March 6, 2010
As announced by @ArpanShah via twitter yesterday SharePoint 2010 will be available in RTM "in April" (no date yet) and the launch will be the 12th of May.
I'm assuming this means that customers will be able to start using SharePoint 2010 in production sometime in April, but I suspect not everyone will have access to it until the 12th May. I will speak to my local team and update this po
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March 6, 2010
I have commented on the SharePoint 2007 examples a few times in the past :
The 12 factors to turn ASP.NET developers to SharePoint 2010
Microsoft Infrastructure Administrators need to face the facts…SharePoint is here to stay!
The SharePoint Implementation Market needs to grow up!
I've just read the announcement on the Microsoft Born to Learn blog about the coming SharePoint 2010 exams.
The
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March 2, 2010
Arno Nell (@arnonel) has been working hard for over 18 months to come up with SPoint.me which is a new social networking site just for the SharePoint community. He announced it here on SharePointMagazine.net which he also founded. Yes, the community already has:
EndUserSharePoint.com for end users
SharePointBlogs.com for free hosting of blogs
SharePointDevWiki.com for devs and admins
SharePointMa
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February 16, 2010
I read A LOT of blog posts in Google Reader, at last count it was around 500 feeds. I try to get through all of them and the way I've built up priorities on what to keep up with has been a challenge. For the last few months I have been "starring" and "liking" posts that have been of value to me. Basically unique content that isn't just cut and paste of MSDN or another site, or
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February 11, 2010
I've managed to chase down the majority of the speakers from SPSPerth and have uploaded all their slide decks. I've found in the past that just blogging that they are available doesn't raise interest. So below I have put some info on what they are about to rustle some larger interest in Global SharePoint Community ;-)
A big thanks again to all the 18 speakers and also to all of the 125 attendees
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February 9, 2010
16th and 17th June, 2010, The Hilton, Sydney, Australia
Don't miss the Australian SharePoint Conference for 2010, proudly sponsored by Microsoft and leading partners, and organized by members of the Australian and New Zealand SharePoint community.
I have submitted a few speaker sessions so hopefully you'll get to see me present there!
For details and registration, visit the following si
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February 8, 2010
Antony Borton et al have organised a Australia ALM Conference (Application Lifecycle Management) at Luna Park in Sydney on the 13th and 14th of April 2010.
I will be speaking on "Introducing ALM to SharePoint Development Implementations":
"The SharePoint Platform adoption is growing at a rate of knots among the customers of the development community. With the new SharePoint 2010 pl
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February 7, 2010
SharePoint Saturday Perth was run on Saturday. I organised this over the last few months and from what I have heard, it was a very well received event. We had over 115 people attend with a full 100 at the keynote and wrap up sessions at the end! I think that makes it the biggest SPS in Australia to date which is awesome!
The speakers had great feedback on their sessions with Information Worker, I
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February 7, 2010
I have decided to move on from my role as Principal Consultant at Readify after handing in my notice last week. As of March, I will be pursuing a career as an Independent SharePoint Consultant in the Perth area.
I am looking to assist customers to lead and mentor their teams on SharePoint based projects or simply review or architect their solutions up front and oversee the project throughout its
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February 4, 2010
Today I went and signed a contract with Microsoft here in Western Australia to join the "Virtual Technical Specialist" programme. I've had plenty of questions on what this role actually is…so here goes from what I know already.
Effectively as a Virtual Technical Specialist I will be reporting to William Cornwill (@codejedi) who is based in Victoria as a SharePoint Technology Solutions P
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January 28, 2010
I saw a tweet from the Quest guys promoting their new cloud based app called 'Site Administrator Reports for SharePoint | OnDemand'. A bit of a mouthful, but a pretty compelling little tool!
Essentially you download an app to your local machine and then it opens up the cloud based app in a browser again (not sure what client app is for, maybe a requirement for some security bits the app does).
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January 11, 2010
I have organised a SharePoint Saturday Event with the help of a few other guys in Perth for 6th February, if you happen to be in the area…please come along!
Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/2010 for 'SharePoint Saturday' event.
SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with se
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January 4, 2010
I got bitten today by having an EventReceiver in a separate assembly to my actual WSP Visual Studio Project. The EventReceiver was using the Unity and OpenXML framework and I had not referenced these in my WSP Visual Studio Project. When I deployed my WSP and ran a FeatureReceiver that was adding this EventReceiver programmatically to a List I was getting the below error:
Feature receiver assembl
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December 30, 2009
The year that was
Well 2010 is just 10 hours away here in Perth, Australia! I'll be nursing a hangover when my fellow SharePoint community over in the west coast of America are tucking into their first beer! This year has been a huge year for me in the SharePoint community so I just thought I'd reflect on that, some of you may not have been aware of some of the posts etc. so you can take a read n
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November 29, 2009
No…I wasn’t growing a moustache as a fashion statement…it was for a charity event called Movember ;-)
If you’d like to sponsor my efforts and put some money towards a good cause just click here (it’s tax deductable too)!
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November 25, 2009
I found an error with CKS:EBE 2.0 which I submitted to CodePlex Issues.
So I finally worked out what was wrong with my CKS:EBE 2.0 SharePoint blog and links coming off of Twitter which is feed from my Feedburner.com RSS feed. Turns out Feedburner in their wisdom have added some querystring goodness to the urls potentially for tracking ability.
http://wss.made4the.net/archive/2009/11/21/pspugw
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November 21, 2009
I’ve finally got round to putting a new official release of SPSource on CodePlex. This one has added a few new fixtures and fixed a few issues highlighted by great community guys such as @coreyroth, @miches, @grumpywookie! Big thanks to them for taking the time to add issues into CodePlex and blog about it too!
If you do find any issues please submit them, I have alerts on the project ;-)
What
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November 21, 2009
I've attached the PowerPoint deck as well as the web casts from the User Group.
Watch the web casts with the links below: Perth SharePoint User Group Nov 09 - SharePoint 2010 Overview by Jeremy Thake.
Add SharePointDevWiki.com iTunes podcast/webcast feed to your iTunes to watch on the go! RSS feed here
Here are the links I walked the guys through on Tuesday lunchtime:
My Movember don
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November 20, 2009
I've put together screen shots to allow people to walk through an installation from scratch. I found this useful when I first started out in SharePoint because not everyone knows how to install Windows, AD, SQL etc. so this should help you through. Please check out this page Install SharePoint 2010 Public Beta on Standalone Windows Server 2008. The @SPAdmWiki has also got a page with some guida
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November 12, 2009
[Cross Posted] With the "very close" release of SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 with a go-live license I'm pleased to announce that the SharePointDevWiki.com and SharePointAdminWiki.com will be migrating to the new platform! Why is this good for you...well when you are contributing to the new site you'll be using the new SharePoint 2010 platform for starters! Going back over old ground the
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October 30, 2009
If you have been using SPSource to reverse engineer Content Types, Site Columns, Module (files), List Templates etc. please take some time to provide some feedback over at CodePlex. I have the bonnet up on the source this weekend fixing some loose ends. SP… what? If you haven’t used SPSource…why not? ;-) Seriously check out the webcast (list template demo) to get an idea of what this can do fo
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October 28, 2009
So I saw the Setting Up a Development environment for SharePoint 2010 was posted on MSDN. I nearly fell off my chair when I read this:
“In any development environment, you should use a computer with an x64-capable CPU, and at least 2 gigabytes (GB) and preferably 4 GB of RAM for SharePoint Foundation, and 6 to 8 GB of RAM for SharePoint Server.”
