May 292010

Two weeks to the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney … see you there!

Only TWO weeks to go! Don't miss out on Australia's biggest SharePoint event of the year!

Something for everyone - one of the few IT events that specifically reaches out to multiple audiences

20 sessions of end user/power user/business content including some great case studies including Telstra, Volvo and a number of Industry verticals such as finance, insurance, legal and engineering
20 sessions of pure technical content for IT Pro, Administrators, Developers and Analysts
Yes, there is content relevant to those using WSS, MOSS 2007, and new 2010 products

FREE Hosted SharePoint 2010 Site for EVERY delegate - thanks to Emantra - Hosted Solutions Australia you get to try out everything you learn AT the event and for 3 months after - get to try 2010 first hand in your own playpen!

Hear from the best - International, Local, Microsoft, Industry Experts and Customers - see the Speaker list and get to collaborate with hundreds of your fellow SharePoint enthusiasts - ask all your questions and get inspired!

Additional Training - Pre and Post event Get to the Point Training Workshops for intensive half day courses - an excellent chance to up skill

Awesome Exhibitor area - Support our sponsors and see all the great products and talk to the experts

Group Registrations - This is particularly appropriate given there is Something for everyone - giving you the chance to send your business and technical specialists for dedicated SharePoint training and learning opportunities. Group bookings of 5 or more receive a 20% discount, so buy 5, and get the 6th ticket free or buy 10 and get to have 12 of your staff benefit from the conference.

 June 16 and 17  Hilton, Sydney

 $650 ex GST (group discounts available)

 www.sharepointconference.com.au

The Australian SharePoint Conference Team

http://www.sharepointconference.com.au

http://events.linkedin.com/Australian-Community-SharePoint/pub/211181

Published: 5/29/2010 11:59 PM | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May 172010

My last 30 days most favourite SharePoint Blogs (May-2010)

This month's listings sees some new blogs that have caught my attention namely Waldek's who's smashed this month with some amazing articles of late! Yaroslav continues to pump out some great code snippets for working with SharePoint via the API. And the BCS team are pushing out some great content.

Two other blogs of note that are really producing some great stuff are 'SharePoint Blues' and 'Will Code for nuts'.

It's great to see so many people in the community producing quality content to consume!

Waldek Mastykarz	13
Yaroslav Pentsarskyy's SharePoint and .NET adventures	10
Microsoft Business Connectivity Services Team Blog	9
Todd's Blog	9
Lightning Tools Blog	7
Wictor Wilén	7
CJG	6
harbar.net	6
Marc D Anderson's Blog	6
SharePoint Blues	5
Will Code for Nuts	5
Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB	4
Bill Baer	4
InfoPath Team Blog	4
SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land	4
SharePoint Thoughts	4
Visual Studio SharePoint Tools Blog	4
BlogPoint: Posts	3
DeviantPoint	3
i:0#.w\|Ali.Mazaheri	3
JOPX on SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010	3
Laura Rogers @WonderLaura	3
Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog	3
novolocus.com	3
Share-n-dipity	3
SharePoint Experts Blog	3
SharePointChick.com	3
Social Media Talk: Michael Gannotti	3
Social-Point	3
Stefan Goßner	3
Wouter: Posts	3
andreas glaser	2
Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS]	2
C-Dog's .NET Tip of the Day	2
Calling the SharePoint Web Services with jQuery - Jan Tielens ...	2
Carsten Keutmann	2
Chris Johnson	2
Chris O'Brien's blog	2
Daniel Larson's Developer Blog	2
EndUserSharePoint 2010	2

Published: 5/17/2010 4:00 AM | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May 142010

Photos from Perth SharePoint User Group: Office Launch #ANZOfficeLaunch

We had a great Perth SharePoint User Group meeting this week for the launch day. Sezai Komur did an awesome session on Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with a sample SharePoint 2007 site live in his presentation! Got some good laughs too as he wrote a web part that picked the winners of the raffle prizes.

We had reasonable amount of luck with the LiveMeeting call with the other states, but unfortunately as Microsoft Perth offices don’t have a presentation room, we couldn’t leverage the cool gear the other states had such as RoundTables to show off our HUGE crowd! Well it was bigger than Adelaide’s anyway LOL

I’ve uploaded Sezai’s screencast on SharePointDevWiki.com webcasts area if you missed out.

See the photos below.

The crowd listening to Sezai and sipping down some Coronas ;-)

Sezai presenting and having a Corona ;-)

Jack “mr lucky” Doan winning his XBOX prize sponsored by AvePoint!

Benny Unaroma wins the free pass to the Australian SharePoint conference next week.

Bhavik Merchant from CSG winning a bottle of wine.

Mike Stringfellow wins a TypeMock Isolator license!

Ian missed out on a TypeMock license because he was in the toilet! But we gave him a bottle of wine instead!

Clayton Dorrington from Clayko Group winning a bottle of wine.

Andreas Gesellmann winning a $100 voucher sponsored by CSG.

Chee Ng winning a Resharper license holding the invisible certificate ;-)

Published: 5/14/2010 11:25 PM | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May 082010

SPDispose…what...

I've spoken at a few online and community events recently and have been really disappointed by the amount of people who had heard of SPDisposeCheck. This tool should be the first thing installed on a Development machine after installing Visual Studio 2008/10.

I have also spoke to a few people who have attended SharePoint Development courses and have been really disappointed to hear that this tool is not recommended or mentioned. It is a great way to learn what code needs disposing of from the SharePoint Object model. There are plenty of exceptions to the rule out there and unless you keep a printed reference by your desk you're unlikely to remember them all.

