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  • The secret to understanding governance

       Jul. 2, 2009 1:59 PM EST    CleverWorkarounds   
    I’m very tempted to start this post like a dodgy wealth-guru infomercial. You know the ones – with lots of imagery of people living the dream of financial freedom. I am thinking a montage of a resort, a large boat anchored in a topical bay, carving up the water with a jet-ski and then a shot of ..
  • 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 o..
  • Announcing the SharePoint 2010 Blog

       Jul. 2, 2009 9:00 AM EST    Bamboo Nation   
    When Microsoft makes the public Beta of SharePoint 2010 available, Bamboo Nation will be on the scene to provide you with everything you need to know about what's new, what's different, and what those changes might mean for you.  Representatives of virtually every discipline at Bamboo w..
  • My friend Matt is spreading his wings!

       Jul. 2, 2009 8:59 AM EST    Brain Dump: Posts   
    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
  • [EGYSUG] Post June gathering materials

       Jul. 2, 2009 8:39 AM EST    SharePoint Blogs   
    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 ov..
  • SharePoint Server MVP

       Jul. 2, 2009 8:01 AM EST    SharePoint Blogs   
    Technorati Tags: ECM , MOSS , WSS I found out yesterday I was awarded MVP for SharePoint Server. Its is great to be rewarded for something you love to do. You cannot keep what you cannot give away. Giving back to the community is an easy thing to do, especially in the MSDN forums. SharePoint is such..
  • If all else fails... Purchased any products that required assembly lately? If yes, chances are that product came with a set of detailed instructions on how to put your product together with minimal fuss, just like Bamboo's lovingly crafted Application Notes that are available online for eve..
  • Enable Custom Search Scopes from code

       Jul. 2, 2009 7:27 AM EST    SharePoint Blogs   
    I was looking for some code to Enable Custom Scopes on a Site-Collection. I want to enable this from a feature instead of doing it manually for each site. I couldn’t find it fast on Google, so I tried to find out how ‘they’ did it by using Reflector. It turned out it’s easier than e..
  • June e-news from Bamboo

       Jul. 2, 2009 6:16 AM EST    Bamboo Nation   
    Get up to date news and information about our our latest products and what's coming soon from Bamboo.  Find out where you can meet up with our team and talk to us in person.  Read the hotest blog posts from our online community and learn more about our partners.  All del..
  • From JOPX (Joris Poelman) blog theten commandments for a Sharepoint development. They are so true . . . JOPX essentially states some of the choices one have to make starting a Sharepoint development project. You can find these commandments here.
  • Chris O’Brienhas posted a very interesting article in his blog on optimizing a Sharepoint Site. One of the downs in Sharepoint sometimes has been performance. For the developer sometimes is frustrating after building performant code to have a slow Sharepoint site, this can happen due to the am..
  • A few months ago we had a workshop on MOSS from our ADC, and one of the topics he talked about was the performance in retrieving list items. This is so important for the performance of a website, so when I found the post from Waldek Mastykarz on the same subject I just had to [...]
  • Explorer View in IE8 not working !!!

       Jul. 2, 2009 5:19 AM EST    Tech Talk PT   
    Yes, it is true, in my Windows XP with IE8 I simply cannot work with the Explorer View in a document library, the message is : “Please wait while Explorer View is loaded. If Explorer View does not appear, your browser may not support it.“. It seems this is a known issue and it only happe..
  • patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Drop 12

       Jul. 2, 2009 4:47 AM EST    Tech Talk PT   
    Well it is never to much to remember that the Sharepoint Guidance is being updated, so be sure to check the updates on the Codeplex.
  • 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 calli..
  • 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. Ev..
  • Time Zones in SharePoint and Date Time Stamp Format

       Jul. 1, 2009 2:50 PM EST    Dan Lewis   
    Body: So 7 readers, does anyone have the time?  I often answer SharePoint questions via email, and got a great question today that I thought was worth providing here are Sharing The Point.  This user had a SharePoint application with users in the United States and in the United Kingdom.  However,..
  • How to Create a SharePoint Blog

       Jul. 1, 2009 12:50 PM EST    Bamboo Nation   
    I've written previously about the joy of blogging in SharePoint, about how to publish a SharePoint blog directly from Word, even the organization of blog categories, and most recently, how to enable anonymous comments in a SharePoint blog, but somehow I've managed to skip the documenting of ..
  • 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 ..
  • I recently implemented SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration mode.  Although I followed all the directions and walkthroughs, it took me two days to get it implemented.  I was installing SSRS on an existing MOSS WFE, and though every indication showed a successful ins..
  • Ok...I need a little feedback from the community on this one, please.  I applied service pack 2 and the April 2009 CU for MOSS and WSS last week. Today, I noticed that all of the content, farm-wide, is showing a last modified time stamp of 1 week ago, unless the file has been updated in the las..
  • Renewed as an MVP!

       Jul. 1, 2009 6:22 AM EST    What Me Pa..Panic?   
    I'm in New Zealand this week speaking at the first New Zealand SharePoint Community Conference.   Since they are on the other side of the international date line it means that yesterday was July 1st... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]..
  • I worked on a project a while back where I needed to develop a .NET based web application that collected data and submitted the results as an InfoPath form in a SharePoint form library.  It had some very cool features (like binding dropdowns to SharePoint lists and hiding/showing administration..
  • In my post "Mr. Miyagi is Not a Direct Descendant of Superman" I mentioned that along with my colleague Mike Taylor, we presented: "SharePoint Worst Practices: Five Common Mistakes to Avoid" at the recently concluded SharePoint Technology Conference in Cambridge, MA.   We expl..
  • Nintex just released the Global SharePoint Survey that 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 eligibl..
  • Woohoo! So here was a weird one (I love these). I recently came across an issue where all the images for SharePoint 2007 were not being displayed (little ‘x’ instead of image). After much investigation it turned out that the problem was with the IIS Metabase file, what had happened was that the ..
  • Running Windows SharePoint Services on Linux

       Jun. 30, 2009 6:36 PM EST    Bamboo Nation   
    Did I get your attention ;)Why is this "impossible"...? WSS is an (ASP).NET application and you can run ASP.NET on Linux using Mono and with Apache and something like mod_mono you get ASP.NET support. So it should be possible to port this to Linux right?The reason this is "impossible&..
  • 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, an..
  • This Week in Bamboo (June 21 - June 27th, 2009)

       Jun. 30, 2009 11:48 AM EST    Bamboo Nation   
    For this week at Bamboo, we released the patches for the following 3 products: User Profile Plus Web Part, Stock Quote Web Part and Group Email Web Part. See more details below. User Profile Plus Web Part (HW29 R1.1.45) - New Feature:Checking if users belong to Active Directory Security Groups when..
  • Sharepoint gratuito

       Jun. 30, 2009 7:43 AM EST    stefan @ decatec   
    Ancora tanti non sanno che c'e' una versione gratuita di Sharepoint, i Windows Sharepoint Services  3 (WSS 3.0) che sono gratuiti per Windows Server 2003/2008 e che permettono comunque di creare portali e Intranet senza ulteriori costi di licenze.   http://technet.microsoft.com/it..
  • I'm on Flesland right now and decided to get the free trial for the Telenor Turbo 3G for Lenovo a go. After applying here Telenor will instruct you to use Thinkvantage Access Connections to get online but this won't work with Windows 7 (or it might be...(read more)