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Community meeting in Joburg, Feb 17 - King III, Records, SharePoint, what does it all mean?

Join us for our monthly community meeting. In February we have a guest speaker who will shed the light what this King III thing is all about and how that effects the technology solutions which maye need to be in place to support it's requirements. Join us, chat with us, have some drinks with us.

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Kathea - UC Panel Discussion

Kathea, the South African distributor of Polycom and Jabra OCS (Office Communications Server) Optimised Devices, is hosting a UC Panel Discussion on 18 February. This promises to be a good event as Kathea will be unveiling new headsets and Rory Headon-Weeks, our Information Worker Specialist Unit Le... (more)

Posted by: Danie Gordon on Business Productivity Marketing in South Africa on 2010-02-05 11:10:35 - to our mirrored blogs

SharePoint 2010 Bootcamp 16, 17 Feb 2010

SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform that enables you to connect and empower people through formal and informal business communities, within the enterprise and beyond, and to manage content throughout the information lifecycle. The SharePoint 2010 boot camp is a 2 day deep technic... (more)

Posted by: Danie Gordon on Business Productivity Marketing in South Africa on 2010-02-04 09:55:05 - to our mirrored blogs

SharePoint 2010 Overview Training - by Bytes People Solutions

Bytes People Solutions will be offering a number of sessions on SharePoint 2010 during the month of February 2010. Ensure that you book immediately as seats are limited. 50353 - SharePoint 2010 Overview (IT Pro) Aimed at people responsible for administration and /or configuration of SharePoint -... (more)

Posted by: Danie Gordon on Business Productivity Marketing in South Africa on 2010-02-03 12:18:54 - to our mirrored blogs

The MOSS Show Episode 15 – Unit Testing with Roy Osherove

I just published an episode a few days ago for The MOSS Show podcast with Roy Osherove, noted unit testing expert, amongst other things. In general, I’ve found experience with unit testing, amongst other ALM maturity practices, to be lower with SharePoint developers than with, for example, ‘standa... (more)

Posted by: Hilton Giesenow's Jumbled Mind on 2010-01-27 15:34:12 - to our mirrored blogs

Setting up Load Balancing on a Server 2008 SharePoint Farm

Here are some steps put together for setting up load balancing on a SharePoint farm with Windows Server 2008. Let the steps to configure load balancing commence… 1. Install Network Load Balancing Feature on each Web Front End On each front end in the farm, within Server Manager, add the NLB fe... (more)

Posted by: red1'space on 2010-01-26 10:29:30 - to our mirrored blogs

Azure Videos Now Up

I was busy playing with Azure a few months ago, putting together some videos for MSDN and I saw today that some of them are now live. The Azure offering looks really exciting, so it was great to play with the bits, even though they’re all still CTP / beta right now. If you haven’t heard too much abo... (more)

Posted by: Hilton Giesenow's Jumbled Mind on 2010-01-26 06:25:13 - to our mirrored blogs

Welcome to my new Blog!

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Posted by: Arno Nel - The SharePoint Monster on 2010-01-26 05:48:00 - to our mirrored blogs

Lets Collaborate Site Updated – New Sections Added

New : Job Descriptions (mirrored from the blog I wrote). Compliments. Updated : Pick of the Week. Tips and Tricks – Wikis (new tip added). Downloads (the actual job description examples). Everywhere – RSS feed added to every page for your convenience. Posted in Let's Collaborate ... (more)

Posted by: Veronique's SharePoint on 2010-01-25 18:33:37 - to our mirrored blogs

SharePoint Job Description Examples

There is much confusion and disagreement in the industry about who does what in SharePoint and what to call everyone. There is also the perception that one person can do it all. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are many roles required to manage this enormous platform and it takes an ar... (more)

Posted by: Veronique's SharePoint on 2010-01-25 09:15:17 - to our mirrored blogs

Unit Testing with Roy Osherove

Unit Testing, TDD, DI, IoC, Mocks, Stubs, Fakes, Refactoring – Not sure exactly what all these terms mean, or how they fit together? In this episode, Roy Osherove, noted Unit Testing & TDD expert helps us to understand what the various components, challenges and benefits of Unit Testing are, wha... (more)

Posted by: The MOSS Show on 2010-01-24 14:34:50 - to our mirrored blogs

A quick ROI on SharePoint Intranet

To Start Year 2010, I thought I could come up with a list of a few simple things you can do with SharePoint Intranet to quickly start getting your ROI:1. You can use your SharePoint lists to organize and track your organizations travel schedules.2. You can create a web based company notice board.3. ... (more)

Posted by: code|influence on 2010-01-21 08:12:00 - to our mirrored blogs

TypeMock Isolator for SharePoint Discount

One of the common techniques with Coding Katas is doing Test Driven Development (TDD), or at least having a good suite of Unit Tests for your code. Unit Testing with SharePoint is quite a bit more tricky though because of the dependence on the SharePoint libraries and runtime. This is where a produc... (more)

Posted by: SharePoint Katas on 2010-01-20 10:12:18 - to our mirrored blogs

SharePoint Dev Kata 2 – Working With Resource Files

One of the practices I’m trying to improve on in my teams is working with string literals. In Feature XML files, for instance, we can set the DisplayName of a Site Column to pull from a localized resource file instead of being hard-coded. See here for an introduction by Ton Stegeman. In addition to ... (more)

Posted by: SharePoint Katas on 2010-01-19 16:47:04 - to our mirrored blogs

Lets Collaborate Site Updated – New Section Added

Six Things To Do With Your New Team Site to get you started. Some cosmetic changes to About This Site. Changed the graphic on What Does a Team Site Look Like. PS : Because I have no idea as to how to make my site interactive yet, if you have any comments or questions, please feel free to [...]... (more)

Posted by: Veronique's SharePoint on 2010-01-19 07:26:01 - to our mirrored blogs

SharePoint Permissions Sing-Along – Mamma Mia

Ok – time for some fun. Seeing as everyone battles with permissions, I wrote a little song for you. This is for everyone who has ever been locked out of their site. Sing loudly along!!!! I’ve been creating sites since I first began, I did not realise it would come to an end. Look at me [...]... (more)

Posted by: Veronique's SharePoint on 2010-01-14 20:41:25 - to our mirrored blogs

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