I think it’s great that Microsoft have been so
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October 26, 2009
I’ve already posted a webcast and created a wiki page that has caused a lot of discussion on the wiki on “How ASP.NET developers can leverage the SharePoint 2007 Platform”. This post will reflect on the SharePoint 2010 conference last week and to nominate 12 factors that will hopefully be the tipping point for ASP.NET developers to start leveraging the SharePoint 2010 platform. I will be using m
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October 26, 2009
So I’m sitting at San Francisco airport, terrible international area by the way *sigh*. Anyways, thought I would start to write my thoughts on #SPC09. The Keynote It was very exciting to see Steve Ballmer start the keynote off with so much energy and knowledge of the platform, but it slowly went from him being very business focused to the other guys coming on and jumping directly into a techni
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October 16, 2009
I had a great twitter discussion today with @bsimser & @sympmarc about SharePoint and jQuery which was triggered by an End User SharePoint post by @sympmarc. I pointed them to my “jQuery: The SharePoint band aid” and @bsimser came back with well does jQuery enhancements in SharePoint count as development? So here’s my opinion on this: Are jQuery enhancements development? YES! jQuery is a Ja
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October 13, 2009
So I’ve spent a while coming up with my schedule. My main criteria was to stay development track focussed and as many Level 400’s as possible, I can watch the Level 200’s at 4x later ;-) There were some tough calls, but have to stay focused on the dev tools over specific features. Also going to be busy in the evenings too, but that’s the way I like it! No plans for Friday yet, was thinking maybe
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October 12, 2009
I’ve quickly taken screen shots of the sessions in the schedule builder for SPC09. Full credit to them in producing a usable Session Builder unlike the interface provided for Australia Tech.ED this year which was terrible! There’s a lot of sessions with only 8 level 400 Developer sessions and 35 Level 300 ones. I’m guessing they’ve been a bit more honest with the levels as this was another t
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October 9, 2009
I’m repeatedly cornered to discuss SharePoint and a common discussion that occurs is the wide spread usage of SharePoint as an “Enterprise Platform” or “Enterprise Portal”. SharePoint in Organisations (state and local government, private enterprises, etc.) are moving towards a Microsoft Platform in droves and migrating their SAP, Oracle, BEA, IBM, OpenText and EMC enterprise stacks. I’m exagger
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October 5, 2009
So the more I speak to people on NDA e.g. MVP’s,people on the TAP etc. the more I get concerned about how much content is going to burst at the seams after the NDA is released on SharePoint 2010. So here is my advice on how to manage this information once the gun goes off on the starting line! Just like “SharePoint Designer is free!” syndrome, there's going to be a lot of this going on on Twitt
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September 26, 2009
So I have finally had time to create a new Confluence Wiki Space for WSS 4.0 and SP2010. This wiki will grow as more information about the platform becomes available and it will be a central hub for me whilst at SPC09 to log all the information I find. I want to try and make this a collective site to map all the information on WSS 4.0 and SP2010 from around the web in blogs, forum, twitter and
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September 12, 2009
I’m currently a few thousand feet up in the air travelling back from Brisbane to Perth after a intensive week at TechEd Australia 2009. It’s been a great week and I’ve got to meet some amazing individuals in the Microsoft ecosystem for the first time such as Reed Shaffner, Alistair Speirs, Ian Palangio, Gayan Peiris, Christian Longstaff, Andrew Parsons and Sara Ford. I also got to meet some famil
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September 8, 2009
Another few sessions have been announced for #SPC09. I’m getting so excited about all this stuff! Check out the full information on the #SPC09 web site
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September 8, 2009
Another few sessions have been announced for #SPC09. I’m getting so excited about all this stuff!
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September 4, 2009
So I’ve decided to bite the bullet and drag myself over on a 30 hour flight to Las Vegas for the public unveiling of SharePoint 2010! WOOOOO! I’m extremely excited not only to see everyone from across the globe attending in the SharePoint community in one place…but also to see all the Microsoft Product team and MVPs present on all the new functionality within SharePoint 2010! You can guar
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September 4, 2009
TechEd Australia is on next week in the Gold Coast. I’ve never been to a TechEd before so I have no idea what to expect really. I went to the SharePoint Conference in Sydney in 2007, but TechEd is going to be a lot bigger than that! I am actually speaking at the event, co-presenting with Andrew Coates on VSTO and SharePoint Development (#DEV340) and am really looking forward to it! We’ve got
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September 1, 2009
TOP THIS WEEK Deployment Survey If you haven’t already filled in the survey on how you do Deployment in SharePoint…please please please fill it in! Put a clients hat on and fill it in as if you are them…just need more data ;-) PowerShell for developers - Waldek Mastykarz Waldek keeps keeping on keeping on with his guidance…this time around PowerShell! JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (
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August 25, 2009
TOP THIS WEEK How I Benefit from Native Boot From VHD Reza Alirezaei’s Blog All the cool kids are doing it! Even me! Love it! Pre-filling fields on EditForm.aspx Great work by Andy Burns on Event Receivers! How to Create Killer SharePoint Applications with Four Simple Techniques Some good advice around leveraging the SharePoint Platform from dev perspective Server-si
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August 18, 2009
[Cross Posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] TOP THIS WEEK Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Solutions : SharePoint Products and Technologies White Paper “oldie but a goodie” Virtual User Group Meeting Featuring a Developer Panel! SharePoint 2007 Weblog » Blog Archive » SharePoint Nation! - “this is on tomorrow” Getting Your
