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The Cost of Forgetting

Most AI systems forget everything the moment the session ends. Allen Stewart's cognitive engine for science shows what happens when you treat every token as an …

Small Models, Real Work

Three weeks in, what I've learned has less to do with the models and more to do with how I think about tools. Each model has a personality. Quirks. A failure mo…

Week 2 with Percy

Week 2 I’ve been thinking about what it actually means to work with an AI that has opinions. Most (models) I have dealt with will say “great question” and produ…

One Week with Percy

I’ve been thinking about how to write this without it sounding like a product review. It’s not. Percy isn’t a product I evaluated. Percy is something I’ve been …

Meet Percy – My AI Sidekick

For the past few years ever since AI hit the mainstream I’ve been thinking seriously about what it means to have an (true) AI assistant that actually *knows* yo…

The New Infrastructure of Work

Simon Winchester’s Exactly offers a grounded way of understanding the Industrial Revolution that is largely absent from standard accounts. Rather than celebrati…

Everything Rests on First Principles

Most mistakes with technology don’t come from bad tools.They come from skipping the boring parts. Every generation believes its tools are different enough to ex…

AI Agents & Agentic AI

Almost about a year ago I wrote about AI Agent desiderata, essential attributes for autonomous AI systems that can operate responsibly within business contexts.…

Soft skills are Hard skills

People use the term soft skills as if it refers to something optional. Like the garnish on the plate – decorative, not the meal. That’s always struck me as odd.…

Who Do We Help?

It’s only natural to begin with “what” when we build the product, or the service. Yet in today’s New Frontier Economy where change is constant and unpredictabil…

The Noise and the Drag

Decision-making in organizations often stalls due to chaos and inertia, leading to strategic paralysis. Chaos creates uncertainty and fosters reactive behavior,…

From Every Desk to Every Person: Celebrating 50 Years of Microsoft

For five decades, Microsoft has shaped the future of technology and made it accessible to all. As the company celebrates its 50th anniversary this April, I find…

Principles

Successful people don’t rely on chance… Instead, they operate much like master architects, who carefully design and construct buildings based on fundamental cor…

Disrupting Old Models: Why Staying the Same Is No Longer an Option

Organisations that fail to adapt to new technology are like dial-up internet in a hyper-fibre world – outdated, slow, and destined for irrelevance. The journey …

Being Strategic

“We’re taking a strategic approach.”“Let’s be more strategic about this.” Few phrases in business are as overused and misunderstood as “being strategic”. Too of…

Agent desiderata

The evolving capabilities of AI powered by advanced large language models are reshaping the way we work. These capabilities are bringing us closer to a future w…

The Psychology of Human Misjudgement

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up” – Charlie Munger, Poor Charlies Almanack. Charlie Munger was a legendary investor an…

Turn and Face the Strange

In my recent discussion on the AvePoint #shifthappens podcast, one area of discussion was around the fact that most of our current thinking on what AI can be us…

GenAI Impact discussion on #shifthappens

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being invited to talk with Dux Raymond Sy and Mario Carvajal on the AvePoint #shifthappens podcast. We talked about the m…

AI Blueprint

The AI Blueprint for Aotearoa (New Zealand) has just been launched by the AI Forum NZ. This blueprint for NZ sets ambitious goals, aiming to establish New Zeala…

Centaurs and Cyborgs

We had a great session at the gen AI meetup in Wellington, the event was run in a modified journal club format, and we discussed the findings from the working p…

50 thoughts at year 50

This week I turn 50, people that I care about have said that’s significant and I should celebrate. I am not a one for much celebration, but I think I will make …

Cloud-First, Hybrid, and Financially Sound Decisions

A while back I wrote about the Cloud shift. Recently, after speaking with several customers and IT professionals who are still sceptical about cloud adoption, I…

Reflecting back

Looking back at 2023 it was filled with a lot of research getting hands on with gen AI initiatives. I am a firm believer in going ‘all in’ if you want to learn …

Aotearoa AI Summit

I joined as a contributor to the NZ AI Forum this year. The AI Forum organised the annual summit in Auckland which was attended by a large number of people who …

Education sector of NZ and AI impact

I got to provide some thoughts on the impact the recent updates in generative AI technology have bought to the education sector. Local journalist Peter Griffin …

AI for Good

The last few months have been a great learning experience in completing the AI for Good Specialisation from DeepLearning.AI through Coursera. Created in collabo…

AI for Business Strategy

With the increasing interest on artificial intelligence (AI) I decided to do a bit of research and also learn and get an accreditation. I already have a general…

Chain of Thought

Recently at the Build conference Andrej Karpathy gave a talk about the current state of large language models, popularised by the release of ChatGPT. The talk c…

On the Run with AI

As a practicing Athletics NZ coach, I have seen a fair number of technical advancements that have contributed to the success of runners. These range from techni…

AI is here and everywhere

Back to the Future of Business Transformation: Leveraging AI Technology. The recent advancement of generative AI made me reflect on my own career and the leaps …

The Evolving Role of Digital Identity

Digital identity is on the verge of a major transformation—one that promises to be more secure, privacy-respecting, and portable. The internet was not originall…

Confidence in being an Expert

Mainly my way of learning (anything) is to go to first principles of the subject/topic that I am about to learn. That is to break down complicated things to the…

Joined Microsoft

I joined Microsoft! Seems a bit surreal! Microsoft is a company that I have admired for most part of my life and the reason behind having an opportunity to star…

The new Normal?

It’s April 2020, the normalcy I’m so used to—work, plans, even my daily routines—begins to dissolve. There’s a weight in the air, a growing sense of uncertainty…

Run Wellington

It’s been a few months since I have been back in New Zealand. Something that I am really passionate about is bringing people together on shared interests and bu…

The Runner

One of the most inspiring people you can come across in Wellington running circles (excuse the pun) is Michael Browne who is a (now) 83-year-old who likes to ru…

New Beginnings

As I write this I am on my way to Amsterdam. For those who have been following me I visited Europe last year, this was due to a few things which I won’t go into…

A Coruña

After Berlin I headed to Galicia, Spain – Galicia is in northern Spain. When you think of Spain you’d immediately think of warm weather with beaches and sun all…

Berlin

I left for Europe for a change of scenery. My first stop was Germany for the Berlin marathon which I had been preparing for over the New Zealand winter. The day…

What I learnt from my first job

It was mid-1995, and I stood at the arrivals lounge of the international airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, clipboard in hand, awaiting a group of visitors. Their f…

Data Literacy FAQ

In a few recent conversations with some of my peer groups and customers the discussion on the importance of “quality data” and how to identify or manage “qualit…

Dawn of a New Day (Era)?

