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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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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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, [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Migrating a SharePoint 2007 Blog to 2010 (Part 2)
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 [...]
Continue reading about Migrating a SharePoint 2007 Blog to 2010 (Part 1)
Here is a sad-sad tweet I received this morning from a friend on Twitter: I’m not going to be at SPC due client circumstances. :-/ ( name hidden to protect the innocent) If that’s your situation as well – then check back here Monday morning at 9:00 PST and I will be live-blogging from the [...]
Continue reading about SharePoint Conference – Keynote – Live Blog!
So the call came in from some users that they were unable to “check-out” documents or have them open in the right Office Application. Also, when you clicked the down arrow on a Word document, there was no longer a link to “Edit in Microsoft Word” menu entry. After some investigation I ended up in [...]
