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3/02/2010

SharePoint Conference Registration site is now Live!

Please see www.sharepointconference.com.au for details and to register for what will be Australia's biggest SharePoint event of 2010. Come and learn from expert local and international speakers, network with your peers and learn all about BOTH Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010.

We look forward to seeing you there!

More to come this evening when I can sit down and do a good write up, this event is going to be massive and full of great information!

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30/01/2010

The Adelaide SharePoint User Group Meeting

Greetings and Salutations,

Wow, it’s already the end of January 2010; I swear these years are just getting faster and faster!

February’s User Group meeting will be held on the 9^th of February 2010 and not on the usual date. This is due to me traveling to the United State to spend a Week on campus at Microsoft Redmond for the Microsoft MVP Summit.

If you have any questions, queries or alike in regards to SharePoint 2010, I’d be more than happen to try and get an answer directly from the people involved in the development of SharePoint!

If you are interested in getting the “SharePoint 2010 Ignite Technical Training for Developers” here in Adelaide, we are looking at needing 6 or more people for Microsoft to run the course. For more information please see the website, or please feel free to email me and I can put you in contact with the right people.

The other big news item for this newsletter is the planning for our next SharePoint Saturday event which is currently pencilled in for May of this year. As time progresses I’ll be sending out more updates, the call for speakers and sponsors. Please stay tuned!

See you at this month’s user group meeting on February 9^th, 2010!

January Meeting Information

This month will see Daniel Brown take to the stage to give an in-depth overview of SharePoint, What is its capabilities, what has it been used for and what can it do, the presentation will then follow on into the second presentation of the night, also by Daniel on Customising SharePoint and the ways to go about building a real life application which is built using SharePoint.

This month will also see the catering service of Craig Parham Catering who is the independent contractor for Microsoft Innovation Centre. This is brought to you by Daniel Brown.

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, 9^th of February

· Where: Microsoft Innovation Centre Auditorium

· Address:

Level 2, Westpac House

King William Street, Adelaide

(Map – Entrance is actually on Currie Street)

· Door Prize: Books, T-Shirts & More!

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 – An Introduction of SharePoint – Daniel Brown

Daniel will give an overview and introduction into SharePoint capabilities, what it is capable of and what has been done in previous installations and customisations of SharePoint Environments

· 7:00PM – Customising SharePoint – Daniel Brown

Following on from the previous topic, Daniel will look at and discuss the possible ways to customise SharePoint and build some real world working examples on stage!

· 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.

Sponsorship

Currently the Adelaide SharePoint User Group is looking for sponsors to fund catering for the event.

By being a sponsor, you are entitled to a range of benefits and advertising though the user group. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring the User Group, please contact Daniel Brown on 0419 804 099 or via email at daniel@danielbrown.id.au

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22/01/2010

Heard about the latest vulnerability in IE6? Info Session & Links

Resources related to this alert

· Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins:

Title: Information about Microsoft January (OOB) Security Bulletin (Level 200)

Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (U.S. & Canada).

URL: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032440627

· Security Advisory 979352 – Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979352.mspx

· Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 979352: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979352

· Issue Landing Page: http://www.microsoft.com/security/updates/ie.aspx

· Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/

· Microsoft Security Research & Defense (SRD) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/srd/

· Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/

· Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/

(Daniel: Seriously though.. IE6….. 2 newer versions since then… its time to upgrade anyway!)

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19/01/2010

Adelaide SharePoint User Group January Meeting

Howdy all,

Just a quick reminder that the Adelaide SharePoint User Group meeting will not be meeting this month (due to the proximity to Christmas, New Years, etc) and will resume next month!

Adelaide SharePoint User Group Website: http://www.aspug.org.au/

See you Next Month!

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Canberra SharePoint User Group

A bit of a trip to go to, however if you are interstate, Check out the Canberra SharePoint User Group!

