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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. In

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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 are actually 2

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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 Huntsville

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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 and

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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 a

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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 directory.

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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 and

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Designate which Content Database your new Site Collection is created in.

According to an article I read this evening and statements that I have seen at least 3 other places just this week the only way to designate which content database your new site collection is going to be created in is to use stsadm and create the content database and site collection at the same time.

Not so

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SharePoint Saturday – Atlanta Style

SharePoint Saturday – Atlanta is just around the corner and approaching fast. Speaker Sessions and the Session Schedule were posted tonight on at the SharePoint Saturday – Atlanta homepage.

There’s a very strong lineup of speakers scheduled including Gary LaPointe, Todd Klindt, Todd Bleeker, Lori Gowin, Becky Isserman and many others. It should

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MOSS 2007, CSS, and you, the “Non-Developer” – Part 5: the TopNavigation and the SiteActions Menus

The last time we met we continued the modification of our SharePoint main page by making changes to the main body area of our page as well as changing the title font and border colors of some of our default web parts. As I said in that ARTICLE if you don’t count making changes

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