’re adding. I’ll get back to these new features in a moment, but first I’d like to mention what’s going on.
You may have noticed that we’ve not been publishing as many articles recently as we used to. The reason for this the print edition of SharePoint Magazine. The print edition takes about one mo [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 12th '11 |
Press Release: Self-Paced SharePoint Training Now Available
SharePoint Magazine
Disclaimer: SharePoint Magazine is owned by USPJA Publishing, a subsidiary of USPJ Academy, to which this press release refers.
USPJ Academy, the world’s first SharePoint college (http://uspja.com/), announced today that it is making its self-paced SharePoint training courses available for single purchase.
The need for skilled SharePoint professionals is growing at a rapid rate. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer predicted a need for one million SharePoint professionals by 2013, and the training [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 12th '11 |
The End of An Era – Joel Oleson Retires
SharePoint Magazine
One of the truly great heroes of the SharePoint community, Joel Oleson, has decided to drastically reduce the time he spends in the community. For those who do not know yet, I’ll try to describe the loss the community will suffer from this giant’s retirement.
Because I consider Joel a personal friend, who has on several occasions offered his guidance and support both in public and in private, I’ve chosen to write this eulogy not as a simple list of Joel’s accomplishments, but as an expre [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 25th '11 |
Custom Auditing in SharePoint 2010–Working with ULS Logs and Event Logs
SharePoint Magazine
In a previous article in SharePoint Magazine, I wrote about using custom delegate controls to control access to pages in SharePoint. Although I did mention that this was not an entirely secure approach, there was some controversy about whether the technique was usable at all.
One participant in the ensuing discussion took the time to point out the weaknesses of the solution, and I thought it would be interesting to show how to solve many of the issues mentioned in that response.
The first proble [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 17th '11 |
A jQuery Primer for SharePoint: Selectors, Attributes, and Traversing – Oh My!
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome back to “a jQuery Primer for SharePoint” here on SharePoint Magazine. It’s time to take a closer look at some examples of using jQuery to locate the correct elements in an HTML page.
So what can you do with jQuery in a SharePoint context? I touched upon some of the general things that you can do in my last article, but in this one I thought I’d start to go through the main categories of functionality jQuery gives you, explain what they are, and give you some simp [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 9th '11 |
Governance, Information Architecture, Project Management: Pick Any Two
SharePoint Magazine
In SharePoint Conversations, we ask our resident think-tank difficult questions or dilemmas and then ask them what they would do, say, or respond to these scenarios.
You’re invited to join the conversation too; the tankers, as we lovingly call them, are here to offer their own personal opinions, but you are free to agree or disagree. After all, who said these people have all the right answers?
In the forum, an excerpt from which you can see at the bottom of each topic, you can follow along [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 7th '11 |
Competition: Aspiring Authors 2011
SharePoint Magazine
SharePoint Magazine has always been about community content, professionally edited, but ultimately coming from community authors.
Many authors, however, never have the chance to be noticed by a large audience. Their blogs, containing valuable knowledge for both seasoned professionals and beginning SharePointers never make it into the spotlight.
We want to inspire those authors to contribute great new content to the community and help them get the attention they deserve for their great work.
We&# [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 7th '11 |
Training as Employee Perks
SharePoint Magazine
Disclaimer: I am the acting dean and founder of USPJ Academy. SharePoint Magazine, the publisher of this article, is owned by USPJA Publishing, a subsidiary of USPJ Academy. The purpose of this article is to clarify the benefits of employee training, of which USPJ Academy is a provider. As author of this article, I have made every attempt to remain neutral.
In the previous columns, I’ve been discussing the economic sides of employee training. You’ve learned that training is massively expensi [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 3rd '11 |
Silverlight in SharePoint: Overview
SharePoint Magazine
In the beginning there was SharePoint, a platform for collaboration and content management. It allows people to work together. It’s an easy task to set up a site where people can share information and manage documents from start to finish.
SharePoint 2007 was already good, but SharePoint 2010 is even better. New features such as taxonomy, document sets, content organizers, and better record management make it to an attractive platform. The user interface on the other side is not that attra [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 2nd '11 |
SharePoint Magazine Print Edition!
SharePoint Magazine
For many years, we’ve been able to get magazines from newsstands on virtually any IT topic, whether that is development, architecture, or creative content like Photoshop and Indesign. SharePoint, however, is absent from that lineup.
We’re going to change that. We’re proud to announce to the community that we’re finally going to make SharePoint Magazine available in print as well. If this goes as planned, you will shortly be able to pick up a SharePoint Magazine from your [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 3rd '11 |
Creating Documents with SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows
SharePoint Magazine
SharePoint is great for document management, and building documents is on the agenda of most employees in an organization. Wouldn’t it be great to automate some of that document generation by using simple workflows?
