New Study Proves SharePoint Is Becoming a Business-Critical Application

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Some business applications come and go without having much impact on the actual daily processes of transactions, sales, marketing, consulting, or whatever a business happens to do. Others are highly critical, and the moment one of them is unavailable or inaccessible, the business becomes well aware of its impact.

Because a business-critical application can have a far-reaching impact on the success or failure of a business, it is extremely important to have something reliable, something that is durable enough to withstand the highs and lows a business may experience.

A new white paper offered by Metalogix, Managing SharePoint as a Business-critical Application, highlights a study by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) of the many of the reasons Microsoft SharePoint has become a business-critical application for numerous organizations and how it will increasingly become more of a mainstay in the business world. This ubiquity will make businesses better, but it will also require them to adapt and develop new ways of thinking about business collaboration.

51 percent of businesses consider SharePoint one of their top 5 applications, and a whopping 80 percent place it within the top 10. Over the next couple of years, 63 percent expect it to move into their top 5. More businesses are recognizing SharePoint as a critical application, one that is necessary to maintain a consistent flow of data and keep up performance levels.

Part of the reason for this recognition is that businesses have evolved and changed the ways in which employees interact with one another. You may go an entire day without someone dropping a file folder on your desk, but you may get emails from multiple colleagues, each with attached documents. File sharing, document management, and centralized storage are all tools businesses need and ones SharePoint delivers.

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5 SharePoint Branding experts to pay attention to ( Via Stu )

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SharePoint is a widely used web and intranet platform across all industries and while there are many people out there who are SharePoint Experts in one form or another, I find the brandingcommunity is still quite small. My theory is that being really good at branding SharePoint requires a unique mix of design skill, development savvy, usability chops, consulting acumen and an extraordinarily high tolerance for pain. Okay, that last one is just me poking fun at the platform. For those of us who have made a career of branding this wonderfully complex product, the challenges can be extreme but the potential rewards are great.

As a consultant, there is nothing quite as satisfying for me as transforming a vanilla SharePoint site into a beautifully branded site. Smooth integration into the organization through great user experience design is what we all strive for but if you have ever tackled a project like this, you understand the challenges. Whether you are taking on your first project or your fiftieth, the following five SharePoint Branding experts represent my choice of the top voices in our discipline. Make sure you check out their blog posts and for God’s sake, subscribe to their twitter feeds!

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SharePoint 2010 Lockdown Mode (Via Zubair Alexander )

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 has a feature called ViewFormPagesLockdown, or some people simply refer to it as the SharePoint lockdown feature. Fortunately, the feature also works with SharePoint Server 2010.

The lockdown feature is useful if you have a site collection that is configured for Anonymous access on a Publishing site and you want to lock it down so Anonymous users don’t have access to the Forms page (e.g. http://ServerName/Pages/Forms/AllItems.aspx). You might also be able to take advantage of this feature in another way. For example, if you ever run into an issue on a Publishing Portal configured for Anonymous access where users are unable to post comments (which are stored in a List) on a blog site then the lockdown feature can be disabled, which will result in allowing Anonymous users to post comments. Normally, people won’t have problem posting comments on a blog site unless it is a Publishing site, in which case they will get a prompt to enter user credentials. In such a scenario you can disable the lockdown feature.

NOTE: By default, all publishing sites have the ViewFormPagesLockdown feature enabled.

You can either use stsadm.exe or PowerShell to enable this feature. I prefer to use PowerShell. If you want more detailed information on how to use stsadm.exe, Microsoft’s Tyler Butler has documented it here for MOSS 2007.

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Import Excel files to SharePoint 2010 ( Via Slava G )

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Sometimes we have a need to transfer Excel spreadsheet to the SharePoint 2010 environment.

Because Excel is very popular business application, I see quite a few spreadsheets out there that are used for managing complex business operations.

At some stage the decision comes up to move Excel-based system to SharePoint for certain good reasons and business users try to upload their spreadsheets to SharePoint lists and libraries.

