How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services
Overview Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill , a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. ThreeWill recently worked with Microsoft to build a generic Service Request Office Business Application (OBA) using InfoPath Forms Services. The application addresses the need for enterprises to have a no-code way to qu...
Announcing SPDisposeCheck tool for SharePoint Developers
The SPSite and SPWeb Dispose() methods are an important thing for developers who work with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to master. Many SharePoint API's allocate COM based memory that is not released by CLR garbage collection and must be released by calling the Dispose() methods. Microsoft Guidance for when to call SPSite and SPWeb Dispose() methods have been published in thi...
Microsoft User Research Group Looking for SharePoint Users
Last week, the Microsoft User Research team reached out to me regarding a set of studies they were planning to execute in the upcoming months. In a nutshell, the team focuses on how people interact with hardware and software products; and then the information and feedback gathered is translated directly into product improvements. For their next series of studies, they are looking for individu...
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008
This week at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Jason Zander, the GM for Visual Studio, announced and demonstrated the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint. Here's a quick summary of what he showed: Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution ...
Introducing the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint
Last week at IT Forum in Barcelona, we announced the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Master program is designed to be the top-tier technical certification for SharePoint Products and Technologies for years to come. The goal of the MCM is to provide a means for training, reco...
How We Did It – Allowing Connections to Multiple SSRS Servers with Report Viewer and Explorer Web Parts
Overview
Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill , a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. You might remember them from a previous article about the SharePoint Connector for Confluence . They worked with Microsoft on a recent project to extend some of the features of SSRS Web Parts to meet the needs of the ent...
PDC 2008: Announcing Azure Services Platform and Microsoft SharePoint Services
Today, in Day 1 of the PDC Keynote, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform. Azure makes it possible for developers to create applications and services that run in the cloud or to create web, mobile, or hybrid applications that extend the value of on-premises applications. To learn more about Azure, go to http://www.azure.com .
In the Azure Services Platform, a n...
Prepare for the Upcoming Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2
Office Service Pack Team announced Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System . This new service pack will be released between February and April 2009. It will contain both client and server updates. Here are some of the SharePoint related topics that we will be expanding upon in later posts. Improved Read-only Content Databases Whenever a content database is marked read...
Announcing New Daylight Saving Time Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Daylight Saving Time (DST, in some countries it is called summertime) exists in many countries. The start dates and end dates of DST change from year to year, and countries may change their policies for DST occasionally. This DST update is an effort of SharePoint product team to reflect these new changes. It includes updated time zone definition information for the following countries: I...
Best Wishes to Lawrence and Welcome to Dave!
Lawrence Liu, who has been on the SharePoint team for over 3 years leading the SharePoint community effort, joined Telligent this week – a Microsoft partner. Many of you have probably worked or virtually interacted with Lawrence and know of his extreme passion for community development. In appreciation for all of his dedication and hard work, the SharePoint product management team would like...
TechNet Edge Videos with Michael Noel, Author of SharePoint 2007 Unleashed
With benefits ranging from increased server utilization, improved IT service levels, and overall IT agility – most SharePoint organizations are considering adoption of virtualization technologies in a SharePoint environment. Michael Noel, partner at Convergent Computing – a Microsoft Gold Partner and SharePoint MVP, speaks with us in a TechNet Edge video about running SharePoint component...
Some AAM guidance from the front lines
The ISA Server team recently wrote a nice blog post explaining some of the issues you may face when deploying SharePoint in an extranet. Many of these issues can be avoided by spending some time up front on planning and testing. Close collaboration between your firewall/proxy administrators and your SharePoint administrators during this phase is often the key to a smooth deployment. Here a...
64-Bit and the Admin Toolkit Download Trend
[Cross-Referenced from Zach Rosenfield's Blog ]
Just over a month ago I announced the release of the second Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit. We've been getting great feedback and lots of interest—and I wanted to share our download results:
After 5 months we're just shy of the 29,000 download mark, but more interesting is the disparity between x86 and x...
