Editors Choice
Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint
The Muhimbi PDF Converter is a SharePoint 2007/2010 solution for converting popular file formats including MS-Word, Excel, InfoPath, PowerPoint, Visio, AutoCAD, HTML and Images to PDF using a friendly SharePoint User Interface, SharePoint Designer Workflows, Nintex Workflows or from your own code using a friendly webservice interface. In addition to converting files the solution provides real time watermarking, merging, splitting and security facilities as well as cross-conversion between document types (doc to docx, xlsx to xls, xls to doc, InfoPath to Word, Excel and HTML).
If you want to play around with the software then download it using this link. The trial is fully functional and comes with comprehensive documentation.
Featured Blog
Todd Klindt - SharePoint Admin blog.
Todd has been a professional computer nerd for over 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last eight years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD that was holding up his coffee cup, and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services.
He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit, SharePoint Saturday events, and the occasional children’s birthday party as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog, http://www.toddklindt.com/blog. His latest book, Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration published by Wrox is now available at fine booksellers everywhere. He is currently working his dream job as a SharePoint consultant at Rackspace where he spends his days fixing broken SharePoint environments and bringing new SharePoint environments into the world.- http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/default.aspx
Group Discussion
What seems to be the biggest struggle when it comes to SharePoint?
This is currently our most popular discussion, so many thanks to Katelynn Ballinger for asking the question! Answers currently vary and include 'it depends', 'having a good spec' and 'lack of planning'. To read all answers or improve upon them, visit the discussion.
Cool Tool
Balsamiq Mockups
Balsamiq mockups is a really cool wireframing tool! If you are designer, Business Analyst, Usability Consultant or even a Developer - this tool is going to help you mock-up new screen designs in a snap. It also cheap and very easy to use and will take you very little time to learn.
On their own site, Balsamiq say "Using Mockups feels like drawing, but because it’s digital, you can tweak and rearrange easily. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting."
If you want a nice SharePoint 2010 template head over to 'Material SharePoint'.
An Interview with 3 Microsoft Certified Masters
SSW - a major SharePoint consultancy from Australia provided this interview from 3 SharePoint Masters at a recent SharePoint Saturday event.
Group Discussion
Document Sets vs Folders in SharePoint 2010
Michal Pisarek's new blog post comparing Document Sets and Folders in terms of the functionality offered to categorize and work within content in SharePoint 2010. He's also would love to hear if Document Sets are being used and your experiences with them! - go to the discussion on LinkedIn.
Selected SharePoint
SharePoint Joel - Why SharePoint and Yammer Really Make Sense
Now it's official! Microsoft bought Yammer for $1.2 billion this week. The SharePoint Don himself - Joel Oleson - has already put forward 10 good reasons why this could be a match made in heaven. Full Article.
How to develop a WebPart without using the simple 'Hello World' approach
Andreas Glaser demonstrates - in a very easy to follow article - how to develop a web part from scratch. This is a great resource for budding developers. Full Article.
SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits
As Scotty would say to Kirk, "Thee SharePoint can't give us no more Captain, she's about to blow!". This in-depth article tells you what SharePoint's limits are. Full Article
Custom SharePoint 2010 search refiner - displaying range of choices
Yaroslav (from ShareMuch) takes a look at some of the most common configurations you’d want to do to a refiner in SharePoint 2010 enterprise search. Full article.
How Many SharePoint Developers Are There Really?
Very interesting post from SharePoint guru - Bjorn Furuknap (+ comments) on whether there really are 700,000 SharePoint developers out in the wild. Full article.
SharePoint 2013 free Webinar by MindSharp
Your VIP ticket entitles you to be one of the first to hear what is new in the next version of SharePoint. Get a high level overview of SharePoint’s new components, functionality, and how it will affect you. Sign-up.
Rackspace infographic on SharePoint
If you are into stats such as "if SharePoint was a company, it would be top 50 in the world", or "34% of SharePoint users don't feel like they are using it to it's potential", then Rackspace have a great infographic. 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
SharePoint's Got Talent Competition!
Showcase how talented your team are in our "SharePoint's Got Talent" video competition and you and your team could win a fantastic prize of 4 conference passes to European SharePoint Conference 2013 worth €3,700! Read more about the competition.
Vendor : European SharePoint Conf.; Validity : Before Fri 6th July; Voucher : N.A.