May 14, 2010
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 unfortun
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November 25, 2009
I found an error with CKS:EBE 2.0 which I submitted to CodePlex Issues.
So I finally worked out what was wrong with my CKS:EBE 2.0 SharePoint blog and links coming off of Twitter which is feed from my Feedburner.com RSS feed. Turns out Feedburner in their wisdom have added some querystring goodness to the urls potentially for tracking ability.
http://wss.made4the.net/archive/2009/11/21/pspugw
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November 21, 2009
I’ve finally got round to putting a new official release of SPSource on CodePlex. This one has added a few new fixtures and fixed a few issues highlighted by great community guys such as @coreyroth, @miches, @grumpywookie! Big thanks to them for taking the time to add issues into CodePlex and blog about it too!
If you do find any issues please submit them, I have alerts on the project ;-)
What
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November 21, 2009
I've attached the PowerPoint deck as well as the web casts from the User Group.
Watch the web casts with the links below: Perth SharePoint User Group Nov 09 - SharePoint 2010 Overview by Jeremy Thake.
Add SharePointDevWiki.com iTunes podcast/webcast feed to your iTunes to watch on the go! RSS feed here
Here are the links I walked the guys through on Tuesday lunchtime:
My Movember don
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June 23, 2009
[Cross Posted on www.SharePointDevWiki.com] It seems every week more and more great content appears! These could almost become daily Coffee break posts! WSP Carsten Keutmann: Beginning SharePoint Development (Bonus part #3 WSPBuilder overview) Hot off the press! Carsten has released a fix for an installation issue with WSPBuilder! This man is the shining light of all things Sh
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June 3, 2009
So I’ve been doing some work in a MOSS Farm Development VM for a release to a WSS Farm. I created a a Site Collection using the Collaboration Team Site Definition thinking it wouldn’t use any of the MOSS Features (as you may know that MOSS is a superset of WSS). When I did an stsadm –o export from my MOSS Farm and then did an stsadm –o import into my WSS Farm I got the following errors: C:\Prog
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May 22, 2009
I’ve just been on a training course and was shocked to find out that some of the Developers hadn’t heard of various SharePoint Resources online, including the SharePointDevWiki.com . I know, I know! Where have they been since December last year! LOL Seriously, it wasn’t so much the wiki, as I know that it is only promoted in various inner circles and not as mainstream as MSDN as a resource. I w
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May 18, 2009
CompleteSharePoint.NET v2.0 was released today by Tommy Segoro, another local Perth SharePoint Developer. This open source project provides functionality to Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) 3.0 similar to the Publishing Feature within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Right now I’m sitting on a plane on the way to Sydney and figured this was a great time to deploy the source to a Wi
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May 14, 2009
So if you watch one web cast this year…it has to be the MVP Panel Discussion SharePoint Development recorded at TechEd in LA (#TeLA09). It included Rob Bogue (@RobBogue), Matthew McDermott (@MatthewMcD), Todd Bleeker (@ToddBleeker), Eric Shupps, Andrew Connell (@AndrewConnell), Todd Baginksi (@ToddBaginski), Maurice Prather and Scott Hillier. Some crazy pictures of the crew can be found on Rob
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May 13, 2009
So last night before calling it a night I decided to post a tweet: #IfIHadAYearAtMicrosoft...I would ensure #SharePoint UI was 100% W3C compliant & be able to develop remotely off the server and got a reply within an hour from @LougeFlyZ aka Chris Johnson from the SharePoint Product team headed up by Arpan Shah (@arpanshah): @jthake one year?!? You can't do these things outside of a releas
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May 13, 2009
I finally got round to uploading the User Group web cast where i talk about the approaches of deploying artefacts into a SharePoint environment. I discuss multiple approaches and also show the SPSource product that i have been on with @RichFinn. Check it out here: Download WMV Watch in Silverlight Player
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May 9, 2009
After reading @JoelOleson’s latest post on how the Community has evolved I thought I’d raise some ideas to save all of our time ;-) As we’re all very busy people! The main reasons I use Twitter is: to discover new people in the community talking about twitter…and discover their blog…and subscribe to their RSS feed to try and answer peoples’ questions around SharePoint to ask questions
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May 5, 2009
So the title got your attention, @JoelOleson posted quite a controversial post (in my opinion) today proposing a new group be setup called the SharePoint Knights. You can read about it and then come back to this post asI have put my thoughts down in this post. Why do we need this group? Being extremely blunt, the reason it appears this is needed is because the SharePoint MVP group does not awar
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April 10, 2009
So I’ve been reading over 450+ feeds for the best part of 2 years now and have come up with a system to ensure that I always get round to the essential ones. When I discover a feed it goes in the ‘SharePoint X’ bucket. I have 3 other buckets ‘SharePoint Priority 1’, ‘SharePoint Priority 2’ and ‘SharePoint Priority 3’. I ensure that I always every day keep up to date with the 1’s and without fai
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December 13, 2008
Thanks to everyone that has contributed to the SharePointDevWiki already. It's made great progress since being launched with over 4000 page views and just under 200 page edits already! Check out the activity for yourself here! I've set up a new page on how to support the SharePointDevWiki and would really appreciate it if like minded Developers would add the badge to the site using the code a
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December 3, 2008
Don't take my word for it....check out the new site! As promised I have managed to pull some strings and get a Atlassian Confluence license and also some hosting space on Tatham Oddie's boxes. Please feel free to submit your comments on the proposed approaches to the content on this wiki...its a community affair after all! Please spread the word on this site by every means possible! Rather than
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November 24, 2008
Testing SharePoint was always an issue, because SharePoint has number of classes that are sealed and/or does not have public constructors. SharePoint's API consists heavily of sealed classes and classes with internal constructors. None of existed unit-testing frameworks provided ability to mock such classes.
