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Speaking at SharePoint Saturday: Columbus, Ohio
Woody Windischman
Back to My Old Stomping Grounds...
When I was a "wet behind the ears" high school graduate, I ended attending Ohio Institute of Technology to study Electronics Engineering. While I was there, OIT became DeVry Institute of Technology, Columbus. Today it is known as DeVry University, Columbus and offers a whole lot more than electronics. I ultimately ended up living and working in Columbus for many years, and it holds a special place in my heart.
Today, I'm pleased to announce that I've been sel [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 27th '10 |
I Passed the SharePoint 2010 Config and Admin Exams
Woody Windischman
Yes, It's True - I'm Officially Certifiable!
Much like designing software, Microsoft goes through a pretty significant effort to develop certification examinations. The most public stage of that process is the Beta phase. Members of the public are invited to take a special version of the exam. After these folks take the test, the questions are evaluated for how accurately they predict whether someone actually knows what they're talking about.
Last month, I took the configuration (667) and ad [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 11th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 and the C Drive
Woody Windischman
Minimizing Your Footprint I recently participated in an MVP chat, and we got an interesting question about SharePoint storage requirements. I answered the question as well as possible given the chat format, but the issue really deserves a more thorough treatment. Reading through the SharePoint 2010 system requirements you quickly come across one that seems a bit strange. SharePoint is asking for 80 Gigabytes of hard disk space! We all know that SharePoint itself isn't that big, so where is that [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 29th '10 |
Message From Tech-Ed to the Future
Woody Windischman
"Bring It On! (But Please, Give us Real Food...)"
Dateline, New Orleans LA
We're halfway through Tech-Ed 2010 (North America). Tech-Ed is Microsoft's broadest-based, and (historically) one of its best attended shows. A number of clear trends are emerging.
The biggest, and most obvious, is - Tech-Ed is Back! Last year was one of the smallest Tech-Ed conferences I'd ever been to. And while everyone had a good time, there was an undercurrent of concern. Granted, the economy was in the dumpster, [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 9th '10 |
Successful SharePoint 2010 People Search
Woody Windischman
Finding your Way through the Configuration Maze
SharePoint has two basic configuration modes:
- SharePoint sets up "Everything" for you - You set up "Everything" manually
There is precious little in between these two extremes. The good news is, if you let SharePoint configure everything, chances are everything will work. The bad news is, these settings rarely reflect best practices, and if (when?) you want to tweak some of those settings later you often find that one change has to lead to an [read].
Posted: Thu, May 27th '10 |
Join Me at Tech-Ed 2010
Woody Windischman
Get the Lowdown in Party Town! For 2010, Microsoft's biggest public educational event of the year has moved to the Big Easy - New Orleans, Louisiana. There, you'll find it easy to get the latest on the biggest technologies Microsoft has introduced over the last year, from Windows 7, to SQL Server, to Office and SharePoint 2010. 21 technical tracks lead to over 700 different sessions, hands on labs, and other educational interactions. You're sure to find plenty of ways to fill your time, and yo [read].
Posted: Wed, May 26th '10 |
SharePoint and Office 2010 Debut Today
Woody Windischman
This is the day the world has been waiting for! OK, maybe just some of the world. But it is certainly a big one for users of Microsoft software. After years of development, testing, and previews, Microsoft today is officially rolling out the 2010 wave of SharePoint and Office products.
Some of the changes are "evolutionary", others are "revolutionary", but no matter how you slice it, this is a big announcement.
Get all of the scoop, including live streaming of the official event at htt [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
SharePoint 2007 Security Vulnerability - Action Required
Woody Windischman
Stop the Presses!
Microsoft has announced the discovery of a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the SharePoint 2007 (and WSS 3.0) Help system. Although they are still investigating the root cause and working on a long-term solution, they have provided a workaround which will mitigate the only known (at the time of this writing) attack vector. You can read the details of the vulnerability and a server-side workaround in Security Advisory 983438. The Security team have also posted some more ex [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 30th '10 |
As if You Didn't Know...