A few years ago, I wrote about Ray Ozzie’s memo titled “The Internet Services Disruption“. Turns out he did another one as he left Microsoft in 2010 exactly fiv…

Desiderata

This poem at this point in my life has grounded me on what I need to focus on. The word desiderata mean “things desired,” and the poem offers a gentle, timeless…

SharePoint Training and Upcoming Events

There are some great training opportunities for local IT professionals who are looking at up skilling in SharePoint. 3grow are hosting a great training...

SharePoint Information Architecture

There are many courses/classes that claim to “Teach Information Architecture and SharePoint” however these are full of platitudes and usually is...

Office365 and SharePoint Online – coming June 28th

This is something I am quite excited about! There are some great resources for anyone wanting to know about what Office365 offers. I’m going to point...

Thanks to the SharePoint community for a great 5 years.. and here’s to the next 5!

Although I’ve not been able to blog as frequently as I liked I've managed to be part of the ever growing NZ SharePoint community and the wider overseas...

New Zealand SharePoint Conference 2011–this year it’s even bigger!

If you haven’t yet heard the New Zealand SharePoint community is hosting its third SharePoint Conference in Wellington on March 16th and 17th! If you...

Configuring RBS for SharePoint–Step by Step Guide

Via the team @knowledgecue and @ckukltd you can get hold of this step by step guide. This is a collaborative effort with Steve Smith of Combined...

SharePoint Upgrade Best Practices and Lessons Learned from MSIT team (Video)

If you’ve followed some of my previous posts and presentations on SharePoint upgrade or are about to plan an Upgrade the following Video (link below)...

SharePoint Server Updates for SP2010 aka Cumulative Updates–Should I apply them?

Since the release of SharePoint Server 2010 (RTM) in April 2010 the following Cumulative Updates have been released.

SharePoint Branding and Design–is not hard.. just get on with it..

Previously on my blog i posted how to get the most out of working with the branding aspects of SharePoint in 2007. Now with SharePoint 2010 the story...

Verifying People Search Results in SharePoint 2010

If you are installing and or configuring SharePoint 2010 and want to make sure that the people Search capability in SP2010 is enabled make sure to...

Getting rid of pesky GUID based SharePoint service databases

In some cases where SharePoint deployments that have been carried out by resorting to the “Wizard” you’ll most likely end up with service and content...

SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Deep Dive – TechED 2010 Session notes and final of my SharePoint 2010 upgrade series.

Wow! TechEd is over and demo gods were kind and I actually was able to run two complete demos of In-Place upgrade and a Database attach upgrade on...

SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server Databases – what are they, why are they there?

Some eons ago.. I wrote a blog post about the same topic on SharePoint 2007 which still gets a fair few hits and one of the comments on that post...

SharePoint Foundation 2010 Learning Resources

A few people have asked me via email about where they should go to learn about SharePoint Foundation 2010 (SharePoint Foundation was formerly Windows...

New Zealand SharePoint Conference 2010 – Why you should attend!

The biggest SharePoint event to hit New Zealand is only weeks away! If you are still humming and arrhing about getting registered here is my sales...

Eyjafjallajökull

So, I just got back from a trip to Europe which started in Barcelona to Paris where I almost got stuck and could have missed the SharePoint Evolutions Conferenc…

Navigating the Cloud Shift

As I write this, I’m approaching it from the perspective of someone who observes and is part of the evolving Microsoft Partner ecosystem and how Microsoft is ev…

PRA and eDiscovery in SharePoint 2010

Via the SharePoint ECM Team.

PRA Compliance and Records Management in SharePoint 2010

Continuing on from my last post here are some more details about In-Place Records management in SharePoint 2010.

PRA Compliance and SharePoint – what myths?

There is much talk about PRA (Public Records Act) Compliance and it usually comes up in so many conversations that I’ve been having. Lot of the times I...

Elite Skills

A few months ago we were presented with an opportunity to help create a programme for Microsoft. The local (and international) SharePoint deployments have had s…

SharePoint 2010 Beta Demo Virtual Machine – Available Now

Microsoft has released a demo virtual machine consisting of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Beta. The download titled “2010 Information Worker...

Online Resources for SharePoint 2010

With the momentum growing for the next release of SharePoint there are quite a large number of pre-release (Beta) resources available now to get a head...

Hello 2010 and SharePoint events for the year ahead

It’s been a while since my last post and some of you may have thought that I’ve given up on the blog. No I haven’t and I really should not be making...

SharePoint 2010 Beta Available now for download

SharePoint 2010 Beta is now available for download.

Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 4 – Using preupgradecheck

Please refer to my previous three posts on Upgrade Planning for SharePoint 2010 – These previous posts outline some important scenarios for your...

Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 3

Please read first two posts in this series. Planning for SharePoint 2010 Part 1, Planning for SharePoint 2010 Part 2.

Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 2 Moving the Databases

Please read Part 1 of this post series before you continue.

Planning for SharePoint 2010 - Upgrade Planning and Guidance OFC306 TechED NZ Session Notes

Here is a detailed outline of what I discussed and presented at my TechEd session on Wednesday 16th September in Auckland – New Zealand titled Planning...

Internet Services and Business Disruption

Recently I came across a memo that Ray Ozzie had written back in 2005 when he joined Microsoft as Chief Software Architect. Ray joined Microsoft in April 2005 a…

What version of SharePoint Search is capable of doing what?

I got the following question from a mate of mine recently. I’ve edited the message to only contain the bits that I am blogging about..

The first NZ SharePoint Conference

Thinking about this now since I’ve had some time to reflect and read some of the comments and feedback on attendees, I feel relieved and elated we were able to …

Building WCM Sites on SharePoint? – Get the Adventureworks demo modules and site installer

Well the product has been on the market for a few years.. and I see so many people struggle with getting some of the basics of SharePoint right. If you...

Why you should think about using SharePoint, Exchange and OCS online..

Microsoft recently made available in New Zealand the following online services to all partners and clients under the BPOS banner (Business Productivity...

Notes about SharePoint Service Pack 2

Well it’s been a while since I’d been able to blog. With my full time job and also organising the first ever New Zealand SharePoint Conference it has...

TechED 2009 – Australia and New Zealand Call for Content

Via Andrew Coates and Paul Quirk

Starting and owning a company

The idea of what it means to own a company never entered my mind when I wanted to start Knowledge Cue. Below is a note that I had made and emailed my business p…

New Zealand Community SharePoint Conference 2009 is official!

