This is very exciting for me to announce the grand opening of the Enterprise Search User Group. This is NY based User group, but we are getting technology to record the meeting and make it available on-line. Here is the “official” description of the group The site is still work in progress, but we will get there :-) Out first meeting is on December 9, 2009 Welcome time 5:30 PM. It is important to register as building security is pretty strict and will not let people that are not on the list ... Read Full Story
This is a repost form Paul Galvin’s blog. The next SharePoint Shop Talk takes place tomorrow at 12:30 PM EDT. This is a free event to anyone that has a telephone. A panel of SharePoint pro’s take questions and do their best to provide useful guidance and advice. We regularly hijack audience members and make them answer questions and try to have a good time. Send your questions or topics to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com. Register here: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000043750/... Read Full Story
I recently had to work with the following scenario: Clinical Trial site for weight loss study, on the site as part of the functionality patients had to track their weight loss weekly. As part of their weight loss dashboard it was a nice touch to add a simple bar graph that would visually help them to see their progress. End result: End By clicking on the link on the bottom “Enter New weight measurement” they would get to the following screen (See image bellow): Entering new weight is pret... Read Full Story
Document center Document libraries now allow end-users to select multiple document, upload documents with drag and drop option. Tag documents with tag such as "I like it" which will make them easily available on MySite, this way you can always refer to them later. At the same time users can be more specific about tagging by means of tagging with taxonomy and view suggestions for taxonomy. Documents rating provides social tagging of the documents with comments provided by end-... Read Full Story
The best scenario when you can say “ I know my SharePoint Farm” is when you actually just set it up, not months after. Giving your environment a health check is a good idea, especially in environments that do not have on staff people 100% dedicated to SharePoint. This week I was at a client to do exactly this, the “health check” of their farm. There were no complains about the performance or bugs, but because there was no SharePoint monitoring or maintenance set up they thought it would be a... Read Full Story
This is another SharePoint Saturday even in the area. This time it is put together by Dave Mann. Join SharePoint architects, administrators, developers, and other professionals who work with SharePoint for a special 'SharePoint 2010 Themed Saturday' on November 7th, 2009. The day will be filled with educational and informative SharePoint 2007 and 2010 sessions and provide you with an excellent opportunity to network with Microsoft MVPs and other SharePoint professionals in Philly area. ... Read Full Story
Great session at SPC 2009 by Simon Skaria, Lead of Customer Advisory team, Microsoft. In short, this session was oriented around 3 main topics: Flexible deployments IT Pro productivity From the flexibility of deployments stand point, Skaria was highlighting the following features of SharePoint 2010, such as: Installation: Installations of the Sharepoint is simplified by server preparation feature such as, one click prerequisites install. this alone is a great time saver, isn’t it? i... Read Full Story
The first 2 sessions of the conference were key notes with speakers such as: Steve Bulmer, Tom Rizzo, Arpan Shah, and many others. Some of the key highlights from the session are here. So let’s start with.. Business Connectivity Suite The concept of external content types makes it easier to connect external data sources from within SharePoint designer and to surface this info in familiar interface like office, with ability to edit / insert / delete data. One of the examples that Tom Rizzo us... Read Full Story
Join us for our weekly SharePoint Shop talk. We have been thinking about introducing the idea of group questions into categories and addressing them one category at the time. In this case all workflow questions could be answered in Workflow SharePoint Shot Talk, or something like that. For today and future Shop Talks send your questions to: Send an email to questions@sharepointshoptalk.com Twitter me (@natalyvo) Leave a comment here. Just dial in on the call and ask it there. Sign... Read Full Story
Yesterday I have received email notifying me that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP). this is exciting second time in the row. Congratulations to all newly awarded, and re-awarded MVPs. Read Full Story
