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Email me today at bfavilla@nhmn.com to make a deal! April 22 Acrobat 8 Level 2 April 22 Excel Level 1 April 23 - April 24 Photoshop Level 2 April 27 - May 1 Business Analysis Theory & Practice April 27 - April 28 SharePoint Designer 2007 Fundamentals April 27 - May 1 PMP 1-2-3: A Guide to Preparing for the PMP Certification April 28 Time Management Tools for Peak Performance April 29 Office Worksop April 29 InfoPath 2007 - Creating InfoPath Forms April 30 Half day: 12:30pm - 4:00pm PivotTables: ...
User Groups, Trainings, and Community for users of Microsoft Dynamics CRM User Groups Quarterly user groups meet in February, May, and August and culminate at our annual two-day Summit each year in November. Features of our user group are: Customer Spotlight Large group discussions on specific topics Lunch and networking Technical breakout sessions and roundtable discussions Trainings Users come together one a month for two-hour hands-on trainings provided by consultants on our CRM team. Community ...
First things, first… You’ll notice the new blog name “The SharePoint Hillbilly”. This is one of the interesting things that came out of SharePint. What do you think? You like it? hate it? At least it’s a little more memorable. Hey, I AM from Arkansas (no, I’m not married to my sister). ANYWAY! The St. Louis SharePoint User Group was kind enough to put together an amazing SharePoint event this past weekend and even more gracious by allowing me to speak. I met a lot of amazing people, had a lot of ...
If you’re doing SharePoint development that requires accessing and modifying SharePoint over HTTP, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the RPC protocol (HTTP posts) used there. Unfortunately its not the greatest thing in the world, but it gets the job done I suppose. Here’s a hard to find but very useful MSDN resource: FrontPage Server Extensions RPC Protocol. Technorati Tags: SharePoint, RPC ...
I spent the past day trying to figure out why I couldn't log in as myself, Sharepoint would always just say I was logged in as System Account. After a ton of research and changing things I ran into this: To fix this, you must run the following commands: stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype NetworkService followed by: iisreset http://social.technet.micro... That solved my problem. I'm using NTLM authentication and ...
In a bold move, Microsoft decided to rename SharePoint one more time to SharePoint 2010 for the next version. Check out these two articles on the change, but it looks like the detachment from Office does not mean it will be less feature rich with the integration with Office, much like portals weren’t removed when it went from SPS to MOSS. I am excited to see the name change, but we really need a new acronym as trendy as MOSS was. MSP, SPX, not sure. No name has been released for WSS, but my bet is ...
I have a site that needs to be deployed programmatically. It has multiple challenges. One challenge is that the site has columns, custom types, and lookup list. The issue is that the lookup list make use of a custom content type and other content types use the lookup list. This challenge makes it difficult to completely deployable from a feature. Another issue is that the client wants to make use of a document information panel, DIP. The problem I had… is when I tried to make a new DIP template, ...
How to Enable IIS 6.0 Compression for SharePoint: Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) has long support HTTP Compression. However, supporting and implementing compression are two different things. Many settings within IIS are easily configured from the IIS Admin GUI. Unfortunately, enabling and configuring compression is not supported through the GUI and requires editing the IIS Metabase. The metabase can be edited manually or updated from a command prompt. The commands can be combine into ...
Execution Timeout Issue: After six minutes (360 seconds) of execution a SharePoint page will timeout. Now for most situations a six minute execution timeout seems very generous. However, it is likely that this default execution timeout may be reached during such tasks as Feature Activation. Features are activated from a SharePoint Application Page and unless specially coded (not likely) a Feature will execute code in a synchronous manor. Features containing code to create nested site hierarchies ...
Tutorial - Automatically Email SharePoint List and Library Items By Lance Robinson, /n software, Requirements: /n software SharePoint Workflow Extensions Contents Introduction Default Actions Workflow Configuration Customizing Actions Introduction SharePoint administrators who manage lists and document libraries may wish to configure specific lists or libraries to automatically send out emails when items are added or updated. Administrators can quickly and easily configure a workflow to handle this ...
Typically, if Silverlight isn’t installed for the user’s browser, they see this: …or something like that. But what if you don’t want that to display? Maybe you want to actually replace an area with alternate markup, javascript, etc. when Silverlight isn’t available? Or maybe you want to just have your own message letting them know that Silverlight needs to be installed. There’s a built in way to handle this with the Silverlight control. Below is my Silverlight application running in IE: Now, what ...
