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SharePoint 2010 install pre-requisites without Internet connection
William Cornwill
pI was just provided some information from a consultant at one of our partners and thought I should share it (thanks Alan)./p p“I am installing an environment at the moment for a client where Internet access from the SharePoint box is blocked. I have found that even though I installed the compulsory pre-requisite components, unless you install the optional ones also, the pre-requisite install function fails (for example, even though the speech components are optional, the pre-requisite install [read].
Posted: Mon, May 24th '10 |
RTM versions of the IW Demo Virtual Machines released
William Cornwill
pThe SharePoint and Office 2010 RTM virtual machines which contain the All Up SharePoint demo scenarios have been released.#160;#160; You can download them from a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9728417"http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9728417/a./pimg src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10011397" width="1" height="1"div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
National SharePoint User Group Office/SharePoint/Project/Visio Launch Party
William Cornwill
pimg src="http://www.aunz2010launch.net/Style%20Library/aunz2010launch/banner.jpg" width="525" height="132" //p pTomorrow night the various SharePoint user groups around Australia and New Zealand are coming together for a combined Launch Party for the newly released Office, SharePoint, Project, and Visio 2010 products.#160;#160; I will be hosting the all up live meeting from Melbourne’s event which will be at the Microsoft Office in Southbank./p pThe event in Melbourne (120) and Canberra#160; [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
Episode 1 of The ShareCast is now live on YouTube
William Cornwill
pWhat is The ShareCast?#160; There are lots of resources for SharePoint 2010 ranging from Blogs, Twitter feeds, Announcements, Technical papers, what The ShareCast is planning to provide is a bringing together of all of these resources into short videos so that you do not have to hunt for them./p pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/williamcornwill/WindowsLiveWriter/Episode1ofTheShareCastisnowliveonYouTube_6831/image_2.png"img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10 |
SharePoint, Office, Visio and Project 2010 RTM are now available on MSDN
William Cornwill
pOver night the team have released the SharePoint, Office, Visio and Project 2010 RTM installers onto MSDN.#160;#160;#160; If you have an MSDN subscription you will now be able to download them and start using them within you Development and Testing environments.#160;#160; Please remember that MSDN does not cover you for production use.#160; See my previous post a title="Office, SharePoint, Project and Visio 2010 have made RTM!" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/williamcornwill/archive/2010/04/17/offi [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 22nd '10 |
Office, SharePoint, Project and Visio 2010 have made RTM!
William Cornwill
DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 14pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt"FONT size=4 face=arial,helvetica,sans-serifFONT size=2Fantastic new, a short time ago,nbsp;Microsoftnbsp;officially released Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 to manufacturing!/FONT/FONT/DIV
DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 14pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt"STRONGImportant Dates and Product Availability Information!/STRONG/DIV
DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 14pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt"Recently and almost daily I have been asked about when the software [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10 |
Win 1 of 5 HTC HD2 Windows Phones
William Cornwill
pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-au/meet/HTC-HD2.mspx" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" alt="Celebrate the New Year with a HTC HD2 handset!" align="center" src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsmobile/en-au/assets/images/meet/WIN083_Header.jpg" width="540" height="237" //a/p pI am very excited about the new HTC HD2 Windows Phone that is launching in January.#160; It has a massive 4.3 [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 17th '09 |
Office 2010 Beta via App-V
William Cornwill
p align="center"img title="Office 2010" alt="Office 2010" src="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1253408970438amp;id=16e801186ba9889e2e6ba25bae63a6f4amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fjapan.cnet.com%2fstory_media%2f20398881%2f082009_office2010.jpg" /#160;#160;#160; img title="Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)" alt="Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)" src="http://ts1.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1352437545220amp;id=0e9cefe06c8835cd0ac59ff9186ac153amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fww [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 19th '09 |
SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2 is now available on MSDN
William Cornwill
pa href="http://www.msdn.com" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Microsoft Developer Network" border="0" alt="Microsoft Developer Network" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/williamcornwill/WindowsLiveWriter/SharePointServer2010Beta2isnowavailableo_868A/image_3.png" width="244" height="98" //a img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="MSDN [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 16th '09 |
