Microsoft Business Ready Security Trial Environment

The Microsoft Business Ready Security trial environment contains an interesting set of VJDs that you can use to evaluate protection, access, management and identity technologies from Microsoft as a pre-configured set of VHDs and is using the following products:

• Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange/Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint/Forefront Protection for Server Management Console
• Forefront Identity Manager 2010
• Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010
• Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010
• Active Directory Rights Management Services

Download Details – Microsoft Business Ready Security Trial Environment

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Book Review–Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook is  an excellent book which is aimed specifically at getting things done in SharePoint without requiring development or hardcore administration skills. And I must say I like it. 

This book is a must have reference guide for business power users who use SharePoint in their daily job but don’t need to know all the background about how SharePoint exactly works from a system perspective.

It is however also very useful for SharePoint administrators who need to perform common SharePoint tasks as well as for SharePoint business analysts and project manager who need a more practical view on how to accomplish things in SharePoint.

It contains over 70 recipes going from very basic tasks such as creating site columns, securing objects, etc … to more complex tasks such as creating external content types, creating dashboards using PerformancePoint Dashboard designer. Each of these recipes contains a number of different sections:

• Getting ready – explains for which version of SharePoint it works
• How to do it – step by step guideline about how to configure things in SharePoint
• How it works and There’s more – background information
• See also – reference to related recipes.

Each recipe consists of a limited number of pages containing the bare essential for getting your SharePoint task done. Great job from the authors…

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Outlook 2010 Quick Tip – Showing week numbers

Just a reminder to myself – Outlook 2010 makes it possible to show week numbers in Calendar View. Go to the Outlook Backstage > Options > Calendar

and check Show Weeknumbers in the Month View and in the Date Navigator

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My favorite 5 sessions for TechDays 2012 Belgium

You smell that? Do you smell that? New technologies, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of new technologies in the morning… (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now) .

Yep, TechDays 2012 is coming near, so don’t forget to register – there are still some seats available. If you don’t know what to choose, check out my list of favorite sessions below:

• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Better Together
• HTML5 Quick Start
• SharePoint Governance Part I: Architecting SharePoint for Scalability and Enforceable Governance and Part II: Automating Governance and Management
• Building Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with HTML 5

Tags van Technorati: sharepoint,techdays2012,techdays+belgium,microsoft,development,ITPro,HTML5,Governance

Wondering how companies are using SharePoint?

Are you wondering how other companies are using SharePoint Server 2010? Then you definitely need to take a look at these different surveys which were conducted in 2010 and 2011:

• How are business using SharePoint in the Enterprise (2010  - conducted by Global 360) 
• How are business using SharePoint in the Enterprise (2011 – followup survey from Global 360) – also check out the related slideshare presenation on State of the SharePoint market
• TEC Survey (Quest, 2011)
• SharePoint, ECM and Cloud Storage Adoption (Colligo, 2010)
• SharePoint Adoption: Content and collaboration is just the start (Forrester, 2011)

Tags van Technorati: SharePoint,user+adoption,sps2010,sharepoint+2010,microsoft,forrester,global360,colligo,quest

Final BIWUG Session for 2012 – SharePoint 2010 Variations (Level 400)

In order to finalize the SharePoint multilingual sessions BIWUG ( the Belux Information Worker User Group) – www.biwug.be has a special evening planned.

This session will cover level 400 topics on SharePoint 2010 Variations. The following topics will be covered: concepts and internals of variations (page vs. site variations), concepts and internals of configuration, variation Timer Jobs internals, different flavors of variations (automatic, manual, different site templates, same site templates, …), the “famous relationships list”, stsadm and PowerShell commands which assist variations, changes between 2007 and 2010.

Demos will be performed while some coding aspects will be covered. It will be shown how variations can be used for other purposes than just implementing multilingual solutions

Pascal Benois is a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft.
He is into SharePoint technologies from the early days and has a strong focus on custom applications, ECM and multilingual deployments.

Date: 21/12/2011 at 18:00, you are welcome at 17:30
Location: Microsoft Belgium offices
Registration link: http://biwug2112-estwhdr.eventbrite.co.uk/

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How to install SharePoint Server 2010 Language Packs on Windows 7

When trying to install SharePoint Server 2010 Language Packs on top of Windows 7 you might receive the following error – “Setup is enable to proceed due to the following errors: this product requires Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 …” – to work around this you can use the same procedure with the language pack installation files as the one outlined for the normal SharePoint installation on Windows 7 – a great walkthrough is Setting up the Development Environment for SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008. Listed below are the exact steps

• Copy the language pack installation files to a folder on your computer where you are installing SharePoint and doing your development

• Extract the installation files by opening a Command Prompt window, and then typing the following command at the directory location of the folder where you copied the installation files in the previous step.

