Sharepoint 2010

The 2011 Sharepoint Conference Keynote

October 7, 2011
By Arild Aarnes
The 2011 Sharepoint Conference Keynote

The 2011 Sharepoint Conference in Anaheim California is over and those of us that did not attend can watch the KeyNote on the following link http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/keynote.aspx

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SubSites Webpart for Office 365

August 2, 2011
By Arild Aarnes
SubSites Webpart for Office 365

The SubSites webpart we have available as a free download will not run on Office 365, this is because it is not developed as a sandboxed solution. Sandboxed solutions is a requirement if you want to deploy webparts to Office 365. You can download the SubSite Webpart for Office 365 (sandbox solution) and the...

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Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Sharepoint 2010 products

June 29, 2011
By Arild Aarnes
Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Sharepoint 2010 products

Microsoft has released the Sharepoint 2010 products Service Pack 1 on June 28. The Service pack can be downloaded from the Update Center for Microsoft Office. Microsoft recommends installing the June 2011 Cumulative Update immediately after the installation of Service Pack 1. The update includes fixes that did not make it into Service Pack...

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Microsoft launches IUseSharePoint.com

June 23, 2011
By Arild Aarnes
Microsoft launches IUseSharePoint.com

Microsoft has launched a new website named IUseSharePoint.com. The site contains a lot of tips&trick on how to use SharePoint and has a lot of videos and testimonials from customers on how they are using SharePoint. There’s also a SharePoint Adoption Kit available for download. The kit contains instructions, templates, videos, quick reference cards...

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Sharepoint 2010 – General Business Taxonomy – free download

March 9, 2011
By Arild Aarnes

Microsoft announced on the ECM Team Blog that they have teamed up with WAND, a leading provider of Enterprise Taxonomies and have made there General Business Taxonomy available as a free download. this should provide a great starting point for those looking at implementing the Managed Metadata Service Read more and find the download...

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Sharepoint 2010 event handler to create subsites

February 1, 2011
By Arild Aarnes
Sharepoint 2010 event handler to create subsites

I recently did a small project where we wanted an easy way for users to create subsites without them having to think about Sharepoint templates and make to many choices. We decided to make a Sharepoint list and have the users create a new entry in this list with only two fields, Site name...

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SubSites Webpart Source Code

January 3, 2011
By Arild Aarnes
SubSites Webpart Source Code

This article contains the source code for the Sharepoint Subsites webpart that can be downloaded here. I will try to give a very short description for each section of code. The project is written in Visual Basic and contains comments in the code so hopefully it’s understandable. The first part of the webpart code...

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Sharepoint 2010 leads the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management

November 26, 2010
By Arild Aarnes
Sharepoint 2010 leads the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management

 Gartner put’s Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 in the lead in it’s new version of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management. Gartner puts Microsoft strengts in the ECM market to be: Quote from Gartner website / SharePoint 2010 goes well beyond basic content management into portal, search and collaboration technologies, and is attracting a large...

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Use InfoPath to replace Sharepoint List forms – Part 1

November 22, 2010
By Arild Aarnes
Use InfoPath to replace Sharepoint List forms – Part 1

If you are the lucky owner of Microsoft Sharepoint Portal 2010 Enterprise version you can easily replace the built in list forms with your own forms designed in Microsoft Infopath. Microsoft Infopath is Microsoft’s form creating client, you can read more about Microsoft Infopath here. Background The built-in form of a Sharepoint list is...

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Office 365 and developers

November 3, 2010
By Arild Aarnes
Office 365 and developers

Microsoft recently announced there updated cloud service named Office 365. Office 365 includes Sharepoint 2010 online and there are some information available for developers that describes what possibilities there will be for building solutions on top of Office 365. Office 365 includes Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint 2010 and Lync. Look’s like there will be good...

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