SharePoint User Group 20/01/2010 Meeting
Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 and an Introduction to Visual Web Part Design in SharePoint 2010

First, Ishai Sagi, a SharePoint MVP from Extelligent Design will demonstrate building a developer machine for the SharePoint 2010 beta on Windows 7. This will cover the list of pre requisites, installation process and configuration required to get to a working developer box on your desktop, from a blank Windows 7 machine (64bit).
Then, Brian Fanhill, who was also recently awarded the SharePoint MVP award, will demonstrate how the Visual Web Part Designer in visual studio 2010 can be used to create web parts for SharePoint 2010.

If you intend on coming, please let us know by registering for the event – how else would we know how much pizza should we get?

Call for speakers!

As always, we are looking for speakers to come tell us what they had done with SharePoint, or teach us something new. If you want to present, please reply to this email with the details of what you want to present about. Next month’s presentation is still up for grabs!

Call for logo!

Got some graphic talent? We need a logo!

As you can see from the picture above, my graphic skills could do with some improvement. If anyone wants to open up photoshop and whip us a new logo for our newsletters and for our site, I would be sure to thank that someone in the next user group!

Just reply to this email and either attach a draft or a suggestion.

Want a presentation? We want to know!

If there was something you always wanted to know and there was no one to ask, here is your chance. Use the Request Presentation link on our web site to request a specific presentation topic, or a Q&A forum focused on a topic. Feel free! That is what a user group is about. Note – the link before wasn’t working right, so I am sorry if you clicked it and got a prompt for credentials. This is now fixed, and you can feel free to ask for presentations!

As always, the pizza is on us thanks to our gold sponsor UniqueWorld and we look forward to seeing everyone there!

To register to this event please click here
(it’s free, quick, guarantees and puts you in for the door prize)

The Canberra SharePoint User Group meeting is taking place on 20/01/2010. The User Group will be held at Microsoft, Level 2, 44 Sydney Avenue, Barton.

Please note that due to security reasons at Microsoft Canberra, attendees arriving after 6pm will not be able to get into the building.

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7/01/2010

Windows 7 “Godmode”

Windows 7 “GodMode” Shortcut can give you a whole heap of settings of Windows, all accessible from a single location!

Its not exactly Godmode (IDDQD) but more of a launching pad for 232 options to change!

To get this feature on Windows 7, First create a new folder (I created mine on the desktop), then rename it to:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

The icon should change to the same one as Control Panel which indicated your done. Double click on the folder and bask in the 232 glorious options!

Note: I tried this with Windows 7 x64 & Windows 2008 Server R2 x64, there are reports of it working on Vista, However there are some reports of this causing Vista x86 to crash, while x64 seems to be unaffected.

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23/12/2009

SharePoint December 2009 Cumulative Update has been posted!

That's right, A nice letter Christmas present from the SharePoint team in pushing out the December 2009 Cumulative hot fix batch.

Get them here:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – KB 977022 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977022
SharePoint Server 2007 – KB 977023 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977023
Project Server 2007 - KB 977028 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977028
Project Professional 2007 – KB 977266 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977266

If you are interested in creating your own installation media with the December 2009 Cumulative Update slipstreamed into the installation then check out my previous post here.

Merry Christmas!

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The Australian ALM Conference!

The inaugural Australian ALM Conference in Sydney will showcase both local and internationally renowned speakers talking about Application Lifecycle Management. The conference will include Microsoft Australia’s official local launch of Visual Studio 2010 and to help Microsoft celebrate this milestone release there will be a dedicated track focusing exclusively on Visual Studio 2010 related topics.

Some of our international speakers who will be speaking at the event include;

Sam Guckenheimer – Group Product Planner, Visual Studio Product Line, Microsoft Corporation
Tanuj Vohra – Partner Director of Program Management for the Visual Studio Test Business, Microsoft Corporation
Dr Ivar Jacobson – a father the Unified Modelling Language and the Rational Unified Process, Ivar Jacobson International

In addition to the keynote and 19 breakout sessions to choose from, attendees will enjoy a welcome reception and cocktail party on the first evening and have the option of registering for post conference training that will be running following the conference.

For more information, please visit www.australianalm.com.au

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21/12/2009

SharePoint with Service Pack 2 released!

