Our next Toronto SharePoint Usergroup Meeting will take place next Wednesday, November 19, 2008. This month’s speaker, Sean Hopen (New Toronto Group), will give a tour of the development process with Silverlight and an overview of developing web parts for use in SharePoint. There will be a discussion...

Today we confirmed that Saturday, January 24th is the date of the 2nd Annual Toronto SharePoint Camp! For a second year, I'd like to thank Manulife Financial Corporation for generously providing the facilities that not only make this event possible, but also keep it free to all attendees. TorontoSharePoint...

Today Microsoft's Ramp Up program launched a new track: SharePoint for Developers, Part I . This is a free, online, community-based program that only requires a Live ID to sign up and dig in. I worked through all the learning materials for the first module (creating Web Parts) and it looks good. The...

Successful deployment of SharePoint is no different than any other corporate strategy or project, only the moving pieces change. The goals remain consistency, scalability, and success by whatever measures you choose. It never fails to disappoint me to see "best practises" that restate project management...

Our next Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 22, 2008. This month’s speaker Jeffrey Wolff, Technical Director, Infonic, will discuss the benefits of deploying a distributed SharePoint environment, factors to consider when planning your environment, and possible...

Members received an update last week, I just wanted to mention here that summer's over and meetings start back up tonight, Wednesday, September 28! Topic: Jignesh Shaw, Applications Development Manager at Cyberplex Inc. will be doing a presentation on InfoPath 2007 forms development for Forms Server...

This summarizes the hard limits and recommended guidance for Groups, Access Control Lists (ACLs) and securable objects in SharePoint 2007. Unique accounts or groups per SharePoint Group: ~2000 . This is the identical with the guidance for any large SharePoint list as covered by the Working with large...

Today I downloaded and installed the just-released Google Chrome browser, ran it through some preliminary tests with SharePoint 2007 and so far, acceptable but missing a few key things. Chrome supports NTLM authentication, uploads (though not multiple uploads), renders all the usual menus correctly,...

How much memory can my SharePoint web front-end (WFE) servers use? It's a common question, and this post is an attempt to answer it for common scenarios. Briefly: 4 GB is the maximum recommended for most scenarios , though you may be able to use more if you're hosting other applications on the same server...

This is to explain what the ULS logs are, why they exist, and how to read and write 'em. In a nutshell, the Unified Logging Service (ULS) writes WSS 3.0 and MOSS events to SharePoint’s Trace Logs, and these are stored in the file system in ...\12 \LOGS . Collectively this location and its files are commonly...