Microsoft SharePoint Director, Jared Spataro, to Host Live Chat on Facebook!(Via sharepointblog)

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“Yes, our blog is typically a place for us to post c and news, but in this case, we wanted to remind you about an exciting upcoming live chat that will be hosted by our Microsoft SharePoint Director, Jared Spataro!

And though this won’t be a technical discussion, we encourage you to bring all your questions related to the SharePoint business. Mark your calendars for this hour-long event happening Wednesday, September 14th from 12:30pm – 1:30p.m. PDT, GMT -7. And if you haven’t already, you should “like” Microsoft SharePoint on Facebookand RSVP for Jared Spataro’s live chat here

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Workflow Activity – Part 2(Via Stuart Robert)

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“This is the second part of the custom workflow activity creation tutorial. For the first part please go here.

Now that we have a workflow activity defined, the next step is to add a new project to Visual Studio.”

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Workflow Activity – Part 1(Via Stuart Robert)

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“The object of this post is to provide a walkthrough on creating a custom workflow activity for SharePoint 2010 and deploying it as part of a custom sequential workflow.

Start by creating a new empty Class Library project.”

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How easy can scanning to SharePoint be? by Constanze Kauffmann, Fenestrae (Via The European SharePoint Conference Team)

Extracted “I would like to bring to your attention this amazing blog from Fenestrae. Fenestrae are Sliver Exhibitors at the the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin from the 17th - 20th October.

In our last week's article we introduced UDOCX as the only cloud-based service that integrates physical scanned documents with SharePoint and Exchange.

The UDOCX "Scan-to-SharePoint version" is not only about storing documents into SharePoint and integrating them into internal or external business workflows (which is crucial for business productivity). It's also about being very user-friendly for both users and administrators. UDOCX is the easiest and most convenient way for employees to scan documents into SharePoint!

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Live Bloggers needed for SharePoint Conference Anaheim 2011 SPC11 (Via Dave Coleman)

Extracted “Only 5 weeks to go now until the biggest SharePoint show in the world hits Anaheim so I thought now would be a great time to plan ahead and recruit live bloggers for the 4 day event running October 3^rd through to October 6^th. This is a great way to share what is happening at the conference with the wider SharePoint community.

How it will work

If you are attending and wish to help out please leave a comment on the blog I will contact you via email and set you up an account as an author that way all posts are in your own names. There is no pressure but it would be great if you could manage a couple of posts over the 4 days this way if we can get enough bloggers I hope we can cover a lot of the sessions.

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Do You Have an Opinion on the SharePoint Community? (Via Robert L. Bogue)

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“Sigh. It's time for another round of how the SharePoint Community is broken. For those of you, who aren't aware, please allow me to catch you up quickly. In round one, we had Joel Olsen's proposal for the SharePoint Knights. Then we had Global 360 trying to define the key influencers in the market with their SharePoint Influencer50. (Which I responded to here.) Now we've got Matt Rackley asking Is the SharePoint Community Past Its Prime? This time the spark was a CMS wire post about the community titled The SharePoint Community: What it is, Why It's Important and Microsoft's Role. Despite Barb's slightly liberal use of quotes potentially out of context, the article is a nice feel-good article. It's about how a group of people grow up – and share in the community. So why does Mark provide a negative spin? In short, I don't know. I know that he's posted several other posts with relatively inflamitory titles (or content.) The most recent one I could find prior to the SharePoint Community post is The Real Value of Microsoft Certification in SharePoint??? Knowing Mark (I like to call him Matt just to mess with his head) I suspect that it's just who he is. He likes to take or share his controvercial point of view and take a read on the market.

Despite the inflamitory nature of the titles (and content) let's look to see what Mark has to say this time:

1. These aren't the good ole days
2. Speakers aren't taunted by hecklers
3. People have egos
4. Conference burn out
5. The MVP program is broken.
6. Microsoft should do more for the community
7. SharePoint is different.

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Enable Content Approval on a Custom SharePoint list using the list definition(Via Madhawa )

Extract “Yesterday I realized that non of my custom lists enforce content approval by default. That really worried me as 90% of the data we display in the web site which I'm working on are coming from custom lists.

Enabling this manually is a piece of cake but I wanted to include this in the list definition.

After some research and testing I found out that there are 2 places you have to configure.

You have to set ModeratedList="TRUE" for List element and EnableModeration="True" for ListTemplate element in your schema files.

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