by Wes Hackett | Oct 27, 2011 | Development, Featured, Search, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Social Features
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...
by Wes Hackett | Oct 24, 2011 | Featured, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Social Features
While investigating status updates from within the Activity Feed it was necessary to understand the native social status update logic. The aim was to allow commenting a-la Facebook against any of the activity feed events in the feed. This article presents the...
by Wes Hackett | Oct 22, 2011 | Event, Featured, Office365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, User Group
The launch event for the UK Office 365 user group. Hosted down at Microsoft’s Victoria offices the first event saw a collection of MS staff, Partners and a small number of Office365 customers arrive to kick of this new community. You can follow the user group on...
by Wes Hackett | Oct 13, 2011 | ActivityFeed, Development, Featured, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Social Features
The SharePoint Activity Feed rendering is controlled by templates. These templates are used within the ActivityTemplate class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.server.activityfeed.activitytemplate.aspx which is responsible for controlling the...
by Wes Hackett | Sep 24, 2011 | Featured, MySite Series, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010
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. Series contents: Overview, which details the MySite functionality provided by SP2010...
by Wes Hackett | Aug 20, 2011 | Event, Featured, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010
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...