So, just follow my 5 min demo on @SPDevWiki and you'll have no more excuses and neither will your team members! Kudos to StephenVDick and Matt Ranlett for putting this add-on for VS2010 up on CodePlex! The SharePoint Community simply rocks!

Published: 5/8/2010 11:39 PM | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May 072010

SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Australia & New Zealand Launch Party - Perth

Myself and Sezai Komur have organised the Launch Party locally in perth which will run in parallel to user groups in 7 other locations! Should be a good night please register below to attend!

http://www.aunz2010launch.net

Local Launch Party

With the release of the new SharePoint, Office & Project Server platforms, there are a number of User Group events being planned around Australia & New Zealand, in-line with the Virtual Launch Party being held by Microsoft.

The SharePoint & Project Server User Group communities are arranging to have a 'simultaneous' launch party beginning in New Zealand, and then moving to Melbourne, Canberra & Brisbane, and through Adelaide, and then finishing up in Perth.

What's it all about ?

As there are maybe separate 'chapters' of the SharePoint User Group of Australia having regularly monthly meetings, this is a fun excuse to get everyone to 'join together' - and have their normal meeting - at the same time as other cities..

Plans are being finalised, but expect the following in some form or other :

- 5:20pm start on Thursday May 13th 2010.

- The Perth event will coincide with the end of the interstate events, this will start via live meeting and chat interaction with other SharePoint User Groups

- Grab a beer and some free food, and enter to win some cool prizes

- Presentation on MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade.

- Other SharePoint related bits & pieces - and lots of open Q&A.

So, come along - it should be great fun.

Door Prizes

Attendee's will enter to win a number of 'door prizes' :

- SharePoint Conference Ticket to be won in each user group ($650)

- XBox Elite pack with 5 free games (w00t !! That's right folks this is not a misprint.)

- Other items and door prizes are being discussed & arranged

** NOTE : You must RSVP to be in the running for the major prize draw and also be present at the meeting during the prize draw to claim the prize. If you are not present the prize will re-drawn.

Feel free to tweet before the event and on the night using hashtags #ANZOfficeLaunch and #PER you're tweets will appear on this Silverlight application hosted on the http://www.aunz2010launch.net/twitter SharePoint 2010 site.

Sponsors

National sponsors for the event are Australia SharePoint Conference, AvePoint, Microsoft, OBS and Stargate.

Local sponsors for the event are Beacon Technology Connected Systems and CSG.

Published: 5/7/2010 6:20 PM | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

May 052010

Feedback from HP TRIM Product team on my webcast

So my screen cast on the HP TRIM 7 integration with SharePoint 2007 seems to have been popular which makes it all worth while re-recording it after the sound was so terrible from the live presentation!

To top this off I got lots of feedback from the HP TRIM product team answering both queries I had and also backing up their architectural decisions along the way. I have summarised below in easy read form (as it was a LOOONG e-mail discussion). It was also great to see that a lot of things limitations I highlighted have been added to their features list too J

Installation challenges

Version 7.01 is coming and most of the installation issues I highlighted have been addressed (hoorah!!)

Security concerns

Application Pool permissions requiring dbowner in config database is due to the SPPersistedObject class to store global configuration.

Architecture

All the events in SharePoint are actually workflows, not event receivers (well a workflow is triggered by an OOTB event receiver so I was close)
There are no timer jobs
TRIM workgroup requirement is due to the need for the .NET (not COM) TRIM SDK which means that you do not need web services which was decided to be too complex due to reliance on Kerberos authentication and performance gains
The mentioned "document store" in settings pages was not meant to be there in final release (has been removed for future releases) this does not exist and the scratch directory is used instead which is stored in SPPersistedObject
Site Actions and ECM options are shown to everyone if switched on, but if they click on links only Site Owners can actually use this page, others get error
TRIM search web part is based on the Federated Search Web Part
No direct search integration with iFilters at this stage

Scalability concerns

Acknowledge that having to configure TRIM in multiple Site Collections will be painful.
Memory leak – there is a minor memory leak – but in performance testing they didn't see error

Approach of use

The main way the integration is supposed to be used is to simply just switch on the integration and let it control everything in background. Although the RMO settings exist at Site and List HP do not perceive this being common approach…therefore switch off those features.
You can have it so that a Site (SPWeb) can be mapped to one distinct Record Container in HP TRIM rather than dumping into one container. This does require granular control using RMO settings at Site level though.
Archive - relocates the list item and finalizes it
Currently setting up mapping from Content Type to Record Type across Site Collections means duplication
It is not possible to check out a TRIM document exposed twice in SharePoint a second time, the first time you do it, the TRIM document is checked out

TRIM Client

Finding the site and list records in HP TRIM is hard as no related records tab in HP TRIM. Not intention of product to reconstruct SharePoint structure in HP TRIM.
You cannot restore from HP TRIM to SharePoint
Not being able to see the full rendered content is by design, not seen to be able to reproduce what site looks like, just store content as record
Auto creating Record Types based on Content Types is a deliberate design decision
Revision numbers and SharePoint version numbers will diverge due to SharePoint doing multiple versions on metadata updates in certain scenarios

Records Manager concerns

Default values for RMOs are that file containers do not get created, but they agree that this will be an issue for some Records Managers

Published: 5/5/2010 6:41 AM | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

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