The last few weeks have been pretty hectic and I almost missed organising the June user group event. Thanks to Mark and Ben at 3months.com and Brendan Law from Intergen we have 2 topics lined up and a venue right in the heart of Wellington's entertainment central Courtney Place. This month Ben and Mark will be hosting the event at their offices in Courtney Place. Here are the details and what's on offer. WSS Version 3 – Pushing the boundaries and Lessons learned (Ben Lauchlan and Mark Pascall of 3months) Windows Sharepoint Services 3 is the core engine behind Sharepoint 2007.  It’s also part of the operating system and now supports forms based authentication.  This means that it can be the basis for very cost effective Intranet and Internet solutions potentially supporting many thousands of anonymous or authenticated users. This ...[Read More]

It is not everyday that a little company like ours get front page news on one of the most visited SharePoint technical sites on the planet. Thanks to my team at Provoke for working on the CKS (Community Kit for SharePoint) we have been able to get an insiders view of building and extending core SharePoint functionality. Ari Bakker has been part of the CKS enhanced blog edition team and worked on this release along with a few of our designers. Check out Lawrence Liu's announcement post about the pre-release of CKS 2.0. I have tested the enhanced version and will be skinning my blog based on the Modular Theme Framework (MTF) conceptualised by Vincent Rothwell who is also the lead developer behind the CKS previous release. The CKS blog edition releases are available here. http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?Release ...[Read More]

Recently Microsoft along with Applied Information Sciences Inc announced about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 has obtained the DoD 5015.2 standard. The official press release from Microsoft is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-29SharePointDoDPR.mspx The US Department of Defense has a strict set of guidelines for benchmarking and testing vendors who offer solutions for electronic document/records management. Information about how and what these criteria are available on the JITC web site. http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/recmgt/ From a pure play records management perspective I wanted to understand how all this would stack up with the current New Zealand Public Records Act (PRA) as outlined by Archives New Zealand. Information about the Public Records Act is available here: http://www.a ...[Read More]

Orlando is the place to be for TechEd 2007. Check out the TechED 2007 virtual site built using MOSS with Silverlight integration. Zac is there and you can follow his posts on his blog. Virtual TechED and Silverlight videos are here: http://www.virtualteched.com/pages/videos.aspx New Zealand TechEd 2007 is just a few months away. Registrations have already started. Technorati Tags: SharePoint, TechEd2007, Silverlight, MOSS ...[Read More]