Microsoft SharePoint Bloggers

Links for January 9th 2008: LINQ for Office Developers, Office and Open XML Poster Downloads

Erika Ehrli — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:01:00 GMT

Here is a list on links that I want to share with you. LINQ for Office Developers Some Office solutions require that you work with XML. Open XML documents, SharePoint, and InfoPath are great samples. LINQ to XML is an in-memory XML programming interface...(read more)

Video: Michael On The Go – SharePoint Discussion Boards, Outlook, and Mobile Integration

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:49:30 GMT

URL: Video: Michael On The Go – SharePoint Discussion Boards, Outlook, and Mobile Integration Body: In this episode of Michael On The Go I talk about a real world scenario for enabling discussions for mobile personnel using their mobile devices (in this...(read more)

Suggest a Topic/Code Sample for Future Office Visual How-tos

Erika Ehrli — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:11:00 GMT

While reviewing traffic to some of our MSDN content, I noticed that the Office Visual How-tos we've published on the MSDN Library are getting lots of page views! Developers seem to like this content type since it provides a short article, code sample...(read more)

Searching Dynamics CRM from SharePoint using the BDC

Ian's SharePoint Blog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:20:00 GMT

Now you can easily search Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Office SharePoint Server. The Enterprise Search Accelerator includes: Documentation - Documents covering all aspects of the accelerator are included to help walk you through the process of getting started...(read more)

How to create a SharePoint slipstream using the latest updates

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:25:33 GMT

With the announcement of the December 2008 Cumulative Update and the changes in the software update model it brings, we felt it was a good time to revisit the topic of slipstreaming. This post provides the process for creating a slipstream installation...(read more)

Final Reminder: Don’t Miss Today’s Webcast - NewsGator Social Computing Enhancements for SharePoint

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:33:46 GMT

URL: Final Reminder: Don’t Miss Today’s Webcast - NewsGator Social Computing Enhancements for SharePoint Body: Just a final reminder. If you are looking to leverage the Social Computing aspects of SharePoint within your organization then you really need...(read more)

Windows 7 Download And Install Instructions

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:09:52 GMT

URL: Windows 7 Download And Install Instructions Body: Tomorrow, January 9th, Windows 7 beta will be available to all enthusiasts for download and install. To help everyone with finding and installing it Windows Communications Manager, Brandon LeBlanc...(read more)

Common Problem with Content Deployment: mixing incremental and full deployment

Stefan Goßner — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:32:00 GMT

A common error I often see is that customers are mixing incremental and full deployment when deploying a site collection. E.g. use incremental deployment every day and full deployment once a week - just to be sure (maybe because they do not trust incremental...(read more)

Dynamic MindManager Map Generated from SharePoint List Data

Ian's SharePoint Blog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:04:00 GMT

Using the Data View web part and the concept of an XML Data Island, I was able to get the Mindjet HTML Viewer control to render data directly from a SharePoint list. See the demo here http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/MindManager2.aspx (this will download...(read more)

Mark Your Calendars - SharePoint Weekly Webcast Series: NewsGator Social Computing Enhancements for SharePoint

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint + — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:48:48 GMT

Body: Published: 1/5/2009 7:45 PM Video: No 15 Minutes: No Read More......(read more)

Thankfully I’m not a SharePoint Project Manager

Ian's SharePoint Blog — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:09:40 GMT

But I often wish I had more influence on the way some projects are run. Most organizations know there is lots of room for improvement in the way they manage and execute projects. Lots of emphasis is placed on Enterprise Project Management (EPM implies...(read more)

Reporting on the performance of your SharePoint SQL Server

Ian's SharePoint Blog — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:36:14 GMT

Or any other SQL server for that matter... Another task I managed to complete within a day was to get SSRS installed on WSSDemo.com's SQL server (still running 2005, upgrading to 2008 will wait for another day). There are a number of reports you can...(read more)

Gimmal Group Seminar – ECM and RM in a SharePoint World

Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:31:47 GMT

I met with some great folks from the Gimmal Group last month and was pleased to learn that they are targeting some of their experience at helping enterprises understand how to leverage the SharePoint platform for their Enterprise Content Management and...(read more)

Change Your Pricing

Owen Allen - The MOSS Garden — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:54:56 GMT

Chris Brogran tweeted about a Seth Godin post about what happens to companies when they change their pricing . I thought it was great, so I figured that it would relate to SharePoint in some way or another. :-) "When a restaurant goes from a la carte...(read more)

Conflicting Characteristics of Content Requirements in SharePoint

Ian's SharePoint Blog — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:36:00 GMT

Most products that store content are designed to meet the requirements of a particular discipline; collaboration, document management or record management. The challenge with designing a SharePoint solution is that you might need to meet the requirements...(read more)