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By: Brian Hulse
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February 24, 2010 at 11:08 AM SharePoint 2010 has finally done away with displaying list data using CAML with the XSLT list view web part. Now you can take advantage of the flexibility that XSLT can offer you. This is not to say that you can’t use your previous CAML statements in SP 2010, they are still supported, but hopefully after you see what is possible with the new XSLT list view web part you will leave CAML behind. There are two main ways that you can change the view of your data. Use conditional formatting just lik
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By: Bob Moore
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February 12, 2010 at 11:09 PMI was recently trying to restore an environment at a client site and kept getting access is denied. This baffled me because the account I was using had the proper database permissions to perform the task at hand and is a local admin on the server. The user is the account that I was used to create the web application.
It turns out the the user performing the restore needs to be a site collection administrator to restore from a backup. So in review the user account must have the proper righ
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By: Jeff Schertz
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February 7, 2010 at 11:10 AM There are a few scenarios where you may want to use Outlook to access an Exchange Online mailbox but cannot use the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In client. This could be due to installation or operating requirements of the client (some OS versions are unsupported) or maybe users don’t have the required permissions to install software but can at least modify Outlook profiles. Take note that this is a completely unsupported approach and might not even work on some platforms. The intent is for
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 29, 2010 at 8:00 AMWhen setting up a new BPOS site for clients the first conversation I make sure to have is about their on-premise Active Directory solution. Most companies already have a domain even if they are currently using Notes or Groupwise for a messaging solution, I haven’t seen a fully native Novell operation where no Windows domain authentication is in place in quite a long time. But often in the midst of messaging migrations there is also some type of Active Directory transition planned or in progres
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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January 23, 2010 at 10:31 AM If you weren’t already aware, Microsoft release an out-of-band update (not release during the normal Windows Updates Cycle) on Thursday that impacts almost all versions of Windows and IE. You need to get this installed ASAP. Details from Microsoft are listed below. This alert is to provide you with an overview of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002, the Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer, released (out-of-band) on Thursday, January 21. This bulletin addresses eight vulnerabilitie
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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January 23, 2010 at 10:16 AMJust a reminder that if you are running Windows 7 RC1 your time is quickly running out. Microsoft posted this to their TechNet Site, Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you’ll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010. On June 1, 2010 your PC will completely stop functioning. Unfortunately there is no upgrade path from RC to RTM so y
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 8, 2010 at 8:15 AM
When planning a migration up to Exchange Online, or even when working with a current customer that has already noticed this, there is one important distinction to be aware of regarding how Contact Objects are handled in the BPOS-Shared realm. Whether or not Directory Synchronization is (or will be) used with an on-premise Active Directory domain is also important.
Created in the Cloud
First off, an administrator can simply create a contact directly in the Exchange Online environment using t
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 7, 2010 at 4:38 PM(Okay, before I get hate mail for two iPhone related blog articles in a row let us get back to business). One of the more common questions I get when migrating clients up to Exchange Online is where can they view mailbox size information for all of the users online. This is typically more often asked during Exchange on-premise migrations where administrators are used to being able to retrieve that information from the Exchange Command Shell. Unfortunately the Microsoft Online Services Administr
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 7, 2010 at 4:18 PMSo, I just ran into this issue and thought it would be worth documenting. During countless pilot migrations of users from various mail platforms to the Exchange Online portion of BPOS I’m surprised I’m just seeing this for the first time. The Scenario Where this appears is with a standard end-user scenario of a single Microsoft Outlook profile configured for POP or IMAP access to some hosted mailbox. Also iTunes is installed on the same computer and the iPhone is configured to synchronize Cont
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM Although the new Voice Mail Preview feature in Exchange 2010 has (rightfully) grabbed most of the spotlight in terms of neat new features in the product, there is another change in 2010 that is equally as important to anyone who is using an iPhone with Exchange ActiveSync. Previously when my corporate mailbox was on an Exchange 2007 mailbox server I was not able to hear Unified Messaging Voice Mail messages directly on my phone, not at least without dialing into Outlook Voice Access to retrieve
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By: Thomas DuPont
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January 4, 2010 at 3:53 PM A great new feature in SharePoint 2010 is the content organizer. In SharePoint 2007, the only way to manage your documents was to use the Record Center Site template which didn't really provide flexibility. Now in SharePoint 2010, the routing engine and supporting settings are encapsulated in a feature that can be activated in any site. Enable the feature 'Content Organizer' at the site level: Once the feature activated, you will notice two new settings links appearing on the site settings pa
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By: Apryl Crossland
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January 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM
The Managed Metadata Service is a highly configurable service application that controls three distinct features: keyword store, managed terms and content type publishing. The access to and control of these three features needs to be considered individually when determining the structure of the service applications and connections among the various web apps in the farm(s).
