Today, Lightning Tools announced the release of their new Business Connectivity Services tool – simply called Meta Man! Meta Man is again a standalone application. This means you do not need to Visual Studio installed to use it. If you need to connect SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013 to MS SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC data sources …
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I had the opportunity to attend the SharePoint 2013 Development Session, at the Microsoft Technology Center in Mountain View, yesterday. This was another great session hosted by Netwoven. I spoke with Niraj, President of Netwoven, and he indicated there will be many more free sessions this year. This is another way for you to gain …
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I ran across a situation today where a client wanted to store and manage dates that were earlier then 1900. The out of box SharePoint Date/Time metadata column doesn’t allow this. Without custom coding, your only option is to store this data as a single line of text. As you could imagine, there is problems …
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I would like to thank all those who worked so hard to make the SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley event successful. There were many great speakers, lots of vendor support and a good turn-out of “information hungry” SharePoint folks. As promised, I have added the presentation I delivered to my library for you to download and …
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I am speaking at the SharePoint Summit 2012 (Toronto) Conference this year! I am delivering 2, 3 hour tutorials on Monday, May 14th. Tutorial 1.3 – Architecting Information for SharePoint 2010 Regardless of the industry your organization is aligned with, if your goal is to use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as an Intranet and/or Document Management …
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Seth Early, from Early & Associates, wrote an interesting article about the purpose and use of a Reference Information Architecture. He then describes, in part, additional information architecture steps required to ultimately derive a physical SharePoint implementation model; content model, site structures and navigation elements. One area Seth touches on this article is the need …
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I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the San Francisco SharePoint User Group last night. It was held at the Mindjet office, downtown San Francisco, and we had a great group of attendees. I started the meeting by asking where they would like to start; An Intro to IA or IA Applied to SharePoint. …
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SharePoint Summit 2012 will give you a 360 degree view of the bestpractices and methodologies you will need to plan, implement and managesuccessful SharePoint-based solutions that will help meet yourorganizations business needs and be adopted by your end users. Conference sessions are structured to meet the needs of BusinessManagers, Information Architects, Project Managers, IT Managers, …
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I was asked today how to recover a SharePoint 2010 Passphrase. Unfortunately, there is no way to recover a Passphrase in SharePoint 2010. However, there is a very simple way to change it using PowerShell. Use the following PowerShell script to change your farm Passphrase. Before running this on your server, you will need machine-level …
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I just received another e-mail from David Rubinstein, Conference Chairman, reminding me of The SharePoint Technology Conference coming to San Francisco this next February. I have had the honor of speaking at this conference in the past and it has always been top-notch; the facilities, sessions, speakers and so on. I won’t be speaking at …
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