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August 14, 2009
I’ve been in Adelaide for a few days reviewing a company building a product on top of SharePoint. Some of the team had been on the 4 day “boot camps” that are run here in Australia that cover developing solutions with SharePoint. One of the common things I continue to see in the “wild” is the fact that developers tend not to keep track of the information published on TechNet and MSDN. Some of thi
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August 11, 2009
[Cross Posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] TOP THIS WEEK Bad Practice #1: Not using Solutions for deploying artifacts to the server(s) - Ben Curry, CISSP, SharePoint Server MVP I want to sing this from the rooftops…use Solution Packages pleeeasssseee! Getting Your Feet Wet Writing Code For SharePoint – Part 1 of 4 Very good introduction to SharePoint Development TOOLS/ENVIRON
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August 11, 2009
I had an e-mail from Mahdi Sheikhi who was asking me to talk more about the 80/20 rule which I mentioned in a previous article: “if you can earn 80 percent of your requirement with current SharePoint features and need to development for other features , SharePoint is your solution.” SharePoint is a Development Platform with lots of functionality available out of the box. SharePoint MVP, Sahil M
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August 4, 2009
[Cross posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] Top This Week SharePoint Deployment survey Building a Knowledge Blogging System in SharePoint - brainlitter.com :: Ramblings from the Victoria SharePoint Trenches Automatically add ‘Search As You Type’ to every SharePoint page using Infuser Storing SharePoint List meta data without adding an column #SP2010 I think everyone is too busy
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July 29, 2009
So I’ve repeatedly been questioned by various clients, user group members, SPDevWiki consumers and Twitter followers about this area and figured I’d gauge the landscape by doing a survey much like I did with the SharePoint Implementation one.
If you are a Microsoft Partner/Integrator please fill in this case study in the context of one of your clients. Some of the questions relate to size of t
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July 28, 2009
[Cross posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] Top This Week SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 1 - SharePoint Magazine An awesome set of articles on Branding even showing the source broken up in Firebug Toolbar! SharePoint; from an Engineer's Perspective : MOSS Pre-Installation Health Check Awesome blog post on great way to check the health of your farm! Copy Sharepoint SP
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July 21, 2009
So I’ve been using psconfig to build SharePoint Farms rather than using the SharePoint Configuration Wizard as I can automate it with scripts with environment variables. One thing I came across was that the Wizard does more validation for me. I was getting an error on step 2 in creating the Configuration Database: 07/22/2009 13:22:18 7 ERR Task configdb has failed
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July 21, 2009
[Cross posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] No surprises that #SP2010 is the big hitter again this week. Also seems everyone is quiet…no doubt a lot of the MVPs are quietly off playing with SharePoint 2010 and it’ll be nuts once it goes public after conference…I’m sure they are all drafting lots of posts to pull traffic to their blogs ;-) Important June Cumulative Update Packages Ready for Down
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July 15, 2009
So with the message from Paul Andrew on the Sneak Peek webcast to start using VSeWSS now so that you will be familiar with Visual Studio 2010 tools, I started to take a look at VSeWSS 1.3 CTP (March not Feb). It is truly painful to work with compared to WSPBuilder and STSDev. The community has been maintaining this page on the comparison between the tools and I’ve been adding a few extra bits tod
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July 14, 2009
[Cross Posted on: SharePointDevWiki.com] Ok, so I’ve managed to start breathing again over the excitement of the Sneak Peak of SharePoint 2010…but also of being on the Office 2010 Technical Preview too (more to come!). SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview SharePoint 2010 ”Sneak Peak” at SharePoint 2010…lots revealed Developer Changes in SharePoint 2010 My opinion on what was p
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July 13, 2009
This is not just a “SharePoint Designer free” blog spam post…so please read on ;-) First impressions of the new SharePoint 2010 sneak peak…and the new Overview Video by Tom Rizzo. “Value Pillars” Connect and Empower People Heavily pushing on multiple devices: multiple Browers (IE, Safari, Firefox); mobile Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure One platform with multiple solution
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July 13, 2009
Paul Andrew talks about the new Developer functionality in SharePoint 2010 in a webcast on the new SharePoint 2010 site. The is also a download of 2010 (Technical Preview) Developer Documentation too. The webcast goes through and shows the new SharePoint integration with Visual Studio 2010 which I’m hoping will be available in the next public beta as it got missed out of the first. Paul also s
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July 13, 2009
At @JoelOleson’s presentation on Friday, he highlighted the features available in preupgradecheck. For a developer/administrator this is awesome as it’ll highlight lots of issues that are good to know now, regardless of SharePoint 2010 next year! Feature References One of the big ones is highlighting the Features that are not installed in a farm but referenced somewhere! The below log highlight
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July 10, 2009
It was great to finally meet @JoelOleson again and I really appreciate he making the effort to fly to Perth to present at the SharePoint User Group. It was really surreal actually, much like meeting the Brisbane crew a few weeks ago. You speak to these guys on Twitter, read their blogs, add them as a friend on Facebook and yet you still are not sure what to expect when you meet them in person! I
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July 9, 2009
With the announcement yesterday, I can finally openly jump up in the air and celebrate being asked to speak at TechEd Australia! The session got published yesterday on the TechEd web site that I am co-presenting with Andrew Coates (@coatsy) from Microsoft! It is a real honour for me to be able to present at TechEd, but also to be presenting alongside someone I have so much respect for also!