Microsoft have updated the downloads & installation packages of both Windows SharePoint Services v3 & The Trial download of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to include Service Pack 2 out of the box, already slipstreamed!

You can download Windows SharePoint Services v2 WITH Service Pack 2 from:

Also, the Trial Version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Service 2007 has also been updated to include Service Pack 2.

Keep in mind, that these are trial version, however it is key based. So I you do have a valid key, you can use these installation packages!

Also check out my guide on slipstreaming the October 2009 patch into the installation packages. (Hmm I guess that is now the Dec 09 update…. time to create another installation package myself I think!)/

Merry Christmas!

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17/12/2009

ACS Awards Honorary Membership to Senator Stephen Conroy

For more information please see : http://www.acs.org.au/news/021109.htm

Not happy Jan…….

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14/12/2009

Don’t forget about ASPUG tomorrow night!

The Adelaide SharePoint User Group is meeting up at 5:30PM in the City.

You can check out the full details in this post.

See you there!

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11/12/2009

How to hide the Site Title from a single page

With the use of the Content Editor Web Part!

I have often come across a need to hide the Site Title on an individual page and rather than create a entire new master page, SharePoint has the ability to add HTML code into the page with the “Content Editor Web Part”.

For this example, I used my blog as the “guinea pig” subject.

First, I add a Content Editor Web part to the desired page. When the web part has been added to the page, Click on the hyperlink “open the tool pane” and think “Source Editor”.

This will bring up the HTML editor for the Content Editor Web Part where we will be working.

This will allow us to add the <style> tag with our Cascading Style Sheet which will inturn override the default style and apply ours (in house case, to hide it).

Insert the following HTML into the Source Editor and slick on Save.

<style type="text/css"> 
    h1.ms-sitetitle {visibility:hidden;display:none;} 
</style>

(Note: The above Cascading Style Sheet will override the style ‘h1.ms-sitetitle’ settings with ‘visibility:hidden;display:none’ which as you can guess, sets it to hidden)

When you click on Save, the page will refresh and instantly the site title will be hidden.

Exit Edit mode (Or Publish the page) and as you can see, the Site Title is now hidden.

And now the famous.. before & After shots….

Before:

After:

As you can see, you are able to directly add Cascading Style Sheet styles to your page to manipulate what is shown or not.

A nice, quick and simple solution to achieving something small and cosmetic, but can have aq great impact on a page which you just cant bear to have the title title appear on :)

-DB

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10/12/2009

Adelaide SharePoint User Group December 2009 Newsletter

Season’s Greetings

With Christmas fast approaching this year deceme4br will be our last meeting of 2009. However the Adelaide SharePoint User Group will resume normal functions on February 16^th, 2010.

The end of this year has really been exciting in regard to SharePoint. With the Release of SharePoint 2010 Beta, Office 2010 Beta and a stack of new products which can work with or use SharePoint (such as Visual Studio 2010, Team Foundation Server, Windows 7/2008R2, etc.) The next two to three years are positioned to be an exciting time in the ICT Industry.

Also I will be hunting for user group sponsors and presenters over the Holiday period, so if you (or your company) would like to sponsor or speak at one of our user groups next year, please send me an email or give me a call and we can arrange it!

So on the final note for this month’s Newsletter, I wish everyone a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I will see you next week on Tuesday the 15^th of December.

Finally, on behalf of the Adelaide SharePoint User Group and its members I would like to thank all who have presented over the last 12 months, your efforts and contribution are greatly appreciated.

See you next week!

December Meeting Information

This month will see Adam Cogan down again for another great presentation! Adam is also doing a training session on Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, SharePoint 2010 next week, There are still spots left and more information can be found here, Daniel Brown will also be presenting on SharePoint 2010 External Content Types and show in a real life situation how they can be used to help deliver information to your users though SharePoint 2010.

December is also the last meeting of the year and in the spirit of the season we will be having a Christmas network even prior to the meeting with a bit more than soft drink J so be sure to register so we know how much to get J

This month will also see the catering service of Craig Parham Catering who is the independent contractor for Microsoft Innovation Centre. This is brought to you by AvePoint.

