It’s been almost six months since my post predicting every name including SharePoint 2010. Could we be seeing the picture below in 6 more? According to the Exchange 2010 Announcement on MSDN PressPass, we should expect a Technical Preview Release of SharePoint 2010 in the Third Quarter of 2009 along with the other Office 2010 products. Release to Manufacturing is officially first half of 2010. Google News shows lots of press coverage of SharePoint 2010, so don’t take my
Read more →Please join me as I present Integrate External Data with the Business Data Catalog Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at the Microsoft Technology Center on Sunset Hills Road Reston, VA. More Details sharepointsaturday.org/dc is the official event site Registration opens Thursday, April 16th on the website. The presentation will be part of a free, all day event featuring some of the best speakers on SharePoint. MicroLink is sponsoring the Event Program and supplies and my co-worker Chad Schroeder will be presenting
Read more →Today’s guest post is courtesy of Jamey Baxter who is a Computer Programs Analyst II/SharePoint Developer with the Office of Information Technology at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Jamey read my post on mapping a list with latitude and longitude and adding the name to the popup. He took the method and implemented it on a unique project I thought you would like to hear about it. Along the way, Jamey updated the solution to work for the
Read more →Virtual Earth API Update As I promised at my SharePoint Saturday Presentation in Boston, I’ve updated my previous example integrating SharePoint with the Virtual Earth SDK. The original example was based on the SharePoint Designer Team Blog post, How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a SharePoint List, from almost 2 years ago. Greg Chan’s original post is still great, and I recommend you give a read to see how he did the magic. However, there is at least one
Read more →According to Google Blog Search, SharePoint Buzz had the scoop 11 hours ago on the official SharePoint Designer announcement. Figure 1 Sometime close to midnight this Microsoft Download site was updated with the text SharePoint Designer is NOW FREE! Along with the download, we were provided a number of great resources to take advantage of the great pricing. Video: SharePoint Designer 2007 (April 2009 Announcement) is a new interview with Tom Rizzo the Senior Director for SharePoint. Besides the big
Read more →The Wall Street Journal has coverage of Obama’s pick of the current CTO of the District of Columbia as the first CIO of the United States. Vivek Kundra is the man who created an internal Wiki for the DC Government that took off on their intranet. He’s a big proponent of online collaboration. He won’t be mandating SharePoint for all government agencies, but how about ObamaBlog and ConstitutionWiki? Twitter feeds for pork? This announcement and the upcoming CTO placement are
Read more →The San Antonio SharePoint User Group has a list of speakers planned through July, but high quality speakers are always welcome to join us! We’ll make a special meeting for you if we have to. Here’s the group I wouldn’t bump for anyone, though: (past) February 24th – Beck Isserman, MOSSLover March 24th – Tiffany Songvilay April 28th – Robert Nellis and AMD’s top 10 usable intranet May 26th- Bill English, MVP June 23rd – tentative, Evan Archilla July 28th
Read more →I’m a big fan of blogs and wikis, tools built into Microsoft SharePoint. I recently found two great examples and a new White Paper that I’d like to share. Liz Elizondo, a San Antonio SharePoint User Group Member shares a great example of SharePoint wiki use from her experience. They transferred Operations Manuals on CD ROM to a wiki with a few issues, but to great response. My brother Mike works at Marriott and we recently had a great discussion
Read more →Silverlight enables rich integration with SharePoint through web service hooks. And, Patrick Tisseghem made some great Screencasts before he passed. I heard his voice while watching a couple of the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint webcasts from the Aug 19 2008 release. It was bittersweet. Highlights Codeplex doesn’t allow links to documents, so go to the Beta 2 release page to download the 5 screencasts available for Beta 2 or the two available for RTM Screencast for Sample 1 Patrick narrates
Read more →I I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Boston on March 14th, but the sessions have not been determined. If you like any or all of the sessions I submitted, listed below, email sharepointsaturday@live.com to let the organizing committee know. They will choose one or more for me to present and your input will help. If you have a better idea for a session or something you’d like to see included when I speak, add a comment or email me at
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