May 2009 - Posts
The SharePoint product team has released guidance on a bug introduced in the recent SP2 drop with respect to the product license reverting to a trial installation. Information can be found at the following url, http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx. Although a hotfix is forthcoming, if you need or want to perform a manual fix, you should read this article.
All I can say is WOW! The 2nd ever meeting of the Atlanta SharePoint User Group is history and we had almost 50 attendees! This is fantastic as we essentially doubled our attendance from the last (and first) meeting. It was great to hear other people’s views on a SharePoint development environment. Some real great tips were uncovered for the masses and I think everyone got a little something out of the discussions.
Here are a couple of photos taken by our in house photographer (Matt Ranlett).
The next meeting is Monday, June 15th, so be sure to set that day aside and come out an join us. We should have the speaker selected and confirmed by next week.
Have you ever thought about using SharePoint as a data repository for your application? Maybe you want to create a website using a custom front end, leveraging ASP.NET, Silverlight, Flash, or other technologies. Maybe your dev team is primarily composed of developers who have little to no SharePoint development experience. If that’s the case you want to tune in to my upcoming webcast on Wednesday discussing using SharePoint as a data store. We’ll talk about some pros and cons of this approach, as well as strategies and approaches to use when developing your solution(s). We will demonstrate using the API or web services depending on your scenario. Tips and tricks surrounding the approaches and strategies will also be discussed, but mostly, it will be an interactive type discussion surrounding the various approaches.
SharePoint provides so much out of the box, that using it in this way still can increase productivity and give your content managers smiles on their faces again. See how to use approval, versioning, galleries, security, and many of the SharePoint features in your custom code so that your application benefits from them all.
Hope to see you there!
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032413424
In case you didn’t know, there is a new SharePoint User Group in Atlanta. It was announced during the Atlanta SharePoint Saturday event held on April 18th and we had our very first meeting the following Monday, April 20th. The most amazing thing was that we had almost 30 attendees to the very first meeting (after less than 2 days of publicity). This was very exciting as it clearly demonstrates that there is a void to be filled in the greater Atlanta area with respect to a SharePoint User Group. The first meeting was a huge success. As a group we all discussed how we wanted the group to evolve, what is involved in having a successful user group as well as some ad-hoc question and answer sessions.
Our next meeting is next Monday, May 20th. I will be discussing building a development environment for SharePoint using virtualization. The talk is meant to be interactive, meaning everyone will be sharing their experiences, but more importantly, we will be discussing ways to make our development experiences more productive. Whether this be by the use of 3rd party open source tools like WSP Builder, or simple scripting, or anything else that comes up.
Come check it out, the registration link is on the site. I am very excited to hear what everyone else is doing as well as sharing my experience with the group.