In August, the San Antonio SharePoint Users Group will be hosting SharePoint MVP Matt McDermott at the new Rackspace office on Walzem road. When the function is available again, register with sasug.net to receive the full details when the official email goes out. In the meantime, Contact Me with your email and I will pass it on to the meeting organizer. You can find the resources from his presentation on Search at the SharePoint Conference on his blog post
Read more →Sasug.net doesn’t have this information currently, so I’m reposting this from the email invitation for those who are looking for it. Please Join Us for the July Meeting of the San Antonio SharePoint User Group! Functions of Food Safety Net Services’ Extranet! The San Antonio SharePoint User Group (SASUG) was established by local, San Antonio companies that are excited about Microsoft SharePoint. Our goals are to: Build community around SharePoint and related technologies Cross-pollinate information and ideas on SharePoint
Read more →Originally posted 7/2/2008 at my old blog host. Summary Demonstration of a SharePoint Contacts List displayed on a Google Map. Key Points The Contacts List Template in SharePoint provides fields for addresses Google Maps provides a mapping service SharePoint integrates easily with web services Overview Part 1 Create a new contacts list Create a new Page Add a Google Map to the page Part 2 Add a Data View of the contacts list to the page Modify the Data View
Read more →Last night’s presentation to the San Antonio SharePoint User’s Group was a lot of fun. I enjoyed showing off some things I’ve learned and I got some great feedback from the 13 or so in the audience. As promised here are some links from my presentation: My slide deck, Mapping Mashups in SharePoint Designer (pptx) and Mapping Mashups in SharePoint Designer (pdf) From Demo 1 How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a SharePoint List, MS SharePoint Designer Team Blog SASUG
Read more →It’s official. I just received my invitation for the June 24th San Antonio SharePoint Users Group Meeting with the following program: June 24th Program: Travis Lingenfelder will be demonstrating the SASUG website and some of the ways that he added requested functionality to SharePoint such as provisioning events and related assets and sites using features to deploy all modifications for portability. Tom Resing will be presenting Mapping Mashups with SharePoint Designer including an Overview of Current Map Service Providers, an Introduction
Read more →In my first post, I mentioned a focus on SharePoint Designer. Why? 1. SharePoint Designer is an awesome new product.Microsoft invested a huge amount of R&D money in this new Office System. And who doesn’t love the new SharePoint, Word, the open xml documnet format and all the rest. But replacing Front Page with SharePoint Designer may have been the best investment. Without SharePoint Designer, branding would be near impossible, workflow customization limited and we wouldn’t have the Data View Web Part. But don’t
Read more →Welcome to my new SharePoint Blog I’ve been blogging about SharePoint on my personal website for less than a year, but head there for some of my old posts. I’m a developer with architectural and business solution interests. For the purpose of this blog, I want to focus on the SharePoint Designer level. I may have trouble avoiding talking about code, but I’m going to give it a try.
Read more →Summary The San Antonio SharePoint Users Group (SASUG) hosted Heather Solomon at this month’s meeting. If you haven’t seen Heather in person, she’s a SharePoint branding expert and excellent speaker. There are some excellent resources on her website, as well. I’m posting highlights from my sparse notes. SASUG attendees, please add comments with your notes, to fill in the holes. Quick Launch On customizing the Quick Launch in 2003, Heather had a few tips: Modifying Onet.xml is the only way
Read more →Did you know that Microsoft’s 2007 versions of Outlook and SharePoint have some great new connections when working with calendars? If not, you might take a minute to read through View and update a SharePoint calendar on MS Office Online. The SharePoint connection to Outlook goes way beyond the Calendar. Did you know that you can read and post to Discussion Groups from Outlook? Even if you’ve never created Tasks in Outlook, you might consider it now. With
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