Editors Choice
KwizCom Calendar Plus Web Part
KWizCom SharePoint Calendar Plus web part connects to various sources and displays one consolidated view of all aggregated events. With the Calendar Plus web part you can roll-up events from the following sources: SharePoint lists, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Google Calendar, plus others via the web services API.
Link : Overview of the Calendar Web Part
Moss Show
Listen to Episode 57 hosted by Hilton Giesenow
In this episode Hilton meets Stefan Gossner, a well-known Senior Escalation Engineer on the SharePoint team. Stefan explains what an escalation engineer is, and the many ways Microsoft deals with customer problems from initial discovery, to verification, debugging, fixing and ultimately patching with hotfixes and service packs.
Link : The MOSS Show
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Using SharePoint for ECM - How well is it meeting expectations?
The 2010 version of SharePoint brings specific improvements for content management and information governance. We measure users’ opinions of these changes, and the continued popularity of third-party add on products and integrations, with over 75% considering add-ons for BPM, classification, security, back-up and records archive. We also explore the issues found by users during their upgrade to 2010, track strategies for SharePoint usage alongside existing Capture, ECM and RM systems, and make recommendations based on the survey results..
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SharePoint Articles and Resources
Considerations When Upgrading to a New Version of SharePoint
Once again, Veronique Palmer, has a nack of putting things in simple terms. This time she explains the things to consider when upgrading SharePoint by using the example of rethatching the roof of her complex. (Pictures included!)
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SharePoint 2007 goes out of support on October 9th 2012
SharePoint 2007 will no longer be in mainstream support on October 9th 2012 - that's only just over 6 weeks away. This article has a great matrix showing the differences between mainstream and extended support.
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Microsoft Virtual Academy
The Microsoft Virtual Academy offers a free, easy to access training portal which can help you improve your IT skills and knowledge and help advance your career. The Academy allows you to learn at your own pace whilst focusing on Microsoft technologies to gain points and get recognition.
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“View” Permission Level Gotchas in SharePoint 2010 and Office 365
Have you noticed the “view only” permission level in SharePoint? The difference between read access and view only, is that view only permissions doesn’t allow users to download documents. However, there's a catch...
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Four Tips for Index Cleaning
If you’ve ever had fun with SharePoint Search, most likely you’ve seen (or even used) "Index Reset". This is very useful if you want to clear everything from your SharePoint index – but sometimes it’s not good enough. Read 4 great tips on how to clean-up.
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Featured Blog
Agnes Molnar
Agnes Molnar is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and serves as a Senior Solutions Consultant for BA Insight. With a strong focus on Enterprise Search and Knowledge Management, she has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001, and has architected dozens of SharePoint and FAST implementations for commercial and government organizations throughout Europe and the Americas.
A co-author and contributor to several SharePoint books, including Real World SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, Agnes is a regular speaker at technical conferences and symposiums around the world. On her blog (www.Aghy.hu), Agnes regularly writes on the topics of enterprise search best practices, and SharePoint & FAST technologies.
Link : Agnes Molnar
SharePoint 2013 Articles and Resources
Create a Web Application in SharePoint 2013
Step by step instructions showing how to create a Web Application via Central Admin in SharePoint 2013. There's no "classic mode" this time around as it's Claims only from now on.
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A Tour of SharePoint 2013 Search Part 1
This post begins a SharePoint 2013 Search series by Tyler Bithell. Part 1 explores System Status and the Search Applicaiton Topology...
One important note right off is that Fast Search is SharePoint 2013 Search. Another important note is that it is very resource intensive, so you are going to want to run minimum specs or better in a production environment.
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SharePoint 2013 Q&A with Dan Holme
Dan Holme, shares a superb Q&A highlighting the answers to the most common questions he gets from executives about SharePoint 2013. Is SharePoint an App or a platform - find out what Dan thinks.
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New search features in SharePoint 2013
Search functionality in SharePoint 2013 Preview includes several enhancements including custom content processing with the Content Enrichment web service, and a new framework for presenting search result types. Additionally, there have been significant enhancements made to the keyword query language (KQL). Search is a hot topic within SharePoint 2013, this article summarises some of the search enhancements.
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Databases that support SharePoint 2013 Preview
This poster provides a comprehensive overview of the databases deployed for all editions of SharePoint. It's a downloadable PDF and would look great on any admins wall ;)
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