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SharePoint 2010 – REST Services
Categories: SharePoint 2010, REST Services, WCF, How To Code
As you may all be aware SharePoint 2010 now supports the use of REST Services for retrieval of content from lists and libraries etc. This approach works well as the REST Services data can easily be consumed either inside or outside SharePoint. If .....
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SharePoint 2010 – Content Query Web Part Continued
Categories: CQWP, Development, How To, How To Code, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010
So in the last post we looked at some of the basic Content Query Web Part functionality within SharePoint 2010. In this post we will go a little deeper and look at how items are tied together with the new tool pane UI and the XSL renderings. So fi.....
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SharePoint 2010 – Content Query Web Part
Categories: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint, How To, CQWP
One of the greatest web parts that made its way into SharePoint 2007 was the Content Query Web Part. I have been a great advocate of this control for a long time, so felt it useful to look at the new features of the control and what we still have .....
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SharePoint 2010 – Metadata Services
Categories: How To, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint
In SharePoint 2007 we had a great story for metadata but it had its limitations. SharePoint 2010 has a bunch of new features for managing Metadata. In this post we will look at the "Managed Metadata Services". So I suppose what is it? .....
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SharePoint 2010 – My Sites
Categories: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint, How To
So now that SharePoint 2010 is available for everyone to test I have noticed that some people have been struggling with getting My Sites to work, so I thought I would walk through the process I use. Firstly you will need a SharePoint 2010 Server t.....
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SharePoint 2010 User Experience – Document Set (Update)
Categories: Administration, How To, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint
After posting about document sets, someone asked me a question about how document sets and the documents within show up in the search. Well to answer this I will show you the screen shot from my Virtual Machine. You will notice that it not only sh.....
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SharePoint 2010 Records Management
Categories: Administration, How To, Records Management, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint
Over the past few years we have seen the advent of some basic records management features work their way into the SharePoint platform. Well in SharePoint 2010 it just got even better and easier to work with records. So to begin with the records ce.....
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The 2010 Wave has now begun
Categories: General, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint
Well what can I say, the 2010 wave is about to start. Great announcement today @ PDC the public beta is now available at: http://www.microsoft.com/2010 As well as this the public beta of Office Mobile 2010 is now also available from the mobile ma.....
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TheSUG.org Videos
Categories: Conferences, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint
Hey Everyone, hope you are all very well. Just wanted to let you know that while out in Vegas at the SharePoint Conference myself and Sean Bordner did a few videos and have started to post one a week up on the weekely training videos section of theS.....
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SharePoint 2010 User Experience – Document Sets
Categories: Administration, SharePoint 2010
In the next few posts called "SharePoint 2010 User Experience" I will take you through a journey of the new user features that make SharePoint the great platform it is today and will be going forward. In this post we will look at the new.....
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SharePoint 2010 – Install Steps
Categories: SharePoint 2010, How To, Administration
As you are all aware the SharePoint 2010 NDA was lifted last week at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009. So from now on there should be lots of posts about what 2010 can do and how it can be used. In this post I will walk you through the bas.....
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SharePoint 2010 – Create a Visual Web Part
Categories: Development, SharePoint 2010
With the advent of SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010, new Visual Studio Tools are now available to help you the developer to build solutions using SharePoint 2010 easily. In this post we will look at one of the simplest yet long awaited featu.....
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SharePoint 2010 – Ribbon Bar Review
Categories: SharePoint 2010
So we have all been working with the Ribbon Bar for a while now in Office 2007, so now we have it in SharePoint 2010. Let's look at the features of the Ribbon Bar for SharePoint. If we access the home page of my Windows Foundation Services homep.....
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See you next week!!
Categories: Conferences, Office System 2007, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010
Well it is here, the long awaited SharePoint Conference 2009 in Vegas!! I am flying out from the UK on Sunday morning and will be in Sunny vegas by Sunday evening. Am excited about the conference and looking forward to meeting as many of you faithfu.....
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SharePoint 2010 - Go Go Go!!
Categories: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010
How excited are you now. Get over to the this link: SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peak   As the URL says, it is a Sneak Peak of some parts of SharePoint 2010. There are three videos that talk about some of the great functionality within SharePoint 2010.....
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