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:

· Where: Microsoft Innovation Center Auditorium

· Address: Level 2, Westpac House, King William Street, Adelaide (Map – Entrance is actually on Currie Street)

· When: Tuesday, 15^th of December

· Door Prize: - Books, Shirts & More

o You must fill in your evaluation forms to be in the draw!

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 – External Content Types in SharePoint 2010 – Daniel Brown

External Content Types are a great new feature of SharePoint 2010 which has come from the desire to change the back end data source of SharePoint Lists. External Content Types allow you to connect your external data sources to SharePoint and expose them as if they were SharePint lists; allowing for greater information exposure to the people who need it with the added bonus of all of the features of a SharePoint list!

· 7:00PM – What is new in SharePoint 2010 – Adam Cogan, SSW

In this session Adam Cogan will provide information about what is new in SharePoint 2010 and his personal favourites.

The SharePoint Team has invested in many including:

- UX support for Silverlight and Ajax,

- their Web Content Management System,

- Digital Asset Management System (for videos),

- Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint 2010,

- Developer Platform,

- Office 2010 integration,

- RESTful Web API,

- Tagging and Rating

Let’s see what is good and what’s not.

· 7:45PM –SharePoint Forum with Adam & Daniel

Adam & Daniel will host a discussion and open to any questions you may have in relation to SharePoint. So please come along and ask away as it’s a great opportunity to find out what you want about SharePoint!

For those of you who attended Adam Cogan’s last presentation, you will remember Adam doing something very similar to this with the audience J it’s a great way to learn and get answers to your questions in a friendly and social way.

· 8:30 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.

Call for Speakers

On a quick note, if you would like to present on a topic next year, please get in quick, even if you are only expressing an interest at this stage as only have a limited number of slots left and they are gradually filling up quickly. More so as I will be hunting some presenters over the holiday period J

If you have a topic you would like to see presented on, an idea or would like to see how your idea can be translated into a ‘SharePoint solution (with-in time restrictions of a meeting) then please email me as many people would like to see these also.

Call for Sponsors

I’ll also be looking for sponsors for catering and Door Prizes for 2010 over the holiday period.

If you think that your company or business would be interested in sponsoring a meeting or two, please do not hesitate to contact me. Like speaker positions, sponsorship positions are limited also.

For more information please contact Daniel Brown on 0419-804-099 or by email at daniel@danielbrown.id.au

List Management

Feel free to forward these emails to others who may be interested in the Adelaide SharePoint User Group. If they wish to receive emails directly about the Adelaide SharePoint User Group, they should send a message to me at the address below.

If you would like to include meeting details in your works internal newsletter, please also feel free to do so.

We are in the process of setting up a facility for companies who which to include meeting details can be notified by an automated system. If you would like to participate, please contact Daniel Brown (daniel@danielbrown.id.au).

Feedback

Please let us know if you have any feedback on how we can improve the user group. Also, if you would like to present to the group on your experiences with SharePoint, just let us know. I can be contacted at daniel@danielbrown.id.au or by visiting http://www.aspug.org.au.

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6/12/2009

Jeff Alexander back in Adelaide on December the 15th!

Pete Calvert has managed to wrangle a special session from Jeff Alexander, presenting on Windows 7 deployment. And when he says "deployment" he really means it - Jeff was one of the main people responsible for deploying over 2500 Windows 7 installs for the Tech.Ed Australia netbooks.

There are a limited number of people that can fit in the venue, and you want to make sure you're one of those few be sure to send Pete a RSVP.

What: Jeff Alexander on Windows7 deployment
Where: CMU - 220 Victoria Square, Adelaide
When: Wed. December 16th 6:30-8:30pm
RSVP: Pete Calvert (erucsbo@gmail.com) by COB Dec 14th

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26/11/2009

Sticky Notes & Live Mesh

Ever wanted to sync Windows 7 Sticky notes across computers? Well I did….

With Live Mesh. I can sync the saved sticky notes from my home workstation directly to my laptop and vice versa.

Simply add the folder “C:\Users\<<PROFILE NAME>>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes” to Live mesh and sync it with the folder in the same location on the other computer.. in this case my laptop.