Woody Windischman
Some SharePoint News Life has been a bit hectic around here, but I haven't disappeared. Here's a quick rundown of some recent and upcoming events. First, the big news - SharePoint 2010 is Available! Not all editions, but you can get the most popular parts if you are a subscriber to MSDN or TechNet Plus: Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Foundation (this replaces Windows SharePoint Services) Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Server (this replaces MOSS. You can get keys f [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10 |
An Engaging Experience
Woody Windischman
Stalking the Ruby-hearted Gleamcatcher OK, so this still isn't the article on incoming SharePoint email that I promised. That article (which will be cross-posted at EndUserSharePoint.com) is still coming, as is an article for Microsoft's Get the Point! blog. But from a personal standpoint, this is even more important. Over the Easter holiday weekend, I proposed to my girlfriend, Brenda, while we were on a nature walk. Essentially, I set it up so that on our walk we would be seeking out the nest [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 13th '10 |
New SharePoint Designer Book
Woody Windischman
Wrox in the Worx (uh, Works...)
If you've been following my tweets lately, you'll have noticed me mentioning writing a few times. I'm pleased to announce that, in cooperation with my co-authors Asif Rehmani and Bryan Philips, I'm working on a new SharePoint Designer book. Like our previous book, it will be a Wrox title. In this case, however, it will be "Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010".
This change in series, from Professional to Beginning, means that it will include a bit more basic info [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 23rd '10 |
It's a Date!
Woody Windischman
SharePoint and Office 2010 to Launch on May 12th On Friday, Arpan Shah announced the official debut date for Microsoft Office 2010 and, of course SharePoint 2010, on the Microsoft SharePoint Blog. In the same post, he mentioned that the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) will come a few weeks earlier, some time in April. There are a lot of changes coming in the new versions, so there is also lots of planning to do. I know many of you are planning to move forward aggressively, while many of you will [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 7th '10 |
Busy February
Woody Windischman
Watch this Space!
Between SPS Indy, the MVP Summit last week, and life in general, this
month has just flown away. But don't worry, I haven't abandoned you,
and I'll be posting more SharePoint articles soon... [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 22nd '10 |
SPS Indy a Success
Woody Windischman
As most of you know, I was a speaker at the Indianapolis SharePoint Saturday event. We had close to a capacity crowd, with over 250 attendees. Not bad for a little town in the Midwest. OK, Indianapolis isn't all that small. There are a few events that draw more people - like the Indianapolis 500. And I hear there's also a football team... (just kidding - Go Colts!). My Session Nevertheless, there were 20 sessions, in four tracks. My session was the first of the day in the "No-code solutions" tr [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 2nd '10 |
On Ends and Means
Woody Windischman
The Answer may be SharePoint, but Don't Forget the Questions!
One of the biggest reasons some SharePoint deployments fail is because they are "SharePoint Deployments".
People hear the buzz, and want to jump on the SharePoint bandwagon. They buy servers, attend training, install the software. Big bux are spent customizing and branding a SharePoint home page. Maybe there's a big roll-out promotion. Everybody says "Look! We've rolled out SharePoint!". And then...
Crickets.
All Dressed Up, and [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 21st '10 |
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis
Woody Windischman
On the Road Again...
Well, 2010 has just barely gotten started, and SharePoint Saturday's are already in full swing. I'm pleased to announce that I've been selected to present at the SharePoint Saturday in Indianapolis, Indiana. This takes place on January 30th, 2010, at the Gene B. Glick Junior Achievement Center. Click on the link or logo above for all the details, including registration, a list of the other presenters, as well as the Twitter feed of #SPSIndy commentary.
A SharePoint Saturda [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 9th '10 |
Looking Back on 2009
Woody Windischman
The Obligatory Year-end Report
It is now the last week of December, and you know what that means. Lying in wait among the crumpled wrapping paper, danced-out sugarplums, and pine needles (not to mention the feathers and other "presents" from all those birds your true love gave to you) you'll find year-end wrap-ups from every corner imaginable.
This is mine. :) I'll get to the more general stuff in a moment, but there was one personal SharePoint-related thing that stood out for me in 2009, and [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 28th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 - Everything Old is New Again
Woody Windischman
"You Must Un-learn what You Have Learned!"
The public beta of SharePoint 2010 has been out for a few weeks now. Many people are discovering and blogging about some of the great new features you're going to find. Yet there have also been some significant changes to existing features. These are things you may have been using every day in SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0, but which in SharePoint 2010 have moved or changed in ways could cause confusion to experienced users.
In this article I'm going t [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 13th '09 |
FeedBurner Under Control
Woody Windischman
The Fix is In, Thanks to Tom Resing
I have great news, thanks to fellow SharePointer Tom Resing. In my previous post I mentioned the problems the Community Kit for SharePoint:Enhanced Blog Edition has with the new link tracking parameters FeedBurner just started adding to their links.
