The topic of Communities, especially SharePoint Communities, has been on my mind quite a bit lately.  According to dictionary.com, community is defined as "a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists".  Hmm, okay, […]

Here’s a tip that’s really simple but I had a number of people ask me about it at TechEd so I thought I’d post it here.  Apparently it’s a common requirement to display user information, such as name, login name, or email address on various master and layout pages throughout a site.  Although the Welcome/Login […]

The UK user group is back at Microsoft in Reading on June 28th.  I attend quite a few community gatherings and I can tell you that the UK User Group is one of the best run nd best organized of them all.  The content is always relevant and you’ll end up learning something whether you meant […]

I thought this year’s TechEd was a great event.  I really enjoyed hanging out at the WSS kiosk and giving the MVP’s and Microsoft folks a hand fielding questions from attendees.  I didn’t attend many sessions (I’ve heard most of the presentations before) but the feedback I heard from people on the floor was that […]

11:00AM   Everyone is looking a bit rough this morning.  Darrin Bishop looks like he’s been run over by a bus.  I feel his pain.  Whose idea was it to go out and party every night of TechEd?  Oh, right, Bob Fox.  It’s all his fault (’cause he really twisted my arm hard, y’know?).  Like […]

10:00AM   More business at the hotel before I make my way back to the exhibition hall.  First thing I run into is Adam and The World’s Greatest Hangover.  He looked like he’d just gone ten rounds with Peterbuilt.  Not your finest moment, my friend.   We’re not there five minutes and the WSS kiosk starts […]

12:00PM   Got a late start today after catching up on emails in the hotel room.  Spent most of the afternoon at the WSS kiosk fielding all sorts of SharePoint questions.  Great traffic and lots of people interested in SharePoint. Even got a chance to talk about Nick’s cool tool BDC Meta Manager.  Unforunately, I’ve been […]

1:30PM   Finally arrived at the Orange County Convention Center.  If there are a bigger set of buildings in the world I have yet to find them.  Holy cow.  After walking nearly two miles (most of it indoors) I finally found Registration which, of course, was moved from the complete other side of the complex […]

I’m off to Orlando next week for the big Microsoft geekfest otherwise known as TechEd.  I’ll be blogging daily from the event, keeping you up to date on – what else? – the latest SharePoint happenings.     If you plan to attend, look for me and introduce yourself.  I’m most likely to be found wearing a […]

Anonymous security in SharePoint 2007 is more of an art than an exact science, it seems.  Although drastically improved from 2003, there are still some gaps in the security model which need to be plugged (and some that need to be opened) for public-facing SharePoint sites.  One of the most glaring examples is the List […]