Announcing August Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
The Microsoft Office team has changed the way that it delivers hotfixes for reported problems. This change comes in the form of cumulative updates and critical on-demand hotfixes. The objective is to deliver high-quality fixes in an acceptable time and on a predictable schedule. Cumulative updates are scheduled for every two months, so customers can be better prepared to test and apply new upda...
SharePoint Evaluation VPC Image will expire 9/30
If you've activated and are using the SharePoint evaluation image from http://www.microsoft.com/vhd you've hopefully noticed by now that it's due to expire at the end of this month...! We'll be getting a new image with an extended expiry date (Early 2010) uploaded to the same site in the next few days – I'll update this post when it's available. If you have activated the original imag...
Share More Community Tips on Office Online
[Cross-posted from the "Get The Point" Team Blog .] Office Online has a new commenting feature that I mentioned in an earlier post about Community Tips . When you have questions or advice about the content you find, you can sign in with a Windows Live ID and post questions or bits of advice for the rest of the community. It's similar to comments on a blog, except that Community Tips commen...
Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification
Today represents the start of a new era in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) interoperability as Microsoft, EMC and IBM announced a jointly developed specification that leverages SOAP, REST and Atom to enable communication with and between ECM systems. The new specification known as Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) defines a platform and language independent means of acc...
We'll miss you, Patrick.
Patrick Tisseghem , long time SharePoint MVP and co-founder of U2U, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, suddenly passed away on September 3rd evening in Gothenburg, Sweden due to heart failure. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and daughters, Anahi and Laura.
On behalf of the SharePoint product group, I offer my deepest condolences to Patrick's family. Patrick was a leading figure in the Sh...
Just Published! WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 Download and Online MSDN Library
[Cross-posted from Randall Isenhour's blog .] Hello SharePoint Developers! We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the online MSDN Library + the downloadable SDKs for both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0! In our never-ending efforts to improve the customer and partner experience, we are announcing the sim ship of both the online MSDN Library and the downloadable S...
Announcing the SharePoint Best Practices Series
Over the last few months, the SharePoint product team has released a number of resources, updates and made supportability announcements to help our customers and partners deploy SharePoint solutions. Recently, we released the Infrastructure Update that provides fixes and even a new set of Search Federation features. We also announced support for Virtualization technology like Hyper-V and S...
Power User Toolbox: JavaScript for SharePoint - Pt4
Remember in part 3 when I said that frameworks can help you develop faster? Since jQuery in SharePoint is the hot topic right now, I'll compare an old standby script in poj (Plain Old JavaScript) against a new jQuery version. Soon after people started Read More......( read more )
Back in action - Shape 08: Sharepoint Web Content Management and Silverlight 2 Webparts consuming SharePoint WebServices
Wow - I just realized it has been more than a year since I've posted my last post here. No, I haven't been out of business - even though that would probably be a great idea. Simply - there is too much to do and so little time to really think about it and share it with others.
As I'm going to hold a speech about SharePoint at the Swiss Shape08 conference and I found many things I could post ...
jQuery and SharePoint: Take Two
In addition to the articles on jQuery and SharePoint that Waldek and I have worked on, Jan Tielens is also working on some fun stuff. If you have a little bit of developer's blood in you, Jan's article "Integrating SharePoint 2007 and Read More......( read more )
Qué carpetas de SharePoint es recomendable excluir en el escaneo de antivirus
Cuando queremos especificar en el software de antivirus que carpetas no deseamos escanear de SharePoint ahà viene la interrogante. Varias personas me han hecho esa pregunta, aquà comparto un artÃculo de technet que nos recomienda ciertos puntos. Este artÃculo incluye información sobre las carpetas que tengan excluidos de la detección antivirus en Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 y Office S...
Microsoft Certification Master for SharePoint - My Involvement in Helping Create the Certification Content and Some Thoughts...
