Activity Feed Archive

  • LondonSUGUK

    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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  • LondonSUGUK

    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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  • Status

    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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  • 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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  • ActivityFeed

    Extending the activity feed with enterprise content

    Amongst 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.

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    European Best Practices SharePoint Conference 2011

    For 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.

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