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• How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services

  Posted: 14 Nov 2008 at 19:17

  Overview Today's guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. ThreeWill recently worked with Microsoft to build a generic Service Request Office Business Application (OBA) using InfoPath For

• Announcing SPDisposeCheck tool for SharePoint Developers

  Posted: 12 Nov 2008 at 15:48

  The SPSite and SPWeb Dispose() methods are an important thing for developers who work with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to master. Many SharePoint API's allocate COM based memory that is not released by CLR garbage collection and must be released by calling the Dispose() methods. M

• Microsoft User Research Group Looking for SharePoint Users

  Posted: 10 Nov 2008 at 23:05

  Last week, the Microsoft User Research team reached out to me regarding a set of studies they were planning to execute in the upcoming months. In a nutshell, the team focuses on how people interact with hardware and software products; and then the information and feedback gathered is translated dir

• Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008

  Posted: 10 Nov 2008 at 22:41

  This week at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Jason Zander, the GM for Visual Studio, announced and demonstrated the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint. Here's a quick summary of what he showed: Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of V

• Introducing the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint

  Posted: 10 Nov 2008 at 18:19

  Last week at IT Forum in Barcelona, we announced the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Master program is designed to be the top-tier technical certification for SharePoint Products and

• How We Did It – Allowing Connections to Multiple SSRS Servers with Report Viewer and Explorer Web Pa

  Posted: 03 Nov 2008 at 23:11

  Overview Today’s guest blog post is from ThreeWill, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner located in Alpharetta, Georgia that focuses on SharePoint development and integration. You might remember them from a previous article about the SharePoint Connector for Confluence. They worked with Microsoft on a r

• PDC 2008: Announcing Azure Services Platform and Microsoft SharePoint Services

  Posted: 27 Oct 2008 at 22:05

  Today, in Day 1 of the PDC Keynote, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform. Azure makes it possible for developers to create applications and services that run in the cloud or to create web, mobile, or hybrid applications that extend the value of on-premises applications. To learn more about

• Prepare for the Upcoming Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service P

  Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 23:52

  Office Service Pack Team announced Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System.  This new service pack will be released between February and April 2009.  It will contain both client and server updates.  Here are some of the SharePoint related topics that we will be expanding upon in later posts.

• Announcing New Daylight Saving Time Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

  Posted: 16 Oct 2008 at 17:49

  Daylight Saving Time (DST, in some countries it is called summertime) exists in many countries. The start dates and end dates of DST change from year to year, and countries may change their policies for DST occasionally. This DST update is an effort of SharePoint product team to reflect these new ch

• Best Wishes to Lawrence and Welcome to Dave!

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 05:29

  Lawrence Liu, who has been on the SharePoint team for over 3 years leading the SharePoint community effort, joined Telligent this week – a Microsoft partner. Many of you have probably worked or virtually interacted with Lawrence and know of his extreme passion for community development. In ap

• TechNet Edge Videos with Michael Noel, Author of SharePoint 2007 Unleashed

  Posted: 13 Oct 2008 at 21:00

  With benefits ranging from increased server utilization, improved IT service levels, and overall IT agility – most SharePoint organizations are considering adoption of virtualization technologies in a SharePoint environment. Michael Noel, partner at Convergent Computing – a Microsoft Gold Partner an

• Some AAM guidance from the front lines

  Posted: 13 Oct 2008 at 08:56 by sptblog

  The ISA Server team recently wrote a nice blog post explaining some of the issues you may face when deploying SharePoint in an extranet.  Many of these issues can be avoided by spending some time up front on planning and testing.  Close collaboration between your firewall/pr

• 64-Bit and the Admin Toolkit Download Trend

  Posted: 03 Oct 2008 at 21:43 by sptblog

  [Cross-Referenced from Zach Rosenfield's Blog]  Just over a month ago I announced the release of the second Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit.  We’ve been getting great feedback and lots of interest—and I wanted to share our download results: After 5 months we’re just shy o

• Announcing August Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Service

  Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 20:23 by sptblog

  The Microsoft Office team has changed the way that it delivers hotfixes for reported problems. This change comes in the form of cumulative updates and critical on-demand hotfixes. The objective is to deliver high-quality fixes in an acceptable time and on a predictable schedule. Cumulative updates a

• Announcing August Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Service

  Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 19:23

  The Microsoft Office team has changed the way that it delivers hotfixes for reported problems. This change comes in the form of cumulative updates and critical on-demand hotfixes. The objective is to deliver high-quality fixes in an acceptable time and on a predictable schedule. Cumulative updates a

• SharePoint Evaluation VPC Image will expire 9/30

  Posted: 22 Sep 2008 at 23:48 by sptblog

  If you’ve activated and are using the SharePoint evaluation image from http://www.microsoft.com/vhd you’ve hopefully noticed by now that it’s due to expire at the end of this month…! We’ll be getting a new image with an extended expiry date (Early 2010) uploaded to the same site in the next few days

• Share More Community Tips on Office Online

  Posted: 12 Sep 2008 at 05:39 by sptblog

  [Cross-posted from the "Get The Point" Team Blog.] Office Online has a new commenting feature that I mentioned in an earlier post about Community Tips. When you have questions or advice about the content you find, you can sign in with a Windows Live ID and post questions or bits of advice

• Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification

  Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 06:12 by sptblog

  Today represents the start of a new era in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) interoperability as Microsoft, EMC and IBM announced a jointly developed specification that leverages SOAP, REST and Atom to enable communication with and between ECM systems.  The new specification known as Content

• We'll miss you, Patrick.

  Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 23:30 by sptblog

  Patrick Tisseghem, long time SharePoint MVP and co-founder of U2U, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, suddenly passed away on September 3rd evening in Gothenburg, Sweden due to heart failure. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and daughters, Anahi and Laura. On behalf of the SharePoint product gro

• Just Published! WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 Download and Online MSDN Library

  Posted: 30 Aug 2008 at 01:00 by sptblog

  [Cross-posted from Randall Isenhour's blog.] Hello SharePoint Developers! We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the online MSDN Library + the downloadable SDKs for both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0! In our never-ending efforts to improve the customer and partner experience, w