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Hey folks, I leave in 2 hours for the airport and then I’m off with Colin from our team to the SharePoint Conference (2012) in Las Vegas.  Should be a great week of learning, networking, socializing and getting our geek on. If there is something you just have to know about SharePoint 2013 and you …

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Our man Jarrod got his Clickable InfoPath Forms article posted on Microsoft’s Get the Point Blog. Check it out!  Good work Darth!

There will no doubt be countless blogs, articles and rants about preparing for SharePoint 2013.  I’m doing my own because, well, I need to store stuff as I come across it somewhere.  But if I can contribute in any way or with a different approach, I might as well give back to the community as …

I’m often amazed how few people realize that if you have SharePoint 2010 Server (or 2007) Standard, you have a couple of really useful workflows, out of the box, available to you that are very easy to implement and empower your staff. It’s shocking actually… Ensure the Site Collection “Workflows” feature is activated If the …

Maybe I knew this and forgot but either way I discovered (or rediscovered) it today… OneNote 2010 (over 2007) introduced Versioning and Recycle Bin (see here for the complete list and notes about what does/doesn’t work with OneNote 2007 folks – http://www.onenote-tips.com/tips/fileformat.html) Versioning Requirements OneNote 2010 OneNote File in 2010 mode (note, converting will mean …

While the SharePoint setup wizard will happily and randomly select a port number for you, for SharePoint Central Administration, we at itgroove prefer something a little more managed, obvious and easy to remember. We put Central Administration on port 23646 Why 23646? Because it spells out Admin on your mobile phone. This was something I …

When providing guidance to customers about SharePoint Service accounts (lots of posts out there already, so I’m keeping this short), we end up submitting a recommend service account list (they don’t always go for them, but we do our best at trying to do the right thing). Anyways, SharePoint Service accounts ideally will have several …

If there was ever a blog post to start with, regarding the vision of SharePoint 2013, you should at least read Jeff Teper’s post (straight from the top man): http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1012. If you read between the lines… Search and Find’ability is more important than ever as is Social and the SharePoint team has invested in that. …

Back in early 2012 we knew from our conversations with itgroove, a Microsoft consultancy specializing in SharePoint, that our PDF Converter for SharePoint was going to play an integral role in the major project they conducted for their client, BC Ferries. In June we were incredibly pleased to see this project become nominated for the …