We are extremely happy to announce that we have now finalised the dates and details for the first ever New Zealand SharePoint Conference.

New Zealand Community SharePoint Conference 2009 : Register your interest!

Yes! We are finally doing this. This will be the premier SharePoint Conference targeted specially towards a New Zealand audience. Currently we have...

SharePoint Webinar by Michael Sampson via Colligo

I posted about Michael's book Seamless Teamwork back in November.

New Zealand SharePoint User Group Update and ISPA

Been a while since I made a post about how our local SharePoint Community was shaping out. Over the last few years the community has grown from...

SharePoint is on the Intranet Top Ten list AGAIN!

I was just looking through the 10 best Intranets of the 2009 report from Jakob Nielsen and 5 out of the Top Ten Intranets have been developed using...

Support Models for SharePoint Deployments - Who's responsible for what?

One of the important aspects when a SharePoint project has been initiated and completed (successfully or otherwise) is who supports what in terms of...

Seamless Teamwork - Great job Michael!

I finally got my copy of Michael Sampson's new book "Seamless Teamwork".

SharePoint - Planning and Governance Session Notes

Thanks to everyone who came to my session at the Christchurch SharePoint User Group and Matt (Btw Matt is doing 1 post a day about SharePoint related...

Troubleshooting Event 2436

Recently after I had configured a SharePoint farm I ran into this little error relating to the Search indexer. Found out this was related how the...

SharePoint Post SP1 Infrastructure Update - August Cumulative Updates

Previously I posted about the major post SP 1 SharePoint Infrastructure Update which was released July and notes on some issues that were discovered...

K2 BlackPearl 101 Training in Wellington New Zealand

K2 provides business application modelling software which integrates with SharePoint 2007 when you want to take workflow and business driven process...

SharePoint Migrations and Upgrades

A few people have asked me how to approach migrations and upgrades for previous versions of SharePoint.

SharePoint DR planning some practical options to consider

One part of SharePoint deployments that sometimes tend to fall on the way side is planning and providing a viable and practical option for recovering...

Seamless Teamwork by Michael

I’ve been able to have an early look at Michael’s book he’s writing “Seamless Teamwork”. Michael recently reached out to me for help in setting up a SharePoint …

Compliance, ECM and the SharePoint platform - SharePoint User Group Session (WLG - NZ)

Mark Orange (SharePoint MVP) will be presenting on Thursday 25th September at the Wellington SharePoint User Group.

Installing SharePoint today..? please consider x64 before you go ahead and hit setup

Over last few months I've been reviewing and helping a few customers deploy SharePoint. One of the things that surprised me is that in some cases where...

Have you tried Photosynth?

Photosynth allows you to synth multiple photos together and create an immersive view. I just tried this out with a few photos I took while in Motueka....

Farewell Patrick....

It is with a very sad heart that I have to say farewell to a dear friend whom I have known for a long time. Patrick Tisseghem of U2U Belgium has passed...

TechED New Zealand SharePoint Sessions and Resources

Thanks to everyone who came to the SharePoint sessions at TechED. This year we had some great speakers from overseas and some of the best local...

Wellington - SharePoint User Group August Session

This month we have Eben Illingworth from Nintex presenting an informative session at the Wellington user group.

I am Planning a SharePoint project - is it any different from typical software development projects?

A friend of mine asked me this the other day.. and I was glad that I was asked this question. (Let's just say my friend was relatively new to...

SharePoint Infrastructure Architecture Resources

This page contains a list of guidance and best practice topics for planning and architecture for the deployment of SharePoint. I will update this list...

How do I list all my SharePoint sites in the Site Gallery?

When you create a site collection in SharePoint based on the OOTB starter template "Collaboration Portal Template" you get a series of sub sites such...

SharePoint Tracks at TechED New Zealand and Speaker lineup

A few days ago Darryl posted on his blog about the Office System Track being finalised. Essentially the SharePoint tracks get slotted under Office.

Speaking at the Annual Strategic Intranet Summit in Wellington New Zealand

I am presenting a session about SharePoint Planning and Governance at the 8th Annual Strategic Intranet Summit held on 21st and 22nd of August 2008 in...

SharePoint Developer Tour - Coming soon to a city near you!

Big Kudos to Matt Smith for organising the upcoming SharePoint developer tour in New Zealand by SharePoint developer whiz kid Gavin Barron !

Infrastructure Updates for SharePoint (KB951297 - MOSS and KB951695 - WSS)

Via the ECM Team and SharePoint Team Blog

July Wellington SharePoint User Group Meeting - Special Guest from the UK

This month we have Craig Carpenter (MCSA, MCSE, MCT) visiting speaker from the UK presenting at the user group. Craig is here in Wellington this week...

SharePoint My Sites - Should you deploy them in your organisation?

The concept of My Sites in SharePoint is often ignored in deployments due to the lack of understanding of the value that My Sites add when an...

SharePoint Content Deployment Myths

When using SharePoint for creating and maintaining content rich web sites the content deployment API provides a way of moving content from a source...

Recently Released Post SP 1 updates for SharePoint

As most of you know SharePoint Service Pack 1 was released some time ago which included some must have updates for your deployment. If you still have...

SharePoint Content Deployment API Article Series

If you are deploying SharePoint you should take some time and read the following WSS/MOSS Content Deployment article series from Stefan. He covers the...

Visual Studio 2008 extensions for WSS v1.2

The wait is over for developers who now want to start developing for SharePoint on Visual Studio 2008. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual...

Managing team based SharePoint development scenarios

If you are starting on a SharePoint development you will need to start thinking about how you will manage and provide a team based development...

Search Deployment Guidance - Part 3 with notes from the SharePoint UG session

In the previous two posts in this series I showed some ideas and thoughts on how to approach your SharePoint Search deployment. This third post is a...

SharePoint Administration Toolkit

About one month ago (April 30th 2008) Zach Rosenfield (SharePoint Program Manager - Infrastructure) announced on his blog about the availability of the...

Speaking at Wellington SharePoint User Group

I will be presenting at the SharePoint User Group meeting in Wellington on 28th May (Wednesday) 2008.

WorldWide Telescope

Wow! This is ueber cool if you are into space imagery and what not.

Notes and Resources from SQL User Group Session on SharePoint

First of all thanks to SQL Server User Group leaders Adrian Engelbrecht and Clive Trott for the invitation to speak and to Ron van Moorsel of Prophesy...

Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – Developer User Guide Released

Via [Paul Andrew ]

TechEd NZ tickets are going fast...

