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Sharon Richardson of JoiningDots.net delivered a lively EUSP Live Online session this morning on Managing SharePoint 2007 Site Permissions. If you weren’t able to attend the session, we are making it available for download as a live meeting presentation. Download the package and expand it on your l

Implementing SharePoint in the flow of business means that SharePoint’s capabilities and your user’s needs meet at right time and the right place.

At EndUserSharePoint.com, Lee Reed has shared a 4 minute video demonstrating how to add a map set at a fixed location very quickly using only your browser. Quick, easy, simple and open to even the newest SharePoint Site user.   Separately, Sandy Jacalow’s done the same example, but written out with

Thanks to all who supported Operation ShareLove: Haiti. The long anticipated raffle will be this Wednesday, Feb 10 at 5.30pm PT (8.30PM ET). I will be streaming live on MeetDux.com direct from SPTechCon in SFO - so stay tuned! I'll be raffling off the following: CorasWorks WorkPlace Suite ... (More

I've been working on a rather complex SharePoint workflow and I've run into a few problems. The workflow does a parallel approval of a form – and well, I've discovered a few issues. First, there aren't many examples of how to do parallel approvals. This is particularly true when you need to keep

Well, the event that I never thought would ever happen in Perth happened, and not only did it happen, it had more interest than expected and some people unfortunately missed out. Jeremy, as a result, had to take many upset phone calls. It seems that for Perth, once a few people got wind of SharePoi

Well, the event that I never thought would ever happen in Perth happened, and not only did it happen, it had more interest than expected and some people unfortunately missed out. Jeremy, as a result, had to take many upset phone calls. It seems that for Perth, once a few people got wind of SharePoi

I've been thinking about the badges that a few social sites are using as incentives to their user communities - specifically foursquare and, more recently, Blip. So many people I talk to are looking for ways to encourage adoption of their enterprise intranets, knowledge bases, and collaborative wor

In this screencast, Laura Rogers explains a unique way of using SharePoint content types to function as status levels for list items. This solution does not involve any custom code, and the concept is useful in WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010.

Abstract: If you have InfoPath 2010 installed, clicking the Customize Form button on the ribbon for a list page opens the list form in InfoPath. You can then customize the form by adding layout tables to help organize fields, rules such as data validation, and more. In the video InfoPath 2010 - C

One of the indicators of a successful SharePoint implementation is high user adoption and conversion rates. Driving these metrics up is the goal of many a SharePoint team. One of the ways to do this is to make your site more intuitive.

Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:param> A value you’ve passed into a template with <xsl:with-param>. You need to have an <xsl:param> at the top of the template for each value you expect to be passed into it. I talked in the last post about passing values into te

I wanted to share this mosaic from the official SharePoint 2010 site, as an example of how Web design techniques are making their way into SharePoint 2010. If you are familiar with Web design, you’ll recognize a CSS sprite. The principle: multiple images used throughout the Web page are combi

For the last three years or more, I’ve been living with a little annoyance with Microsoft Excel.  It’s one of those things that’s just not quite annoying enough to get to the bottom of, and I figured it was some obscure registry setting I’d never find and must be someth

This is our 3rd Enterprise Search User Group meeting in New York join us to see Tal Peleg to speak on the topic “Understanding the Integration of Search & Recommendations” Abstract: While Recommendations provides an entirely new economic model both for the media and entertainment industries (on

I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP).

Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:with-param> You use this with <xsl:call-template> when you want to pass a value into a template, usually a value that varies. Once you’ve laid down the foundation and framed the rooms with <xsl:template> and <xsl:call-templat

Sorry SharePoint fanatics… This is a blog about sales and marketing, but please bear with me. In the last week I have experienced one of the best and worst moments of our business.  As a metrics fanatic, we tend to track everything around here, or at least I do.  As the sa

Abstract: Category: User Experience;SharePoint 2010 Published: 2/4/2010 4:24 PM # Comments: 0

A friend of mine, Michael Cortez, introduced me to a birthday tradition he has in his family where the person having the birthday gives out gifts to everyone else in the family. I really like that a lot. Since today is my birthday, I’ve got a little gift for you, my extended SharePoint family.

Body: In a discussion on twitter yesterday a number of people expressed their opinions on how best to run SharePoint in a dev environment or simply on your laptop. People are looking for easy to run and configure and minimize memory with validation, development, demos, and prototyping as goals. Qui

In this article I will show you how to re-create the scrolling boxes (without content) using jQuery Tools JavaScript library.

In a recent Forrester report, the research group really honed in on two main points: the importance/success of MOSS 07 and how the release of hosted SharePoint 2010 will make an exponentially bigger impact on businesses everywhere. We at Fpweb.net couldn’t agree more on the triumphs of MOSS 0

I’ve been having difficulty getting the SharePoint Saturday EMEA recordings to play over an http connection, so I’m going to make them available for download so that you can play them locally.

Take time before your SharePoint project starts and discuss what collaboration means within your organization.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the SQL 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010 better together story and wanted to capture some of what’s been floating around in my head. I haven’t seen enough content and blogs on this stuff and hope that this will help spur more conversations on the topic. Mike Watson has put

I've spent the past week working with the live online workshop presenters to confirm a schedule for upcoming workshops. We will be offering the workshops as a discounted package or series of workshops this time because of numerous requests.

