The last SharePoint link collection ... for 2007

• MOSS 2007 site navigation - topical versus organizational.
• How to create intranet chaos
• SharePoint Disk allocation and disk I/O
• SharePoint Code Practices - Getting/setting values from/to lookup and hyperlink fields in SharePoint
• Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments
• The legend of the single, multi-terabyte, replicating SharePoint Database
• What not to store in SharePoint
• SharePoint applied - search your legacy data
• SharePoint Performance in remote offices
• Database repartitoning with MergeContentDbs
• Announcing the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) 1.0
• Developer tips related to SharePoint List Performance (Must read ...)
• RSS Feed for SharePoint content on MSDN
• Create Bar Graphs in SharePoint using the dataview webpart
• SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard
• IBM scrambles to bridge great SharePoint divide
• Microsoft switching SharePoint to claims-based authentication
• SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit
• 10 things to optimize your SharePoint Server indexing
• White paper: Performance recommendations for storage planning and monitoring
• Learn to talk to your CFO in their language - SharePoint 2007 project costing, feasibility, planning and governance
• SharePoint Performance tuning using IIS overlapped recycing
• Microsoft Filter Pack 
• Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog - official blog of the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team.
• Microsoft SharePoint moves into Enterprise Content Management.

Technorati tags: sharepoint, sharepoint+2007, moss, microsoft

Another Dolmen colleague blogging about SharePoint ...

Bart also started blogging - here are some of his first posts:

• Custom document libraries cannot be e-mail enabled
• The count of files and foldres in SharePoint 2007 is different then in SharePoint 2003
• Social networking in SharePoint 2007

P.S. If you want to join our team  - drop me a line at joris.poelmans@removemedolmen.be (Maybe that e-mail address will change to realdolmen ... :)  )

Technorati tags: sharepoint, sharepoint+2007, moss, dolmen, blogs

Microsoft Expression Blend Service Pack 1

For a full description of the service pack - check out KB944811 - Description of Expression Blend Service Pack 1 - but you will definitely need to install Expression Blend SP1 when you want projects created in Blend to open in Visual Studio 2008.

Download Expression Blend SP1

 

Technorati tags: expression, microsoft, vs2008, blend, silverlight

Gartner : SOA and BPM are better together

Interesting Gartner article about two hype terms : SOA and BPM.

Excerpt:

Although many user organizations have separate service-oriented architecture and business process management initiatives under way, both are more successful and the benefits are compounded when they are united.

Download Gartner: SOA and BPM are better together.

Technorati tags: soa, bpm, gartner

Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework (ParallelFX)

The closing general session of TechEd Europe this year was "The irrestible forces meet the moveable objects" from Pat Helland and it talked about how economic and technological forces will impact the way that we develop applications.

One of these technological forces is the shift to multi and many core processors. To take advantage of this massive rise in processing power, there is a now a community tech preview of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework, a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism and coordination on parallel hardware unified by a common work scheduler.

 

Download Microsoft Parallel extensions to .NET Framework 3.5, December 2007 Community Technology Preview

Technorati tags: visual+studio, vs2008, .net35, parallel, microsoft, development

Automating SharePoint development tasks using CodeRush

Take a look at these postings to speed up SharePoint development:

• Announcing Ac's VS Coderush/Refactor tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 1 of 5)
• Working with templates in Ac's VS Coderush/Refactor tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 2 of 5)
• Special templates in Ac's VS Coderush/Refactor tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 3 of 5)
• Use of stringproviders  in Ac's VS Coderush/Refactor tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 4 of 5)
• Creating custom refactorings for use in Refactor! Pro: the create web part definition refactoring

Technorati tags: sharepoint, microsoft, moss+2007, moss, refactoring

How to relocate your Groove 2007 files to another disk (when using Windows XP)

I actually had the same problem as the guy who wrote the original How to relocate your Groove 2007 files to another disk - my C-partition is only a couple of Gigabytes and most of my data resides on D-partition. Unfortunately Groove 2007 seems to keep it's user and system files on C-drive - so when you are using some big Groove workspaces, your C-drive simply gets swamped.

Luckily, there is a workaround in Vista called symbolic links where you basically redirect your folder to another location (this was the workaround from the original post).

Unfortunately I'm still running Windows XP so no full support for symbolic links. And then I stumbled onto something called junction points which are actually also directory symbolic links (already supported on Windows 2000 and higher.) You can create junction points using the linkd program which you can find in the Windows Resource Kit but there is also a program from Sysinternals called Junction so that you don't need to install the whole Windows Resource Kit.

So what are the steps that you will need to do (based on the original How to relocate your Groove 2007 files to another disk )

1. Shutdown Groove
2. Create a new folder on the disk you want the files to move to. I created a folder called GrooveData on my D: drive
3. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Office\Groove  (well on my machine it actually used another folder - C:\Documents and Settings\[loginid]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE\Groove )
4. Select the ‘System’ and ‘User’ folder and move them to the directory on the other disk that you created in step 2.
5. Use the junction tool to  map the folders.

junction "C:\Documents and Settings\[loginid]\Local Settings\Application Data\
Microsoft\OFFICE\Groove" d:\groovedata

I restarted Groove and everything seemed to work fine.

Technorati tags: windows+xp, sysinternals, groove, office+2007, office, microsoft, groove+2007

Dolmen most innovative ICT company in Belgium

Well, this was kind of a surprise ... in a recent survey from DataNews amongst Belgian ICT managers Dolmen was chosen as the most innovative ICT company in Belgium. Here's the ranking:

1. Dolmen (28%)
2. Imec (10%)
3. Option (9%)
4. Zetes (7%)
5. Econocom (7%)
6. Iris (3%)

For the original article take a look at Dolmen meest innoverende Belgische ict-bedrijf (sorry Dutch or French only).

SharePoint 2007 : The definitive guide

It seems like ages ago when I wrote a chapter for this book. For those of you who want to delve a little deeper into SharePoint administration, go ahead and get your copy.



PS The chapter I wrote provides some insight to admins about the world of SharePoint development...

Browser support in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Interesting post for companies which are using different browsers as well as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 -  Plan browser support (Office SharePoint Server 2007) .

Technorati tags: microsoft, moss, moss+2007, browser+support