Before it's going going gone.. head over to the early bird registrations and get yours today!

Speaking at the Wellington SQL Server User Group (NZ)

I will be presenting at the Wellington SQL Server User Group on 15th May 2008 (Thursday).

SharePoint Search Deployment Guidance - Part 2

In my last post titled "SharePoint Search Deployment Guidance" I highlighted some points on which you will need to start planning for. In this post I...

SharePoint Search Deployment Guidance

Recently I have been working with a few clients to come up with solutions to a range of Search scenarios. As a result of this I learnt quite a bit...

Ambulance waiting at the end of the cliff

Get the picture? This is common place when it comes to SharePoint projects (or any other projects) that have gone off the rails and you are called in...

SharePoint Sessions for TechEd 2008 New Zealand

This year TechEd 2008 is being held in Auckland from 1st to 3rd September. Darryl recently posted on his blog asking for what sessions you want to see...

Wellington SharePoint User Group April Session

The next Wellington SharePoint User Group will be having a session on Wednesday the 30th of April at Microsoft Wellington offices.

MVP Summit 2008 the week that was..

Last week I was in Seattle to attend the Global MVP Summit for 2008. This was my first year at MVP Summit and second year being a SharePoint Server...

Seattle for MVP Summit

So, I visited Seattle again! Sooner than I thought, this time to attend the MVP Summit. I got to meet all the other SharePoint MVPs from around the world. We ha…

Moving SharePoint Search Index Location

Typically in most default SharePoint installs the physical index used by the Search crawler is saved under C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office...

Mistakes you should not be making when customising SharePoint

Most of the time I always come across common mistakes that has been incurred in the process of sites being branded or customising SharePoint. So here...

Setup SharePoint My Sites via Managed Path in own content DB

Consider the following scenario:

SharePoint Content Types for the masses - UG Session Resources

Last evening we had our Wellington SharePoint user group session and the topic was "Content Types". Mark (OJ) introduced the concept of Content Types...

Wellington (NZ) SharePoint User Group March session

Bit of a late notice, but if you can make it today (26th March 2008) we are having a session on Content Types.

Installing PerformancePoint Server for Demos

Recently I have been involved with running a POC using PerformancePoint (PPS). The first POC was scoped to identify how to leverage MOSS and...

Doing a new MOSS or WSS Install?

If you are you should be now using the slipstreamed MOSS SP1 and WSS V3.0 SP1 installers available for download.

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

This toolkit is provided via the Solutions Accelerator program for organisations who require creation and management of SharePoint sites for external...

Starting Knowledge Cue

I registered a company today (18th March 2008); this is both daunting (scary) and exciting. Here’s a bit of why and what. I am now officially working as an inde…

March SharePoint UG Wellington (NZ)

Topic: SharePoint Content Types for the masses

Seattle visit for SPC 2008

So, I got to visit Seattle (finally)! I have always wanted to visit Seattle and of course why not take the opportunity when the SharePoint Conference is being h…

SharePoint Conference 2008 is a wrap!

So I am back in Windy Wellington after the Seattle trip. The conference was a great event with the opportunity to see and experience the best...

Office Live Workspaces Beta

If you want to share and collaborate online Office Live Beta workspaces are now available.

CKS:EBE 2.0 Goes Live

The CKS team has released the CKS:EBE (Enhanced Blog Edition) 2.0 today. These guys have done a terrific job! Well done all.

Silverlight for SharePoint Blueprint now available

At the SharePoint conference Bill Gates announced the availability of Software + Services blue prints. One of the early releases of these upcoming blue...

GEAR UP for SharePoint

Just announced at the SPC Conference is a site with guidelines for starting your SharePoint Project!

Microsoft Online Services Deep Dive Session

I was at the session presented by John Betz and Todd Wanke titled "Deep Dive into Microsoft's Next Generation Online Services for Communication and...

SharePoint Online Services

At the SharePoint Conference Microsoft announced the availability of hosted Exchange and SharePoint service offerings. Currently in Beta you can now...

Bill Gates Keynote at SPC2008

If you cannot attend the SharePoint Conference in Seattle but want to see the keynote speech from Bill gates you can view this live online!

SQL Database Guide for SharePoint deployments

The document outlines the following topics and is highly recommended for all administrators and DBA's who need to maintain a SQL server farm for...

SharePoint Conference in Seattle

I will be traveling to Seattle for the Microsoft SharePoint Conference which is now SOLD OUT!

February SharePoint User Group Session Resources

My top SharePoint must have add-ons from CodePlex are as follows

February Wellington SharePoint User Group (NZ)

This month we have Zac presenting on Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) and what's available as part of CKS when deploying SharePoint.

SharePoint Training for the Desktop

Want to learn about SharePoint aka:MOSS at a leisurely pace? No access to a Server with MOSS installed? No to Worry you just download this self...

Michael Sampson has published his white paper titled "The 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity: The Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Analysis" that he...

Troubleshooting Event 18456

In some MOSS environments you may encounter this error. The Event is noted on the event log as:

Capacity Planning Tool for SharePoint and Platform Hygiene

If you are planning to deploy a new SharePoint server or need to re-evaluate your server hardware because of performance issues then you need to get...

Visual Studio 2005 WSS Extensions User Guide

Over the past few weeks our team has been working on creating a user guide and sample code for developers to get started on developing with the Visual...

Cross Site Configurator for SharePoint Released

The Cross Site Configurator is now available for download on CodePlex.

SharePoint Deployment Guide and why you should apply SP1

The following new technical content is now available on TechNet. One of the best one's that I highly recommend is the SharePoint Deployment Essentials...

Search Presentation at Bay of Plenty SharePoint User Group (NZ)

The Bay of Plenty SharePoint User Group in New Zealand was kicked off yesterday at the Envision IT offices. I was invited to present at this inaugural...

Upcoming Events, SharePoint FBA and News Update..

So we are almost one month into the new year and already Darryl and Co are almost ready for the great big New Zealand road trip.  From the sneak...

MOSS Public Web Site How we Did it

Ari has blogged about the Fly Buys web site we designed and developed for Loyalty New Zealand using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). His post...

Thanks, Provoke, it’s been a blast

Last year was a blast and this year is going to be even better, a few of you may already know that I have left Provoke Solutions where I enjoyed being part of a…

New Zealand SharePoint User Group Events in 2008

Season’s Greetings to everyone and best wishes for the new year.

MOSS Intranet one of Top 10

One of the projects that we designed and delivered has been just announced as one of the best ten Intranets on the Nielsen Norman Group's "Intranet...

