| Greetings and Salutations, Just a quick reminder about tomorrow night’s user group meeting at 5:30PM at Microsoft, level 2 Westpac House, 91 King William Street. (Map – Entrance is actually on Currie Street) We’ll be having a round table meeting of SharePoint Conference 2010 from Sydney as well as having an open meeting to get some SharePoint questions you may have answered! Also don’t forget about our door prize of a jammed packed SharePoint Conference 2010 bag with: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Best Practices book, Heroes’ T-Shirt. Architecture Journals and other goodies! Don’t forget about TechEd next month, if you are, or are interested in attending, please get in contact with me as I am able to offer a group discount for user group members, which allow you to get a ticket for $1550! If you are interested in this offer, please send me the following information: Full Name & Email Address (code will be sent to this one). July Meeting Information This month we will be having a recap of SharePoint Conference 2010 Australia, the highlights the new info and all the cool info to come out of it. We’ll also be having a guided round table session on SharePoint 2010 and all things related, such as best practices, development topics and any questions you may have. If you plan to attend the festivities, can you please ensure to reserve your place by clicking here. This will help with catering and ensures everyone gets enough to eat. When & Where: · When: Tuesday, 20th of July · Where: Microsoft Innovation Center Auditorium · Address: Level 2, Westpac House King William Street, Adelaide (Map – Entrance is actually on Currie Street) · Door Prize: Australian SharePoint Conference Bag, Book, T-Shirt and various other goodies o Entry is your evaluation forms and you must be present at the time of the drawing to claim your prize! Agenda: The agenda for this month’s activities are: · 5:30PM – Arrive, Relax and Network · 6:00PM – Welcome, Introductions, Australian Computer Society – Daniel Brown · 6:15PM – The Australian Computer Society – Allen English Allen will go over the benefits and advantages of being a member and part of the Australian Computer Society and how, you as a member can get the best for your personal and professional development. · 6:30PM – Australian SharePoint Conference 2010 Recap of the Australian SharePoint Conference 2010 topics, highlights and all the news to come out of the conference. · 6:45PM – SharePoint 2010 Guided Round Table Discussion A guided discussion on SharePoint 2010 topics, including Development, Deployment, Content Usages, examples. Don’t forget to bring your questions, experiences, highlights and pain points as this is a great opportunity to share and expand your knowledge. · 7:45PM –SharePoint Forum, Questions & Door Prize Your chance to provide feedback direct to the SharePoint team in Redmond @ Microsoft! · 8:00 PM(ish) –Meeting Close and move to the Grand Chancellor for refreshments and for continued forum and questions. If you plan to attend the festivities, can you please ensure to reserve your place by clicking here. This will help with catering and ensures everyone gets enough to eat. |
| I am pleased to announce the availability of the first version of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit. In this toolkit we’ve included a couple of tools that were shipped releases and are now adapted to SharePoint 2010, along with two new tools. - User Profile Replication Engine 2010 (UPRE2010): this tool got a complete overhaul and was converted to PowerShell. It now allows you to replicate Profile and Social data between SharePoint 2010’s User Profile Application (UPA), as well as backward compatibility with SharePoint 2007’s SSP. You can replicate between SSP’s or UPA services, as well as across versions. (Note that only Profile data can be replicated across versions, as SSP contains no Social activity tracking).
- The Security Configuration (SCW) Manifest: SCW is an attack surface reduction feature in Windows Server. This manifest adds roles for SharePoint 2010 Products to Windows Server 2008 with SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
- The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Connector: enables SharePoint users to interact with content stored in any repository that has implemented the CMIS standard, as well as making SharePoint 2010 content available to any application that has implemented the CMIS standard.
- The Load Testing Kit (LTK): LTK generates a Visual Studio Team System 2008 (VSTS) load test based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IIS logs. The VSTS load test can be used to generate synthetic load against Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 as part of a capacity planning exercise or a pre-upgrade stress test.
The toolkit can be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=718447d8-0814-427a-81c3-c9c3d84c456e&displaylang=en
The toolkit documentation can be found here:
SharePoint Foundation 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508986.aspx
SharePoint Server 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508851.aspx Orignal blog post can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/07/15/announcing-the-release-of-the-sharepoint-2010-administration-toolkit-v1.aspx |
| Since moving in to the new house, which is located just a stones throw away from the Royal Australian Air Force base – Edinburgh (Which actually has a electronic Warfare unit, check out the link, good read), I’ve come use to seeing a AP-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft over my west fence come in for landing every now and then, and while I’ve heard the deafening roar of a couple of actual jets, I was quite surprised the other morning while on Boilivar Road. Over head, coming into land was some form of actual fighter jet, so i whipped out the iPhone and took some blind pictures (I was facing east, it was directly south of me (going west) and had past me already). Here is what I got. 
