After a time of silence here due to change of job, this is the first in a series of posts on my latest project: migrating a company of a few thousand users from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft technology (Exchange and SharePoint).

If you are interested in this topic, drop me a note via the contact page. I’m interested to hear what would be most useful to you.

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Social Networking with SharePoint

June 1, 2010

This is my presentation held on 27 May in Zurich at SharePoint Day set up by DigiComp.
SharePoint Day 2010, Zurich – Social Networking
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FIFA World Cup 2010 – Free SharePoint Template

May 25, 2010

Andy Dale from OfficeTalk probably had some fun creating this SharePoint template for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Best of all he made the template available for free. Thanks Andy.

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Technical diagrams (SharePoint 2010)

May 20, 2010

With the official release of SharePoint 2010 last week, Microsoft also published several posters for supporting different aspects of planning and deployment. The posters are available in PDF, XPS and Visio file format for SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server as mentioned below:

Poster
Foundation
Server

SharePoint 2010 Products Deployment

x
x

Services in SharePoint 2010 Products

x
x

Extranet Topologies for SharePoint 2010 [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Launch Today

May 11, 2010

Today, Microsoft’s latest major version of SharePoint is going to be made publicly available. Whether you like SharePoint or not, this launch will have an impact on many people: many company Intranets and document management systems run on SharePoint and will be updated in the months to come so that administrators, architects, engineers and consultants [...]

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Report On Possible Vulnerability in SharePoint

May 5, 2010

Via TechNet Microsoft recently has published an alert about a possible (i.e., not yet verified) vulnerabiltity in SharePoint versions WSS 3 and MOSS 2007. As stated in the message:
The vulnerability could allow an attacker to run arbitrary script that could result in elevation of privilege within the SharePoint site, as opposed to elevation [...]

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How To Install And Configure SharePoint Server 2010 (RTM)

April 28, 2010

So you have downloaded SharePoint 2010 RTM (final release) and are ready to install. If you have not yet done any preparatory actions, check out 5 Tips on Effectively Planning for SharePoint 2010 Migration and if you need or want more detail, check out What NOT to Migrate into SharePoint 2010 and In Place Upgrade to SharePoint [...]

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SharePoint & Office 2010 Available For Download Now

April 23, 2010

MSDN and TechNet subscribers can download the final release of SharePoint 2010 Server and Office 2010 Professional as of last night (European time). Office is available in 32 bit and 64 bit.
Visio and Project 2010 are available as well.
Microsoft Customers with license agreements will be able to download the software starting 27 April (US time) [...]

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5 Tips on Effectively Planning for SharePoint 2010 Migration

April 21, 2010

“Gentlemen, boys and girls, start your engines!” – As we are getting ready to install the code that will descend upon us tomorrow at some point, Dux Raymond Sy has created a concise listing of planning steps for SharePoint migration ahead of us:
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/5-tips-on-effectively-planning-for-sharepoint-2010-migration-007305.php

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TechDays Basel, April 2010: Presentations Online Now

April 20, 2010

Beginning of April Basel, Switzerland was home of Microsoft’s TechDays. Today Microsoft Switzerland made the presents available:
http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/de/techdays/presentations10simple.aspx
UPDATE: I forgot to note that most of the presentations are in German. Some however are in English.

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