In that post, I talked about the trials and tribulations of trying to get CKS:EBE working by installing an updated version. It turns out there was another approach to the problem. Although Google made the change [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 27th '09 |
Burned by FeedBurner
Woody Windischman
At Least They Didn't Burn the Turkey
Just a quick note before I run off for the Thanksgiving holiday (USA). If you have been a subscriber to my RSS feed, you may have noticed a problem clicking through to my blog posts lately. This is because of a change that FeedBurner made a few weeks ago. They added extra parameter information to the connection string of links back to the blog.
This is theoretically a good thing, as it allows site logging to better determine where visitors are coming from. [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 25th '09 |
SharePoint Virtualization
Woody Windischman
All of Your Eggs in One Basket?
Every time a new version of a virtualization tool comes out, people get all excited about the possibility of reducing the costs of running their data centers. Most of them are thinking in terms of hardware consolidation, but virtualized environments also allow for new ways of handling resilience and recovery as well.
This is all well and good, but then you run into what I call "the new hammer syndrome". The idea is, after you buy a new hammer, everything start [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 12th '09 |
A Free SharePoint Org Chart Web Part
Woody Windischman
Enhancing a CodePlex Project
In this article, I'm going to get a bit more technical than is my normal wont. In fact, I'm going to go into Visual Studio, and show you some C# code as well.
(Waiting a few minutes for folks who know me to pick their jaws up off the floor, or even find some smelling salts... Yes, Virginia, I really can program when I have to. :) I just very rarely have to.)
That doesn't mean I'm going to be building this project from scratch. Far from it. So, if you're looking f [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 10th '09 |
Off Topic - String Along with Ford
Woody Windischman
Buried in Bureaucracy and Rebuffed
Note: This is a follow-up piece to my "In a Fix with Ford" article. See that if you need some additional background.
Where does one begin a tale of woe? For that, my friends, is what we have here. Six weeks ago, I wrote my original article with high hopes that I could prevail upon Ford to do the right thing, and fix the known design problems with my early production 2006 Ford Fusion. Little did I know that I had about as much chance of success as Don Quixote [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 6th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Hits the Jackpot
Woody Windischman
SharePoint Conference 2009 Wrap-up
The show is over, but the adventure is only beginning. As stated before, SPC09 in Las Vegas was the coming out party for SharePoint 2010. While we will still have to wait a few weeks for stable bits to play with, over 7000 attendees came away with a treasure trove of knowledge and documentation.
In my previous installments, I talked about the venue, the atmosphere, and the keynotes. I've also touched on some of the new Office integration story.
Of course, th [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 27th '09 |
Off Topic - A Brief Tribute
Woody Windischman
In Loving Memory of Three Wonderful People
I know you are expecting my wrap-up of the SharePoint conference here, and that will still be coming. But, for now, I need to digress. While I was in Las Vegas, I received word that my grandmother on my mom's side (my last grandparent) had passed away. This caps a series of three losses for me and my family over the past few weeks. In addition to my grandmother, Mary Cary Rudes, I attended services for my uncle Dr. Les Meyer, and my brother's wife's fa [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 - Midpoint Musings
Woody Windischman
Keynotes, Sessions, and More I can't believe how fast the time has gone. We're half-way through the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 already. If you're following me on Twitter, you'll know some of the things that caught my attention as I was sitting through the keynotes and sessions. I really haven't had much time to ponder things too deeply, but there are some items that stand out. "SharePoint is Magical" During Steve Ballmer's keynote, this was his answer to the question "What is SharePo [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 21st '09 |
SharePoint Conference 2009 - Sunday
Woody Windischman
Day 0.5 The day started clear and cold. I would say "bright" and cold, but it was only 4:45 AM when I left for the airport, so it was dark. There was frost on my car windows as I made my way to the airport. Traffic was light, but construction was heavy around O'Hare. The security line was long. Fortunately I had checked in online, so I didn't have to wait for my boarding pass. Still I ran through the B/C tunnel and barely made it before they closed the door. And so began my trip to the ShareP [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint Conference Las Vegas
Woody Windischman
Preparing for the Flood... of Information
Before I get all wrapped up in the excitement around Vegas, the SharePoint conference, and the release of information about SharePoint 2010, I thought I would point out a few things.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I try to keep this blog unique. That said, with so much new information coming out, so fast, and publicized by an unprecedented number of people, there will be virtually no way to ensure I'm not repeating information. So, in this rare ins [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 17th '09 |
Knowing Your Limitations
Woody Windischman
"2.1 Billion ID's Should be Enough for Anybody!"