This one is a bit hard to see, but keep in mind, I travelling west and its going east and that it is behind me in all 3 photos. Cool! |
| Recently came across some code as outlined below: 1: SPWeb currentSite = SPContext.Current.Web;
2: SPList list = currentSite.Lists[listName];
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4: dt = list.Items.GetDataTable();
5: ViewState["datasource"] = dt;
While the above code may look harmless, storing list items in view state can lead to very bad performance of a SharePoint Site.
On line 4, the entire record set of items in loaded up a data table and then placed in view state (client site) for future use, which may mean quicker access to data and thus a better result for performance for the end user.
However any decent SharePoint list is going to have several hundred items, all stored (as xml) in view state, low and behold, a list with 5 records may not cause any issue, but a list with 5000 is going to bloat your view state to the point where it is going to be unusable!
1 solution, may be to only place the list names & urls in view state and then access them on demand (cache if needed here to save loading time of a object you have already loaded) or to use a batch system (load the first 10 or simular). |
| If you ever have the need to update the “Site” Owner, the person who receives the Access Requests, its a little bit embedded, So I thought I would write up this quick post. First, Navigate to the desired site, and head into its “Site Settings”. Under “Users and Permissions”, select “Advance permissions” 
You will be presented with a list of permissions for the current site, click on the list “Settings” menu and then click on “Access Requests” Settings, Then Access Requests 
Tick the box and update the email address with the desired email address and click OK! 
Access requests emails will now flow (for this site) to the email address entered. If you want to do this for multiple sites, you have to perform this on each individual site. |
| With the announcement by the illegitimate Prime Minister and the cabinet to still push though with the MANDITORY Internet Filter, which will be hidden behind secrecy under the guise to “save the children”. This is a direct attack on our Freedom of Speech, unable to work and will certainly not help any of the things they say it will. Gizmo, among other leading industry companies, business and individuals have now launched [Fight the Filter]. PLEASE take a moment to read it as this will effect everyone in this country! A quick food for thought…. LOLCATS…. making cats do stupid things, is being touted as Animal Cruelty, so any pictures depicting it, would be placed under “Refused Classification”, which would then be placed on the Internet Filter, which ONLY filters RC content. Instantly, Anything LOLCATS is removed from the internet. Period. |
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This morning I was lucky enough to to have the honour of being a SharePoint MVP for a 3rd year running? “Dear Daniel Brown,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in SharePoint Server technical communities during the past year.” The last year has seen such products as SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2 and many other products in the 2010 family come into the light and has brought many exciting advantages and stories and lets not forget the absolutely awesome Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney which was the best conference, the team did a great job! What lays a head? Well…… I’ll continue my role to manage the Brown Family Office and also continue to build the I.C.T Consultancy, Archon Gnosis. However I’ll also be looking into Exotic organic technology and energy production also. A part from that, A National Broadband Networks, bad-mojo Government Censorship and a slue of what is known today as Exotic Technology. I’ll be continuing and strengthening my efforts in the community with the Adelaide SharePoint User Group and the Australian Computer society to bring more value to the industry and community here in Adelaide. 2010/11 is going to be very interesting….. and we know what they say about interesting times! |
| The System Administrators Guild of Australia has provided a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Cyber Safety on behalf of its members. It can be found at: http://www.sage-au.org.au/files/SAGE-AU_Parliamentary_Inquiry_Cyber_Safety.pdf
The Parliamentary Inquiry seeks to understand several elements of the online environment pertinent to cyber safety, particularly as pertains to minors. SAGE-AU's submission focuses on those areas to which it can provide expert comment, and in general recommends the following three prong approach to addressing safety:
- Education in Internet-appropriate behaviours for all Internet users, especially children;
- The use of suitably equipped law enforcement in an appropriate manner to deal with illegal material, content, or criminal behaviour in a timely and effective fashion; and
- Technological measures applied on end user computers, as and where required, including but not limited to:
- appropriate anti-virus protection;
- appropriate firewalling;
- application of software updates; and
- local client side Internet filtering where deemed appropriate by equipment owners.
SAGE-AU's submission emphasises technology is not a "silver bullet" capable of addressing social issues, and with this in mind sees education and law enforcement as the most appropriate way to address the matters addressed by the Inquiry.
