Category: General

Categories and tags are the two default taxonomies that we use at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community website. By design, all posts must be filed under at least one category. As you can imagine, ‘General’ is where we can list almost any topics that is not filed under the other subject headings.

However, some subjects are wide and broad in subject and need to be included in our blog, but don’t quite fit under the existing taxonomies. Hence the ‘General Category’. Content covered can vary from a .NET Runtime for AOT to a SharePoint Conference North America Keynote Summary, Pulse Survey or monthly top SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure resources.

European SharePoint Conference – Updated slides from governance session by Anders Skjoenaa
European SharePoint Conference – Updated slides from governance session by Anders Skjoenaa
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Made it back from the Berlin European SharePoint Conference 2012. A very succesful event that hopefully is the first of a long row of yearly european gatherings of the european SharePoint community.

It was great to meet so many people from all around Europe. I made new connection with some very nice people from a lot of different places; Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, UK and Russia – just to name a few – , and got to refuel a lot of old relatioships with people from Denmark, US etc. To an extend, this conference actually felt even more global than the Microsoft conference in Anaheim. It was very interesting to be a part of this.

European SharePoint Conference 2011– Berlin – Day 3
European SharePoint Conference 2011– Berlin – Day 3
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Day 3 starts – the real warriors are up and at it ready for another day. Some are still in bed after the night before!

Expert Panel Session – “Will Public Offerings or Private cloud Solutions influence the Adoption of SharePoint as a Web and Application Platform”. Some selected quotes:

European SharePoint Conference 2011 – Berlin – Evening 2
European SharePoint Conference 2011 – Berlin – Evening 2
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Last evening I went back to the hotel room – the first night of the conference – and was on email and calls all night – no surprises there! But on the second night I decided to finish work at 7:30pm and join the conference festivities. This was a good call!

There was a conference sit-down dinner – not that usual at a conference – certainly not at a US conference – more a European thing. Wonderful food. Superb wine. Great service. Very nice live music – a 3 piece ensemble. At dinner I sat at a table where I knew no one – and of course in a few minutes the connections were made. I sat with some folks from AI – a new records management ISV for SharePoint – with many of the folks who were originally in Meridio (that was sold to Autonomy – and as you may know Autonomy was sold to HP very recently). A very nice setting to relax and to get to know new people. Lots of praise for the conference organizing team on the week thus far.

European SharePoint Conference 2011 – Berlin – Day 2
European SharePoint Conference 2011 – Berlin – Day 2
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I am in Berlin this week for the European SharePoint Conference 2011. Nice map of the local area for walkers / joggers provided by the venue – so today I explored the local canal walks – but it was quiet before 7am!

Waiting for the keynote on Day 2 to start and funny to see the ipads, tablets, iphones and windows phones in action at a conference – looking at the conference agenda – as last minute conference additions / changes are announced. A long way from the first conference I attended years ago – that did not even have a website and the conference poster was mailed (not emailed!) a month or two in advance by regular post! No email communications. And I am not that old! What will the next 10 (or 20!) years bring?

Workflow Shootout at the European SharePoint Conference
Workflow Shootout at the European SharePoint Conference
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One of Michael Greth’s highlights at the European SharePoint Conference was the European SharePont Workflow Shootout.We had three companies (Nintex, K2, data polis) set of 4 tasks to which they should think in 5 or 10 minutes a solution. Andrei Cathedral of our User Group as a moderator of the session Düssseldorf was the perfect setting.

Redirect SharePoint Natively with a Content Editor Webpart
Redirect SharePoint Natively with a Content Editor Webpart
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It can be a pain as you reorganize your site and try to get users to update their links.

Here’s a handy way to do a redirect without editing anything server side. Not that that’s what you should do in SharePoint any way.

Add this snip of code below to to the content editor web part in HTML view on the page you want to redirect from. You will likely want to change the header bar to none to hide the web part as well.

Code Snip: Edit the URL and time as desired.

Axceler's Global Trek = Mission Accomplished by Carrie Page
Axceler’s Global Trek = Mission Accomplished by Carrie Page
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The Estrel Hotel and Convention Center was a great venue for the SharePoint Conference and our booth location was perfectly situated near a session room and the ever important coffee break station!

Another reason you couldn’t miss our booth was because we had the “brightest” booth in the hall. It was almost as if you were entering the Emerald City of Oz, as we lit up the show with green blinky pins, pens and cups!

So many highlights, so little time, so here are our top highlights from the week.

Yes, It's Time for a SharePoint App Store by Steve Gaitten, Director of Online Operations at Bamboo
Yes, It’s Time for a SharePoint App Store by Steve Gaitten, Director of Online Operations at Bamboo
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I enjoyed a well-considered article from Global 360’s Derek Weeks today on CMS Wire. Derek asks, “Is it Time for a SharePoint App Store?”

It’s a great question, and one that many of us have been asking for years, with only one obvious answer: “Yes!” But perhaps the more important question is, “Who can deliver it?”

Derek says, “As millions gained access to SharePoint from IT organizations that deployed it without an explicit strategy, its out-of-the-box experience often left them disappointed.” In my opinion that statement is obvious and not even remotely controversial. It reminds me of some old creative concepts I had developed for Bamboo that never quite made it to market