One of the key configurations to get AJAX working on IIS 7.0 [Windows Server 2008 | Vista] This should be added within the web.config of the SharePoint site. The <system.webserver> Element The <system.webserver> element contains configuration settings used by Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0. The following example shows the <system.webserver> element for ASP.NET AJAX. Add this section to the existing Web.config file as a child of the <configuration> element. ...
First of all, thanks to all those brilliant people who made the long arduous journey to the UK (and to all those who just happened to be near by). I know it must have killed you to be so far away for so long. I can only imagine how hard it was for you. All of us that couldn’t go really feel for you and feel your pain. Okay! So, for those of us that couldn’t go, some of these guys really did a tremendous job of twittering what was going on during the conference. They absolutely did not have to do ...
There is no better time that today to invest in yourself! Check out our upcoming class list, and email me to play "let's make a deal!" Access Level 1 April 9 - April 10 VMware ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 - Advanced Course April 13 - 16 Word 2007 Level 1 April 14 Implementing Cisco Data Center Network Infrastructure 2 April 14 - 17 Mastering the Art of Thinking on Your Feet April 15 Office 2003 Workshops April 15 Word 2007 Level 2 April 16 Captivate April 16 - April 17 SQL: Fundamentals of ...
I saw this question on a certification exam for WSS 3.0. I narrowed down the answer and it appears that I was right. I wasn't sure if I was correct, so I consulted someone and they looked up the answer. I also went around google to see what is the actual answer. It turns out if you don't run Item.Update(), but instead Item.SystemUpdate() it doesn't end up modifying the Modified and Modified By fields. This basically means that no alert will get sent when you choose this option over the regular update ...
Florida has a very active developer community. The biggest problem we seem to have is that all of these different groups usually don't know about each and there hasn't been a "centralized clearinghouse" listing all of the technical communities. Joe Healy, one of our Florida Microsoft Developer Evangelists, maintains a list and one-page flyers for each of the main areas in Florida. I think the eventual plan is that Joe will be updating his site to take advantage of the newer version of Live Maps and ...
*Moved to: I hope you did not pay for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2007Coz its now free… Head over to the Microsoft Download site and get your copy:Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...
Real quick note. I got back from the Orlando Code Camp with lots of information. One of the more significant pieces of information came from someone who must remain anonymous but I can tell you that this person is close to the SharePoint 14 project. There has been rumor and wonder about whether the new SharePoint would have the ability to work with the MVC framework. From my source, the day we spoke, MVC will NOT be a part of SharePoint 14. This could change, but most likely it won’t. For me, this ...
This is a short post about me and what I do. Again, trying to keep it short as not to bore anyone. I have been coding for legit gigs for about 12 years and programming on my own for well over 15. I have a background in music and graphic arts as well. Currently I am working for a very large company (80k+ employees) doing SharePoint development. I, like most developers, have a love-hate relationship that is rather unhealthy but I just can’t quit it. It’s this relationship that has driven me to write ...
This is my first post of many. My first few post may be short as I get a grip on how to fit this in with a full time job, continued education and my family.
Additionally, the next week or so I will be finding my way around the blog area and probably changing a few preferences on look and feel.
My next post I will talk a little about myself and my background as a SharePoint developer.
*Moved to: Sharepoint 2007 and SilverlightI have looked at this topic before but I just got my hands on a new Wrox book called “Professional Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 Development using Microsoft Silverlight 2”, phew, could that title be any longer! At only £16 pounds don't expect a 1000 pager, but at just under 300 pages the content is good. It is pretty heavy on code with endless pages of it, but even if you take them out, there is some good content in there. If you have figured out how to deploy ...
Microsoft has released SharePoint Designer 2007 for free, enabling anyone developing with SharePoint to take advantage of this great tool!
You can get the download information from the Microsoft Download Center website here.
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SharePoint Designer 2007 is now available as a free download!
This can be disappointing to someone who has already purchased it, and it's disappointing to me as a user group leader who has a copy to give away. However, if you have SharePoint Designer 2007 Software Assurance current as of April 1st, 2009, you will receive upgrade rights to Expression Web for the lifetime of their SA agreement.