Now you have Sticky notes across multiple PC’s!

Another great use for Live mesh is Visual Studio settings across all development environments can be maintained and sync’d :)

Enjoy!

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25/11/2009

Adelaide CRM Users Group - Reminder

Sure Step – Microsoft Software Implementation Methodology.

Just a reminder to join us for an informative awareness session on the Sure Step implementation methodology for Microsoft engagements this Wednesday the 25th November.

Cally Bauman is Microsoft’s Dynamics Sure Step country lead, here in Australia. Cally will be presenting on Microsoft’s latest Dynamics implementation methodology and how it can support decision due-diligence and later, optimisation of a deployed solutions.

Key Takeaways:

· What exactly is Sure Step and how does Microsoft expect partners to use it

· Learn how we drive awareness and adoption of Sure Step – and how you can help – proactively and reactively

· Learn how to accelerate the sales cycles and improve implementation quality with the Sure Step

· Understand the Sure Step Statement of direction and preview to the next release (2010)

This months meeting will be conducted using Live Meeting, details below. Any questions send me an email at rickrofe@x-rm.com.au or ring me on 0400 484 122.

Local Conference Dial-in Numbers

City Number

Adelaide +61882177462

Brisbane +61732187088

Canberra +61261224772

Melbourne +61383205995

Perth +61894208469

Sydney +61298702923

Rick Rofe has invited you to attend an online meeting using Microsoft® Office Communications Server.

Join the meeting

Make sure the Office Live Meeting client is installed before the meeting:

· I am connecting from inside the Microsoft network

· I am connecting from outside the Microsoft network

AUDIO INFORMATION

To join a meeting from your phone, dial in using the following information:

Phone: +18883203585 [English]

Phone: +14257063500 [English]

Find a local phone number for your region

Conference ID: 877967573

Passcode: Passcode is not required.

Note: If you have an account on this corporate network, use your PIN to join. Have you set your PIN?

TROUBLESHOOTING

Unable to join the meeting? Start Office Live Meeting and join the meeting with the following information:

Meeting ID: 2fdccfe9ab1e4edd88abf2e5de74abb6

Entry Code: 4467

Location: meet:sip:callyb@microsoft.com;gruu;opaque=app:conf:focus:id:2fdccfe9ab1e4edd88abf2e5de74abb6%3Fconf-key=4467

If you still cannot enter the meeting, contact support:

· Inside the Microsoft network

· Outside the Microsoft network

NOTICE

Office Live Meeting can be used to record meetings. By participating in this meeting, you agree that your communications may be monitored or recorded at any time during the meeting.

- Rick Rofe

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19/11/2009

Victory: SQL Server 2008 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 Core!

That’s right. In my quest to take the most advantage of server core, I really wanted SQL Server 2008 to be installable on server core, but with the limitations in R1 it wasn't an option.

However its now different with R2!

Today I successfully installed SQL Server 2008 x64 on Windows Server 2008 Server Core R2 (x64) and then successfully created a database on it via a remote machine!

By following the steps outlined by Joachim Nässlander on his post titled “SQL Server 2008 on Server Core 2008 R2” I successfully installed SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 Server Core R2.

I’m a huge fan of Server Core installations for these kinds of things. Services like DNS, WEB, SQL, ***SHAREPOINT WEB SERVERS**** are perfect for being installed on a cut down GUI-less version of Windows.

Why SharePoint WFE Server? Well it’s just a web server, anything you need to do can (or should) be able to be done remotely. For example, SharePoint Designer/Workspaces, STSADM, Powershell, Web Browser, Office, Web Services, etc.. .… its all remote enabled these days.

A SharePoint Core Server would be a light weight purpose built web server for quickly serving your important content for your users.

Anywho…. back to the installation of SQL2K8 on WIN2K8R2Core….

I started off by kicking off a command line based installation of SQL Server using various parameters outlined in Joachim’s post, replacing the account details with my SQL Server accounts credentials.

SQL Server 2008 unattended installation kick offs and various windows pop up and disappear as different tasks are run and completed.

