Since the release of SharePoint 2010 Beta, sandboxed solutions has been a topic that has garnered a mixed bag of reactions. Whether you agree that it is the ‘save all’ fix to isolate risk or that it is limiting, this post will attempt to aggregate s ...[Read More]

From time to time, I preach about how glorious the SharePoint twitter social community is and how it impacts my daily routines in a positive manner.  I’d like to share an experience I had on twitter in regards to the new Validation Settings in Share ...[Read More]

By now you have probably heard that Powershell is a ‘must have’ for all SharePoint 2010 Administrators. Todd Klindt has a presentation on getting started with Windows Powershell on technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee518673. ...[Read More]

I’m sure that most of you have been playing around with SharePoint 2010 since it’s beta release. (If not, add this to your links http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/)   When navigating around in Central Administration, I noticed that some very popul ...[Read More]

In MOSS if you published an Excel workbook to be displayed in Excel Services that contained "Unsupported Features" you would most likely be greeted with an error when the web part would try to render any part of the workbook (e.g., works ...[Read More]

working on a powerpivot demo... lots of good stuff coming out in Office 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2!!! check back soon to see what we have built...   in the meantime here are some links regarding this technology: PowerPivot for Excel 2010: http ...[Read More]

Excellent SharePoint 2010 post by Liam Cleary on ribbon customization. Link ...[Read More]

Back in MOSS 2007, it was not possible to nest SharePoint groups. What was unnerving is that the GUI would even allow you to select groups. Only to throw an error when attempting to save your action.     SharePoint 2010 is going to handle t ...[Read More]

Please note: The contents of this post are based on the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 1   The Central Administration site for SharePoint 2010 has a new section: Monitoring. Inside Monitoring, the application provides a Health Status section.   ...[Read More]

Using SharePoint 2007, charts & graphs were always flattened from 3D to 2D. (referring to OOTB excel services)   This behavior still exists in SharePoint 2010, so please don't expect any pretty 3D graphs using WAC.   The good news is that s ...[Read More]