Get your copy now … Mentioned here: http://office.microsoft.com... Direct Link here: http://www.microsoft.com/do... Registration required… Well, almost free ...
One of my clients wanted to have the user profile on SharePoint to be redirected to a custom page that they have created showing the user's picture and other detailed information that would not basically appear on the out of the box user details page. With this task in hand I have to explain the mechanism behind user profiles details page. When a user is clicked on SharePoint, userdisp.aspx page is called which determines the destination of the page. This page can ge found at 12hive\Templates\Layouts. ...
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We have a number of upcoming IT and Business Application courses, and I am willing to make a deal! Email me to get signed up and to start the bargaining! 6215 Implementing and Administering Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Apr 23 - 24 1327AI Citrix Password Manager 4.5: Administration Apr 23 - 24 Mastering SharePoint Server 2007 Administration Apr 20 - 24 6451 Planning, Deploying and Managing Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 Apr 20 - 24 6232 Implementing a Microsoft ...
Today and today only is your chance to own a piece of SharePoint history and show your support for those people who make your SharePoint life just a little bit more tolerable every day. Without these guys we wouldn’t be putting down those razor blades at night. We’d actually turn in those applications to McDonalds or just curl up into the fetal position under our desk and suck our thumbs. These ‘Titans of SharePoint’ give us hope that someone can actually comprehend all this crap and make it accessible ...
Saturday March 28th 2009 was our second annual School of Dev and first ever SharePoint Saturday. We had over 80 people in attendance despite a snow storm. Only one speaker ended up canceling which was truly amazing considering the weather. For me the day began by dropping off two boxes of books that would later be given away as prizes. I then joined Steve Walker for a Panel QA Discussion Session. We were joined by Cory Roth and Chris Barba. We had some great questions around designing a SharePoint ...
I don't really have a break until after SharePoint Saturday D.C. Once the break occurs I am going to upgrade my VM with .Net 3.5 (finally get it to stick). Then I am going to write a WCF webservice that will pull data from profile services and search. Plus maybe some image library information for fun. I want to build a ton of controls using Silverlight as the front end and SharePoint as the back end. Check back here in about a month or so for some interesting experiments. I will probably post these ...
I thought it would nice to put something out there that can help someone who’s looking to either deploy, re-deploy and migrate contents from a database that has grown too large. When planning SharePoint deployment it’s always good to have a clear picture of where your site is going so that you can make the necessary arrangement to put it under control. Microsoft has a good documentation on Architecture to help you answer the hard questions, but how, when and where do you start on capacity planning? ...
I have been working on a project for the past year or so. This project was originally decided to be implemented in a BizTalk environment. Although most of us were new to this form of SOA development we went ahead with the understanding that we would eventually learn enough to stand up, manage, and develop for BizTalk. With this in mind we developed our entire application in such a way that we thought the app would simply plug in to the BizTalk environment (from an orchestration point of view any ...
On April 1st, 2009, Microsoft is putting on a free 24 hour virtual event covering developer-related topics. There will be 95 live sessions provided via Live Meeting in the following tracks: *Windows Development and Frameworks *Windows Mobile Development *Office and SharePoint Development *Developer Tools, Languages & Practices *Web Development & User Experience More information on each track can be found here: http://www.msfttechdays.com... Macro Shaw will be presenting ...
Minnesota SharePoint User Group SharePoint and Business Intelligence You're invited. Please join us on Wednesday, April 8, as we explore Business Intelligence leveraging the SharePoint platform. In this session we will cover the various Business Intelligence integration points with SharePoint 2007 including: Excel Services PerformancePoint Server 2007 SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) SharePoint filters Dashboards KPI lists and more! This session will include a number of demonstrations and tips on how ...
Good news! Starting April 1st SharePoint Designer will be free! Bad news! Starting April 1st SharePoint Designer will be free! I have a love / hate relationship with SharePoint Designer, but I have always been quick to defend it to those developers out there who think it is Satan’s offspring. Although I’m sure some of Dark Lord’s minions had their hand in designing some of SharePoint’s quirks, I’m fairly certain SharePoint Designer is not quite that evil. It does however attempt to spread mayhem. ...
