Feb
03
One of the things I have learnt is give people reasons to go to SharePoint and this will help with your user adoption strategy. I have written before about ways to achieve this but I thought I would share one solution that we use. The unread email is a simple web part that you configure …
Feb
01
This post originally appeared on the question mark blog http://www.questionmark.com/us/index.aspx Dave is a Microsoft MVP and has been working with SharePoint in education for nearly a decade. I talked to him about why people choose SharePoint as a learning platform in schools, colleges and universities. Dave, what is your background in SharePoint? I’ve been using SharePoint …
Jan
19
Just a quick blog post to announce that I will be presenting at this years Microsoft Project Conference in Phoenix, Arizona in March this year. My Company: Corporate Project Solutions Microsoft Project Conference 2012 Full Session Details If you are attending the conference and you would like to meet up, just let me know. You …
Nov
15
** UPDATE ** Thank you for the overwhelming feedback, A Kindle version of the book is in the works and we will keep you posted. Back in June 2011 Paul Beck asked the community for authors to contribute to a community book on SharePoint 2010 (original post). Various authors have stepped up to the plate …
Oct
06
Matthew McDermott started off this session with the question: “if metadata is invisible, how do you get it into the search index?”. He then showed us where metadata resided in Word documents (kinda obvious) but also where metadata was in photo’s en acrobat files. A nifty tool to view metadata is IFilterview from http://ifiltershopcom (should …
Oct
06
Having already seen some of the great sessions Scot Hillier gave in the past, I decided to attend his session on Open XML and Word Automation. Scot gave us a very interesting look inside a project he did for a company, generating all kinds of documents from several data sources. Generating documents like resumes, company …
Oct
04
Almost right away, Maurice Prather announced that his session was for IT PRO’s. Now, I’m not an IT PRO kinda guy, but I decided to stay anyway. And I’m glad I did. Maurice started talking about the SPUSERCODESERVICE. Right away, I was surprised to discover that the Sandbox Service is by default configured to 1 …
Oct
04
Here is a recap of day one at #SPC11: Keynote Compared to the keynote address of #SPC09 today’s session was somewhat lacking. I wondered what Microsoft would be announcing? Well we are going to see added support for SharePoint in the cloud. Then the gave a great demo on scalability and fail-over. While not many companies will have …
Oct
04
I first attended a Microsoft Conference in Las Vegas 2 years ago. It was the launch of Office 14 and Steve Ballmer bounded out onto the stage to lots of whoops and hollers. That particular keynote was all about the whizz and bang that Office 14 was brining to the party. This years keynote didn’t …
