Darrin Bishop

SharePoint Saturday Chicago Schedule Posted

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:57:49 GMT

For those who are registered for SharePoint Saturday in Chicago you can find the schedule and information at :
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/chicago/default.aspx

Saturday Schedule

SharePoint Team Blog Announces Important SP2 Issue

Darrin Bishop — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:59:54 GMT

Last night Jeff Teper announced a SP2 issue where a product expiration date was improperly set. After installation the licensing may be set to Evaluation which will cause the farm to stop working after 180 days. MS is working on a hotfix, but in the mean time your farms are fine. Even if you fail to install the forthcoming hotfix your farm will not be accessible to users but your data is safe and secure until the patch is applied.

Soon there will be a KB article (971620) that will explain a manual fix. Expect the KB article in the next day or two.

Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

Announcing the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group

Darrin Bishop — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:14:59 GMT

Please join us for the first meeting of the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group.

The Central Illinois SharePoint User Group provides a venue for anyone who is interested in learning more about Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. We hope to provide a means for organizations within the Central Illinois region to connect and discuss all areas of SharePoint with the help of some great speakers. If you are thinking about SharePoint, starting with SharePoint or have a long history of using SharePoint we hope you will spend the morning with the group and help spread the knowledge.

Topic: Do you Know SharePoint?
Whether you've spent two minutes or two years with SharePoint you'll get tons of little quirks, tricks, and features you never knew existed out of this presentation. We'll take a journey around the product and point out some of the lesser known features. Did you know you can get your users to enter metadata -- without knowing it?

Speaker: Robert Bogue, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+ is the president of Thor Projects LLC. Thor Projects LLC provides SharePoint Consulting services to clients around the country. Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at http://www.SharePointShepherd.com. Robert has been pleased to be a part of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program for the past 5 years. He was most recently awarded for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Before that Robert was a Microsoft Commerce Server MVP and before that Microsoft Windows Servers-Networking MVP. Robert is the president of the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN, www.spindiana.com). He’s also a member of the board for the Indiana Windows Users Group (www.iwug.net) . Robert blogs at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog You can reach Robert at Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com.

When: June 10, 2009
           Doors open at 8:30 AM
           Presentation at 9:00 AM
           Open Discussion after presentation

Where: LRS
2451 W Monroe
Springfield, Illinois

LRS Eucation Center
(Directions)

Contact: Darrin Bishop, dbishop@darrinbishop.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/cisug

This is the first Central Illinois SharePoint User Group meeting. We have secured enough room, coffee and breakfast snacks for twenty to thirty attendees. Feel free to send an email to dbishop@darrinbishop.com if you plan to attend so we can ensure we have enough room ,coffee and food for all. Special thanks to Levi, Ray and Shoup, Inc. for providing the meeting space and coffee. This is a community-driven user group. At the first meeting we will be discussing dates and times for following meetings. If morning meetings to discuss SharePoint will be difficult to attend please let us know. This is the community's user group and we will make adjustment to best fit the community's needs. If you are interested in speaking or assisting the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group please send an email to dbishop@darrinbishop.com .

Windows 7 Release Candidate Now Available

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:26:12 GMT

Windows 7 Release Candidate is available for download today. It looks like you will only be able to download from TechNet or MSDN until May 5. I read somewhere that you would need to do a clean install from a Beta version of Windows 7. I will probably spend the weekend backing up my Dell, wiping it clean and installing Windows 7.

SharePoint SP2 is Now Available

Darrin Bishop — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:50:27 GMT

Here are the links to SP2 for WSS 3 and MOSS. Remember to install the WSS SP2 on MOSS before you install MOSS SP2. Lots of fixes and updates to get us closer to SharePoint 2010. MOSS 2007 SP2 contains updates to MOSS, Groove Server, Excel Services, Forms Server, Project Server and Search Server. Make sure you grab the correct platform version -x86 or x64.

WSS 3.0 SP2

MOSS 2007 SP2

vNext SharePoint is Officially Announced

Darrin Bishop — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:41:03 GMT

Sure we all knew the next version of SharePoint is under development but today Microsoft has released an official Press Release refering to the next version of SharePoint as SharePoint Server 2010. Yep the name Microsoft Office is not offically part of the name but I would not read much into that. Read the press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx

Adding the SharePoint team blog post url: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx

SharePoint Product Team TweetStream

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:45:38 GMT

After a short pause the SharePoint Product Group is back onTwitter.
http://twitter.com/SharePoint

SPTechCon Day 3 Wrap Up

Darrin Bishop — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:38:52 GMT

I started day 3 delivering my session on PowerShell and SharePoint. One of the first demos failed but we - the attendees and I recovered nicely. Seems that most in the audience has had little exposure with PowerShell but they were eager non-the-less. We spent the session working with PowerShell and SharePoint using both the object model and STSADM. The session actually went over by 15 minutes when one of the conference organizer stopped by to mention that it was time for a break. Not one person mentioned that we were going over or got up to leave. I don’t think I have had such an attentive group of attendees. This was my final presentation for the conference.

I spent the day catching up with work and emails but did manage to attend Todd Klindt and Shane Young's Better with SQL Server 2008 and Server 2008 - For Todd's Benefit Windows Server 2008 :) but that is an inside joke.

That was it for me for SPTechCon. The next SPTechCon is scheduled in Boston, June 22-24 2008. Check out SPTechCon for more info.

SPTechCon - SlideDeck for SharePoint/PowerShell Session

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:32:32 GMT

Here are the slides used in the SPTechCon's SharePoint/PowerShell session.

SPTechCon_PowerShellSharePoint

SPTechCon Day 1 Wrap Up

Darrin Bishop — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:18:02 GMT

Time to call it a night here in San Francisco. Though I got in late today I did manage to run into a few friends here in the Hyatt. Bob Mixon and I ran into each other a few different times tonight. Good discussions on PerformancePoint, PowerShell and SharePoint. I never made it to the SharePoint/Share Pint meet but instead met up with Shane Young, Todd Klindt and John Ross. Between all of us we managed to solve all the SharePoint issues and a few pressing economic issues as well.

My PerformancePoint demo instance decided to be problematic but I did manage to get it under control and now I need to call it a night. Tomorrow I will probably be posting Tweets on Twitter about what is going on. If you are interested then follow me on BishopD.