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SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: Virtual Migration Environment (VME) for Microsoft Project 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:07:00 -0400

The Virtual Migration Environment is a set of two virtual disks that provide Office Project Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 environments, sample content, and scripts design to assist customers with upgrade and migration from Office Project Server 2003 and Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. The Virtual Migration Environment provides the tools and resources to assist with upgrade and migration and planning and preparation resources to determine upgrade approaches and address common issues. The Virtual Migration Environment can be used to attach your existing production Project Server 2003 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 databases for upgrade to Project Server 2007 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 or can be used with sample databases to test and understand the upgrade process. Download details: Virtual Migration Environment (VME) for Microsoft Project 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Pierre Erol GIRAUDY CLUB SHAREPOINT FRANCE CLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: SmartTools for SharePoint 2010 – CODEPLEX

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:34:00 -0400

The SmartTools for SharePoint 2010 project is a collection of SharePoint 2010 extensions to make your life as a SharePoint user, developer or administrator a little bit easier! Sandboxed Solutions jQuery: integrates the jQuery JavaScript library with your SharePoint 2010 sites SmartTools for SharePoint 2010 See also : http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2010/09/02/deploying-and-using-jquery-with-a-sharepoint-2010-sandboxed-solution.aspx Pierre Erol GIRAUDY CLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: BIWUG is announcing another session about SharePoint on September 16th at the Quest Offices in Diegem.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:29:00 -0400

Agenda 18:00-18:30 Welcome with sandwich lunch 18:30-19:30 SharePoint administration and granular recovery (Speaker: Quest) 19:30-19:45 Break 19:45-20:45 Upgrading from SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 (Speaker: Karine Bosch) Unfortunately the number of available seats are limited to 30 persons - so we will accept registrations on a first come first serve basis. Register here Location: Quest Belgium Pegasus Park, Pegasuslaan 5,1831 Diegem, Belgium, Tel: +32 2 709 2177 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +32 2 709 2177 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Registration is now opened on the BIWUG site. Hope to see you there, Kind regards, Joris Poelmans [President BIWUG] BELUX Information Worker User Group Pierre Erol GIRAUDY CLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: Download details: Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a server running Windows Small Business Server 2008

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:17:00 -0400

Important SharePoint Foundation 2010 is not included in Windows SBS 2008. Because of this, the following features of Windows SBS 2008 do not work after you migrate to SharePoint Foundation 2010: • Fax services for network users • Archive e-mail messages that are sent to a security group on a WSS 3.0 website. Migration Steps : This section lists the steps necessary to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a server running Windows Small Business Server 2008, and then to migrate your WSS 3.0 websites to SharePoint Foundation 2010. Follow the steps in the order listed to migrate successfully. • Step 1: Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) • Step 2: Run the pre-upgrade checker for SharePoint Foundation 2010 • Step 3: Back up the existing data on your server • Step 4: Back up the Windows Internal Database files • Step 5: Uninstall Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and edit the Registry • Step 6: Install Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 in Farm mode • Step 7: Remove the default Web application in SharePoint Central Administration • Step 8: Create a new SharePoint application in SharePoint Central Administration • Step 9: Detach the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 database from Windows Internal Database • Step 10: Connect the ShareWebDb database to SQL Server 2008 • Step 11: Remove the existing content database • Step 12: Connect the ShareWebDb content database • Step 13: Recreate the original internal website environment • Step 14: Install Windows Small Business Server 2008 Update Rollup 4 • Step 15: Edit the site bindings for the companyweb site Return to top Download details: Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a server running Windows Small Business Server 2008 CLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

William Baer: Governance Resources for SharePoint 2010

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:36:54 -0400

Governance relates to decisions that define expectations, manage access, and validate performance and investment performance defined by established processes and procedures. The information here contains references to governance resources as related...(read more)

William Baer: Upcoming TechNet Webcasts

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:19:04 -0400

Date: 9/14/10 Time: 1 pm PST Title: Search Your Way to Success: Leveraging SharePoint's Search Capabilities in Public Web Sites Partner : Ironworks Consulting Abstract: Learning Objectives & Key Takeaways: Objective 1: Understand the key principles...(read more)

stefan @ decatec: Sharepoint 2010 Tagging

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:04:47 -0400

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Point2Share: Visiting Australia from Sept 10th–Sept 28th

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:17:17 -0400

One of the nice things about being based in India rather than Europe is that it is a lot easier to duck home to Australia every now and then (makes Mum VERY happy, and I know she is reading this). And that is exactly what I will be doing between the 10th and 28th of September. My plan at this stage is to: Spend the first week in Adelaide, being from the 10th – 19th of September Head to Sydney on the 19th of September until the 22nd of September (depending on meetings) Finally Melbourne from the 22nd of September until returning to Adelaide and India on Friday 24th If you are in any of these cities, at any of these times and share my interest in SharePoint, Social Computing or the endless possibilities offered by an AppStore for SharePoint, then lets grab a coffee. I’m available on Skype: danielmcphersonEmail: daniel@zevenseas.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/danmc Hope to see you there!

JOPX on SharePoint, MCMS, Office and SOA: Free Microsoft training sessions available at MIC Belgium

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:19:00 -0400

The Microsoft Innovation Center in Belgium organizes a number of interesting events: SharePoint Developers Day - 15 september Club des experts: BPOS & Office Online & Office Web App – 16 september Testing Visual Studio 2010 – 21 september Silverlight 4 – 7 october Club des experts – SharePoint & gestion documentaire Construire son Mock up en quelgues heurs – 4 november 4t All sessions are in French – and registration is possible through – www.mic-belgique.be Technorati Tags: MIC,microsoft,silverlight,sharepoint,BPOS,developers

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy: Hunting for a mystic error during SharePoint 2010 installation

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:44:42 -0400

Lately I’ve been installing SharePoint 2010 Server for a customer. It was a little tricky, as the server didn’t have Internet access, so I had to do all of downloads manually. (Fortunately I’ve found this PowerShell script , so this “manual” work wasn...(read more)

Stefan Goßner: Upcoming Search related SharePoint 2010 Webcasts

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:47:11 -0400

SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: Swiss SharePoint Club

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:22:00 -0400

Club Meeting #18 Genève – Carouge Posted in Club Meetings on 01.09.10 by Michaël Weiss Evénement organisé par le Swiss SharePoint Club Mercredi 29 Septembre 2010 Coopérative Migros Genève Rue Alexandre Gavard 35 CH-1227 Carouge Chers Membres et Sympathisants (Liebe Club Mitglieder und Interessenten) Le club vous invite à participer à sa prochaine conférence (Melden Sich Jetz Für Den Nächsten event an) Le Mercredi, 29 septembre 2010 de 9h30-12h30 / Lunch 12h30 – 14h00 / 14h00 – 16h00. (Mittwoch 29. September 2010, von 8h30-12h00 / Lunch 12h00 – 14h00 / 14h00 – 16h00) Swiss SharePoint Club http://clubsps.wordpress.com/ Pierre Erol GIRAUDY CLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Offline SharePoint: Colligo Webinar: How Microsoft Is Using SharePoint 2010 & Colligo for ECM & Records Management

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:18:58 -0400

We are really pleased to be partnering again with Microsoft on another important webinar. This time, we’re working with Nishan DeSilva, Director of Information Management & Corporate Records Compliance on how Microsoft’s Legal and Corporate Affairs Department (LCA) is leveraging SharePoint 2010 and Colligo Contributor for ECM and Records Management. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Microsoft’s LCA strategy for information/records management How to easily move unstructured content & email in SharePoint Tips for consistent classification & compliant retention policies How Colligo facilitates email management in SharePoint Ways to improve the user experience to drive adoption & compliance Nishan will also provide some insights into Microsoft’s strategy for SharePoint 2010 and how SharePoint along with Colligo Contributor enables organizations to take ownership of their information assets. This is going to be another great webinar and I encourage anyone who’s interested in using SharePoint 2010 for Enterprise Content Management or Records Management to attend. Register today for this webinar here.