Microsoft to add support for CMIS to SharePoint 2010
William Cornwill
“In September 2008, Microsoft along with EMC and IBM announced the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS), a jointly developed specification designed to facilitate interoperability between Enterprise Content Management repositories from different vendors. At that time, the draft specification was handed over to OASIS to undergo a rigorous review with the aim of producing a final specification. Since last year, the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee has worked on revising th [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 18th '09 |
Windows 7 Federated Search Connector
William Cornwill
During the Keynote at TechEd we showed Federated Search Connectors for Windows 7 Windows Explorer. I have been using this for searching the web using Bing! I have just uploaded the Search Connector for Bing! to my Sample Code page. To use it simply; create a new folder on your C: drive “Search Connectors” download the Bing.osdx file to this new folder double click the Bing.osdx file click Install, then you are ready to go You can also create Federated Search Connectors [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 8th '09 |
Not long until Tech Ed Australia 2009
William Cornwill
Tech Ed Australia 2009 is on next week on the Gold Coast. This year we have some exciting things planned which all start with every attendee receiving a free HP Mini 2140 Netbook – pre loaded with Windows 7 RTM, Office 2010 and a host of other goodies. Lee Hickin and I will be presenting on the differences between the on-premise and online versions of SharePoint (OFC250 Friday at 9:45am in Meeting Room 7. More information on this can be found on the Online Services Team Blog: http: [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 3rd '09 |
Have you registered for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas
William Cornwill
Have you registered to attend the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas coming up in October? SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first time Microsoft will publically share all of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer. There are almost 250 sessions planned, and over 80% of them will be brand new 2010 content. That’s 15,000 minutes of SharePoint, SharePoint and more SharePoint that you’re simply not going to get anywhere else! You’ll get to listen, talk and network with Microsoft Product exper [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 28th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview
William Cornwill
Today the SharePoint team announced that SharePoint 2010 has reached the Technical Preview engineering milestone. What is SharePoint 2010? SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated set of rich features. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint 2010 helps you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond to your busine [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 14th '09 |
Joel Oleson (SharePoint Guru) coming to Australia
William Cornwill
Joel Oleson (ex SharePoint product team) is coming to Australia in July. He has organised two morning sessions with local SharePoint experts, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne. I will be sitting in on Joel’s session in Melbourne and will also be hanging around as a panel expert. “Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic tr [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 22nd '09 |
TechEd Australia 2009 - SharePoint on-premises or in the cloud?
William Cornwill
How cold is it at the moment....brrrr! Luckily Tech Ed Australia 2009 will be on the Gold Coast this year bring on the sunshine baby. If I can manage to g [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 10th '09 |
SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 sets expiry date on servers
William Cornwill
The SharePoint product team has posted an article on an issue found after installing SharePoint Server 2007 SP2.
We take product quality seriously and make every effort to avoid and resolve issues that adversely impact our customers. Unfortunately, we have recently discovered a bug with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that affects all customers that have deployed it for SharePoint Server 2007.
During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview announced at Tech Ed North America 2009
William Cornwill
Tech Ed North America 2009 kicked off today, where Microsoft extended its first invitations into the Office 2010 Technical Preview and demoed Office 2010 onstage at the first major event since PDC. Registrations began for the Office 2010 Technical Preview program. Attendees will get the first opportunity to opt-in at Teched to the invitation-only Office 2010 Technical Preview program which will launch in July. (Office client only) IT Professional Community viral site launched. IT Pr [read].
Posted: Tue, May 12th '09 |
Save up to 80% off the price of exams for MCPs
William Cornwill
MS Learning is taking up to 80 per cent off the exam price for Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) who have not attained a new Microsoft Certification Credential since 1 July, 2007. Until 30 June, MCPs are eligible for a Microsoft Certification exam at the reduced price of US$25. So it is time to up-skill with new Microsoft technologies and stay ahead in today’s market! Check out the website for terms, conditions and more information. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
Happy Star Wars Day – May the Fourth be with you!