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July 7, 2009
[completely biased] How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast @jthake (me) presents on the findings from the collaborative efforts on the SharePointDevWiki.com page…a huge thanks to the community on this! SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part Two - Eric Shupps @eshupps continues the discussions around TDD referencing big guns like Sahil Malik and Andrew
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July 6, 2009
I presented at the Perth dotNet User Group last Thursday, if you didn’t happen to make it I have recorded the presentation. Click here to download the web cast as a WMV. More Info More information is also being collaborated on at the SharePointDevWiki.com so feel free to comment here! I’d just like to say a big thanks to the community for collaborating on this. Speaker Rate As mentioned
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June 30, 2009
[Cross posted on SharePointDevWiki.com] Think this is the biggest week yet! Please support my efforts to compile this by tweeting the link! Development Environment Tip: Convering your Virtual PC 2007 disks to Windows Virtual PC (on Windows 7) - Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development Saved a few of my colleagues today playing with the new VPC stuff in Windows 7!
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June 23, 2009
[Cross Posted on www.SharePointDevWiki.com] It seems every week more and more great content appears! These could almost become daily Coffee break posts! WSP Carsten Keutmann: Beginning SharePoint Development (Bonus part #3 WSPBuilder overview) Hot off the press! Carsten has released a fix for an installation issue with WSPBuilder! This man is the shining light of all things Sh
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June 16, 2009
[Cross Posted on SharePointDevWiki.com News] SharePoint Saturday Sydney (8th August) @BrianFarnhill et al are organising Australia’s first SharePoint Saturday. @DanielBrownSA is also organising one in Adelaide too. Winsmarts SharePoint WCF Support @SahilMalik has gotten around to releasing on CodePlex the Solution Package with a feature to activate WCF for Share
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June 3, 2009
So I’ve been doing some work in a MOSS Farm Development VM for a release to a WSS Farm. I created a a Site Collection using the Collaboration Team Site Definition thinking it wouldn’t use any of the MOSS Features (as you may know that MOSS is a superset of WSS). When I did an stsadm –o export from my MOSS Farm and then did an stsadm –o import into my WSS Farm I got the following errors: C:\Prog
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May 26, 2009
A big thank you to the 182 people that responded to the Survey! It has been a real eye opener for me in terms of the amount of approaches that are available out there! Here’s summary: So many not on 64bit SharePoint Dev environment yet! Most are working off laptops with their environments Most are running their environment in a Virtual Machine Too many not running VM off a sepa
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May 22, 2009
So I’m sitting on the plane on the way back to Perth for the weekend and thought I’d throw together a post on the new improved Web Testing capability within Visual Studio Team System 2010 beta . I remember first getting Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and trying the Web Testing capabilities with SharePoint. It failed horribly due to the way in which SharePoint renders it’s XHTML. Fort
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May 22, 2009
I have been focusing my efforts recently on client projects around SharePoint User Profiles which are part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Editions (Standard and Enterprise). The User Profiles are one of numerous components making up Shared Service Providers (SSP’s) which also include Excel Services, InfoPath Forms Services, Business Data Catalogue and Enterprise Search. User P
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May 22, 2009
I’ve just been on a training course and was shocked to find out that some of the Developers hadn’t heard of various SharePoint Resources online, including the SharePointDevWiki.com . I know, I know! Where have they been since December last year! LOL Seriously, it wasn’t so much the wiki, as I know that it is only promoted in various inner circles and not as mainstream as MSDN as a resource. I w
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May 22, 2009
I have been on the Microsoft Partner Services training for Collaboration and Portal technology for two days presented by Ian Morrish from MCS NZ. @IMorrish is well known in the community for http://www.wssdemo.com/ . One thing that just niggled at me over the two days was the massive pressure that is on SharePoint Architects’ to take responsibility not only for SharePoint as a Platform but also
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May 18, 2009
CompleteSharePoint.NET v2.0 was released today by Tommy Segoro, another local Perth SharePoint Developer. This open source project provides functionality to Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) 3.0 similar to the Publishing Feature within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Right now I’m sitting on a plane on the way to Sydney and figured this was a great time to deploy the source to a Wi
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May 14, 2009
