Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. It reminds me of the old IRC channels you would join to ask questions on relevant technologies, just a thousand times better.
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Scott Samuels on February 2nd, 2010

I had a request today to create a link to a “Drop Folder” in SharePoint where people could drag their documents to for our Document Reviewers to review.
MSDN describes a solution (see “MSDN – About Web Folder Behaviors“) that is meant to work in browsers IE5 and later, but unfortunately it didn’t work in my [...]

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Scott Samuels on January 7th, 2010

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
A poorly documented area of SharePoint 2007 is the use of the SQL Server Reporting Services (in SharePoint Integrated mode of course) to create reports. I have been working with the Lists web service (find it at http://your_moss_server_name/[sites/][site_name /]_vti_bin/Lists.asmx) to create my reports. Here are my “Best SharePoint Reporting Services [...]

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Scott Samuels on October 21st, 2009

As of today, more information about SharePoint 2010 is available at MS Technet. Big thanks goes out to Boris Kepy for the heads-up. Be patient with the SharePoint 2010 site as it is getting a lot of hits and is responding quite slow:
SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center & Videos
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/videos.aspx
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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 have recently announced that they are de-investing in their Interactive Media Manager solution (the solution the brought you the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint, amongst others) after just announcing that rich media support would be a feature in their Office and SharePoint 2010 offerings.
One can only speculate that the move comes after the recent release [...]

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Scott Samuels on July 29th, 2009

A few weeks back Microsoft provided a sneak peak of the Office 2010 suite and, more importantly, SharePoint 2010. Some of you may be salivating over some of the functionality presented in the SharePoint 2010 sneak peak. So why wait until SharePoint 2010 is released to get the new functionality when your MOSS 2007 implementation [...]

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Scott Samuels on July 3rd, 2009

There seems to be a lot of speculation going on with regards to what will be included in the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release. I seem to think that Microsoft have had their largest Technology Adoption Program (TAP) running for some time now and best of all YOU can become a part of it (if you [...]

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Scott Samuels on June 28th, 2009

Microsoft has recently unveiled a new marketing site titled “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Social Computing“ focused purely on promoting the use of SharePoint Server 2007 as a social networking platform. Of most value are the case studies on SharePoint implementations with a strong social networking focus. I highly recommend you check them out [...]

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In the last post I discussed the recent trends in the software industry. In this and future posts we will analyse several of the more popular Facebook applications to see how you should be designing your next successful SharePoint application.
‘Causes’
Causes is a wonderful application that sits 3rd in the [...]

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