William Cornwill
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Posted: Sun, May 3rd '09 |
First National SharePoint Survey
William Cornwill
During a recent chat with Andy Neumann and Elaine van Bergen at OBS, they told me about a National SharePoint Survey that OBS, Nintex and i5 are sponsoring. Below are the details of how to respond and enter the draw to win an Acer notebook computer or V8 race experience. I think the I would take the V8 experience if I was to win. :) They also told me that they were only looking for Australian Customers that use SharePoint to respond and preferably not partners, etc… This is an in [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 30th '09 |
WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 SP2 Released
William Cornwill
Overnight the product team released SP2 for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007. After installing this service pack, SharePoint customers can benefit from performance, stability and availability improvements. IE8 is also put into level 1 support. In addition, SP2 introduces a new stsadm operation preupgradecheck (also known as the Upgrade Checker) to check if the farm can be upgraded to SharePoint 2010. It is very important for existing SharePoint customers to go to SP2 since it “could” be one of the [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) v2 and Accessible Rich Text Editor (aRTE™)
William Cornwill
Microsoft’s immediate strategy around accessibility from a SharePoint platform perspective revolves around a joint venture with HiSoftware, a specialist accessibility partner. On Monday, March 9, 2009, HiSoftware announced the release of the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) v2.0. The AKS v2.0 incorporates feedback from customers and partners and follows on from the AKS v1.0 and v1.1 which have been downloaded by over 4000 organizations in 50 countries. The AKS v2.0 provides a [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
Upcoming User Group Presentations (Australia)
William Cornwill
Canberra SharePoint User Group Wednesday 18th March 2009 at 17:30 – 19:30 – Microsoft Level 2, 44 Sydney Avenue, Barton InfoPath vs Lists The user group will discuss the pros and cons of both data entry methods supported natively by SharePoint and compare them. Scanning to SharePoint While Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has most of the ingredients needed to automate paper-based business processes, it has no out-of-the-box support for handling paper. The "Dark Blue Duck Scanning [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 18th '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 announced
William Cornwill
Arpan Shah just announced during our last session at TR8 the upcoming SharePoint Conference to be held in Las Vegas 19-22 Oct 2009 (http://www.mssharepointconference.com). This will be the premium conference for content pertaining to SharePoint 14 and will be a must attend conference. [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 3rd '09 |
Locking down SharePoint Designer
William Cornwill
Last week the SharePoint Designer Team posted an excellent article on the options available to lock particular Designer functionality from certain users. Quite often I am ask by my customer how to lock down SharePoint Designer to allow users to open a site and create workflows but not allow them to customise the look and feel (master pages). Now I have a comprehensive article that I can point them to. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/11/25/locking-down-sharepoint [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 4th '08 |
Customising the Document Information Panel in Office
William Cornwill
The Document Information Panel is a feature of Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint. This feature is designed to allow users to enter information about the document they are working in. This information can then be used as live fields throughout the document and can even be delivered and synchronised to SharePoint as metadata columns to assist in content classification and retrieval. Tomorrow night at this months MOSSIG (Microsoft [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 23rd '08 |
Customising the Approval Workflow for WCM (Update)
William Cornwill
As I mentioned in my previous post, at this years TechEd in Sydney, Paul Turner from SDM and myself presented a session on customising the approval workflow for web content management in MOSS. Paul has been busy writing the full blog post and has published the Part 1 and Part 2 over on his blog. Paul will be adding to this series of posts over the weekend say stay tuned. [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 19th '08 |
Customising approval workflows for WCM in MOSS
William Cornwill
At this years TechEd in Sydney, Paul Turner from SDM and myself presented a session on customising the approval workflow for web content management in MOSS. During the session we showed how to add a non-human element, particularly the HTML Tidy utility, to the workflow. Paul showed a wrapper class (tidy.cs) that he adapted from a VB version into C#. During the session we also stated that we would make this available on my blog and also create a detailed blog post about the process. Since the ses [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 10th '08 |
TechEd Australia 2008 is here!
