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  • Body: Last year I was brought in to help rescue a large and badly floundering project. The system in question made use of managed metadata in several areas and the original developers used Ari Bakker's blog and code as their basis, specifically the code and in this excellent blog post. Ari began his..
  • Code to Interfaces. Right. What’s an Interface?

       May. 16, 2012 6:48 PM EST    Fear and Loathing   
    The premise of coding to interfaces has been around for awhile now. The concept is simple. Given a definition of something you create things based on that definition. That might be a horrible description of an interface but I didn’t want to go all Computer Science on you. Interface? What’s an I..
  • SharePoint Upgrade or Migrate

       May. 16, 2012 4:15 PM EST    Sharepoint Tips And Tricks   
    Hello again everyone. In March I have published an article in IDM magazine (australia) about upgrading sharepoint and what is the difference between that and migration, and the pros and cons of each one. I even gave tips to successfull upgrademigration projects. If you want to read it, I have now re..
  • Manage Your Service Apps Faster

       May. 16, 2012 12:34 PM EST    Matthew McDermott, MVP   
    In the SharePoint 2010 Administrators Survival Camp that I teach for Critical Path Training I teach a module on PowerShell (and a whole bunch of tips and tricks along the way). One of the tips that I teach is to use the Resources list in Central Administration to create links to the most often used ..
  • Brian Ru just published a blog post over on the main Project blog announcing the release of all the recorded content from the Project Conference 2012 – on the Project Channel of Microsoft Showcase.  So if you didn’t get to Project Conference 2012 this is a great chance to catch up with all ..
  • So as you know I am yet again involved in SPS NYC with my awesome teammates, Greg Hurlman, Jason Gallicchio, Tasha Scott, and Tom Daly.  The speakers have finally been picked and a first draft schedule has been posted at http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/ny.  We are also still looking for sponsors..
  • So as you can see this blog has not been the best in the world lately.  Life changes and burn out are killing me lately.  Don’t get me wrong I love my job.  I love writing things in Visual Studio, in fact this week I got to work with MVC3 for the first time ever.  I am completely hooked on MVC..
  • I started a new ASP.NET MVC project recently and wanted to give you a little insight on kicking off new projects. There’s some setup time you want to spend setting up your solution and getting the plumbing in order before you dive into writing unit tests and building out your site. For a full on..
  • Being a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer

       May. 15, 2012 4:14 PM EST    Chris O'Brien's blog   
    Since the beginning of the year I’ve been contracting to Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer, and I’ve been meaning to write about my experiences. Since my team (here in the UK) are looking for new people, now seems like a good time. Also, although I was already fairly close to Microsoft in ma..
  • This Week in Bamboo (May 6th, 2012 - May 12th, 2012)

       May. 15, 2012 10:28 AM EST    Bamboo Nation   
    Patch for Workflow Conductor SharePoint 2010 Release 2.5 was released to the storefront this week along with User Directory Web Part Release 1.7 and Group Email Web Part Release 1.7.  Please check out the latest releases of this week and see below for more information on all the bug fixes and n..
  • Body: For the last few weeks the organizing committee for this year's Atlanta Code Camp (including myself!) has been busily planning and organizing this year's Atlanta Code Camp. This year's event is once again on the campus of Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta. You can read more and..
  • Assessing One's Own Project Management Skills

       May. 15, 2012 5:30 AM EST    Bamboo Nation   
    The confluence of our busy season at work and a distinct lack of inspiration lately has had me floundering for topics to cover. I haven't been doing very project manager-y things at work lately, so the wellspring from which I usually draw topics has been pretty dry. The theory of capital-P, capi..
  • I really don't understand people and I'm not sure I want to.  -  Dooley Top News StoriesThe Battle Ahead: Information Governance and the Need for Social ECM (AIIM)“Gartner predicts by 2016, 20% of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement..
  • Upcoming NewsGator Webinars NewsGator has a few upcoming webinars. Sign up and mark your calendars! Capture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePointMay 16th @ 2pm ETCapture, Leverage, and Archive Your Social Content with NewsGator and AvePoint (APAC)May 17th @ 10 am EST..
  • NYC Metro Area Community Dinner