Next the big window…. This one lasted the longest so I assume its doing the bulk of the installation & configuration of SQL server while the previous windows where the pre-requisites.

SQL Server finishes and all is said to be well.

Time for some manual steps according to Joachim!

So i open up regedit.exe and navigated to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\TCP to set the ‘Enabled’ option to ‘1’ (enabling the feature). However enabled was already enabled, so i left it enabled. :I

Next up, some setting of the Windows Firewall rules to allow remote administration and to open up the TCP/IP Ports.

So by now I'm pretty excited to test to see if I can not only connect to the server via SQL Server Management Studio, but to also create a database (just for testing purposes at this stage). However I didn't even SSMS installed anywhere.

Lucky I had a Virtual machine laying around which I could quickly install it on. Just took an extra 10mins :(

Low and behold, It not only connected, but I could also create a new database! Success, SQL Server install on Windows Server 2008 R2 Core!

Please keep in mind that this is not supported by Microsoft as far as I know and if you do this, you do it at your own risk.

Personally though, I think I just found a new practice for deploying my SQL Servers form now on in!

See no luck with getting SharePoint on Server Core yet. I’m going to have to give SharePoint 2010 a try also on Windows Server 2008 R2.

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The Adelaide SharePoint User Group December 2009 meeting

On Tuesday the 17th of November 2009, the Adelaide SharePoint User Group met and here are the photos :)

The night started with myself doing the “101 Introduction meet & Greet”.

Following myself was Allan English, the BDM for the Australian Computer Society who I got in to discuss and explain what the Australian Computer Society is, what it does and why join it.

Thanks for that Allan.

If you would like more information on the Australian Computer Society, please visit http://www.acs.org.au/ or do not hesitate to contact me on 0419 804 099 or by email at daniel@danielbrown.id.au.

Next up was a “long time listen, first time caller”. Mark Burns of the Adelaide Airport has been attending meetings for some time now and this evening it was his first time presenting.

Marks presentation was related around a real work example of a SharePoint Application, where by taking SharePoint they developed a real world application which is in used currently at Adelaide AirPort with a no-code approach.

I’d like to thank everyone who attended and I hope the insight and knowledge gained can be taken back and used to help developer your own solutions. Of course if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Mark continued to present on a real world usage example of how SharePoint can be used though such things as SharePoint Designer and editing various XSLT & Html components to deliver a robust solution in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, but only uses Windows SharePoint Services v3 functionality.

I would like to thank Mark for his efforts, time and presentation to present at the Adelaide SharePoint User Group and hope that he can return again for another presentation in the new year.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has gone public today! .... I’m, Excited!

You can get all the information at: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/sharepoint-2010-public-beta-is-now-available-for-download.aspx

I highly recommend having a look at and playing with SharePoint 2010 as it has come a long way from the days of MOSS.

Fitting with the model of evolution and revolution; Like Windows 7 being the evolution of Vista, from the revolution of Windows XP, SharePoint 2010 is the evolution of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 which came from the revolution of SharePoint 2003.

This seems to be a consistent trend in which the bar is coming up at the same time across the Microsoft Product range:

SharePoint 2003 -> (R) -> MOSS 2007 -> (E) -> SharePoint 2010
Windows XP -> (R) -> Vista -> Windows 7
Office 2003 -> (R) -> Office 2007 -> (E) -> Office 2010
Visual Studio 2005 -> (R) -> Visual Studio 2008 -> (E) -> Visual Studio 2010
Exchange d2003 -> (R) -> Exchange 2007 -> (E) -> Exchange 2010

(R) = Revolution, (E) = Evolution

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact me as I am more than happy to field questions regarding SharePoint 2010 now that the embargo has been lifted!

I’d like to thank Mark Burns for his presentation on the Airside Serviceability Inspections Application built using SharePoint as it was a great real world example of the possibility with Windows SharePoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

I’d also like to announce that SharePoint Saturday 2010 is in the planning stage and is tentatively scheduled for February 27^th, 2010.

