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As most of you all know you need to prevent your content databases to expand too much. According to best practices from Microsoft you should keep your content databases around a maximum of 50 GB. Keeping the content databases small, makes it easier to backup or restore them. This sounds like its really easy to do this, but to bad.... it isn't. There is now way you can tell a content database automatically to stop growing and continue in another new content database if it gets to big. There is...
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Microsoft announced that the follow up for Windows Vista, called Windows 7, will be available in 2010. It will support touch screen for support of the applications available in this new Windows version called N-trig DuoSenso Technology. Microsoft was already working some time on the " Surface " computer. A product which makes it possible to use more then one hand to act by moving fingers accross the screen in different directions resulting in for example resizing pictures (like i-phone...
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SharePoint, and in particulair MOSS, is a great platform which can be easiliy extended. Most customers today are afraid when we talk about customizing a platform because development normally means not reaching any deadlines what so ever. I have noticed with SharePoint this is not always the case because of the powerfull API and the fact that you can setup and develop stuff very quickly. Microsoft leaves extending the platform to its partners and other third-party vendors. Third-parties like SocialText...
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Microsoft Corporation is gonna release in the first half 2009 a new service pack for the 2007 Microsoft Office System, which will include support for XPS (Xml Paper Specification), PDF (Portable document Format) and ODF (Open Document Format). As stated on their press releases website: " Microsoft Corp. is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the range of document...
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One of most underestimated things within placing a SharePoint Portal at a customer is governance. Governance is a set of roles, responsibilities, processes and rules which are defined within the enterprise to guide the enterprise in using the Portal and al its functionality (standard or non-standard). a see a lot of Portals placed at customers without any consideration regarding governance. Fortunaly within the company i'm currently working for, this is not anymore the case. There is a lot of...
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Joel was already working on a large list of SharePoint blogs and he has finally put together the worlds largest alphabetical blog directory (300+) and still growing. I'm proud to be one of the blogs appearing in this list. This list is also important for newbies, developers and architects working with SharePoint. Such a list is a great example and start for creating a clear view of the SharePoint community. http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=32 I have included his list only...
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I'm now already working 3 years for the company Logica (former LogicaCMG) and i'm proud to say that i have worked on an incredible cool internal project as Solution Architect and Experienced Software Engineer. I requested to blog about it, because i want to show the world (you guys) what Logica is capable of building and configuring around SharePoint for itself and his customers. Logica is gonna have an incredible cool intranet which is based on things like news service, yellow pages, project...
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I'm getting a lot of questions how you can easily give users or groups rights to access some particular list without giving them rights to the whole site (SPWeb). Between SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and MOSS 2007 the rights management environment is completly changed. We noticed this by creating a migration application for one of our customers. The SPWeb object contains 4 properties representing users and groups available in the site. These properties are: Users Collection of users containing...
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Bart Wessels mentioned on his blog about SharePoint Introduction for .NET developers webcast series. In this 10-part series, you will receive practical technical information from Robert Bogue and Andrew Connell, Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), covering 10 fundamental developer topics on SharePoint Products and Technologies via Live Meeting Webcast. About the series: · Every Tuesday and Wednesday from May 20 to June 18 · Starts at 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time ( Thats 6pm...
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Some of my last postings were all about trainings and webcasts for Power Users, Administrators and Developers around SharePoint. Training is one of the most important ways to discover all of the cool features delivered in SharePoint. Creating solutions will become much easier by knowing the products capabilities. It makes it easier for you to deliver solutions to your customer, and your customer will easier understand the concept and the importance of implementing Portals with SharePoint. Microsoft...
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I'm very proud to announce that our office in the Netherlands is taking its steps into another way of work. We are located since a few weeks at a new office in Rotterdam. This building is completely new and is based on some cool things around "The new world of work". Each floor contains flex places to work at. This means that nobody has its own place. The only relation is that a floor is connected to a specific divsion, so people can still find each other. At the other hand you can...
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I have tried to put a list together with some nifty and cool trainings for Power Users. These trainings could also be very interesting for your customers which just starting to implement Portals with SharePoint. Collaborating with SharePoint Server 2007 Overview Collaborate effectively with SharePoint sites and features. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a3306ab4-9576-4b9e-9dbe-01cae7523ead&DisplayLang=en SharePoint Server 2007 Surveys Get Started Create and deliver a survey...
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There is some really cool training stuff available to Administrators and Developers. Some of this is already known to you but i have made the list more complete now. If you know some other trainings, please send me an email so i can expand this list. Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training, built on the Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit, is designed for server administrators to install on an Office SharePoint Server site to help end-users learn...
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There is some great documentation present in MSDN Online regarding mobile development for SharePoint. One of the great features of SharePoint is that you're able to give mobile device users easier access to SharePoint pages. If for example you want to make customisations for mobile pages in Windows SharePoint Services there are two approaches according to the MSDN documentation: 1) Create custom mobile pages from scratch and let Windows SharePoint Services redirect users to these pages 2) Override...
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Mirjam van Olst did a great post about changing the language of an existing SharePoint Site. She tried several different things like: Saving the site as template didn't work, because you can only see the saved site when you create a site in the original language of the site Using backup and restore didn't work, the site kept it's original language Changing the language through the object model didn't work, because the Language property of the SPWeb object is read-only She finally...