In this article, you will learn how to set up a SharePoint document library and a custom content type to allow for automatic creation of Word documents using SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows.
Before we go on, note that I won’t be explaining every detail of every step. Instead, [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 27th '11 |
7 Pregame Questions Executives Must Ask to Win at SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
You have seen charts and graphs that assure you SharePoint will score a big win for your organization, but how can you be sure? After all, in addition to case studies that point to successful rollouts, you’ve also heard of the numerous SharePoint implementation failures. SharePoint can change the way you do business by increasing productivity, streamlining processes, and increasing collaboration, but if not properly implemented, a failed SharePoint rollout can become a costly mistake.
It may s [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 18th '11 |
Winner of Launch Competition Announced
SharePoint Magazine
As you know, we have been running a launch competition on SharePoint Magazine over the previous month or so. Today, we’re happy to announce the winners.
The grand prize is an SPTechCon experience, including a full conference pass, hotel stay, and a one-on-one session with one of the attending USPJ Academy faculty members. In addition, there are a few other surprises that we’ll mention in a post-event interview with the winner.
So, who won? The grand prize winner is Stuart Blank!
Congratulati [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 14th '11 |
A Practical Guide to Social Features in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
Unless you’ve been living in a black hole for the past five years, you can’t help but have noticed the rise of Social Media and, if you’re in the SharePoint world, the inclusion of social features in SharePoint 2010. This article will put forward some simple steps that you can follow to make sure you’re getting the most out of this new feature set.
Before looking at the SharePoint features in detail, it’s worth digging a little deeper into what is meant by social media at [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 13th '11 |
Making the Case for SharePoint Training: Part 1
SharePoint Magazine
Last time in this column, I talked about the cost of training employees, and I think I may have scared a few people by showing exactly how expensive it can be to send an employee away to train for a month.
So, why do smart companies still invest so massively in training their employees? Read on, and I’ll tell you why those investments make sense.
Assumptions, Assumptions, Assumptions…
Let’s start with what we already know, and I’m going to stick with the assumptions from last time.
In th [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 5th '11 |
Press Release: College Level SharePoint Training Now Available
SharePoint Magazine
Disclaimer: SharePoint Magazine is owned by USPJA Publishing, a subsidiary of USPJ Academy
A new training provider promises to change the way online training works for SharePoint professionals. Using state-of-the-art technology and best-of-breed platforms to teach their students, USPJ Academy (http://uspja.com/) has already attracted students from all over the world and received rave reviews.
USPJ Academy today opened up public enrollment for college level SharePoint training through its website [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 3rd '11 |
Variations in Multiselect Controls in Different SharePoint Language Versions
SharePoint Magazine
Consistency in one’s development practices is a critical part of generating reliable, maintainable code. Most large software contains some inconsistencies, but in your development efforts with SharePoint, you should try your best not to introduce any inconsistencies of your own.
In this article, I’ll show you the effect of one of SharePoint’s little inconsistencies and why it was an issue in my development of SPServices.
If you’ve ever tried to implement jQuery in multi- [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
Custom Page Security Using SharePoint Delegate Controls
SharePoint Magazine
I’m a control freak, and I don’t mean that in the normal sense. What I do mean is that I love .NET controls and particularly delegate controls in SharePoint. These little gems are, on a power-to-weight ratio, perhaps the single most powerful developer tool for extending SharePoint.
However, when I start talking about delegate controls to developers, their eyes often glaze over, having either just heard about them but never used them or never heard about them at all. That’s the sad news, bu [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 21st '10 |
A jQuery Primer for SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
There’s no shortage of articles available on the Web about using jQuery with SharePoint. In fact, I’ve written a lot of them myself on my blog and for other websites. However, most of the articles you’ll find tell you about how to tackle one specific problem and may give you some code snippets to do so. What I’d like to do here is give you a decent overview of what jQuery is and what it’s useful for doing in SharePoint.
jQuery is absolutely one of the hot, new excit [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 15th '10 |
SharePoint Content Types: Why Should I Care?
SharePoint Magazine
I recently heard from a colleague who was frustrated that his users and site collection owners didn’t want to use content types. As such, I decided to write an article that he could reference when he wanted to give his users the main reasons, using non-technical language, why content types make sense.
You are likely reading this for one of two reasons. One is that you know why SharePoint content types are the coolest things since, well, temperature, and you need to convince someone that yo [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 13th '10 |
SharePoint Magazine Launch Competition
SharePoint Magazine
It’s time to launch our first competition here at SharePoint Magazine, and we got some amazing prizes for you.
Get a Better SharePoint Magazine – And Thousands of Dollars in Prizes!
