July 22, 2010

Starter Master Pages for SharePoint 2010

Randy Drisgill has announced his version of the "minimal" master page and has released it as a codeplex project. Very useful if you are branding SharePoint.

Practical Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010

Joel breaks down PowerShell into three levels and shows how to approach each. Worth a read if your organization doesn't have someone that is a PowerShell expert yet.

SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010 Comparison

Richard has created a one page comparison of 2007 vs. 2010.

July 21, 2010

Configuring profile import in SharePoint 2010

Shane has a great write-up on configuring your profile import. It helped me get past a permission issue and if you read it first will save you some time!

SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit V1

The SharePoint Team Blog recently announced the release of the 2010 Administration Toolkit.

What's New In SharePoint Foundation 2010

Technet has a great overview of what is new in SharePoint Foundation 2010 with links to more details for each subject. Must read for anyone upgrading from 2007.

Microsoft Eats Its Own SharePoint 2010 Dog Food

Some helpful tips on 7 lessons that Microsoft learned.

July 20, 2010

Should I Get Certified - or How I Passed My First SharePoint Exam Within 24 Hours of Learning How to Spell SharePoint

An interesting read on how to pass SharePoint exams.

Upcoming SharePoint Conferences in 2010

A useful list of upcoming SharePoint conferences to go to.

May 26, 2010

SharePoint - Updates & Service Packs Site

After trying to find the April Cumulative Update for way too much time, I finally found their new sharepoint updates site. It really shouldn't be that hard to find that site, but the actual site is very well laid out and exactly what I needed.

May 19, 2010

5 Ways Social Networking Has Improved in SharePoint 2010

A great look at the big improvements to the social networking aspect of SharePoint 2010. Might be a great way to sell the upgrade.

Channel 9 SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course

The Channel 9 team has release a promising SharePoint 2010 Developers course.

April 22, 2010

Office 2010 products and SharePoint 2010 available on Technet and MSDN

Today is a great day! Microsoft finally released the complete Office 2010 experience on Technet and MSDN.

Read more at: http://www.bart-timmermans.nl

Mythbusting SharePoint 2010 - What every developer should know

When someone mentions SharePoint to you, what do you do? Do you think of a Document Management System? Do you think Content Management? Do you think Collaboration? Do you find somebody else to talk to? For many people SharePoint is still somewhat of a mystery, they've heard of it, but don't really know what it is. For others it is a painful memory from a few years ago, when the promise of easy web development was not fulfilled. Yet for some, it is the hottest thing in the Microsoft armoury at present. Dave McMahon explains why.

March 24, 2010

SharePint 2010 client object model explanation and examples

Hi, I have spent good time on SharePoint 2010 client object model and new features in SharePoint 2010. Each Client OM has a nice example and how it works. Please check it and let me know the feedback.

http://praveenbattula.blogspot.com/search/label/SharePoint%202010

March 02, 2010

Professional Calendar Web Part by ArtfulBits

provides with three key benefits:
* Multisource support. Professional Calendar combines events from different SharePoint Lists, from any SharePoint Site, in one Calendar view.
* Using different colors for evens. Professional Calendar allows specifying different color sets for events type of your need or use default one.
* On-the-Fly AJAX-enabled features, including adding, editing, dragging, resizing and deleting events in Outlook 2007 like style.

ArtfulBits Professional Calendar Web Part is user friendly and has simple interface, allowing users to easily create new calendar events with a single click! Editing features make working with SharePoint easy and pleasant. To change the date of an event, you simply drag and drop it to the appropriate calendar cell. To change the event time frame, simply resize the event to the correct duration of the event.

Look at www.artfulbits.com for more excellent features.

November 16, 2009

Sharepoint 2010 beta available on Technet

Microsoft releases SharePoint 2010 beta on technet and MSDN. More information here: http://www.bart-timmermans.nl/

November 15, 2009

Five Ways to save your IT cost Using SharePoint

In today’s uncertain economic climates, decision makers are challenged to manage the resources and at the same time provide exemplary service to customers. Many organizations focus on cost cutting to keep up with this uncertainty, but while doing that sometimes trade dangerously on loss of productivity and efficiency of the operations.Organizations that have to stay nimble but also maintain a high degree of control during the slowdown, and come out winner during the recovery would need to consider taking help of IT. For more Visit: http://ezinearticles.com/?Five-Ways-to-Save-Your-IT-Cost-Using-Sharepoint&id=3211776

November 12, 2009

SharePoint bubble going to burst?

Alan Pelz-Sharpe thinks the SharePoint bubble could bust soon as real world experience builds and shows that SharePoint is like any other product.

