SharePoint Pod Show

A Conversation with Foxit Software Episode 37

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:12:51 GMT

In Episode 37, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with FoxIt Software and discuss their products and how they relate to SharePoint.

This episode is sponsored by “DeliverPoint”. DeliverPoint is a SharePoint permissions management and reporting tool for SharePoint 2007. DeliverPoint provides you with permission reporting on all objects within SharePoint as well as the ability to transfer & clone permissions and delete dead accounts. See a demonstration and download a free trial from www.deliverpoint.com

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Road2SPC Cribs

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:55:12 GMT

Interview with Fujitsu on Document Scanning Systems with SharePoint-Episode 36

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:51:32 GMT

In episode 36 Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Thomas Postulka of Fujitsu to discuss document scanning systems and how they relate to SharePoint. Thomas was kind enough to sign up for an interview as part of the Road2SPC road show and even came out during a horrific storm to do the interview!

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Discussion with Rob Lefferts Episode 35

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:37:18 GMT

In this episode, Rob, Nick, and Brett sit down with Rob Lefferts, who is the product manager for WSS where they discuss the SharePoint Conference, Road2SpC as well as what’s up and coming in WSS and SharePoint 2010.

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The SharePoint Ecosystem Part 1 Episode 34

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:57:36 GMT

In Episode 34, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Mike Fitzmaurice while on the Road2SPC road trip to discuss the SharePoint Ecosystem as well as other topics relating to SharePoint Partners and ISVs.

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Road2SPC Interview with Tom Rizzo

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:11:06 GMT

In Episode 33, Rob, Nick, and Brett introduce the show from world famous Lincoln City, Oregon on their first stop on the SharePoint Pod Show Road2SPC, with an interview with Tom Rizzo to discuss the upcoming SharePoint Conference, SharePoint 2010, the state of the industry, and a few other miscellaneous topics relating to SharePoint.

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@Road2SPC Day – 1

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:47:04 GMT

Here are some pictures from the road on our first day before we pick up the RV.

Mike Fitzmaurice, Rob Foster, and Nick Swan preparing for the trip. We had some really great discussions on SharePoint, the state of the industry, and some other miscellaneous topics. :)

Nick gave Rob a book to read…Rob thinks it may be written in Chinese because he doesn’t understand it.

Kickoff to the Road Trip and SharePointOverflow.com-Episode 32

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:18:15 GMT

In Episode 32, Rob, Nick, and Brett discuss their new sister site SharePoint Overflow as well as discuss their plans for the road trip which is called the "Road 2 SPC".

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We’re excited to announce a new sister site the SharePoint Pod Show!

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:25:38 GMT

We’re excited to announce a new sister site for www.sharepointpodshow.com.

SharePointOverflow.com is a Q&A site for all your SharePoint questions. Whether you are a developer with a code problem, an admin trying to deploy a hotfix, or an end user trying to improve adoption within your organization – ask the question over on SharePointOverflow.

As a user who posts a question or answer, fellow users can vote up a question or answer giving you points against your profile. As you get more points you get to earn badges which are great things to show off to your SharePoint friends! J We’ll also look to give swag away to people who have the most points per month or make a post that get’s a huge number of votes.

How does this all relate to the show? Each week we’ll pick a couple of questions that we find interesting and discuss them during the podcast. This will be a great way to drive conversations the way the community wants and to put relevant questions to the people we are interviewing.

So what are you waiting for? Get over to www.SharePointOverflow.com and get involved!

The SharePoint Data View Web Part-Episode 31

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:02:28 GMT

In show 31, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Laura Rogers to discuss the SharePoint Data View Web Part and how to use it in your applications to hopefully avoid a custom-code solution.

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Laura's Bio

I’m currently a Senior SharePoint Consultant at SharePoint 911. I formerly worked in SharePoint in the healthcare industry for several years. I have ten years of experience with Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration systems. This includes five years in SharePoint implementation, training, and customization. I’ve been a MCSE since 1999, with my most recent certifications being MCSE 2003 + Messaging, MCTS in MOSS and MCTS in WSS 3.0 Configuration. I also wrote chapter 29 (about web parts) in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion.

In my spare time, I like to create screencasts about data view web parts, for http://www.endusersharepoint.com. We also teach online live workshops on End User SharePoint, where each attendee gets their very own SharePoint sandbox, to follow along in the lesson. This site also has a great forum for end-user questions, called “Stump the Panel”, where I’m on the “panel”.

Laura's Social Links:
Blog: http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/default.aspx
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WonderLaura

SharePoint Community Panel Discussion-Episode 30

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:23:53 GMT

In Episode 30, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Dan Usher, Cathy Dew, Rob Windsor, and SharePoint MVPs Eric Shupps and Jeremy Sublett at the DevLink Conference in Nashville, TN to discuss the SharePoint Community.

The following topics are covered in this episode:

User Groups (both starting and getting involved in a local group)
SharePoint Saturday Events
SharePoint on Twitter
StickAm events (Todd Klindt's netcast and impromptu events)

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SharePoint Branding-Episode 29

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:56:00 GMT

In Episode 29, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint Branding expert Cathy Dew to discuss different techniques for branding SharePoint. In this show, the following topics are covered and questions are answered:

Why is branding is important?
The branding process
At what stage should you start thinking about branding your sites?
What Tools are used for branding?
Deployment

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About Cathy: Cathy Dew (MCTS) is a SharePoint Consultant and Graphic Designer in Birmingham, Alabama. She has worked primarily with SharePoint 2007 for 3 years with a focus on branding and user experience. Cathy worked to start the Birmingham SharePoint User’s Group last year and has been working on growing the community in the area ever since. She has presented at both user groups and SharePoint Saturdays in North America. Cathy also teaches SharePoint training for New Horizons learning center. Blog: www.sharepointcat.com

SharePoint and Code Access Security-Episode 28

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:12:13 GMT

In Episode 29, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVP Paul Schaeflein to discuss Code Access Security as it relates to SharePoint.

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About Paul: Paul Schaeflein (MCTS) is an application developer with experience in all versions of the SharePoint platform. Paul has managed and worked on development teams building applications on SharePoint.

Paul is an active writer, providing contributions to books, online periodicals, numerous CodePlex projects and his weblog. Paul has presented at many user groups and code camps, as well as the SharePoint Best Practices conference. Currently, Paul is a member of the Community Kit for SharePoint team working on a refresh of the code.

Paul has more than two decades experience in architecting, designing and developing software solutions. This experience covers a vast range of technologies, languages and industries. Having developed many line-of-business applications, Paul has a firm grasp on the challenges that corporate developers face when integrating them into a corporate portal.

Tips and Tricks for Improving SharePoint 2007 Performance-Episode 27

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:25:01 GMT

We all dream of the ever popular “easy button,” with just a press SharePoint is performing like a well oiled machine. Unfortunately, there is no single button but there are many proverbial knobs and levers we can adjust. Identifying what is causing a performance issue can be a daunting task.

In this episode, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with ASP.NET MVP Dennis Bottjer who provides a wide range of easy-to-implement tips that will prevent common bottlenecks. From a development perspective we look at how to identify memory leaks in custom code and how to improve page rending times. Performance is designed and knowing our options we can greatly improve the performance of our SharePoint Farm!

About Dennis:

Dennis J. Bottjer is a Solutions Architect, for Microsoft Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies (www.MySpringPoint.com). He is a three time, Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP and has consulted with many FORTUNE 500 companies. Dennis has over 11 years of experience in helping companies build proactive solutions. He is also a MCP, MCTS, and the INETA Membership Mentor for Oklahoma. Dennis is proudly serving his technical-community as the President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group.

Dennis' Links:

www.DennisBottjer.com
www.Twitter.com/dbottjer
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dennis-Bottjer/1292982047

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Discussion on an Enterprise SharePoint Deployment-Episode 26

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:58:58 GMT

In Episode 26, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Jeff Dalton who discusses his very large SharePoint implementation at Volvo including;

End User Adoption
Training
Features Used

You can follow Jeff on Twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/jefferydalton

We also made an announcement that starting one week before the SharePoint Conference, the SharePoint Pod Show will be doing a series called "Road to the SPC". We will be starting in Seattle and driving to Las Vegas visiting companies and user groups along the way and doing interviews and shows.

If you would like us to visit your company or user group, please drop us a line at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com and we will line it up!

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SharePoint and End User Adoption-Episode 25

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:37:17 GMT

In Episode 25, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVP Steve Smith to discuss end user adoption of SharePoint.

Below some notes from the show:
* Why should developers care about end user adoption?
* We've deployed SharePoint and no one is using it...HELP!
* How do you measure end user adoption?
* Enabling Auditing in SharePoint.
* My Sites and End Users
* How do you manage expectations of an IT department to empower users?
* Advice on creating an end user training plan.
* Follow up on the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference
* User Groups

Steve's links: http://www.twitter.com/stevesmithck
steve@combined-knowledge.com

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Catching up with Paul Culmsee-Episode 24

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:36:38 GMT

In episode 24, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Paul Culmsee.

About Paul Culmsee
Paul is an IT and business consultant with 20 years experience across several disciplines. He is based in Perth, Western Australia. Since July 2006, he has spent a lot of time working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, as well as practicing the craft of Issue and Dialogue Mapping, but his background covers many other disciplines, platforms and technologies.

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Test Driven Development Part Deux--The Rest Of The Story-Episode 23

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:36:13 GMT

In Episode 23, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVPs Andrew Woodward and Eric Shupps to FINALLY get the answers on Test Driven Development on SharePoint.

If you haven't seen the infamous TDD videos that we did at the MVP summit, go watch them NOW as it will give you a great background on why this show came to be.

The following topics are covered in this show:

* What is TDD
* How does TDD and Agile relate to SharePoint
* Why TDD and SharePoint
* Pros and Cons of TDD

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SharePoint Pod Show: 100,000 Downloads Later!

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:35:33 GMT

We have largely been doing the SharePoint Pod Show largely to entertain ourselves and have been very lucky to have a lot of really great guests on the show. We have great fun doing each show and hope that comes through loud and clear in every episode.

Over the course of the show (about 9 months now), We have been loosely monitoring the number of downloads and have noticed a trend that is still quite surprising: a lot of people are downloading the shows! When we did the counts earlier this week, we are happy to say that we have now crossed 100,000 show downloads. We are quite humbled by this and will continue to bring solid content to the community and add value to your overall SharePoint experience.

Thanks to all of our guests that helped make this possible (listed in order of appearance):

Eric Shupps
Rob Bogue
Patrick Tisseghem
Bill English
David Mann
Mike Fitz
Andrew Connell
Arpan Shah
Jeremy Thake
Rickard Lofberg
Todd Bleeker
Ted Pattison
Shane Young
Todd Klindt
Andrew “ZZZ” Woodward
Spence Harbar
Chandima Kulathilake
Mark Orange
Matt Smith
Michael Noel
Brad Smith

And finally, thanks to the faithful listeners of the show who really help us drive the direction of the shows. The SharePoint lifestyle is a very unique way of life and we will continue to provide great quality shows to help get you through the day…We’re all in this together!

Catching up with Michael Noel-Episode 22

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:34:57 GMT

In episode 22, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Michael Noel in London.

Topics discussed include
* Technical Writing
* Enterprise Implementations
* Enterprise Deployments

Other notes from the show include the SharePointJobs.com site.

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Small to Mid-sized Deployments and application development platforms-Episode 21Small to Mid-sized Deployments and application development platforms-Episode 21

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:34:34 GMT

In Episode 21, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVPs Chandima Kulathilake, Mark Orange, and Matt Smith (all from New Zealand) to discuss the following topics:

* Small to mid-sized SharePoint implementations
* SharePoint as an application development platform
* Training
* User groups in New Zealand
* The upcoming SharePoint-based conference in New Zealand

If you have any feedback, email us at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.

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Challenges in Enterprise SharePoint Deployments-Episode 20

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:33:52 GMT

In Episode 20, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVP Spencer Harbar to discuss large enterprise deployments of MOSS. Topics include:

* What challenges do large enterprise deployments have over small/medium deployments?
* Virtualization
* How to you move into enterprise implementations from a skills perspective?
* Certifications
* PerformancePoint
* Spence's toolbox

Links to Spence:
* http://www.harbar.net
* http://www.twitter.com/harbars

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SharePoint Architecture and Small to Medium MOSS Deployments-Episode 19

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:33:23 GMT

In Episode 19, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Australian (but with an Irish accent) SharePoint MVP Ivan Wilson.

In this episode, we discuss:
* SharePoint Architecture
* The need and use of virtualization in a SharePoint farm
* Companies developing MOSS features for WSS
* SharePoint Online and the "cloud"
* Economic climate relating to SharePoint in Australia

If you have any questions/comments/feedback, please email us at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com!

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Test Driven Development - the final conclusions

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:32:30 GMT

When SharePoint MVPs get together in Seattle we make the most of the time by discussing important and pressing matters that will enhance and effect the rest of the community and business world. Finding a few spare minutes in their schedule, Rob Foster, Eric Shupps and Spencer Harbar all threw the difficult questions at Andrew Woodward....

Video: Test Driven Development - Part1
Video: Test Driven Development - Part 2
Video: Test Driven Development - Part 3

Administering a SharePoint Farm-Episode 18

SharePoint Pod Show Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:26:32 GMT

In Episode 18, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Shane Young and Todd Klindt to discuss Administrating a SharePoint farm. Topics include:
* Skills required
* Windows Server 2008/IIS7
* Common administration issues and their resolution
* Scripting
* Deployment

If you have any feedback, please email us at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.