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Hopefully you have realized that Microsoft SharePoint is taking business by storm, and can start preparing to learn more about it.  Here are the latest news from within the SharePoint blogosphere: Configuration stores names instead of IDs - with version 1.2 of the ContentByType webpart, the XML configuration stored on the webpart properties hold ...[Read More]

Some of the best posts on the net regarding Sharepoint 2007 and Authentication.  This is a post that has been around for one year and I'm sure there are newer more complete guides.  What would you recommend? NTLM Authentication with SharePoint Most SharePoint environments today are using NTLM (the default) as the authentication protocol. This has ...[Read More]

Just got wind of this post, over at zevenseas.com, they are offering the first 20 people, who are genuinely want to blog about SharePoint using SharePoint, a FREE SharePoint Hosting Blogging Offer.  The blog would be powered by CKS:EBE, with the following features coming prebuilt: Modular Theme Framework ("MTF") that allows for the dev ...[Read More]

Mark of EndUserSharePoint.com fame is looking to giveaway his ebook SharePoint 101: Tricks and Traps to all registered email subscribers via his weekly newsletters. Mark has been blogging about all the trials and tribulations of End users who are throw into the world of SharePoint.  Microsoft has done quite a bit to improve on the user interfac ...[Read More]

Just some video viewing for those learning SharePoint 2007.  The Visual How To's are a great resource from Microsoft.  Here are two new Visual How To's: Displaying Search Results in a Grid View in SharePoint Server 2007 (direct link to video) Summary: Learn how you can bind search engine results to an SPGridView control to display the results in a ...[Read More]

Well it looks like the rumors are true as the Internet Explorer 8 Beta site is up and you can download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. What can we expect from Internet Explorer 8? Activities WebSlices Favorites Bar Automatic Crash Recovery Improved Phishing Filter On top of that, Microsoft has confirmed that IE8 will pass the ACID test and t ...[Read More]

Was browsing TechNet and noticed this link to a FREE Microsoft Press E-Book Offer!  Register / login with your Windows Live ID and immediately download one of the following FREE E-Books: Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo - Get a head start on using the Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Project with advance ins ...[Read More]

Its the first day of the SharePoint Conference 2008 and I am missing quite a bit by not being there.  After reading my daily SharePoint blog posts and news, a few buzz worthy news items are brought to my attention: Microsoft SharePoint Online by Microsoft Online Services Based off of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Online i ...[Read More]