by Eugene Rosenfeld | Nov 18, 2009 | SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, WSS
Happy day, oh happy day: the SharePoint 2010 beta is now available for download to Microsoft MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The PTA Team Blog for Belgium & Luxembourg has more details, including links to the Office 2010 beta. Follow these download links for...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 27, 2009 | Cloud computing, LSaaS, SaaS
I don’t know about you, but I’m somewhat confused about all the hype over “cloud computing”. Don’t get me wrong, accessing services on the Internet makes sense, sometimes. What I don’t understand is how many people tout cloud computing as the silver bullet for all of...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 21, 2009 | Cloud computing, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter
The Next Web reports that a deal between Twitter and Microsoft will be announced at the Web 2.0 Summit. “What’s particularly unique is the deal is with both Microsoft AND Facebook and the company plans to integrate deeply with both company’s products and services,...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 20, 2009 | MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, WSS, x64
Microsoft issued a press release announcing the both the public beta of SharePoint 2010 and its general release. The public beta will be available November 2009, along with the public betas of Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010. The general release for...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 20, 2009 | MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Conference 2009, SharePoint Foundation, WSS
Do you wish you were at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009? Me too. Watch selected conference video highlights here: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/videohighlights.aspx Tom Rizzo, Senior Director for SharePoint, recaps the news and...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 20, 2009 | Microsoft, MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Conference 2009, SharePoint Foundation, WSS
Do you wish you were at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009? Me too. But, you can watch the keynote here: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx The keynote had lots of great content including loads of SharePoint demos such as the new...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 20, 2009 | MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Speaking, WSS
Table of contents Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 <— You are here This is the fourth part of my series on getting paid for your SharePoint software. If you have not already done so, please read part 1, part 2, and part 3. In part 1, I discussed how...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 20, 2009 | C#, MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer 2007, Visual Studio, WSS
Download the Visual Studio 2010 beta and check out the SharePoint 2010 walkthroughs and how to’s here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx Walkthroughs Add Feature Event Receivers Create a Custom Field, Content Type, List Definition, and List...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 13, 2009 | C#, MOSS, SharePoint, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, WSS
When creating web parts, event receivers, timer jobs and other SharePoint code, I often find that I need to temporarily grant the code more permissions than the current user has. I’ve found that many developers either don’t know what options they have for user...
by Eugene Rosenfeld | Oct 8, 2009 | Virtualization, VMWare, Windows 7
I just upgraded my Vista x64 computer to Windows 7. When I started VMware Workstation 6.5.3 for the first time after the upgrade and launched a virtual machine, VMware displayed the following error: The virtual network drivers on the host are incompatible with the...