The submission further recommends Australia takes a leadership role in defining inter-organisation cooperation in fostering a safe online environment, and in the appropriate use of technology where fit to do so.
On behalf of the board, I'd like to thank Iain Robertson for his excellent work in writing this submission. |
| We’ve been tracking a small number of customers that have experienced issues after installing KB938444 through Windows Update. After the reboot at the end of installation we’ve had reports of Windows SharePoint Services sites and Central Administration being inaccessible with the error, “HTTP 404”, “Server Error: …” or “Cannot connect to the configuration database”. This issue only affects Windows SharePoint Service v3 standalone installations that use the Windows Internal Database (wYukon) and does not affect SharePoint or user data. If after applying KB938444 you hit one of the errors described above you will need to run psconfig from an administrator command prompt as detailed below to complete the update. psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –force The Windows Small Business Server team have a blog post detailing this, and some other SBS specific steps, that relate to this issue here (By default SBS ships with WSS configured to use wYukon). KB938444 is an important security update and we recommend installing it as soon as possible. More information can be found @ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/22/installing-kb938444.aspx |
| Just a quick teaser for now….. The Adelaide SharePoint User Group July Meeting early bird registration is open @ http://bit.ly/99JHOn See you there! |
| Microsoft on June 8th published a security bulletin regarding some vulnerabilities in InfoPath, WSS & MOSS which could lead to information disclosure, Elevation of Privileges and a Denial of Services attack. I wont go into the details here, as there is the full write up on the link below, However I would recommend that you obtain the patches, then apply them in your TESTING environment prior to touching any production environment! Affected Office Applications InfoPath 2003 SP3 InfoPath 2007 SP2 & SP2 Affected SharePoint Application Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, SP1 & SP2 (x64 & x66) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SP1 & SP2 (x64 & x66) More information: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-039.mspx |
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The King of Swing, Jeff Middleton will explain the opportunity to provide predictable and profitable SBS 2008 migration deployments. You will come away with an understanding of infrastructure transition with SBS 2008, or any NT/200x historical platform to adopt Windows 2003/2008 (R2) platforms, as well as any combination of Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 or 2010. Jeff embraces methodology designed for you to prepared a completed server in advance, maintain the domain, and yet your original domain and server is not modified, the production is not down for construction, and the IT Pro can take your weekends off! To register for the event, please click here - http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2wv7ya2a2a44672 - Where: Microsoft Auditorium, Level 2, 91 King William Street Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- When: 22 June 2010
- Time: 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm
- Contact: Eugene Griffin – admin@computertech.com.au
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| Due to our usual meeting happening the eve prior to the Australian SharePoint Conference 2010, we are going to be cancelling our June meeting. We will be back in July as scheduled on the 20th. For those of you, who are heading to the conference, please be sure to drop by the User Group Booth which I’ll be handling at the conference. We will be having several representatives of the Australian SharePoint User Group community there at the booth, as well as laptops to talk and geek out with SharePoint 2010! For those of you who haven’t registered yet – get over to www.sharepointconference.com.au and check out what is going on – it’s going to be a massive event and the speaker line up is top notch, so do your best to make sure you are a part of the biggest SharePoint conference in Australia! Thanks everyone and I’ll see you at the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney or back at the normal time in July at the Adelaide SharePoint User Group meeting! Kind Regards, Daniel Brown |
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Save the Date for SharePoint Conference 2011, the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies being held October 3-6, 2011 in Anaheim, California. SharePoint Conference 2011 will be the conference to learn more about Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010, the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the internet. Learn how to apply the latest best practices for building and deploying solutions on the platform and find out how customers and partners are embracing cloud-based services to create value for their organizations.
