SharePoint ShopTalk Highlight: Control the Center of SharePoint Announcements

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 Panelist Laura Rogers presents "How to Control the Center of SharePoint Announcements:

 

The Birmingham SharePoint user group site is a WSS site, so there is no publishing feature. Each month, it was taking a while to format the announcement of the next topic and speaker, with all of the correct HTML and colors in the announcement body. I created an "event creation" workflow that takes some basic information about the next meeting, and formats it into a new SharePoint announcement, with all of the proper colors and fonts automatically. This has saved time and kept us with a standard for the way new meetings look. I'll be demonstrating this list and workflow. This concept can be done in any version of SharePoint (2007 and up) and in Office 365.

 

 

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 7.28.11 - Connecting SharePoint/FAST to Line of Business Systems

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  BA Insight's Director of Product Marketing, Martin Muldoon and his presentation:

Connecting SharePoint/FAST Search to Line of Business SystemsFor over a decade, search vendors have promised organizations Unified Information Access to all enterprise systems, but without much success. In this session Martin Muldoon will explain why it is only now that this has finally become a possibility.

You will learn:
• What are the benefits of Unified Information Access?
• What are the primary challenges of connecting to enterprise systems?
• What are the capabilities of Microsoft’s new connector framework (BCS)
• BA Insight’s approach to connecting SharePoint / FAST to Business Systems

BA Insight conducts a live a demo of their Exchange connector enabling e-Discovery and Compliance across the enterprise.

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlight 6.30.11 - Social Sites for SharePoint 2010

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 News Gator Solutions Engineer Rich Blank and his presentation of Social SItes for SharePoint 2010.

By integrating Social Sites directly into your SharePoint 2010 collaboration deployment, you can focus on delivering value to your users and unifying your technology infrastructure while fully leveraging your SharePoint social network - instead of building custom applications or learning and supporting additional technologies. Increase adoption among stakeholders, streamline communication, improve employee recruiting and retention, and boost overall productivity with Social Sites 2010.

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

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 

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.

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

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.

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

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 10.7.10 - Creating Custom Forms

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 Laura Rogers and Natalya Voskresenskaya explain Out of the box (OOB) and Java Script options when creating a custom form for a list.  Join us on LinkedIn  or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.

Referenced Material:

Laura Rogers: Data View Web Part Screencasts
Natalya Voskresenskaya: Conditionally hide or show metadata fields in your document library EditForm.aspx 

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 10.14.10 - Assigning a Task List

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 the installment Panelist Laura Rogers and Chris Poteet attempt to help Jennifer  add a feature to her Assign To site column that would alleviate the need to type each assigned team member name.  Laura and Chris find a way to do this using workflow. Join us on LinkedIn  or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 9.23.10 - What is a Content Type?

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 Chris Poteet provides insight to explaining the definition of a Content Type to a client. Join us on LinkedIn  or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlight 9.23.10 - Multivalue Lookup Fields

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 panelists Nilesh Mehta, Natalya Voskresenskaya and Laura Rogers have open dialogue with an attendee Suzanne B., who has a question about Multivalue Lookup Fields. She would like to have users do a Lookup to the Pages Library on a Site where the Title Field would link to another Webpage. This snippet the Panelist attempted to navigate to an answer. Join us on LinkedIn  or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.