It might seem obvious that we could use out-of-the-box functionality provided by Microsoft in SharePoint 2010 which is "Import Spreadsheet" which "creates a list which duplicates the columns and data of an existing spreadsheet".
What it does in reality is: allowing you to select a range of cells, creating a list with all columns as single or multiple lines text. That's it.
So for real life scenarios we need a different approach to import Excel data to SharePoint appropriately.

In the scenario here we have got a simplified application management system in Excel that features two related worksheets: Applications and Environments. Applications is a list of software and Environments is a list of servers and owners where the software exists.

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Memphis SharePoint Meeting, OCT 27, RSVP ( Via Jon )

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Memphis SharePoint Users Group Meeting on Thursday, October 27th from 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Crescent Club.

Nitin Nagar with Ascendum will demonstrate how SharePoint provides a basis for key enterprise requirements and allows enterprise users and administrators alike the benefits of a true ECM solution. We’ll explore the advantages of designing and developing ECM solutions leveraging SP2010 and explore further this bold new SharePoint world.

Xerxes Randelia with Aspect will discuss Security around SharePoint in an open forum with Q&A. Aspect has been delivering SharePoint solutions to clients since the beta release of the first version of SharePoint in 2001. Aspect has delivered hundreds of SharePoint projects to clients of all sizes and industries.

Memphis SharePoint User Group

Thursday, October 27th, 2011
3:30pm – 6:30pm
Crescent Club
6075 Poplar Ave Ste 909, Memphis, TN

Please register to attend at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=157599

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Memphis SharePoint Meeting, OCT 27, RSVP ( Via Jon )

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Memphis SharePoint Users Group Meeting on Thursday, October 27th from 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Crescent Club.

Nitin Nagar with Ascendum will demonstrate how SharePoint provides a basis for key enterprise requirements and allows enterprise users and administrators alike the benefits of a true ECM solution. We’ll explore the advantages of designing and developing ECM solutions leveraging SP2010 and explore further this bold new SharePoint world.

Xerxes Randelia with Aspect will discuss Security around SharePoint in an open forum with Q&A. Aspect has been delivering SharePoint solutions to clients since the beta release of the first version of SharePoint in 2001. Aspect has delivered hundreds of SharePoint projects to clients of all sizes and industries.

Memphis SharePoint User Group

Thursday, October 27th, 2011
3:30pm – 6:30pm
Crescent Club
6075 Poplar Ave Ste 909, Memphis, TN

Please register to attend at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=157599

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Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 is now available (Via Darryl_MSFT)

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The Office Sustained Engineering team has released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007. For complete details, including a list of all download and description links to the SP3 packages, see Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 3 Availability. In addition, the links are available in this Knowledge Base article: List of all 2007 Office system SP3, 2007 Office servers SP3, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP3 packages.

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SharePoint 2010 – The Security Token Service is not available ( Via Pratik)

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After installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 I noticed a warning in the Central Admin > Review problems and solutions report that the Security Token Service is not available.

The Security Token Service is not available.
The Security Token Service is not issuing tokens. The service could be malfunctioning or in a bad state.
SP Security Token Service (Security Token Service)

I have found so many articles while search and it seems the problem is same but the resolution is deferent for all scenarios. For my scenario problem ended up being that the default configuration of the IIS Application Pools was set to 32-bit:

When SharePoint was installed all of the application pool accounts were added with 32-Bit enabled which prevented the SharePoint application pools from starting. I had corrected this for the Central Admin site and also the root SharePoint site but the application pools for the Security Token Service were still set to use the 32-Bit application which was preventing the service from starting.

Changing this setting in each of the application pools (there were several created so check them all) fixed the issue and then the warning went away.

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Publishing Rich HTML without any limitations in SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 2010 ships with rich content editing capabilities. However the set of allowed HTML tags is limited. Find out how to avoid the limitations in editing rich content in SharePoint 2010.

When working with Internet-facing websites, rich content allows us to make difference and to add interaction and semantics to static pages. Out of the box SharePoint 2010 ships with a Rich Text Editor (RTE) that allows us to enrich our content with HTML markup. Thanks to its interaction with the Ribbon content editors can easily add rich media, data tables or change presentation of the content using the Rich Text Editor.

