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SUGUK 1st March 2012
Posted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsSo last night saw the return of the London SUGUK. Matt Taylor has stepped down as co-coordinator for London and I want to thank Matt for all his efforts and establishing such a great user group. So Steve Smith started proceedings with some ITPro and... -
Speaking at the London SharePoint User Group
Posted on February 9, 2012 | No CommentsThe London SharePoint user group kicks off 2012 with Steve Smith and I presenting. SharePoint Administration - I always wondered what that was for by Steve Smith. Extending the SharePoint 2010 activity system by Wes Hackett . -
Ratings and SharePoint Search better together
Posted on October 27, 2011 | 9 CommentsSharePoint 2010 introduces a new feature to allow a user to rate content within the sites. Depicted by five stars the user can rate content and these ratings are collated to provide the average rating for the item. Displaying content based on ratings can assist users determining the quality of content easily. Ratings will also help content authors understand which content is considered to be higher quality by the readers. -
Activity Feed Item Templates
Posted on October 13, 2011 | 2 CommentsIn this post we examine what the native Activity Feed templates are and where they are stored. -
Extending the activity feed with enterprise content
Posted on June 16, 2011 | 30 CommentsAmongst the most anticipated new features of SharePoint 2010 were the social activity feed features which bring colleague activity as a feed to an individual. Natively the activity feed displays user profile changes, tagging and notes activity. Microsoft provides an API to extend the activity feed system with your own content. With this extensibility API it is possible to extend this to include enterprise content activity, such as activity around documents. Bringing ECM data into the activity feed gives a full 360 degree picture of activity within the SharePoint system. This article describes key areas of the logic and elements required to achieve this. -
SP2010 MySites – Part Five: Blog
Posted on May 6, 2011 | 3 CommentsThis is the fifth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examines the default Blog creation and highlight changes required to customise this default. Series contents: Overview, which details the MySite functionality provided by SP2010 Anatomy, we delve... -
SP2010 MySites – Part Four: My Content
Posted on March 11, 2011 | 16 CommentsThis is the fourth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the ways that you can customise the default page for the MySite. It will describe the common requirement and how to approach them in a supportable and scalable fashion. The walkthrough will provide an example implementation which you can tailor to your exact needs. -
Announcing SPRetreat Two
Posted on February 17, 2011 | No CommentsThis is the second instalment of SPRetreat and it's focused around Test Driven Development with SharePoint. Join Andrew Woodward as he takes us on a journey into TypeMock and how we can improve the quality of our SharePoint code by employing TDD. -
SP2010 MySites – Part Three: Branding
Posted on February 12, 2011 | 15 CommentsThis is the third article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the ways that you can change the look and feel of the MySite. We’ll look at the ways you can modify the visual elements and also the techniques you can employ to apply custom branding such as masterpage and a custom theme. -
SP2010 MySites – Part Two: Anatomy
Posted on February 5, 2011 | 4 CommentsThis is the second article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the various elements that get brought together to form a MySite in SharePoint 2010. Gaining a detailed understanding of these elements will help us to target areas during customisations. As with most areas of SharePoint I believe it’s important to understand what you have before cracking open Visual Studio to make customisation.
