Dennis Bottjer | ASP.NET MVP, SharePoint Architect

Top Three Favorite SharePoint Books

Dennis Bottjer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:49:08 GMT

Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) </ p>

Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Programmer to Programmer)

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,SharePoint Reading,SharePoint Learning

Teaching with Virtual Machines (Don’t forget about networking)

Dennis Bottjer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:33:03 GMT

I’ve been teaching several SharePoint training classes in Tulsa, OK. This morning while teaching an Admin class reality smacked me right across the face and I hadn’t even had a cup of coffee yet. We had just begun our first lab and several students were unable to access Active Directory (AD) “Users and Computers.” Once we assigned a static IP Address to the Virtual Machines all was fine. Oh, how easy it is too forget that Windows Services such as AD really like having an IP Address.

MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint Performance

dbottjer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:34:18 GMT

What:	MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint Performance Attend this webcast to learn one dozen easy-to-implement performance tips for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out-of-the-box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code. We also describe several ways to proactively improve the user experience and squeeze more performance out of a SharePoint Server farm. Anyone currently designing a SharePoint Server implementation can benefit from this webcast.
When:	Friday, July 10, 2009 12:00 PM
Where:	MSDN Web Cast Live Meeting

Technorati Tags: Presentation,SharePoint Performance,MSDN Web Cast,ASP.NET MVP

SharePoint Team Blog Announces SharePoint 2010 System Requirements

dbottjer — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:07:43 GMT

SharePoint Team Announces SharePoint 2010 Preliminary System Requirements

Highlights

The next version of SharePoint will officially be called SharePoint 2010. It was announced today that SharePoint 2010 will have the following system requirements:

SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.
SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.

This Upgrade Checker can be used to help ensure WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 installations will easily upgrade to SharePoint 2010.

Pig and Chicken

dbottjer — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:17:08 GMT

Our project manager is getting her scrum master certification. She reminded me of the classic pig and chicken story. Here it is for the record:

A Pig is someone who has skin in the game. Mike Cohn aptly refers to the people in that role as, “Having their Bacon on the line.”

Pig roles are considered core team members. Performers. People who “do” work.

Get it?

I would consider the roles of both Product Owner and the ScrumMaster to be pigs on a team.

A Chicken is someone who has something to gain by the Pigs performing, but in the end, really do not contribute day to day to “getting things done.” Their “eggs” are a renewable resource, and many get laid (eggs that is).

I get asked the following question by many people when starting to use Scrum:

“Can I be a Pig and Chicken at the same time?”

No.

You cannot be a Pig and a Chicken at the same time.

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group May Meeting

dbottjer — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:28:31 GMT

Date and Time:

Monday May 11, 2009 6pm - 8pm

Location:

Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus

3727 East Apache

Tulsa, OK 74115

Topic:

DotNetMafia.com's Corey Roth and Kyle Kelin go head to head debating the best way to provision content in SharePoint: using CAML or using the SharePoint Object Model. This no slides talk will compare and contrast the different ways of provisioning SharePoint sites, providing in depth code examples of each method.This is an informal discussion so please come with lots of questions. They will also be showing how to use the new SPSource tool available on CodePlex.

Speakers:

Kyle Kelin has four years of experience in web development using Microsoft technologies. Kyle has built web applications across multiple industries that include consumer electronics, travel, energy, and investment banking. Kyle is currently employed as a Senior Consultant at Infusion where his primary focus is SharePoint development and architecture. Infusion specializes in the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale solutions for some of the world's largest banks and government agencies. Kyle a graduate of The Oklahoma State University. When Kyle is not developing he enjoys working out, martial arts, and drinking. Kyle is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

Corey Roth is an Enterprise Consultant at Stonebridge specializing in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

Please click here to RSVP.

Review of Dallas SharePoint Techfest

dbottjer — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:20:12 GMT

Dallas SharePoint TechFest 2009 Presentations Posted

Travis, Kari, Jim and I made it home late last night from the Dallas SharePoint TechFest. Our company SpringPoint was the only Managed Gold Partner from Oklahoma invited to participate and we did so proudly. We were able to attend the pre-event on Tuesday night where Joel Oleson delivered two great presentations. The first was particularly interesting because it explained the business value of www.Twitter.com. On Wednesday Jim (@wowjim) and I (@dbottjer) delivered our presentation “Enabling a Web Content Management Strategy - TDWilliamson.com under the hood.” Later that afternoon I presented again this time on “Simplify Business Processes - 12 Ways to Grow the Bottom Line with SharePoint.”

