PowerShell Cheat Sheet for SharePoint 2010

April 19, 2010

Those of you who have been using stsadm in the past for certain tasks in SharePoint 2007 (like adding a new feature to a site) will in the future (have to) use PowerShell.
For this group of people Dmitry Sotnikov has created a cheat sheet with PowerShell commands and cmdlets for many operations within SharePoint 2010.
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Office & SharePoint 2010 Released To Manufacturing (RTM)

April 16, 2010

Microsoft officially announced that the new version of the flagship product Office 2010 has been released to manufacturing today.
The software had been in the wild on peer-to-peer networks for the last day or two already. Whether these were official versions or not is a different issue and I’d stay away from these downloads.
As mentioned in [...]

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Silverlight 4 Is Available

April 16, 2010

Last night Microsoft published number 4 of Silverlight. The software is available for download for Windows and the Mac (yes, it works with Safari and FireFox as well).
If you don’t know what Silverlight is:

It’s a technology that allows software developers to build websites and business applications that give end users a richer experience [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 released today

April 12, 2010

Today the latest version of Microsoft’s most essential development environment Visual Studio 2010 will be released in Las Vegas. So we should see the downloads later today (or latest tomorrow) on TechNet and MSDN.
The product is available in three different flavors: Professional, Premium and Ultimate. The difference in functionality and pricing between the three [...]

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Check Out SharePoint 2010 At X.Days – This Week

March 15, 2010

A few days ago Microsoft announced 12-May 2010 to be the official Launch Date of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. RTM (Release to Manufacturing) will be in April.
For Swiss clients the X.Days, coming up this week in Interlaken, are a great opportunity to learn about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 from a business perspective (CIOs [...]

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Mind Mapping With SharePoint

February 24, 2010

Mind Mapping is used a lot these days in many situations – from setting up projects to emergency solution finding. One of the leading commercial products in this area is MindManager which I’ve been using in a very early version years ago and I loved it.
One of the features missing in most Mind Mapping software [...]

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5 Mac Office 2011 Highlights

February 17, 2010

This is not related to SharePoint but to the Microsoft Office suite: The Mac Business Unit at Microsoft has announced the new Mac Office version 2011. The software is expected to be available in late fall of this year (2010). As it is the tradition in the Mac BU, they don’t plan a public beta. [...]

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What’s Gone In SharePoint 2010

February 8, 2010

As Joel Oleson says in a recent blog post:
You hear about all the new features in SharePoint 2010, but what isn’t there?
The SharePoint Team at Microsoft not only has added functionality, but also has retired features and code from the upcoming SharePoint 2010. Microsoft has published the list on MSDN.

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How To Find Out Space Usage

February 1, 2010

As an administrator you might want to know the current space used by individual SharePoint sites, or you might need that information for planning purposes. For cases like this, Quest offers the Site Administrator Reporter in a free version. The setup installs a plugin on your computer (Silverlight, in case you are interested) and a [...]

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Free Online SharePoint 2010 Conference

January 29, 2010

SharePoint Connections offer a one-day online conference for developers and administrators – SharePoint 2010: Bits from the Edge.
Two dates are available:
For participants in the U.S.: 16-February, 09:00am – 05:30pm EST (i.e., 15:00 – 23:30 CET).
For participants in Europe: 18-February, 09:00 – 17:30 GMT (i.e., 08:00 – 16:30 CET).
Check out the program and register. Thanks [...]

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