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Inside our SharePoint Saturday attendee packs (aka. Free stuff!)

With SharePoint Saturday Sydney only a week away now I’ve now finally got my hands on to all of the goodies that we are including in our attendee packs for the day – that’s right, every single person who attends SharePoint Saturday Sydney, Canberra or Melbourne will get this pack! A SharePoint Saturday compendium, with [ READ MORE ]

Another Tech.Ed Session for me this year!

Looks like I am going to have my hands full leading up to Tech.Ed Australia this year. I’ve just had it confirmed that I will be presenting a second session at the event! I’ll be presenting the second session with Garth Luke from AvePoint, and we will be discussing best practices with regards to storage [ READ MORE ]

SharePoint Saturday Sydney Speakers Announced!

SharePoint Saturday Sydney is coming together nicely, and today we have announced our speaker line up for this years event.   Once again we have had an awesome group of people put their hands up to present for us, which did unfortunately mean that we couldn’t fit everyone in to the schedule, but I’m pretty impressed [ READ MORE ]

I’m presenting at Tech.Ed Australia 2010!

I’m pretty stoked about this actually, I got the email last week that confirmed that I will be presenting a break out session at Tech.Ed Australia this year! The session I am doing will be a joint session with Joshua Haebets about using Office 2010 anywhere, here is the official blurb:       Office 2010 [ READ MORE ]

Changing namespaces in WebPart projects for VS2010

This is a problem I came across today while working on a SharePoint 2010 web part using Visual Studio 2010. Basically the scenario is this, I created a project (using the Silverlight web part project type in this case) and it created the web part feature and classes for me, all using the default namespace [ READ MORE ]

SharePoint Saturday Canberra and Melbourne announced!

Hot on the heels of the announcement of SharePoint Saturday Sydney, we are announcing two more events! The first of which will be in Canberra September 18, followed by Melbourne on October 30. I’m pretty excited to be able to add Canberra to our run this year, and its looking like all three events are [ READ MORE ]

Can’t set selected email field for BCS contacts lists

This is a bit of weird one I have come across while implementing a contacts list using the BCS with SharePoint 2010. Here is the scenario – we have a SQL database with a massive list of contacts in it, and we want to surface that into Outlook for users through the BCS in SharePoint [ READ MORE ]

SharePoint Saturday Sydney returns, and more to come soon!

SharePoint Saturday Sydney is back! 12 months ago we ran the first SharePoint Saturday event in Australia and now we are taking it back where it all began for what I’m hoping will be an even bigger event this time around! So keep August 7 free people, we will be at Cliftons training facilities (190 [ READ MORE ]

Problems using the Contacts Web Database template (Access Services)

I came across this problem this morning while investigating the new Contacts Web Database that is in SharePoint 2010. Essentially the site is driven off an Access Services database, so has some interesting options for how you can use it – but I came across a problem where as soon as I opened the site [ READ MORE ]

Twitter/Bing Maps web part – How I did it

For those of you you attended one of the Office launch parties in Australia the other week, you may have seen at the end of my demo the twitter and Bing maps web part that I showed off. Now I didn’t go into the technical detail on the night but I did want to share [ READ MORE ]

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