Sunday, June 26, 2011

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlight 6.23.11 - Office 365/SharePoint Online Overview

SharePoint ShopTalk is a live, dynamic discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers to pressing contemporary SharePoint questions. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment features SharePoint MVP Wes Preston as he provides a brief overview of Office 365 and SharePoint Online.

Links:
Presentation slides are available on slideshare.net: Office 365/SharePoint Online
Wes Preston Blog


Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Panelist Spotlight - Defining SharePoint Governance

SharePoint ShopTalk is a live, dynamic discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers to pressing contemporary SharePoint questions. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment features the ShopTalk Panelist Spotlight - Tips & Tricks with Senior SharePoint and Microsoft Solutions Architect Nilesh Mehta.

Defining SharePoint Governance
Governance around SharePoint has always been a vague topic and hence many companies shy away from defining SharePoint governance. However, it still remains one of the most important processes that an organization should go through if they successfully want to implement SharePoint.

Links
Presentation slides are available on Slideshare.net
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 governance v1" is being talked about on LinkedIn more than anything else on SlideShare right now. So we've put it on the homepage of SlideShare.net (in the "Hot on LinkedIn" section).

Well done!
- SlideShare Team 


Thursday, May 19, 2011

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 5.12.11 - What happens when you enable Publishing Site features on a SP 2007 Team Site server?

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

In this installment Panelist members Natalya Voskresenskaya, Laura Rogers, Chris Poteet, John White and Wes Preston discuss a question submitted on the SharePoint ShopTalk LinkedIn Community:

What happens when you enable Publishing Site features on a SP 2007 Team Site server?
If we enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing features, will the page publishing toolbar appear at the top of every existing page that one has rights to edit? Will other undesirable event occur on existing team sites on the server?

We want to use Content Query Web Part on a project management site among our team sites. The Office SharePoint Server Publishing site features appear to be necessary to have CQWP. Join us on LinkedIn or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Panelist Spotlight - InfoPath & SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment  features the SharePoint ShopTalk Panelist Spotlight - Tips and Tricks with SharePoint MVP Laura Rogers:

In your organization, forms are everywhere.  InfoPath is a program that lets you quickly and easily create forms for business users to fill out and submit.  InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer workflows can be used in conjunction, in order to create a complete business process. In this session, Laura Rogers will discuss and compare different ways that forms can be submitted and streamlined, so that the life cycle of the form is efficient and logical.  This includes best practices around the form's data connections, buttons, rules, views, and workflow that sends the form through an approval process. All of this is done with no code needed, just making the most of the InfoPath and SharePoint Designer out-of-box functionalities.

See the prerequisite demo: InfoPath Keeping the Approval Process in the Form


Monday, April 18, 2011

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 4.14.11 - OOB API to Send/Store the document in SharePoint from an automated process

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

In this installment Panelist members Ed Musters, Nilesh Mehta, and Paul Olenick discuss whether Client Object Model or SharePoint Web Services would be the best option when answering: "Any out of box API to send/store the document in SharePoint from an automated process?" a question from the MSDN Forums.

 

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 4.14.11 - SharePoint 2010 Solutions with Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

In this installment new Panelist members Ed Musters and Ivan Sanders answered the question: "In your experience what are the best practices to keep in mind when creating SharePoint 2010 solutions with Visual Studio 2010". Join us on LinkedIn  or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.


Thursday, March 17, 2011

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 03.10.11 - .Net Developer Learning SharePoint

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

In this installment Paul Olenick and Carlos Fernandez with the help of Preston, an attendee suggest a prudent avenue for a .Net Developer learning SharePoint. Join us on LinkedIn  or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.

Referenced Material:

Microsoft:

SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Developer Kit (SDK) Download
Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects
SharePoint Developers Center

SharePoint Source: NothingButSharePoint.com
Paul Galvin: Developers: How Do I Learn SharePoint