Microsoft announced at TechEd EMEA 2008 two new certifications for SharePoint professionals . Both are additions to existing certification programs: the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) Programs. These build on Read More......( read more )
Writing a Custom Navigation Provider for MOSS
By popular demand here is the writeup for the Custom Navigation Provider for SharePoint 2007 I wrote last year. Be sure to check it our and send me feedback. So here is the use case. You would like to create a consistent navigation heirarchy in your SharePoint Read More......( read more )
Stsadm access denied on Windows Server 2008
I recently ran into a situation where I encountered Access Denied errors when attempting to run stsadm on a dev Windows Server 2008 Web Edition. I checked to see if the user account I was using was a local administrator on the server and it was. I looked Read More......( read more )
Video: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services
URL: Video: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services Body: During this weeks episode of the SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series I covered SharePoint and Forms Services. The presentation consists of three parts. First up is Read More......( read more )
New SharePoint Administration Book
Body: My buddies and fellow SharePoint MVP's Todd Klindt and Shane Young have a new book out on SharePoint Administration. I didn't even know - nobody ever tells us devs anything. If admin is your thing then go get it - these guys know their stuff Read More......( read more )
Why Sharepoint Development Projects Failed Part 1
INTRODUCTION
In this opportunity I would like to share with you on why Sharepoint development projects failed. This will be based purely on my knowledge and experience therefore I would love to hear your comments and sharings, too.
TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience of this series are developers, BDMs and project managers.
WHY FAILED 1: INADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE ON SHAREPOIN...
Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio 2010
Reza Chitsaz, Senior Program Manager for Office and Sharepoint tooling, gives a quick sneak-peak on some of the tools coming in Visual Studio 2010 around supporting Sharepoint as a platform. Sharepoint Development with Visual Studio 2010 Mark Harrison Read More......( read more )
Service Oriented AJAX: In Stores now!
Last December, I started writing " Developing Service Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Framework ". It's finally done, and available at your favorite local neighborhood bookstore . If you're local to Denver, I have a 30% off coupon for Service Oriented AJAX from SoftPro books (Yosemite, just south of Arapahoe). Email "me at dan larson dot com" and I'll gladly send you a coupon. Mirro...
Rocky Mountain User Group Presentation
As promised, here are the files from my presentation on the new release of the SharePoint PNP guidance on Tuesday night. Thank you all for coming, all the references should be in these files. If you have any questions, please give me a shout. SharePoint Read More......( read more )
Web Interoperability Webcast
Body: On December 16th I'll be doing a webcast on integrating Windows Live Services with SharePoint. I can only go so deep in an hour but there's some good code in there on hooking your SharePoint sites up to use Live ID and such. If you're Read More......( read more )
Tip # 743- Find JS Errors in Visual Studio2008 with Control Shift J
In Visual Studio 2008, Control-shift-J interprets the current JavaScript file in order to update the intellisense, and will also expose any errors in the Errors window. Mirrored on SharePoint Blogs Posted on SharePoint Blogs...( read more )
Hidden Gem in GMail Themes
The other day, our good friends at Google introduced Themes for your GMail. Big deal you say? Just some new colors? Think again. Specifically think more like DreamScene on the web because these themes change. I don't know about all of them, but I picked "Tea House" last night and it was a night scene with a pagoda and rather peaceful. This morning, I check Gmail and the same theme is now ...
SharePoint Libraries, Folders and Content Types, Oh My!
Author: Bob Mixon, Microsoft MVP Mixon Consulting MasteringSharePoint.com Recent Articles A note from Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com Recently, the topic of folders vs libraries started to show up on Stump the Panel and in my Read More......( read more )
SearchThrottled registry key
Yet another unexplained SharePoint log entry. This one looks like
11/20/2008 06:51:27.78 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0888) 0x1340 Office Server Setup and Upgrade 8u3j High Registry key value {SearchThrottled} was not found under registry hive {Software\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0}. Assuming search sku is not throttled.
If I had a regular reader,...
Linq4SP - RC2 timebomb extended
Although the development of Linq4SP has been finished since a few weeks, unfortunately we had to be faced a few (sales and marketing based) issues during publishing it. So if you've downloaded and started to use the Linq4SP, probably you experienced an error message in the last days: "Your expiration date is reached! You need to purchase a license file to run this software." We apologize for th...