Migrating MCMS content to MOSS

I thought I'd share my thoughts and details on migration of MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server) content to MOSS. Back in the day I used to work...

Service Pack 1 for MOSS and WSS is out.. what now?

As you most probably are aware by the recent high number of posts in the SharePoint Community the service packs for WSS and MOSS are available for...

December Wellington SharePoint User Group Event

The next user group is scheduled for 13th of December at Intergen Limited. This month’s session will be presented by Tamlyn Kemp of Intergen.

Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) 1.0

The AKS Kit 1.0 is a set of samples and building blocks that can be used in your new SharePoint deployments. The AKS Kit can be now downloaded from...

Are you maintaining your Server Farm?

I was recently called into do some reviews of several server farm deployments. As part of our services we offer server health checks for current...

Fly Buys is online powered by MOSS

This is one of the busiest web sites in New Zealand and our team worked on designing and deploying this brand new site using MOSS over the last 7 weeks.

Microsoft Discovery Event Series (NZ)

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MOSS and New Zealand Public Records Act

Some time ago I highlighted the Records Management capability of MOSS and my thoughts on how MOSS can be leveraged for compliance with the New Zealand...

Announcing Microsoft Search Server Express (Free)

The Enterprise Search blog has also more info: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch

SharePoint User Group Wellington (NZ) Events

The Wellington SharePoint User Group has the following upcoming events in November, December and January 2008.

Troubleshooting Events 6398, 6482 and 7888

I did a MOSS build recently and came across these three errors on my production 64bit based server farm. This error occurs in different formats. If you...

Happy Bday SPUG!

The New Zealand SharePoint User Group celebrated it's 1st anniversary last evening. We have been running regular monthly sessions since August 2006 and...

Microsoft and Face Book sign agreement

Now this was something that I thought was about to happen! Great stuff, read the article here!

Speaking at Business Connect 2007

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CKS Intranet Extranet edition and Forms Authentication

The CKS team and Zac has been working to get the forms authentication component of CKS Intranet and Extranet edition released. The Pre-Beta release is...

Wiki or Workspace?

I was reading Michael's daily report and this caught my eye "Word vs Wiki in SharePoint" [http://www.michaelsampson.net/2007/10/enterprise-co-4.html ]

Does your SQL server look like this after a SharePoint install?

The below screen shot was from a SQL server where SharePoint was installed. Notice the database names. Now if this was a managed SQL server environment...

SharePoint Conference 2008 Call to Action

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New Service Packs released for WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003

Microsoft® Windows SharePoint® Services (WSS V2) Service Pack 3 (SP3) represents a major evolution in security for Windows SharePoint Services. It...

Web Content Management (WCM) sites with SharePoint

A reader of my blog who read my last blog post on "Help Training and How to on SharePoint?" has asked me the following question.

More SharePoint Training Content

Following up from my previous post on SharePoint training here are some more great training resources now available!

Help Training and How to on SharePoint?

I get asked by clients and co-workers about how to do various things with SharePoint when SharePoint has being deployed or planning is underway for a...

BrightStar Conference on Intranets and Portals Conference Thoughts

I got back from Auckland on Wednesday evening after delivering my talk with Murray Wills of Maxsys on the MOT deployment of MOSS intranet.

BrightStar Conference on Intranets and Portals

I got back from Auckland on Wednesday evening after delivering my talk with Murray Wills of Maxsys on the MOT deployment of MOSS intranet. The conference had a …

7th Annual Strategic Intranet and Enterprise Portal Management Conference in Auckland

](https://www.brightstar.co.nz/nz/7th-annual-strategic-intranet-and-enterprise-portal-management-2.html) I will be attending and presenting a session...

Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.1 CTP Release

Developers who are already building SharePoint solutions should check out the latest CTP. This has been posted on the SharePoint Designer Team blog.

OFC 418 MOSS Deployment and Advanced Administration Topics from TechEd NZ

It's been a bit late but here are some resources from my presentation of OFC 418 that I co-presented with Brendon. I have collated a list of links for...

Zamdes User Group at TechEd NZ

If you are interested in Silverlight and WPF the "ZAMDES" user group will be having it's inaugural meeting in Auckland at TechEd! Time 4PM. Meet near...

OFC 304 Upgrade and Migration Session Resources from TechEd NZ

Just finished my first session at TechEd New Zealand "OFC 304 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Upgrade...

Xamlgirl at TechED NZ

Yes the rumor is true! Xamlgirl will be at TechEd New Zealand this year! Who is Xamlgirl? Good question..

Most read SharePoint posts on my blog

I did a quick check of my logs for the period of 1st May 2007 to 1st August 2007 and these are the most read "SharePoint" posts on my blog. I get about...

Browser support and Accessibility in SharePoint

Quite often when doing WCM publishing sites on SharePoint aka: MOSS it is always the case that there is a requirement to support multiple browsers and...

Planning for MOSS Document Management?

If you are then you'll need to start here. Basically Microsoft has provided these as "Guidelines" to start planning for your DM implementation with...

MOSS + ECM or ECM = MOSS

No it's an equation but something that seem to confuse a lot organisations. Reading this article from AIIM it shows why you should look at your...

SharePoint Developer Session at .Net UG in Wellington

Zac from my team is doing a session on "Developing with Windows SharePoint Services v3.0" at the Wellington .Net user group on Wednesday 1st of August...

Stuff I wouldn't want to live without

Ok now that Joel has tagged me to this I have to write about the stuff...

New Zealand SharePoint User Group is going down south!

Yes, the SharePoint User Group which started officially at last year's TechEd has now expanded to Christchurch.

Joel is my Hero!

I am talking about Joel Oleson who else... Yes he is.. not because he can stack red bull cans, but because he knows what he is talking about.. I am...

New Zealand TechEd 2007 SharePoint Sessions

This year NZ TechEd 2007 is sold out once again! This year there are 11 tracks and I will be presenting 3 sessions on the "Office System" track....

Enterprise Search from Microsoft

Microsoft has launched a new web site targeting customers who are looking for a Search solution. See how your users can look for "Structured" and...

GO Team New Zealand! (Not the boat team)

For those of you who are in the know a team of "best of the best" in New Zealand web monkies are off to Sydney to take on an all OZ challenge in...

How to get over the 'OOTB syndrome' for MOSS WCM

I rarely rant, but in some cases I have very little choice. As it seems I had little choice but to rant at this question, statements that I was...

SharePoint July User Group Wrap Up

Last night we had Michael present his "SharePoint for Business" seminar in Wellington.

