I love my Kindle, but still have a place in my heart for physical books. I continue to buy both ebooks and physical books. But my two uses for my Kindle that physical books just can’t compete with are reading multiple books at the same time, and reading...

Over the last 12 months, I’ve been working with a lot of companies thinking, strategizing, piloting and deploying social media tools with the hope to improve their collaboration effectiveness. Yes social media is collaboration, because it requires user...

There is growing interest in using metadata, not just talking about it, or wanting to see a demo, but actually implementing the capability. One of the key challenges is how do you get users to actually utilize this capability. Of course you can configure...

Good news for iPad users that want to view SharePoint BI content. The product group has recently released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 and an overview is given here . With this update, you can now view PerformancePoint reports...

Sharing content (documents, PowerPoint decks, etc) outside the organization is a frequent request and it’s much harder than it should be. Most IT organizations are not licensed or willing in enable SharePoint to share information outside the firewall...

Some new info I just saw posted over the holiday break that will be useful for a number of folks. First, for those that did not attend the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA, 193 of the conference presentations can be accessed on YouTube so go...

PowerShell is an awesome tool. Granted there is a learning curve but once you get going you will love it. I continue to be surprised at the number of SharePoint admins that still have never used PS. A recent SP pilot offered a good opportunity, so I thought...

Working with a customer yesterday, they were perplexed because they couldn’t figure out how to create HH named site collections in SP2010. They had done this routinely in SP2007. They were somewhat relieved when I told them that it is still possible to...

I presented “Why should you be interested in SharePoint 2010” to the Association of IT Professionals this week and it went great. What a great group. Plus, they paid for my dinner so it was even better. I delivered this same talk at several SP user groups...

This is an excellent intro for those wanting to get up to speed. You need to spend some time with the HOLs if you haven’t done much SL before, but it will be worth your time. From the description: “The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper...

Well the flood gates were opened last week at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. It was a great week. I’ve gotten a number of questions about resources so I thought I would share some of the ones I think are valuable. Your list may be different so...

SL3 has RTMed and Laurence Moroney continues his SL series that will update your skills. It’s based on the SL beta but it’s still valuable. I suggest you browse at your local bookstore with your favorite mocha at your side and see if it meets your needs...

There is a new addition to the MOSS Web site on Microsoft.com today. You should go check it out…but if you would like to see it I”ve captured a snapshot of it below. You can also go directly to the SharePoint 2010 info using this link: http://sharepoint...

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Looking for a specific STSADM command? If so, you can find it here for WSS and here for MOSS . </steve>

More than 8000 readers of the magazine ASP.NETPro voted MOSS the best Content Management System . Rock on! </steve>

SharePoint Designer No it’s not an April fools joke and yes as of April 2, 2009, SharePoint Designer 2007 is available as a free download . General SharePoint Designer info can be found here . This eliminates any cost issue associated with providing users...

The authors behind the the awesome BDC MetaMan tool have written a book: SharePoint 2007 Developer's Guide to Business Data Catalog A got my hands on an early copy via the MEAP and I’m about 3/4 through. If you're new to the BDC, it will be a great reference...

Some really great news for SharePoint developers along the tools front. Check out Soma’s blog for a good summary of what’s coming. Sharepoint tools support in Visual Studio </steve>

My good buddy Shane and friends at SharePoint911.com have written a great paper: Administrator’s Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment If you just learning SharePoint because your company has decided to deploy….yes you know who you are…..then...

You say, “what are composite applications?” Good question. Generally, a composite application is an application built by combining multiple existing functions into a new application. Functionality can be a part of other applications, or an entire application...

Some very exciting news was announced yesterday. SharePoint’s mission has always been to provide collaboration to the masses. Collaboration in the broadest sense has meant business intelligence capability with Excel integration, Excel Services, KPIs,...

Jakob Nielsen has just released his report describing the top 10 best intranet sites worldwide for 2009. He is internationally recognized as one of the best Web Usability experts. His report has quite a bit of great information so make sure you check...

Social Networking will continue to create a lot of watercooler talk and executive discussions in 2009, with more and more companies applying Web 2.0 tool in the Enterprise. I've seen tremendous interest in the last 6-9 months in this topic with the customers...

There is a set of excellent blog posts that will tell you most of what you need to know if you are considering Commerce Server 2007. Wrap-Up: Commerce Server 2007 Architecture Series Well, as you might expect, Commerce Server 2009 is just on the horizon...