Guys from TypeMock (http://www.typemock.com) did fantastic work, providing really powe
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October 2, 2008
Congratulations to Sezai Komur out at Ignia. Sezai has presented a few times now at our Perth SharePoint User Group and specialises in Web Content Management Systems on top of both Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
Sezai wrote an excellent White Paper on Web Content Management and this led to him being invited to present alongsid
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July 24, 2008
I'm really impressed with the new forums that have been migrated to MSDN Forums v3.0, changes are listed here. One thing to note is the "proposed answer" functionality which I think will help people mark answers easier than the last interface. Of interest was the fact that the SharePoint topics balance between Answered and Unanswered Threads. Take these examples:
InfoPath - Answered:
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June 11, 2008
Had a "great" morning this morning involving releasing to our SharePoint 2007 Production environment which has been in place for nearly 18 months now - 6 server farm. Our UAT environment was built by myself last month which "matches" Production as closely as possible in terms servers etc. but it's been hard because the documentation of how Production built is incomplete. So
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June 9, 2008
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
OK, so there's plenty of hype at the moment for ASP.NET developers to "leverage the platform"...being SharePoint and a really flash (I mean silverlight) interface for them to click around on with the title "Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint". This made me cringe after the last couple of weeks I've
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June 7, 2008
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
"Event Receivers and Page Creation"
In the last week or so I've been doing a lot of work with creating pages with content on it automatically based on event receivers firing when items are created on Lists. To follow on with the TV show Schedule scenario when a new schedule is created, I want to create a page in t
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June 7, 2008
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
So the next part in my series will basically show you how to deploy a Content By Query Web Part (CQWP) and also it's associated elements. The screenshot below shows the structure of my project file now. The Solution package can be downloaded here.
Deploying the Content By Query Web Part
As I mentioned in my previous
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June 6, 2008
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
Adding extra assemblies to your Solution
Just had to post about this because it's been driving me crazy. I've got various Solutions now that have been built using STSDEV 1.3 in Visual Studio 2008. There are common classes I've been using and was scratching my head to get the dll to deploy with the solution and was hacking
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June 4, 2008
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
As promised I've uploaded the 3rd webcast to show how Chapter 3 is implemented. I've also posted the sample code below for you guys to pick and chose as you please. Click here to watch the webcast (NEW 32MB swf - 40mins) .
The .zip of the solution can be downloaded here.
Site Collection Feature.xml
<?xml version=&quo
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June 3, 2008
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
"Previously on 'Prison Break'...I mean 'Solution Packages for Developers'"
My blog got quite a few extra visitors over the last couple of days since writing about SharePoint Development and "doing things the right way". A few people have been giving me "gentle" and "subtle" hints to
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May 26, 2008
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
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 whe
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May 21, 2008
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
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May 18, 2008
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)
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May 7, 2008
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
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May 5, 2008
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?"
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April 23, 2008
The organisation I am working for at the moment has an Active Directory set up of Users and Contacts.
Running a ldifde query to output all Users and Contacts (below) provides me a list of 936 items.
ldifde -f usersindomain.csv -r "(&(objectCategory=Person)(|(objectClass=User)(objectClass=Contact)))"
If I use this query within the Import Connection in the SSP in Central Admini
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April 22, 2008
Got a beauty of an error on our Production farm every few seconds:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: General
Event ID: 27745
Date: 23/04/2008
Time: 9:23:24 AM
User: N/A
Computer: CENTRALADMINSERVER
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 27745 )
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April 17, 2008
These errors are mentioned on the Deploy Software Updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 right down the bottom.
The Error
Finding Cause
Look in the linked log and search for 'ERR' matching case.
04/16/2008 16:37:17 6 ERR Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies. Further information regarding this failure can b
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April 17, 2008
April 15, 2008
I was configuring a User Profiles and Properties Import Connection today and kicked off a Full Crawl.
As you can see from the above screen it states 'The operation completed successfully'...but it did not obviously crawl my entire domain as there are only 4 user profiles.
I viewed the Import logs and found this error 'The profile import default access account is set to use the default
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April 15, 2008
I had an interesting error yesterday regarding access to the 'User profiles and properties' page in the Shared Services Administration stating the generic "Access Denied" SharePoint site access denied.
Now my first approach was to look who was the Site Collection Administrator, which was ... yes you guessed it me! And I can access the front page of the Shared Services Provider Pa
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April 10, 2008
I've been using the UDCX files for my Data Connections in my InfoPath form and for the Form Submit Action it came up with an error if I resubmitted the form:
A value in the form may be used to specify the file name. If you know the value in the form that specifies the file name, revise it and try again. Otherwise, contact the author of the form template.
At first I didn't know where to start
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April 10, 2008
I found a post on the MSDN forums because I have the same problem and it recommended the SP1 upgrade to fix the Day Light Savings issue which we have here in Perth Australia. The Day Light Savings actually finished last week before we could get all our ducks in line to test the SP1 patch on our Test Servers and I really couldn't wait for our SharePoint SP1 rollout to happen and needed a solutio
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April 9, 2008
I've been doing a lot of work around Governance of SharePoint within our organisation and have been hitting brick walls with regards to InfoPath. Especially with regards to Environmental differences when using Forms with Data Sources.
I've found lots of articles pushing Data Connection Libraries with .udcx files which is fine to a point but this is the best one. With this being the best explan
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March 24, 2008
I was doing some research into InfoPath Forms Server and came across references to UniqueWorld's InfoView and SharePoint Forms product. Following the link took me to a message stating:
Unique World Software (UWS) is changing our focus and will shortly be release exciting news about the work we’ve been doing bringing a VERS compliant ‘add-on’ to the Records Management capabilities of Microsoft
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