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Videos - Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Advanced IT Pro Training.

The following videos are taken from the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Advanced IT Pro Training.   * * *   This Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (1 of 11) introduces Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities to IT professionals. Concepts covered include document sharing, lists, alerts, team sites, metadata, and more.   Presented by: John D. Ross, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint 911 Length: 54 minutes 15 seconds VIDEO: 1 | What can SharePoint Server 2010 Do for me?   * * *   This Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010 module (2 of 11) covers software and hardware requirements, and the basic concepts of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.   Presented by: Randy...

SharePoint Content Deployment… Tips on How to Avoid the nightmare!

 By Edith C.   When you are working on a SharePoint site, you usually do it on a development environment, so you need to think (even if you don’t want to) about the migration of the project to a production environment. This could be a nightmare if you are not prepared, but try to follow these tips on the deployment phase, and things will go much easier. Before deployment: ·         If you are deploying a publishing site, be sure you don’t have “Draft” or “Pending” documents or items. All unpublished items are not visible to anonymous users. A little tip: use the “Manage Content and Structure” option (for publishing sites) to filter all site items by “Drafts”, “Pending”, “Checked-out...

Quick steps to add a twitter feed on a SharePoint page

By Edith C. 1.       Insert the XML Web Part on your page: 2.       Open the Tool Pane, and click on XSL Editor button. A popup will appear, then copy and paste the following XSL code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <xsl:stylesheet      version="1.0"      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">      <xsl:output method="html" />      <xsl:template match="rss/channel">         <style type="text/css">             .twit_tweet a {                 font-size: 13px;                 color: blue;             }             .twit_date {                 ...

Dynamic Management Views (DMV)

By Otoniel D. Hi everyone, last week I had to make a quick research about Dynamic Management Views (DMV) so I could create a quick technical session to give to my colleagues; a quick overview about this particular subject. I really have to admit that I enjoyed it a lot. Mainly because I believe that DMVs are one of the greatest features that Microsoft SQL Server have. But now that I’m writing this post, I found out that DMV’s are actually categorized. This means basically two things. First, that the sys schema is so intuitive that it allows you to use it easily and second that I need to look at the MSDN SQL Server 2008 Books Online more closely. J Let’s take a look about how do I fin...

Make your website Social using Messenger Live Toolkit!

By Edith Colegio If you haven’t already, you should think about adding social capabilities to your website. This will help you attract new users, and keep them on your website for longer and get them to come back more often.  The use of existing toolkits like the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit can be very useful to achieve this. Using the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit You can use this toolkit to integrate presence, instant messaging, and contact information using the following interfaces Windows Live Messenger UI Controls       These controls are a set of UI building blocks. The UI Controls are easy to add to an existing XHTML page. They provide a professional UI ...

CSS Best Practices

By Cesar Olivas When you start creating a website, you have to make some choices before you start. Some of these choices are using HTML or XHTML, Tables or Divs, Floats or Position, Inline Styling, etc. In this post I will give you some explanation of all the elements that you usually need to choose from. DoctypeEvery website needs to have a doctype declared, failing to do so may result on your page rendered ineffectively.  The best way is declaring a doctype like xhtml transitional, strict or html 4.01 and help meet standard requirements. As a personal experience, this has been an issue in SharePoint implementations, since default masterpages do not include a doctype. In a customizatio...

CSS3: New Cool Features

By Cesar Olivas CSS has been around for some time now, since 1996, and it completely changed the way people used to make websites, for good. First came CSS1, with some support for fonts, color text, backgrounds, spacing between words, alignment, margins, paddings and some other attributes; it looked really good for its time. Then same CSS level 2 in 1998, which introduced some powerful features like positioning, z-index, media types. Then came the revision we use right now, CSS level 2 revision 1(CSS2.1) which fixed some errors in CSS2 and removed some unsupported features. But the web is evolving, turning into a more interactive, user-centered design; the technologies were bound to ev...

How to send a Scheduled HTML report directly from SQL Server

By Gabriel Palma   The situation A customer asked recently for a quick daily report of about-to-expire items, he wanted something simple that could be sent via email to the people already registered in the database. Acquiring the information was very simple (as simple as writing a query). The problem was getting those results inside an email and sending it automatically every day. We came up with a scheduled SQL Server job running daily, getting and shipping the results without passing through .Net code.   The steps Step 1. Write the query to retrieve the raw data.   I used AdventureWorks database for the following example. Here I’ll get a report of work orders with due date ...

Creative Thinking as a way to improve Software Development (and your business).

By Eduardo Chaccourt   For all of us working in software development industry, we are often seen as people with a very methodic, squared, always “inside the box” way of thinking. This is natural since most of us have had a very engineer-like formation in college. Subjects such as Binary math and circuit design, where everything has to be exact, this helped to achieve this way of thinking. I’m not stating that this is necessarily wrong or “bad”, but not 100% precise. My thoughts are that software engineering is also a pretty creative profession. Imagine this scenario that was pretty recurring back in the day: You need to develop some software to control an onboard car computer, one of...

How to: Build a SharePoint solution using VS and WSP builder tool.

By Edith C     Building a SharePoint solution can be a mess, but using this tool, the process becomes very easy and intuitive.   Feature creation   Prerequisites: ·         Install WSP Builder tool    1.       Create a new project on Visual Studio (i.e. Feeds)     2. Add a new item on the project, right clicking Project Name, Add… New Item… WSP Builder Templates, select Web Part Feature set a name for it (i.e. Feeds), and click Add.     3. Set the name and description of the new feature, and set the scope: Web, Site, WebApplication or Farm. Click OK.     4. Your feature its created, and the generated files are: ·         12/TEMPLATE/FEATURES/Feeds folder (this is...
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