• For SharePoint Foundation 2010  - c:\SharePointFiles\SharePointLanguagePack.exe /extract:c:\LangPack

• For SharePoint Server 2010 -c:\SharePointFiles\ServerLanguagePack.exe /extract:c:\LangPack

• Using a text editor such as Notepad, open the installation configuration file, config.xml, located in the following path: c:\LangPack\files\Setup\config.xml and add <Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/> inside the <configuration> tag

• Proceed with the installation using the normal way of working

Technorati Tags: sharepoint,sharepoint+2010,sps+2010,windows+7,development

 

Quick Tip – Solving WP7 DatePicker and TimePicker missing icons problem

To see the correct ApplicationBar icons in the DatePicker and TimePicker, you will need to create a folder in the root of your project called "Toolkit.Content" and put the icons in there. The toolkit provides the necessary icons, but you have to copy them from the PhoneToolkitSample project. They must be named "ApplicationBar.Cancel.png" and "ApplicationBar.Check.png" and the build action must be "Content"!

Source: WP7 DatePicker and TimePicker in depth | API and Customization

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BIWUG session about the SharePoint 2010 Multilingual User Interface on 30th of November

 

Doing a SharePoint project in a multilingual environment can be tricky. In this BIWUG session we will focus on how the new MUI (Multilingual User Interface) allows for multilingual collaboration scenarios. We will show you how MUI and the SharePoint variations framework relate to each other. Next to showing the out of the box features we will do a deep dive for developers explaining how to use the MUI framework in SharePoint custom solutions. The session will wrap up with some best practices and pitfalls as well as a round the table discussion to exchange ideas.

Hope to see you there.

Agenda:

18:00-18:30 – Welcome and snacks

18:30-19:30 – SharePoint MUI – Part I (Speakers: Andy Van Steenbergen & Joris Poelmans)

19:30-19:45 – Break

19:45:20:45 – SharePoint MUI – Part II (Speakers: Andy Van Steenbergen & Joris Poelmans)

20:45 – … SharePint!

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Presenting SharePoint 2010 - to pie or not to pie?

I recently found an interesting discussion about the SharePoint pie – to pie or not to pie?  Most of you have probably use the image depicted below in presentations to potential customers – but is that such a good idea?

Here are some of my ideas about this:

• The SharePoint 2010 pie makes sense to talk to technical people who have worked with previous versions of SharePoint – also check out this one – Making sense of the SharePoint 2010 pie
• It is probably not the pie that matters but the story behind it – the translation to the business context of a specific customer which makes a difference - an excellent article about this is Effectively communicate the power of SharePoint to a business audience
• I haven’t found a comparable compelling graphic yet to explain such a diverse product (or platform) such as SharePoint – so I will probably still be using it for quite a while.
• The terms used within the pie such as composites, insights are probably not known with business users but they are commonly used by all SharePoint professionals so it makes it for customers  sometimes a little simpler to compare consultants and their sales pitch.

Please leave a comment with your idea about this or fill in this poll

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Supporting links for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Development training Part 2

Module 8 – Sandboxed solutions

• SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions – Codeplex
• Creating Sandboxed Solutions with SharePoint 2010 (Training video – 1:06:08 and virtual lab)
• Developing, Deploying and Monitoring Sandboxed solutions in SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint 2010 Generic Solution Validator
• How to create custom feature and package validation rules for SharePoint solutions
• How to create and register a sandbox proxy

Module 9 – SharePoint Web Services

• JQuery library for SharePoint web services
• Chapter 10 : Developing Service-Oriented Applications for SharePoint 2010 (From Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development)

Module 10: LINQ and REST

• REST And LINQ (SharePoint Conference Video 1:19:12)
• TechDays 2010: Developing with REST and LINQ in SharePoint 2010

Module 11: Building webparts

• Module 1: Getting Started Building web parts in SharePoint 2010
• Advanced Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010 (Video SharePoint Connection 2010 –0:58:11)