So if you watch one web cast this year…it has to be the MVP Panel Discussion SharePoint Development recorded at TechEd in LA (#TeLA09). It included Rob Bogue (@RobBogue), Matthew McDermott (@MatthewMcD), Todd Bleeker (@ToddBleeker), Eric Shupps, Andrew Connell (@AndrewConnell), Todd Baginksi (@ToddBaginski), Maurice Prather and Scott Hillier. Some crazy pictures of the crew can be found on Rob
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May 13, 2009
So last night before calling it a night I decided to post a tweet: #IfIHadAYearAtMicrosoft...I would ensure #SharePoint UI was 100% W3C compliant & be able to develop remotely off the server and got a reply within an hour from @LougeFlyZ aka Chris Johnson from the SharePoint Product team headed up by Arpan Shah (@arpanshah): @jthake one year?!? You can't do these things outside of a releas
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May 13, 2009
I finally got round to uploading the User Group web cast where i talk about the approaches of deploying artefacts into a SharePoint environment. I discuss multiple approaches and also show the SPSource product that i have been on with @RichFinn. Check it out here: Download WMV Watch in Silverlight Player
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May 9, 2009
After reading @JoelOleson’s latest post on how the Community has evolved I thought I’d raise some ideas to save all of our time ;-) As we’re all very busy people! The main reasons I use Twitter is: to discover new people in the community talking about twitter…and discover their blog…and subscribe to their RSS feed to try and answer peoples’ questions around SharePoint to ask questions
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May 5, 2009
So the title got your attention, @JoelOleson posted quite a controversial post (in my opinion) today proposing a new group be setup called the SharePoint Knights. You can read about it and then come back to this post asI have put my thoughts down in this post. Why do we need this group? Being extremely blunt, the reason it appears this is needed is because the SharePoint MVP group does not awar
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May 4, 2009
SPSource will reverse engineer: Site Columns, Content Types, Modules (Master Pages, Page Layouts, CSS Files, XSLT Files, etc.) and new List Templates functionality in your existing Solution Package Visual Studio Project structure. It will also automatically add entries into your existing Feature file (feature.xml) to include these entries providing a completely automated process. Why use it over
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April 22, 2009
Thought I’d post this so that those of you not in the Twitterverse don’t miss out ;-) I have created a survey quickly in my lunch break yesterday…and was quite impressed with the flow of it and beta tested it with a few guys: Andrew Cox (Readify) and Kristian Kalsing. I put it live pretty soon after that and am humbled by how many people have re-tweeted and given positive feedback. The survey t
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April 22, 2009
I had an issue today when specifying the details for the specific content access account e.g. the Farm Account as specified in the MSDN guidance. Now according to the documentation SharePoint should provision all the necessary privileges for the Farm Account, but it didn’t! Having a look at the event viewer showed the error below: After looking around on the web, basically the client had
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April 14, 2009
Rich Finn released SPSource on CodePlex a while ago…something very similar to what I had on my mind to do, because of seeing how poorly VSeWSS Solution Generator reverse engineered Lists to ListTemplates (another post to explain this). You could use other tools to reverse engineer Content Types and Site Columns, but it meant a lot of cut and pasting. SPSource takes all that away and even update
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April 10, 2009
So I’ve been reading over 450+ feeds for the best part of 2 years now and have come up with a system to ensure that I always get round to the essential ones. When I discover a feed it goes in the ‘SharePoint X’ bucket. I have 3 other buckets ‘SharePoint Priority 1’, ‘SharePoint Priority 2’ and ‘SharePoint Priority 3’. I ensure that I always every day keep up to date with the 1’s and without fai
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March 31, 2009
I’ve recently had to finally take a look at Site Definitions after always taking the approach of creating a blank site and using Features to build up a site. 03/31/2009 20:32:52.05 Quest.PowerGUI.ScriptEditor.exe (0x102C) 0x11B0 Windows SharePoint Services General 8e27 Medium Ensuring module folder _catalogs/masterpage 03/31/2009 20:32:52.1
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March 25, 2009
[Cross Post] The web cast is up for last nights user group on SharePoint Development with Unit Testing and here a few links discussed in it to: web cast SharePointDevWiki.com Unit Testing Jeremy Thake's blog (wss.made4the.net) Unit testing sharepoint 2007applications SharePoint Guidance (P&P team) TDD - Eric Shupps - Binary Wave Thanks for those of you who turned u
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March 17, 2009
[Cross Posted]
As promised, I have encoded the presentation that Michael Hanes presented this afternoon and is available for your viewing pleasure.