The content type hub is designated at the Managed Metadata Service (MMS) service application level which creates a wh
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By: Apryl Crossland
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January 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM
In Part I of this topic we covered the considerations for content type publishing that relate to keyword/managed terms. In this part we'll cover considerations for content type publishing as they relate to content type administration.
Again, the content type hub is the designated site collection that will be used to publish and administer content types to all subscribing sites. There can only be one content type hub per Managed Metadata Service (MMS) service application and any site in a web
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By: Travis Nielsen
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January 2, 2010 at 7:29 PMIn my previous post, I demonstrated how to enable a SharePoint 2010 web application for claims authentication. As a result, it could be seen that all relevant windows account information (account SID, logon name, group membership) is automatically consumed from Active Directory by the SharePoint Security Token Service (STS) and transformed into claims, which as the basis for the SPUser object. Except for a handy web part, no extra configuration required. It’s all “out of the box”. I then went on
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By: Daniel Herzog
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December 30, 2009 at 11:46 PMI recently had to create a custom web part that could consistently display list items in a consistent manner, and it had to allow the user to point it at any list with any filtering and sorting criteria. Rather than build my own filtering and sorting funcitonality, I found it easier, more user-friendly, and more flexible to leverage SharePoint's list Views.
The idea is simple - let the users create a view, complete with sorting and filtering rules, and then use that as the basis for selecti
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By: Daniel Herzog
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December 30, 2009 at 11:12 PMSharePoint Designer 2010 makes it easy to create a workflow. What's even better is that you can export that workflow, import it into Visual Studio 2010, and add code and custom activities.
You may find that exporting the workflow to a WSP in SharePoint designer fails. Luckily there's a simple workaround once your workflow is deployed to a SharePoint 2010 site.
Go into that site and save it as a template (via Site Settings).
Then download the WSP from the site template gallery.
Now
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By: Bob Moore
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December 30, 2009 at 2:13 PM
I decided to expand on one of Travis Neilson's posts called Introducing Documents Sets. Being the eternal developer that I am I decided to write a blog on how to create a Document Set using C# and the new object model for SP2010.
In trying to figure out how to do this, I though I would try the 2007 way and add a new ListItem to my test document library....well that didn't work so well. While I was looking at the code for the NewDocSet.aspx page I stumbled upon a new assembly and namesp
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By: Bob Moore
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December 30, 2009 at 1:58 PMAfter being shown the Managed Metadata Service and the Term Stores in SharePoint 2010, I felt the need to figure out how to create all of the items that were shown to me in code. Below is a list of new classes that we will be using to accomplish the task:
TaxonomySession
TermStore
Group
TermSet
The code below will create a new group called "A Group" and then create a TermSet and populating the TermSet with items. Here is the code:
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate
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By: Travis Nielsen
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December 29, 2009 at 11:30 PMOne of the most intriguing of the many new features that SharePoint 2010 brings to the table is a completely new mechanism handle user identity. This mechanism is based on the Windows Identity Foundation (formerly known as “Geneva”) and it opens the door to many new possibilities for securely and seamlessly integrating SharePoint with partner organizations, Internet social networking applications (think Twitter and Facebook), 3rd party identity providers (Yahoo!, Windows Live, Google), other Sh
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By: Travis Nielsen
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December 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM
For the past month or so I’ve been giving Windows Identity Foundation a very close look, especially where it relates to SharePoint 2010. I’ll be posting a series of blogs on this subject and I thought it might be useful to start off with a quick introduction on how to access the claims from which an SPUser object is derived. I feel this is very helpful for folks who are looking to learn more about that what this stuff is all about. As they say, seeing is believing!
