Michael Blumenthal Blog

RTM, Launch, and GA dates announced for SharePoint 2010!

2010-03-05T20:35:41Z

Body: SharePoint 2010 will RTM next month – April 2010! The launch event will be May 12 th . http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx#fbid=387xf5ImGXJ It will be generally available to everyone in June. Source: http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/03/04/get-office-today-or-tomorrow.aspx Michael Category: SharePoint 2010 Published: 3/5/2010 12:35 PM Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Why the silence?

2010-02-20T00:07:15Z

Body: I haven’t blogged in a while, though I have tweeted a lot. Here’s why: End of November, my wife and I were blessed with our second child. Now my web hosting company is migrating my site to a “new platform” (which I think means new hardware). It’s apparently a slow process, and I don’t want to add significant new content until it is done. So between those two things, it may be a bit quiet here for a few more weeks. What I haven’t blogged about is what I have been doing on SP2010. More about...(read more)

Modifying a web part’s unnamed view with POSH

2009-11-06T23:52:24Z

Body: Here’s a little POSH script I wrote today, generalized a bit. The web part in question shows a list that has a column named “Title”, and one named “Percentage”, where it grouped them by a column called MarketType. It started out sorting ascending by title, and afterwards sorts descending by percentage. function global:Sort-WPBiggestPercentOnTop($SPViewUsedByWP) { $oldqu = $SPViewUsedByWP.Query if $oldqu -ne "<GroupBy Collapse=""FALSE"" GroupLimit=""100""><FieldRef...(read more)

Lots of 2010 Info now available

2009-10-20T17:51:28Z

Body: With the opening of the 2009 SharePoint Conference yesterday, the NDA was removed from 2010 information and Microsoft and 3rd parties have been publishing content as fast as they can. Twitter has been a good way to find out about a number of these. My favorites so far are: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/results.aspx?displaylang=en&nr=50&sortCriteria=Date&sortOrder=Descending&stype=s_adv&freetext=sharepoint%202010 – A ton of downloads on Microsoft.com all about 2010...(read more)

November 2009 CSPUG Meeting: Speakers Chosen

2009-10-07T03:07:03Z

Body: We’ve just finalized our speakers for the Nov 5 and Nov 19 meetings of the Chicago SharePoint User Group. We have Rick Seeman, a SharePoint Technical Specialist from Microsoft, MVP Asif Rehmani, and MVP Rob Bogue speaking. We can’t tell you the specific topics yet, because it’s all 2010 and under NDA. Save the dates! The Nov 5 meeting is an evening meeting in the Loop, and the Nov 19 meeting is an afternoon meeting in Downers Grove. Rick and Asif speak at both, Rob speaks at the afternoon meeting...(read more)

Twitterstream Snapshot

2009-10-03T02:46:06Z

Body: Here’s a snapshot of all my tweets to date. This is for the benefit of anyone who reads my blog but doesn’t follow me on Twitter, and also so that a search of my blog includes my tweets. #SharePoint : "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host" when email enable a list? Ensure Cntrl Adm default AAM url ok. 3:33 PM Sep 30th from TwInbox RT @ TopSharepoint : How we did it: Speeding up #SharePoint for SharePoint.Microsoft.com: http://tinyurl.com/yfr7coa - 10:28 PM...(read more)

End User Training Product Vendors

2009-09-11T04:17:29Z

Body: Here’s a short list of companies that provide end user training products or information. Rob Bogue’s Shepherd’s Guide – book and licensable content that you can build into your website. http://www.sharepointshepherd.com/default.aspx BrainStorm Inc’s Quick Reference Cards and Computer Based Training http://www.combined-knowledge.com/EUA/index.html (Also see episode 25 of the http://www.sharepointpodshow.com/ ) http://Office.Microsoft.com of course. http://www.endusersharepoint.com/ - @EUSP on...(read more)

Reminder: September 2009 CSPUG meeting next week!