A 'few' years ago I blogged about Themes for WSS 2.0, well there's now a theme pack for MOSS/WSS3.0. I'll try them soon on my SharePoint environment when I'm less busy and will post screenshots here... Direct download link from Microsoft as an MSI file: http://www.microsoft.com/do... Also available as a WSP file curtesy of Daniel Brown: http://www.danielbrown.id.a... ...
There’s a woot-off going on today (http://www.woot.com) So, I’m feeling the need to be clever in my post and maybe do it as lyrics to a song? Can I be that annoying? By the way, if you don’t know what Woot is, please leave now. :) So, stop.. Collaborate and listen… Just kidding, would not force you to endure Vanilla Ice again. Where was I? Oh yes, SharePoint VM’s. If you are anything like me (and God help you if you are), the first time you heard about development in SharePoint you thought it was ...
Don’t forget, you can attend these events remotely! SharePoint Server 2007: Connecting People, Process and Information This free joint seminar from New Horizons of Minnesota and Inetium will explore how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can boost organizational effectiveness by providing a comprehensive business solution for managing content, accessing information efficiently, improving business processes, and facilitating team collaboration and communication. April 2 9:00am – 12:00pm SharePoint ...
http://officesharepointpro.... As readers of this newsletter know, I've been referring to Office 14 as Office 2010 just as a "wild guess," but it appears that the name might stick. Last week, during his annual “Strategic Update” briefing with Wall Street analysts, Steve Ballmer disclosed that Office 14 won’t be shipping in 2009. "The next big innovation milestone is Office 14, our next Office release," Ballmer said, "Which will ...
Why bogging?
It is a window for me to share my knowledge and receive knowledge.
I am SharePoint Admin/Developer and I want to Share my experience and increase my knowledge about SharePoint.
"It is great to follow up with new technologies but the greater is not to lose you mind or your peace"
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We have a number of great classes that are guaranteed to run! Don’t miss out! Flash CS4 Level 1 March 26 – 27 Solving Problems Before They Solve You March 26 Dreamweaver Level 3 March 31 Photoshop CS4 Level 1 April 2 SharePoint Site Collection Owner/Team Site Administrator April 1 – 3 OR April 20 - 22 MS Project 2007 (Part 1): Project Initiation and Planning April 8 SQL: Fundamentals of Querying April 17 Access 2007 Level 1 April 23 – 24 MS Project 2007 (Part 2): Project Validation, Baseline and ...
I will be speaking at SPS Saturday Tulsa on March 28th (http://www.schoolofdev.com) about Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight. I will also be speaking at the St. Louis MOSS Camp on April 18th (http://www.stlsug.org/MOSS... I have three sessions at the SSWUG.org SharePoint Virtual Conference on April 22, 23, and 24th (http://www.vconferenceonli... If you want a special code to get a discount let me know I can knock $10 off I believe with my speaker ...
I will be speaking about Silverlight and SharePoint at the upcoming KC .Net User Group meeting this Tuesday, March 24th at 6 pm at Centriq (for more information go here: http://www.kcdotnet.com/). This is pretty much the same talk I have been giving with a little bit at the end talking about some changes in Silverlight 3 addressed (like direct XML Databinding). I am not going to show any Silverlight 3.0 demos until after my talk on April 18th in St. Louis. I do not want to break any of my demos right ...
If you’re looking for some examples of how to use MOSS as a public facing website, check out Hawaiian Air. They built their website with MOSS 2007 and there’s also a short case study available that talks about some of the experiences creating the solution. I found these links as part of Kanwal Khipple’s recent presentation at the Boston SharePoint Saturday on MOSS 2007 branding. You can view his slide deck from the event here. D ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:00 AM - Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:00 PM Central Time Welcome Time: 7:30 AM Theater - Regal Brooklyn Center 20 6420 Camden Avenue North Minneapolis Minnesota 55430 United States Event Overview: Join your local TechNet Events team for valuable new tools and technical content – all delivered live by experienced IT pros. We’ll explore Microsoft’s vision of cloud computing, take a quick tour of Microsoft Online Services and Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), and discuss ...
I was using the infamous InputFormTextbox, which is the SharePoint Rich Textbox. I had full html turned on and rich text, so that users could get the full experience in my webpart. I added a normal InputFormRequiredValidator and did some tests thinking yeah this is working fine. The client comes back with an issue and tells me it’s not firing. So I start stepping into the code and realize there is always a <DIV></DIV> tag. I understand why it would add these tags for styling purposes, ...