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The next version (or renaming) of BPOS, the Microsoft Online Business Suite (SharePoint, Exchange, OCS which is now Lync) is looking pretty shiny. Looks to hit in early 2011 and also encouraging, it looks like Canada won’t be the forgotten stepchild that gets the products and services 6 months later this time.   Details This …

Somebody asked in the Microsoft forums today and I figured I would share my answer here in case it helped someone along the way. The Question Anyone have any thoughts on what kind of content is good for a corporate SharePoint portal home page? The following are some things I can things of: Company News …

Come out and join an all-star cast of SharePoint MVP’s as they answer a firing line of questions.   Go to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/aa497438.aspx   September 29, 20109:00 – 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time Q&A with the SharePoint MVP ExpertsDo you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? Do you want to tap into …

To our valued clients,   itgroove wants to let you know about an important security risk that has been discovered.   Microsoft has advised it partners and customers worldwide of a vulnerability in one of the backend fundamental components of SharePoint – asp.net – that can allow an attacker to penetrate and manipulate SharePoint installations.  …

Ok, I’ve run into this enough times now that I figure folks may not stumble across the Technet article that has already discussed this (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/5279f8da-2924-461f-8c35-5b81a2329927). I’ve seen this in three scenarios so far:   Number One: When running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard, if the account you have defined for your SQL Server connection is different …

This is comical… http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/04/technology/google_wave_rip/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin (Exerpt: “Google’s attempt to reinvent e-mail has fizzled. The company said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on Google Wave, a collaborative tool that drew intense attention when it debuted last year.”)     Better still is this is once again living proof that Google “dabbles” with technology when it comes …

I was asked to partake in a “what are you excited about in SharePoint 2010” video interview back in February of this year at the MVP Summit in Redmond. It was released today and alas, they used a bit of my stuff in portions of it after all. Have a look if you are interested. …

Boy, this one was fun… but I learned a few things tonight. What I learned Lesson 1: There are several extra steps necessary now, to expose list data from one site on another using a dataview web part – no more can you simply connect to another library” as you could in SPD 2007 (remember …

Yippee! Easy Tabs 5 is out (in Beta, your mileage will vary) and looking good. I’ve actually deployed it in house, in production as I plan to simply replace the textfile holding the script with the final version when he has finished his masterpiece – one upload, all tickety-boo. So What? Easy Tabs is a …

The Issue This was an interesting discovery today. A customer had a document library, complete with columns that they wanted to have appear in the Document Information Panel (DIP, ala the Ribbon). I guess for the most part, I’ve never had more than 100 items in a column, so I never noticed, but it would …