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January 2011 - SharePoint User Group Blogs
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Last night I sat playing with ideas in my head. I need a design that is both pretty and functional. I landed up with two starts to a site. Here was my first attempt, but I lost interest. Too many sites play on the “sunset” theme and as it can be pretty...
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Here are the essential documents you need to complete… Initiation Business Case: To justify the financial investment in your SharePoint Project, you need to write a Business Case. It lists the costs and benefits, so everyone knows what the return on investment...
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This is one of those silly little mistakes which we very often overlook…and believe it or not, I have found many forums and blog posts where developers ask for help on this. I wanted to work with the SPFarm.Local object earlier this week and forgot that...
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So you are busy configuring your brand spanking new SharePoint website. You’ve done all the dirty work (Page Layout, Master Pages etc) and you are now in the nitty gritty of configuring permissions and so forth. You get a last minute request from you...
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Tonight was a comedy of errors. I had to fix up a site I had done, because some things were just *not* working after a “re-do”. So lets work through my issues and my fixes shall we? ISSUES: 1. I had customized the content query web part to show a title...
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Although virtualizing SharePoint on the desktop has long been important for development, perhaps the most important and most interesting space is that of virtualization of SharePoint on the server. In this episode we speak with Michael Noel about the...
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With SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 the ability to be a productive developer was key and there is tight out-of-the-box integration and this means that it is easy for SharePoint developers to put code into source control easily. Hilton Giesnow...
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What a brilliant start to my Monday Morning. Last week I applied for one of FpWeb.nets‘s free SharePoint2010 sites. It is usually given to experts, speakers and major bloggers, but I managed to nab one for SharePoint Designer.co.za This is brilliant news...
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So many clients are making the move to SharePoint 2010 this year, I thought I’d share some stats on what the new version can handle that effects business users. (I know it’s old news for the techies). Please note - Just because SharePoint can handle this...
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We’re kicking off monthly sessions here at the Cape Town Information Worker community, so I recently did a re-presentation of my Tech Ed Africa developer overview talk on SharePoint 2010 which I was able to record. It was a nice small crowd so we went...
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At The IW forum last week we had some people from Intervate come chat to us about their new SharePoint 2010 website (www.intervate.co.za). I got shown this website in December last year by Veronique Palmer, and it made me realise how much can be done...
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Happy New Year All, I stumbled into an error "The search application for 'SharedServices' on server [SERVERNAME] is not provisioned. Confirm that the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service and Windows SharePoint Services Administration...
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The very first SharePoint Business Workshop took place at IW last night and it was a great success. There was a good turn-out of about 30 people, business guys and techies alike. And that was the point – to start learning from each other so we can make...
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This paper discusses performance of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 social networking and business possibilities to expose useful information about users, their skills and the content they create. http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/getdocument.aspx?docname=4AA0-1294ENW&cc...
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In the previous interview with Pej Javaheri from the SharePoint B.I. team at Microsoft, we discussed what Business Intelligence is, what it means, and some of the history of the topic and the tools. In this show, we fast forward to today, understanding...
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