SharePoint Saturday is coming to San Antonio for the second time this Saturday, April 2nd. We’ve already gotten 150 RSVPs and why not? We’ve had a tremendous response from sponsors and speakers. I’ve put some highlights in the slides below and a map to the event below that. Personally, I don’t know what I’m more excited about: The keynote and breakout session from MSDN Regional Director Vishwas Lele covering the future of SharePoint integration with the cloud services from Microsoft.
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If you’ve run the new PowerShell command test-SPContentDB as part of upgrade testing from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, you’ve probably seen something like this: Category : MissingFeature Error : True UpgradeBlocking : False Message : Database [_WSS_Content] has reference(s) to a missing fea ture: Id = [43cf51d0-d93e-46d7-9d67-07549c1f89e6]. Remedy : The feature with Id 43cf51d0-d93e-46d7-9d67-07549c1f89e6 is r eferenced in the database [_WSS_Content], but is not inst alled on the current farm. The missing feature may cause upgr ade to fail. Please
Read more →To date, more than 2700 questions about SharePoint have been answered on SharePointOverflow.com. But the site may not last. The host, StackExchange has given an get up or get out order. In order to keep SharePointOverflow alive, the site must convert to StackExchange 2.0. In order to convert, the community needs around 70 more volunteers to register at Area51.StackExchange.com and commit to the SharePoint Overflow proposal Update 3/10/2011: Don’t forget to build up your reputation on StackOverflow.com, ServerFault.com, SuperUser.com or
Read more →An Old SharePoint API Confusion If you hadn’t seen it before and someone told you there was .Net SharePoint Framework object called SPSite what would you think it was for? It’s commonly used object in SharePoint C# code, and you might think it would represent a SharePoint Site. But it’s not quite that. An SPSite is really a collection of sites. In end user and administration documentation, a collection of sites is commonly referred to as a Site Collection. It’s
Read more →Richard Riley, Brett Geoffroy and John Hormaechea of Microsoft were the special guests on the Feb 21st 2011 edition of the Moss Show Podcast. All three play very important roles in the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint Program. John was a new addition for me, but also had the most interesting piece in my estimation. Around minute 40 of the 45 minute interview show, John announced that there will be a giveaway of a full MCM Certification Cost at both
Read more →In August of 2009, I conducted a survey of my blog readers and twitter followers on their plans to deploy SharePoint 2010. Little was publicly known about the product details at that point, but we did know their were some deployment limitations and tools released to help prepare for upgrade, so I concentrated on that. Joel Oleson did some preliminary analysis of my survey, a survey of his and some other surveys. I’ve posted the full results as three images
Read more →Working on a SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade, I came across an issue I couldn’t find any help for. My Usage and Web Analytics service applications were clearly configured and running per the instructions on TechNet and Bill Baer’s Step-by-Step. I could view the reports in Central Administration. However the link Site Collection Web Analytics Reports was no where to be found in my Site Settings on my upgrade site collections. This was the case in three farms I had configured,
Read more →Microsoft has published four traditional exams for SharePoint 2010 and there are four corresponding certifications. TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development Exam 70-573 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring Exam 70-667 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications Exam 70-576 Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator Exam 70-668 Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) Preparation I believe the best preparation for these exams is by hands on
Read more →I’ve agreed to contribute to the upcoming Microsoft Press title Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out. Amazon has already updated the listing with me as co-author. How exciting! I’ve already started writing the first chapter I’ll contribute which is tentatively titled “Administration for Business Users.” I have what I think is a unique concept for the chapter. 99% of SharePoint users will never install SharePoint, but many will want to know how the decisions made by engineers will effect their
Read more →Did you know that Microsoft TechNet has very comprehensive books on planning, architecting and deploying SharePoint? I can not recommend reading these books strongly enough if you plan on working on the back end of a SharePoint installation, even on a development environment. For 2007, I recommend starting with “Getting started with Office SharePoint 2007”, then “Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server Part 1” and Part 2, then “Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007.” I’ve read those 4 2007
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