It’s time to hold our first Twitter only contest. UPDATE:  That was fast!  The contest is now closed since I have reached 650 followers.  The intention was to get participation and not, like some have mentioned, self promotion or increase number of followers.  I will be writing a follow up post to add.  That’s right, the only way to enter this con ...[Read More]

The SharePoint Workflow History maintains a record of each step within a workflow.  Everything from approval activity (approve, denial), updates to a workflow, comments and even workflow errors. Workflow history list is created / deployed when you create or consume an out-of-box workflow or custom workflow. the workflow history list is not viewabl ...[Read More]

What is Branding?From our prespective, Branding helps you identify a company, product or service through the use of consistent logo, colors and text. Branding is the successful attempt to symbolicly embodiment of all the information connected to a company, product or service. [source: wikipedia]It's really that simple; however, it's the succes ...[Read More]

Check out the following posts by Waldek Mastykarz on using tables for layouts and other resources that give more information on this subject better way to obtain field values of an SPListItem using TryGetValue extension method tool to help SharePoint developers to deal with disposable objects in custom code Google has published Search Engin ...[Read More]

Today Microsoft released the first Microsoft SharePoint Online Standard Developer Guide.  As described by the download description: Microsoft Office SharePoint Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that help you store, share, and manage digital information within your company. T ...[Read More]

2nd annual Toronto SharePoint Camp this year is Saturday, January 24, 2009!  I'm looking forward to attending some of the great sessions and meeting some amazing presenters!  More importantly, I'm excited about my presentation SharePoint Branding 101. Register Now!Registration is open and I would advise you to definitely register.  If you are a ...[Read More]

Both Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Nintex Workflow 2007 are powerful tools that can be used to create, design, and publish custom workflows to your Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Farm.  They are both generally geared toward the SharePoint Power User.  Although a beginner should be able to pick it up fairly easy.  They both use a ...[Read More]

Jakob Nielsen has released his yearly survey results on the 10-best intranets in 2009.  The most notable finding, is right in his summary of his report: Intranets are getting more strategic, with increased collaboration support. Team size is growing by 12% per year, and platforms are becoming integrated, with a strong showing for SharePoint. Imp ...[Read More]

This year SharePoint Buzz has seen phenominal growth - we surpassed 1,000,000 visitors.  Thank you to each and every one of you for visiting.  We have had tremendous support from the SharePoint Community and continue to receive your linkback's and retweet's.  In 2009, we plan on bringing more quality SharePoint posts to make SharePoint Buzz, one o ...[Read More]