A great time was had by all at the Toronto SharePoint Summit. Personally, it was a pleasure to visit my hometown to to catch up old friends, to develop new friendships and to hang out with the local SharePoint community. As promised to everyone who attended my session (and for everyone else who would like … Continued
Toronto bound for the SharePoint Summit
Today is the day I am travelling to my hometown for the Toronto SharePoint Summit. The conference is on May 13th to 15th so I get to spend a few days with family, friends and past colleagues prior to the conference. I’ve been looking forward to this for quite some time. If you are attending … Continued
Synergy between the TechNet Wiki and TechNet Gallery
Just a quick note to let everyone know that my latest post on the TechNet Wiki Ninja blog is now available – “Synergy between the TechNet Wiki and TechNet Gallery“. I feel that this is a very important awareness topic. Utilizing multiple community based platforms to post solutions for consumption is a community win! Please take a … Continued
Bermuda SharePoint Users Group – New INETA Member
I am pleased to announce that as of today, the Bermuda SharePoint Users Group is a member of INETA. We are excited to be a member of the INETA North America family and truly look forward to working with them. This opens up many doors of possibilities and this will truly benefit the members of … Continued
SharePoint 2013 Bug: Task List Calendar View Item Filtering with [Today] or [Me] does not work
I am posting this bug information in the hopes that it will save both the SharePoint community and Microsoft some investigation and support time until a hotfix is released. There is no hotfix ETA at this time. I reported the following unexpected behavior to Microsoft SharePoint Support. It has been officially classified as a bug by the … Continued
I’m a new author on the TechNet Wiki Ninjas Blog!
I am excited to announce that I’m a new author for the TechNet Wiki Ninjas Blog! “Wiki Ninjas is a group of authors who celebrate and evangelize the community catalyst and social-authoring excellence that is known as TechNet Wiki.” I believe in the Wiki as a collaborative platform. As a SharePoint guy, collaborating on the … Continued
Detect installed SharePoint 2010 or 2013 products using PowerShell
I’ve published a PowerShell function to the TechNet Gallery that returns a hash table to the pipeline containing SharePoint 2010 or 2013 products and the SharePoint Build Version installed on your server. It works for all versions of SharePoint 2010 and 2013 and will execute on Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012. The hash … Continued
Identify w3wp.exe processes running SharePoint 2010 and 2013 App Pools with PowerShell
I’ve published another PowerShell script (function) to the TechNet Gallery. This one is titled “Identify w3wp.exe processes running SharePoint 2010 and 2013 App Pools”. This PowerShell function fully automates the task of identifying which w3wp.exe processes are running which IIS Application Pools for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. Download link: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Identify-w3wpexe-processes-a1abaaf2 The function is one from … Continued
SharePoint 2013 Development Environment – What’s in your rig?
SharePoint 2013 requires a lot more system resources than its predecessor – take a look at and carefully review the SharePoint 2013 Hardware and Software requirements on TechNet. Through experience with the SharePoint 2013 Preview and the RTM bits I can say with certainty that these specs are valid from a minimum recommendation perspective. To be clear, … Continued
Attend SharePoint Summit 2013 in Toronto this May!
For those that missed the SharePoint Conference in Vegas last year and want to learn about the new SharePoint 2013 release, come to SharePoint Summit 2013 – Toronto! This year in Toronto, there is an exceptional speaker lineup with some of the top industry known SharePoint influencers and MVPs including Andrew Connell as the keynote … Continued