March 2011 - SharePoint User Group Blogs
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I’ve been in the Microsoft space for quite a couple of years. I understand the stack, have dabbled with MSCRM, but have always concentrated on SharePoint. In this time Microsoft have changed gears and shifted focus a couple of times and something that...
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According to Robin Sharma, you don’t need to be a manager or CEO to be a leader. So what does that mean in real life? It means everyone in your organisation taking ownership for the job they have there to the very best of their ability. Ok, but why does...
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In this interview we speak with Todd Carter, a Principal Premier Field Engineer about the role of a PFE at Microsoft, looking at the clients, the situations, the type of work and the tools PFEs use to service customers. Show Links: Visual Studio 2010...
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Hi everyone, We have had to change the venue for the London meeting on the 31st March. New details can be found here http://suguk.org/forums/thread/26218.aspx Looking forward to seeing everyone Steve Read More...
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Focus has brought out a small research paper on using Twitter which has a contribution from me. Filed under: Social Networking Read More...
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Microsoft Corp announced on 21 March at the MMS conference that the Core CAL suite will include Microsoft Lync ™ Server Standard CAL and Microsoft Forefront™ Endpoint Protection in August 2011. Essentially this adds in functionality of Instant...
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There is a book that you all have to read. The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma. This book is life changing. From a personal level, from a business level – your life can never be the same again once you read this. It has had a profound effect on...
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Another not so amusing quirck from SharePoint 2010. If you insert a list web part into a site page in SharePoint 2010, and then try and edit the columns in the view – the web part will delete from the page. In this example, I wanted to add my Announcements...
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There is no out of box way of getting slidedecks to open in presentation mode in SharePoint 2007 (or 2003), even if they are saved as pps/x files. This is related to browser and file association issues that are far too time consuming for most end users...
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A new Site Owner approached me at the Best Practices Conference saying that she didn’t actually get the whole SharePoint governance thing. It all seemed pie in the sky to her. She wanted to know what it meant to her and why she should care. It was a good...
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No doubt there is a huge amount of interest from both the customer and partner space around Microsoft Lync in South Africa. And rightfully so. The product has matured into so many usage scenarios and received great reviews (see customer testimonials Read...
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I recently developed a SharePoint solution which requires that 3 Nintex 2010 workflows are published on 13 document libraries in 22 SharePoint sites. I developed the Nintex workflows on a single library in one site and gave it to the test team to perform...
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I know that it has been a couple of months since I’ve added a new blog post… I would like to get this up and running again and explain why things have been so quiet . I took up a new role at Microsoft in November last year. This brought to an end my tenure...
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It is amazing how we mis-read emotions, gestures, facial expressions and body language. In this day and age of social media and personal technology; we are starting to lose that ability of “real” interaction with members of our species. But on the other...
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When creating SharePoint site columns and adding them to content types programmatically, we normally commit out changes by calling the update function in the syntax:- ContentType.Update(); Did you know that on the site content type you are updating, this...
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