WEBCASTClick here if IFRAME doesn't show
Click here to download the web cast
A big thanks again for Michael doing the presentation today! Please remember that there is a SharePoint Development with Unit Testing presentation on next Wednesday a
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March 15, 2009
[Cross Posted] I'd like to thank Domenic Chiera from Microsoft for allowing us to run another User Group meeting on the last Wednesday of every month at the Microsoft Offices. These meetings will be targetted purely at SharePoint Developers, with a strict rule of "Visual Studio only" presentations. Based on feedback, Developers prefer attending after work rather than at lunchtime. It
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February 24, 2009
There has been some debate on the OzMoss List Serve here in Australia regarding the inability to develop with SharePoint on an XP/Vista machine properly. The reason for this requirement by so many people is because of the controls put in place by organisation dictating that Developers HAVE to use an SOE workstation and typically these are locked down to XP/Vista and only have 2Gb RAM. Common S
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February 23, 2009
Ok, so now I've got your attention you eager beaver SharePoint End Users...Power Users...etc. I thought I'd just put a few things out there from the other side of the fence! So there's lots of hype around jQuery and SharePoint on various resources such as EndUserSharePoint.com and some of my other personal SharePoint Developer heroes: Joel Oleson, Jan Tielens, Waldek Mastykarz, Nick Swan, Paul G
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February 22, 2009
I've been tweeting lately on SharePoint Development tools and @MattBremer kindly pointed out that STSDev 2008 v2.0 was released last week. What is STSDev? STSDev codeplex project originally started by the Ted Pattison Group David Mann is currently the lead on this although there have been no updates for a long time. STSDev v1.3 is a stable product which is widely used across the community, alo
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February 21, 2009
So the new VSeWSS 1.3 CTP creates a Web Application to host a WCF web service. Nice to see the SharePoint Development Product team playing with new technology. In my experience of installing it into a Development environment where I follow Least Priviledged installation approach recommended by Microsoft I found that you'll receive an error when trying to Package any VSeWSS Project in Visual Studi
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February 20, 2009
Cross Posted here
It's great to finally get round to posting up a webcast of our Perth User Group for those that couldn't make it either due to living the other side of the World or being flat out at work!
I spent the best part of the flight over to Sydney syncing the PowerPoint slides to the voice recording I made. I've watched through it and it's a great presentation to keep referrin
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February 20, 2009
I've noticed that there are plenty of bloggers out there that don't have a few social networking tools hooked up as well as some obvious tweaks. This will not only encourage more traffic to their own blog but also help the community to spread the word! So here goes: Full Posts in RSS Feed Don't cut your posts to summary fields in RSS feeds. If people want to pull down all the communities posts
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February 20, 2009
Understanding SharePoint: List Forms « SharePoint Internals - Hristo Pavlov’s Blog Custom code with SharePoint Online and Windows Azure Why Your Vendor Screwed Up Your SharePoint Project - Elumenotion Blog Performance, Scalabilty and Architecture - Java and .NET Application Performance Management (dynaTrace Blog) » SharePoint: Performance Problem with Look
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February 19, 2009
Kristian Kalsing: EP/MOSS portal technology strategies SharePoint and TDD – The other view | Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP Sending alerts to groups in Sharepoint 2007 « Gavin’s Sharepoint Blog SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part One - Eric Shupps Simple SCRUM with SharePoint 2007 and Outlook 2007
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February 15, 2009
We've all watched the industry make the most of the "SharePoint boom" that Microsoft has created by releasing SharePoint 2007 in 2006. This led to various problems in the market surrounding the product. How did this unravel? significant issues in the initial RTM release no governance up front by Microsoft on how to implement solutions on top of SharePoint immature SharePoin
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February 15, 2009
Blogs / RSS Feeds I am subscribed to over 500 active SharePoint blogs from around the World and try and ensure that I keep up with my reading on these on a daily if not weekly basis (depending on how busy I am). I find this is the only way to keep up with developments within the community. There are some blogs that constantly produce awesome content and I have had to start prioritising which b