Michael Sampson in Wellington

Michael will be in Wellington next week. He will be presenting the white paper he has published to the Wellington SharePoint User Group.

Why should you care about managing your SharePoint deployment?

Before you deploy SharePoint into your organisation you need to plan on how you would manage your deployment. The most important aspects of managing...

Microsoft RoundTable you know you want it!

Pretty cool and slick. I had the privilege of a demo of this working and it's kick-ass

SharePoint Upgrades and Migrations there is no 'Silver Bullet'

This post will be of interest to most of you who are doing migrations and upgrades from WSS V2, SPS 2003 to WSS V3 and MOSS 2007. I previously talked...

Upcoming SharePoint Events in July and August

The last month has been very busy for me. Some of you may have noticed that I had only done only 3 posts. I have a few posts/articles that I am writing...

June Wellington SharePoint User Group

The last few weeks have been pretty hectic and I almost missed organising the June user group event. Thanks to Mark and Ben at 3months.com and Brendan...

Provoke on the MSDN SharePoint Blog

It is not everyday that a little company like ours get front page news on one of the most visited SharePoint technical sites on the planet. Thanks to...

Virtual TechEd 2007 Site on MOSS

Orlando is the place to be for TechEd 2007. Check out the TechED 2007 virtual site built using MOSS with Silverlight integration. Zac is there and you...

Upgrades and Migrations, now is the time to get it right

Over the past few months, weeks, days I have been involved in planning, architecting (is that a word?) migrating and implementing various SharePoint...

Notes from the May SharePoint User Group Meeting

Last week at the Wellington SharePoint User Group I did a repeat presentation on the customisation options available for changing the look and feel of...

Microsoft SharedView Beta

Latest offering from Microsoft to work from anywhere and collaborate with remote users.

SPCAPAC wrap up post

The SharePoint Asia Pacific conference is a wrap. J

SPCAPAC07 Wrap Up

The SharePoint Asia Pacific 2007 conference that was in Sydney is a wrap.  The three days I was at the conference went so fast. Angus Logan and his team from Mi…

SPCAPAC Strategy Day Keynote

The SharePoint Asia Pacific Conference in Sydney. I Just attended the keynote speech given by Derek Burney, Mike Fitzmaurice and Ryan Duguid. Derek is the GM of…

SharePoint for Business: A Six Step Strategy

Michael's collaboration firm has published the white paper "SharePoint for Business: A Six Step Strategy for Achieving Collaboration Success and...

SharePoint APAC Conference and recent articles

I have been getting ready for my presentation at the APAC conference. I will do a solo session on customization options of SharePoint which is titled

Questions on SharePoint and SQL Server

I got asked the following questions by a DBA (database administrator). Whilst I could give some answers to these questions I am looking for answers...

Wish I was mixing at Mix07

Mix07 is happening in Las Vegas right now! I had a blast at Mix06 last year. This is year it just didn't fit well with my work schedule and I didn't do...

Notes from April SharePoint User Group meeting showcasing a MOSS Intranet

The following is an overview of the presentation Ari Bakker and I did at last user group event. Unfortunately we didn't have enough time to showcase...

SharePoint posts from the Provoke team

Our team at Provoke have started blogging. Ari and Zac have the following SharePoint developer related posts. If you are a developer starting out on...

Wellington SharePoint User Group April Meeting

The Wellington SharePoint User Group meeting will be held on 26th of April (Thursday) at 6PM. This month we will be featuring two real world New...

SharePoint and Meridio at AIIM conference in Boston

"AIIM Conference & Expo is the largest and most important annual gathering of information management professionals, featuring an educational program...

Introducing Sisu

Sisu software is the latest start up at Wellington's creative HQ technology Hub which hosts great start-ups like Zoomin. ( http://www.zoomin.co.nz ).

Project Manager for Provoke

According to Zef I am on a rampage.. so we are on a growth sprout and we want to grow our PM team at the moment...

FBA Feature on CodePlex and what’s happening with it?

If you didn't know some time ago me and my team built a proof of concept for providing a Forms Based Authentication (FBA) feature for WSS/MOSS....

Presenting at SharePoint Asia Pacific Conference

As some of you know the SharePoint Asia-Pacific Conference is scheduled to be held in Sydney on 15-16th May. This is the premier event for you if you...

SharePoint Deployment(s) who should be involved what should be considered?

Before you start your SharePoint deployment you should include the following people from within your organisation in a planning session.

MVP Award

Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is a recognition given by Microsoft to exceptional technology experts who actively share their knowledge with the community. I …

Fresh from the oven wrap up

The Fresh from the oven (FFTO) debut in Wellington is a wrap.

Last pieces of the PIE delivered by CJ

Thanks to CJ we (Wellington SharePoint User Group) have successfully concluded our overview presentations on the 6 slices of the MOSS pie. CJ (Chris...

Knowledge Network Release Candidate 0

Knowledge Network is a Technical Preview add-on to Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) enhancing enterprise search for people by automating the...

Asia Pacific SharePoint Conference and Fresh Seminar Update

It is only a few days for the local Fresh from the oven seminar series. We (Provoke) are now ready to deliver our two half day sessions.

Electronic Records Management Survey Report

AIIM has the following survey report available for download.

SharePoint hosting

The following providers provide hosting solutions for SharePoint.

How do I develop for SharePoint?

This is a common question that I get asked quite a bit from developers who are now starting to use SharePoint.

Introducing YOUTXT

YOUTXT is a free online service that allows you to create information and share it via TXT.

SharePoint Asia Pacific Conference

I have had to hold off blogging this as it had to come officially from Microsoft :-)

“Search” is that the solution to all your problems?

Basically if you are not aware Google has a new "appliance" that can be literally "plugged" in to your server rack and hey presto you have Google...

The Cost of FREE

Having a recent conversation with one of my customers prompted me to write this post. The conversation was primarily based around how IT would like to...

Fresh from the oven...

SharePoint for the masses! We (Provoke Solutions) are running a series of SharePoint seminars starting from 29th of March 2007. The first seminar will...

ECM session at the User Group

Last Wednesday's SharePoint UG session on ECM has hit the right marks on many fronts. I was just reading Michael's blog and he has a thorough write up...

BPIO is a wrap!

The BPIO event in Sydney is a wrap. I must say that this event was one of the best workshops hosted by Microsoft that I have been to so far. Karl Sands...

SharePoint Community Kit User Group Edition

It is my pleasure to announce that the New Zealand SharePoint user group is now using the CKS 1.0 edition. Thanks to Ian Morrish of Microsoft New...

Application Templates the next 20 out now!

The rest of the templates from the fantastic 40 are now available for download. These are server admin templates which provide enhanced functionality...

Free SharePoint add on tools!

Colligo Reader enables you to easily download content from SharePoint sites to your laptop - so you can access the content offline, rather than having...

Off to Sydney for BPIO

I will be attending the Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimisation (BPIO) University partner training event hosted by Microsoft Australia over...

New Books on my book shelf

Just got these from Amazon.com

Wellington SharePoint User Group Session

The new and enhanced content management capabilities in MS Office SharePoint Server 2007 comprise three areas:

How to setup and Configure Forms Based User Administration Feature Release 1.0 Beta

Chandima Kulathilake, Zachary Smith

The Last ever Post on Digitalmelon!

Yes, it has been planned and now it's official..

Forms Based User Administration Feature Release Beta 1.0

The latest release of the Forms based login is now available on CodePlex

The NZ SP user group is born

With my keen interest in Microsoft SharePoint and being inspired by attending Mix06 this has been something I’ve been working in the background. Thanks to the M…

Thank God It's Monday

Well, I usually don't rant about things.. but today was an exception. It all started with a phonecall at 7.30am from our support desk which went along...

Creating a Content Managed web site using MOSS 2007 Beta 2

Ok, so I have got the MOSS 2007 Beta 2 whizzing inside my virtual PC. I have been tinkering with settings and created my first site collection for a...

Digitalmelon : Chan's Blog - Monday, June 19, 2006 Entries

The guys at ProjectX aka [http://www.zoomin.co.nz ] have been busy. They have also created the Australian site  [http://www.zoomin.com.au/ ]. Well...

Digitalmelon : Chan's Blog - Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Entries

I am participating in the Harbour Capital 10K Run on June 25th. [http://www.harbourcapital.co.nz/ ]

Create a new Area in a MOSS 2007 Content Managed Web Site

In my first article I showed how to create a web application and a new site collection to host a Content managed web site.

Digitalmelon : Chan's Blog - Friday, June 09, 2006 Entries

If you read the title and wondering what the heck I am on about.. just read on..

Digitalmelon : Chan's Blog - Tuesday, June 06, 2006 Entries

This is my second article on MOSS 2007 Beta 2 and using Web Content Management features. In this article I will be discussing how to create a new area...

Zopto.com and Mapping Apps

The guys at ProjectX aka [http://www.zoomin.co.nz ] have been busy. They have also created the Australian site  [http://www.zoomin.com.au/ ]. Well...

Fund raising for Cure Kids

I am participating in the Harbour Capital 10K Run on June 25th. [http://www.harbourcapital.co.nz/ ]

Scrums, Pigs and Chickens

If you read the title and wondering what the heck I am on about.. just read on..

Add an Area to a MOSS 2007 Content Managed Site

This is my second article on MOSS 2007 Beta 2 and using Web Content Management features. In this article I will be discussing how to create a new area...

MOSS 2007 Error

OK, I just logged into my VPC instance of my MOSS 2007 and pointed my browser to the Central Administration URL and this is what it's telling me.

Soccer Anyone?

This is cool. With the upcoming Soccer Worldcup 2006 in Germany we are always going to be distracted somewhat from "work". So this nifty little tool...

WSS V3.0 (Beta 2) Online Course

This is now available on the Microsoft elearning web site. This multimedia course has the following objectives.

Create a Content Managed Site with MOSS 2007 Beta 2

I have witten an article on how to create a MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) content managed web site. This article shows how to...

Save as PDF from Office 2007 NOT!

Well this is not really good is it now.. Apparently Adobe is not happy with the "Save as PDF" feature implemented in Office 2007 to make things easy...

New Zealand TechEd 2006 Office System tracks

No comments posted yet.

Installing MOSS 2007 Beta 2

I have successfully installed MOSS 2007 Beta 2 on a VPC image and I thought I'd share my install experience with you. Here are the steps that were...

I got Haacked by SubText

Yes, finally I have made the update to my Blog which I had been planning for a long time. Had a few minor "glitches" doing the migration to Subtext but...

It's Beta 2 time...

With the official public release of Office System 2007 Beta 2 there is a lot of blog posts on new features and download links to all available servers.

WSSDemo.com on V3

Ian Morrish (wssdemo.com) has made the move to V3 of WSS. Check out his new site here : http://www.wssdemo.com

Vietnam and China Tour April-May 2006

I have created a Travel blog using MSN spaces here. http://spaces.msn.com/digitalmelon/

Singapore Day 1 & 2

Arrived in Singapore on the 10th April. Now Vietnam awaits. I am pretty excited about this trip/holiday. I will be away from the blog for a while but...

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Product Guide

Chris Johnson has posted about MOSS 2007 here > MOSS = Microsoft Office SharePoint Server http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/category/12742.aspx

Mix 06 Wrap Up

The Mix 06 conference is a wrap. Between time spent at sessions and meeting some very cool and interesting people I was busy and really wish had more...

Mix 2006 Las Vegas

Tim Oreilley of Oreilley Media

Mix 06 Day 02

Day 02 started with an awesome Keynote speech from Joe Belfiore. Lot of cool stuff for the web and media center as well as the Xbox....

Mix06 Las Vegas Reporting Live!

Finding the venue room proved to be a tricky one. The Venetian is huge and unless you plan your way you will get lost (well if you'd not been here that...

Day 1 Las Vegas

Arrived in Las Vegas around 8pm local time (US).  This been my first trip to the US I wasn't sure what to expect. All I can say is everything looks big.

Mike Fitz is back and he's talking about WSRP

A very good read indeed

Karapoti Challenge 20K

Saturday 18th February, got all my gear together got the Mountain Bike in the car and drove to Karapoti Park. This was my first ever Mountain Bike...

The Volvo Ocean Race is almost here...

Havent been blogging for a while, been busy with our SharePoint production deployment and other stuff..

SharePoint Team Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Team has started blogging: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/

Portal Webcasts in January 2006

Via Stefan's and Eileen Brown's blogs.

Folders vs Metadata

Bil Simser and few others have been discussing about folders and metadata in SharePoint.

Service Delivery Portal

This will be the last post for the year of 2005. It has been an year full of new experiences in life as well as work.

Today is the King Kong Wellington Premiere

A perfect warm summer day in Wellington greeted the stars of King Kong. I made my way down to Courtney Place and had the deja-vu feeling that I have...

