Now that SharePoint 2010 has been released, who isn’t excited to get their hands dirty trying it out? Follow Joel Oleson’s download links to try it out like I did. After grabbing the bits from MSDN a little over 2 days ago, I have a fully function ...[Read More]

For serious SharePoint 2007 Business Data Catalog application work, there is really only one competitive tool available, BDC Meta Man from Lightning Tools. If you’ve attended one of my user group or SharePoint Saturday presentations on the BDC, y ...[Read More]

Troubleshooting SharePoint requires understanding the 8 Windows Services the platform depends on. Use this table to help identify services while researching issues. Also, pay attention to the account the service uses to run.   Security All of the ...[Read More]

If you are in the Austin area, don't miss my upcoming presentation to the Austin SharePoint User Group: ----------------------------------------------------------- Join us for the February 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! ...[Read More]

If you haven't already grabbed the new SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine images from Microsoft's downloads, read Barb Mosher's Get SharePoint 2010 Up and Running with VM from Microsoft Barb writes an excellent summary of each VM's purpose and how y ...[Read More]

I loved the recent Microsoft Certified Master Training I attended in Redmond last month. I learned so much and met and became friends with experts in the field. Some of the things we learned and discused don't seem so readily findable on the wide ...[Read More]

My friend and Co-worker, Rich Olivieri shares his experience with the new beta of SharePoint 2010 below. -Tom   -----------------------------------------------------------   My Approach to SharePoint 2010 beta Development Rich Olivieri, r ...[Read More]

SharePoint 2010 Requirements You Might Miss SQL Server 2005 64bit is a supported platform for SharePoint 2010 deployments Internet Explorer 6 receives support from Microsoft for Windows XP Service Pack 3 until April, 2014 Your current Sh ...[Read More]

My colleague, Chris Alechko, has put together a great list of ActiveX controls and their use in SharePoint. ActiveX Controls that must be allowed in the browser MSCAL.OCX (Calendar control – included with Microsoft Office Professional or in ...[Read More]

Please take my short SharePoint 2010 Adoption Survey. I am publicly sharing the summary of responses and plan to do some analysis. Here’s a sneak peek. Of the first 13 responders, 6 are Very Likely to deploy after Service Pack 1: ...[Read More]