Abstract: Watch Part 1 of Office Intervention: We need SharePoint to learn how the Seattle Opera is tackling its deployment of SharePoint Server 2007. Category: Collaboration;Education;People Wrangling;Training Published: 2/2/2010 12:01 PM # Comments: 0

Last Saturday, January 30th 2010, we did a SharePoint Saturday event here in Indianapolis. From the perspective of most folks it was a roaring success. Kevin Dostalek posted his recap already. David Petersen posted a few pictures before we got rolling. Woody Windischman, Chris Geier posted about t

The powerhouse of SharePoint publishing sites is the ContentByQuery web part – more affectionately known as the Content Query Web Part or CQWP. Last year I wrote a comprehensive article on customizing it that was published today at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff380147.aspx Check it out

As most of you know, I was a speaker at the Indianapolis SharePoint Saturday event. We had close to a capacity crowd, with over 250 attendees. Not bad for a little town in the Midwest. OK, Indianapolis isn't all that small. There are a few events that draw more people - like the Indianapolis 500. A

One of the coolest and probably most frequently used Web Parts in SharePoint 2007 was the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) – a great control that allowed you to display content aggregations to the users. Although it was pretty awesome, it had some serious drawbacks like for example the lack of a pagin

And why should that matter to you? Well, since I missed the big SPC09 in Las Vegas last year, I’m hoping that I’ll have the chance to meet some of you fine folks who read this blog or correspond with me. From all accounts, SPTechCon is going to be a great event.  These things are a

I get asked lots of questions about SharePoint.  One of the harder ones to answer is “how many site collections do we need?”  Why?... because, in my opinion, there is no right answer.  SharePoint implementation is a very personalized experience where you, as a member of the implement

Delivering a great User Experience for a custom application developed on the SharePoint application is really easy using the new SharePoint 2010 UI API. One of the new possibilities is to leverage the Notification Area to communicate the progress of an operation to the users to make using your appl

SharePoint 2010 ships with a brand new framework for delivering compelling user experiences for custom applications created using the SharePoint platform. One of the pieces of the UI framework is the Status bar which can be used to display persistent messages to the users. Working with the SharePoi

If you are a SharePoint developer, or do some general .NET development, you probably work with overloading methods. Using the same name you can define multiple variants of the same method by specifying a different set of parameters. As SharePoint 2010 contains a large piece of very powerful API in

If you are in the Austin area, don't miss my upcoming presentation to the Austin SharePoint User Group: ----------------------------------------------------------- Join us for the February 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group!   "Integrating External Data with the Business Data

If you haven't already grabbed the new SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine images from Microsoft's downloads, read Barb Mosher's Get SharePoint 2010 Up and Running with VM from Microsoft Barb writes an excellent summary of each VM's purpose and how you can leverage these pre-configured systems to jump

It’s not unusual to want to know if a user is in a certain permission group and change how a page behaves based on whether or not s/he is. AlexLee over on EndUserSharePoint.com’s Stump the Panel asked how you might be able to do this using SharePoint’s Web Services. jQuery Library

My slide deck from the SharePoint Saturday EMEA conference is now online. You can find it on Slideshare, or get it from the download section of my Website (under KPI roll-up). The recording of the session should be available soon, watch out for updates on EndUserSharePoint.com. SharePoint Saturday

In the past few months, I have been in talks with SharePoint hosting providers to start a partnership. I finally signed up with fpweb.net. fpweb.net has big plans for 2010. As one can expect from the pioneer of SharePoint hosting, they are actively preparing for the SharePoint 2010 release. But wha

Google's in the news with the release of Social Search, which highlights search results by those in your social circle. Their goal - "to ensure that Google web search is as social as the web itself." To use it, you need to do the following: 1. Have or create a Google account. 2. Have or create a G

Abstract: In SharePoint 2010, you can now create relationships with cascade and restrict delete operations, define unique-valued columns with indexes, and display multiple values from two or more lists in one list via the Lookup column. Category: Building Solutions;Collaboration;Lists and Librarie

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SharePoint empowerment includes instilling proper discipline. Being able to define a process and use SharePoint to support it allows users to reap the technology's promise of streamlining work, increasing productivity and improving business efficiency. Teaching how to define business processes i...

We have decided to auction off one copy each of our SharePoint DVDs to help raise funds for relief and development in Haiti. There is no set price (reserve) for the listings. The total amount of the raised funds will go directly to the American Red Cross’ efforts for Haiti. You will find the

In my line of work, I’m constantly demonstrating SharePoint functionality to people. Having a good working virtual machine is critical to make that happen (and I have several ). However, if you don’t want to create one from scratch, you can go ahead and download the virtual machine (vhd

We’re back again with another free webinar. The content of this webinar was presented as a session by me at the Microsoft Connections 2010 conference in Amsterdam last week. The concepts presented in this session are already available as videos to the subscribers of SharePoint-Videos.com. I&#

Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:call-template> This is how you call a template which you’ve defined with <xsl-template>. In the last installment, I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP). Having the tem