Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

How to get your SharePoint dog to hunt.

erobillard — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:24:00 GMT

[In response to a question on #SPYAM I wrote this update of an article form 2010 titled " The Relative Effort of SharePoint 2010 vs. 2007 ." -Eli.] SharePoint is the best demo-ware ever, and that is why it is a multi-billion dollar product. It’s like...(read more)

How to Start a User Group

erobillard — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:23:00 GMT

At this year's SharePoint Conference there was an active Community Zone where people could learn more about user groups, MVPs, and current events in the SharePoint community. I answered questions in the Community Zone on Monday and the most frequent was...(read more)

Our Toronto Mayor

erobillard — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:20:00 GMT

If our ex-mayor coaches football the way he runs City Hall it probably goes something like this. . . Coach: All right team, this is the league final, the game we've played so hard to get to all season. Out there are provincial and national scouts with...(read more)

Recent SharePoint 2010 Books [CanCon]

erobillard — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:37:00 GMT

Here in Canada, and particularly in south Ontario we're lucky to have an exceptionally strong SharePoint community. With the publication this month of Ruven Gotz's Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture I count at least 6 books that were either...(read more)

SharePoint Summit 2012 - Thank you!

erobillard — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:37:00 GMT

Thanks to Danny, Reza, all the speakers and the rest of the team for hosting another great SharePoint conference in Toronto. Also a shout-out to the SharePoint Blues Band for putting on a great show Tuesday night, and for the privilege of joining them...(read more)

Search: are you willing to manage it as an application?

erobillard — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:58:00 GMT

The question was asked, "how hard is it to configure FAST and what does that effort give you?" The none-too-helpful answer is that with every search product you get what you give. FAST happens to have more substance so logically there will be more to...(read more)

Revisiting an 8 year old post on cookies and opt-in

erobillard — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:59:00 GMT

Common Sense and Opt-In: http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2003/05/08/6680.aspx Eight years ago I wrote a brief piece on cookie management proposing that preferences be remembered by default with an opt-out option. The part that got the most feedback...(read more)

Thoughts on SharePoint Application Pools, Recycling and "JIT Lag"

erobillard — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:28:00 GMT

What are Application Pools? Application Pools are a .NET construct, and each pool represents an instance of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) executing managed .NET code. Each application pool in IIS hosts one or more web applications, and the recommendation...(read more)

Toronto SharePoint Camp 2011 - Thank-you!

erobillard — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:09:00 GMT

The 5th Annual Toronto SharePoint Camp was last Saturday and it was another terrific success. Thanks to the TSPUG executive committee and the small army of volunteers who made it happen, and to the smiling faces of this year's 200+ attendees for making...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 and Canada

erobillard — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:39:00 GMT

I love my Samsung Focus and I don't know why it isn't the most popular phone in Canada. WPCentral reported today on the lacklustre support of Canadian carriers for the WP7 platform. Basically, even if you've been sold on the platform or a particular phone...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Workflow for Multiple Items (Architecture)

erobillard — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:14:00 GMT

I had the question today of whether SharePoint 2010 supports workflow on multiple items, since Groove's workflow apparently supported multiple items and that model disappeared when Groove Workspaces were amalgamated into SharePoint Sites and SharePoint...(read more)

Drag and Drop for SharePoint

erobillard — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:54:00 GMT

Fellow Infusionite Oguz Demirel just published a super-cool CodePlex feature that makes any SharePoint library drag-and-droppable, introducing: Drag & Drop for SharePoint . The Codeplex page has screen shots and all that, but I have to rave about...(read more)

How to: Build a Server Core Domain Controller

erobillard — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

When I started putting together my standard virtual machines for development and demonstrating SharePoint 2010, I wanted to have a domain controller that I could share and use for any new image. That way I don't need to continually recreate my service...(read more)

This weekend: SharePoint Saturday Toronto

erobillard — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:07:00 GMT

Wow, this Saturday offers 21 sessions in 3 tracks, all for free . Given the billable rate of this speaker list, this has to be the best bargain you'll see for a while. And I'm going to go ahead and reveal a secret here - attendees at SharePoint Saturday...(read more)

Fix available to protect SharePoint servers from ASP.NET vulnerability

erobillard — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:04:00 GMT

Today the fix shipped to remedy a cryptographic ASP.NET vulnerability. The update is listed as Important , and it is strongly recommended that this security update be applied to all IIS servers including those hosting SharePoint and other ASP.NET applications...(read more)