In this episode we meet up with Tim Huckaby, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and “.Net and Smart Client industry pioneer” (1). Aside from all these accolades, Tim is a great storyteller so we’ll hear about his time at Microsoft, some of his old colleagues from that time who’ve moved to the SharePoint team over the years, [...]

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The new and improved Social features in SharePoint 2010 make for tremendously improved enterprise Social capabilities. In this episode, SharePoint expert and MVP Matthew McDermott takes us through some of these new features, explaining how they work and they can be used in a cohesive way to unlock their value in an organisation. We talk [...]

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SharePoint 2010 brings a whole bunch of new and exciting changes to all of us in the SharePoint space – users, developers and administrators. In this episode, global SharePoint personality Joel Oleson talks us through some of the changes 2010 introduces for administrators, together with some tips to getting started with rolling out the new [...]

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May 12 2010 saw the worldwide launch of SharePoint 2010. In this special launch-edition episode of the show, we meet up with a whole bunch of SharePoint MVPs and product team members to catch a take on their favourite features in this new version.
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In this episode we continue our discussion about unit testing and SharePoint. The Pex team at Microsoft Research have been working on a project to automatically generate a suite of unit tests based on an initial parameterized unit test, resulting in high code coverage in a far shorter time. This is challenging in the SharePoint [...]

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While at the MVP Summit in Seattle, I recorded a couple of videos with the SharePoint MVPs and this is the first of those. In this show, Shane & Todd, the famous SharePoint admin duo, join us for a relaxed chat over breakfast to talk about upgrading to SharePoint 2010 as well as some of [...]

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The SharePoint ecosystem consists of a large number of vendors, partners, products, add-ons, and so forth. Just being aware of what is out there is a challenge, so we often end up re-inventing the wheel, at great time and cost, rather than using proven tools and products that exist in this market. This is the [...]

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Sometimes just a regular old firewall doesn’t cut it, especially these days when we need to provide rich application support, integrated Office client features, Single Sign On and more to both internal and external users. Microsoft’s Unified Access Gateway (UAG), part of the ForeFront suite of security products, provides application-specific protection. In this interview with [...]

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Keeping track of all of the pieces of your SharePoint farm can be quite an exercise, especially when there are a number of servers thrown into the mix. In this episode we talk with Dan Winter and Luca Bandinelli, two program managers on the SharePoint team, about the latest release of the SharePoint Admnistration Toolkit [...]

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There is a lot of excitement around the 2010 release of SharePoint at the moment, and all signs point to it being an exciting and feature-filled product. There is still not much information publicly available yet, however, but as Joel Oleson from Quest Software explains, there is nonetheless a lot we can do to start [...]

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