This is comical... http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/04/technology/google_wave_rip/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin (Exerpt: "Google's attempt to reinvent e-mail has fizzled. The company said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on Google Wave, a ...[Read More]

A friend of mine (thanks Bil) posted this on Facebook. I'm certainly aware of Douglas Adams (42, the Hitchhikers Guide, etc.), but I wasn't aware of this quote. But man, does it hit the nail on the head. Good thing I was on board with SharePoint f ...[Read More]

I was asked to partake in a "what are you excited about in SharePoint 2010" video interview back in February of this year at the MVP Summit in Redmond. It was released today and alas, they used a bit of my stuff in portions of it after a ...[Read More]

Boy, this one was fun… but I learned a few things tonight.   What I learned Lesson 1: There are several extra steps necessary now, to expose list data from one site on another using a dataview web part – no more can you simply "connect ...[Read More]

Yippee! Easy Tabs 5 is out (in Beta, your mileage will vary) and looking good. I've actually deployed it in house, in production as I plan to simply replace the textfile holding the script with the final version when he has finished his masterpiec ...[Read More]

The Issue This was an interesting discovery today. A customer had a document library, complete with columns that they wanted to have appear in the Document Information Panel (DIP, ala the Ribbon). I guess for the most part, I've never had more t ...[Read More]

I made this slide/picture for a customer the other day to try and demonstrate visually how SharePoint could/should/would be the GO TO platform for all upcoming and future business processes (try it in SharePoint first, then look at other products ...[Read More]

As per the following link (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/17/live-chats-to-learn-more-about-sharepoint-with-the-mvp-experts.aspx), there will be an MVP expert chat that yours truly will be taking part of. Hope to see you there! ...[Read More]

Whew, look at that. 4 posts in June and this is the first for July. Tsk tsk… What can I say? It's summer, we took a family work/play trip to Bermuda and then celebrated our 15th Wedding Anniversary by taking a cruise to Alaska. Pile in-between bot ...[Read More]

Ok this one is kinda lame... but alas, the fix is simple.  My ultimate goal was to perform a backup of a SharePoint WSS database on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, with the intent of performing a database restore, to a new SharePoint 2010 Foundati ...[Read More]