Vesa "vesku" Juvonen

One of the really exciting new options on the Feature Framework level of the SharePoint 2010 is the WebTemplate element. In this blog entry we’ll cover the primary site provisioning methods and we’ll concentrate especially to web template option to share...

This blog entry shows how to utilize the new UI functionalities available in the SharePoint 2010 and how to use JavaScript object model to manipulate the site structure. Create initial structure in VS2010 The first step is to create the Visual Studio...

As part of the SharePoint 2013 beta 2 “big bang” release activities , we just released also training materials for the IT Pro’s and Developers. This time around I’ve been working as program manager and instructor on the IT Pro side and for the Developer...

In the previous post, I promised to try to find time to share additional information concerning the onet.xml and how it can be modified to control other properties of the MOSS site. It took a while, but here we go. Starting from this blog entry, I promise...

During past weeks I have been creating few customer POCs to demostrate the excellent WCM features of the MOSS 2007. Since the MOSS publishing features are deployed over the WSS using standard feature framework, we can configure the provisioning of the...

We just released new SharePoint 2010 training materials to MSDN and TechNet. Material is also downloadable as videos and PowerPoint presentations. [Updated 16th of May – Direct links to IT pro trainings added. Also content concerning Channel 9 trainings...

I've been delivering quite a few technical training's during past year and one of the most discussed thing is the setup of the development environments for large scale projects. Especially large ISV's are really interested on the the practicalities of...

We have now released downloadable environment to get up to speed with SharePoint 2010. You can download the VM from the following address. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c51819b-3d40-435c-a103-a5481fe0a0d2&displaylang=en...

SharePoint 2010 release date is closing (H1/2010) and there is huge interest on the product capabilities. There’s already few ongoing projects, which are scheduled to be released on H2/2010 and using currently beta 2 version for development. One of the...

One of the most important and often overlooked thing to cover in planning phase of the projects is the application lifecycle management (ALM) for upcoming portal. In this context I don't mean just the lifecycle management for the customizations, rather...

I keep getting almost daily emails concerning WebTemplate element support and when it would be proper technical approach for the site provisioning with SharePoint 2010. There’s no doubt that many times there’s requirements to be able to provision sites...

There’s lot of information available concerning development processes, automated builds and continuous integration in SharePoint development using Team Foundation Server, but unfortunately most of the information is in relatively high level or just concepts...

  Full package updated on 14th of March 2012 During past few years I’ve been doing quite a lot of training materials which have been then published globally in MSDN or in other places. Every now and then some of the material don’t get officially...

Lately there has been quite a lot of discussions concerning Internet facing MOSS sites and content deployment . Quite often there’s misconception that MOSS cannot be used as Internet facing platform without separate authoring farm and utilizing content...

By default when you install new MOSS/WSS farm to your environment, the content database for Central Administration application is renamed automatically using standard prefix (SharePoint_AdminContent_) and randomly generated GUID to avoid any problems...

  Updated on 14th of March 2012 This post is lab 4 from series of training materials for WebTemplate creation and maintenance. Please check the following posts for details and other exercises. Notice that you can download full package with all required...

This post is lab 1 from series of training materials for WebTemplate creation and maintenance. Please check the following posts for details and other exercises. Notice that you can download full package with all required lab material from link available...

This post is lab 2 from series of training materials for WebTemplate creation and maintenance. Please check the following posts for details and other exercises. Notice that you can download full package with all required lab material from link available...

This post is lab 3 from series of training materials for WebTemplate creation and maintenance. Please check the following posts for details and other exercises. Notice that you can download full package with all required lab material from link available...

Usually collaboration sites (team sites) and WCM functionalities (publishing sites) are seen as two totally separate functionalities provided by SharePoint. However by combining these both options, we can provide even more sophisticated functionalities...

I just delivered an internal MOSS IW Ramp course in Münich and we have some discussions concerning the onet.xml and how to modify the content of the sites, which have been created using custom code directly after site has been created. You are most likely...

This was so interesting, that I had to share it more widely... I'm working with one global customer concerning Internet facing MOSS site, which will eventually have more than 50 local sites within their own languages (including the corporate sites in...

I'm speaking in the MOSS development track for the whole day in Finland Dev Days on upcoming Thursday (13.3.2008). As part of the delivery I prepared Visual Studio Solution package, which is demonstrated in each of the sessions with a little bit different...

Have you already completed the four MCTS certifications available for SharePoint and would like to have more challenges? MCTS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Configuration MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development MCTS...

This was so cool video, that I had to publish the link. Pretty interesting functionalities are coming up. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/PDCNews/First-Look-Office-14-for-Web/