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Pittsburgh SharePoint User’s Group

Paul Papanek Stork — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:37:16 +0000

I will be speaking at the Pittsburgh SharePoint User’s Group on Wednesday, January 18th. The meeting will start at 11:00 am and my topic will be "Users, Profiles, and MySites: Managing a Changing SharePoint User population”. Here’s a brief description of the talk: Users, Profiles, and MySites: Managing a Changing SharePoint User population Every organization [...]

Office 365 Certification Exams Being Developed

Paul Papanek Stork — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:42:06 +0000

Microsoft is currently working on two new certification exams for IT professionals who work with Microsoft Office 365 online systems. The exams are due to be released in April, 2012. If you work with Office 365 you should be working on the knowledge needed to pass these exams starting NOW! You can read more about [...]

SharePoint Saturday Denver Wrap-Up

Paul Papanek Stork — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:45:37 +0000

I’m at the airport waiting on my flight home from the Denver SharePoint Saturday event. Since I promised attendees that I would post my slides I thought I would do it today before I got busy with other things when I get back to work on Monday. I was originally scheduled to present two sessions. [...]

Managing Default Permissions in SharePoint Online (Office 365)

Paul Papanek Stork — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:36:17 +0000

I stumbled across an interesting difference between the Enterprise and Professional level plans of Office 365 recently. If you subscribe to a Microsoft Office for professionals and small businesses plan (Plan P) then any non-admin user added to SharePoint online automatically has Enhanced Contributor permission in all your sites. But if you subscribe to one [...]

SharePoint Saturday: Denver – Nov. 11-12

Paul Papanek Stork — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:37:00 +0000

Next week I’ll be headed for Denver to speak at the Denver SharePoint Saturday event. I will be presenting two sessions. One will be an overview for users, admins, and developers who are just getting started on SharePoint online in Office 365. The other is a more in depth talk for developers and admins on [...]

SharePoint’s Managed Metadata service is NOT case sensitive

Paul Papanek Stork — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:32:40 +0000

I’ve done programming in a variety of environments over the years. Case sensitivity was one of the things that was the most difficult for me to get used to when I moved from VB to C# a number of years ago. In fact if it weren’t for Intellisense I would probably still be swearing at [...]

Best Practices for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade & Configuration

Paul Papanek Stork — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:52:00 +0000

Please join Dave Milner and me for the webinar entitled Best Practices for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade & Configuration, where we will outline various critical considerations and best practice strategies for the planning and conducting an upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. The webinar will include live demonstrations and discussion of the following points: Who [...]

MVP for the 4th Year

Paul Papanek Stork — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:16:39 +0000

I just got my email that I’ve been awarded an MVP award again this year for SharePoint server. This is my fourth year and I get more EXCITED about the program every year. One of my more exciting moments this past year was winning the scholarship that Microsoft offered for one MCM to attend Microsoft [...]

SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 Released

Paul Papanek Stork — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:58:51 +0000

The SharePoint product team released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 yesterday, along with service packs for a lot of related Office products. In the past its been a good idea to patch SharePoint and your client applications at the same time to maintain the highest level of integration between SharePoint and the desktop. I [...]

June SharePoint Q&A with MVP Experts

Paul Papanek Stork — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:29:14 +0000

Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? Then join me and other SharePoint MVPs for answers to your questions in a live forum. So please join us and bring on the questions! These [...]