Reminder: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services Today
URL: Reminder: SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint and InfoPath Form Services Today Body: I am heading out the door for a client onsite this morning but just a quick reminder I will be having this weeks SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series - SharePoint Read More......( read more )
Microsoft SharePoint Architect - ZDNet.be
Microsoft SharePoint Architect ZDNet.be, Belgium - 10 minutes ago Analyze business requirements and design architecture for solutions using Microsoft SharePoint Office Server 2007 . * Product selections on 3rd party ...
Who Would Pay Outrageous Prices at the Microsoft Store? - Computerworld
Who Would Pay Outrageous Prices at the Microsoft Store? Computerworld, MA - 8 hours ago For example, at the Microsoft Store, Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 sells for $679.95. On Amazon, you can get it for $399.99, or even less if you're willing ...
Students experiencing problems with new Office suite - PSU Collegio (subscription)
Students experiencing problems with new Office suite PSU Collegio (subscription), KS - 12 minutes ago Clearly, the new Microsoft Office 2007 suite hasn't met everyone's expectations. From complaints about the lack of customization tools to difficulty ...
How To Get Microsoft Office 2007 Cheap (Limited Time Offer) - InformationWeek
How To Get Microsoft Office 2007 Cheap (Limited Time Offer) InformationWeek, NY - 4 minutes ago Want a cut rate, wholly genuine version of Microsoft Office 2007 at a nice discount? Then run out and buy Microsoft Equipt, while supplies last. ...
Microsoft, ESRI to Help Improve Homeland Security Operations - MarketWatch
Microsoft , ESRI to Help Improve Homeland Security Operations MarketWatch - 16 minutes ago ... by combining the power of ESRI's ArcGIS Server Advanced Enterprise with the collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 . ...
Microsoft scraps Live Onecare and Equipt - Computeractive
Microsoft scraps Live Onecare and Equipt Computeractive, UK - 33 minutes ago However, despite reports that US customers would be allowed to keep their copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition, Microsoft would not ... Microsoft Corporation - SWOT Analysis - companiesandmarkets.com ... PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) Microsoft Replaces OneCare Securi...
YouSendIt brings file delivery to Microsoft Office - CNET News
YouSendIt brings file delivery to Microsoft Office CNET News, CA - 3 minutes ago Once installed, the plug-in embeds itself in Microsoft Office . On my version of Office 2007 , I found YouSendIt's plug-in added under the 'Send to' menu, ...
Cortado and DataViz Offer New Bundle of Applications for ... - MarketWatch
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YouSendIt Launches New File Delivery Service for Microsoft Office - International Business Times
YouSendIt Launches New File Delivery Service for Microsoft Office International Business Times, NY - 28 minutes ago Available for Office 2003 and 2007 ,the service lets users send files of up to 2GB directly from some of themost widely used business applications in the ...
YouSendIt Launches New File Delivery Service for Microsoft Office - MarketWatch
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Collexis Healthcare to Expand Capabilities for Asklepios Group ... - MarketWatch
Collexis Healthcare to Expand Capabilities for Asklepios Group ... MarketWatch - 11 minutes ago Working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Asklepios providers can instantly search a central knowledge and skills management system in order to ...
Net Quintum VoIP Gateways Achieve Certification for Microsoft ... - MarketWatch
Net Quintum VoIP Gateways Achieve Certification for Microsoft ... MarketWatch - 28 minutes ago The completion of the Exchange Unified Messaging certification complements the existing certification for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 . ...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont Saves Nearly a Half-Million ... - MarketWatch
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SMBs Positive On Microsoft Online Exchange Launch but Questions Linger - eWeek
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Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in ... - ZDNet
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ISO Publishes Office Open XML Specification - PC World
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Open Text Introduces Roadmap for eDOCS Customers, Plans to Further ... - MarketWatch
Open Text Introduces Roadmap for eDOCS Customers, Plans to Further ... MarketWatch - 21 minutes ago Open Text will also continue to enhance Content Lifecycle Management Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , eDOCS edition. ...
GXS Launches GXS Trading Grid(R) for Excel(R) Linking B2B e ... - PR Newswire (press release)
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Compugen Recognized as Canada's Best Large Account Reseller and ... - MarketWatch
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Microsoft Slashes at Google Apps Price Point With A Rapier of ... - eWeek
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