I was scouring over my feed reader this morning and came across this post on the MSDN forums asking:"Any one please give me a step by step implementation of deploying a SharePoint application...(Modifying the SharePoint website content and deploying it to the SharePoint server)?" Now, all platforms are tricky when it comes to development and deploying. I've worked with Interwoven, B more...

I attended the Perth SharePoint User Group today and we were lucky enough to have Andrew Coates (Microsoft Developer Evangelist) presenting. Before I begin, I'd just like to say what an amazing presenter Andrew is and that hopefully one day people will say those things about me when I'm out Evangelising. Andrew was presenting something that had been presented at the SharePoint Forum in Sydney more...

I've repeatedly stated that there are certain areas of the SharePoint 2007 stack that are not true Enterprise level features. Workflow is one of them and various other bloggers and reports have stated this, my research links are a testimony to this. I believe Microsoft have confused the SharePoint community by giving two options with SharePoint Designer (SPD) Workflows and Visual Studio (VS) more...

I've read Paul Culmsee's articles with great interest on Project Failure and will be helping him continue his series in the next few days on Development Failures. Joel Olsen, SharePoint God, also has found keen interest in it and has written some of his own experiences with it. It's interesting to see Joel write externally from Microsoft and it really does show a more open, less reserved appr more...

I attended a great Information Management morning in Perth last week and bumped into a fair few clients that I had engaged with in my previous Pre Sales role working for a Solution Integrator before moving to the dark side working internally in a SharePoint team. One of the guys asked me a question around "What do we need the SI to actually quote on to get SharePoint up and running?" more...