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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. -
Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) 77-886 Study Guide
Posted on May 24, 2011 | 25 CommentsI ‘m due to sit the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) 77-886 beta exam. I thought I’d share the list of resources that helped me with my revision. -
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... -
European Best Practices SharePoint Conference 2011
Posted on April 22, 2011 | 4 CommentsFor several years I’ve attended the European SharePoint conference and been super impressed by the whole event, from the speaker line-up, session content to the evening attendee events. Steve Smith and the Combined Knowledge crew always put on a massively impressive event. -
Speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices 2011
Posted on April 5, 2011 | 2 CommentsI’m lucky enough to be speaking at this years SharePoint Best Practices 2011 conference in London between 11th and 13th of April. Catch my session on Monday 11th April between 10 and 11 in the ‘Wesley’ room. -
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. -
SP2010 MySites – Part One: Overview
Posted on January 29, 2011 | 23 CommentsThis is the first article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. SharePoint 2010 has brought with it vast arrays of improvements and several of these are focused around ‘Social’ features. Many of us are familiar with Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites which bring people together to share personal information. Within SharePoint this is provided by the MySite concept.