The good news is this is fa
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By: Seth Broweleit
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December 29, 2009 at 10:41 PMIn previous versions of SharePoint it was impossible to add corners to a Web Part with just CSS (unless you were building sites for only the latest browsers). The best way was to style a container DIV on the Page Layout and put a Web Part Zone inside. Then, a Web Part in that zone would appear to have round corners. This method greatly reduces the flexibility of SharePoint because there can only be one Web part in each Zone for the effect to work. Styling Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 has become
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By: Erik Enger
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December 28, 2009 at 11:35 PMThis is just a quick heads up on the Play-on-Phone feature in Exchange 2010. I was testing several of the new UM features in my lab and one that had me scratching my head was Play-on-Phone which allows a UM user to play messages at their internal extension or any number they choose, providing the dialing rules and policies are in place to allow that. This is a useful feature for connections that might not provide audio functions, such as a kiosk or corporate desktop. This is also useful when pri
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By: Seth Broweleit
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December 27, 2009 at 10:49 PMThe backgrounds in SharePoint 2010 were designed to allow end users to change gradients by simply picking solid colors on the settings page. For example if you choose an orange background color the result is a fade from orange to lighter orange. The change can be very subtle but is an effective way to create an attractive site. This is a significant upgrade from older versions of SharePoint where, in order to change the branding, you would have had to undertake the time-consuming task of editin
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By: Raja Ayyapusetty
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December 24, 2009 at 10:10 AMTo enable the scope picker next to search input box I started off with the 2007 approach of writing a custom feature and giving it higher priority as mentioned in this MSDN article. Even after setting the search control’s DropDownModeEx property to “ShowDD” it wasn’t displaying the dropdown. After some struggle I stumbled up on the search settings option under site collection settings. As shown in the screenshot below, it gives us an option to show or hide the scope picker next to the search inp
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By: Erik Enger
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December 17, 2009 at 10:11 AMFederation is certainly a welcome and interesting feature in Exchange 2010. Being able to share calendar information with other organizations will greatly improve collaboration efforts, especially with shops leveraging both on-premise and Exchange Online services for their information workers. There is a modest amount of information on this feature and how to set it up in the form of TechNet articles, blogs and even a webcast. I read through the available material and webcast set out to try and
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By: Erik Enger
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December 15, 2009 at 4:36 PM
One of the improved features in Exchange 2010 is multi-mailbox searching. While you could do this to a degree in Exchange 2007 it usually required too many rights to delegate it to a compliance officer and the searches had to be run from PowerShell so it was often problematic for the user to perform these searches on their own and too burdensome for the administrator to do it on behalf of the user. The normal Exchange search you’re used to doing is still available in case of other requirements
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By: Matthew McGillen
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December 14, 2009 at 10:08 AMA client just had a nasty little issue with Rights Management Server today: it stopped working. Yeah, that's a pretty bad issue. As it turns out, anyone with RMS and Office 2003 will have this same experience. From the KB:
Starting on December 11, 2009, customers using Office 2003 will not be able to open Office 2003 documents protected with the Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS) or Rights Management Services (RMS). Customers will also not be able to save Office 2003 documents p
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By: Travis Nielsen
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December 8, 2009 at 10:23 PMOK. OK. We here at PointBridge don’t always work with bleeding edge technology. And who can resist a chance to blog about FoxPro! I’ve recently been working on converting some DTS packages to SSIS and ran across a strange issue with the OLE DB provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0. Long story short, I created a connection manager that pointed to a “free table directory” that hosted a couple of .dbf files. No big deal. I was able to validate connections in BIDS and also run a preview from the OLE DB
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By: Erik Enger
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November 21, 2009 at 9:26 AMFollowing on from mass BPOS account activations you can now perform mass password resets with the latest Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools. The PowerShell script below will read in a list of BPOS accounts and reset the password. The two fields you need in the CSV file are the email address and desired password. See the BPOS password requirements before establishing a new password. In the script below you can choose not to force the user to change the password you assign to them by changi
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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November 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM Just a word to the wise, if you are looking to setup SharePoint Server 2010 you may want to use Windows Server 2008, not R2. Otherwise when you go to setup The User Profile Service Application you are going to get the issue below. Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Profile\client.config line 56) Stayed tuned as I will update this blog with the hotfix
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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November 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM
One of my most popular posts to date has been the post to open Stsadm at any point in command prompt. I have updated this post for SharePoint 2010. This will save you from having to type C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\bin every time you need to run Stsadm.
