Mark your calendars - Toronto's best SharePoint Camp is happening this Saturday, March 20, 2010.   From the founders of Toronto SharePoint User Group, comes the Toronto SharePoint Camp.  This year is bigger than last year! With a great lineup of SharePoint speakers presenting on SharePoint 2007 & SharePoint 2010, such as: Eli Robillard's ...[Read More]

I will be part of the Quick Hits group at the Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting today.  Besides myself, there will be others who will present short 15 minutes on their topic of choice.  I will be presenting on: SharePoint Branding - From Vision to Design:  In this short presentation, I will discuss tools of the trade, besides SharePoint D ...[Read More]

Toronto SharePoint User Group's session tomorrow, Wednesday, April  22, 2009, is on "Taxonomy Management using MOSS 2007."   Shai Petel, a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Technology Specialist, will  review implementation scenarios, add-ons and explore the various taxonomy types (hierarchical, web 2.0 style). Shai Petel is also the Vic ...[Read More]

We have a special TSPUG meeting coming up this month on Wednesday, May 21st. Mark Schneider, Co-Author of SharePoint Governance and Best Practices (Microsoft Press), is presenting at TSPUG tomorrow evening. The topic, SharePoint Taxonomy Planning and Governance, is top of mind, within all businesses deploying SharePoint, and this special presentat ...[Read More]

This months TSPUG meeting has been pushed out to next week - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 6:00pm. In this session we'll explore different scenarios for integrating SharePoint 2007 and Silverlight. We’ll explore different ways on how you can leverage the SharePoint 2007 amazing framework to expose content and data in a much richer way. Speaker:  An ...[Read More]

Its the first day of the SharePoint Conference 2008 and I am missing quite a bit by not being there.  After reading my daily SharePoint blog posts and news, a few buzz worthy news items are brought to my attention: Microsoft SharePoint Online by Microsoft Online Services Based off of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Online i ...[Read More]

Torontorians and fellow visitors, please join Robin Macrae this Wednesday, February 20th at 6:00pm for a presentation on Developing an Enterprise Strategy to Deliver Customized Sets of Capabilities.I have had the pleasure of meeting Robin, in last years Toronto SharePoint Camp.  He's a wonderful speaker and I look forward to seeing him present aga ...[Read More]

Couple of weeks ago, I had been researching on how to display weather via RSS feed aggregrator.  I found one article that provides code on how to show weather in Sharepoint; however, I wanted to personalize this for each user. Bamboo solutions already has a FREE World Clock and Weather Web Part that you can download: I wanted to go one step fu ...[Read More]

Got wind of this webpart from Mart Muller's blog and MikeG, a Silverlight Browser web part for SharePoint from Ian Campbell.  What does the web part do?  It displays SharePoint documents and pictures in a rich Silverlight flow control (i.e. carousel). A cool example about how to upgrade the default SharePoint UI! You can download the beta bits her ...[Read More]

This month's TSPUG Monthly Meeting (01.16.08) presentation is on authentication providers. In ASP.NET 2.0 , there is an important concept called authentication provider model which is used for many new features such as Membership/Role Management, Profiles, etc. Moss 2007 is built on the top WSS 3.0 which is in turn built on the top of ASP.NET 2.0. ...[Read More]