One of the most common requirements in any SharePoint environment is the aggregation and summarization of content across lists, libraries, sites and site collections. Administrators could not easily achieve these requirements without custom code until the introduction of the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) in SharePoint 2007/2010. The CQWP gave administrators a useful out-of-the-box method […]

​We’ve just released a new promotional video for SmartTrack.  Check it out!      

Good friend and fellow MVP Rob Bogue, aka The SharePoint Shepherd, has just released an all-new Introduction to SharePoint Development (2010) DVD. It is a self-paced learning tool designed to bring new developers, regardless of background or level of experience, up to speed on the ins and outs of SharePoint programming. Each module is self-contained […]

Friend and fellow MVP Rob Bogue has just released a new DVD entitled "Nine Keys to SharePoint Success". It’s part of his ongoing series of engagement and adoption materials which complement his SharePoint Shepherd books and tutorials for end users. Rob and I work together on a number of projects, including our upcoming Introduction and […]

Microsoft has posted the SharePoint Enterprise Content Management Implementers Course on TechNet. The course consists of a set of self-paced videos, student guides and hands-on labs to help you understand, implement and optimize ECM solutions with SharePoint 2010. If you are new to ECM, are considering SharePoint as an ECM solution for your organization, or […]

Although it seems like eons ago, it’s only been a little over a year and a half since we announced Sonar at SharePoint Conference 2008. It’s been a long and interesting journey, starting with some very rough code that we used internally on development projects and culminating in the release of Sonar Standard. Since then […]

As part of the web services presentation I did at DevLink in August I updated my SharePoint List Viewer utility to emit XML results in a browser object (using IE’s native XSL formatting) and cleaned out some of the old legacy dependencies. Naturally, I forgot to post the new executable. It can be downloaded from […]

To make a very long story very short, I’m rebuilding a production server farm from the ground up due to improper sizing of the server root partitions when the project was initiated. Fortunately, I built the farm with full redundancy so I can pull servers out, have them rebuilt, and put them back into production […]

It’s been an interesting few months since the release of the first version of Sonar. We’ve had thousands of downloads, lots of good press, and a great deal of interest from SharePoint developers and administrators around the world. Like any first version, Sonar had a few rough edges, and we’ve been working diligently to fix […]

With all the press that SharePoint performance and capacity planning has been getting lately, Lawrence Liu asked me to do a write-up on some of the background and architecture of Sonar.  If you’re at all interested in SharePoint performance (and if you’re reading this that’s probably a safe bet), go check it out then download […]