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Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:23 AM

Windows SharePoint Services Manageability Controls (Governance Series Part 1 of 5)

In an effort to share the wealth of information that I've been working on over the past few months, I figured it made sense to share some of these key whitepapers on governance in the means of a blog post. You can evaluate for yourself if you find this
Posted by joelo | 14 Comments
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:56 PM

MOSS Has Got Game - Glu Mobile’s Website (www.glu.com) - How We Did It - Part 2 of 3

This is a continuation of the guest blog series by Allin Consulting that started with Part 1 . <Lawrence /> Part 2: Master Pages and Controls In this post, we will focus on the design elements of the Glu Mobile website – specifically how we laid
Posted by sptblog | 10 Comments
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:31 AM

Two extremely useful (and free!) SharePoint addons have updated commercial offerings

Several months ago, I posted a blog entry about two useful SharePoint addons, Telerik's RadEditor for MOSS 2007 and Colligo's Reader for SharePoint, that were available for free. Telerik has just released the full featured edition of the RadEditor for
Posted by sptblog | 6 Comments
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:43 AM

Interoperability TechCenter for MOSS 2007 goes live!

I’m posting this for Tom Rizzo , my boss’s boss, who is too busy these days trying to ensure that we close out our fiscal year (ending June 30 th ) on a very good note. :-) Have you ever wondered how to connect MOSS 2007 to ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle
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Saturday, June 23, 2007 12:15 PM

"Under the Hood" white papers for Fantastic 40 Application Templates and Splendid 7 My Site Templates now available!

Ever since the releases of the ”Fantastic 40” Application Templates for WSS 3.0 and “Spendid 7” Role-Based My Site Templates for MOSS 2007 during the past several months, many people have asked, “How did they build this or that?” or “Why would they build
Posted by sptblog | 4 Comments
Friday, June 22, 2007 8:03 AM

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD (i.e. Virtual Machine) now available for download!

Since posting the blog entry a couple of weeks ago about the MOSS 2007 Technical Resources DVD that was distributed to every TechEd Orlando attendee, numerous people have asked about how they can get a copy of it. While I'm still working out the details
Posted by sptblog | 30 Comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:14 AM

Announcing three CodePlex projects for community developed SharePoint WCM components

There's been some buzz about the Community Kit for SharePoint during the past few days, but it's not the only exciting and useful SharePoint oriented shared source project on CodePlex. The SharePoint Governance , SharePoint Features , and SharePoint Learning
Posted by sptblog | 6 Comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:32 AM

Excel 2007 Add-in for Synchronizing Tables with SharePoint Lists - now available!

In Excel 2003, you can connect to (read from) and update (write to) lists that reside on SharePoint (WSS 2.0 or WSS 3.0) sites. This allows you to keep the information in your Excel 2003 tables synchronized with the information that appears on the SharePoint
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:02 AM

Using Javascript to Manipulate a List Form Field

The following blog entry is a cross-posting from the SharePoint Designer Team Blog . It has received lots of kudos, so I thought that it deserves a bit more visibility. <Lawrence /> Hi, my name is Rob Howard, and I’m a Program Manager with the SharePoint
Posted by LLiu | 34 Comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:13 AM

Just Published: Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Parts 1 and 2)

I'm posting this on behalf of my colleague, Mike Fitzmaurice . In Mike's own words: Have you wanted information on how to package web parts, event receivers, or list/feature/site definitions into solutions? How to deploy those solutions from a development
Posted by sptblog | 4 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 5:00 PM

Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release announcement

About 3 months ago, I pre-announced the kick-off of the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 effort, and fairly quickly, over 20 volunteers signed up to help. After just 2 months of work (mostly on nights and weekends), the CKS team has accomplished
Posted by sptblog | 38 Comments
Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:48 AM

MOSS Has Got Game - Glu Mobile’s Website (www.glu.com) - How We Did It - Part 1 of 3

Allin Consulting , a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the U.S., recently implemented Glu Mobile’s website at www.glu.com . Glu Mobile is a leading publisher of mobile games and entertainment. Allin has been developing solutions around SharePoint and
Posted by sptblog | 27 Comments
Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:16 AM

Prescan.exe Download and Information

I have to thank Sean Livingston and Ambrose Treacy for following through. Prior to launch I pushed really hard to get prescan as a separate download. Neither of them was on the WSS team during my first attempt. After a number of fun hoops. Ambrose and
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Friday, June 08, 2007 9:15 PM

Fix for the corrupted Virtual Machine on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Resources DVD

As an added bonus for the nearly 14,000 TechEd attendees this past week in Orlando, a copy of the updated MOSS 2007 Technical Resources DVD was placed in every attendee's conference bag. The DVD contains the following frequently requested content: Presentation
Posted by sptblog | 10 Comments
Friday, June 08, 2007 3:15 PM

SharePoint Governance - Key to a Successful Deployment

More and more businesses are realizing that the key to a successful deployment of a portal, collaboration solution, records repository... you name it. Is a plan. If fail to plan, you plan to fail. Not sure who's quote that is, but it begins to tell this
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:54 PM

Answers to FAQs about SharePoint Blogs and Wikis

Social computing is a hot topic these days, and we continue to get a lot of questions about SharePoint's blog and wiki capabilities in particular. We will have much more to say and announce about SharePoint in the context of social computing soon, but
Posted by sptblog | 12 Comments
Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:09 AM

Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management Beta 1.0 for SharePoint Products and Technologies now available on CodePlex

[Cross-posted from Bill Baer's blog entry .] I'm pleased to announce the availability of Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management (MSIT TSLCM) Beta 1.0 for SharePoint Products and Technologies . Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management is a custom
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:24 AM

Presentations and related resources from SharePoint Conference 2007 APAC now available

Click on the image above or here -- very nicely done by the TechNet Australia crew! Also available separately are photos and podcasts . <Lawrence />
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:51 PM

SharePoint 2007 Customization Policy white paper now available

Sean Livingston , a Program Manager in the Windows SharePoint Services team, was too modest to cross-post a blog entry about the very useful white paper that he had authored, which is now available for download here . So, I'm doing it for him. :-) The
Posted by sptblog | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:29 AM

SharePoint Conference 2008 to be held on March 2-6, 2008 in Seattle!

It's official! The SharePoint Conference 2008 will be held on March 2-6, 2008 in Seattle at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center . What You Can Expect: Keynote sessions by senior Microsoft executives 60+ sessions across several diverse tracks
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Monday, June 04, 2007 12:05 PM

TechEd Orlando kicked off this morning along with the MOSS-based VirtualTechEd.com website

The TechEd 2007 conference in Orlando kicked off this morning with an unprecedented number of SharePoint focused sessions. For more info, go to http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007 . For most of you, that should not be a surprise given the tremendous
Posted by sptblog | 1 Comments
Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:38 AM

HiSoftware AccRepair for SharePoint Designer and AccMonitor bring accessibility compliance to SharePoint based websites

Since the widely referenced Improvements in Accessibility blog entry was posted here over a year, we have received numerous inquiries about how to further improve accessibility of SharePoint based websites up to the point of being fully compliant with
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