Open Environment Variables
From Server 2008 open the Advanced System Properties Control Panel – either by right-clicking My Computer and going to Properties then Advanced System Properties or by go
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By: Erik Enger
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November 18, 2009 at 12:39 AM Bulk account activations are now available with the latest Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools. If you're like me performing this in the past was a pain since you had to activate the accounts through the web portal which allowed you to activate only a handful of accounts at a time and collecting the passwords for delivery to the users was excruciating too. We now have a solution! The PowerShell script below will read in a list of BPOS accounts and activate them in BPOS. The fields you ne
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By: Jeff Schertz
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November 10, 2009 at 11:22 AMThis week Microsoft has begun the process to migrate all the current discussion forums for Unified Communications-related topics into a single category. As with any migration there is both an upside and a downside to these changes. Most importantly, going forward it will be much easier for users to locate the correct forum in which to pose a question on a specific OCS-related problem they are experiencing as there are not many different categories across multiple sites with similar topics to c
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By: Jeff Monnette
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November 9, 2009 at 4:18 PMI just returned from the 5 day SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training for Developers in Amsterdam. The training was an invitation-only opportunity for Mircrosoft's top-tier partners to get hands-on experience with the latest and greatest features in the upcoming SharePoint release. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to go to this event and to have had such an in-depth look at what should prove to be one of Microsoft's most exciting product releases ever. We learned about the many new
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By: Travis Nielsen
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November 8, 2009 at 4:17 PM
This probably won’t impact folks too much when the public beta of SP 2010 hits, but I thought I’d put this up in-case others out there in the community are having this issue. After a new build of my virtual machine with a pre-release version of SP2010, I saw the User Profile Application Service was failing with the following error: “User Profile Application’s connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or User Profile Service may not have been started. Please contact your admi
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By: Jeff Monnette
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November 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Sharepoint 2010 includes out-of-the-box support for RESTful access to list data via the ListData.svc service. This service makes it easy to write client-side applications that consume data from SharePoint lists. The service is a significant improvement over Lists.asmx (which is still supported) in that it natively supports Atom or JSON formatted responses allowing AJAX applications to access data in a format that is ready to use with JavaScript or XSLT.
Getting Started with ListData.svc
Bec
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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November 4, 2009 at 5:19 PMIf you are running Microsoft Office 2010 and are having issues opening documents off Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (WSSv3 applies) and are getting the error Could not open “http://*.*” then you may want to check your internet settings. In Local Area Network Settings of Internet Explorer (Tools, Internet Options, Connections, LAN Settings) try un-checking the Automatically detect settings checkbox. No need to reboot just open the file. Seems to have done the trick for me.
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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November 2, 2009 at 10:49 PMI was doing an Stsadm addcontentdb in SharePoint 2010 and noticed that there is a percentage meter that runs to let you know how far along your process is. This is great news for anyone that has imported a large site and wondered if it was actually working or if SharePoint was hung up.
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By: Thomas DuPont
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October 27, 2009 at 10:28 AMWith SharePoint 2010, LINQ to SharePoint is now fully supported. It now offers the ability to work with strongly typed objects as well as the ability to use the LINQ syntax which is easier than using CAML. Another great advantage of using LINQ to SharePoint is that you can join SharePoint lists which can be very powerful.
In order to use LINQ to SharePoint, you will need to have entity classes created. Rather than having to create them manually which would take a long time, Microsoft provided a
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By: Thomas DuPont
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October 26, 2009 at 11:33 AMSharePoint 2007 didn't have any client object model; as a result, only the server side api could be used to access SharePoint data when creating a Windows, WPF, Console, Silverlight or ASP.NET applications.
SharePoint 2010 now provides the infrasctucture to easily use SharePoint data from those client applications thanks to the client object model. You can now have your client applications easily access SharePoint properties, Lists and Document Libraries eventhough those client applicaitons mi
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By: Bob Moore
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October 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I decided to expand on one of Travis Nielson's posts called Introducing Documents Sets. Being the eternal developer that I am I decided to write a blog on how to create a Document Set using C# and the new object model for SP2010.
