by sprobot

SharePoint 2010 Acronyms

January 11, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by sprobot

Thanks to our friend, Todd, for his timely comment regarding TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms)
As he explains here, we’ll follow his lead and use:
SPF for SharePoint Foundation 2010 as the replacement for WSS
and we’ll use:
SPS for SharePoint Server 2010 as the replacement for MOSS.
Our branding experts will tell us that it’s cool that SharePoint is now it’s [...]

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MSF System Requirements

January 11, 2010 in VSPUG Member Posts by sprobot

The Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 involves some number of system requirements outlined onTechNet here.
These requirements include 64 bit quad core processors operating at 2.5 Ghz or better and 80 Gb hard drive space.
If you go to Dell.com you can get this box for around $3K including the licenses for Server 2008 x64 and SQL Server (for [...]

by ssa

New Book: SharePoint 2007 tips, tricks and techniques

January 10, 2010 in VSPUG Member Posts by ssa

I have published a new SharePoint book “SharePoint 2007 tips, tricks and techniques”. Its a 348 pages book and is available in paperback and ebook editions. Book shall be available in all major book stores in few weeks.

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Well, it’s 2010

January 8, 2010 in VSPUG Member Posts by sprobot

So we’re looking at the SharePoint 2010 Beta program.
In 2010 terms, WSS is now WSF or “Windows SharePoint Foundation.” Technet is supporting WSF here.
MOSS is now MSS for Microsoft SharePoint Server. There’s a good landing page on TechNet here. 
Developers will need to start at MSDN here.
Looks like there’s two different flavors of the office server, one for intranets and [...]

Down Town Chicago Condos For Sale

January 8, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by jbrent1247

It’s a dream of many young adults to buy a first home. They basically cannot save enough money each month to build the money for a down payment. However, if you monitor at how you spend most all of your disposable income then there might have a situation in which you can save up your [...]

Quirk: Referenced document template in content type

January 8, 2010 in VSPUG Member Posts by Henk Hooiveld

Recently a collegue of mine encountered this little, but very annoying, quirk in SharePoint concerning the use of a document template reference in a content type.
The scenario here is that document templates are centrally stored in a document library (Templates) somewhere in the intranet. The document library is configured with the out of the box settings, [...]

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Copying a newlywed’s SharePoint document

January 7, 2010 in Uncategorized, VSPUG Member Posts by cwogle

A couple of years ago, I wrote some code that copied documents from one SharePoint library to another. My first attempt looked something like this (SrcItem is the SPListItem I am copying, and DestParentFolder is the SPFolder that I want to copy into):

Byte[] FileContents = SrcItem.File.OpenBinary();

SPFile NewFile = DestParentFolder.Files.Add(

        DestParentFolder.ServerRelativeUrl + “/” + SrcItem.File.Name, [...]

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SharePoint Developer Tools for SP 2010

January 6, 2010 in VSPUG Member Posts by ssa

http://sharepointdevtools.codeplex.com/

Famous infosources

January 4, 2010 in VSPUG Member Posts by vasilysokolov

As everybody knows we have the following extremely popular sites which contains SharePoint-related information:
CodePlex – SharePoint-related projects
SharePoint Official Blog
SharePoint Official Site
SharePoint at StackOverflow
SharePoint Team Blogs
It is difficult be tracking even these 5 sites whereas in fact we have more sources of the important information regarding SharePoint Community evolution. People are writing relevant posts within their technical blogs and [...]

MVP for 2010, Third year in a row

January 1, 2010 in VSPUG Member Posts by Marwan Tarek

It is always a happy new year with my MVP award renewed again.
Thanks for all who contributed to make this happen especially my wife Mai
 
 
Happy new year