*** UPDATE: Thanks to everyone for all your kind words and wishes in my new role. I have decided to move my blogging to http://www.looselytyped.net where things will stay much the same but with a slightly more personal twist. *** My last day at Microsoft...

Just a heads up for those that use our demo VM sets that we produce. We just released a new version 2010-10.  In a nutshell here are the big changes over the 2010-7 VM set we published previously: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Office and SharePoint...

We received tonnes of incredible and inspiring nominations for your unsung heroes of the SharePoint community.  We sat down, read and re-read them all over and over … and finally have a list of the winners we can announce!   We decided...

unsung hero Part of Speech:    n Definition:    a person who makes a substantive yet unrecognized contribution We have 10 full SharePoint Conference 2011 (SPC) passes (valued at $1,199.00!!! each) to give to deserving individuals who...

I had a chat with @jthake yesterday on Twitter about the process we go through when planning content for the SharePoint Conference later this year. Based on that I decided to do this post to help give insight into how we go about planning for a conference...

This is a continuation from my last post:  Authentication with SharePoint Online and the Client Side Object Model Part 1 tackled how to authenticate and get data from SharePoint Online (SPO) in a client application like a Windows application. ...

With the Office 365 Beta opening not long ago people are starting to test the waters with regards to custom development and seeing what they can do etc…   We put out the SharePoint Online developers guide here to try and assist with that: http...

Our fantastic documentation team released an update to the SharePoint SDK today that includes a raft of important things for prospective SharePoint Online developers. In particular is the SharePoint Online General Reference topic. Additionally the SDK...

Want to learn how to build an internet facing web site on SharePoint 2010? A newly released Whitepaper from Andrew Connell and Randy Drisgill provides and end to end, step by step walk through of how to go about planning, designing and implementing your...

Starting today developers can download a new set of pre-packaged tools that help developers easily get started with SharePoint 2010 development by automating the provisioning of a developer workstation using Windows 7, SharePoint & associated tools...

If you have ever been to a SharePoint event in the past, then you will know that one of the highlights is usually the SharePint.  It’s a great way to mix and mingle with fellow like minded folk & glitterati of the SharePoint world.  It’s...

The new SharePoint Sideshow is up live on Channel 9.   The first show is up and live with Paul and Donavan talking you through what they are planning for the show and some of the first things to get you started. The SharePoint Sideshow is about all...

I will be presenting 2 sessions at the up coming SharePoint Connections in Las Vegas, Nov 1-4. HMS01: Crash Course in SharePoint 2010 Development HMS10: Overview of Enterprise Content Management in SharePoint 2010 The Microsoft SharePoint team will also...

At most conferences or events I get cornered by at least two or three people wanting my opinion on how to best set up their development environments.  Questions like: Should I have all my developers on one shared SharePoint server? Should I virtualize...

I presented recently at an internal Microsoft conference here in Seattle & showed a simple OData/ADO.Net data services & Silverlight 4 data binding example. It is very rudimentary, but shows how simple it is to get up and running binding Silverlight...

Happy to announce we have published our new RTM Hyper-V Virtual Machine.  It contains all the goodies you have come to love & a few new ones, including SQL 2008 R2 & Windows Server 2008 R2. Because we have moved to Windows server 2008 R2...

As many of you will know SharePoint & Office make heavy use of your profile pictures to personalize the experience.  For example, here is my profile photo in my My Site. I get to set up this stuff up quite often in demo environments & so...

If you were wondering if you should come to TechEd this year wonder no more.  Planning is well underway for TechEd North America 2010 for the Office and SharePoint track (OSP) and it is looking great. Right now we are almost finished figuring out...

(Long time no post … sorry! we have been really busy!) Last week we released a new SharePoint 2010 Beta Virtual Machine.  ( GET IT HERE ) This VM contains a bunch of pre-configured products including SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, SQL, Exchange, Office...

We just went live with a brand new HUGE! two part whitepaper on branding SharePoint 2007 Publishing Sites. This is an awesome resource for getting up to speed on how to build cutting edge internet facing websites on SharePoint 2007. We take you step...

I get a bunch of questions at events etc… on how our team do demos. I don't mean the content of the demos, i mean the actual setup and execution. You might think this is a simple question to answer, but it is more complex than you think. First up...

Letting blog readers know that the official SharePoint Conference tweet stream is up:  http://www.twitter.com/SPConf    Follow!

Soma posted on the new SharePoint and Visual Studio integration coming in the next release of Visual Studio.  http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/19/sharepoint-tools-support-in-visual-studio.aspx This is something I have been working...

Ivory Tower (Redmond) to all earth bound SharePoint peeps.  I need some info on your l33t SharePoint skillz. I am doing some research into how you, as SharePoint evangelists, demo SharePoint to others.  This could be as part of a sales pitch...

Vegas, SharePoint & loads of great content & people … do i need to say any more? http://www.mssharepointconference.com/ Early bird registration is open now.  Best conference out there for under a grand USD.