William Cornwill
TechEd Australia 2008 is finally here. Today is the Student day and other pre-day, gives me time to get comfortable in the speakers room. This will be my first TechEd as a Microsoft employee so lets see if it is any different or exciting from the inside. [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 2nd '08 |
Cardiolog 2007 for SharePoint 2007 (Lite version is free)
William Cornwill
Intlock have been in the market since 2005, selling its SharePoint Usage Report solution. Intlock have developed a web analytics reporting solution for SharePoint 2007, it is called CarioLog 2007. There are three models of the solution; Lite, Professional and Enterprise. The basic set of reports (Cardiolog Lite) is completely free, and you can add more reports to the solution. More information on the various models and pricing can be found here. Additional Report Bundles CardioLog comes wit [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 28th '08 |
Looking for SQL Server Upgrade information
William Cornwill
Now that MOSS is officially supported on SQL Server 2008, you might be looking for information on how to upgrade to SQL Server 2008. Below are some useful links that may assist; Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677622.aspx How to: Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 (Setup) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144267.aspx Using Upgrade Advisor to Prepare for Upgrades http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144256.aspx [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 20th '08 |
Virtualization Support for SharePoint Products and Technologies
William Cornwill
On the SharePoint Team Blog this morning is an exciting announcement about support for SharePoint technologies in a virtualised environment. Most importantly is our support for 3rd party virtualisation software. "Today we’re excited to announce support and licensing updates for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 running in virtual machines. This is part of a larger announcement affecting multiple Microsoft products, including Exchange [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 20th '08 |
Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint Released to CodePlex!
William Cornwill
Today Microsoft released the source code for the Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint—based on the Silverlight Beta 2 release. The Silverlight Blueprints for SharePoint provide a way for developers to better understand how to integrate Silverlight applications with SharePoint. Silverlight is an incredibly popular technology and with the increase in SharePoint adoption we’re finding an increased call for integrating technologies like Silverlight with SharePoint. In this release, you [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 20th '08 |
MOSS now supported on SQL 2008
William Cornwill
The SharePoint Team have announced that SharePoint is now officially supported running on SQL Server 2008 (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/15/sql-server-2008-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx). "You may already be aware of the recent RTM announcement of SQL Server 2008. We are happy to announce that Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 & Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 now support SQL Server 2008. Our documentation has been updated to include support fo [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 17th '08 |
A list of Post SP1 Hotfixes
William Cornwill
Spencer Harbar has a great article that lists the hotfixes that have been released since SP1 which he is keeping up to date. I will stress as per Spencer, "You shouldn't deploy these willy nilly unless you are experiencing issues - it's best to wait for the regular "roll up" packages." Click here for more information. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 3rd '08 |
M&M Collector Blog
William Cornwill
I have been collecting M&M chocolate dispensers and other M&M memorabilia for the past seven years. Tonight I decided to create a new blog to share my collection with others who might also collect similar items or might just be interested in having a look at them. I have over 70 items in my collection and will be posting images of the collection. Check out my collection at http://mandmcollector.wordpress.com/. [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 27th '08 |
Tech.Ed Australia 2008 Early Bird extended
William Cornwill
There are only 67 days now until Tech.Ed Australia 2008. Microsoft are now giving you an extra two weeks to register for the $250 Tech.Ed Early Bird discount. By extending the deadline to 11 July Microsoft is giving you even more chance to maximise your Tech.Ed investment and an opportunity to take advantage of your budgets in the new financial year. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 26th '08 |
Face in hole.com
William Cornwill
Have some fun with www.faceinhole.com. Place your face or your friends face into a well known picture; Thanks for the link Chris. Grumpy Wookie (Chris O'Connor) CodeJedi (Me) [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 25th '08 |
SharePoint WebParts for FAST ESP released to CodePlex
William Cornwill
The SharePoint and Enterprise Search teams have posted articles about the release of some SharePoint WebPart to provide integration of FAST ESP into SharePoint. "It’s been around 45 days since the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer closed and we’re moving quickly to provide interoperability for Microsoft customers between FAST ESP and Microsoft SharePoint Server. The first deliverables from this work are a set of FAST ESP Search Web Parts for quickly integrating results from F [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 23rd '08 |
Microsoft SharePoint Developer Resources
William Cornwill
Microsoft have a great resource for SharePoint Developers, MS SharePoint Developers. You can watch videos casts, read white papers, download VPCs and learn lots from the How to Develop series. Check out this highly valuable resource. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 12th '08 |
Some statistics goodness
William Cornwill
Each month an internal email goes around highlighting the rankings of the various MSDN and TechNet blog sites. Last month I received a ranking of 1775 out of 5788 MSDN blogs which puts me in the top 31% of MSDN blogs. I wanted to thank all the regular readers and visitors to my blog, it is much appreciated. If you are interested in who made the top of the list; the most hit MSDN Blog for May was http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/ with 116,605,106 total views, that's right 116 mil [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 11th '08 |
SharePoint Best Practice (Microsoft Press)
William Cornwill
A friend of mine Grumpy Wookie has posted about a new Microsoft Press book called SharePoint Best Practices. Get field-tested best practices and proven techniques for designing, deploying, operating, and optimizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Part of the new Best Practices series for IT professionals from Microsoft Press®, this guide is written by leading SharePoint MVPs and Microsoft SharePoint team members who’ve worked extensivel [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 10th '08 |
Podcasting Kit for SharePoint released to CodePlex
William Cornwill
Microsoft have been using a Podcasting technology in house for a little while now called "Academy Mobile". This system allows internal Microsoft staff to record, upload, subscribe, download and listen to internal Podcasts simply and securely from inside or outside the network boundaries. Microsoft have just announced the release of the framework behind this system to CodePlex, the open source community site. The Podcasting Kit for SharePoint will enable customers, partners and [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 10th '08 |
VSeWSS v1.2 released
William Cornwill
Chris Johnson, Program Manager - SharePoint has posted that Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio extensions for WSS are now available for download! In summary, Version 1.2 is for Visual Studio 2008 only, for Visual Studio 2005 you will still need to download Version 1.1 (download). Download VSeWSS 1.2 "Today we are releasing the English edition of the Version 1.2 extensions. We will be releasing the German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, and Korea [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 4th '08 |
Nintex Reporting launched at TechEd 2008 North America
William Cornwill
Nintex Reporting 2008 for SharePoint is a fantastic addition to the SharePoint platform and has just been released at TechEd North America. "Real reporting for SharePoint is something we've all sorely needed. The IIS logs just don't give us enough... Beyond Usage reporting, in Nintex Reporting you'll find silverlight (dynamic, functional, and cool) reports and dashboards for Marketing, Portal Admins, Site Admins, IT, Legal Auditing and Document Compliance and on and on. If you [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 4th '08 |
Save As DAISY XML add-in for Microsoft Word
William Cornwill
As mentioned on Mark Harrison's blog; Microsoft in conjunction with Sonata Software and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium has released a software add-in to help those who have difficulty reading printed documents to turn Word documents into audio files. The "Save as DAISY XML" add-in makes it easier to create audio books from text files as an open-source project. It can be downloaded for free, and is compatible Microsoft Word 2007, Word 2003 and Word XP. Press Release [read].
Posted: Tue, May 20th '08 |
STSADM command line tool
William Cornwill
Have you ever tried to find that elusive command line argument for STSADM, well Ian Morrish has created a great little resource that provides a list of the command line arguments grouped by category. http://www.wssdemo.com/Lists/stsadm/AllItems.aspx [read].
Posted: Mon, May 12th '08 |
Son of GrumpyWookie to be a young web developer
William Cornwill
This is the son of a friend of mine Chris O'Connor (GrumpyWookie). It is very funny how the sons of nerd become nerds (my son is also a chip of my shoulder)...I also like the way he promotes SharePoint and C#. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 8th '08 |
Tech Ed 2008, Sydney 2-5 September
William Cornwill
The Australian TechEd 2008 web site has been launched. Check it out for information on the agenda. It has RSS feeds to keep you up to date and also uses Silverlight. I will also be presenting at TechEd this year. Don't forget to register early to save $250. You can also shape the conference by voting for what the closing party theme should be, Gladiators, Comedy or Carnivale. I personally am not sure which one I would rather see! [read].