In trying to figure out how to do this, I though I would try the 2007 way and add a new ListItem to my test document library....well that didn't work so well. While I was looking at the code for the NewDocSet.aspx page I stumbled upon a new assembly and namesp
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By: Matt Morse
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October 21, 2009 at 12:57 AMI’m attending the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas where Microsoft has just taken the wraps off of SharePoint 2010. Since it’s a new product release and Microsoft has done a pretty good job of keeping the lid on the functionality in the new product until now, there’s a very high level of excitement and interest. The individual breakout sessions have generally been good. I plan to write about a number of topics going forward (as I’m sure many other folks do, as well), but here a
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By: Mike Burger
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October 20, 2009 at 2:20 PMCheck out my SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Posts:
1. SharePoint 2010 Insights - Reporting Services and Chart Web Parts
2. SharePoint 2010 Insights - Excel Services and Visio Services
3. SharePoint 2010 Insights - PerformancePoint Review Part 1 of 2
4. SharePoint 2010 Insights - PerformancePoint Review Part 2 of 2
Enjoy!!
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By: Jeff Monnette
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October 20, 2009 at 12:36 AM
External Lists are a great new feature in SharePoint 2010 that allow you to expose your Business Connectivity Services (formerly known as the Business Data Catalog) entities to end users through the familiar SharePoint list UI. This feature supports both reading from and writing to your line-of-business data sources via SharePoint. The major benefit of this is that it allows users to get at and update all of the data they need for a particular business process in one place regardless of whethe
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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October 19, 2009 at 10:08 PMIn the next version of SharePoint it is clear that Microsoft thought out the backup/restore strategy a bit more than MOSS. If you are someone that has ever had to do a subsite restore from a content database, you know what I am talking about. I will break down the three top improvements when it comes to backup and restores in SharePoint 2010. Backup Site Collection from Central Administration First off, there is the ability to backup an individual site collection from Central Administration.
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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October 19, 2009 at 10:07 PMOne of the major improvements in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to centrally manage your farm health directly from SharePoint Central Administration. The Health Status menu gives you an at-a-glance view of services and issues on the farm as well as a place to fix these issues. Located in the Monitoring section of Central Administration, Health Status runs diagnostics on the system and compiles the results of this into an easily viewed report. For easier viewing the results of this report are
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By: Tony Pagnusat
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October 19, 2009 at 10:04 PMSetting up SharePoint 2010 in a single server environment is even easier than it was on MOSS. The Microsoft SharePoint Product and Technologies 14 Preparation Tool (or as I like to call it the prep tool) takes a wizard approach to checking for and then setting up perquisites for SharePoint’s installation. The prep tool (packaged with the preview edition of SharePoint 14) is pretty limited with options and you pretty much get all or nothing. I am hoping before RTM you will get more choices.
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By: Daniel Herzog
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October 19, 2009 at 3:08 PM
SharePoint 2010 is official! The SharePoint Conference is underway in Vegas.
Pointbridge has posted quite a few SP2010 blog entries - see them here:
Office 2010 Wave Blogs
I contributed three so far myself:
Quick Managed Metadata Overview
Enforcing Relationships in Lookup Columns
Column Validation in SharePoint 2010
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By: Talha Shah
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October 19, 2009 at 2:46 PMA long awaited new version of SharePoint is finally here (public Beta in November). WOO HOO!!! I have been working on the SharePoint platform since 2004. When SharePoint 2007 first came out, it changed the game from development perspective. Unlike the 2003 version, the 2007 version was based on standard ASP.NET 2.0 platform; all of the sudden the web part development became easier and the development community could use their ASP.NET 2.0 programming skills and apply them to SharePoint without l
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By: Amol Ajgaonkar
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October 19, 2009 at 11:12 AMTo add a button to the ribbon in SharePoint 2010 we use the SPUserCustomAction class. Get hold of the SPList object whose ribbon you want to customize. Access the UserCustomActions property and create a new instance of the SPUserCustomAction class. Set the appropriate properties of the new instance. Call update on the SPUserCustomAction instance. There are different locations where the button will be added depending on the properties being set. If you don’t set the CommandUIExtension prope
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