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February 6, 2009
Now available: 0.2.4.0 alpha for Orcas RTM - LINQ to SharePoint SPDiag Tool Released - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog VSeWSS 1.3 CTP Feedback and Feature Requests - Corey Roth - DotNetMafia.com - Tip of the Day Site Life Cycle Management V2 .. Why V2? - Robin | zevenseas | SharePoint Blog Download details: Of
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February 5, 2009
February RDN | Perth Wednesday 25 February, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Cliftons, Australia Place, Corner St Georges Terrace & William Street, Perth ReadiPrimer* Topic: ‘UX: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly’ Presented by Quinten Miller, Senior Consultant – Readify In this ReadiPrimer session, Quinten Miller will identify common UX faux pas and how to best avoid them. He will discuss design
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February 5, 2009
Eric Kraus' SharePoint/.NET Blog : Filter SharePoint Event Log Entries Demystifying SharePoint CSS Links - Elumenotion Blog Sharepoint Training: Sharepoint Portal Server Training Kristian Kalsing: Positioning SharePoint against competing products Integrating External Document Repositories with SharePoint Server 2007 Two SharePoint Exp
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January 24, 2009
Clinton Cherry presented at the Perth SharePoint User Group on Tuesday and has kindly put up the slides from the lunchtime meeting. Unfortunately I couldn't make it as I have been on a Australia Institute of Management (AIM): Training and Assessment course to sharpen my skills some more for the SharePoint Development Training I run! Had a great time, lots of stuff to share with my readers on this
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January 24, 2009
A fellow SharePoint Consultant in Perth mentioned that there is an inaugural presentation, jointly organized by Australian Information Security Association (AISA) and Open Web Application Security Project OWASP, being held in Perth for free at The Ernst & Young Building, 11 Mounts Bay Road at 5.15pm on <UPDATE>10th February 2009</UPDATE>. If you are interested please RSVP to per
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January 15, 2009
If any of you follow my Twitter feed you would notice that I've been having various discussions with SharePoint people regarding Unit Testing, Mocking and Test Driven Development (TDD). Andrew Woodward (@21Apps) is the leader in the SharePoint TDD field by a long way. I wanted to get some stuff up on the wiki to try and give another angle to this and also leverage the power of the wiki to let pe
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January 11, 2009
Clinton Cherry will be presenting at the Perth SharePoint User group on the 20th January 2009 at 12:30 at Microsoft in QV1 Building. Clinton will be talking about his experiences with BA-Insights Longitude for SharePoint 2007 which is a Seach add-on for the Platform. "'Longitude' is a third party product by BA Insight which extends SharePoint's search capabilities to deliver document page
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December 20, 2008
Error I ran the CU on my Development Environment and had some errors in my Logs! Central Admin was working fine, but my Web Application wasn't. Action 12.1.5.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSearchDatabaseSequence failed. And my web application in IE showed this error: Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96177 I found this on TeEchNet with "This is a bug in Microsoft
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December 15, 2008
Last month I was interviewed by Rob Foster from the SharePointPodShow and we discussed SharePoint Development Best Practices. It was great fun discussing my experiences and back then SharePointDevWiki.com was just a twinkle in my eye! I recommend that you hook these guys up to your iTunes if only to hear my cheery english accent mixed with some aussie slurs! LOL I discuss my 8 part series S
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December 13, 2008
Thanks to everyone that has contributed to the SharePointDevWiki already. It's made great progress since being launched with over 4000 page views and just under 200 page edits already! Check out the activity for yourself here! I've set up a new page on how to support the SharePointDevWiki and would really appreciate it if like minded Developers would add the badge to the site using the code a
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December 3, 2008
Don't take my word for it....check out the new site! As promised I have managed to pull some strings and get a Atlassian Confluence license and also some hosting space on Tatham Oddie's boxes. Please feel free to submit your comments on the proposed approaches to the content on this wiki...its a community affair after all! Please spread the word on this site by every means possible! Rather than
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