Posted by Mike Stevens in SharePoint on 10. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
In the weeks following SPC2009, I am beginning to feel like I have spent most of my waking hours watching videos on SP2010. I saw a post about 2010 developer videos on Channel 9 on twitter a couple of weeks ago, but couldn’t muster up the energy to add them to my pile of recorded [...]
In spite of my rudimentary javascript skills, I’ve been using jQuery for just about anything I can think of lately to spruce up the MOSS 2007/WSS user experience. Yesterday I threw together a simple interactive image element using the jQueryUI library. I wanted to display info dialog/modal windows when the user moved the mouse over [...]
The Atlanta SharePoint User Group (ATLSPUG) is an independent user group for SP admins and developers in the metro Atlanta area. We meet every 3rd Monday at 6:30 pm the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. Come join us and bring your questions, opinions, experience, and “know-how” – be ready to share your love (and/or hate) of [...]
A colleague asked last week if anyone on the team had a definitive list of the out of the box usage reports for MOSS 2007. I could recall a lot of them from memory, but did not have a complete list. After a little fishing, I found this list on TechNet:
After usage reporting is enabled, [...]
So I am back home and (almost) fully recovered from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas…
I have been reeling trying to even figure out where to start with all of the 2010 goodness I saw in breakout sessions, new resources released, and opportunities and solutions opened up with the next gen of [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in Virtualization on 02. Dec, 2009 | No Comments
Over the past couple of years, I have used VMWare Workstation to setup, provision, and develop SharePoint development instances. I am still on version 6.5, but will be looking to upgrade to v 7.0 to accommodate my recent switch to Windows 7. I have played around with Hyper-V and can honestly say it is a [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in SharePoint on 02. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
Anyone who worked with MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 in its early release state noticed a lack of documentation in the SDK and in the usual Microsoft sites (MSDN, TechNet). Often times you would run into issues or questions that simply had not been fleshed out or even addressed in the SDK.
This time around with [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in SharePoint on 30. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
The Microsoft SharePoint team has released cumulative updates for SharePoint for the month of October. Remember that you have to have either SP1 and/or SP2 installed prior to loading the cumulative updates. Also be sure to get good farm backups prior to the update.
From the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog:
The server-packages of October 2009 Cumulative Update [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in SharePoint on 05. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
I ran across this issue building out a MOSS2007/Win2008R2 VM the other day and wish I had read this post on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog by Jie Li first!
Starting from Service Pack 2, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 support Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2. When you try [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in SharePoint on 17. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
Although the post is older (January 2008), it is new to me I have written some simple batch files in the past to install the 40 application templates for SharePoint, but these batch files, created by Kindler Chase, are great! Check them out and stop installing the app templates by hand – many [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in Cloud on 24. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
Okay, so I may be a little late to the party on this one (I first read about it here)…but Live Mesh is absolutely awesome! I have been using it for about a month now and it has bailed me out several times. I have been using it to sync all of my dev and [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in SharePoint on 06. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
I have been focusing on Business Intelligence projects over the past couple of months and unfortunately have not had much time to work with SharePoint
Fortunately for me, during my off hours, I have had the pleasure of attending and helping out with a new SharePoint user group for the metro Atlanta area. The [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in SharePoint on 17. Apr, 2009 | No Comments
On the heels of releasing a release roadmap and new official name for SharePoint “14” (to be officially named Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 as announced here), the Microsoft has announced the eminent release (April 28, 2009) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for both the Office suite and the SharePoint Technologies (MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0).
Below you [...]
Posted by Mike Stevens in SharePoint on 10. Apr, 2009 | No Comments
A colleague of mine pointed out a very strange entry (or lack there of) in his SharePoint Central Administration 3.0 site today. All of his site collections had “Immediate Alerts” timer service jobs except for one!
Because of this, users were not getting their alerts. It also worth pointing out that when a user created a [...]
