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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

Body: 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 :...

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Renewed as SharePoint MVP

noreply@blogger.com (Chris O'Brien) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:08:00 GMT

Like several others, I heard the good news from Microsoft last week that I’m a SharePoint MVP for another year. I’m really pleased to get the award again, as it’s nice to be recognized by Microsoft for what you’ve done. I find it useful (to me anyway!) to have a bit of reflection on what I’ve been up to for the last year. The big things were probably: A big re-write of my popular SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard tool, to support added functionality such as scripted deployments Release of the SharePoint Config Store framework, for storing configuration values in SharePoint development Release of the sister project, the SharePoint Language Store framework, for helping to build multi-lingual SharePoint sites Speaking at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference on deployment approaches/best practices for SharePoint sites Being on various expert panels at different events (such as the Best Practices Conference) Other speaking gigs, like my Lessons learnt/top...

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Technical Conferences at 2X Speed

Robert L. Bogue — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:47:00 GMT

I go to a few conferences each year. Most of them I'm speaking at which causes some interesting dynamics. The first dynamic is I invariably am preparing for the sessions before I deliver them. I'm not saying that I'm not prepared for my sessions – just that I always do a dry run within 24 hours of my session to make sure that all my demos work. (Presenters will tell you that updates love to break demos.) Add to that I'm generally spending a ton of time in discussions with my fellow speakers, MVPs, notables, and just answering questions. The net effect is that I really don't have much time to go to sessions while I'm at a conference. Yet, one of the common questions I get is "Have you seen any good sessions?" The problem is the truth is no… because I haven't seen any sessions. I hesitate to stop at no lest someone get the wrong impression. In all honesty, the other problem with going to sessions is that I have to be keenly interested in the topic. I've got so many things...

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Bob Bradley to present on Enterprise Provisioning at ASPUG this month!

Daniel Brown — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:14:09 GMT

Body: Here is an overview of Bob’s presentation which he will be presenting at the Adelaide SharePoint User Group’s meeting on July 21st. Title: Enterprise Provisioning OVERVIEW/CONTENT Organisations implementing MOSS are likely to face a number of challenges in integrating SharePoint with their enterprise systems … especially those that wish to implement SharePoint across a heterogeneous enterprise environment. Typical challenges include supporting multiple directories for user definitions; support for a multi forest/domain Active Directory environment, particularly where there are users who move between forests/domains; implementing real-time compliance based upon changes to authoritative sources including user definitions and information; and allowing SharePoint ( “My Site”) to be a dynamic enterprise wide user self-service White Pages. This presentation shows how the above challenges can be overcome with some innovative use of Microsoft Identity LifeCycle Manager (ILM2007). ...

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Speaking on SharePoint Developement Best Practices at SharePoint Saturday Toronto

Reza Alirezaei — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:43:53 GMT

Well, SharePoint Saturday is coming to the Greater Toronto Area and I am scheduled to present on the topic of Developement Best Practices in SharePoint 2007. The event is free and is open to the public and will be held on Saturday, Jully 11th, 2009 at the Microsoft Office on 1950 Meadowvale Boulevard, Mississauga , ON L5N 8L9 Canada. For more more information, check out http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/toronto/default.aspx or follow @SPSToronto Twitter alias .

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How to stop hotlinkers (and other amazing tricks)

Todd O. Klindt — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:47:35 GMT

Body: Last year I did a blog post on how I use Log Parser to peruse the IIS logs from this site to see how many people come here, what they look at, where they come from, etc. Those of you that have seen me at conferences or talked to me in person have no doubt heard the hilarious byproduct of that. Seems a few images on my web site are very popular with the kids at MySpace. They really like that yellow bird image as their background. While I'm flattered by the attention, honest I am, they seem unable to copy it down, so they're all hotlinking off of my site. That's right, these hoodlums are stealing bandwidth right out of the hands of you hardworking SharePoint enthusiasts. Every time you go to download one of my blog posts or a netcast recording those guys are slowing you down. I decided I wouldn't stand for it anymore; I was going to do something about it to defend your honor. In the past I've gone through my IIS logs to see which MySpace pages are stealing my images, then I swap...

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I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana in Indianapolis, IN (August 26, 2009)

Andrew Connell — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:46:37 GMT

Suddenly all these speaking engagements have come through or been publicized at the last minute… hence the flurry of blog posts. This should be it for a while… I’ll be speaking at the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN) in Indianapolis, IN on August 26, 2009 @ 6p. Rob Bogue, my friend and colleague on a few projects including www.mssharepointdeveloper.com, got me to finally commit to coming up after I had to reschedule a few times on him. This time, no rescheduling! Looking forward to it and thanks for having me Rob! Here’s the session I’ll be presenting: Building & Configuring Solutions on SharePoint Server 2007 for High Performance Performance should be one of the top areas of focus on everyone's mind when embarking on a Internet facing Microsoft Office Server 2007 site. In this session we'll look at the built-in caching capabilities in the SharePoint platform, including disk-based and page output caching. In addition we'll take a look at various hot-button issues...

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Andrew Connell, Indianapolis, August 26th: Building High Performance Features and Solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Robert L. Bogue — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:27:00 GMT

I'm happy to announce that Andrew Connell of Critical Path Training has agreed to come to Indianapolis on August 26th (2009) to deliver his "world famous" session "Building High Performance Features and Solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" to the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN). If you've ever seen Andrew speak at a conference (Microsoft TechEd, SharePoint Connections, etc.) you know this will be a great presentation filled with tons of real world advice from the work Andrew has done with clients on large scale deployments of SharePoint. Andrew is perhaps best known for his Web Content Management expertise in the SharePoint platform but he's also a powerful developer. Andrew and I worked together with Paul Andrew on http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com/ where any ASP.NET developer can get 10 sessions on the basics of developing for SharePoint for free. The abstract he provided for this session is: "Performance should be one of the...

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SharePoint Saturday Adelaide Venue Confirmed!

Daniel Brown — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:31:18 GMT

Body: Just a quick update… The venue for SharePoint Saturday Adelaide has been confirmed! SPS Adelaide will be held on August 15th 2009 at: Carnegie Mellon University - http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/australia/index.aspx Torrens Building 220 Victoria Square Adelaide, South Australia 5000 All sessions will be recorded and made available to attendees! Thank you to Carnegie Mellon University and Francesca Doyle for offering the use of their facilities. Category: ASPUG Published: 3/07/2009 1:01 PM Attachments: http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Attachments/311/SharePointSat_ISPA_Adelaide_2_4EA716A4_2_20E4A335.png http://www.danielbrown.id.au/Lists/Posts/Attachments/311/SharePointSat_ISPA_Adelaide_2_4EA716A4_thumb_20E4A335.png

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Fill out a survey, win a chance for a SharePoint Conference 2009 pass

Bil Simser — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:13:16 GMT

Yeah, title says all. Mindsharp, Nintex, and Combined Knowledge are sponsoring a Global SharePoint Survey. This is an independent survey that you can fill out to let them know about your experience with adoption and usage of SharePoint from your perspective. The survey is quick (only 15 questions) and most questions are multiple choice. You could probably let your cat or two year old fill it out (I did) but also consider taking a few minutes to put some thought behind it (unlike what I did). In the end, you get a chance to win a conference pass to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 (October 19-22) in Las Vegas. This pass is worth $1,119 USD if purchased with real money. A winner will be drawn randomly after the closing of the survey July 17th then notified by email and/or phone. Note the contest is *only* for the conference pass. You still need to provide a way to get there and pay for your hotel, mini-bar, and pub crawl expenses (and trust me, when you hang with SharePoint...

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DisableLoopbackCheck & SharePoint: What every admin and developer should know.

Spence — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:06:10 GMT

Earlier today a Twitter conversation amongst some SharePoint people including my good buddies Todd Klindt and Rick Taylor took place on the subject of the infamous “loopback fix”. I promised to do a follow up post here to clear up some misconceptions about this subject with respect to SharePoint. What is the issue? Windows Server 2003 SP1 introduced a loopback security check. This feature is obviously also present in Windows Server 2008. The feature prevents access to a web application using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) if an attempt to access it takes place from a machine that hosts that application. The end result is a 401.1 Access Denied from the web server and a logon failure in the event log. Unfortunately 401.1 is not really helpful as this error code means there is a problem with the user credentials. Of course, the HTTP spec doesn’t know about security features in a vendor’s implementation so there can’t be a HTTP error code for such a feature. This can lead...

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I’ll be presenting at the Jacksonville Code Camp in Jacksonville, FL (August 29th, 2009)

Andrew Connell — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:50:20 GMT

I mentioned there was an open call for speakers the other day… looks like my session was picked! Hope to see you there! High Performance Solutions on SharePoint Server 2007 Performance should be one of the top areas of focus on everyone's mind when embarking on a Internet facing SharePoint Server 2007 site. In this session we'll look at the built-in caching capabilities. Topics include object model techniques, how to properly manage memory in order to avoid the dreaded OutOfMemory exception, key sizing numbers to keep in mind when architecting your implementation and minimizing the page payload to speed up those page load times. » Jacksonville Code Camp Technorati Tags: jacksonville,code camp

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SharePointGovernance.org launched

jopx (noreply@blogger.com) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:44:00 GMT

Because of it’s viral nature a SharePoint deployment without any control has a high risk of becoming total chaos. Yesterday SharePointGovernance.org launched to help you effectively manage your SharePoint environment. I will actively work with some peers on SharePointGovernance.org to share some of the do’s and don’ts with regards to share. Hope to see you there… Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,governance,sharepoint+governance,moss+2007,moss,microsoft,wss,wss3

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My friend Matt is spreading his wings!

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:59:26 GMT

Body: I'd like to take a moment to congratulate my friend Matt Goebel on spreading his wings and venturing into the world of independent contracting! Way to go!!! :-) Later C Published: 7/2/2009 9:59 AM

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[EGYSUG] Post June gathering materials

Marwan Tarek — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:39:00 GMT

Good to back for the blog after long time due to a lot SharePoint projects and implmentations June gathering for Egypt SharePoint User Group was amazing with a couple of great speakers who captuered all the audeince attention, check the pictures You can find the session materials over her June gathering presentations See in the next event

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Bitte mitmachen Umfrage Global SharePoint Survey

Michael Greth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:51:32 GMT

Mindsharp, Nintex und Combined Knowledge haben eine Umfrage zu SharePoint www.sharepointsurvey.com online gestellt mit der Informationen über den Einsatz von SharePoint in Unternehmen ermittelt werden soll. Unter allen Teilnehmern an der Umfrage (15 Fragen in ca. 5 Minuten) wird ein Ticket zur SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas verlost. Also bitte mitmachen. The Global SharePoint Survey is aimed at understanding the adoption and usage of Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technologies worldwide. The survey is open to both business and IT professional users of SharePoint. Those who participate in the survey will be eligible to win a conference pass to the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (value USD $1199). To participate in the Global SharePoint Survey simply visit www.sharepointsurvey.com The Global SharePoint Survey will be open until July 17, 2009. Technorati: SharePoint, Podcast, SharePoint 2007, SharePointCommunity, MOSS 2007,...

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Sprecher auf der ShareConnect 2009

Michael Greth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:02:32 GMT

Vom 21. bis 25. September 2009 findet in Mainz die ShareConnect 09 statt, auf der ich als Sprecher mit dabei sein werde. Ich habe zwei Vorträge vorbereitet: SharePoint und Enterprise 2.0 SharePoint stellt viele Grundfunktionen für Enterprise-2.0-Anwendungen zur Verfügung: Blogs, Wikis, MySites und RSS-Feeds, um nur einige zu nennen. In diesem Vortrag zeigen wir, wie Enterprise-2.0-Anwendungen mithilfe von SharePoint und verschiedenen Tools erstellt werden können und stellen das Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS) vor - eine vollständige SharePoint-Lösung zur Bereitstellung von Audio- und Videoinhalten mit zusätzlichen Community-Funktionen - ein "YouTube for SharePoint". NoCode-Lösungen mit SharePoint Designer Der SharePoint Designer ist für den erfahrenen SharePoint-User ein mächtiges Werkzeug zur Anpassung und Erweiterung von SharePoint-Anwendungen. Dieser Vortrag gibt einen Einblick, wie man ohne Programmierung Lösungen für die...

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Add “Click to Call” to SharePoint People Search

Matthew McDermott — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:56:17 GMT

At Catapult we recently implemented Unified Communications all the way to our phones. I love the functionality and reach provided by the UC solution. I love getting voice mail in my Inbox. I have to be more careful about my Communicator Status, but that is easy. We needed an easy way to enable calling and lookup inside the company. We already had People search so I decided to add the ability to click the displayed phone number to call the found person. It just requires adding a hyperlink with the TEL: prefix. People Search There are two web parts that display the people results, “Search High Confidence Results” and “People Search Core Results”. Both need to be edited but the changes are the same. Begin by placing the page in edit mode. Site Actions | Edit Page. Once in edit mode choose the Edit menu on the People Search Core Results web part and choose Edit Shared Web Part. Click the XSL Editor button and copy the contents of the dialog into a new file in the site...

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SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery

Jan Tielens — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:18:00 GMT

Already since a long time I’ve been thinking about a web part that would search-as-you-type using SharePoint’s search engine. The idea behind this concept is that while you’re typing a query in the search box, asynchronously the query is already executed and the results are being displayed. Every time the query is changed, the results will be updated dynamically. This will allow users to see the results without going to the Search Results page, and even more: they don’t have to go back to alter their query. In such a scenario you want to avoid full page postbacks of course, so AJAX-techniques have to be used to accomplish this. A while back my first approach would be to make use of ASP.NET AJAX to build the necessary functionality in a web part for example. But during the last couple of weeks I’ve become a really big fan of using jQuery Javascript Library in SharePoint sites, and it happens to be that the search-as-you-type functionality can be created with the help of jQuery very...

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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for a 2nd year running

Daniel Brown — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:57:21 GMT

Body: This morning at 12:40AM I was lucky enough to have the honour of being a SharePoint MVP for a 2nd year running! “Dear Daniel Brown, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in SharePoint Server technical communities during the past year.” This year is a key year in the SharePoint & Microsoft space, as it will see the launch of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and many new and exciting products. I hope I can continue my community efforts and help the knowledge transfer, social networking and health of the SharePoint community as well as branching out with the Australian Computer Society in matters of I.T policy, regulation and litigation. -Daniel P.S. Don't forget about the Adelaide SharePoint User Group...

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Retrieve XML from List and View

Liam Cleary — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:53:00 GMT

Recently I was asked if there was a way to retrieve and present XML from a list. This of course is very straight forward but the complication here was that it needed to be available to an anonymous user who would consume the XML stream. After a little thought I decided that we could use the "owssvr.dll" method. For those that have not used this before it is very simple. You make a call to the following URL: http://{siteurl}/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll Pass it a few parameters and then an XML stream is returned. So to test this I used the posts list on my blog with the following URL: http://www.helloitsliam.com/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=Display&List={A462AB0D-84CF-4918-9950-D562530A5377}&XMLDATA=TRUE The GUID that you pass is the actual GUID for the list that you wish to retrieve the data from. I tried this and all worked well until I tried it as an anonymous user to the site. When I tried it as a logged in user it came back with a blank page. Very strange I thought,...

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I’ll be presenting at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009 in Phoenix, AZ (9/14-17/2009)

Andrew Connell — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:13:48 GMT

What’s a SharePoint person doing at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009? As you may know, the two products, Office Project Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 have plenty of integration points and overlap between the two. Now, developers heading to the Project Conference 2009 in sunny Phoenix, Arizona September 14-17, 2009 can now get a SharePoint development primer as I’m presenting the only SharePoint development session there: Introduction to SharePoint for Developers Project Server's integration with SharePoint facilitates collaborating on projects within an organization and members of a team. With this integration, developers can extend both platforms to satisfy specific and custom requirements to facilitate unique business processes and add new functionality to improve productivity and efficiency. In this session you will learn what is involved in developing custom solutions for SharePoint. Hope to see you there! » Microsoft Project Conference 2009 Technorati...

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SDN Session Recap: SharePoint Architecture, Myths & Kerberos

Spence — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:27:27 GMT

I greatly enjoyed my recent trip to Houten, Netherlands to present at the SDN event. Many thanks to the SDN crowd and those that attended my sessions and of course the SharePint event afterwards. It was a very impressive event in terms of organisation and the other great speakers and content. Here are the slide decks from my three sessions as promised. Mythbusters: debunking common SharePoint Farm Misconceptions. Kerberos Part 1: No ticket touting here, does SharePoint add another head. Kerberos Part 2: “Advanced” Scenarios and additional considerations. All of the content was updated for the SDN event, with Mythbusters including new details on a topic I will be expanding on more in the future – Agile Farms. It was the Kerberos sessions that have changed the most however, with more complete coverage and including updates to deal with some of the increasingly common misinformation out there on this subject. The sessions are now much more balanced, and enough time on each...

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SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part Two

Eric Shupps — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:40:30 GMT

Body: Since I released Part One of this series into the wild there have been many heated discussions around SharePoint and Test Driven Development. As always, Andrew Woodward has a great deal to say on the subject; in fact, we recorded a SharePoint Podshow on this very subject at the European Best Practices conference (and traded a few well-meaning jabs during his presentation). During the discussion we came to the conclusion that there are some fundamental software development processes lacking in most custom development projects and that TDD, while we may disagree on its overall value within the quality assurance lifecycle, plays an important role in helping to improve the overall quality of custom software. Recently, fellow SharePoint MVP Sahil Malik authored a post in which he dismisses TDD as having little to no value in SharePoint development projects. He summarized with the following quote: "So, TDD + SharePoint 2007? Well – screw it! Not worth it IMO". As usual,...

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New Video Up

Todd O. Klindt — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:13:53 GMT

Body: While I was out at SPTechCon Laura Rogers and Mark Miller of EndUserSharePoint did a quick interview of me. They were really bored that day. It's a pretty short watch, about 6:30. MP3 version WMV version iPod version I also got the word today that I was reawarded the MVP award from Microsoft. It's been a great ride and I'm very grateful to have been given the opportunities I've been given. Congratulations to all the other MVPs that have gotten the nod today. tk Category: Sharepoint;Netcast Published: 7/1/2009 2:13 PM

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The ten commandments for SharePoint development

jopx (noreply@blogger.com) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:22:00 GMT

1. Stick to the product if you can. SharePoint provides a lot of functionality out of the box - focus on these quick wins and don't immediately switch over to Visual Studio and start writing code. 2. Built to last SharePoint projects are in continuous evolution so you need to develop in such a way that it is easy to evolve and to extend. Take a look at site definitions vs site templates for example. 3. Do not GAC every web part you develop. By the way, there are number of SharePoint development artifacts which you need to add to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) such as receivers -feature receivers as well as other event receivers - timer jobs and workflow assemblies. 4. Keep your custom site definitions as minimal as possible. A long debate started after Joel's post on the topic - Do you really need a site definition . They are nothing more than a "skeleton" for attaching programmatic elements in the form of features and should be deployed as solution packages. ...

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SharePoint and TDD

Sahil Malik — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:21:19 GMT

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Hotfix for SharePoint SP2 trial version mistake

jopx (noreply@blogger.com) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:46:00 GMT

A quite unfortunately quirck of SharePoint SP2 was that after you installed it, the product expiration date was activated incorrectly (For more details check out KB 971620 ) The SharePoint team blog also states that an update of SP2 will be provided in the coming weeks. Download 32-bit version of the fix: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/5/2F51AB71-1325-49D2-9CB9-18DEC4780E99/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x86-glb.exe Download 64-bit version of the fix: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/B/5BBD34A9-C528-42B0-8A5F-9A8997B25C32/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x64-glb.exe Tags van Technorati: sharepoint+server,moss+2007,moss,service+pack,microsoft,sharepoint

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MVP Renewed for Office SharePoint Server Again!

Reza Alirezaei — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:00:11 GMT

Got the mail today with the great news that I got awarded for the forth time with the MVP Award. Looks like that my community works during 2008 were enough for Microsoft to renew my MVP status. This is just an awesome way to start my Canada day! Thread spMvp = new Thread(2009); spMvp.Start();

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NZSPC Update : Michael Sampson’s SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration

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

Body: 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

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Global SharePoint Survey – Win a Conference Pass to the SPC!

aghy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:53:51 GMT

The Global SharePoint Survey is just released! This survey is aimed at understanding the adoption and usage of Microsoft Office SharePoint products and technologies worldwide. The survey is open to both business and IT professional users of SharePoint...(read more)

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SharePoint event with Joel Oleson Sydney and Melbourne in AUS

Kathy Hughes — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:25:00 GMT

Quest are hosting a SharePoint event in both Sydney (7th July) and Melbourne (9th July). I'll be doing a session on e-mail integration, management and storage in SharePoint - MOSS has mail! I'll be walking through the various options for routing e-mail to and sending e-mail from SharePoint, and pros and cons around using each one. As part of the overall equation, I'll be discussing the effectiveness of leveraging Exchange 2007 managed folders. It's a free event. To register go to: http://australia.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?ContentID=9780 Sydney, 7th July 8am-1pm Joel Oleson - 10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployment and Preparing to Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Today Kathy Hughes - E-mail integration, storage and management in SharePoint Adam Cogan (TBC) John Ackery - Quest talk and demos Melbourne, 9th July 8am-1pm Joel Oleson - 10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployment and Preparing to Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Today Elaine van Bergen - Configure, Customise,...

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Introducing the Content Monster Web Part by Todd Baginski & Andrew Connell

Andrew Connell — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:14:52 GMT

At TechEd 2009 in LA a few weeks back, Todd Baginski and I co-presented a session OFC405 – Extending the Content Query Web Part to Aggregate Data Across Site Collections and External Sources where we introduced a solution that addresses a common challenge in today’s SharePoint sites: aggregating content ACROSS site collections. It took some time, but we finally got the code cleaned up and posted for you to download and kick the tires too. Now some will see this as a replacement to the Content Query Web Part (CQWP)… but it isn’t. That is still the ideal way to aggregate content within an existing site collection as it contains a robust caching and is tweaked for peak performance of highly trafficked sites. What we set out to do was to work on a solution that would do the following: Aggregate content across site collections Aggregate content from external sources So after considerable planning; here’s what we came up with… a detailed UML diagram complete with loads of test cases:...

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SharePoint - It's all about making the right choices and decisions - When to use custom site definitions.

jopx (noreply@blogger.com) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:55:00 GMT

This is the third posting about making the correct design decisions when implementing SharePoint. It's about site definition vs site templates. I strongly believe that there are a couple of reasons for using custom site definitions: Better overall performance of using site definitions instead of site templates for creating sites More control and flexibility in building a specific solution. One thing to keep in mind though is to keep your custom site definitions as minimal as possible and to use the SharePoint Features framework to add functionality. Site templates are basically black boxes where you have limited control over the way that they are working - so when you get into trouble you're stuck. It is easier to add additional functionality to site which are developed using a site definition in contrast with these built using a site template. The main reason for choosing site templates is that overall it takes less effort to create a site template....

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Cool - Achieved new rank on Experts Exchange Today

Sean Wallbridge — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:10:00 GMT

Guru sounds nice. Not sure I believe it. But I'll take it. Nice to be recognized anyways. Nobody is an 'Expert' in SharePoint (Guru, or otherwise) but if someone wants to pin that to me, I'll wear it. Got a free T-Shirt, which one should never turn down... :) itgroove ... (More)

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Neues aus der Community

Michael Greth — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:44:27 GMT

Was gibt es Neues in der SharePointCommunity ? Blogs Als neuen Blogger auf unserer Site begrüße ich Oliver Wirkus, der schon länger mit seinem Blog aktiv ist und jetzt auf die Community umgezogen ist. UserGroups Zwei weitere UserGroups sind im Aufbau: eine in Würzburg und eine in Friedrichshafen, für beide habe ich schon eine Gruppe auf der Community eingerichtet und die ersten Treffen sind noch im Juli geplant. Dank an Thomas Scheuermann (computer kreativ) und Steffen Inderwies (CBS GmbH), die die Organisation übernehmen. Termine Hier die aktuellen Termine der UserGroup-Treffen im Juli/August/September Frankfurt 30.6.2009, 18:00 Uhr, IP-Solutions, Scheidswald Str. 44 - 46 , 60385 Frankfurt/M Hamburg 14.7.2009, 18:00 Uhr, Computacenter AG & Co. oHG, Högerdamm 39, 20097 Hamburg Stuttgart 9.7.2009, 18:45 Uhr (im Rahmen des IX SharePoint Days) Nürnberg, 30.7.2009, 18:00 Uhr, Spirit Link Erlangen Düsseldorf, 26.8.2009, 18:00...

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Visio design templates for SharePoint 2007

jopx (noreply@blogger.com) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:26:00 GMT

Reminder: Free visio template and stencil for designing SharePoint 2007 sites. Visio Shapes for SharePoint (Commercial) Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,design,sharepoint+2007,visio,templates,microsoft,moss+2007,moss

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List web part for Microsoft CRM 4.0

jopx (noreply@blogger.com) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:08:00 GMT

Another interesting one to to integrate SharePoint and Microsoft CRM 4.0 is to use the List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. (Released december 2008 - tip: there is a different web part for Dynamics CRM 3.0) The List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 provides a way to view and update Microsoft Dynamics CRM records using a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 Web site. Microsoft Dynamics CRM users can create shared or personal List Web Parts of Microsoft Dynamics CRM records from a SharePoint Web site, open records in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 from the List Web Part, and create connected List Web Parts. Tags van Technorati: dynamics+crm,sharepoint,crm,microsoft

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Microsoft Dynamics Snap apps

jopx (noreply@blogger.com) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:54:00 GMT

If you want people to use the core applications you invested in (such as CRM and ERP), it is a good idea to integrate them into a familiar interface. Most people tend to use Office applications quite a lot in their daily job so why not integrate your CRM and ERP from within Office. Dynamics Snap applications show how information workers can work with data out of Dynamics CRM and Dynamics from within their Office applications (This is what Microsoft calls a Office Business Applications or OBA) One that I tried out recently - Microsoft Dynamics Snap for Microsoft Dynamics AX on Codeplex – of which the current release supports Dynamics AX 2009. There are two different snaps available for Dynamics AX 2009: Offline Expense - This snap-in enables expenses to be entered in Excel while disconnected from the corporate network, and then posted to Dynamics AX at a later time. This snap-in uses WCF-based services and LINQ to retrieve data from Dynamics AX, and uses the Application...

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SharePoint Site Collections Read Only during STSADM Scheduled Backups

Sean Wallbridge — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:54:00 GMT

This was an interesting discovery, as I try not to work after 10pm (when my automated, scripted Site Collections are due to run). When I tried to save a document to a document library, I was greeted with the following two issues: When saving to a document library, I got... You do no ... (More)

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5th Annual Jacksonville Code Camp – Saturday, August 29th (open call for speakers)

Andrew Connell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:40:15 GMT

The 5th annual Jacksonville Code Camp is coming up… just under two months away! This year’s event will be held at University of North Florida and like all others, is free to all who want to register! Make sure you register early… it’s sure to “sell out” with an average attendance of 300+ in previous years. I’m helping them arrange a SharePoint track of sessions if we get enough speakers. Interested? Submit a session or two at the official site: » www.JaxCodeCamp.com Technorati Tags: jacksonville,code camp

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Business Requirements - The importance, summed up in one Whiteboard Drawing...

Sean Wallbridge — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:36:00 GMT

Stumbled across this today via Google Images and I couldn't resist posting it on here. One frustration I have (like many others) is the insistence with many customers (particularly in SMB) who buy technology before mapping out what they are trying to accomplish. Often, we, as an IT service company ... (More)

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Netcast #14 – Not Dead Yet

Todd O. Klindt — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:14:21 GMT

Body: In this episode I talk about the topics that came up at SPTechCon and announce some sessions at the SharePoint conference. I also discuss the physics behind why a watched pot never boils. The video is jerky, it's not just you. (Unless you're listening to the MP3 version, then the video is great and I might be more handsome than ever) MP3 version WMV version iPod version tk Category: Sharepoint;Netcast Published: 6/29/2009 3:14 PM

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Netlogon Events 5775, 5792, 5719 - SBS 2008 Pooched Until a Reboot

Sean Wallbridge — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:42:00 GMT

We ran into this little gem today at a client site (running SBS 2008) – thanks for the detail Avi. The client called, explaining how their Outlook clients were unable to connect to the server (Outlook stated it was 'Trying to connect' in the bottom right hand). Upon closer inspection of the server ... (More)

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Even the mighty stumble sometimes…

Cornelius J. van Dyk — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:21:46 GMT

Body: Well, I upgraded my iPhone 3G last week to the latest iPhone 3.0 OS and I like the new features such as search, snappier texting etc., but the most interesting thing to me was noticing something totally unrelated. I’ve been playing Mafia Wars on iPhone for a while. One of the great annoyances for me, and many other people if you read the Zynga message boards, has been that the game seems to leak memory and crash every so often. When fighting, you can generally get about 30 fights in before you have to restart the game or face a sure crash. Now I upgraded ONLY the iPhone OS. The Mafia Wars app remained untouched. I noticed that now I’m able to complete all 114 fights built up over night without the need to restart the app and without the app crashing on me. Well… that’s interesting, isn’t it? People have been calling the app bad and poor programming for months yet, it seems to me, since only the Apple OS was upgraded (and with it the APIs), and because of it, suddenly...

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Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7)

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:41:46 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net Introduction As you all know, most of the SharePoint people (architects, developers, testers, designers, <etc>) are running our environments virtually. That rocks! But, there's some things one need to think of when you want to migra ... (More)

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July Community Events

Eric Shupps — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:28:28 GMT

Body: Hard as it is to believe 2009 is already half way gone. It's been a hectic year for the SharePoint Community and, despite summer vacations and attempts to escape the heat, July is shaping up to be just as busy. Here's a quick update on some upcoming events: SharePoint Saturday Ozarks Join us for the first ever SharePoint Saturday event in Harrison, Arkansas on July 18th. Northwest Arkansas has a growing and vibrant SharePoint community and folks from all around the region will be attending this event. There will be tons of great content on all aspects of SharePoint, from development to architecture and administration. Spend a Saturday with us and come away with some great SharePoint knowledge. SharePoint Saturday Dallas The SharePoint Saturday wagon train rolls into Dallas on July 25th. We've put together a great roster of speakers and sponsors for this event. Be sure to get there early and come prepared to learn. D/FW SharePoint Community We kick off our fourth year of...

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SharePoint: Recommended links June 2009

Tobias Zimmergren — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:28:00 GMT

Author: Tobias Zimmergren URL: http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com Introduction I previously posted a short post about some good links around SharePoint. It proved to be a popular post. Not only providing a set of good posts, but actually pointing to good posts that is worth reading ... (More)

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NZSPC Update : SharePoint Ask the Experts Panel Questions at NZSPC

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

Body: 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...

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Submit this Form InfoPath

Kathy Hughes — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:39:00 GMT

Forms play a powerful part in a SharePoint implementation for obvious reasons. But which form solution is best for you - the OOB forms, InfoPath, customized .net Web forms or dataView/form Web part? It depends on a number of considerations, including requirements, server/infrastructure, licensing options, scalability and, importantly, education around what's available and what each option can do. For example, I get "oh, we knew about InfoPath but we didn't know it could do X,Y and Z". And it's rare that I come across an implementation that doesn't require some degree of form customization or an extension to or 'fix' of an earlier customization. I still think InfoPath is underutilized in a number of deployments I come across, largely from lack of knowledge about the product and its capabilities. InfoPath's not something I work frequently with, but over the past few months I've accumulated a list of common questions I've received while working with customers on InfoPath slash...

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