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A couple of months ago I finally shelled out the money for a MacBook Pro laptop. Its an absolutely fantastic machine. Took me a while to learn the different keyboard shortcuts, and I am still learning news ones everyday. Something I just ran in to so I thought I would share this. VMWare now has a converter that will convert Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC images to VMWare Fusion; its a very cool tool (and yes it actually works). Hold on though -- before you go and start converting your i... [ read more] |
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I have just finished delivering another K2 course in my town. We had the 101 training course with 8 attendees from Mon to Wed. It was fun and engaging. I had some great conversations about using K2 in the real world. Happy to see people getting into using our technology and start building solutions for [...]
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Some time ago I was done a ton do SQL 2005 development and I tons of requirements to do recursive queries. Well I had it come up again where I wanted to return back a tree of data. Not to say I could to the recursion on in some .Net code however it is a little cleaner in my situation to return the data from a stored procedure ready to go. There are tons of various solutions out there so use it if you like… I had found this solution on some blog two years ago, I lost the link and I luckily found ... [ read more] |
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I am excited about the next two weeks. Next week Monday, I am speaking at the Enterprise 3 Portals and Collaboration Conference . I am delivering two sessions; one on managing projects with SharePoint and the other on Information Architecture. Two days later, Wednesday, I am then speaking at the San Diego SharePoint User Group. I am going to cover SharePoint Workflow! The following week, Wednesday, May 28th, I am speaking at the Hawaii SharePoint User Group. This is a long session where Dan Holm... [ read more] |
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Have you ever tried to find that elusive command line argument for STSADM, well Ian Morrish has created a great little resource that provides a list of the command line arguments grouped by category. http://www.wssdemo.com/Lists/stsadm/AllItems.aspx
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We're doing lots of things around introductory SharePoint development for .NET developers over the next few months. Here is the schedule for a series of MSDN web casts on 10 introductory SharePoint development topics for .NET developers. If you are a...( read more )
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Microsoft has just published about 17 hours of new presentations on Enterprise Search. Check them out. Module 1: Workshop Overview Module 2: Enterprise Search Overview Module 3: SharePoint Search 2007 Walkthrough Module 4: Search Architecture and Deployment Scenarios Module 5: Crawl and Query Processes Module 6: Relevance Ranking Module 7: Customizing the End-User Experience Module 8: Developing Search Solutions Module 9: Business Data Catalog Search Module 10: Extensibility and Integration for ... [ read more] |
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I'm pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 . The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released back in Feb 2008 and an update...( read more )
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After going through a deployment of integrated SSRS with MOSS I figured it would be good to post up a bunch of references that may help. Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog – Good inspirational read. Deploying Reporting Services – more links Reporting Services and SharePoint Technology Integration – Nice little overview Configuring Reporting Services for SharePoint 3.0 Integration – Read this before getting started. How to: Configure SharePoint Integration on a Standalone Se... [ read more] |
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http://blogs.msdn.com/rog42/archive/2008/04/04/demo-s-happen-here.aspx
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This is the son of a friend of mine Chris O'Connor ( GrumpyWookie ). It is very funny how the sons of nerd become nerds (my son is also a chip of my shoulder)...I also like the way he promotes SharePoint and C#.
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The Australian TechEd 2008 web site has been launched. Check it out for information on the agenda. It has RSS feeds to keep you up to date and also uses Silverlight . I will also be presenting at TechEd this year. Don't forget to register early to save $250. You can also shape the conference by voting for what the closing party theme should be, Gladiators, Comedy or Carnivale. I personally am not sure which one I would rather see!
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Sergio Del Piccolo wrote the following article called The Hidden Costs of Inefficiency . This is absolutely fantastic. Please give this a read as this is a great way to start talking about K2 BlackPearl. When reading this you may think to yourself that this is nothing new, we are just talking about automation of offline business processes. However when talking K2 there are paper processes that K2 can automate but guess what there are tons of offline processes that need to be implemented to suppo... [ read more] |
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We know the value of a business user tool such as Visio. With K2’s integration with Visio it has opened the opportunity for visio users to directly contribute to the process effort in an organisation.
By configuring Visio to be the on going maintenance interface for K2 processes, developers and consultants can add more value to [...]
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I was just checking through Chris Geier’s blog and found this… a comprehensive listing of all things K2. I am sure you will find it useful too.
I like this one on building custom security providers - a truly awesome post.
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So 803 has been out and what was the early experience like? Have you noticed the performance improvements with VS.NET? What about the quality of documentation? I am impressed. There is quite a lot of information on working with K2. An important note for the doco, the performance of worklist access has been improved by [...]
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How do I get started working as a Professional Developer on SharePoint? Here's a brief outline of the options. First you need to have prerequisite skills in .NET Development and in particular ASP.NET Development. SharePoint is built on those technologies...( read more )
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Here’s some company news and ..this time from Microsoft about K2. Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team wrote an article on
K2 about 2 years ago. A few weeks back they wanted to update the story and asked K2 CEO Adriaan to speak about how we have continued to grow and innovate as a company and on the [...]
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In late February 2008, there were a bunch of Microsoft guys gather in Seattle for the “Tech Ready” conference - only a few thousand delegates !
There were lots of blogs & posts about what was new/happening - including some podcasts & videos. Micheal Gannotti on SharePoint has an interview with a few of the guys [...]
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Beta 2 release for K2[connect] is available for download from the customer portal. This beta is also available for all customers and partners. There is also a k2underground forum dedicated for the K2[connect] beta program.
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K2 [blackpearl]™ 0803 (4.8075.1.0) is now available! K2 [blackpearl]™, the centerpiece of the new K2 platform, has the K2 [blackpearl] 0803 (4.8075.1.0) release now available.
The 0803 release provides support for 64-bit hardware platforms, support for Worldwide English (non-English Windows, SQL Server, SharePoint, Office and Visual Studio), improved license management, performance enhancements and post-SP1 patches and [...]
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K2 blackpearl™ 0803 (4.8075.1.0) is now available!
K2 blackpearl™, the centerpiece of the new K2 platform, has the K2 [blackpearl] 0803 (4.8075.1.0) release now available.The 0803 release provides support for 64-bit hardware platforms, support for Worldwide English (non-English Windows, SQL Server, SharePoint, Office and Visual Studio), improved license management, performance enhancements and post-SP1 patches and bug [...]
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K2 blackpearl™ 0803 (4.8075.1.0) is now available!
K2 blackpearl™, the centerpiece of the new K2 platform, has the K2 [blackpearl] 0803 (4.8075.1.0) release now available.The 0803 release provides support for 64-bit hardware platforms, support for Worldwide English (non-English Windows, SQL Server, SharePoint, Office and Visual Studio), improved license management, performance enhancements and post-SP1 patches and bug [...]
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In the world of software, products get released, get enhanced, get matured and stablised. As consumers of software, organisations approach purchasing and deploying software differently. Some run on the latest and greatest. Some wait for service packs, others wait for their current versions to go out of life. Whatever the approach the continuous [...]
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Watch Davids take by screencast on SharePoint Development Part 1 - http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=373280 Part 2 - http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=373289 In the video he's using the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows...( read more )
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