Cincinnati’s first SharePoint Saturday is in three days! Are you registered yet? If not, go here now: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/cincinnati/default.aspx
With twenty different presentations you can’t miss!
I will be giving two presentations:
SharePoint Governance... It may not be what you think it is...
and
SharePoint 2007, 2010 and Office 365 for Site Owners and Power Users
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Be there!
and Learn!
and remember… it’s FREE!
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I have not created a book list in quite a while and needed to put together an updated SharePoint 2010 book list for the folks who attend my classes. This list is not complete and unless otherwise noted only contains books I have personally reviewed.
Let me know of there are any other books you think I should review and possibly add to this list…
Categories of books below:
Click here for my review of this book.
SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action
Includes both SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio workflow topics.
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))
My book of course!
SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Customization for the Site Owner
This book is designed to get you started in customizing your SharePoint site with the tools you have readily at hand. This book has complete copy and paste solutions, and it also shows how each solution was crafted and how it works. After working through a few of the customizations and picking up some basic skills, you can start to figure out how SharePoint has been put together and start creating your own customizations.
SharePoint 2010 branding in practice: a guide for web developers
Click here for my review of this book.
These include books for everyday use and for certification prep.
(1) = I supply this book with my “SharePoint 2010 Certification Bootcamp for Administrators” class.
Mastering Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
Click here for my review of this book.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion
(1)
Automating SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell 2.0
Excellent book! Over 700 pages on both PowerShell for SharePoint and "got to knows" about administration. If you are building multiple farms, finding yourself doing the same thing over and over again, or creating a scripts for a disaster recovery plan, then you need this book!
These include books for everyday use and for certification prep.
(2) = I supply this book with my “SharePoint 2010 Certification Bootcamp for Developers” class.
SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action
Includes both SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio workflow topics.
SharePoint Deployment and Governance Using COBIT 4.1: A Practical Approach
Click here to read an excerpt of this book on TechNet.
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Heather Solomon’s CSS reference chart for SharePoint 2007 has always been a required bookmark for customizers. When Heather spoke at the Cincinnati SharePoint User Group meeting a while back she hinted that a new chart was in the works…. Heather has released a new CSS reference chart for SharePoint 2010!
SharePoint 2010 CSS Reference Chart:
http://sharepointexperience.com/csschart/csschart.html
SharePoint 2007 CSS Reference Chart:
http://www.heathersolomon.com/content/sp07cssreference.htm
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Just a quick note on getting the URL of the current page in a SharePoint C# project.
Three ways:
#1 (preferred if there is also a query string in the URL)
string url = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri;
#2
string url = "http://" + Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"] + Request.ServerVariables["URL"];
#3 (preferred for web parts - see below)
string url = SPContext = " + SPContext.Current.Web.Url + "/" + SPContext.Current.File.Url;
Notes:
#1 will return the query string, while #2 and #3 will not.
#1 and #2 will give you odd results when used in a Layouts application page:
URL of page:
http://intranet/sites/training/_layouts/SharePointProject3/ApplicationPage1.aspxReturned from both #1 and #2:
http://intranet/_layouts/SharePointProject3/ApplicationPage1.aspx
#2 when used in a web part will need System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request:
"http://" + System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"] + System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["URL"];
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Would you like to explore SharePoint 2010, but don’t want to build your own SharePoint server? A year or two ago I would have told you to build your own servers, or download the Information Worker evaluation virtual hard disk.
There’s a third option that will serve the needs of many of the curious… Office 365. Just go here and sign up for a demo account and explore away for thirty days!
Three options…
1) Signup for a SharePoint / Office 365 demo (free for 30 days)
You will get access to SharePoint from the point of view of a Site Collection Administrator and be able to create Site Collections, Sites, Lists, Libraries and even create and upload Visual Studio sandboxed solutions.
2) Download the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine from here
You will get a full SharePoint Enterprise Edition, FAST search, Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Lync server, SQL server and a whole lot of other stuff! You will need a server running HyperV or a PC running Virtual Box.
3) Build your own server or virtual machines using the 180 day evaluation copies of SharePoint, Windows, SQL, Office, Visual Studio, etc.
You'll both learn how to build SharePoint farms and how to use all of the tools.
One week to go! Two month’s ago MAX Technical Training and I put together a 6 day, 11 hours per day, SharePoint administrator’s certification boot camp (MA-1071). It was so much fun that we decided to do it again, but for developers this time. A week from now we will deliver a certification boot camp for developers (MA-1072).
Here’s what’s included in the boot camp:
There’s still time to register! Just click here…
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I “thought” I had everything setup in my test environment that was needed to support Access Services. Then I created a new site based on the “Issues Web Database” template… and got this:
“An error has occurred”, now there is a useful error message! No question about the cause there! Clicking around the site got me these useful popups:
Nothing in the Windows Event logs about Access Services. No SharePoint 2010 Correlation ID displayed anywhere. Nothing in the SharePoint logs with the words “Access” or “issues”.
A bit embarrassing… Access Services was not started.
Started the service, and everything worked!
as a classic….
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