The Mossman: SP2010 Branding Tip #12 – Hiding the Quick Launch at the Page Level

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:15:00 -0400

A question I get asked almost every week. Randy, how do I hide the Quick Launch for just one page in SharePoint 2010. The answer is simple my friends: Content Editor Web Part with some specialized CSS. Note, this code is written specifically to work with v4.master, any other master page may need different CSS code to hide the Quick Launch. Edit a page, Site Actions > Edit Page Click in a wiki text or rich text area and from the ribbon click Insert > Web Part (or add a Web Part to a Web Part zone) Under Media and Content select Content Editor and click Add With the new Web Part selected, from the ribbon click Format Text > HTML > Edit HTML Source Enter the following HTML / CSS and click OK Hide the Web Part chrome by selecting the Web Part and on the ribbon click Web Part Tools Options > Web Part Properties and on the right click Appearance > Chrome Type > None and then click Ok. Save and close your page and you are done… no Quick Launch!

Jan Tielens' Bloggings [MVP]: Deploying and Using jQuery with a SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solution

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:20:00 -0400

If you’re an avid reader of this blog, you probably now that I’m quite a big fan of the jQuery Javascript library, especially in combination with SharePoint sites. For a while I’ve been trying to find a mechanism to deploy jQuery and add a reference to it on all SharePoint pages of a site, by just using a Sandboxed Solution. The first part, deploying the jQuery file, is really easy; this can be done in a Module in a SharePoint project. The second part was more of a challenge; making sure the jQuery file got referenced in all pages of a SharePoint site. My initial thought was to do this by using the AdditionalPageHead Delegate control, but it’s not possible in a Sandboxed Solution (you need to deploy the .ASCX to the SharePoint root). My second thought was to use the new ScriptSrc attribute you can use in a CustomAction (I wrote about this attribute some time ago). But initially I was under the impression that the ScriptSrc attribute could only target Javascript files loaded from the SharePoint Root (the LAYOUTS) folder, resulting in a no-go for a Sandboxed Solution as well. Daniel McPherson stumbled upon this issue as well, but neatly solved it using Javascript to add the reference dynamically. But apparently you can make use of the ScriptSrc attribute to reference files from the Virtual File System (e.g. a Document Library in a site) as well! (thank you Frederic Dobon for mentioning this!). The trick is to use the ~SiteCollection prefix in the ScriptSrc attribute, for example: It’s that easy! For your convenience I’ve uploaded the source code and the resulting SharePoint Solution (WSP file) to CodePlex.

stefan @ decatec: Presentazione Sharepoint 2007

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:17:08 -0400

E' stata ri-postata la Presentazione Sharepoint 2007 - MOSS - WSS fatta diversi anni fa. Powered by Decatec Sharepoint Team

Bamboo Nation: Developing Requirements for SharePoint Projects; More Net Neutrality Delays; Microsoft's Next Billion-Dollar Business

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:43:00 -0400

Top News Stories4 Key Steps in Developing Requirements for SharePoint Projects (CMS Wire)As discussed in my previous post (How to Define Measurable and Traceable Requirements for SharePoint Projects), focusing on the business requirements first, user requirements second and then system/technical requirements is necessary to effectively define measurable and traceable requirements for SharePoint projects. In this post, I’ll show you and explain you the 4 key steps in developing requirements for SharePoint projects. Windows Phone 7: Enterprise Adoption Not a Sure Thing (CIO)We all know by now that Microsoft's mobile life hangs in the balance with Windows Phone 7. Sure, Redmond will carry on if WP7 is a bust, but the software giant will be shut out of the smartphone game, one of the most important and rapidly growing tech markets. Microsoft is not taking any of this lightly, lining up the hardware partners such as HTC, Samsung and LG and pouring close to $500 million into the marketing of its new mobile OS. Chrome August's Big Winner as Internet Explorer Resumes Slide (Ars Technica)As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted. Internet Explorer has not managed to gain share for a third month in a row. Firefox is leveling out while Chrome and Safari continue to grow. Opera? It's hanging on to relevance. Between July and August, Internet Explorer dropped 0.34 percent, a drop smaller than June's or July's gain. Firefox, meanwhile, went up 0.02 percent, Chrome gained 0.36 percent, Safari was up 0.07, and Opera dipped 0.08 percent. Microsoft Says Virtualization Only a Pit Stop in the Cloud Race (Softpedia)Microsoft is downplaying the relevance that virtualization technology has for the ongoing transition to IT-as-a-service, and notes that the Cloud is at the core of the next stage in the evolution of computing and not virtual environments. The Redmond company is present at the VMworld 2010 U.S. conference in San Francisco, where ironically, it is telling customers that virtualization is no longer the destination, and that businesses wishing to ensure boost in efficiency and cost savings for future operations need to embrace the Cloud. What Is Microsoft's Next Billion-Dollar Business? (Redmond Mag)Whether you're in the camp that believes that Microsoft is too dependent on its cash cows or the one that thinks that Microsoft is spreading itself too thin, it's worth considering which product will be the next billion-dollar baby in Redmond. Microsoft officials say there are already a handful of businesses that have earned the company in excess of $1 billion annually -- beyond the always dependable Windows and Office franchises. In the current billion-dollar club (in no particular order) are: Xbox, SQL Server; System Center; Unified Communications; SharePoint; Developer Tools; Dynamics (ERP & CRM); and Online display and search advertising. Microsoft Launches AdCenter for Chinese Businesses (Networkworld)Microsoft expanded adCenter to China on Tuesday, allowing Chinese businesses to use the advertising platform to market themselves overseas. FCC Appears to Delay Net Neutrality Rules (CNET)In a blow to Net neutrality advocates, who were hoping for sweeping new rules as early as this month, federal regulators suggested Wednesday that they're delaying any action in the near future. The Federal Communications Commission said it will be conducting a "further inquiry" into the details of broadband regulation, including whether wireless networks should be exempted from strict Net neutrality rules, a concept that Google and Verizon recently endorsed. (Here's some background from last year on wireless regulation.) Around the BlogosphereCreating a Roadmap to SharePoint Success (SharePoint Community)Planning is the key to success in any endeavor. When it comes to the complexity of placing SharePoint in the context of a successful strategy for managing content; planning is absolutely crucial. Luck won’t help you. When considering a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 solution, there are six major knowledge areas to explore. These SharePoint solution components should be considered when defining the SharePoint Roadmap. The feature areas are as follows: Build a Better Business with SharePoint 2010 (HostReview)Microsoft released SharePoint 2010 in May. The software provides better integration with products such as Microsoft Office and supplies flexible deployment and centralized administration, giving you the efficient and secure working environment you need. Effective SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Q&A (SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land)Question and Answer Log: I like to capture the questions from a good webcast. Got a bunch of good ones today… If you missed the presentation you can get a recording and the slides here. The Office Web Applications Cache (Bill Baer)The Office Web Applications cache is used by Word and PowerPoint Web Applications to create a version of a document requested for viewing through the browser improving performance and reducing resource consumption on server machines by making cached versions of a document or presentation available in cases where there are multiple requests for the same document. An important step in information architecture planning should include aligning the appropriate resources for the Office Web Applications cache through understand the frequency of browser requests and dynamics of the data requested. Enabling RSS Feeds in SharePoint 2010 (red1'space)Complex but basic – I know – recently enabling the RSS feeds in SharePoint 2010 took me quite a while. As opposed to in MOSS 2007 the RSS feeds in SharePoint 2010 do not seem to be automatically enabled !?!?!?! Anyway the following procedure will get them up and running in your environment: Around Bamboo NationBPC: Dux Raymond Sy on 'SharePoint as a Gov 2.0 Platform' (The Bamboo Team Blog)On Thursday morning at the BPC, Dux Raymond Sy presented a session on a relatively new topic both for him and for many of us in "SharePoint World": Gov 2.0 and how SharePoint is being leveraged as the platform to provide Gov 2.0 solutions to empower citizens, and to provide project transparency and collaboration between agencies and citizens. This topic is of special interest to me, as I focus on the Federal Sector Sales at Bamboo Solutions and was looking forward to learning more about how the SharePoint platform is becoming a part of the Gov 2.0 landscape. SharePoint Job Listings*Sr. SharePoint Consultant/Architect - Phoenix, AZYou will play a key role in helping Statera to continue to grow by staying abreast of current and breaking technologies and market trends. Candidate shall assist with business development efforts including the creating proposals and white papers, leading customer focus groups, managing vendor relationships, and playing an advisory/consulting role for the technical and project teams. As key contributors of the organization, Statera Consultants often oversee and lend advice for multiple concurrent projects as well as provide mentoring to other Statera consultants. In addition to their responsibilities of satisfying client needs, Statera Consultants focus on advancing the firm's capabilities by documenting, creating, and promoting the firm's intellectual property. Senior SharePoint/.Net Developer - Atlanta, GAJoin a team that is transitioning from Java development to .NET and SharePoint development. The qualified candidate will be doing real hands-on coding. This person should have experience writing "SharePoint Web Parts". 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SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: Silverlight Multi File Uploader–CODEPLEX