We had a great time attending and presenting at the first Dallas SharePoint TechFest. We would like to thank all those who attended our sessions. As promised our slide decks are available for download below.

If you liked out presentations please follow me on Twitter @dbottjer

Downloads Available:

Enabling a Web Content Management Strategy - TDWilliamson.com under the hood

Simplify Business Processes - 12 Ways to Grow the Bottom Line with SharePoint

Reference:

www.TDWilliamson.com

www.MySpringPoint.com

SharePoint Search Tips

dbottjer — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:23:22 GMT

Issue: How to prevent content such as list and document libraries from being indexed?

Solution:

Open the Advanced Settings for a SharePoint List.

Check the “No” for “Allow items from this document library to appear in search results?”

Note: SharePoint’s Object Model can also be used to programmatically set the list’s NoCrawl Property to false.

Additional Information:

Follow me on twitter @dbottjer

Manipulating SharePoint Lists with Code

403 Error When Accessing searchspsettings.aspx

Cannot Configure Crawling Schedules for MOSS 2007 SSP Content Sources

Special Recognition:

Walter Mosscrop for researching and making sense of some difficult SharePoint search issues.

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,SharePoint Search,SharePoint Search NoCrawl

Why Silverlight?

dbottjer — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:56:11 GMT

Why Silverlight? What is Silverlight?

Version 3 of Microsoft Silverlight is on the horizon and there are still some misconceptions regarding why Silverlight exists. Before answering the “Why Silverlight” question we need to understand what Silverlight is. Silverlight, is often compared to Flash because of its vector graphics and animation capabilities. However, Silverlight also provides access to a subset of .NET Framework Base Classes. So this means that complete applications can be developed using Silverlight, with various concerns separated into layers.

Silverlight Provides:

Compiled Language Support (VB.NET, C#, etc.)
IDE Debugging
SEO – Deep Link Formatting
Out-of-Browser Support
- Offline API
- Sandbox

Silverlight would be a good fit for teams building rich internet application on ASP.NET Platform with experience using Visual Studio and writing .NET Code.

Summary

Consider Silverlight if your team already leverage ASP.NET and/or Visual Studio

Consider Silverlight for added Search Engine Optimization Value

Consider Silverlight to build a layered rich internet application.

Additional Information:

Follow me on twitter @dbottjer.

Resources:

Silverlight Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft Official Silverlight

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Rich Internet Application

Automated Web Testing with Visual Studio 2008

dbottjer — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:32:03 GMT

Tulsa Developers User Group | Automated Web Testing with Visual Studio 2008 (Review)

Corey Roth presented tonight on automated web testing with Visual Studio 2008 at the Tulsa Developers User Group. Visual Studio can be used to record an action such as logging into a web application. Alternatively, users can inspect screen values for specific results. The test would pass if the expect value is present and fail if the value is missing. Visual Studio must be installed to execute the tests.

A tests project actually generates .NET Code (C# or VB.NET). The tool can also be used to show raw header information and cookies. One drawback is that only Internet Explorer is supported.

Additional Information:

Follow me on twitter @dbottjer

Technorati Tags: Web Automated Tested,Tulsa Developers User Group

Dennis Bottjer | ASP.NET MVP, SharePoint Architect

Top Three Favorite SharePoint Books

Teaching with Virtual Machines (Don’t forget about networking)

MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint Performance

SharePoint Team Blog Announces SharePoint 2010 System Requirements

SharePoint Team Announces SharePoint 2010 Preliminary System Requirements

Highlights

Pig and Chicken

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group May Meeting

Review of Dallas SharePoint Techfest

Dallas SharePoint TechFest 2009 Presentations Posted

Downloads Available:

Reference:

SharePoint Search Tips

Issue: How to prevent content such as list and document libraries from being indexed?

Solution:

Additional Information:

Related Posts:

Special Recognition:

Why Silverlight?

Why Silverlight? What is Silverlight?

Silverlight Provides:

Summary

Additional Information:

Resources:

Automated Web Testing with Visual Studio 2008

Tulsa Developers User Group | Automated Web Testing with Visual Studio 2008 (Review)

Additional Information: