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James Kemp Moving on...
UK SharePoint Team
After working as a SharePoint Consultant within Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) for a number of years, I have decided to leave to become an independent SharePoint Contractor. Martin Kearn will now lead this MSDN Blog for The SharePoint Guys. I can...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 16th '12 |
Content Organizer: iCustomRouter Pending State Issue
UK SharePoint Team
The Content Organizer in SharePoint 2010 is a Feature that enables the routing of content to defined destinations such as SharePoint libraries, folders or other Content Organizer managed sites. It achieves this by analysing the items content type/metadata...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 2nd '11 |
SharePoint Server 2010 - 10 Steps to Disaster Recovery
UK SharePoint Team
This article aims to help anyone creating a Disaster Recovery (DR) design/strategy for SharePoint Server 2010. This advice will be based on my experience of designing a DR model and after conversations with experts such as Spencer Harbar, Microsoft IT...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 31st '11 |
On Gardens and Governance (3rd post)
UK SharePoint Team
This is the third in a series of posts that uses the analogy of looking after a garden to explain why you should exercise governance over your SharePoint environment. Without some form of control over it, it will quickly deteriorate and end up as something...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 1st '11 |
Multi-Tenanted SharePoint 2010 Platforms
UK SharePoint Team
Since the emergence of the cloud, more specifically ‘Software as a Service’ or SAAS, applications which may once have been deployed locally in the corporate data centre are now being delivered via an externally managed shared infrastructure...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 22nd '11 |
Talking Office 365 Podcast - The business case for the Social Features of SharePoint
UK SharePoint Team
The latest episode of Talking Office 365 podcast has an interview with Rob Finney from the MCS UK SharePoint team.
During the interview Marlon Marescia the host of the Talking Office 365 podcast and Rob discuss the following:
An overview of the social features included in SharePoint and SharePoint Online including:
My Sites
Profile pages
Blogs
Wikis
Tagging
People search
Skillsets
Org charts
The business challenges solved by these social features of SharePoint
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Posted: Tue, Jun 7th '11 |
SharePoint Workspace 2010 – Offline Working Capabilities
UK SharePoint Team
This blog article aims to:
Highlight some of the Offline Working functionality provided by Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010, including which Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 lists and libraries can and cannot be synchronised
Highlight the ways in which SharePoint Workspace 2010 communicates with SharePoint Server 2010 and what other functionality is available within SharePoint Workspace 2010
I hope it will act as a useful reference point for anyone considering using SharePoint Works [read].
Posted: Tue, May 31st '11 |
On Gardens and Governance (2nd post)
UK SharePoint Team
This is the second in a series of posts that plays around with the idea that looking after SharePoint in your organization is a little like looking after a garden. Without some form of control over it, it will quickly deteriorate and end up as something...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 28th '11 |
Using separate accounts for each Service Application
UK SharePoint Team
One of the big improvements in the SharePoint 2010 platform has been the re-architecture of the Service Layer, of which there has already been covered in a great post on this blog. This also included the ability to configure each service application as...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 21st '11 |
Custom Search Control Not Being Displayed in Meeting Workspace
UK SharePoint Team
Objective : Include an additional search control adjacent to the standard search box on a Meeting Workspace site, but not show any search controls on system pages (as is the default). Problem : The Meeting Workspace masterpage MWSDefaultv4.master includes...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 14th '11 |
Quick Tip: Provisioning a List View to a Web Part Page
UK SharePoint Team
Following on from my recent post ( Provisioning Web Parts to a Page ), I had a question asking how to do this for List Views. Below is a code sample showing how to do this… 1: 2: [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 12th '11 |
Deploying Files to the Root of a SharePoint Web Application
UK SharePoint Team
I’ve recently been working on a project where a Silverlight App sitting on a separate url calls through to a WCF service hosted in SharePoint. For this to work, a “clientaccesspolicy.xml” file is required at the root of the SharePoint web application...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 8th '11 |
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Posted: Thu, Apr 7th '11 |
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Posted: Wed, Apr 6th '11 |
How To Remove "Use My Local Drafts Folder" Checkbox
UK SharePoint Team
Lots of customers I work with establish a requirement that files must be 'checked out' from SharePoint before they can be edited. This prevents multiple users from overwriting one another’s changes to files. The "check-out and check-in" functionality...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 6th '11 |
Quick Tip: Provisioning Web Parts to a Page
UK SharePoint Team
When deploying a page to SharePoint through a Modules feature, there are several options adding web parts to this. These are as follows: Add the web parts to the page programmatically via a feature receiver. This approach can be done quickly and easily...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 1st '11 |
On Gardens and Governance
UK SharePoint Team
Just as a garden needs continual maintenance in order to maintain its appearance, so also SharePoint deployments need continual governance in order to maintain their effectiveness.
Rather than explain the "what" of SharePoint Governance, this series of blog posts looks at the "why" and the "how"....(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 16th '11 |
Office Communicator integration (Presence) in a custom webpart for SharePoint 2010
UK SharePoint Team
I recently spent a while trying to integrate the Office Communicator presence pawn into a custom web part and found it a little tricky so wanted to share my learning's. With SharePoint 2010's new social capabilities, I see this integration as being a...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2010/05/07/office-communicator-integration-presence-in-a-custom-webpart-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10008965" width="1" height="1"div cl [read].