The grand prize of this competition is an SP TechCon San Francisco experience. You’ll get a full conference pass, a hotel stay at the conference hotel, a hour-long, personal one-on-one training session with a USPJ Academy faculty member, and a 13-issue USP Journal bundle.
The total value of this [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 10th '10 |
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Posted: Wed, Dec 8th '10 |
SharePoint Magazine – Phoenix Edition
SharePoint Magazine
Hello, and welcome back to SharePoint Magazine.
We’ve been quiet for a long time, but now we’re back, stronger than ever. As you may have heard, SharePoint Magazine has joined forces with USPJ Academy and is now part of USPJA Publishing.
That means we’ll have a dedicated and highly motivated team to bring SharePoint Magazine to new heights in the future. In addition, we’ll have access to a world class faculty to help us create the most compelling, interesting, and instructive articles on [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 7th '10 |
Welcome to SharePoint Conversations
SharePoint Magazine
SharePoint Magazine Conversations is a topic based debate with the thought leaders of the SharePoint industry. Our resident think-tank participants respond to topics of interest to the SharePoint community and we post those topics and their responses here.
We also invite you to join the conversation. Please feel free to check out the discussions at the bottom of each article and contribute any opinions, comments, or feedback you may have.
If you want to meet the members of the think-tank, check [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 7th '10 |
Load Testing Reveals Cause of SharePoint Server Performance Problem
SharePoint Magazine
A New System’s Poor Performance
Although it seems obvious that adding hardware resources to a system should provide improved performance, a customized Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS) website cluster showed the opposite in recent testing for a customer. Load testing with 200 simulated users gave disappointing results, with page durations between 10 and 30 seconds, and the system handling only about four pages per second. Curiously, reducing the cluster to a single SharePoint® s [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 30th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 and Authentication
SharePoint Magazine
In the last few articles I’ve shown you how to configure FBA in MOSS 2010 and @007 as well as shown you the fundamental difference in Windows Authentication and FBA. In the following article I will introduce and show you how to enable the Windows (Kernel Mode Authentication) in Shareoint 2010 based on the new security settings built into Windows 2008.
Sharepoint 2010 Kernel-mode Authentication
This is a new setting in IIS7 (Windows 2008 and Vista SP1) that when enabled increases authentica [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 12th '10 |
Forms Authentication vs. Windows Authentication in SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
Now that you’re aware of the Authentication types in MOSS 2007 and MOSS 2010 I thought it would be necessary to go into the differences and pros and cons between the two.
Note: Both authentication ,methods can be applied to both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
There are several functional and operational differences between sites that are secured with Windows authentication and those that are secured with forms authentication. The following sections highlight several of the more impor [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 11th '10 |
Setting up Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint 2007
SharePoint Magazine
In this article I’ll go through SharePoint 2007′ s FBA setup which is built on top of ASP.NET 2.0, so ASP.NET developers should feel right at home developing against, and customizing this method.
As most of you are aware some of the technologies in SharePoint, like Master Pages and Forms Authentication, are “not-quite-the-latest technologies” from ASP.NET.
In this article, I’ll cover some of the quirks to Forms Authentication that you will or have encountered whe [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 10th '10 |
Setting up Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome to the first of a 4 part series where I’ll be guiding you through the do’s and don’ts of setting up SharePoint FBA on different versions of the SharePoint platforms, being MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 as well as outlining specific differences, which I’ve bumped my head on a few times over the years to realize and become fully aware of.
For those of you that don’t know, Forms Based Authentication (FBA) allows a web user to access a SharePoint site and get ac [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 9th '10 |
Partner Spotlight: Mint Management Technologies
SharePoint Magazine
Mint Management Technologies (Pty) Ltd - Profile
Mint Management Technologies (Pty) Ltd was established in 1971 and has rendered market intelligence gathering and deployment solutions to South African corporate and multi-national companies for over 38 years.
Mint Research (traditional) provided a traditional print media advertising verification service to the South African advertising industry. It includes checking of CI’s against newspaper and magazine tear sheets; surveys monitori [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 8th '10 |
SPoint.me – The SharePoint Social Network
SharePoint Magazine
It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to SPoint.me . SPoint is aiming to become the premier Social Network for people in the SharePoint Industry. Its a little bit of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and Wordpress, all rolled into one.
Differentiate yourself
Create a User Group
Launch your products
Provide Support
Engage
Connect
Some of the features are listed below, but the best way to understand, is to sign up More details in the next few weeks.
