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Aug
27

HP Sizer for Microsoft SharePoint is a complimentary planning resource that encapsulates knowledge gained from extensive performance characterization of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint 2010 in the HP Alliances Performance and Solutions labs, widespread collaboration between HP and Microsoft, and numerous SharePoint performance whitepapers produced by HP engineering.

A new feature of this sizer is to configure the server requirements for a highly available Hyper-v R2 environment.

Get it from http://h71019.www7.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/548230-0-0-0-121.html

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Aug
11
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Aug
8

Two things that may trip you up when using Claims Authentication in SharePoint:

  • Search alerts are currently not supported with claims-based authentication
  • NTLM (supported in Claims mode) is required for the search crawl account

Example of an ADFS v2 logon for SharePoint 2010 which supports Shibboleth, OpenID, SAML and custome providers.

ADFS v2 logon for SharePoint Claims mode authentication
More details about this solution can be found in the following presentation...


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Jul
24

Proof that SharePoint can scale?

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Jun
30

The SharePoint Productivity Hub site template has been updated for 2010 and is now based on a standard looking site and uses Silverlight web parts for a nice Web 2.0 experience.
I have installed this at http://www.spsdemo.com/sites/productivity and you can login is corp\demouser pass@word1 to see the content.

Download the Productivity Hub from http://bit.ly/prodhub

 

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Jun
26

It is cool how Bitly detects the file type for a link to an Office Web App

Bitly Office Web App Detection

This is a link to a very cool presentation from Auckland University on how they use SharePoint 2010 as their LMS and have use Claims authentication with ADFS v2, AD, Shibboleth, and public identity providers such as Facebook, Google and LiveID.

Check it out here http://bit.ly/aK09fV

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May
29

Here is a good example of a website using PerformancePoint charts to display public safety information on the web.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Dashboard.

Clicking on the title of a graph gives you more detail and the ability to export the data.

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Apr
8

Microsoft Education Labs has released some cool software including a white paper on how to integrate SharePoint with Moodle to provide document management capability to Moodle content.


OFFICE ADD-IN FOR MOODLE 
Try out this add-in to open and save documents to Moodle right from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.


USE SHAREPOINT AS A FILE SYSTEM FOR MOODLE 
Read this white paper to learn how to set up SharePoint as a file system for Moodle.


MICROSOFT LIVE SERVICES
PLUG-IN FOR MOODLE 
This open-source plug-in integrates Microsoft Live Services with Moodle. Check it out..


CHEMISTRY ADD-IN FOR WORD 
Semantic authoring made easy with this new add-in from Microsoft Research. Learn more


MATH WORKSHEET GENERATOR 
Try out this tool that lets you create printable math worksheets.


FLASHCARDS 
Check out this site that lets you create, share, and study flashcards online .

 
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Apr
6

 

ARCast.TV - Improving SharePoint Development with WCF Services

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In this interview, Sahil Malik, a SharePoint expert and Microsoft MVP, shares with Zhiming Xue, a.k.a. “Dr. Z”, his extensive experiences on SharePoint (MOSS) development.

Mr. Malik describes a SharePoint development approach that relies on WCF services or contracts, and explains how this approach decouples a SharePoint client or user interface -- whether it is based on ASP.NET, web part, AJAX or Silverlight -- from the SharePoint server, thus effectively addressing some common challenges related to SharePoint development that often requires various roles and skills such as designers, web developers, SharePoint developers and administrators.

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Mar
20

When it's a Live Labs Pivot. I have created an image pivot from screen shots of more than 1,500 SharePoint powered Internet sites.

You can download Live Labs Pivot from http://getpivot.com

The SharePoint Internet sites pivot can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/b4Z8NM (130Mb Zip). After you unzip it, click on the .cxml file and you should get this…

SharePoint Internet Pivot

I plan to host this pivot in a web part once the Silverlight 4 control for this is released (as per the MIX announcement).

If you find any errors or omissions, please submit them to http://www.wssdemo.com/pages/comments.aspx

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