SharePoint 2010 Archive

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    CKSDev for Visual Studio 2012 version 1.0 Released

    Since 2009 CKSDev has been available to SharePoint 2010 developers to aid the creation of SharePoint solutions. The project extended the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project system with advanced templates and tools. Using these extensions you were able to find relevant information from your SharePoint...

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    SUGUK 1st March 2012

    So 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...

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    Speaking at the London SharePoint User Group

    The 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 .

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    SharePoint Saturday 2011

    Saturday 12th November saw the 2011 SharePoint Saturday at Nottingham’s Conference Centre. Another great event organised with so many quality speakers and companies in attendance. I presented a session on Social Intranet and the slides can be seen below. I hope everyone found the session...

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    Ratings and SharePoint Search better together

    SharePoint 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.

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    A status by any other name would still smell as sweet

    Explore how the native social status update works and where the data is stored.

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    Office 365 User Group–26th September 2011

    The launch event for the UK Office 365 user group.

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  • ActivityFeed

    Activity Feed Item Templates

    In this post we examine what the native Activity Feed templates are and where they are stored.

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    SP2010 MySites – Part Six: MySite Centric

    This is the sixth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will discuss the approach taken to use the MySite as the centre of the intranet.

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    Speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK

    I’m pleased to announce my SPS2011 session called ‘Putting you at the centre of the social intranet’. With users experiencing contextual information like never before with use of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn how can we utilise these concepts for our intranet. The session will introduce the social intranet, provide some examples in SharePoint 2010 and then cover the challenges and benefits.

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