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During the last couple of weeks, we at U2U have been very busy building course material for our upcoming SharePoint 2010 courses. We expect that lots of experienced SharePoint developers, power users and administrators are very eager to get up to speed with the new version of SharePoint as soon as possible. That’s why the first course that we’ve build is titled Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 . This course will focus on all the exciting new stuff in SharePoint 2010, so people with SharePoint experience will get all the relevant info as quickly as possible. Because an administrator is probably not interested in developer stuff, we’ve chosen to split the course into three different parts: Part 1: Tools and Technologies (2 days) The focus of the first...

I’ve got the pleasure to be able to present a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at TechEd Europe next week : BOF14 Microsoft SharePoint, jQuery and Microsoft Silverlight: Better Together . If you are interested in these technologies please join the discussion on Thursday, 12:20 in Theater 6 – Pink. Feel free to comment if you are planning to attend, it’s nice to know who’ll be there! :-) Read More...

In continuation of previous series of posts, for exploring options to customize SharePoint 2007 list forms, I am further introducing ways to deal with yet another limitation reminiscent in forms with SharePoint 2007 – Column Data Validations . How to customize SharePoint 2007 Forms – Part 1 How to customize SharePoint 2007 Forms – Part 2 Note! – This post is to share conceptual details. It is NOT ready for production usage, and I will share “Alpha” bits shortly. I haven’t had time lately, and instead of delays I think a good portion of my readers can benefit from it in the meantime. I’m glad to receive all feedback and ideas in interim. I’d also like to hear what everyone thinks about SharePoint 2010 – list and column Validation settings. Perhaps...

Here I found a good post about how to setup TFS 2010 (and everything else). http://juliocasal.com/archive/2009/11/02/team-foundation-server-2010-beta-2-office-sharepoint-server-2007-single-server-installation-part-1.aspx TFS 2010 is easier to setup than previous versions, but I cannot say the same for Sharepoint... Enjoy! Andres G Vettori, VMBC, CTO Read More...

If you try to configure the SSO (Single Sign-On) in Sharepoint 2007 for TFS 2010, you migh get the dreaded "Insufficient Rights" error. Configuring the SSO for TFS is not THAT well documented, and you keep finding instructions like "Configure the propper applicaiton domain groups". What the heck that means? Anyway, the first step is to configure the "Microsoft Single Sign On" service on EVERY Sharepoint frontend server. Change startup to AUTOMATIC, configure a DOMAIN account for that service, make it local administrator, add it to the local WSS_ADMIN_WPG group. You can use the service account you used for running Sharepoint as it already has most of this configuration, or you can create a brand new account specially...

I was going to hold off on posting this until the public beta drops, but anyone preparing for the drop will want to get the right hardware, OS and optionally virtualization in place now. Then when the beta drops I'll write more about specific steps to get SQL, SharePoint and your development tools installed. Hardware and Operating System The "official" hardware or virtualization requirements for running either SharePoint Server 2010 or WSS 4.0 are: a 64-bit dual-core 3 GHz CPU , 4 GB of RAM , an...( read more ) Read More...

First Looks at Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Presented by Savash Alic , Principal Specialist – SharePoint TSP, Microsoft Canada Join us for a special live meeting on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 where Microsoft Canada’s Savash Alic will present Canada’s first look at Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010. Savash is a loyalist of SharePoint who has been dedicated to the product since its’ very early days in 2001 implementing solutions. Savash has been selling Microsoft SharePoint in a technical...( read more ) Read More...

With the launch of fabulous Windows 7 (yeah – I am loving it!), I think, we all deserve little fun and celebration of a great OS! I couldn’t organize a party (!), so I got interested in creating a site theme for SharePoint 2007 (or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) instead; inspired with Windows Live and Windows 7 site . So I quickly (and roughly!) created a Windows 7 theme for SharePoint 2007 sites... (which you can download for free from the link at the end of the post)   Various screens to preview the theme… Site Settings… Calendar View This is the most painful aspect of working on a site theme in SharePoint. Way too many CSS classes to play with! Month view… Day view… Forms and Toolbar… Gantt view…   Set theme on a SharePoint site...

Someone recently asked about test plans and how to test components during development so you can be comfortable they'll perform well when hosted on large farms. The short answer is that you want to create the best simulation you can, and that means creating a test farm as close to production as possible, and testing scenarios with patterns and data as close to production as possible. With mission-critical apps the test environment should be identical with production, but in most cases it won’t be...( read more ) Read More...

The default experience when you press F5 in Visual Studio 2010 is to Create, Build, Package and Deploy your solution, all at once, automagically, pretty cool. As long as you don't want to control that process. But wait, you can do that too. You can customize exactly what happens when you press F5 to meet your own needs. From copying things into specific locations, to retracting or installing solutions, to calling MS-Build to do something special, to resetting the Application Pool, to stopping and...( read more ) Read More...