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:01:00 -0400

The Silverlight Multi File Uploader is a free Silverlight 4 application. It can be used to upload multiple files simultaneously to your website. Includes a JavaScript interface and also supports PHP. The LITE version is fully customizable and can be controlled using JavaScript. Silverlight Multi File Uploader CLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: SharePoint 2010 August 2010 Cumulative updates are now ready for download.

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:58:00 -0400

The latest cumulative updates are now available for download. The hotfixes can be requested from here: SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2266423 SharePoint Server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276339 The updates will update the patch level of your SharePoint 2010 installation to build: 14.0.5123.5000 SharePoint 2010 August 2010 Cumulative updates are now ready for download - SharePoint Infrastructure....From the field - Site Home - MSDN Blogs http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aaronsaikovski/archive/2010/09/02/sharepoint-2010-august-2010-cumulative-updates-are-now-ready-for-download.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276339 Issues that this hotfix package fixes for SP2010 A SharePoint Server 2010 administrator cannot configure the build-in Social Security Trimmer per Tenant. On a Office SharePoint Server farm which has multiple Web Front Ends (WFEs), term store management UI shows inconsistent data. Initiation for new tenant is slow in the SharePoint Online farm that has large amount of existing taxonomy data. This hotfix changes the behavior of My Site Cleanup Timer Job to handle the case when a user has no manager. When you create a search scope by using FAST Search, you have to have a scope filter that matches the scope rules attached to the search scope. However, the scope filter is empty and must be set manually by using PowerShell when you create a new search scope. You cannot manage FAST user contexts if you do not have administrative credentials to SharePoint User Profile Service. By using this hotfix package, you can manage FAST user contexts even though you are not User Profile Service administrator. --------------------------------------------- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2266423 Issues that this hotfix package fixes SPF2010 When you click Sign In as Different User to sign in by using new user credentials, you cannot access the expected resource. You cannot create a recurring calendar entry on a site that is created from a custom template. This fix adds a new health rule. This rule can inform an administrator whether the Business Connectivity Service (BCS) connectors are enabled or disabled in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Therefore, the administrator can monitor the status of the BCS connectors. You add a large amount of content to a client notebook on a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 server that is under heavy load. After some time, the notebook is no longer synchronous with the server and you cannot save changes to the server. Additionally, you may receive the following error message: Unable to save Anonymous users cannot use Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to query data in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. Additionally, the anonymous users are prompted for user credentials when they use LINQ to query data. Consider the following scenario. You change the site level permission on a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 site. Then, you change some property of the site. In this scenario, the sitedata.asmx.GetChanges() web service method does not report the security change. The external content type name appears in the external list edit form if the optional field value is not present. Therefore, you cannot save the external list item successfully. The CopyIntoItems method in the Copy.asmx web servicedoes not assign the custom content type when you upload a file from the file system. Instead, it always assigns the default content type. When you click the Open this Task button in Microsoft Outlook, you cannot open the workflow task form from the notification email in Microsoft Outlook. Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft SharePoint Designer, you apply Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) to a view that contains a link field. Then, you add a Universal Name Convention (UNC) link that contains non-ASCII characters to the field. In this scenario, the link is broken when you open it. In the Turkish version of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you click the Help icon and you try to use the search function. However, the search function does not work. When you delete old versions of documents that contain web parts, spaces for the old versions in Microsoft SQL Server are not reclaimed. When you upload a picture in the CMYK pixel format to an asset library, the upload is completed successfully and you see a thumbnail in the asset library. However, when you hover the mouse pointer over the thumbnail, the preview window does not show the picture in Windows Internet Explorer. In sandbox solutions, Partially Trusted Code (PTC) usage decreases when the number of max processes per application server increases. When you save a team site as a template, the web part that is used in the original site does not carry the correct view to the newly created site. This fix adds support for both HTTP-based host-named site collections and HTTPS-based host-named site collections to coexist in the same web application. By default this support is disabled. To enable this support, set the Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService.ContentService.EnableHostHeaderSiteBasedSchemeSelection property to true. As soon as it is enabled, SharePoint will no longer use the web application's default zone public URL protocol scheme for all host-named site collections in that web application. Instead, SharePoint will use the protocol scheme provided during host-named site collection creation, restoration, or rename. Host-named site collections that are created before this update is installed will default to use the HTTP protocol scheme if this property is set to true. These site collections can be switched to use the HTTPS protocol scheme by renaming the host-named site collection and providing an HTTPS-based URL as the new site collection URL. Consider the following scenario. You delete a picture library item. Then, you restore the item from the Recycle Bin and then delete the item again. In this scenario, you receive the following error message: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint ''. Cannot insert duplicate key in object ''. The statement has been terminated. This fix improves the performance of migration time for users across all sites. ------------------------------------------------------ CLUB SHAREPOINT FRANCE Pierre Erol GIRAUDY CLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Stefan Goßner: August 2010 Cumulative Update for SharePoint has been released

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:50:52 -0400

Yesterday the product group released the August 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process)...(read more)

Method ~ of ~ failed: Silverlight, HTML5 and the future

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:34:20 -0400

The Silverlight team today posted some information about what the future holds for rich Internet apps and where we have come with SIlverlight, where we see HTML5 playing a role and how Silverlight will be a part of the future of this next evolution of rich Internet apps. Brad Becker, Director of Product Management, provides some information behind the value of Silverlight in a world where HTML5 will also co-exist: Expect to see more from Silverlight in these areas especially in our focus scenarios of high-quality media experiences, consumer apps and games, and business apps. When you invest in learning Silverlight, you get the ability to do any kind of development from business to entertainment across screens from browser to mobile to living room, for fun, profit, or both. And best of all, you can start today and target the 600,000,000 desktops and devices that have Silverlight installed. I would encourage you to go and read “The Future of Silverlight” (frankly which I think should be titled The Future Includes Silverlight) as it provides some good information about what exists today, capabilities of platforms and where these technologies can grow into in the future. Be sure to leave comments for Brad on the post as well! tags: silverlight, expression, blend, xaml, html5, riaservices, riaThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution By license.

Angus Logan's Portals Blog: Interns

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:21:53 -0400

Our awesome marketing intern (Connor Lanman) released a kickass video today (and it is getting some love). Not sure I like it as much as his previous work Nice work Connor.

Get the 'Point: Posts: User Adoption Strategies: The benefits of Over-the-Shoulder Watching

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:32:51 -0400

Abstract: The fifth in a series of posts by author Michael Sampson on his new book, User Adoption Strategies. This post focuses on the benefits of over-the-shoulder watching and why it is a key strategy for user adoption. Category: Collaboration; People Wrangling; Planning & Process; Training Published: 9/2/2010 12:49 PM # Comments:

Brian Smith's Project Support WebLog: Project Server: August 2010 Cumulative Updates for 2007 and 2010 now live!