Registration will open Spring (Autumn in AU) 2011. Add yourself to the keep me notified list to stay up to date on all conference announcements at www.mssharepointconference.com. We hope to see you in October 2011! Have just booked my ticket to Anaheim! Will be the 2nd place ever in the US I have been, Well (besides airports), I’ve only been to Seattle twice (2009 & 2010) via LAX. So looking forward to it as well as as the SharePint!!! |
| Only TWO weeks to go! Don't miss out on Australia's biggest SharePoint event of the year! Something for everyone - one of the few IT events that specifically reaches out to multiple audiences · 20 sessions of end user/power user/business content including some great case studies including Telstra, Volvo and a number of Industry verticals such as finance, insurance, legal and engineering · 20 sessions of pure technical content for IT Pro, Administrators, Developers and Analysts · Yes, there is content relevant to those using WSS, MOSS 2007, and new 2010 products FREE Hosted SharePoint 2010 Site for EVERY delegate - thanks to Emantra - Hosted Solutions Australia you get to try out everything you learn AT the event and for 3 months after - get to try 2010 first hand in your own playpen! Hear from the best - International, Local, Microsoft, Industry Experts and Customers - see the Speaker list and get to collaborate with hundreds of your fellow SharePoint enthusiasts - ask all your questions and get inspired! Additional Training - Pre and Post event Get to the Point Training Workshops for intensive half day courses - an excellent chance to up skill Awesome Exhibitor area - Support our sponsors and see all the great products and talk to the experts Group Registrations - This is particularly appropriate given there is Something for everyone - giving you the chance to send your business and technical specialists for dedicated SharePoint training and learning opportunities. Group bookings of 5 or more receive a 20% discount, so buy 5, and get the 6th ticket free or buy 10 and get to have 12 of your staff benefit from the conference. |
| If your having trouble launching the SharePoint 2010 Pre-requisite installer with it just failing to appear all together…… make sure you OR ANOTHER USER ON THE SERVER do not have another instance (or a failed instance) running. The SharePoint 2010 pre-requisite installer only lets 1 instance per COMPUTER/SERVER! 
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| Just a quick reminder about tomorrow night’s exciting even at 5:30PM at Microsoft, level 2 Westpac House, 91 King William Street. (Map – Entrance is actually on Currie Street) May Meeting Information This month has been an exciting month to say the least, for SharePoint and myself (moved into the new House!). SharePoint Saturday in Brisbane is now over with… and what a great event! The Australian SharePoint Conference is approaching fast, so make sure you get in quick while tickets last, it truly is set to be a awesome event! The website is up at : http://www.sharepointconference.com.au/ Also, SharePoint 20101! Finally is here with the official launch this month! Exciting times ahead in the SharePoint space as SharePoint 2010 starts popping up over the place J If you plan to attend the festivities, can you please ensure to reserve your place by clicking here. This will help with catering and ensures everyone gets enough to eat. When & Where: · When: Tuesday, 18th of May · Where: Microsoft Innovation Center Auditorium · Address: Level 2, Westpac House King William Street, Adelaide (Map – Entrance is actually on Currie Street) · Door Prize: 2 x Pack ( 1 x T-Shirt & 1 x Book) o Entry is your evaluation forms and you must be present at the time of the drawing to claim your prize! Agenda: The agenda for this month’s activities are: · 5:30PM – Arrive, Relax and Network · 6:00PM – Welcome, Introductions, Recap of SharePoint Saturday Brisbane – Daniel Brown · 6:15PM – SharePoint 2010 – Open Forum With the launch of SharePoint 2010, a lot of people have questions, hope sand dreams… Bring them a long and we’ll see if we can get them answers and fulfilled! SharePoint 2010 has a lot of new and exciting features, but also polishes a lot of existing features in WSSv3/MOSS! · 7:00PM – SharePoint 2010 – The Reach of SharePoint, External Content Types – Daniel Brown Success of any environment is due to the integration between a range of “Line of Business” applications. Success and Smooth operation is now critical of today’s Information Technology departments which build on existing skills while also gradually introducing new ones. With SharePoint 2010, comes the ability to Create, Read, Update, Delete and Enumerate (List) your data from your backend systems in the common environment and user interface of SharePoint 2010 using nothing more than box functionality. Then building from the connectivity between Office and SharePoint, you have the ability to quickly expose your data in several ways using the foundation of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 · 7:45PM –SharePoint Forum, Questions & Door Prize Your chance to provide feedback direct to the SharePoint team in Redmond @ Microsoft! · 8:00 PM(ish) –Meeting Close and move to the Grand Chancellor for refreshments and for continued forum and questions. If you plan to attend the festivities, can you please ensure to reserve your place by clicking here. This will help with catering and ensures everyone gets enough to eat. |
| Until I have NakedADSL2+ at the new house and then back on the air fully! I hate having a broken network with a no intertubes….. thank god for 3G tho (Its been a life saver!) tick tock tick tock… hurry up the 14th! |
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Don't forget about this Thursday night SharePoint + Office + Project Server Launch Party on at 5:30 at the Microsoft Auditorium bought to you by the Adelaide SharePoint User Group! The launch Party is a national party which have been organised by the very dedicated Chris O’Conner and Brian Farnhill who have relentlessly been working at this. We have some great things planned as well as some great prize give-always of a tyicket to the Australian SharePoint Conference and an Xbox 360 elite for those tho register! For more details please see http://www.aunz2010launch.net/Pages/launch.aspx |
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