Buck has just posted that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now available for download and includes a "Go Live" license, which allows you to use it in production. The team has been eating their own dog food as 2 of the 21 instances of TFS at Microsoft are running Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. Here's an excerpt from his post: Visual Studio 2008 ...[Read More]

There are quite a few factors that go into Search Engine Optimization. At the end of the day, content is king. Implementing SEO practices into SharePoint is no different. Focus on the following: Title tag has the biggest importance H1, H2, H3, etc. have the 2nd biggest importance in declining order H1 should have the page header or possibl ...[Read More]

Been keeping myself very busy. Here is my latest attempt at continuing to keep readers of the website informed. I present to you, SharePoint Buzz Link Fest. What is it? I have been reading over 120+ SharePoint blogs and keeping informed with all that's happening in the SharePoint blogosphere.  Its gets a little crazy with work, reading and b ...[Read More]

Here are some the best articles on SharePoint that have been posted recently: Creating a solution to deploy custom publishing items - Most of the documentation I've seen out there around creating publishing items such as master pages and page layouts has developers using SharePoint Designer to create them. This is ok, but I see problems with th ...[Read More]

Here's another quick list of SharePoint articles around the blogosphere: 15 Ways / Questions To A Smooth SharePoint Contract - Adam goes thru his list of 15 questions you should be asking yourself or your future employer before you agree to the contract Ryan breaks down the New Icon on New Items and shows how we can change it Relocation of exi ...[Read More]

This is just a reminder that SharePoint Buzz is currently holding a contest.  Where two lucky winners will each recieve one SharePoint 2007 book from the following list of books: Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Ted Pattison & Dan Larson Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 by Scot Hillier I ...[Read More]

Welcome to a new offering from TechNet! Webcast ExpressWebcast express are webcasts that are 10 to 15 minutes long. They do not require registration, just click, sit back and watch. There are even links to download the sessions! We covered technologies centered on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and Office 2007. Tune in and learn more about ins ...[Read More]

Joel Oleson hits us with another great post on one of my favorite subjects: Unattended Installations.  In particular, the post is a focus on how to install SharePoint 2007 unattended.  You will find the following sections in his post: Setup.exe Customize the installation location, and then install SharePoint Server 2007 from the command line P ...[Read More]

Here are the top SharePoint links for last week of July 8th to 15th 2007 Free SharePoint Addons - There are some great Free SharePoint Addons over at CodePlex.  In particular, you should check these out: Mondosoft’s Wildcard search feature - MOSS search is pretty darn cool and flexible out of the box.  This leverages SharePoint’s own search engi ...[Read More]

Preliminary Steps This series of posts are going to walk you through the installation of SharePoint 2007. These are actually my notes on how to install and therefore include no extra notes. These are primarily installation notes that I have been using for single server installation. If you have any questions or need further explanations, pleas ...[Read More]