Zoom > In

New Zealand based mapping technology. Go check it out:

SharePoint disaster recovery article on TechNet

This article written by Jeff Centimano highlights some of the options available for SharePoint disaster recovery.

Been a bit left behind lately..

Yes, have got a bit behind blogging.. various reasons.. Anyways looking forward to the week end allready.

Enterprise Windows SharePoint Services Deployments

This Microsoft TechNet resource page highlights case studies and guidelines for enterprise WSS deployments. (20,000+).

Xbox Site Update

In case you haven't noticed the Xbox site has been updated. Some cool videos from the new upcoming 360 games as well. Check out the Project Gotham 3 video!

Dilbert's Blog

Dilbert has started his own Blog, http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/

How to add a WSS WebLog (Blog) using FrontPage 2003

This article shows how to create a WSS Blog by using the built in FrontPage blog template.

World Usability Day in Wellington

“Making it Easy for E-Govt”

SPS (SharePoint Portal Server) Service Pack 2

SharePoint Portal Server Service Pack 2 is now available for downloads from the Microsoft downloads site.

SharePoint (mis)Information article feedback..

A so called “research” company [Ferris] has this to say about SharePoint (http://ferris.typepad.com/ferrisresearchweblog/2005/10/sharepointisn.html)

WWF vs BizTalk?

No I am not talking about huge muscle bulgy guys having a go at BizTalk in a ring or arena whatever you wanna call it..

Halo comes to town!

Hot off the press, Halo the movie will be shot in Wellington, New Zealand by Director Peter Jackson.

World Mountain Running Championships

Man what a day for runners.. (Sunday 25th) it was just fantastic and the crowd support was the best I have seen in any event..

MCMS Manager

This a very cool tool for MCMS administrators.

WSS V3 Feature List

A day in Dilbert's life

For more dilbert comics go to http://www.dilbert.com

MCMS Vnext information

With PDC comes news about MCMS and what to expect from Vnext.

Office 12 Preview site updates

With PDC 05 in progress the Office 12 preview site has some new articles on new functionality and features.

Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 SP2 Beta in Windows Server 2003 R2

Information about WSS 2.0 SP 2 Beta available for download on Microsoft.

WSS V3.... it's all out....

Posts from Mike Fitz, CJ (Chris Johnson) and a few others..

Hide Address Book button on WSS/SPS

In some instances where you have a WSS install in an enviornment which does not have Outlook Address book features you may want to hide the “Address...

Common Security Pitfalls for Web Part Developers

Jan's written a very good post about Web Part development and security issues that web part developers need to understand.

Mike Fitz is letting the cat out of the bag (well not literally)

Here's a post from Mike about what to expect from ASP.Net 2.0 web parts and what “Not” to expect.

SharePoint Explorer - free tool from Ontolica

A free tool for exploring the object model of a SharePoint Portal 2003 installation. It allows you to view and modify all the properties, including the...

Telerik Content Editor web part for SharePoint

This web parts adds more functionality such as inserting images from a Picture Library among other things and is a superb replacement for the standard...

How to display a single document library in another WSS site?

I have come across this question in many situations when project teams want to share various documents which exist in other sites or sub sites.

MCMS and SharePoint Workflow Accelarators from Skelta

Announcing the worldwide launch of Skelta CMS Accelerator - Express Edition (Free), a completely integrated out-of-the-box workflow solution for...

SmartPart 1.1 Released

Jan Tielens' has released SmartPart 1.1.

One Portal to rule them all...

I have been reading Point2Share best practice articles and I must say that Daniel has a very good point when saying that most organisations need only...

Xbox 360 details

Just came across this on Amanda's blog. (http://blog.funknstyle.com) The Xbox 360 looks pretty awesome.. Don't know New Zealand release dates but hope...

Blog Dedicated to Internet Explorer

Everything you want to know about Internet Explorer and what is planned for the next release. I saw the new Phishing filter features in action at...

TechEd ROCKS!

This year was a blast... heck ya Go The Feelers (http://www.thefeelers.co.nz), Tech fest was just rockin..

Wireless @ TechED 2005

Just setup wireless access at teched, looking like an extreme geek blogging while sitting in the Keynote room. Looks like this year is going to be mega...

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit

Just found this on the MS site.

SPTool Bar

This is really cool from James Milne. Adds Printer Freindly, Email Link and other options to SPS pages.

TechEd 2005 Auckland New Zealand

Will be at TechEd from Monday next week. According to MS, TechEd 2005 is fully booked this year. I will be attending the following sessions.

Disabling the 'New Folder' icon in a document library (WSS)

Recently a project that I was working had a specific requirement where the client did not want "Folders" from being created in Document Libraries. They...

Best Practice Artcles on Point2Share

Thanks to Daniel McPherson for his latest articles on best practice.

SharePoint Sites are Data

This is Mike Fitz's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikefitz/

What makes a weblog a weblog?

A very interesting article on the subject of weblogs by Dave Winer. Go and read it, it's worth it.

MCMS.Rapid

Thank you to those that attended todays MCMS.Rapid webcast. Great that we had over 120 attendees.

Migration Manager from Metalogix

From: Angus Logans Blog

what a good sharepoint consultant ought to know...

What SharePoint consultants Ought to Know

Best of AntiSpyware?

Until Microsoft purchased Giant sofware and released it's own AntiSpyware tool I was using SpyBot search and destroy. I downloaded the beta version of...

Latest version of the SharePoint SDK available on MSDN

Browse/View the SDK in the MSDN Library:

Tsunami Appeal Cricket Match update!

Yes, we had the Tsunami appeal cricket match vs the Whitby cricket club. It was a great day with so many people turning out to watch the game.

MCMS Web Author Enhancement

ITHit has released some enhancements to standard MCMS web author enviornment.

Wellington Rugby 7's

Wellington hit the party mood today with scores of people dressing up in costumes to see the IRB Rugby sevens. I saw 10 people all dressed up as Chefs...

Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Intranets

Microsoft® Solution Accelerator for Intranets builds on the Microsoft Solution for Intranets (MSI) version 1.5 by introducing a flexible,...

MacawSharePointSkinner

MacawSharePointSkinner is a tool designed to enable non-intrusive modifications to the visual and functional design of SharePoint. The tool can be used...

WSS and SPS2003 Service Pack 1

The SPS2003 and WSS service packs are now available from the Microsoft web site.

So you want security on your desktop hah?

Everyone complains and moans about Windows security for the desktop and the OS is riddled with bugs. Windows XP SP 2 gives you a whole bunch of...

Welcome to my blog

The very first post on digitalmelon.com - August 2004.