When I am actually in town, I have the pleasure of attending a SharePoint user group for the metro Atlanta area. The Atlanta SharePoint User Group is an independent user group for SP admins and developers. We meet every 3rd Monday at 6:30 pm ET the Continue Reading →
Admittedly, I was not too excited to learn I would need to add yet another new technology skillset when I first learned SharePoint 2010 would include a PowerShell management interface. Most of us are behind on our bucket list of new technologies to master as it is... Fortunately, after biting the bullet and diving in, I have been pleasantly [...]
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So you have decided to upgrade your MOSS 2007 farm to SharePoint 2010. You’ve reviewed the two supported migration techniques and decided to start fresh with a new SharePoint 2010 farm on new hardware and/or VMs and use the database attach method… using the new SharePoint 2010 Mount-SPContentDatabase PowerShell [...]
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This has come up for me twice this week. During an initial install a typo or a service application reinstall (I’m looking at you, User Profile service application!), web applications remain in the drop down list when creating new service applications.
Oddly, the web application pools do not show up in IIS 7.0, but you [...]
Channel 9 SharePoint 2010 Developer Videos
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Anyone who worked with MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 in its early release state noticed a lack of documentation in the SDK and in the usual Microsoft sites (MSDN, TechNet). Often times you would run into issues or questions that simply had not been fleshed out or even addressed in the SDK.
This time around [...]
In spite of my rudimentary javascript skills, I’ve been using jQuery for just about anything I can think of lately to spruce up the MOSS 2007/WSS user experience. Yesterday I threw together a simple interactive image element using the jQueryUI library. I wanted to display info dialog/modal windows when [...]
A colleague asked last week if anyone on the team had a definitive list of the out of the box usage reports for MOSS 2007. I could recall a lot of them from memory, but did not have a complete list. After a little fishing, I found this list on TechNet:
After usage [...]
Here are some SharePoint 2010 links I’ve collected so far…
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