       May. 13, 2012 8:27 PM EST    The Guide of a MOSSLover   
    So I have decided to hold a community dinner the first week of June.  I invited a bunch of MS community members who run user groups or contribute a lot in the NYC Metro area.  If anyone is interested drop me comment on this blog with your email address.  I won’t publish the comment with your em..
  • Useful Event handlers for SharePoint

       May. 13, 2012 6:57 PM EST    Sharepoint Tips And Tricks   
    In a few of my recent posts, I wrote about event handlers to set titles and permissions on items automatically as items are created. Since then, I have received a lot of questions from none developers who wanted to use the code samples, but didnt want to compile themselves, and didnt want to go..
  • SharePoint Technology Conference – Boston 2012

       May. 12, 2012 6:25 PM EST    SharePoint Dan   
    For anyone that’s interested in saving a little cash and going to a great conference in Boston, you’ll be happy to know that myself and Scott Hoag will be taking our show on the road to the SharePoint Technology Conference this July in Boston. We’re excited to be a part of the eve..
  • Small World

       May. 12, 2012 4:28 PM EST    OBA, SharePoint and Aghy   
    Body: Earlier this week, we’ve had a discussion about the benefits of social media at SharePoint Connections in Bavaria, Germany. One of the benefits was that social media helps to find old friends – looks like my life proves this immediately. I’ve just booked my flight to Boston for this Sum..
  • I get asked this question a lot, "Who has the cheapest SharePoint 2010 hosting?" Simply put, it depends on how many users you have. The "users" are the people who will access SharePoint. These will include your employees, sub contractors, partners, vendors, and anyone else who needs to view or uploa..
  • Web Templates are the new recommended approach for templating sites. Combined with Sandboxed Solutions they empower power users and offer them great flexibility and productivity. There is however one inconvenience with regard to how SharePoint Navigation Providers deal with Sandboxed Web Templates. ..
  • I’ve always thought the word kill comes on a little strong, but at the same time… I think it gets the point across.  I’ve been very big into mobile lately and SharePoint’s default mobile WAP interface is driving me crazy.  About 5 months ago I wrote about some of my experiences: SharePoint..
  • I’ve always thought the word kill comes on a little strong, but at the same time… I think it gets the point across.  I’ve been very big into mobile lately and SharePoint’s default mobile WAP interface is driving me crazy.  About 5 months ago I wrote about some of my experiences: SharePoint..
  • At Bamboo this week, we released the following patches: Alert Plus, List Rollup Web Part, Wiki Publisher, and Lookup Selector Column.  We added some new features on latest releases of Alert Plus for SharePoint 2007 version and Wiki Publisher for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 versions..
  • REGISTERRegister for the next meeting. It's FREE, but space is limited. PRESENTER  The presenter for our next meeting is Donal Conlon, of Jornata. He will be presenting "Implementing Forms Based Authentication."  SESSION ABSTRACT  There are many reasons to not use Forms Based Authent..
  • FEDSPUG – 3 May 2012

       May. 8, 2012 4:13 AM EST    SharePoint Dan   
    After a quick jaunt up to New York City, Scott Hoag and I had the fortunate opportunity to present at the Federal SharePoint Users Group.  We shared insights and information on the topic of architectural design and process failures when moving to SharePoint 2010. If you’ve been following us, ..
  • Cronyism comes to the SharePoint Community

       May. 8, 2012 1:00 AM EST    SBC DotNet Weblog   
    Last year, for SharePoint Saturday New York 2011 #SPSNYC , I had submitted 3 proposed developer sessions and all three were rejected. Apparently, there were 7 SharePoint governance sessions in a track that crowded out the developers but four of the governance sessions were presented by speakers from..
  • SharePoint Saturday Orlando Registrations are Open

       May. 7, 2012 7:00 AM EST    The Mossman   
      We have opened up registration for the first ever SharePoint Saturday in Orlando, Saturday, June 9th, 2012. The event is free but seats are going quickly… we have given out about half of them already! If you are interested in attending please fill out our Eventbrite form so that we can mak..