In this episode we sit down with Jay Schmelzer, a Group Program Manager on the Visual Studio team, to to talk about how his team built the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint 2010 development, including changes that were made to SharePoint itself to improve the development experience. We’ll also be talking about some of [...]

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The Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) for SharePoint is truly the best-of-the-best certification for the product. In this interview with some of the SharePoint MCM team we find out more about the prerequisites and acceptance process,  being on the actual course, the gruelling schedule and examinations, and finally the benefits before, during and after the MCM.
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SharePoint is in often considered part of the greater sphere of “Information Worker” solutions, with another major component being OFfice Client solutions in the form of VSTO, VBA, OpenXML and more. In this session we talk with VSTO MVP Ty Anderson about these technologies and more to better understand both the server and the client [...]

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This is part 2 of the community session I did for the IW community here in Cape Town in December. Part 1 can be found here.

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Although virtualizing SharePoint on the desktop has long been important for development, perhaps the most important and most interesting space is that of virtualization of SharePoint on the server. In this episode we speak with Michael Noel about the options and approaches to virtualizing SharePoint, looking at how best to go about it, what areas [...]

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We’re kicking off monthly sessions here at the Cape Town Information Worker community, so I recently did a re-presentation of my Tech Ed Africa developer overview talk on SharePoint 2010 which I was able to record. It was a nice small crowd so we went quite deeply into a lot of the areas. To keep [...]

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In the previous interview with Pej Javaheri from the SharePoint B.I. team at Microsoft, we discussed what Business Intelligence is, what it means, and some of the history of the topic and the tools. In this show, we fast forward to today, understanding the latest tools and approaches from Microsoft including PowerPivot, Excel Services, Reporting [...]

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As SharePoint continues to evolve, many companies are deciding to move from the Lotus Notes platfrom over to SharePoint. With numerous comparable features, this migration makes a lot of sense from many perspectives, but it can be fraught with many challenges and hidden pitfalls. Join us as Steve talks us through the basics of Lotus [...]

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After MVP summit, already on the way home, I bumped into a Spanish SharePoint MVP also heading back. Juan Carlos was kind enough to spare a few minutes at the airport telling us his thoughts and experience on the SharePoint landscape in Spain, Microsoft’s Innovation Centre there and some of his favourite features in 2010.
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While at Tech Ed Africa 2010, I had a quick chat with Richard Riley, a Group Program Manager on the SharePoint team, about how his team goes about putting together all of the great technical content for the SharePoint learning centres, training kits, and more both for external and internal customers. We also chatted about [...]

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