Nowadays however, rich content goes far beyond formatting and including media. We not only want to publish content but we also want to track its value using web analytics. And to make the content more valuable we want to make use of new capabilities such as microdata or HTML5. Unfortunately things aren’t as easy as you might want them to be when working with SharePoint 2010.

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Reporting Services and SharePoint - Context Expired Exception (Via Babu)

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Problem:

When trying to open a report or even looking at a data source, SharePoint would throw an exception: "Report Server has encountered a SharePoint error. ---> Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The context has expired and can no longer be used. "

Solution:

I tried the usual remedy steps such as IISRESET and rebooting the server. I then tried to repair the RS Add-In and even run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. Nothing was working, but I did notice in the logs that the timestamps were not the right time.

After several other actions, I decided to fix the clock on the server to have the correct time. Wow ... This resolved the context issue and everything started working. The clock was so much different than any client machine that the security context was assumed to be expired.

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Reporting Services and SharePoint - Context Expired Exception (Via Babu)

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Problem:

When trying to open a report or even looking at a data source, SharePoint would throw an exception: "Report Server has encountered a SharePoint error. ---> Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The context has expired and can no longer be used. "

Solution:

I tried the usual remedy steps such as IISRESET and rebooting the server. I then tried to repair the RS Add-In and even run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. Nothing was working, but I did notice in the logs that the timestamps were not the right time.

After several other actions, I decided to fix the clock on the server to have the correct time. Wow ... This resolved the context issue and everything started working. The clock was so much different than any client machine that the security context was assumed to be expired.

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Document ID feature - An overview

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The document ID feature allows you to refer to a document by a unique code, instead of a possibly unreliable URL. Once you have enabled this site collection feature you will see a 'Document ID' field included in the properties for a given document.

The most useful thing here? You can now refer to your document with the following link:

http:///_layouts/DocIdRedir.aspx?ID=xxx

Where xxx is the document ID. No longer do you need to worry about where the document actually lives, its URL, and this URL changing. You can use the document ID to locate the file across sites, site collections and even web applications.

Some interesting points to note:

• This feature also interacts with Document Sets well, in that an ID is assigned to the set, and the individual documents within that set.
• If you turn the service on, and want existing documents to feature IDs, then you will need to check them in/out.
• Only content types derived from the 'Document' content type will have unique IDs assigned.
• You can edit the code behind the number generation to change how SharePoint generates the unique ID.

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Call for Speakers: SharePoint Summit 2012 Toronto ( Via Reza)

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On behalf of the SharePoint Summit Board of Directors, I am excited to send out this Call for Speakers for SharePoint Summit 2012 which is being held in Toronto from May 14th to 16th, 2012.

This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your expertise and knowledge of SharePoint as part of a group of SharePoint experts and thought leaders. With over 600 people expected to attend SharePoint Summit 2012, this will be one of the SharePoint community’s most important events.

All speaker applications will be presented to the selection committee which has been created in order to ensure that the topics and speakers being submitted will bring value and help attendees in optimizing their SharePoint installations. To meet the needs of our attendees, we want to target presentations for both technical and business-oriented audiences. This means we are looking for presentations that will not only help developers and IT management plan and architect successful SharePoint solutions, but we also want to pay particular attention to topics that will help business decision makers, business analysts and information architects ensure that they can use SharePoint as a platform to drive business value. Clear abstract and proper level (100,200, etc) is very important in the selection process.

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October 2011 - Technical Rollup Mail -Internet: SharePoint & IIS ( Via conuktrm)

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SharePoint Technologies

Growing SharePoint Business: Exciting Times for Customers and Partners

It’s an exciting time for SharePoint and our customers. We continue to see double-digital growth for the business, and it’s rewarding to see how customers are using SharePoint to truly change the way they share information and work together. We launched Office 365 (including SharePoint Online) in June, and the uptake has been amazing – just two weeks post-launch, more than 50,000 organizations had already signed up to try the service

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=991

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Insights Training

Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence (BI) Insights skills in this training course.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126809

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites Training

Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites skills in this training course.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126810