Posted: Fri, May 7th '10 |
Introducing Site Directory for SharePoint 2010
UK SharePoint Team
Those of you that have spent some time looking at SharePoint 2010, may have noticed that the Site Directory has been largely dropped. On account of this, myself and several other writers on this blog have been working on a custom solution called ‘Site...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2010/04/05/introducing-site-directory-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9990715" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Mon, Apr 5th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 – NEW Social Computing Features
UK SharePoint Team
This blog post aims to provide an overview of some of the Social Computing Features available in SharePoint 2010. This will include discussions of: New User Interface Social Feedback Social Networking New User Interface The UI in SharePoint 2010 has changed...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2010/01/11/sharepoint-2010-new-social-computing-features.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9946526" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Mon, Jan 11th '10 |
Configuring Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Search in SharePoint 2010
UK SharePoint Team
One of the feature in SharePoint 2010 which has received one of the bigger facelifts is Business Connectivity Services (BCS) – what we used to call Business Data Catalogue (BDC) in SharePoint 2007. This is a really powerful set of tools for connecting...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/12/18/configuring-business-connectivity-services-bcs-search-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9938659" width="1" height="1"div class="f [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 18th '09 |
Installing SharePoint 2010 on a single machine
UK SharePoint Team
When SharePoint 2007 was in beta, I wrote a blog article about how to install it on a single machine. This was one of my most popular articles so I thought I’d repeat the process for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2. This article should be read in addition...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/11/17/installing-sharepoint-server-2010-beta-2-on-a-single-machine.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9923937" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Tue, Nov 17th '09 |
SharePoint Server 2007 For Worldwide Health and Beyond...
UK SharePoint Team
Recently, James Kemp and James Daniel , both contributors of this blog, showcased freely available SharePoint software and guidance that has been designed to help Healthcare organisations address common business challenges. A video from this event has...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/10/27/sharepoint-for-worldwide-health-and-beyond-2.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9900855" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Tue, Oct 27th '09 |
SharePoint Server 2007 and Records Management: Part 4 of 4
UK SharePoint Team
This is the fourth and final post in a series on Records Management using SharePoint Server 2007: 1. Introduction to Records Management, and Definition of Terms 2. Records Management using Standard SharePoint Features 3. Using t he DoD 5015.2 Records...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/10/23/sharepoint-and-records-management-part-4-of-4.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9911956" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Fri, Oct 23rd '09 |
SharePoint 2010 – New Shared Services
UK SharePoint Team
With SharePoint 2010 around the corner, I thought I’d provide a brief overview of the NEW Shared Service model. That is, how the Shared Service Provider (SSP) from SharePoint 2007 has fundamentally changed for SharePoint 2010. So, what’s this “Service”...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/10/21/sharepoint-2010-new-shared-services.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9910467" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
SharePoint 2010 public beta available in November. Signup now!
UK SharePoint Team
The public beta of SharePoint 2010 was announced in Jeff Teper's speech yesterday. Sign up for it now! Register : http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/10/20/sharepoint-public-beta-available-in-november-signup-now.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9909723" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 resources now available!
UK SharePoint Team
This is not a normal blog post, but the MCS Uk SharePoint team is very excited! The NDA has been lifted and we can start talking about the new exciting features in SharePoint 2010. New resources have been posted by the Microsoft SharePoint team. For more...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/10/20/sharepoint-2010-resources-now-available.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9909721" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
Using custom Event Log Sources on Least Privilege SharePoint Servers
UK SharePoint Team
As you will surely be aware, it is best practice to install production SharePoint farms using something called the “least privilege account principle”. This effectively means that each service account in the farm is dedicated to a specific job and has...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/10/19/using-custom-event-log-sources-on-least-privilege-sharepoint-servers.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9909044" width="1" height="1"div class="fee [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
How to include Document Template Files in Content Type Features
UK SharePoint Team
I recently spent longer than I should have done trying to create what I thought was a fairly simple feature; one that adds a content type to a site collection and also adds a physical file as the document template. This is a common scenario when developing...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/10/15/how-to-include-document-template-files-in-content-type-features.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9907503" width="1" height="1"div class="feedfla [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 15th '09 |
SharePoint Server 2007 and Records Management: Part 3 of 4
UK SharePoint Team
This is the third post in a series on Records Management in SharePoint: 1. Introduction to Records Management, and Definition of Terms 2. Records Management using Standard SharePoint Features 3. Using the DoD 5015.2 Records Management Resource Kit (this...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/10/06/sharepoint-and-records-management-part-3-of-4.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9903631" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Tue, Oct 6th '09 |
SharePoint Server 2007 and Records Management: Part 2 of 4
UK SharePoint Team
This is the second post in a blog series on Records Management in SharePoint: 1. Introduction to Records Management, and Definition of Terms 2. Records Management using Standard SharePoint Features (this post) 3. Using the DOD 5015.2 Records Management...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/09/29/sharepoint-and-records-management-part-2-of-4.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9900841" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Tue, Sep 29th '09 |
SharePoint Server 2007 and Records Management: Part 1 of 4
UK SharePoint Team
This blog series will address the role that SharePoint can play in Records Management within an organization and the abilities and functionality that can be leveraged from the platform. The blog consists of four posts: 1. Introduction to Records Management,...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/08/27/sharepoint-and-records-management-part-1-of-4.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9886885" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Thu, Aug 27th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 – Sneak Peak…
UK SharePoint Team
Recently, the SharePoint Product Team released information regarding the next version of SharePoint; SharePoint 2010. News regarding the next version of Microsoft Office; Office 2010 is also surfacing. As I regularly get questions from customers regarding...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/07/31/sharepoint-2010-sneak-peak.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9851119" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Fri, Jul 31st '09 |
How to incrementally deploy SharePoint Server 2007 MySites
UK SharePoint Team
A SharePoint MySite is a type of SharePoint site that can be created to allow a user to (a) centrally manage and store their documents, content, links, and contacts, and (b) share information about themselves, such as their skills and interests. Each...(a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/06/23/quick-tip-how-to-incrementally-allow-users-to-have-a-mysite.aspx"read more/a)img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9716546" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Tue, Jun 23rd '09 |
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