SharePoint Experts

Where Does SharePoint Still Fall Short?

2010-03-16T09:57:00Z

I was interviewed by a collection of SharePoint enthusiasts last week and was asked a number of very interesting question about the current and next releases of SharePoint. The one I found most intriguing was “With all the great things in SharePoint 2010 Read More......(read more)

Importing profiles , but not all …..

2010-03-16T09:41:05Z

So you are importing user profiles. But then there comes the moment when you find out, you don’t want everything imported. Just a subset, or maybe even just 2 out of 3 containers. I have been there. A customer of mine had his Active Directory in Read More......(read more)

Making Big Decisions in Real Time

2010-03-16T00:25:00Z

We were on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Friday morning. We got there before the market opened and got to meet some of the participants. It was an eye opener to say the least. We met one of the DMM’s (Designated Market Makers) that Read More......(read more)

This is my current development rig

2010-03-15T19:52:17Z

Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction A lot of my clients, students and SharePoint friends have been asking me about details on my latest development rig - so here you go, a full disclosure of the Read More......(read more)

Vote for Your Favorite SharePoint Applications

2010-03-15T19:29:26Z

Andy Dale at Office Talk is again running his SharePoint Awards. The nominees in the following 10 categories were announced yesterday: BEST SHAREPOINT INFORMATION SITE BEST SHAREPOINT WEBPART PROVIDER BEST SHAREPOINT ADMINISTRATION TOOL BEST WEBSITE BUILT Read More......(read more)

Conditionally show content the easy way

2010-03-15T16:03:59Z

Yesterday I showed you a neat way to hide/show some content based on authentication level and/or the page mode. The cool thing about it was that whenever the control was hidden, the child controls didn’t get instantiated at all preventing you from any Read More......(read more)

Power of CEWP series: Toggle Quick Launch

2010-03-15T07:00:00Z

After a while I’ve prepared the third (or second if you count first two as one) article in Power of Content Editor WebPart series. In this article we do something that was already done using JavaScript – we hide SharePoint’s Quick Launch bar Read More......(read more)

EndUserSharePoint2010.com: New Site for SharePoint 2010

2010-03-15T02:44:24Z

Since SharePoint Conference 2009 in October, I have been receiving a lot of articles from authors of 2010 material. So much in fact, I’ve created a new site just for that material: EndUserSharePoint2010.com. Read More......(read more)

Twynham School Learning Gateway 2007-10 Chapter One part 6- IT room and hardware booking

2010-03-14T18:42:13Z

IT Room and Hardware booking With 12 IT suites 8 of which have some open booking facility and dozens of pieces of bookable hardware the Twynham Learning Gateway allows efficient management of resources for IT support staff. The Room and hardware booking Read More......(read more)

Twynham School Learning Gateway 2007-10 Chapter One part 5- Cloud based software

2010-03-14T14:05:54Z

My Programs Staff and student access to software away from school is always an issue especially when the software is subject specific and unlikely to be owned by individuals. The Twynham Learning Gateway overcomes this by making software available from Read More......(read more)

Inconvenient SPSecurityTrimmedControl revisited

2010-03-14T13:26:59Z

About a year ago I wrote about the inconvenience of the SPSecurityTrimmedControl: a great idea within the SharePoint framework that unfortunately doesn’t work the way it should. Now, as we’re about to get a new release of SharePoint, I decided to check Read More......(read more)

Webdesigners vs. SharePoint: the body id

2010-03-13T19:49:11Z

Body id is a cool webdesign trick that allows designers to easily alter the layout of a page using nothing more than a single property and some CSS styling. Using the body id you can define one HTML page structure for the whole site and then, by changing Read More......(read more)

Twynham School Learning Gateway 2007-10 Chapter One part 4- Staff Media Library

2010-03-13T17:23:59Z

One of the sub sites of the Staff Gateway is the Media Library. Over the course of three and a half years the Twynham Systems Team have digitised over 5,000 video and audio clips and these are made available to staff both within the school and at home Read More......(read more)

Twynham School Learning Gateway 2007-10 Chapter One part 3- Staff alerts

2010-03-13T12:48:26Z

Staff Alerts- cover and lessons not registered One of the key quick wins when launching the Staff Gateway was the ability for staff to gain access to crucial information. Every morning by 8.15 a.m. any cover requirements are entered into the MIS system Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools vs. Modules with many files

2010-03-13T11:53:10Z

Visual Studio 2010 ships with new SharePoint Developer Tools that simplify the process of developing solutions for the SharePoint platform. Using nothing more than the standard functionality provided with the tools you can rapidly create custom solution Read More......(read more)