I recently ran the SharePoint 2010 installer, still in Beta, and had no issues during the installation.  My system was configured as a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit with a separate Domain Controller.  This was a “clean” server so nothing else was ...[Read More]

Recently I have been working on a Google Maps integration for SharePoint and one of the desired capabilities was to include items from SharePoint lists on the map.  The solution was not going to leverage the AJAX .NET capabilites and would instea ...[Read More]

I wrote a while ago about doing some testing with Windows 7 Beta and how I was excited about the new features, interface, etc.  I also expressed a concern as many other did about the “Versions” of Windows 7 Microsoft may make available.  Well, it ...[Read More]

I was recently asked about how to determine when a SharePoint List Item should be transferred from one list to another.  Immediately two possible solutions came to mind, use a SharePoint Workflow or use a SharePoint Item Event Receiver.  I offered ...[Read More]

Microsoft recently released the latest service pack for SharePoint 2007 (SP2) which does provide a number of enhancements.  However, in their process of developing this Service Pack they happened to overlook the fact that SP2 resets your SharePoin ...[Read More]

A fellow SharePointer, Joel Oleson, posted a very nice summary to the recently released SharePoint 2010 system requirements.   Two items have really stood out as I reviewed the information.    First, SharePoint 2010 will require a 64-bit plat ...[Read More]

I recently found the need to submit and save Infopath 2007 browser enabled form data. The submit is very straight forward when using browser enabled forms, but the ability to save the form is not so straight forward or so you might think. After th ...[Read More]

An article in InfoWorld caught my eye today when it was announced that a French Company had complete a Beta version of an Eclipse plug-in for Silverlight.    This is exciting to me in two ways.  First, I have a background in Java and spent much o ...[Read More]

I did my first recorded live meeting today which when pretty well until I decided I wanted to share the meeting.  What I discovered is that the audio and video, really the only two things I needed, we actually divided into two different wmv files.  ...[Read More]

Some of you may have noticed that I have been using Twitter lately along with this blog.  Today one of my co-workers and fellow Twitterers(?) posted a link to the official Twitter accounts for Microsoft which I thought others might find interestin ...[Read More]