As mentioned on Tuesday night, if you wish to know more about the Australian Computer Society (http://www.acs.org.au/), please do not hesitate to contact either Allan English or myself as we are only too happy to help answer any questions you may have.

I’ll see you next month at our Christmas meeting and the final meeting for the year at the Adelaide SharePoint User Group December 2009 meeting.

You can register to ensure your place by clicking here.

Finally, just as I was typing this email, Robert Mibus sent though the details for the next SAGE-AU (System Administrator’s Guild of Australia) Chapter meeting details.

DATE: Tuesday 24th November 2009
TIME: 6:30 PM
VENUE: Internode
150 Grenfell St
Level 3 training room
Site contact Robert Mibus (0439 896 275)

6:15PM arrival for a 6:30Pm start.

Presentation Title: Exchange 2010 presentation

Abstract: Our very own Amanda Rollond is presenting at this month's meeting:

"Does your organisation currently use Exchange? Are you wondering what all the hype is about? Come and hear what the people who created it had to say at Tech Ed 2009 this year. Some major development has been done which made me fall off my seat!

Whether you love it or loath it, the new version of Exchange, due for release next month, has some impressive bells and whistles which are worth seeing. In some cases, seeing is believing!"

During the course of the talk she will be covering Architecture, Storage, High Availability, Archiving and Retention - and of course, Deployment.

See you next month and have fun with SharePoint 2010 beta!

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17/11/2009

Adelaide SharePoint User Group tonight!

Just a quick reminder about tonight’s exciting even at 5:30PM at Microsoft, level 2 Westpac House, and 91 King William Street. (Map – Entrance is actually on Currie Street).

*** SharePoint 2010 Beta has been released via various channels, such as Connect, MSDN and TechNet, However there is some pre-work required and some required patches before it will install correctly!. ***

This month we will hear from long time regular of the Adelaide SharePoint User Group, Mark Burns. Mark will be presenting on re

This month will see Mark Burns from Adelaide Airport who will show some of the great things when SharePoint, and SharePoint designer and various other tips, tricks and techniques to create a real world application is use today.

Following Marks presentation, we will be looking at the SharePoint 2010 to come direct from the SharePoint Conference 2009 and the progresses, features and functionality of SharePoint 2010 Beta 2.

Also, tonight’s major door prize is a 500GB Portal Hard Drive from Verbatim which has been graciously donated by Loftus I.T, Followed by various book and prize give-away, Prizes will be drawn at the end of the evening and you must be in attendance to claim your prize!

Next month we will also see Adam Cogan present on TBA and Marc Soester present on Microsoft Project Server 2010, early bird registration is open here.

Finally on a note about the Australian Computer Society (SA), a second year running I’m up for election as Vice-Chair of the Branch Executive committee. If you would like more information, regarding my plans, strategy and policies please do not hesitate to contact me on daniel@danielbrown.id.au.

November Meeting Information

Following Marks presentation, we will be looking at the SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 to come direct from the SharePoint Conference 2009.

This month will also see the catering service of Craig Parham Catering who is the independent contractor for Microsoft Innovation Centre. This is brought to you by AvePoint.

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:

· Where: Microsoft Innovation Center Auditorium

· Address: Level 2, Westpac House, King William Street, Adelaide (Map – Entrance is actually on Currie Street)

· When: Tuesday, 17^th of November

· Door Prize: - Books, Shirts & More

o You must fill in your evaluation forms to be in the draw!

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 – SharePoint Application creation in a small business environment. – Mark Burns

The presentation will centre on a tour through the SharePoint application development process for creating and implementing a tool used in Adelaide Airport Limited’s airfield serviceability inspections. It will provide insight into real world application development in a small business with finite resources.

· 7:00PM – SharePoint Conference 2009 Sessions (SharePoint 2010 Beta 2)

With SharePoint Conference 2009 over, we are now privy to all of the presentations and recordings of the event. Armed with this, we will take a look at what’s new, what’s hot and what’s coming wi9th SharePoint 2010!

· 7:45PM –SharePoint Forum

Bring along your SharePoint questions and ask the experts.

· 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.

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