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:14:42 -0400

I posted over on the Project Administration blog - http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectadministration/archive/2010/09/02/microsoft-project-server-and-sharepoint-2007-and-2010-august-cu-2010-are-live.aspx but the basic info for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project 2007, Microsoft Project Server 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 is listed below. See the Project Administration blog for full details of the new Server Rollup – these have changed between 2007 and 2010! – and also the installation and deployment guidelines and links. 2007 Individual Product Packages: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (sts-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276469 Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp-x-none.msp; Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276475 Description of the Office Project 2007 hotfix package (project-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2289175 Server Rollup Packages: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (WSS server-package): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276474 Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update server hotfix package (MOSS server-package): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276472 2010 Individual Product Packages: Description of the SharePoint Foundation 2010 hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2266423 Description of the SharePoint Server 2010 hotfix package (spswfe-x-none.msp, pplwfe-x-none.msp, osrchwfe-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276339 Description of the Project Server 2010 hotfix package (Wosrv-x-none.msp, Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp, Osrv-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276341 No August update for Microsoft Project 2007 Server Rollup Packages: Description to follow (SharePoint Foundation rollup) - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2352346 (Does not include Project!) Description to follow (SharePoint Server 2010 rollup) - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2352342 (Does not include Project!) Description to follow (Project Server 2010 rollup) - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2352345 Technorati Tags: psvr2007,psvr2010,Project Server 2007,Project Server 2010

JOPX on SharePoint, MCMS, Office and SOA: BIWUG IT Pro session on september 16th

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:36:00 -0400

BIWUG (www.biwug.be) is announcing another session about SharePoint on September 16th at the Quest offices in Diegem. Agenda 18:00-18:30 Welcome 18:30-19:30 SharePoint administration and granular recovery (Speaker Quest) 19:30-19:45 Break 19:45-20:45 Upgrading from SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 (Speaker – Karine Bosch) More details and registration on the BIWUG site – www.biwug.be Technorati Tags: sharepoint,community,biwug,sharepoint+administration,sps2010,upgrade

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com: Ninja SharePoint 2010 Debugging with .NET Reflector Pro

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:46:41 -0400

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SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land: Effective SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Q&A

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:02:52 -0400

Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations Question and Answer Log: I like to capture the questions from a good webcast. Got a bunch of good ones today…If you missed the presentation you can get a recording and the slides here. Paul Asked: Are there major downsides to using SQL 2005 with SharePoint 2010? The downsides are the features in SQL 2008 that SharePoint 2010 takes advantage of. Starting with Mirroring, Remote Blob Storage, Backup Compression, Transparent Database Encryption, PowerPivot (see more below), Optimized Engine for performance, SQL Governor, etc... Dutch McGehee Asked: Can I get a copy of the powerpoint slides? Sure. http://www.quest.com/events/ListDetails.aspx?ContentID=12156 Question: What is the best non-destructive (to existing MOSS environment) way to do upgrade if I'm upgrading to a new environment, but using the existing production SQL? Non Destructive? Need to drill into that. I’m guessing setting the current 2007 databases to read only as you migrate the databases with database attach to a new environment would be most non destructive. Question: When will your book be available? It’s available now in Rough Cuts on Safari. The other physical publish date is up to the publisher. Travis Asked: Does PowerPivot require SQL 2008 R2? or will it work on 2008 and 2005 SQL? It requires SQL 2008 R2. “PowerPivot is essentially a way of making an analysis services cube using excel as the design tool. When you use the PowerPivot for Excel add-in, then there no backend dependency, but if you want to save a PowerPivot to SharePoint 2010, there has to be a special installation of SQL Server 2008 R2 analysis services associated with the SharePoint farm.” Andrew Fryer in PowerPivot is Analysis Services sort of. Question: Missed beginning...Is SQL 2008 required for SP 2010? No, you can run SQL 2005 x64 with SP3 CU5 and later. Jose Asked: can you use this method from 32bit to 64 bit? Yes, you can use database attach to move from 32bit to 64bit SharePoint Servers, or you can upgrade the SQL environment first with In-Place Upgrade. Steve Asked: Does Add Solutions include InfoPath forms in forms services that have code-behind? Some InfoPath forms will need to be redeployed especially in cases where these are server solutions with database attach. In place upgrade would keep your solutions in place. Some code behind may need to be tested and redeployed. In all these cases I highly recommend testing. Workflow is one area where I’ve found visual studio solutions do need to be updated. Question: does the visual upgrade upgrades all sites in site collection or can it be done by each site? It can be done granularly or the entire site collection. You can also hide the preview option or upgrade it all at once. Kyle Asked: Any experience or recommendations in using the AAM URL Redirection as part of the upgrade process I recommend against using it if you don’t need it. It is complex and adds an unnecessary complexity in most upgrades. Some may think they need it if the upgrade will be over weeks and read only isn’t good enough. Michael Asked: When should MySites/Profiles be migrated - before other site types? after? You’ll want to make sure that your profiles and my site host is in place first. I recommend getting the services in place, especially dependent services… before you start migrating content. Question: Does Quest Migration Manager support migration of SP 2007/MOSS environment from on-premise to BPOS-D (SharePoint Online 2010)? It’s in development. Also note that SharePoint Online 2010 isn’t yet available for the general public. Jeremy Asked: Does Migration manager work with WSS 3.0 Yes. WSS 2.0, WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation or WSS 2.0, WSS 3.0 MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Question: In the Fab 40 page, you had mentioned http://bit.ly/dhQUjd . Is this a valid site? I just checked and it showed error. The link works for me. It should redirect to: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=374 which has links to the blog post from the technical documentation team and links to Khalil’s upgraded SharePoint 2010 Fab 40. Don Bruce Asked: Throughout the presentation you have mentioned a lot of things done through PowerShell. We have typically thought of PowerShell as a Developer-lite tool. How important is it that a SharePoint Administrator have PowerShell skills? Great question. For SharePoint Administrators there are a lot of commandlets that act similar to STSADM and are very similar in their construction, but they give you the power of a scripting language. I recommend reading my post on Powershell and SharePoint. Practical Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 - SharePoint Joel Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with Powershell Sudip Shrestha Asked: I have a custom top navigation bar based on a xml datasource in a 2007 farm.. Does 2010 support 2007 type of navigation bar? How will 2010 handle this custom navigation bar? I can’t answer specifically. I do recommend testing. I think you’ll find most things do upgrade quiet nicely. Backward compatibility is quite good. You will notice that binary upgrade will leave your nav bars, and visual upgrade will replace them. You’ll need to add them back in after visual upgrade or add them to your masterpage. Grace Sigal Asked: Very slow... i can't see the demo http://www.quest.com/events/ListDetails.aspx?ContentID=7836 Tim Chilva Asked: Does the "migration Manager handle placing "Content Type" into the "Master" META database, when a SP '07 site is migrated? This is a great feature request. Pat Breitenbeck Asked: does quest have a doc that tells what Migration Manager can do that PowerShell or Stsadm commands cannot do? Mark Mascolino Asked: We have a large number of site collections in a single web application. We expect that the upgrade timelline to require having two farms 2007 & 2010 in parallel for a few months. How can we use the db attach upgrade approach to a new farm while maintaining a single hostname in both farms? (sites.company.com) e.g. we need redirector from 2007 upgrade process If you can do it a web application at a time over a weekend or use readonly mode for the source you should be ok. If not you should look at the AAM Redirection or third party like Migration manager for post migration sync. Alex has some good info on it. Question: Will Migration Manager convert the links within content to the destination? SharePoint Designer or STSADM –o import/export or powershell import/export will try to do link fixup, but only in lists, not within documents. Gerald Asked: can multiple 2007 publishing web applications be re-structured under a single new 2010 web application Yes with Migration manager you can consolidate sites during the migration. With normal upgrade you’d need to either use import/export while on 2007 or while on 2010, not during the upgrade. Archana Mordekar Asked: What needs to be done to move a SharePoint application (site Structure, features, backend code) from one box to another? The configuration on both boxes is the same - the app needs to be brought up on another box Backup/restore, and redeploy the solutions/features. Question: If I'm running Quest WebParts for Sharepoint on a Sharepoint 2007 environment, will I have to upgrade to Quest WebParts for Sharepoint 2010, or the 2007 version of the Webparts work on 2010? You can install the 2010 Quest webparts on a new farm with database attach. With in-place you can upgrade the webparts after the upgrade. I think you’ll find this consistent with most customizations. They need to be in place on the source before the migration, or they need to be upgraded after, in the case of in-place upgrade. Question To: Joel, what is your blog URL address? http://www.sharepointjoel.com

Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land: Effective SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Q&A

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:02:52 -0400

Method ~ of ~ failed: Silverlight 4 service release (September 2010)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:44:36 -0400

Today we released an update to Silverlight 4 (update build is 4.0.50826.0) along with an updated SDK. We appreciate our customers’ patience on working with us to help identify and verify necessary updates to this service release. You can find all the details in KB2164913. Here are the relevant highlights: SDK feature to enable Add New Row capabilities in DataGrid control Improving startup performance of Silverlight applications Adding mouse wheel support for out-of-browser applications on the Mac platform Various media-related fixes around DRM content Fixed memory leak when MouseCapture is used Fixed memory leak for DataTemplate usage All the installer links have been updated to leverage these new bits for our customers. For end users For end users, having them simply install the runtime will provide them with the updated bits and benefits of the fixes/features in this service release. The best way to force encourage your users to upgrade to this service release would be to leverage the MinRuntimeVersion attribute of your object tag: 1: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 10: 11: Notice lines 5 and 6 above. This would trigger that the end user is required for your application to run and require them to upgrade. The minRuntimeVersion/autoUpgrade are the minimum to require your user to upgrade to the later version. Ideally you would follow good installation experience guidance (see “Installation Experience Whitepaper” with complete sample source code) to customize your install and/or upgrade experience. For Developers If you are a developer and authoring Silverlight applications you may want to grab the new developer bits and updated SDK: Windows developer runtime Mac developer runtime Silverlight 4.0.50826.0 SDK I would install the developer build first and then the SDK and you’ll have a refreshed environment. As with any release we try to get you the information as soon as possible and sometimes the information flows faster than the download servers replicate. If you aren’t getting the updated bits using the links above, please be patient as the download servers from Microsoft refresh their replication caches. Note that when you now create a new project you’ll be using the new SDK and so the minRuntimeVersion (see above) of the project templates as well as compiled bits for your SL4 application will be using/requiring the updated runtime. There are NO Visual Studio tools updates for this release so the Silverlight4_Tools.exe package is not needed to re-install. For Visual Studio LightSwitch Users When Visual Studio LightSwitch shipped they included a pre-release later build of Silverlight 4. This caused some issues for customers who were using a single machine to evaluate LightSwitch but also using the same machine. Any Silverlight 4 application developed and deployed would give customers messages indicating that they needed a later version of Silverlight, but were unable to acquire a compatible version! This is now solved with this service release. Simply put: If you are using LightSwitch, install the updated developer runtime and SDK. This will solve this issue and allow you to develop LightSwitch applications as well as production Silverlight 4 applications. Hope this helps! As always if you have feedback on Silverlight, here are some methods of providing feedback to our team. tags: silverlight, expression, riaservices, lightswitch, xaml, riaThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution By license.

Offline SharePoint: Colligo at the ILTA 2010 Conference in Las Vegas

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:15:17 -0400

Ed Kaczor (left) and Trevor Dyck at the Colligo pod at ILTA. The Colligo team participated at another interesting conference last week, this time the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference in Las Vegas. We were invited to participate by Microsoft who graciously shared their booth space with us. The legal industry is very important to Microsoft as law firms and legal departments of all sizes are deploying SharePoint for matter management faster than ever before. In fact, we spoke with many law firm CIOs and CTOs, and were told empathically that it’s not a matter of “if” they’ll deploy SharePoint but “when” they’ll deploy SharePoint. Colligo’s integration of Outlook to SharePoint is a critical piece of the puzzle for any law firm or legal department looking at SharePoint for matter management. The reason is simple: the vast majority of client communications (up to 90% by some research) occur via email. By making it easy for lawyers and administrative staff to move emails into client and matter folders while capturing accurate metadata, Colligo Contributor is essential for the success of any SharePoint project in the legal space. Many thanks to all the folks at Microsoft for their support and for walking over so many of their clients to our “pod” for a demonstration of Colligo Contributor. It was also extremely gratifying to have Microsoft highlighting the role of Colligo Contributor in their own Legal and Corporate Affairs Department’s deployment of SharePoint. A special thanks to Norm Thomas, Mark Beckman, Julie Kremer, Tanice Myers, and Karin Breedis for their help and hospitality. Colligo already has some great clients in the legal space and you can read their individual case studies that detail how they are using Colligo Contributor for matter management: Fernald Law Group Creates Competitive Advantage with Microsoft Hosted SharePoint & Colligo Contributor Pro (Click here to download the Case Study) National Grid Legal Department Improves Collaboration & SharePoint Adoption with Contributor Add-In for Outlook (Click here to download the Case Study) Fischer Behar Chen Well Orion & Co. Drives Adoption of SharePoint for Email & Document Management. (Click here to download the Case Study) We’ve also produced a new white paper that explains how Colligo Contributor helps law firms and legal departments manage their matter content including emails in SharePoint. Click here to download the White Paper.

SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: Training : Productivity Hub 2010

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:59:00 -0400

Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts. The Hub is a SharePoint Server site collection for 2007 and 2010 that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft’s core products. Microsoft also provides ongoing and updated content packs. The Hub uses SharePoint Server’s social networking capabilities, such as blogs and discussion groups. In addition, it offers the Coach program, a change management feature to help you train end users to self-help, reducing the burden on your training and IT staff. The Coach program impacts productivity in a collaborative and positive way. The 2010 version of the Productivity Hub includes a quiz feature, a section called ‘Get it Done’ that offers training for tasks such as email management and collaboration, and also features Silverlight. There will be a non-Silverlight version of the 2010 Hub delivered in late June. The 2007 Hub contains 2007 content only (v2) with 2010 content added in v3 (to be released in June 2010). You can also add 2010 content packages to your current Hub. Watch for more document on migration from your 2007 Hub to your 2010 Hub. What the Productivity Hub is: Format: Pre-loaded SharePoint site collection, optimized for Web 2.0 functionality and easily deployed within SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint 2010 environment, depending on version Content: Convenient end user productivity training in a variety of formats (documents, videos, podcasts, etc.). Receive free quarterly updates of content that you will learn about through the Productivity blog. Blog: The Productivity blog offers tips and tricks for end user productivity. Use it as is, or your training staff can use the posts as their own to help them get started in running an internal blog. Train the trainer: Includes IT/Manager section to aid with deployment of the site collection, and guidance to develop the Coach program Products: Office 2007 and Office 2010 (including SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint 2010), Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8, Project, Visio, Live Meeting, and Communicator You can also download additional content packages that expand the training materials you can make available through the Hub. Download details: Productivity Hub 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4AAA9862-E420-4331-8BC3-469D7BAE0FF1&displaylang=en Pierre Erol GIRAUDY CLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

William Baer: The Office Web Applications Cache

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:06:30 -0400

The Office Web Applications cache is used by Word and PowerPoint Web Applications to create a version of a document requested for viewing through the browser improving performance and reducing resource consumption on server machines by making cached versions...(read more)

Brian Smith's Project Support WebLog: Project Server 2010: OLAP–where are my Custom Field Dimensions and Measures?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:02:55 -0400

