Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Spring is coming and the air is filled with SharePoint Saturdays across the land and this year I will be taking advantage of the opportunity to attend and speak where and when I can. Currently I am scheduled to present at SharePoint Saturday – New Orleans on March 24th. The topic will be

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SharePoint 2010 Correlation ID in error messages: what it is and how to use it

For those of us that are new to SharePoint 2010 and aren’t sure exactly what correlation IDs are or what to do with them the Microsoft SharePoint End-User Content Team has posted a really nice article explaining this.

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Changes are coming to the garage

For those of you that may stop by from time to time to see what I’ve been doing you have undoubtedly noticed a lack of activity over the last couple of months. This hasn’t really been intentional I’ve just had a great deal going on between healing from a bad fall back in July

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SharePoint, Data Security and Privacy Information. Why should it matter to you?

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) since 2005 there have been approximately 2,342 data security breaches affecting 479,550,937 records. These breaches took both paper and electronic form and were the result of a broad range of actions including hacking, physical theft, disgruntled employees, and accidental exposure just to name a few.

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SharePoint 2010 (RTM) Demo and Evaluation VHD Download

Back in February I posted links to the Microsoft downloads for the VHD’s for the beta version of SharePoint 2010. Microsoft has updated those to the RTM bits and made them available for download at the following URL:

Download the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM)

On the page there

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Implementing a Custom Navigation Scheme across Multiple Site Collections for the “Non-Developer”

Recently I was fortunate enough to have submissions to SharePoint Saturday in Atlanta and Huntsville accepted. What follows is basically a written version of those presentations. I had started this some time back and had never gotten around to finishing it and because I bricked recording the session in Atlanta and couldn’t record in

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MOSS 2007, CSS, and you, the Non-Developer – Part 7, Pulling It All Together

We’ve walked through just about every part of the main page of a SharePoint site so now it’s time to bring it all together. In this article we’re going to discuss what best practices to follow, how .css files are applied in a SharePoint environment, some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way

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SharePoint Saturday – Huntsville, What a Blast!

What a great day of speaking, socializing and learning this past Saturday in Huntsville. Cathy Dew (@catpaint1), Lori Gowin (@LoriGowin) and the Summit 7 Systems team put together an absolutely awesome event. It was great to see some familiar faces there as well as make some new acquaintances. I can’t say I enjoyed being

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MOSS 2007, CSS, and you, the Non-Developer – Part 6 Banners and Administrative pages

In my last ARTICLE we changed the way that our TopNavigation and SiteActions menus looked and displayed on our main page. In today’s article we’ll make some changes to the GlobalTitleArea, add a banner to our page and make some changes to classes that are tied to pages that reside in the _layouts

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SharePoint Saturday – Atlanta all wrapped up!

WOW…………what an event Dan Attis, Lee Reed, Brendon Schwartz, and crew put on this weekend. A great staff, highly involved and motivated sponsors, an exceptional group of speakers and of course the reason for it all a great group of attendees all came together and had an awesome time. Thanks to Dan, Lee, Brendon

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