The Whitireia Community Polytechnic Faculty of Arts and Communication is hosting a web week for students to hear from speakers about the web industry and how to get started. Already some great presenters have responded to the call and will be presenting various sessions over the "Web Intensive Week" from 30th June to 4th July. I am doing a session titled "Working within Content Management Tools" on 4th of July. This is a free community event. Others who are also presenting include CWA New Media Click Suite - Zef Fugaz Provoke - Matthew Gould Mike Riversdale Expert Developments - Amanda Te Hiko BBS Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa - Lucy Hoffman and Florence Liger Details about the event and time table/schedule are available.   Technorati Tags: Web Intensive,Speaking,Events,NZ,Community ...[Read More]

Paul Andrew is a Senior Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform from Microsoft, Redmond and he will be in Wellington, New Zealand and we are happy to be able to get Paul speak to the local developer community as part of a combined .Net and SharePoint User Group event. This event will be held at the Xero offices. Details of the event follows. Title: Introducing SharePoint for .NET Developers in Visual Studio Speaker: Paul Andrew, Senior Technical Product Manager, SharePoint Developer Platform, Microsoft, Redmond, USA Date: Friday 27 June 2008 @ 5pm Venue: Xero Ltd, Level 1, 98 Customhouse Quay Paul has been helping the international community by evangelising how .NET developers can leverage the SharePoint platform from within Visual Studio. In this talk he will show and answer all your development related ques ...[Read More]

Session Theme: Enterprise 2.0 and SharePoint This month we have two sessions for you by Mike Riversdale and Brendon Ford. First session: With a reprise his now legend Webstock 8x5 talk Mike will take you through the fear factor most IT Departments experience when confronted by THAT number ... "2.0" Presented by: Mike Riversdale Mike is an advocate and catalyst for organisational change with experience and a passion in "knowledge management" from an on-line perspective. He is also a leading NZ industry speaker, educator and commentator on "sharing information, growing communities and connecting via collaboration". Mike has over twenty years experience in various organisational sectors operating as a Business Analyst and an Information Architect to enable organisations to embrace technology to achieve ta ...[Read More]

This recently released white paper outlines information about what is required in terms of ensuring your backup and recovery strategies that you put into maintaining of your SharePoint deployment. The white paper addresses the three levels of data recovery in a SharePoint deployment and provides guidance and best practice on what you can plan for in terms of recovery options. The three levels of recovery available are Content recovery - Content deleted by end users that can be recovered via the site level and site collection level recycle bins by site administrators Site recovery - Recover sites from accidental data loss or deletion of a site or data corruption which can be performed by server or site administrators Disaster recovery - When you need to move servers or recover from a corrupted disk failure or accidental site colle ...[Read More]

If you are deploying SharePoint you should take some time and read the following WSS/MOSS Content Deployment article series from Stefan. He covers the WSS/MOSS Content Migration API in depth and what you need to know when moving content between your server farms. Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 1 > 6 (Highly recommend that you start with part 1 and read through to 6) If you are new to content deployment here is what's available via the API - export an entire site collection - export a specific site inside a site collection including or excluding content in subsites - export a list or document libraries or even of a folder inside a document library - export a single list items or documents from a document library - export dependent objects (like images referenced by a page) by following ...[Read More]

So this blog post is to inform everyone about me stepping out into the big world of SharePoint with some great talent to back me up in bringing the best of SharePoint to New Zealand. I am now officially working as an independent SharePoint consultant under my own company brand called Knowledge Cue. Let me tell you a bit about why and how I came to this decision. I have been working in the Microsoft solutions space and was fortunate enough to get involved in SharePoint projects back in 2001 and 2002 when the product was at it's infancy and anyone hardly took any notice of it. This was usually a combination of MCMS 2001, 2002 (Microsoft Content Management Server) and then SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and WSS V2. With the early pre-beta launch of Office SharePoint Server 2007 or "MOSS" as many refer to it these days, in 2006 ...[Read More]

As most of you know SharePoint Service Pack 1 was released some time ago which included some must have updates for your deployment. If you still have not updated your servers to SP1 well.. better get on to it because it is something that should be done. Applying SP 1 should not be major task in fact it should be part of your routine maintenance to update your servers with service packs. I also pointed out about the availability of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit which is a good addition to your deployment with more advanced admin releases on the way. Since SP 1 there are some other significant updates that are available for your deployment that you should look at on a case by case basis. I want to point out that these should be requested according to your own situation and then applied to your servers. if you have been gettin ...[Read More]

The wait is over for developers who now want to start developing for SharePoint on Visual Studio 2008. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2 is now available for download. From Chris Johnson PM for Windows SharePoint Services What's in VSeWSS? Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications: Visual Studio 2008 Project Templates Web Part Team Site Definition Blank Site Definition List Definition Empty SharePoint Project Visual Studio 2008 Item Templates (items that can be added into an existing project) Web Part Custom Field List Definition (with optional Event Receiver) Content Type (with optional Event Receiver Module List Instance List Event ...[Read More]