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SharePoint Customization Best Practices

Michael Watson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:54:00 GMT

At the SharePoint Best Practices Conference, there was quite a bit of interest in customization, specifically best practices for customization in SharePoint. The current bible on that topic was written by my buddy, Sean Livingston, a PM in the SharePoint...(read more)

SharePoint Reporting - What's Up?

Michael Watson — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:36:00 GMT

Joel and I had a lot of fun doing this video for TechEd Online about the state of SharePoint reporting. SharePoint Reporting—What's Up? Key Points about SharePoint 2007 reporting. Project and team based site collection administrators will find out of...(read more)

BDC Performance Over the WAN

Michael Watson — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:08:00 GMT

Are you centralizing your SharePoint deployment? Do you want to integrate backend data sources located in distant lands with SharePoint using the BDC? Here's something to think about. BDC does no caching of data sources. So what does that mean? If you...(read more)

Extra-Strength SharePoint Developer Training

Michael Watson — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:13:00 GMT

I just got back from Silicon Valley where I attended the SP401 class given by Gorilla Training. My instructor was none other than Scot Hillier. This was a great class and I would recommend it to anyone needing to get up to speed on MOSS development and who has a basic understanding of dotNet programming. The class is 4 days long which is barely enough to cover the basics of each MOSS feature, but you still come away with a very complete picture of MOSS. It was good to see so many people taking the class. I think we had 17 or more people which leads me to believe companies are excited about MOSS and are serious about using it. (and using it right) There are so many new features in MOSS that companies will need to rethink their information architecture to get all of the value out of the product. The good news is that for current users of SharePoint V2, you can upgrade to MOSS without much fuss. Yes, there's lot of new stuff there, but users will still find the same functionality they expect after upgrade and things will mostly work the same. Upgraders should still think about how to use the new features in their organization.