Scott Samuels on September 16th, 2009

Services Applications are a new model in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Known as a Shared Service Provider (SSP) in MOSS 2007, a Service Application exposes functionality that has been configured for providing extended capabilities across site collections and Web applications or potentially across multiple SharePoint farms.
Key points on Service Applications

A service application can be implemented [...]

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Scott Samuels on September 14th, 2009

After a long week in the Gold Coast (it’s  a hard life!) another Tech.Ed conference is over. Being a Tech.Ed virgin and given all the hype I have heard from fellow developers, I’d have to say my expectations for the conference were quiet high. So you can imagine how disappointed I am now having been [...]

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Microsoft patterns & practices have just released Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009. The goal of patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance is to help customers understand how to develop large scale, content-driven SharePoint applications that extend the value of existing line of business systems.
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, and test [...]

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Scott Samuels on September 6th, 2009

Just a quick note to let you know that I will be attending the Australian Microsoft TechEd conference on September 9th to 11th. I will be providing updates throughout the day so be sure to keep posted, especially on all things SharePoint 2010 related. To make sure you don’t miss out on any news, be [...]

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