I am honoured to be contributing to next year’s European SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011 as a speaker. The conference takes places on April 11th – 13th 2011 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London. The conferences features 96 sessions , 69 speakers (includes the 15 community track speakers and sessions) and this excludes… [Read more…]
October 10, 2010
Microsoft are to release a number of patches this week to correct “Important” security vulnerabilities in software including both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Foundation 2010. The security bulletins have been classified as “Important” which means that, if these go unaddressed, they could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of users data, or the… [Read more…]
October 9, 2010
I delivered another session at the SharePoint User Group on October 7th 2010 that covered the Enterprise Search product stack within the context of SharePoint 2010. What I always find very interesting is how some folks consider search a ‘black art’. With that in mind, I’m going to provide an overview of what there is,… [Read more…]
August 30, 2010
I’ll be delivering another session at the Leeds/Bradford SharePoint UK User Group on 2nd September 2010 on Self-Service BI and PowerPivot. I’ll update this post to provide a link to the slide deck after the session. In the meantime, see the agenda below: Agenda: - What is PowerPivot? - Architecture – PowerPivot for Excel and… [Read more…]
June 26, 2010
A Windows Update security patch (KB938444) has been known to cause a number of issues within a SharePoint farm after its application. Errors such as: - HTTP 404 - Server Error - Cannot connect to the configuration database can appear after applying the patch. You should read Microsoft’s statement on the SharePoint blog and a… [Read more…]
June 21, 2010
Introduction At a recent SharePoint user group session, where I spoke on Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010, I was introduced as discussing the “black art” of search. The reason, I think, that search was described in that way reflects the way in which most people think about search: something that is pervasive and quickly yields… [Read more…]
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