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October 2011 - Technical Rollup Mail -Internet: SharePoint & IIS ( Via conuktrm)

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SharePoint Technologies

Growing SharePoint Business: Exciting Times for Customers and Partners

It’s an exciting time for SharePoint and our customers. We continue to see double-digital growth for the business, and it’s rewarding to see how customers are using SharePoint to truly change the way they share information and work together. We launched Office 365 (including SharePoint Online) in June, and the uptake has been amazing – just two weeks post-launch, more than 50,000 organizations had already signed up to try the service

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=991

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Insights Training

Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence (BI) Insights skills in this training course.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126809

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites Training

Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites skills in this training course.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126810

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SharePoint 2010 Correlation ID in Error Messages (Via Tahir Naveed)

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This morning one of my colleague in another team was having problem in creating a SharePoint 2010 site with an imported Site Template. This site template was created in a different SharePoint 2010 environment. He was getting the famous SharePoint error "Error: An unexpected error has occurred." with no details but it has Correlation ID.

I was trying to explain him how to look into the logs using the Correlation ID and found this MSDN article which explain how to search the error in the SharePoint logs in detail: SharePoint 2010 Correlation ID in error messages

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August 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released ( Via Stefan )

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The product group released the delayed August 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family.

Be aware that the August Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the August CU.

The KB articles for August CU (2007 and 2010) can be found at the following locations:

KB 2553022 - WSS 3.0

KB 2553020 - MOSS 2007

KB 2553050 - SharePoint Foundation 2010

KB 2553048 - SharePoint Server 2010

KB 2553049 - SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server
As you see there is a separate Full Server Package for SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server which simplifies patching of this common installation.

The Full Server Packages for August 2011 CU are available through the following links:

Download WSS 3.0 August 2011 CU

Download MOSS 2007 August 2011 CU

Download SharePoint Foundation 2010 August 2011 CU

Download SharePoint Server 2010 August 2011 CU

Download SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server August 2011 CU
After installing the fixes you need to run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard on each machine in the farm.

Be aware that the SharePoint Server 2010 CU contains the SharePoint Foundation CU. And the SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server CU contains Project Server CU, SharePoint Server CU and SharePoint Foundation CU.
That means only one package has to be installed for the SharePoint 2010 product family.

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Add Custom Links to the SharePoint 2010 UI as a Feature with or without using Visual Studio (Via DANIELS)

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In this article, I demonstrate the process of adding a custom link and group to the UI in SharePoint as a Site Feature without using Visual Studio, as well as using Visual Studio.

In some cases you may not have Visual Studio installed on a Server running SharePoint, or may just want to quickly add a custom link in the interface such as on the Site Settings page, or the Actions or Settings menu for a Document Library or List. In other cases you may have a project in Visual Studio containing new functionality to be deployed to a SharePoint environment, that needs to be accessed through adding custom links to the UI. It makes sense to deploy the custom links as part of the solution feature, so I also explain how to achieve this from a Visual Studio Project.

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Using FSUtil to fix a failed SharePoint 2010 upgrade – Windows Process Activation Service Error – and the Blue Comet

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We recently had to rescue a stalled SharePoint upgrade that went awry after a partial disk rebuild. During the upgrade, Central Administration refused to start, reporting the error:

Windows could not start the Windows Process Activation Service - Error 6801: Transaction support within the specified resource manager is not started or was shut down due to an error.

We traced this to the local file system journals being out of sync due to the partial restore. As result, IIS itself refused to start after reboot because the WAS wouldn’t start – and the WAS acts as the ignition for other processes, like IIS. In part, this is done to protect the data in case the file system has become corrupted. However, there’s also a simple fix. At a command line, run:

fsutil resource setautoreset true c:\

assuming the system drive is C. After a reboot, you will able to start IIS and continue with the upgrade.

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Your master page automatically on newly created (sub)sites ( Via Jeffrey Paarhuis)

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In my previous post on how to design and deploy a custom SharePoint master page I explained how to create an own branded master page and how to deploy that master page to your SharePoint site. Now I first stumbled upon the problem that the master page doesn’t get automatically applied to newly created (sub)sites, and secondly I received a comment from a reader describing the exact same problem. So I decided to write my findings and solution to the open world. Here it is.