This question comes up reasonably frequently – I have added dimensions and measures to my cube but do not see them. Where are they? The answer has a few slight variations, and depends which cubes you are expecting to see them in – and how those cubes are constructed. Most of this also applies to 2007 (apart from the department issue) but this is written with 2010 in mind. The first thing to note is the text on the configuration page for the cubes: Cube Dimensions Specify the custom fields you want to add to the OLAP database as dimensions. The selected custom fields will be added to both timephased and non-timephased cubes, when applicable. Cube Measures Specify the custom fields you want to add to the cube as measures. The selected custom fields will be added to the related Non-Timephased cube. The devil is in the detail, but this could be the reason they are not appearing – you are expecting to see the data in a time-phased cube when this is not applicable. Particularly this applies to measures, as these are just values that apply to the specific entity and have no timephased spread – so they cannot be presented in a timephased manner. The usual cube that these dimensions and measures are expected in is the MSP_PORTFOLIO_ANALYZER cube. However, this cube is actually a virtual cube constructed from the Assignment and Resource Timephased cubes – so don’t expect any measures here! Also if you have added a project level custom field to the project cube then it will not be here either. You can however add that same project level field to the Assignment cube and it will be available. The other virtual cubes are: MSP_Project_SharePoint – Including Deliverables, Issues, Risks and the Project Non Timephased cubes MSP_Project_Timesheet – including the EPM Timesheet and Resource Timephased cubes The final ‘gotcha’ for missing measures comes from the new Department feature in 2010. If you have a Custom Field that you want to add as a measure, and that Custom Field has been scoped to a specific Department then it will only appear as a measure for cubes buit for that specific department. If you build a cube with no departmental filtering it will not show up – even though there may be project from that department included in the ‘full’ cube. The UI for the cube configuration doesn’t help with understanding this last issue – as the measures are not filtered based on the department. This is because the department filtering is applied in one screen and measures in another. And just a reminder – measures are only available for Cost, Number and Duration custom fields. Every added dimension and measure will add extra data to the cube, make the build slower and the cube bigger, so don’t just choose everything – be selective. Also with 2010 you have the option to leave out some of the usually built in measures such as Costs, Work, Earned Value and the various baselines. Technorati Tags: psvr2010,Project Server 2010

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land: How Microsoft Is Doing Records Management

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:52:37 -0400

SHAREPOINT 2010 WEBINAR How Microsoft Is Using SharePoint & Colligo for ECM & Records Management Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:00 AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Eastern 4:00 PM London / 5:00 PM Paris Join Microsoft guest speaker Nishan DeSilva on September 21st for the webinar: “How Microsoft Is Using SharePoint 2010 & Colligo for ECM & Records Management.” Nishan DeSilva is the Director of Information Management & Corporate Records Compliance at Microsoft. He will provide an inside look at how Microsoft’s Legal and Corporate Affairs Department (LCA) is leveraging SharePoint 2010 and Colligo Contributor to address compliance while empowering users to get their work done. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Microsoft’s strategy in LCA for information & records management How to effectively move unstructured content & email into SharePoint How to apply consistent classification & compliant retention policies How Colligo Contributor facilitates email management in SharePoint How to improve the user experience to drive adoption & compliance Nishan DeSilva will provide insights into Microsoft’s strategy for SharePoint 2010 and how SharePoint along with Colligo Contributor enables organizations to take ownership of their information assets. Barry Jinks, Founder and CEO of Colligo, will discuss how client solutions add value to SharePoint 2010 and provide important functionality for seamlessly integrating Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint. For new strategies to improve ECM and records management in your organization with SharePoint 2010, register for this webinar below! --> Register for this Free Webcast!

Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land: How Microsoft Is Doing Records Management

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:52:37 -0400

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy: My Best Practices for FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 Installation

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:30:08 -0400

Last week, I’ve been honored as a speaker of Best Practices Conference 2010 in Washington DC, and got a lot of questions about the installation of FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. So that, I’ve decided to collect my tips and best practices and...(read more)

Bamboo Nation: Is SharePoint Scalable?; How to Manage Virtual Paperwork; Government Cloud Applications Center Launches

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:47:00 -0400

Top News StoriesSharePoint the Reality Series 5: The SharePoint Maturity Model (KMWorld)In the adoption of SharePoint, a four-stage maturity model is a great way to determine where knowledge gaps exist, what facets require additional education and how to help people expand their use of SharePoint. According to Lee Reed, a senior SharePoint strategy consultant with Northridge, departments will not progress in lockstep, which elevates the importance of the maturity model as a benchmarking tool for evaluating progress and showcasing the best practices of adoption leaders. The point, counsels Reed, is to include some “stretch goals” within each maturity level to encourage greater use of the platform. Is SharePoint Scalable or Not? (CODE Magazine)If there is one topic that has generated more debate than anything else, it is the scalability of lists in SharePoint. You can find as many opinions as there are people. Because I’m one of those people, allow me to express my opinions on this as well. My opinion is that Microsoft designed the SharePoint content database for low management overhead, not for ultra-extreme scalability. But where you need that extreme scalability, the architecture provides enough hooks and management infrastructure to satisfy almost any conceivable need for a real-world project. A Better Way To Manage All That Virtual Paperwork (Forbes)With SharePoint 2010 in combination with Office 2010, you can control precisely what happens to documents within your organization well after someone hits "Save." In this article, we'll explain the key building blocks of SharePoint, drill down on key capabilities for growing businesses, and outline the business case. What's Hot (and Not) About Windows Phone 7 (CNET)After more than a month of living with Windows Phone 7, I have to say, Microsoft's new phone operating system is starting to grow on me. Although I liked the general look of the operating system, I suspected its simplicity was only skin deep and that over time I would uncover both annoying glitches and places where the phone was all too much like a little computer. Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Performance Optimization for Real Word Sites (Softpedia)Browser performance is multifaceted, in the sense that it depends on a variety of details, sufficiently so that not any one benchmark currently available is truly capable of revealing which browser is fastest. Sure, there are various benchmarks such as SunSpider or V8, designed to look at specific areas of browser performance such as JavaScript, in the cases of the two test suites mentioned above. Microsoft Refreshes Windows 7 SP1 Beta For Select Few (Windows 7 News)Microsoft began distributing the first builds of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 during July earlier this year. Now reports are coming in that Microsoft have gone and updated a couple of those betas for a select few individuals over the last week or so. Government Cloud Applications Center Brings Together Technology, Partners (Bright Side of Government)Last month, we wrote about how Texas cities are turning to Microsoft’s Business Online Productivity Suite (BPOS) to take advantage of the flexibility and savings of the cloud while meeting their need for proven enterprise-grade capabilities and reliability. And as more and more state and local governments explore their options when it comes to cloud, we are launching the Microsoft Government Cloud Applications Center, a central location where government customers can find Microsoft partners and solutions to support their cloud computing needs. Around the BlogosphereApplication Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and Project Server 2010 (Arpan Shah Microsoft Project and SharePoint Blog)Microsoft Project 2010 delivers a range of solutions for individuals, teams and organizations to manage work through Project 2010 client & server investments. And while there are a lot of scenarios it addresses, I wanted to point out one scenario that has come up a lot in our conversations with our customers & partners: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Screencast: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2010 (Meet Dux)Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is touted as the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web. It's a big leap from previous versions with its wide array of new features and capabilities. To make the most out of SharePoint 2010, Joel Oleson and I hosted a webcast for O'Reilly Media and shared our experiences and insights into best practices in upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2010. In this recorded presentation, you'll gain a useful overview of how to: SharePoint and Historical Dependence on Email: Why Outlook Hides Reasons that Make SharePoint Implementations Fail (End User SharePoint)Here’s a typical path for a SharePoint implementation in your neighborhood: The organization is distributed: there’s a large contingency of in-office information workers with a smaller, but mission critical, staff distributed in the field. The organization has a complete dependence on email and turns to SharePoint to enhance communication and reduce the email rat race. IT operation has some form of a VPN in place to enable the remote worker’s native Outlook client, and the SharePoint server is only visible from the VPN. Many organizational entities take hold and create powerful sites that organize team and project activities. The field staff, however, stubbornly resists and declines using SharePoint-based resources – for one silly but critically important reason: “I try to use those discussion boards and lists – but they’re too damn slow!” Implementation efforts eventually reach a glass ceiling of participation which never really reaches the potential that SharePoint has for the organization. SharePoint 2010 and SQL Hotfix Dependencies (SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land)I did a webcast about a week ago about upgrading to SharePoint 2010. In it someone wrote on the chatboard that I had my SQL CU’s dependencies wrong. Rechecking my slides and the dependencies page for SharePoint 2010 with the July update. I’m finding it is a bit difficult to navigate for customers where the SQL person is not the same as the SharePoint person. The individual on the webcast was on the right track that I should clarify this wild area of what do you really need to be running for SQL. The source for the info is on TechNet in the article on Hardware and Software Requirements for SharePoint 2010. Around Bamboo NationLast Chance. Take Our Survey to Win an iPad! (The Bamboo Team Blog)A few weeks ago Bamboo announced a visitor survey on topics ranging from what you think Bamboo's top priorities should be all the way to when your company plans to upgrade to SharePoint 2010. Today that survey comes to a close and with it ends your chance to win prizes including Bamboo shirts and an iPad. If you have taken the survey your name is already entered in the contest. If you haven't... what are you waiting for? It will only take a few minutes of your time. SharePoint Job Listings*Programmer Analyst IV - .Net / SharePoint - San Francisco, CASenior technical role in development and support of large, complex system applications, or of several small applications. Requires minimum direction. Builds and manages internal and external relationships to gain buy-in and maximize results. Demonstrates strong technical leadership and ability to mentor others. Coordinates work of other technical team members. Demonstrates an understanding of key business drivers and ensures technical solutions deliver business value in line with the company objectives. Able to lead a team for technical projects or project lead components of a larger project. Provides leadership and guidance throughout WSI to leverage technology industry best practices. Sr. SharePoint Engineer – Clarks Summit, PAWe are currently seeking a Sr. Internet Engineer for SharePoint and Windows application related work due to newly created position. Candidate must have least 5 years experience working with SharePoint. SharePoint administration/engineering experience is required. The Sr. Internet Engineer delivers specialized engineering and technical support for MetLife's portfolio of applications. This person MUST be highly skilled in design of infrastructure and troubleshooting web based applications that run on the Windows operating system. In addition, the candidate must be Microsoft certified or have equivalent experience. This is an engineering/support position NOT an entry-level or application developer position. Microsoft UpdatesCrawling content larger than 1MB in SharePoint list columns of type "Multiple lines of text" results in "The filename or extension is too long" crawl log error messages - Microsoft SupportOffice SharePoint Server 2007 fails to crawl content larger than 1MB in list columns of type "Multiple lines of text" and the crawl log contains error messages with the text "The filename or extension is too long". 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SharePoint au Quotidien Blog d'EROL: Download details: Visual Guide: Visio Services

