Featured Blog
Wayne Hammon's blog
In Wayne's own words "I am faced with dealing with my thinking way too much. I am really enthusiastic about SharePoint Server. I recognized the implications to a business having SharePoint as soon as I saw my first demonstration back in 2007. I started heads down SharePoint study/experimentation in 2008. I spent much of a year doing SharePoint MOSS prototyping and doing SharePoint Designer custom development. I learned a lot and thought I knew something." - www.imknowledge.net/blog
Editors Choice
DocRead for SharePoint
DocRead is a compliance management system for SharePoint that distributes policies to groups of users and allows them to explicitly acknowledge that they have read and understood it. Benefits:
• Allows users to read and acknowledge a document in 3 clicks.
• Provides reporting to track who has and hasn't read a document.
• Automatically notifies new group members of their reading tasks.
• Issues positive and negative receipts for reporting purposes?
DocRead supports SharePoint 2007 + 2010 & is available in 4 editions. Compare Editions
Group Discussion
What shall we rename the group to ?
As mentioned in the last edition of the Newsletter, we are renaming the group. We need a name that also encompasses SharePoint 2013 as well as SharePoint 2007 and 2010. 'SharePoint Forum' is currently winning - if you agree or disagree why not cast your vote in the LinkedIn poll?
Group Discussion
How to build an internal Knowledge base?
Jim Corder at DNS electronics asks "I work for a tech company full of engineers. I'd like to build a simple knowledgebase without having to purchase a 3rd party app. Does anyone have any pointers? I've started just a wiki-style site, but it's so unstructured and it's not catching on with my engineers." Go to the discussion on LinkedIn.
Group Discussion
Can anyone tell me the best way to create a master calendar?
Are there any SharePoint calendar experts out there? Swapna wants to be able to integrate several calendars into one master calendar. Most of the answers are pointing towards the Content Query Web Part any other ideas or solutions. Go to the discussion on LinkedIn.
Cool tool
FAST Search for Sharepoint 2010 Query Tool
Tool to query FAST for Sharepoint and Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise Search. This tool utilizes the search web services to run your queries so you can test your queries remotely from your local machine. It shows your results, allows you to refine your query (FAST), and page your results.
News and Views
How to configure TFS 2010 for SharePoint 2010
If you want to get Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 installed and configured with SharePoint 2010 then this step by step guide (written by Gokan Ozcifci - SharePoint Pirate) is just the ticker for you. Full Article.
SharePoint 2010: Backup and Restore Best Practices
If you are a SharePoint Admin then this Whitepaper is a must read. Explains how to backup every aspect of a SharePoint including content databases, WSPs, IIS, file system along with customisations. Full Article
Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Series
Paul Culmsee gives an in depth discussion on SharePoint performance and how to successfully measure and monitor performance. If lead / lag indicators and RPS (Requests per second) are you think then checkout Part 1 and Part 2.
How to send an email when a site or web is deleted
For a variety of reasons you may wish your Site Owners and Site Collection Administrators to be notified by email when their sites are deleted. This article has a downloadable feature that does exactly this. Read this article.
MOSS 2007 interview questions
This 4-part series lists well over a 100 questions that you can use to prepare for an interview, or use if you are in the interviewers hot seat and have had no time to think of some. How many could you answer? Read interview questions part 1.
How to trouble shoot a 'Send To' Connection
The point of this article is not to guide an administrator into creating a new connection (see this TechNet 
article for that) but to provide some guidance into solving any problems that may prevent a successful connection. Full Article
What's new in the User Profile Service
Senior Product Marketing Manager (SharePoint), Bill Baer, outlines what improvements have been made in the UPS since it RTM'd. We are sure you will agree - if improvements were needed - it's service that needed it! Full Article
Group Promotions and Offers
As part of being a member of the SharePoint Group you are entitled to exclusive deals that we have arranged with vendors, conferences and service providers.
DocRead : Get 750 Users FREE when you buy Professional Edition
DocRead is a compliance solution that allows publishers to request that employees read and confirm their most important documents. If you purchase the Professional edition of
DocRead before June 30th, 2012, you will be given
750 FREE users licences giving you
1500 users for just
$11,950 USD (one-off cost).
Vendor : Collaboris; Validity : Until 30th June 2012; Voucher : DR-PRO-JUN-250