JeffDeVerter on August 15th, 2010

Download now or watch on posterous IMG_0010.mov (16328 KB) Tonights burger grilling session was done as recommended by Adam Perry Lang style. This means they were first grilled over the coals (note the char marks). While that was going on (and before) I was grilling onions in Extra Virgin Olive Oil seasoned with fresh pepper [...]

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JeffDeVerter on August 12th, 2010

The Rackspace SharePoint team will be live on Slashdot (www.slashdot.com) answering your sharepoint questions today at 12:00 central.  Come on over!

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JeffDeVerter on July 12th, 2010

I’ll be spending the week this week in DC at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference. If you are going to be there – let me know – we’ll catch up. Make sure to stop by the Rackspace booth where I’ll be spending the mojority of my time. You can also look me up in [...]

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JeffDeVerter on May 15th, 2010

Yesterday a group of us from Rackspace traveled to Seattle for the SharePoint 2010 launch event at the Nectar Lounge in downtown Seattle.  It was a great time.  All of the usual suspects in the area were there, Joel Oleson, Christian Buckley, Mike Watson and several folks from the product team at Microsoft. It was [...]

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JeffDeVerter on May 7th, 2010

Here is a great list SharePoint 2010 site templates and their associated name (so you can use them in your wonderful PowerShell cmdlts… http://www.markus-alt.de/blog/?p=118 BTW: if you wanted to get this list yourself, you just need to use the following PowerShell: Get-SPWebTemplate | select Name, Title

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JeffDeVerter on May 7th, 2010

SharePoint 2010 has had some major feature investments around the concept of “multi-tenancy”.  What does this mean?  In short – it provides the ability to keep data from one customer (or group) separate from one another.  Part of the features for managing this is a new site type called a “Tenant Administration Site”.  The Tenant [...]

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One of my favorite new features out of the box when pairing Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 (with Office WEB Apps) is the ability to broadcast a PowerPoint presentation.  Lets start by defining broadcast.  Simply put – I am able to stream my presentation (effects and all) to multiple people while maintaining full security [...]

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JeffDeVerter on May 4th, 2010

  Rackspace, a platinum sponsor of SharePoint Saturday DC (and my personal sponsor) is giving away an iPad!  Winning will be easy and fun – with only 2 requirements: You must attend SharePoint Saturday DC – a free, community driven SharePoint event. You must play our game of “Twitter Scavenger Hunt” How do you play, [...]

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Jeff DeVerter on October 28th, 2009

Welcome to the 2nd of a 2 part blog series on migrating a SharePoint 2007 blog to SharePoint 2010.  This is a continuation of a previous post where I migrating Joel Oleson’s blog which we host to here at Rackspace to SharePoint 2010. Recap of the upgrade steps: Acquire another server Install SharePoint 2010 Perform [...]

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Jeff DeVerter on October 26th, 2009

Some of you may already know that we host the blog site for Joel Oleson at Rackspace.  Well Joel was going to be giving a talk at the recent SharePoint Conference on the new world of SharePoint administration in SharePoint 2010.   As part of that talk he (and Mike Watson) were going to touch on [...]

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