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Building WCM Sites on SharePoint? – Get the Adventureworks demo modules and site installer

Chandima Kulathilake — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:03:13 GMT

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Well the product has been on the market for a few years.. and I see so many people struggle with getting some of the basics of SharePoint right. If you are looking at starting SharePoint development or have been developing sites on SharePoint here is one cool sample site you should look at.

Microsoft has made available a great sample site built to showcase the WCM capabilities of SharePoint. Head over to http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com/ and get hold of the Adventureworks demo site and the sample MSDN guided modules and demos.

The new SharePoint On The Web modules cover the following topics:

Getting Started with SharePoint Development on the Web
Site Structure and Branding
Custom Field Types and Mode
FBA Authentication
Web Interoperability
SharePoint Search
Content Deployment
Minimal Publishing Site Definition
Enabling Social Networking
Silverlight and SharePoint

All the training modules and the Installer can be downloaded from : http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/spotw/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2702

Thanks to Todd and Spence for blogging this earlier and the correct link to the downloads!

Technorati Tags: WCM,SharePoint,Deployment,Development,MOSS,WSS

Published: 6/07/2009 3:03 p.m.

BlogTitleForUrl: building-wcm-sites-on-sharepoint-–-get-the-adventureworks-demo-modules-and-site-installer

Categories: Deployment;Development;SharePoint 2007;Training

NZSPC Update : Michael Sampson’s SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration

Chandima Kulathilake — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:06:06 GMT

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Michael Sampson will be giving a special offer to attendees of the New Zealand SharePoint Conference to get a copy of his latest book “SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration”. If you are an attendee at NZSPC visit the Knowledge Cue booth for your signed copy of his new book for only NZ$ 20. Please note Michael will only have 50 copies available at the conference.

Follow the event on twitter at NZ SharePoint and also on the Facebook events page and on Flickr (NZSPC)!

Technorati Tags: NZSPCONF09,NZSPC,SharePoint,Events,Wellington

Published: 2/07/2009 12:06 a.m.

BlogTitleForUrl: nzspc-update-michael-sampson’s-sharepoint-roadmap-for-collaboration

NZSPC Update : SharePoint Ask the Experts Panel Questions at NZSPC

Chandima Kulathilake — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:28:35 GMT

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We recently announced to all our registered delegates about the “Ask the Experts” Keynote panel that will be held at NZSPC on Friday, July 03, 2009 starting at 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM (New Zealand Time) in the Duxton Ballroom. You can now post your questions on the user group site.

So far we have received the following questions. We’ll take the best one’s and answer these at the conference. I will also post answers on my blog for some of these.

Questions so far..

User Adoption - There are lots of books about SharePoint on the market. If we customise our SharePoint user interface will these books still be useful to my users?

Web Content Management - I know there is the reusable snippets library which is great for small pieces of content. But how can I reuse whole pages so they appear in different parts of my website without sending the user to another part of the site?

Infrastructure - Can you describe some of the challenges of setting up Kerberos authentication in load balanced environments?

User Adoption - When is SharePoint not the right tool for the job?

Search - What is the easiest way to make the results of a search more useful, i.e. so that you have the context menu option for performing actions rather than just a link to the item.

My Sites - What is the best way to update everyone's existing My Sites e.g. remove their My Mail webpart and add a My Calendar web part into the same location?

Business Data Catalog - If I customise a New Item form, with Business Data Catalog (BDC) information included, how can I get the BDC lookup to populate the list. Only works when you use the standard New Item form.

Infrastructure - In a SharePoint server farm, it appears the Site Usage Reports do not work. Can access the data with SharePoint Designer, but the Usage Reports when sitting on the secondary farm server, the Site Sertting options fail.

Web Content Management - If you're using content deployment to push out published content to a read-only site, but want to add interactivity (e.g. comments on a blog), what's the best way to combine the read-only deployed content, and the read/write interactive content?

Please keep adding questions, if we can’t answer these at the experts panel I am sure these will be answered via a follow up blog post.

Follow the NZ SharePoint twitter channel for conference updates and news.

Steve Smith (MVP) is running an advanced architecture workshop next week and we still have some places left. This is one of the premier SharePoint architect workshops and is highly recommended to any SharePoint administrator. Details are on here.

Technorati Tags: NZSPC,SharePoint,Events,New Zealand,Community

Published: 29/06/2009 11:28 p.m.

BlogTitleForUrl: nzspc-update-sharepoint-ask-the-experts-panel-questions-at-nzspc

Categories: Events;General;Training;User Group

SharePoint End User Adoption Framework demo at New Zealand SharePoint Conference

Chandima Kulathilake — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:34:14 GMT

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End User Adoption Framework Demonstration by Steve Smith (MVP)

Come and see Steve Smith owner of Combined Knowledge and SharePoint MVP demonstrate the brand new End User Adoption software from Combined Knowledge. After a year of development this framework solution is designed to fill a very big hole in any SharePoint deployment - User Adoption. Key points this product solves and covered in the demonstration include :

Why companies don't get the most out of SharePoint once deployed
Increasing ROI across the business
Users having a structured learning and help mechanism without needing to call IT Support
A central page to get access to all content available
Joining the dots with How to video's , CBT , labs and step and step.
Searchable help system structured by category and keyword
Measured statistics
Scorm 1.2 Compliant for LMS systems
Publish content from the system into Custom PDF training manuals or to PDA for remote workers.
Authoring tool for editing and adding your own content
Additional content for other applications like Office , Windows and non Microsoft products.

Come and visit the Knowledge Cue team at New Zealand SharePoint Conference main market area to register for this side session sponsored by Knowledge Cue and learn about the framework. Follow the KnowledgeCue team on twitter! If you are attending the SharePoint Conference and want to know more details please email sharepoint@knowledgecue.co.nz

Technorati Tags: NZSPC,SharePoint,Events,New Zealand

Published: 29/06/2009 10:34 a.m.

BlogTitleForUrl: end-user-adoption-framework-demo-at-new-zealand-sharepoint-conference

Categories: Events;General;Training