One of the more infamous stories about Bill Gates is that he once said "640K of memory should be enough for anyone." That wasn't true - he never said it, but it did point up the frustration that came from one of the design limits of the original IBM PC. The memory between 640K and 1MB (which was the physical limit of the CPU) was allocated by IBM for video, I/O buffers, and lots of other "housekeeping, and therefore couldn't be accessed by DOS. [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 12th '09 |
The Four Disclaimers
Woody Windischman
On Monday, October 5th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published some new regulations guidelines with regard to bloggers and product endorsements. While I'm certain they will be challenged, possibly even successfully, for now they are what they are. What does this mean for The Sanity Point? For now, not much. I'm a SharePoint guy, and pretty much everyone knows it. I like SharePoint and I always have. Besides, I very rarely "review" or "endorse" products at all. I normally just provide infor [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 6th '09 |
An MVP Once More
Woody Windischman
Last week, I got some great news: I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 2009! To quote the Microsoft MVP site: "Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized the inspiring activities of MVPs around the world with the MVP Award. MVPs freely share their deep knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial, objective feedback to help people enhance the way they use technology. Of more than 100 million users who participate in technology communities, around 4,000 a [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 5th '09 |
A Little Shout-Out to Bil Simser
Woody Windischman
Complete Agreement
As you may have noticed, I try to keep this blog "original." In other words, I don't cover the same material as another blogger has recently done, unless I have something major to add, or there is some kind of debate going on.
Today (September 29, 2009) SharePoint MVP Bil Simser has managed to "scoop" me, by writing an article on almost exactly the same subject I was planning to comment on in an upcoming post. In it, he talks about people who claim SharePoint is bad, and que [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 29th '09 |
Indexing SharePoint List Columns
Woody Windischman
Helping SharePoint Help You
A SharePoint system manages a huge amount of data. Amazingly, in a SharePoint content database, all of the data, for every list and library item, in every site and subsite, is stored in a single table. Looking at hundreds of sites, each with dozens of lists and libraries, each potentially containing hundreds or thousands of items, and you end up with one massive table!
Not So Limiting After All
Everybody has heard about the so-called "2000 item limit" in SharePoi [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 20th '09 |
SharePoint Values Your Uniqueness
Woody Windischman
"Who Did You Say You Were?"
Today I'm going to talk about user accounts. In particular, Windows Active Directory accounts. You might be thinking, "This doesn't sound like a SharePoint topic!" But rest assured, it is.
I've talked about Windows accounts and SharePoint before. For example, I've told you about the many accounts you need to consider when setting up a SharePoint farm, and how to discover the Setup User account after the fact. I've also mentioned how you can let SharePoint know whe [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 16th '09 |
Off Topic - In a Fix with Ford
Woody Windischman
We interrupt this blog to bring you a small consumer rant. If you have no interest in cars or complaints, please disregard this post.
On Being a Ford Guy
Let me start this out by saying that I'm what they, in a past age, would have called "A Ford Man". I've owned a lot of cars over the course of my life, and most of them have been by Ford Motor Company (memorable exceptions include my first car - a 67 Dodge Dart - and the dilapidated VW Beetle I had in college, but didn't everyone have one of [read].
Posted: Sat, Sep 12th '09 |
Calculated Columns and SPD Workflow Part 2
Woody Windischman
In this two part series, I show you how to take advantage of SharePoint calculated columns in your SharePoint Designer workflows. Part 1 introduced calculated columns. Part 2 will describe several string manipulation functions, and show you how to consolidate these calculated columns into a "function library" of sorts.
Hide the Clutter
In part 1, I showed you how to use a calculated column to enhance a SharePoint Designer workflow. This is all well and good, but what if you have interim calcul [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 3rd '09 |
Advanced Calculations in SharePoint Designer Workflow
Woody Windischman
In this two part series, I'll be showing you how to take advantage of SharePoint calculated columns in your SharePoint Designer workflows. Part 1 will introduce calculated columns. Part 2 will show you how to consolidate your columns into a "function library" of sorts.
Part 1 of 2: When Basic Arithmetic Won't Cut It
SharePoint Designer workflows are very powerful, but there are a number of acknowledged limitations. One of these is the fairly limited selection of operations for performing calcu [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 25th '09 |
My Free SharePoint Twitter Integration Components
Woody Windischman
Yes - I Still Like Twitter!
If you've been following my saga over the last few weeks, you'll know that I was temporarily suspended from Twitter due to a cross-site attack, that caused an inappropriate spam link to be injected into my tweetstream. While I am still disappointed that it took Twitter customer service almost two weeks to reinstate me, I do still like Twitter.
In an effort to "bury the hatchet", I am re-posting links to some components I wrote to bring Twitter into SharePoint. The f [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 19th '09 |
Twitter Account Reinstated
Woody Windischman
I finally got the attention of someone in Twitter support. They have reinstated my account, but I still don’t have a solid confirmation of why I was suspended in the first place. My other posts list my suspicion, but if they ever give me a good explanation, I’ll pass it on to you, so hopefully you won’t fall into the same trap. Until then, Happy Tweeting! [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 12th '09 |
An Open Letter to Twitter Support
Woody Windischman
To Whom it May Concern:
I am becoming very frustrated over the amount of time it is taking
for you to resolve my issue and reactivate/unsuspend my account.
As far as I can tell, I was suspended for inadvertently accessing a
spam site, which used a cross-site scripting vulnerability to inject an
untoward post into my stream. While I immediately addressed the problem
and deleted the offending post, your system had already automatically
suspended my account.
It has now been almost two we [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 11th '09 |
The Office 2010 Synchronization Center
Woody Windischman
As I play around with the Office 2010 client applications, naturally I'm finding some things are the same, while others are different. Today I'm going to talk about how Office 2010 saves files to a SharePoint site.
Reminder: Because SharePoint 2010 is still "under wraps", I'm only talking about using Office 2010 to access a SharePoint 2007 (or WSS 3.0) site in this article. Interaction with SharePoint 2010 may be very different. Also, because this is still pre-release software, things are subj [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 5th '09 |
Professional SharePoint Designer Now on Kindle
Woody Windischman
"Paper, or Electrons?" Great news, everyone! I've just been informed by my publisher that my book, Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, is now available electronically for the Amazon Kindle. Since it appears that SharePoint Designer 2010 won't be usable on SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 sites, this title is going to be relevant for a long time. So now you have your choice of media! [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 3rd '09 |
It Was Not Me - But I AM Sorry
Woody Windischman
First, I want to apologize to anyone who follows me on Twitter if they received any inappropriate messages from my account. My Twitter Account is Currently Suspended I got home from a road-trip yesterday, and found that my Twitter account had been suspended "for suspicious activity". While I have opened a support call with Twitter, I still do not know exactly what kind of activity triggered the suspension. I can only assume that my account was somehow hacked, and was sending inappropriate messa [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 2nd '09 |
SharePoint on a Shoestring
Woody Windischman
When the Best is Too Much
You've heard the buzz about SharePoint. You've started doing your research. You're looking at best practices, configuration guides, and all sorts of good stuff. You're loving everything you read. You're head is swimming with facts and figures when suddenly you run across an article that makes your heart stop.
You might see an industry analyst group is reporting that it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and a phalanx of dedicated developers, administrators, and o [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 31st '09 |
Office 2010 - A Quick Look
Woody Windischman
This article is the first in what I hope will be a series about Office 2010 and SharePoint integration. In it, I'll talk about the current state of Office 2010, and some brief first impressions. I plan to focus later articles on each application, and how it integrates with SharePoint.
One Foot in the Future, One in the Present
Last week I (and just about everyone else in the known universe) posted that the Office 2010 Technical Preview had been released to a select group of people, and that Sh [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 19th '09 |
Taking the Stage - Office and SharePoint 2010
Woody Windischman
In conjunction with the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), Microsoft has started showing off a bit more of the next versions of Office and SharePoint. Still no bits for most of us* to play with, but there are some preview videos talking about the changes. Click the link below to check out the Sneak Peek site, and stay tuned!
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx
* Note: There is an invitation-only preview program. Tech-Ed 2009 attendees got invitations for t [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
Share the Power
Woody Windischman
A Tale of Two "Points"
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… No, wait – that's the wrong tale!
It was the best of Points, it was the worst of Points…
Today I'm going to talk about PowerPoint, and how the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Slide Library takes it to the next level.
