A virtual machine for the RTM 2010 wave of product releases is now available for download: 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) This environment is delivered in two virtual machines. VM “a” contains: Windows Server...

Good article with Chris Capossela on Cloud Computing - it's not for control freaks .

We published evaluation guides for SharePoint 2010 at the conference a few weeks ago. Reading these guides is a great way to get familiar with SharePoint 2010 and get ready for the beta. Highly recommended: IT Pro Eval Guide Developer Eval Guide

Or, how do you get Item-Level Permissions settings for a document library? This frequently comes up for me with InfoPath forms libraries. For example, you are automating an HR performance review process with SharePoint workflow and InfoPath forms. Reviewers...

When a SharePoint Designer (SPD) workflow runs, it runs in the context of the workflow initiator. This is important to know if the initiator may not have permissions to everything that the workflow uses. An example: A broad set of users have permissions...

I recently built a prototype to show how SharePoint and SharePoint Designer workflows can be used to automate an HR performance review process. I had to use a secondary workflow as described in SharePoint Designer: Create a secondary workflow , but had...

I recently got deeper into using the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) than I had in a while and learned a few things. The first thing you should do to learn about the CQWP is read this article from Heather Solomon ’s blog: Customizing the Content Query Web...

I was recently asked how to programmatically retrieve custom fields from the User Information List via a Web service. It turns out that the GetUserInfo web method does not return any custom fields that you might add to the User Information List (aka People...

Yesterday http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint converted over to SharePoint and Silverlight. It’s nice to have a microsoft.com example to add to the list of public facing sites running SharePoint. There’s an upcoming SharePoint team blog posting on how...

I will need to switch from saying SharePoint 14 to SharePoint 2010 now. Details of the announcement are on the SharePoint Team Blog .

Today we announced the ESP for SharePoint product that provides high end search capabilities within SharePoint. We also detailed the road map for the next version of SharePoint and how these high end search capabilities will be folded into the platform...

As part of the MSDN Ramp Up training program, there is now a track for SharePoint Developers: SharePoint for Developers Track This track consists of 5 levels of training content: Web Parts Data Lists Event Handlers Workflow ...

The Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft has just released SharePoint Guidance documents. This is Microsoft's recommendations for how to design, develop, deploy and operate architecturally sound applications on the Microsoft platform. This guidance...

If you got a slew of RSS feed updates today it's because I moved my blog over to MSDN. I've moved all the old posts over here and this is the new home.

Yesterday at the PDC2008 conference, we announced Office 14 for the Web. There is a great Channel 9 video with a demo: First Look: Office 14 for Web There are also some good screen shots on Joel Oleson's blog: Office 14 Web applications in SharePoint...

It's good to see some SharePoint Designer books starting to appear. Even though I use Visual Studio .NET alot, I still use SharePoint Designer for master page development, the Data View Web Part, and simple workflows. I picked up this book and it is especially...

I just found out that a Content Rating solution for MOSS 2007 was released to CodePlex earlier this month: Content Rating for MOSS 2007 This is very cool. Now you can build sites that allow users to rate and comment on SharePoint content. For example...

I gave an overview presentation last week on SharePoint for Internet and extranet sites. During the Q/A, I got some questions about licensing of WSS and MOSS for these scenarios. There are a number of different parameters that affect licensing and here...

The recordings of the SharePoint Firestarter event that I presented at last week are now online: Introduction To Day & Keynote: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032380419&role=attend Whirlwind SharePoint on Visual Studio: https...

I am very happy to announce that the kind folks at Netropole have created and host a site for the Portland SharePoint User Group: http://www.portlandsharepoint.com . You can use this site to stay up to date on upcoming meetings on the Events calendar...

For June we have a great presentation from James Curry, an instructor with Mindsharp . We also have a fantastic give-away this month. Mindsharp has generously donated a $3,000 voucher for admission to their upcoming training event in Portland! The training...

Very late notice, but I am presenting at a great day long event on SharePoint & Web 2.0 technologies next Wednesday (6/11/2008). There will be a day full of great developer topics presented by our internal experts. Not to be missed. You can attend...

"My WebPart can beat up your server control." Warms the heart of a SharePoint Developer.

We have a new site to help .NET developers get going with SharePoint development: http://www.mssharepointdeveloper.com The site is organized by SharePoint artifacts that developers can create to extend SharePoint: Web Parts Data Lists Event Handlers Workflows...

We have released indexing connectors for IBM FileNet and EMC Documentum for crawling and returning search results from these repositories. These work with MOSS 2007, Search Server 2008, and Search Server 2008 Express: Enterprise Search Indexing Connector...