Blogging
Start a blog built on the bes [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 8 of 8
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome back to Part 8 of our 8-part series on the Business Data Catalog (BDC). From the previous 7 installments, we have covered everything about BDC, from BDC architecture, ADF, BDC Web parts, BDC search and profile, to the BDC object model in details. We also touched the surface of BDC actions in Part 4 and Part 5. As promised, we’ll dedicate this final article to actions. We’ll explain what the BDC actions are and what they can do for you. We’ll then walk you through how to create [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Avoid Newbie Mistakes: 10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployments
SharePoint Magazine
A common word that keeps popping up around SharePoint deployments is “Governance,” as if it will help you avoid chaos and have a more successful deployment. The answer is, when executed properly, it can. Governance consists of rules and guidelines for designing a service offering. Its goals aren’t to shut down a deployment and make it take forever, but, rather, to find balance in user flexibility while providing for IT oversight. Here are 10 key steps to help you be successful in designing [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 17th '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 4
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets!
Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design. [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 24th '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 3
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets!
Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 23rd '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 2
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets!
Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 1
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets!
Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design. [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
Partner Spotlight : Tam Tam
SharePoint Magazine
CompanyName : Tam Tam
Company Website URL: http://www.tamtam.nl
Company Blog: http://www.tamtam.nl/blogs.aspx
Public Email: info@tamtam.nl
Social Sphere:
Address: Tam Tam Patrijsweg 80, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland 2289 EX, Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)15 750 2000
No. of employees: 50-250
Microsoft Partner Status: Gold
Capability
Communications and Collaboration
Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Search
Unified Communications
Other
Company History:
“In 1996 [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
SharePoint Magazine Partner Spotlight
SharePoint Magazine
SharePoint Magazine is excited to introduce a new program for Microsoft Partners. The idea is simple:
Full focus on the magazine for 1 week, Monday to Friday.
Free advertising on the magazine for 1 week
Monday = Full Partner Profile and Biography
Tuesday to Friday = 4 part article series on a SharePoint topic
I dont want to say more than that at this point. Why not tune in on Monday to view our first Partner:
“Tam Tam is a full-service internetbureau.We link concept, design and techni [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 17th '09 |
Dissecting Dashboards (Part 4 of 6)
SharePoint Magazine
We’ve talked about scorecards and KPIs, now it’s time to put it all together and build a dashboard. I will be using PerformancePoint as my tool of choice because as of Office 14, it will be included with MOSS and, as I’ve mentioned before, I kinda like it! Our plan of attack will be as follows:
Create a datawarehouse
Create a data source
Create a Time dimension
Add Indicators (the pretty bits)
Create KPIs
Create a scorecard
Define how KPIs rollup
Add a report
Create a [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 10th '09 |
SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment Part 6 – Post Deployment
SharePoint Magazine
This series of articles provide an overview of how to plan, build and configure the common SharePoint farm across your organization.
Part 1 – Architecture and Logical Planning
Part 2 – Installation
Part 3 – Development Environment
Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
Part 5 – Virtualization
Part 6 – Post Deployment (final)
Post Deployment
Manage all SharePoint ports
There are about 20 different ports SharePoint use and they need to be open across firewalls [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment. Part 5 – Virtualization
SharePoint Magazine
This series of articles provide an overview of how to plan, build and configure the common SharePoint farm across your organization.
Part 1 – Architecture and Logical Planning
Part 2 – Installation
Part 3 – Development Environment
Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
Part 5 – Virtualization
Part 6 – Post Deployment (final)
Virtualization
Virtualization in SharePoint farm is one of the key design factors that simplify server availability by providing number [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 22nd '09 |
Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 7 of 8
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome back to Part 7 of our 8 Business Data Catalog (BDC) series. In this article, we will be focusing on the BDC Object Model. We start off by explaining why we would need the BDC Object Model and what it can do for us. From there we will look at some examples. Then we’ll step into the code and develop our own data access layer and custom applications to read from and write back to the LOB (line of business) systems. Finally we’ll conclude with best practices.
For your reference, these ar [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
Go Green with SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
Go Green with Office SharePoint Server
1. Introduction
2. Benefits of going green with SharePoint
3. Knowledge Management – Going green
4. Go Green – Green Benefits of Content Management
Introduction
Organizations are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, but don’t realize that those cost cutting measures may also have positive environmental effects that can increase goodwill and shareholder value.
Microsoft SharePoint solutions provide tremendous return on investment, but also m [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment. Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
SharePoint Magazine
Part 1 – Architecture and Logical Planning
Part 2 – Installation
Part 3 – Development Environment
Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
Part 5 – Virtualization
Part 6 – Post Deployment (final)
Backup and Recovery Strategy
Use separate server for Disaster Recovery (DR)
Use additional server with installed SharePoint for DR. Do not connect this server to the existing SharePoint farm – it should be isolated environment with single SharePoint installation, [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 12th '09 |
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