(Note: I originally wrote and published this article on my original blog site when MOSS was first released. It is just as relevant now, so I've decided to repost it here to be seen with [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 8th '09 |
Editing Themes with SharePoint Designer
Woody Windischman
A Matter of Style
By now, you are probably aware that SharePoint is a heavy user of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the look of your site. Hopefully, you are also aware that SharePoint Designer has (among other things) a great array of CSS editing tools. In Professional SharePoint Designer, we go into great detail on how these tools work, and many of the style elements used in a SharePoint theme. You can also find breakdowns of the classes used by SharePoint themes on Heather Solomon's [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 7th '09 |
SharePoint Service Pack 2 Repair Patch
Woody Windischman
"You Are Now Free to Upgrade Your Servers..."
Several weeks ago, Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for SharePoint. It was great! SP2 fixed many problems, large and small, as well as introduced a feature to scan your environment for potential upgrade issues.
There was just one problem. If you were running anything other than plain Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), SP2 would trip an expiration flag that made your computer think you were running an evaluation version. For many users this was jus [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 26th '09 |
A Peek Under the Hood
Woody Windischman
What Makes The Sanity Point Run?
Today I'm going to give you a little peek under the hood of my new site. I'll compare what I used before, and what I have now, and how that impacts what I could do. Then I'll go into some technical detail about my current environment, and point out a few things to look for when selecting your own provider. Finally, I'll show you how I customized what I got from the ISP to produce The Sanity Point you are reading now.
The Importance of Dedication
Although I hav [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 18th '09 |
Sample Chapters Online
Woody Windischman
A Taste of "Professional SharePoint Designer"
I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has posted two chapters from "Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007" on MSDN. This is the book I spent the better part of last year writing, along with Asif Rehmani and Bryan Phillips. In the approximately six months since its release, Pro SPD has received excellent reviews, now you can see why for yourselves with the following chapters:
Chapter 11: Advanced Data Access: External Data and Mor [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 17th '09 |
Move in Progress - You Found It!
Woody Windischman
Congratulations! You've found my new site.
This article is just a place-holder while I'm waiting for DNS to update world-wide. Then I'll be able to update my RSS feed and get back into the swing of things. Until then, I've copied over most of my articles (even with their original publish dates). I'm still updating tags, my blog roll, etc... so you may see some more changes in the left column, but the main stuff is all here.
Enjoy! [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 14th '09 |
Getting Ready to Move...
Woody Windischman
Getting Ready to Move...
I've always been a proponent of sites about SharePoint using SharePoint for hosting whenever possible. In fact, The Sanity Point was hosted on SharePoint for a long time. A few months ago, though, I moved my site onto Office Live hosting and started using Live Spaces for my blog.
Now, Office Live is (sort of) based on SharePoint. The problem is, on OL, I don't have full access to the SharePoint functionality I want. For example, it doesn't include SharePoint blogging, [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 4th '09 |
What a Week! - A Tech-Ed Wrap-up
Woody Windischman
What a Week! - A Tech-Ed Wrap-up
Microsoft Tech-Ed North America 2009 is over, and despite the economy, it was another great show. I spent most of my time in the Technical Learning Center, or TLC, answering questions about SharePoint.
Most days I also, along with co-author Asif Rehmani, gave away and autographed dozens of copies of our book, Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. All together, we (well, Microsoft) gave away almost 450 books. I want to take this opportunity to [read].
Posted: Fri, May 15th '09 |
Discovering the Setup User Account - A SharePoint "Whodunit?"
Woody Windischman
Discovering the Setup User Account - A SharePoint "Whodunit?"
It was a dark and stormy night. There were SharePoint problems in The City. Lots of them. And it was my job to track 'em all down. I'm a consultant. No problem is too big or too small. It's what I do.
This is the story of one of those problems...
I was hard at work at my desk when the phone rang. Even before he told me, I could tell from the sound of the caller's voice that he had a big problem. His name was Steve. Not the problem [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
Where's Woody? Conference Update!
Woody Windischman
Although I'm normally holed up in a little cabin in the wilderness of northern Indiana (well OK, Silver Lake isn't exactly the wilderness...), I do get out of the house from time to time. For those who are interested, I'll be appearing at a couple of conferences in the next few months.
You probably know by now, I'm doing a couple sessions at the SharePoint Technology Conference in Boston.
But now, I can also let you know that I'll be at the Microsoft TechED 2009 conference in Los Angeles next [read].
Posted: Fri, May 1st '09 |
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