Welcome!

Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint and .NET. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog.


  • Solution Development in SharePoint 2007

    This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on the best ways to approach customisations in SharePoint using Solutions.

    Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

  • Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

    This series was inspired by a discussion had with Andrew Coates at a Perth SharePoint User Group meeting. This then turned into a 6 part series on Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net web site.

    Initial post - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

  • Podcasts

    I have been interviewed about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform by the SharePoint Pod Show: listen here .

  • SharePoint Diigo Links

    I am subscribed to well over 400 SharePoint RSS feeds and bookmark on Diigo with tags the relevant ones. I use this regularly to find posts on particular topics!


Latest Posts

Best Practices for deploying to the 12 HIVE

September 26, 2008 · Posted by Jeremy Thake
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I've had yet more discussions in the office about best practices, this time referring to deploying to the 12 Hive. Here are some hard and fast rules. Don't modify out of the box (OOTB) files There's always a way around modifying OOTB files...even if it does mean selling a extra step to the Business Users. Just explain the risks of making them! You can extend with new file more...
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SharePoint Site Templates VS. Solution Features

September 25, 2008 · Posted by Jeremy Thake
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I've been putting a few development standards together recently to drive the way things are done in a SharePoint development environment. One of the discussions that introduced discussion was Site Templates. Site Templates can be created from the Web User Interface or SharePoint Designer. A Site Template is a .stp file, that renamed to .cab file contains various elements that make up a Site Ins more...
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SharePoint + Silverlight = ?

September 16, 2008 · Posted by Jeremy Thake
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I attended the Perth SharePoint User Group meeting today kindly presented by Young Oh of ReachPoint title "SharePoint + Silverlight = ?". Young covered: Silverlight – What, How, and Why? Silverlight for SharePoint – extending SharePoint capabilities with Silverlight SharePoint for Silverlight – developing Silverlight applications using SharePoint object model and content datab more...
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SharePointMagazine.net: Leveraging the SharePoint Platform (Part 2)

September 2, 2008 · Posted by Jeremy Thake
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So I've posted the second part in my series on SharePointMagazine.net. Big thanks goes out to Richard Greene and Ryan Liu for reviewing my post before I submitted it to Arno Nell's online magazine. Looking forward to some great debates that hopefully are triggered from me putting my thoughts on Quick wins etc. out there into the SharePoint wild! Starting to write the third part now, so wishing more...
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