A few weeks back, I wrote a series of three articles on the topic of building SharePoint 2010 Service Applications. Today, I have updated the source code for these articles to include Powershell cmdlets for provisioning, retrieving and updating the demo service application from the command line.The three articles and a link to download the source code solution can be found on the SharePoint Solutions' community site:Part One – The Service ApplicationPart Two – The Service Application’s Admin... Read Full Story

Last week, while at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, I wrote a blog post on being disappointed that SharePoint 2010 does not seem to include a critical feature promised by Bill Gates and Tom Rizzo in their keynote speech at last year's (2008) SharePoint Conference.The feature promised was a one-to-one relationship (as needed for specific applications) between a SharePoint List and a native database table (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.). I explain in my first blog post why I think this is a... Read Full Story

If you are a SharePoint expert and you like working in a friendly, people-oriented environment, SharePoint Solutions is the place for you. A desire to work for a company that has a strong customer focus and high standards for quality of work is also important.SharePoint Consultant - Solution ArchitectWe are seeking a SharePoint Solution Architect with previous consulting industry experience (e.g. Microsoft Gold Partner, Accenture, Avanade, MCS, etc.). This position is responsible for working... Read Full Story

If you are a SharePoint expert and you like working in a friendly, people-oriented environment, SharePoint Solutions is the place for you. A desire to work for a company that has a strong customer focus and high standards for quality of work is also important.SharePoint .NET Developer Course Author/InstructorWe are seeking an experienced SharePoint .NET Developer who also has the ability to author outstanding training course curriculum and teach professional developer students using that c... Read Full Story

Even after today's keynote speech by Steve Ballmer and Tom Rizzo, I am wondering if this got included in SharePoint 2010?I expected it to be one of the big announcements, but heard nothing about it. I also have seen nothing to indicate that it got added as I have played around with the Technical Preview version that we have had and were under NDA until today.Why was I expecting this to be one of the big announcements? Only because at the SharePoint Conference in 2008 in Seattle it was promi... Read Full Story

We will have our team and a large booth at the SharePoint Conference next week in Las Vegas. We've designed the booth this year with a mini-theater area (50" plasma, sound system, chairs, etc.) so that our experts can conduct short sessions on topics that we feel we have a special perspective on.We plan for these sessions to be short (approximately 15 minutes) and on a very specific topic. So, if you are in the exhibit hall and want to take a break from swag hunting for a few minutes and se... Read Full Story

In preparation for the SharePoint Conference next week, on our website we've outlined our plans for offering SharePoint 2010 training.The short version of the story is that we have already started working on a full lineup of SharePoint 2010 courses that will be targeted at a variety of audiences such as: IT Administrators, IT Developers, IT Managers, non-IT Managers and non-IT Users.Furthermore, one of the courses, "SharePoint 2010 Skills Upgrade and Planning" will begin to be offered in Dec... Read Full Story

As I mentioned in a post last week, our public website is a MOSS-based site and we are celebrating its first birthday this month (We launched it on October 1, 2008. Prior to that we had a standard HTML website since 2003.). For the most part, we are very happy with our decision to launch our new site on MOSS.Reality is that there aren't that many companies that can afford to pay the licensing costs to have their public Internet running on MOSS. The stated retail price for MOSS for Internet... Read Full Story

Becky Bertram has published a nice developer guide on how to update SharePoint profile data from ASP.NET profile data. I wanted to make sure our customer's saw this post, so here's a link:Updating SharePoint Profiles from ASP.NET Profile DataNice article Becky. Thanks for posting it. Read Full Story

We've been using MOSS for our public Internet site for SharePoint Solutions for almost a year now. We have a very broad range of products and services, and therefore our site is what I would categorize as "moderately" complex. It takes work every day to keep all of the content fresh, do a good job marketing our products and services, and enhance usability. If you are reading this and your title is Webmaster and that is your full-time job, you know exactly what I am talking about (regardles... Read Full Story