Welcome to the week 32 newsletter from the SharePoint 2007 & 2010 group on LinkedIn, sponsored by DocRead for SharePoint. This announcement contains, group news, tools, events and features. If you would like to suggest content to go into the next announcement, send us an e-mail and we will do our best to include.
(please note, this post can be seen in formatted HTM at http://www.collaboris.co.uk/news/news-post/2011/08/12/sharepoint-2007-2010-linkedin-group-newsletter-week-32)
Group News & Stats
The group currently has a membership of 14,531 SharePoint professionals, Khaliq Syed at Techscrip solutions was our top influencer this week, with answers to discussions on :
Featured Discussion
“Can anyone please tell me why Sharepoint Admins are so rare? ”
I have been searching for Sharepoint Administrators for almost 3 months and can't seem to find anyone that has the administration side of Sharepoint. Why are the admins so rare? Please help me :)
Link - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Can-anyone-please-tell-me-43166.S.65558442?qid=cf338254-b253-49c0-9ad9-458a49ebd1e2&trk=group_most_popular-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Eanb_43166_*2%2Egmp_43166
Cool Tool
WSP Builder
Ok the prominence of this tool has swayed a little bit since SharePoint 2010, but there’s a lot of SharePoint 2007 projects still out there. This tool allows visual studio developers to easily create WSP’s. Without we were faced with having to use ‘makecab’ along writing our own manifest.xml and ddf files.
Link - http://wspbuilder.codeplex.com/
Event
SharePoint Saturday – The conference (Washington DC, August 11 - 13) .
This is the biggest SharePoint Saturday yet! In fact, it started yesterday and ends tomorrow. The event also has a massive 284 sessions covering all aspects of SharePoint.
Link - http://www.collaboris.co.uk/events/sharepoint-events/2011/07/31/SharePoint-saturday
Featured Site
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites Training.
Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Composites skills in this training course. This course covers a SharePoint Server 2010 Composites overview, and all of these aspects for SharePoint Server 2010: Access Services, InfoPath Forms Services, Workflows in SharePoint Server 2010, Business Connectivity Services, and SharePoint BI and Composites Service Application Configuration. Download the lab manuals for this course here. To view the entire course, visit: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126810.
Link - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26942&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29&utm_content=LocalHost#tm
Featured Blog
Ellen van Aken
This blog contains excellent SharePoint posts (next to general Intranet/Digital Workplace topics) showing real tangible examples of process improvement using custom-configured (NOT Coded) SharePoint Team Sites.
Link - http://mydigitalworkplace.wordpress.com/category/general/do-more-with-sharepoint/
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