recommended Tweets

March 6, 2011

From the recommendations department: Randall Isenhour runs @sharepointdev – Official tweets from the SharePoint SDK team at Microsoft. Great resource of links to resources for SharePoint developers

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HTML : Silverlight – 5:4

October 31, 2010

Silverlight is (was) Microsoft’s take on creating rich client applications on the browser (competing against Adobe Flash). Until earlier this year, Silverlight was the technology to use if you wanted to create something more appealing using the Microsoft technology stack than just regular/simple HTML forms. Yes, JavaScript/AJAX/jQuery are valid alternatives, but since support varies between [...]

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Collaboration Days, Lucerne (Dec 2010)

October 28, 2010

Today after many long evenings with many emails and calls and some face-to-face meetings, we finalized and published the agenda for the Collaboration Days. We are proud to have great speakers in Lucerne – you will find excellent know-how and years of experience with SharePoint during the workshops on 30 November and then at the [...]

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Office 2011 For Mac Is Out

October 27, 2010

Microsoft has made Office 2011 available, the Mac version of its highly successful office suite. Excited in anticipation I went ahead to buy the download version for USD 279.99. Unfortunately Microsoft won’t let you purchase from any other country than your home country, which in my case leads me to the Swiss site and a [...]

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2000 Item Limit Resolution With BCS And SharePoint Workspace

October 24, 2010

Ever got an error message sounding like ‘Database response throttled. Maximum number of rows that can be read through the database system utility is 2000′ when running a BCS transaction against an external system (e.g. SAP, an external Database, etc.)? Shane over at SharePoint Farmer’s Almanac published some headache prevention information in his article ‘BCS [...]

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PowerPivot Installation on SharePoint 2010

August 29, 2010

PowerPivot – a technology available for Excel and for SharePoint 2010 – provides BI (Business Intelligence) functionality to end users in a familiar environment (Excel and SharePoint), i.e., giving meaning to numbers. PowerPivot for SharePoint provides the right technology to distribute business insights to all employees helping lead to better, faster, more relevant decisions while [...]

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LightSwitch – Programming for Non-Programmers

August 22, 2010

Microsoft has announced a new addition to the Visual Studio family of tools and products. LightSwitch is meant to give powerusers and IT Pros who don’t want to get into C# programming the power to quickly create business applications. The beta is announced to be available from Monday, 23 August 2010 for download. We will [...]

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Ribbon Customization for SharePoint 2010

August 22, 2010

With the latest version 2010, the Ribbon interface came to SharePoint users. Microsoft learned a lot since introducing that kind of user interface to us in Office 2007 and the Ribbons are well built now. Since many organizations have their own set of rules, links, connections people are used to, many will want to customize [...]

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Migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Technology

July 5, 2010

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 [...]

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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 View more presentations from Stefan Heinz.

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