November 23, 2009
On Thursday 26th November Alan Cossey and I will be doing a joint presentation at the UK Access User Group National Seminar demonstrating the new features in Access 2010 (Alan) and Access Services in SharePoint 2010 (me).
I have to say there’s some really clever technology at work here and if you are working with Access now and maybe already hooking up SharePoint lists to Access 2007 then the new features in Access 2010/SharePoint 2010 are worth a look. One thing you will notice very early on – Access macros have a new lease of life!
Booking info can be seen here and you can download the full agenda details here.
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May 13, 2009
So, lots of discussion in the SharePoint community following this post from the Microsoft SharePoint Team on preliminary system requirements for SharePoint Server 2010.
We’ve known for quite a while now that the next release of SharePoint will be 64-bit only. The new and interesting information is:
It will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. In other words, you won’t be able to use Windows Server 2003, even if it is a 64-bit version.
It will also require 64-bit SQL Server, either 2008 or 2005. In fact Microsoft best practice suggests that in a SharePoint farm, the SQL Server boxes should be the first candidate for 64-bit technology anyway, but this certainly gives you more reason to go 64-bit.
Now it’s worth bearing in mind we are talking about a product version which isn’t even in a full beta yet, so it’s going to be a while before real deployments (probably second half of 2010 for those pioneers who aren’t afraid of arrows). But the points covered in the post should certainly be taken into consideration, particularly if you are in the planning stage and looking at hardware and software selection. Also Microsoft are promising a much easier upgrade path this time, which is why they’ve put the Upgrade Checker into Service Pack 2.
If you are investigating 64-bit now, I would recommend taking a look at the Combined Knowledge whitepaper on how to move MOSS2007 from 32-bit to 64-bit which you can download from here (lots of other good downloads there as well).
You might also be interested in best practices for using virtualisation technologies in a SharePoint farm. If so, let me point you to the set of Best Practice for Virtualizing SharePoint articles from Brian Wilson of the Microsoft UK SharePoint team.
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May 4, 2009
US Company Vertigo have a long track record in the development of showcase solutions for a range of clients, and have been involved in several proof of concept projects for Microsoft going back over the years. Right now they have a very nice Windows Presentation Foundation project available for download called Family Show. The latest version of this has been put together using Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5, and certainly shows off some nice user interface design features. If you are interested in UI design, or indeed if you have an interest in genealogy, this is worth a download.
Here’s a quick screenshot of how it looks (click picture for a better view):
(by the way, it’s not one of my relatives 
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So if you want to take a look for yourself, the download is available here, and source code is available as a CodePlex project here. Scott Stanfield from Vertigo has also recorded a video demo of Family Show which you can watch here.
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January 6, 2009
Nick Swan over at Lightning tools has put together the Big SharePoint Survey, the intention being to find out more about how the product is being used, what the pain points are etc. Results will be made available to all, so the more contributors they get the more useful the data will be. You can complete the survey online here.
On the subject of how SharePoint is being used, interesting to see this post on 10 best-designed intranets of 2009 (2009?) where half the winning intranets used SharePoint….
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