November 10, 2009

URL Rewrite Module v2 Release Candidate

Not 100% SharePoint, but a very useful tool for many SharePoint/IIS adminstrators - URL rewrite module v2 Release Candidate.

Channel 9 - 15+ 2010 Developer Courses

A collection of video courses on MSDN Channel 9.

October 29, 2009

SharePoint News?

Where does everyone get their fix for SharePoint news? I use the Microsoft SharePoint site (not sure why though, but I have it bookmarked!), Alltop, Twitter Search, and of course SharePoint Share. What else is there?

SharePoint 2010 Certifications

With 2010 we will see two professional level certifications allowing administrators/developers to be certified as a MCITP and MCPD for SharePoint. There will be no upgrade path from the MCTS 2007 to MCITP/MCPD 2010. (Via Niall Merrigan)

800+ Photos from #SPC09

Lots of funny photos of SharePoint people via Flickr.

List Definitions with PowerShell

An easy way to document all the columns and column types in a list.

SharePoint 2010 Hardware Requirements

This should be interesting for a lot of shops - "8 GB for single server and multiple server farm installation for production use".

Customizing the SharePoint ECB

Jan Tielens looks into customizing the ECB (Edit Control Block, i.e. the drop down menu that you see on documents and list items) using Javascript: Part 1: Adding custom links, Part 2: Adding hierarchical items, Part 3: Adding context sensitive items.

The UDC File

Why might you need a UDC file? You can’t make a cross-domain connection from a domain security browser form unless your data connection uses a UDC file. See the long version, the anatomy of a UDC file, and lastly how to author a UDC file within InfoPath. (via InfoPath Team Blog)

October 28, 2009

Video Highlights from #SPC2009

Watch the keynote and other highlights from the SharePoint 2009 Conference.

SharePoint and Folders

Are folders good or bad? The answer is it depends. That will always be the answer.

October 27, 2009

2010 TeamSite Poster (PFD)

All the out of the box Content Types, Columns, and List/Libraries on one easy to read/print Poster.

Developer Skills for SharePoint 2010

Chris O'Brien looks at what is coming with some great links to new technology/features we can start using in SharePoint 2010.

500+ Sharepoint Jobs

Simply Hired seems to be a great place to find SharePoint jobs.

FAST Meets SharePoint

10 reasons to consider FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. (via Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog)

October 26, 2009

STSADM is Dead

Gary shows us the 492 new PowerShell cmdlets that ship with SharePoint 2010 and why this will change how we manage SharePoint.

SharePoint Post Installation Tool

The GUI based ITaCS SharePoint Post Installation Tool (PIT) automates the most common post installation tasks on a WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 server.

List of Content Type ID's

A useful reference if you are working with out of the box content types - list of all the content types and their ID/descriptions.

October 20, 2009

Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta

Pre-register today and get notified when SharePoint 2010 Beta becomes available in November. ?Read more at www.bart-timmermans.nl

Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2010 beta 2

Today Microsoft releases beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Read more at http://www.bart-timmermans.nl

October 19, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Developer Center

New beta of the Developer Center for SharePoint 2010 was published. Lots of great links and resources.

SharePoint 2010 services

For a complete overview of services on a SharePoint Server 2010 environment please visit www.bart-timmermans.nl

SharePoint 2010 topologies

Microsoft releases a new poster with SharePoint 2010 topologies. No big changes compared with SharePoint 2007. Read more at www.bart-timmermans.nl

Upgrading SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

Microsoft releases some posters that should help you with planning and updating/migrating your SharePoint 2007 environment to SharePoint Server 2010. Read more at http://www.bart-timmermans.nl

Overview of SharePoint 2010 features

I found a nice article regarding the new features of SharePoint 2010 written by Jeff Teper. Read more at www.bart-timmermans.nl

The New Service Application Architecture in SharePoint Server 2010

I found a nice article from Andrew Connell about the new application architecture of SharePoint Server 2010. The SSP is not a part of the SharePoint Server 2010.

MSDN SharePoint Products and Technologies 2010

The MSDN content for SharePoint 2010 has been published.

Change Font Color in Lists

This MSDN forum post has a couple answers to changing the font color in columns.

Hide SharePoint Components with CSS

Check out the CSS Builder to quickly generate a css file to hide things in SharePoint.

October 17, 2009

SharePoint 2010 public beta availability? Not on SPC!

Quote from Microsoft Technical Product Manager:

“No you can’t get it at SPC. You need to wait until mid Nov to get the public beta. So far the engineering is still working on the final beta builds.”

Source: http://www.bart-timmermans.nl

October 14, 2009

Super Simple Helpdesk Link Feature

James Curry provides an easy feature to update the My Links user control to show a common link like your Helpdesk on all pages in your farm.