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:47:00 -0400

This presentation template file contains a set of visual, step-by-step procedures for publishing a Visio 2010 Web drawing to a SharePoint site and viewing the drawing in the browser. Also included is an appendix with a list of references for additional information and steps for enabling Visio Services on a SharePoint site. This visual guide includes animations and is best viewed in Slide Show view in PowerPoint.Download details: Visual Guide: Visio Services CLUB SHAREPOINT FRANCE Pierre Erol GIRAUDYCLUB MOSS et WSS FRANCE http://www.clubsps.org http://sharepointerol.blogspot.com/atom.xml

meetdux.com: Sep 8 Must Attend Event for DC Geeks & Foodies

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:47:00 -0400

Happy September 2010! To kick off the first day of the month, regular SharePoint & Project Management programming is interrupted for something more important => FOOD I'm excited to let you know that Jeff Potter, author of 'Cooking for Geeks' published by O'Reilly Media will be in Washin... (More)

SharePoint Cafe: How to Contact Bill English

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:33:34 -0400

I met some people this past week at the Best Practices Conference who didn't know how to find my contact information, so I thought I'd blog it. Email: bill@mindsharp.comTwitter: @minnesotabillLinkedIn: Bill EnglishFaceBook: Bill English Phone: 763-458-3722 (I'm terrible at returning phone calls – FYI.) www.mindsharp.com Please don't confuse me with the New Zealand politician named Bill English. Thanks!

SharePoint Blog - René Hézser: SharePoint Search

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:24:59 -0400

Did i mention the SharePoint Search is great? Indexing your fileservers, websites and public folder (see here how to index Exchange 2010 public folders: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806927.aspx) is easy to configure. You should look at the logs, though. Warning can give you a good hint where to look to solve indexing problems. I looked at the document, which could not be indexed. My Visio 2010 opened the document without complaining. The File Tab shows some information from the document. Wow. The document was created more than 15 years ago! I do not know which Visio version it was created with, but Visio 2010 can still open it. The Visio iFilter not :-(

Waldek Mastykarz: Ask the Expert @ SharePoint Connections 2010 Autumn

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:16 -0400

Who would’ve thought: two SharePoint conferences in the Netherlands in one year! Proudly presenting: Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010 Autumn. Earlier this year there was the SharePoint Connections 2010 conference that was the unofficial launch of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in Europe and based on the great feedback that Microsoft and Penton Media got, they decided to organize a second SharePoint conference here in the Netherlands. SharePoint 2010 has been on the market for a few months now and there is some great content that will be presented on the conference based on the real-life experience of the speakers. No matter if you are developer, IT-Pro or a customer who is just interested in SharePoint 2010, you will find some great content on the SharePoint Connections 2010 Autumn. Microsoft and Penton Media lined up for you some of the best speakers in the SharePoint community, like Andrew Connell, Richard Taylor, Spencer Harbar, Mirjam van Olst and Wouter van Vugt just to name a few. Additionally, once again I have the honor of being at the Ask the Expert booth. Together with my colleague here at Mavention Robert Jaakke who is one of the few Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) for SharePoint 2007 we will be there to answer all of your questions about the SharePoint platform, so don’t forget to drop by and say hi. If you haven’t registered yet, go ahead and sign up for the SharePoint Connections 2010 Autumn, The Hague on 28 & 29 September. The agenda looks really impressive and I’m sure it’s going to be a great conference with a lot of great people from the SharePoint community. See you there! Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2010

Matthew McDermott, MVP: The MOSS Show Interview Part 2

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:38:48 -0400

My friend Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show posted Part 2 of his interview of me talking about Search and Social stuff in SharePoint 2010. You can listen to the interview online or download it for later. Episode 27: Enterprise Social (and Search) in SharePoint 2010

Arpan Shah's Blog: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and Project Server 2010

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:29:00 -0400

Microsoft Project 2010 delivers a range of solutions for individuals, teams and organizations to manage work through Project 2010 client & server investments. And while there are a lot of scenarios it addresses, I wanted to point out one scenario that has come up a lot in our conversations with our customers & partners: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Today, developers and managers can take advantage of TFS and Project 2010 client for agile project management with support for out-of-the-box integration with TFS and Project 2010 client. And while feedback has been very positive, I’m excited about what we’re doing to deliver end-to-end ALM capabilities with soon-to-be released integration between TFS 2010 and Project Server 2010! You can learn a lot more about what we plan to deliver as well as pointers to more information from Brian Harry’s (engineer leader for ALM) blog @ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2010/07/06/tfs-2010-support-for-project-server.aspx. I also recommend following Christophe Fiessinger @ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrisfie who is a senior Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Project and is a respected speaker & blogger on Microsoft Project. In fact, in his blog, he points out some of the following resources: A recorded webcast is available free of charge in your favorite format here! TechNet Webcast: Project Server and Team Foundation Server 2010 Integration Technical Preview Metro nomination for TFS and PS integration is open until Friday September 3rd, so don't forget to nominate yourself (nomination survey) Provide us Feedback – We want to hear from you! http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsprojectsrvint

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com: Podcast: Sahil Malik is still nutty about SharePoint

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:24:41 -0400

Get the 'Point: Posts: Collaborative Note-Taking with SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft OneNote

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:34 -0400

Abstract: Read about how OneNote and SharePoint work together to improve collaborative note taking amongst team members. Category: Collaboration; Productivity; SharePoint 2010 Published: 9/1/2010 9:03 AM # Comments:

Bamboo Nation: Last Chance. Take Our Survey to Win an iPad!