Posted: Wed, May 7th '08 |
Office System Forum 2008 (run by MOSSIG) - It's FREE
William Cornwill
The Melbourne based Office System / SharePoint usergroup MOSSIG are running the Office System Forum on the 2nd May 2008 at the LaTrobe Microsoft Centre at LaTrobe University Research & Development Park. The Office System Forum is a unique chance to discuss and be informed on the present and future of the Office System as a platform in small and large companies. Industry experts from Microsoft (Mike Fitzmaurice from Microsoft Redmond and myself) and the Melbourne IT community (Brian Cook, CEO [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 21st '08 |
Tech Ready 6 Photo Slide Show
William Cornwill
I finally got a chance to upload some of the photos I took while I was in the US attending Tech Ready 6 and decided to make it a bit fancier by using Rock You. Next time I will try using Microsoft Silverlight. [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 7th '08 |
Accessibility in SharePoint using AKS
William Cornwill
I have been really busy over the past few weeks and something I missed last week I thought was worth mentioning. Lawrence Liu of the product team wrote an excellent article describing the difficulties on providing accessible web sites using MOSS. It is no secret that Microsoft have been working with HiSoftware to create an addition to SharePoint to provide accessible capabilities and I have blogged about it here before. What is great to hear is that there is definite support fo [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 16th '08 |
WSSv3 and MOSS 2207 with SP1 (Slipstream) released
William Cornwill
Just got some time to catch up on my blog reading and noticed that the SharePoint Product Team has released a slipstreamed version of WSS and MOSS with SP1 for both x36 and x64 platforms. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (32 bit) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2E6E5A9C-EBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (64 bit) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3015FDE4-85F6-4CBC-812D [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 12th '08 |
Adelaide “experts” set to share good ideas over pasta
William Cornwill
A group of Adelaide-based Microsoft technologists has launched the Adelaide SharePoint Users Group as a forum to share good ideas about how to benefit from Microsoft’s outstanding Intranet/Internet collaboration offering. Microsoft SharePoint is the collective name for a range of Microsoft products that dramatically simplify the process of sharing, collaborating and managing large amounts of information. The biggest challenge of SharePoint is turning its technology potential into actual bu [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 4th '08 |
External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint - Final Release Now Available!
William Cornwill
In late January I posted a article about the External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint being released into Beta. Just thought I would update to let you know that a full version has now been released. Check it out here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc268155.aspx. [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 3rd '08 |
Sliverlight Blueprint for SharePoint
William Cornwill
From internal correspondance regarding the announcement of Sliverlight Blueprint for SharePoint. Today Microsoft announced the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint at the SharePoint Conference in Seattle. This will allow SharePoint Developers building web parts to take advantage of Silverlight user interface components. The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers describing how to use Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologi [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 3rd '08 |
Centralised resource web site for WSSv3 and MOSS 2007
William Cornwill
While I was in Seattle last week I spent time talking with the Product team, during this time I managed to talk with Michal Gideoni who looks after field readiness. Michal mentioned that the product team was working on a new website that would provide a centralised location for a lot of different types of resources, including downloads, technical whitepapers, articles, community forums, etc pertaining to WSSv3 and MOSS 2007. Last night the product team blogged about the launch of this site [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 28th '08 |
Implementing SharePoint technology solutions whitepaper
William Cornwill
Something that I am asked quite often is around how to establish solutions in MOSS and WSS using best practices for multi team development, integration testing, authoring and production. Also how to manage content deployments between these environments. On the 25th January, the Microsoft SharePoint product team published a whitepaper (Implementing Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Solutions) This document outlines a m [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 19th '08 |
Advanced SharePoint Videos and Whitepapers available.
William Cornwill
I was at Microsoft campus today and I had a chance to catch up with Michal Gideoni to discuss SharePoint field readiness. We chatted about certification exams, SharePoint documentation, whitepapers and instructional videos. We also discussed the latest post she wrote for the SharePoint Team blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/02/18/advanced-sharepoint-videos-and-whitepapers.aspx). This post provides a good list of whitepapers and videos relating to several advan [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 19th '08 |
Internal Advanced SharePoint Training
William Cornwill
Today and tomorrow I am in Seattle attending internal Advanced SharePoint training for Microsoft Technical Specialists. The morning sessions have been really interesting covering capacity planning and high reliability implementation modelling. Later today we will be covering Backup and Disaster Recovery and Excel Services which should generate interesting discussions also. This week Monday-Friday I am also attending the Internal Microsoft TechReady event, can't wait for the keynotes [read].
Posted: Sat, Feb 9th '08 |
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