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I’ve recently been confirmed as a speaker at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London. The conference has plenty of talented speakers, lots of great sessions, and promises to be the premier SharePoint event outside the US. From the www.sharepointevolutionconference.com website:

What is it?

This 3 day SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference, consists of over 70 Sessions dedicated to IT Pro’s/Developers/Designers/Information Workers/Business Adoption and Power Users.

Performance testing can be useful exercise for many SharePoint deployments. It allows you to validate your infrastructure decisions, identify and iron out any bottlenecks, and prove that the environment can effectively handle the expected user load. It can also be useful to measure the effect of changes to the environment, and allows you to configure the environment for optimal performance. Continue reading Introducing the SharePoint performance test Codeplex project »

This post describes how to use the ContentTypeBinding element to avoid an error that can occur creating publishing pages. Continue reading Error creating SharePoint publishing pages »

Blogging has taken a back seat over the past year, partly as much of my time has been spent travelling through Australia, Japan and an amazing three months in South America. I’ve finally settled into busy London, however, and will again be working with and blogging about SharePoint and web development. Continue reading I'm back! »

The “Open with Windows Explorer” action available for document libraries in SharePoint relies on a WebDav client service (i.e. WebClient) which isn’t installed by default on Windows Server 2008. To get this working you need to install the “Desktop Experience” feature. This can be done by navigating to Server Manager > Features > Add Feature > Desktop Experience (requires reboot). Continue reading Enabling “Open with Windows Explorer” in Windows Server 2008 »

For some reason certain1 SharePoint lists don’t have the handy “Edit in datasheet” option available to allow bulk editing of items. One of these lists is the MOSS Picture Library which means that although images can be uploaded in bulk, users have no easy way of bulk tagging these items (e.g. adding ‘christmas party’ as a keyword to 20 photos at once). Continue reading Bulk editing SharePoint Picture Library items »

I’ve been involved in several public website projects that have involved using MOSS content deployment. While content deployment is easy to set up for simple scenarios, there are a number of things that can trip you up if you have a significantly customised environment. In this post I’ll give details and solutions to on some of the common problems, and general tips on how to make this process run as smoothly as possible. Continue reading MOSS content deployment tips and tricks »

I’m pleased to say that the article I wrote a few months ago on ‘how we did it: tag driven IA for MOSS’ was noticed and has been re-published on the SharePoint team blog. Continue reading IA for MOSS article updated »

Early last year I was involved in developing a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based Intranet for the Ministry of Transport. This post explains how we utilised the tagging capabilities provided by MOSS to create this award winning Intranet. Continue reading How we did it: Tag driven Information Architecture using MOSS »

In an earlier post I mentioned that the Intranet we designed for the Ministry of Transport won top prize at the Microsoft partner awards. Earlier this week the same Intranet was announced on Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox as being among the top 10 Intranets of 2008. Continue reading MOSS Intranet Voted Top 10 »