The problem is very simple: You create your own master page, you apply your master page to all sites and it does that, nice, but when you create a new site you just get the old v4.master on that site and not your custom master page. Everyone with this problem, if you followed my previous post or not, can follow this solution. It doesn’t even matter what SharePoint version you’re using.

When I Googled for a bit, I found out that there is no out-of-the-box-solution for this and a lot of guys use Visual Studio to solve this. You could program an event receiver that sets your master page to every new site. Or you could program a Feature that holds your master page and apply that feature to a site definition. But I find that a bit heavy and not very flexible solution. So I played around a bit and found a solution myself without the use of Visual Studio or programming at all.

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Your master page automatically on newly created (sub)sites ( Via Jeffrey Paarhuis)

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In my previous post on how to design and deploy a custom SharePoint master page I explained how to create an own branded master page and how to deploy that master page to your SharePoint site. Now I first stumbled upon the problem that the master page doesn’t get automatically applied to newly created (sub)sites, and secondly I received a comment from a reader describing the exact same problem. So I decided to write my findings and solution to the open world. Here it is.

The problem is very simple: You create your own master page, you apply your master page to all sites and it does that, nice, but when you create a new site you just get the old v4.master on that site and not your custom master page. Everyone with this problem, if you followed my previous post or not, can follow this solution. It doesn’t even matter what SharePoint version you’re using.

When I Googled for a bit, I found out that there is no out-of-the-box-solution for this and a lot of guys use Visual Studio to solve this. You could program an event receiver that sets your master page to every new site. Or you could program a Feature that holds your master page and apply that feature to a site definition. But I find that a bit heavy and not very flexible solution. So I played around a bit and found a solution myself without the use of Visual Studio or programming at all.

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Unexpected Error on SharePoint Web Analytics Page (Wilson Leung )

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We have recently deployed another new branded look and feel to our SharePoint 2010 intranet. It comes with heavy customization and of course a custom master page. Everything works fine until we hit the web analytics report under site settings – the famous SharePoint unexpected error.

We went to the ULS log and found the following error:

System.ArgumentException: Could not find the sitemap node with URL '/_layouts/WebAnalytics/WebAppSelection.aspx'.

This seems strange to me as we used to have an old customized master page and it didn’t have the same problem. It’s quite a common problem after some Google, but none of the mentioned solutions (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/2022cff0-e2cf-4702-bb2a-17dc91dd4247) really works for us.

Just a quick run down of our custom master page: we have 3 heavy customized navigation control: Global navigation, side navigation, as well as a footer (doormat) navigation.

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News from Home - SharePoint 2007 SP3 & SQL Server 2012 (Via Or Biran)

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Just got the TechNet Flash mail and I was really happy to read new information about great products that's need to be come out very soon !

My top stories:

SharePoint 2007 Server - SP3 will come out within the next few months, its going to include all the CU's from the SP2 until now and even more than that, like Microsoft sad, this going to be for my opinion the last Service Pack for SP2007 before we say goodbye (End of Life - April 2012).

"Denali" Revealed as SQL Server 2012 !
After working with CTP1 and CTP3 on my Dev ENV at my work place and participating the TAP program of SQL "Denali" I can say that it's a great news and I know about really amazing and great features on that version of SQL Server.

As soon as I can I will write a POST about the new version of the SQL Server that's need to coming out in the beginning of 2012.

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European SharePoint Conference 2011, 17-20 October, Berlin (Via Rachel Collier)

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This year’s European SharePoint Conference will take place in Berlin from 17-20 October.

Aimed at a dynamic SharePoint community of IT professionals, business decision makers, developers and end users, there are 90 sessions planned and more than 60 partners attending. The agenda is already taking shape. Sign up before 1 July to take advantage of the early bird offer, and quote UK11MSFT for a 10% discount on top of advertised rates.