2009-09-05T04:37:19Z

Body: Building Public Facing SharePoint Sites George Durzi Consultant Clarity Consulting Interested in seeing what it takes to build a public facing site using SharePoint? George will cover areas such as publishing workflow, server and network topology of the solution, organizing your SharePoint solutions, publishing site definitions, branding, packaging the site’s publishing assets, configuring and running content deployment, and setting up anonymous access. We’ll also discuss some special considerations...(read more)

SharePoint Solution Architecture – One Example

2009-08-26T23:53:13Z

Body: Problem: Organization X needs a way to track a variety of information about events going on in a large number of geographic locations. There is one event per location, but many locations. Examples of the information that needs to be tracked per event are location name, event dates, details about the people competing, and the organization’s notes and tasks for the event. There are many ways to solve this problem. One that leverages the goodness of SharePoint and involves no work in Visual Studio...(read more)

SharePoint Training: Videos on Demand!

2009-08-26T23:31:43Z

Body: Penton Media, the company that brings you the SharePoint Connections Conferences in March and November, and at which I have had the honor and pleasure of presenting, will be launching Connections Online, their online video store of conference sessions, next week. The site is already online, so you can check it out: http://videos.devconnections.com . I have one of my sessions up there: PowerShell for SharePoint Developers and Administrators. It’s at http://videos.devconnections.com/product/PowerShell...(read more)

New website for SharePoint Governance; Thoughts on Governance Plans

2009-07-22T19:39:25Z

Body: I just found out about this new website for SharePoint Governance: http://SharePointGovernance.org . I like the idea, and have already submitted 4 comments on how to improve what’s there. The biggest gap I see is that it needs text or a link on the home page that explains what SharePoint Governance is. Here’s my attempt: SharePoint Governance is the policies and procedures an organization puts in place in order to maintain an appropriate level of control over the organization's SharePoint...(read more)

PowerShell to set Registry Entries needed to install Live Mesh on Win2008

2009-07-18T23:03:57Z

Body: I am going to use Mesh to sync files between my host OS and the VM where I am using Office 2010 Tech Preview (which includes InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010). In order to install Mesh on Win2008, you need the registry entry described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368304(VS.85).aspx . The PowerShell commands you need are: cd hklm:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\ md Installer cd Installer New-ItemProperty . -name "DisableMSI" -value "0" -PropertyType...(read more)

PowerShell script to report SharePoint version number – Improved!

2009-07-17T21:25:19Z

Body: I was recently recording a webcast for Connections Online about using PowerShell with SharePoint, and I put together what I think it a pretty cool four lines of code: $farm = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::Local $bv = $farm.BuildVersion.ToString() $vertable = Import-Csv versions.csv $vertable | where-object {$_.Version -eq $bv} A sample versions.csv file is here: http://blumenthalit.net/Files/PowerShell%20Scripts/versions.csv What the last line of the script returns is a description...(read more)

Video Posted: InfoPath form to create a WSS Installer Configuration File

2009-07-17T21:10:24Z

Body: I’m in the Office 2010 Technical Preview program, so I have started playing with the Office 2010 client applications. I’m using Outlook 2010 Tech Preview as my email client, and I like the Quick Steps. I wish I could share a QuickStep with my colleagues though – would be nice if there was a way to export & import Quick Step Definitions. Meanwhile, I saw this blog post from the InfoPath 2010 team:( http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2009/07/13/install-the-office-2010-technical-preview...(read more)

FAQ and Prep list from the SharePoint Prod Team Blog Post

2009-07-17T13:57:38Z

Body: The same day that the Office 2010 sneak peak website became available, the product team posted this: Announcing SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview Here’s the blue (blueberry? :) ) pie: Key links: Getting Ready for 2010: both for Developers and Admins: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Get_Ready.aspx A FAQ: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/FAQ.aspx --Michael Published: 7/17/2009 6:57 AM Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)