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:23:00 -0400

A few weeks ago Bamboo announced a visitor survey on topics ranging from what you think Bamboo's top priorities should be all the way to when your company plans to upgrade to SharePoint 2010. Today that survey comes to a close and with it ends your chance to win prizes including Bamboo shirts and an iPad. If you have taken the survey your name is already entered in the contest. If you haven't... what are you waiting for? It will only take a few minutes of your time. We have posted some of our more interesting findings. Did you know that based on early results, over 26% of those responding are SharePoint Administrators? The most interesting result may be that 1 in 5 companies have ALREADY upgraded to SharePoint 2010 and more than 70% plan to upgrade within the next 12 months. We plan to publish more of the results once the survey closes so keep your eyes on our Team Blog. This is your last chance to let your voice be heard on this survey and who knows, maybe you will be the lucky one to walk away with a brand new iPad.

meetdux.com: Screencast: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2010

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:31:00 -0400

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is touted as the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web. It's a big leap from previous versions with its wide array of new features and capabilities. To make the most out of SharePoint 2010, Joel Oleson and I hosted a webcast for O'Reilly Media an... (More)

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy: Best Practices Conference 2010 Follow-up

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:42:01 -0400

I’m very honored to be the part of the speakers team in the Best Practices Conference in 2010 again. Originally I’ve planned for three sessions and one Ask the Experts Panel, but finally I had one more session on Search Based Navigation as Zlatan Dzinic...(read more)

Bamboo Nation: Windows Mobile Still Makes Sense; Cloud Is Not Rocket Science; Where's My Apple iCar?

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:45:00 -0400

Top News StoriesIs Your Application Suitable for Windows Azure? (Credera)Some IT professionals describe cloud computing as an “amorphous” thing. It is hard to clearly understand what it is, and most importantly, to know if it works for your organization. The cloud is not only difficult to understand, but it is growing and changing at such a fast pace that it is hard to keep up with it and understand what it offers. Nonetheless, the cloud is not an ‘all or nothing’ deal; you need to assess the readiness of each application of your organization. How Much Will a Windows 7 Migration Really Cost? (ZDNet)Last week, the Gartner Group made some headlines (including this one from my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley) with a provocative press release that tried to pin a price tag on the cost of migrating to Windows 7. The press release throws out four separate price tags, ranging from $1,205 to $2,069 per PC, with some confusing percentages to quantify overall IT budget increases. But in their zeal to come up with hard numbers, the press release adds more confusion than clarification to the topic. In some cases, the numbers just don’t add up. Why Windows Mobile Still Makes Sense for Business Users (Channel Insider)In the corporate world, all the talk about mobile solutions revolves around RIM’s BlackBerry, Apple’s iPhone, and Google’s Android OS. But there is still a major player in that space that doesn’t get the kind of respect that it might deserve: Windows Mobile. Now, it might sound rather ironic to include Windows Mobile, a dying platform, in the same sentence as some of the top mobile operating systems on the market today, but for the corporate world, it makes some sense. Windows Mobile is still widely used in that space. And although there are arguably better options available, some companies wouldn’t consider switching from Windows Mobile. Read on to find out what makes Windows Mobile still a somewhat useful tool to corporate users. Cloud Is Not Rocket Science But It Is Computer Science (Sys-con)For many folks in IT it is likely you might find in their home a wall on which you can find hanging a diploma. It might be a BA, it might be a BS, and you might even find one (or two) “Master of Science” as well. Now interestingly enough, none of the diplomas indicate anything other than the level of education (Bachelor or Master) and the type (Arts or Science). But we all majored in something, and for many of the people who end up in IT that something was Computer Science. On Language: Putting Government 2.0 in Context (GovFresh)Does the public need to understand what the term Government 2.0 means? Many look to my publisher, Tim O’Reilly, to explain, given that he has written eloquently about the topic and worked with *** O’Neill to convene the Gov 2.0 Summit last year. O’Reilly talked with CBS News this summer about what Gov 2.0 means to him. Others might ask the nation’s technology executives, US CIO Vivek Kundra and CTO Aneesh Chopra, both of whom participated in the Summit in Washington last summer and will join it again this year. Dude, Where's My Apple iCar? (BusinessWeek)Apple is announcing something next week, and everybody expects that announcement to involve new iPods, a new strategy for iTunes and possible a new direction for Apple TV. A FaceTime-capable iPod Touch would be nice. And 99-cent TV shows would probably make Apple a lot of money. Around the BlogosphereArchitecting Your SharePoint 2010 Records Management Solution (End User SharePoint)Firstly sorry for the almost month break between post! It has been a crazy month but we back ready to rock and roll with our Records Management solution in SharePoint 2010. In constructing our solution let’s begin with the very basics and consider some high level logical architecture advice for those creating an RM solution. Now this is a combination of my own personal opinion, Microsoft best practices, and some experience from out in the field. SP 2010: Developing with the Word Automation Services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development)In SharePoint 2010, there is a new Service Application called Word Automation Services. This Service Application is used to convert documents from Word to different formats. Word Automation Services can open about the same formats as Windows Word 2010 can: Limiting People Picker Scope in SharePoint (SharePoint Blues)There are many cases where you do not want the people picker to show all users in your Active Directory or LDAP user store. For example if you have separate web applications in the same farm for intranet and extranet, you do not want the extranet users to appear in the intranet’s people picker. This is only one layer in the intranet security, but simply sending permissions-related e-mails to extranet users can be a big mistake and should be prevented by technological means. The 12 Networking Truths Applied to SharePoint (Enterprise 2.0 community)When I was learning basic networking back in the late 90’s, I was introduced to a fun, yet insightful RFC that contained the 12 Fundamental Truths of Networking (RFC 1925). In this post, I’d like to correlate those truths with SharePoint. This post isn't entirely serious, but then again, perhaps it is. Around Bamboo NationBPC 2010: Dux Raymond Sy on 'SharePoint as a Gov 2.0 Platform' (The Bamboo Team Blog)On Thursday morning at the BPC, Dux Raymond Sy presented a session on a relatively new topic both for him and for many of us in "SharePoint World": Gov 2.0 and how SharePoint is being leveraged as the platform to provide Gov 2.0 solutions to empower citizens, and to provide project transparency and collaboration between agencies and citizens. This topic is of special interest to me, as I focus on the Federal Sector Sales at Bamboo Solutions and was looking forward to learning more about how the SharePoint platform is becoming a part of the Gov 2.0 landscape. SharePoint Job Listings*Senior Software Engineer/SharePoint - New York, NYProvide technical leadership in the full lifecycle of design, development, unit testing and deployment of various Web-based products and SharePoint-based platforms for a large and complex online application in the medical research space. Serve as technical mentor to fellow developers in the creation of innovative technical solutions for a variety of Web-based customer-focused initiatives, and provide advice and guidance in the adoption of new technologies and industry best practices. Sr. SharePoint Engineer – Somerset, NJWe are currently seeking a Sr. Internet Engineer for SharePoint and Windows application related work due to newly created position. Candidate must have least 5 years experience working with SharePoint. SharePoint administration/engineering experience is required. The Sr. Internet Engineer delivers specialized engineering and technical support for MetLife's portfolio of applications. This person MUST be highly skilled in design of infrastructure and troubleshooting web based applications that run on the Windows operating system. In addition, the candidate must be Microsoft certified or have equivalent experience. This is an engineering/support position NOT an entry-level or application developer position. Microsoft UpdatesManual manipulation of the SharePoint disk based BLOB cache folder hierarchy is unsupported (Microsoft Support)The SharePoint disk based cache for BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects) maintains a folder and file hierarchy on a local drive of the Web Front End servers. This hierarchy is mirrored in an in-memory index, that is persisted to disk each time the SharePoint Application Domain is shut down. Modifying or deleting files or folders from the disk based cache will result in a loss of synchronization between the disk cache and the information stored in the in-memory cache index. This mismatch will eliminate the performance benefits typically gained by using the BLOB cache, for the mismatched files. This will also place greater load upon the database server potentially impacting all database server operations. Therefore, any manual manipulation of the files or folders related to the BLOB cache is unsupported. 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