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SharePoint 2010 Database High Availability (Via berryst)

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As one of the high availability options in database used by SharePoint 2010 application, we can set the SQL Server database with SQL high availability mirroring (synchronous mode) or SQL failover cluster. To get in more detail on SQL high availability mirroring, on the SharePoint application side, it's automatic detection if there's failover happened on the mirrored database. Sharepoint will always connect to the prinicple database, as mirror database won't be accessible.

You can refer to my previous article on how to set failover instance on sharepoint database or refer to the following article Plan for availability (SharePoint Server 2010)

But, what about the sql server mirroring side once the failover happen? will it be able to re-syncronize back or do we need to setup the mirroring from the scratch once the failover happened ?

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SharePoint 2010 Database High Availability (Via berryst)

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As one of the high availability options in database used by SharePoint 2010 application, we can set the SQL Server database with SQL high availability mirroring (synchronous mode) or SQL failover cluster. To get in more detail on SQL high availability mirroring, on the SharePoint application side, it's automatic detection if there's failover happened on the mirrored database. Sharepoint will always connect to the prinicple database, as mirror database won't be accessible.

You can refer to my previous article on how to set failover instance on sharepoint database or refer to the following article Plan for availability (SharePoint Server 2010)

But, what about the sql server mirroring side once the failover happen? will it be able to re-syncronize back or do we need to setup the mirroring from the scratch once the failover happened ?

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Reading SharePoint Form Data from Silverlight application (Via Mohamed M Malek)

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I was trying to create a bing map silverlight application to be hosted on a custom SharePoint form page. This form is displaying the properties of a specific content type and within this content type I have two fields one for Latitude and one for Longitude. The requirement is actually to app to this form a Silverlight bing map that would display the location of this item. Also the solution should does not require any farm solutions as this is a sandbox environment.

I tried first to pass the initialization parameters to the silverlight application through the out of the box silverlight web part "Custom Initiation Parameters" but the thing is that these parameters are constant values and I even tried to get form values using scripts on this string but the string just got HTML encoded and passed as is to the silverlight application.

The option I had working is to use JScript from the silverlight application to read the form parameters. To do this I first created a hidden calculated column by display=none and not the column itself being hidden from the server side. and in that column I concatenated both values in one comma separated string as so

=CONCATSTRING([Latitude],",",[Longitude])

Then I changed the silverlight main application class to be somethig like this

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Free Webinar on 10/19/2011 at 2pm Eastern – Using SharePoint Designer in the ‘Real World’ ( Via Asif)

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We’re back with another webinar (and of course as always, there is no cost to attend the webinar. All we ask is that you provide feedback at the end that can help us improve).

Presenter:
Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT – http://www.SharePoint-Videos.com

Level of presentation: 200

Session Abstract:

"My IT department says we are not allowed to use SharePoint Designer." This phrase is fairly common when the topic of SharePoint Designer comes up in a training, conference setting or a consulting engagement. IT departments have concerns around deploying SharePoint Designer to end users. This session provides real world use cases and guidance that covers when it is safe to let your site administrators use SharePoint Designer 2010 (and also when it’s not safe). In addition, we will discuss the different level of privileges that should be granted to different groups of people in your organization.

This webinar is sponsored by SharePoint-Videos.com. During and after the webinar, we’ll take your questions and try to answer them to the best of our ability

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The latest in SharePoint – highlights and future directions: An update from this year’s SharePoint Conference (Via Nick)

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For four days and nights during the recent SharePoint Conference there wasn’t a place you could go in Anaheim, California without being in close proximity to a lot of SharePoint people. I was lucky enough to join the 7,500 in attending this year’s conference. With over 240 sessions, 7,500 attendees and 200 vendors, it was a busy and exciting week. Did I mention that the conference party was held on the Tuesday night at Disneyland theme park?

These large global conferences are more than just sessions, as they also provide a fantastic opportunity to catch up and network with other SharePoint professionals from around the world. About 15 delegates had travelled from New Zealand, four from Intergen. Two Intergenites – Gavin Barron and Chris Auld – were also involved in delivering conference sessions.

From the keynote and the range of conference sessions, the following themes came through loud and clear:

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