Body: I'll be speaking at the SharePoint Saturday event in Kansas City on February 7. You can learn more about the event at www.sharepointsaturday.org/kc . I'll be presenting with some good pals of mine, including Matt Bremer and Todd Kitta. The Read More……(read more)[Image]

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I decided that I should start and finish something for the first day of 2009. Fitting that it should be SharePoint project consisting of a Web Part that uses the Data View and Silverlight to turn the pictures in a slide library into a slide show. http Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Body: In my last post, I described the process that I follow when customizing search results in SharePoint using the Core Search Results web part that ships with MOSS. If you havent seen it yet, I suggest you start there for some context on the rest Read More……(read more)[Image]

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One of my many highlights of 2008 was to present on the Microsoft stand at BETT.  I enjoyed the 4 days their presenting 8 times in total and making a lot of friends at the same time.  It was a great way to start the year. I'm hoping 2009 will be just as good as 2008 if not better and this year I am on Ask The Export also know as the Tech Desk on the Microsoft stand.  It will be great to meet up with Eileen Brown and her team at Microsoft on the desk. …

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Body: The Professional SharePoint Designer 2007 book that I co-authored with Woody and Bryan has finally hit the shelves. I hope this book can help fill the knowledge gaps on this Awesome (but often misunderstood) product. Category: General Published Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Per chi si trovasse nella necessit di integrare informazioni provenienti da Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 all’interno dei siti SharePoint (WSS 3.0 o MOSS 2007), ecco una webpart che potrebbe tornare utile.La webpart, gratuita e realizzata da Microsoft, fornisce una serie di funzionalit di collegamento agli elementi di MS CRM 3.0.Ecco il link per il download.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fam…(truncated)… [...]

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I'm working at a client site and needed to install windows workflow foundation so that I could so some SharePoint Designer work. (I didn't know until today that SPD installs fine but really needs at least .NET 2.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation Read More……(read more)[Image]

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True story. This was my surprise gift from my team at SharePoint911. All I can say is they rock! The picture doesn't do it great justice but this thing is super cool. Now I need to think of some strange things to do with it. Anyway, don't have Read More……(read more)[Image]

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The December 30th “Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint” online workshop is completed. The participants will be giving feedback here so you can get an idea of how things went. In addition to the workshop itself, they received all of the Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Now hang on, this post shouldnt be misconstrued as attacking the concept of governance as a whole, it is more rantish. I am not going to portray that “Buenz Thinks Governance is Bad”, I do violently believe that cultivating long-term value Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Body: Here it is, almost 2009 and I've gone nearly the whole year without ranting about recruiters but I just can't take it any more. Way back in 2006 I penned an Open Letter to SharePoint Recruiters , begging them to stop trying to combine a Read More……(read more)[Image]

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[Image]The title says it all! Well Most of it.I got home from lunch yesterday and found two big boxes on my doorstep. You guessed it - my author copies of the book I spent so many months working on - Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, from Wrox. Check out my new site for the details…Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

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Body: The purpose of this post is to share the process that Ive begun to follow in my own work related to search customization and to provide an opportunity for you to share whats worked for you, as well. The post assumes that youre generally familiar Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Recently a friend of mine won a substantial SharePoint military contract which I contributed to the RFP for since I owed him a favor (your welcome Kirk for my entire weekend). Although he has been doing SharePoint since it was Tahoe, he had on no account Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Body: I am still out on vacation but I did spot a few good SharePoint nuggets to pass along. I also just received my second Backseat Driving piece to work on and it is a good one! That will be releasing that Monday when everyone is back to work so keep Read More……(read more)[Image]

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The topic of debugging came of in my talk SharePoint Development for ASP.NET developers earlier this month. One technique I mentioned is the process of determining the application pool ID using the often used iisapp.vbs file. I went to demo this on my Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Corps: Un petit billet avant la nouvelle anne pour vous signaler la mise en ligne de la version beta de mon nouveau projet sur CodePlex l'adresse suivante : http://www.codeplex.com/SoVSPReporting/ . !!! Qui dit bta dit uniquement destin du Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Michael Blumenthal has put up an article about alerts and views ("Which views can be used when Creating an Alert ?"), which is interesting on its own merits. However, I was even more interested to see how he methodically walks through the process Read More……(read more)[Image]

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[Image]I've freshened the look of my new blog site! Why not check it out?And while you're there, don't forget to update your links and feeds…Thanks for your continuing support!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

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An important part of any introduction of SharePoint for better document collaboration/management as compared to a network share is to decide what documents to migrate. The first question I always ask is "are you going to add any value to the documents Read More……(read more)[Image]

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Updated from 6 months ago http://www.wssdemo.com/Blog/archive/2008/06/12/there-are-not…(truncated)… . Qualification Qty 12/06/08 Qty 26/12/08 MCP (all) 2,268,992 2,354,663 Microsoft Office SharePoint Read More……(read more)[Image]

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[Image]I've freshened the look of my new blog site! Why not check it out?And while you're there, don't forget to update your links and feeds…Thanks for your continuing support!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

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[Image]Driving Through Flyover Country2008 should theoretically have been a boring year for SharePoint. The current version (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) was released in 2006. The next version wouldnt be out until 2009, if not later. The software equivalent of flyover country.Take this trip with me on my new site!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

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[Image]Driving Through Flyover Country2008 should theoretically have been a boring year for SharePoint. The current version (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) was released in 2006. The next version wouldnt be out until 2009, if not later. The software equivalent of flyover country.Take this trip with me on my new site!Posted on SharePoint Blogs [Image]

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