Waking up this Monday morning, there is tons of information on SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview from Microsoft.  More then its' typical for pre-beta.  With the initial information that is coming out of the technical preview of SharePoint 2010, I have a strong belief that this version of SharePoint, will be its finest.  Sure there are huge improve ...[Read More]

Check out the following articles available on Microsoft TechNet: Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 that covers the following topics such as: Recommended installation sequence for updates Installing a software update Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V which covers Recommendations for configuring and o ...[Read More]

The SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog about how to improve Performance, Availability, Security and Resource management by using the new features in SQL Server 2008 with Office SharePoint Server 2007  Register for the following Webcast and Learn how to build distributed applications that leverage the scalability and ubiquity of the servers ...[Read More]

I have mentioned a bit about search engine optimization within SharePoint before, so I thought I'd share some more information that I have collected working with clients.  When developing sites make sure you have a read through this. Things to Think About Make sure you use the markup validation (http://validator.w3.org) Use color blindness sim ...[Read More]

Just wanted to do a quick post for items I must share: Congrats to Vertigo Software have being awarded Microsoft Web Development Partner of the Year for their work on Hard Rock application (go check it out)! From Chad Brooks blog post Enabling MOSS to use .Net 3.5 points to Presentation Model in SharePoint Learn how to do Tag Clouds via ShareP ...[Read More]

Even though we all know how insanely bad SharePoint 2007's HTML is, we still love it.  There's alot of customization you can do with SharePoint, if you don't believe me check out Ian's Top 100 websites list. For those SharePoint weekenders who love to read about SharePoint even on the weekend, here's a list of articles that we found interesting ...[Read More]

For those that are less fortunate to attend TechEd you also missed Andrew Connell's book release: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007. Amazon states the book is for preorder but I have still already ordered my copy.  Just in case you did not know about the m ...[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]

Torontorians and fellow visitors, please join Robin Macrae this Wednesday, February 20th at 6:00pm for a presentation on Developing an Enterprise Strategy to Deliver Customized Sets of Capabilities.I have had the pleasure of meeting Robin, in last years Toronto SharePoint Camp.  He's a wonderful speaker and I look forward to seeing him present aga ...[Read More]

MSDN has a great article on how to create site variations.   The article walks you through creation of Variation Labels and then viewing the site with the Variations Label Menu.   To enable the site variations label follow these instructions as Microsoft forgot to include in the article: Open your master page either within SharePoint Designer, V ...[Read More]