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Published 05-01-2009 5:47 PM by ferringer

SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide: The Giveaway

Work is kicking my butt right now, so I’m going to take care of this now so I can get this information up and give everyone a chance to win a free copy of my book. I’m doing two different types of giveaways for the SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Reference...

Published 01-29-2009 1:44 PM by ferringer

SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide: Table of Contents Preview

Below is the Table of Contents (ToC) for the SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Reference Guide along with my personal descriptions and commentary. You can also see the book’s ToC on Amazon for a complete outline of each chapter right here . NOTE: I’ll...

Published 01-29-2009 1:05 PM by ferringer

SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide: Acknowledgements

I had planned on posting this next week because I expected a little more lead time before our book was actually published, but it turns out that Amazon is now shipping the SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide , which is a very good thing :) I wanted...

Published 01-19-2009 11:05 AM by ferringer

Integrating Office: OneNote and SharePoint

One thing I realized as I started writing the book (the SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Reference Guide in case you’ve missed my other posts) was that I was going to be taken a lot of notes and referring to them on a regular basis. While taking notes...

Published 01-16-2009 10:31 PM by ferringer

Integrating Office: An Introduction

The first time I installed SharePoint, it made my head hurt. I was going through a whole lot of “newness” in my life at that point. New job (only the second one I’d ever had since college), new teammates, new responsibilities (I had been a developer in...

Published 01-08-2009 3:51 PM by ferringer

Is This Thing Still On?

Well, it's been a while since I've been able to put up something new here, but hopefully that will be changing now that I've wrapped up that tiny little book project I'd been working on. I'm sure I'll be talking more about the...

Published 12-21-2008 9:08 PM by ferringer

Man, it Sure is Quiet Round These Parts

As you may have noticed in the last couple of months or so, I've been posting new blog entries with less and less frequency. The good news that I'm fine, my family's fine, nothing's gone wrong (knock on wood) that has prevented me from...

Published 07-02-2008 1:23 PM by ferringer

Looking for More SharePoint Interactions? Try FriendFeed

A few months ago I talked about the growing community of SharePoint professionals and users who were joining the conversations at Twitter: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/fortheuser/archive/2008/04/21/meet-me-on-twitter.aspx I still use Twitter quite a...

Published 07-01-2008 1:16 PM by ferringer

Be Vewy Vewy Quiet, We're Hunting Web Pawts...

A while back a friend of mine was getting frustrated with a news site he was trying to get set up in MOSS and asked me for some help. His issue seemed pretty straight-forward, he wanted to add an Announcements web part to the main page of the site but...

Published 05-30-2008 4:13 PM by ferringer

A-B-P. Always Be Publishing

"A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing." These are the words of Blake, Alec Baldwin's character in the movie version of "Glengarry Glen Ross" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348 ), as he talks...

Published 05-12-2008 10:30 AM by ferringer

Meet me on Twitter...

A couple of weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and join up at Twitter . If you're not familiar with it, Twitter is often referred to as a "microblogging" service. Basically, you can post anything you want to it, as long your post consists...

Published 04-21-2008 4:43 PM by ferringer

Sample Questions for SharePoint Admin Certification Exams

A while ago I mentioned in the MSDN forums that I had some sample questions for the 70-630 and 70-631 SharePoint Admin certification exams from Microsoft, and since that time I have gotten a few requests in my inbox for those files. So I've decided...

Published 04-16-2008 4:17 PM by ferringer

Book Review: The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users

I recently received a free copy of " The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users ", by SharePoint MVP Robert Bogue, and I wanted to share my thoughts with you about the book. The lack of good end user resources for SharePoint like the...

Published 04-14-2008 3:23 PM by ferringer

Displaying an RSS Feed Within a MOSS Publishing Site

For my current project at work I've been customizing SharePoint's publishing template for an Internet-facing website built on top of MOSS 2007. All in all we're really not doing anything too crazy with the site, but I did run into one roadblock...

Published 03-26-2008 9:08 AM by ferringer

Sharing Links: SharePoint Designer Governance

I just wanted to take a quick second to direct you to a post published today by Robert Bogue, a SharePoint MVP: http://thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2008/02/12/737.aspx The article covers Rob's views on the proper usage of SharePoint Designer (SPD...

Published 02-12-2008 1:03 PM by ferringer

Disaster Recovery for the End User

Wikipedia defines Disaster Recovery (DR) as "the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business, including regaining access to data (records, hardware, software, etc.), communications (incoming, outgoing...

Published 02-08-2008 3:30 PM by ferringer

Sharing Links: Adding User Help to Web Parts

I highly recommend taking a look at this post from the Joining Dots blog on how to add custom end user help information to web parts. Extending your SharePoint environment with instructive content like this can go a long way towards improving your users...

Published 01-30-2008 9:36 AM by ferringer

Sharing Links: End User Resources

This is the first post in a running series I'm going to be doing titled "Sharing Links". The premise is pretty straightforward: I'm sharing with you a list of SharePoint links on a variety of topics. I figured that since I read so many...

Published 01-18-2008 3:45 PM by ferringer

Surprising (at Least to Me) Place to Find SharePoint Videos

Youtube. Yep, that's right. A coworker of mine sent me a link today to a funny SharePoint video hosted at Youtube, and I couldn't help but notice the number of other similar videos that were being displayed in the Related Videos section. And rather...

Published 01-15-2008 2:55 PM by ferringer

If You Use Google Reader...

For the last six months or so I've been using Google Reader to collect and read my RSS news feeds, and they've recently rolled out a new feature that I think is pretty interesting. You can now add friends through Gmail and gTalk, and allow those...

Published 12-28-2007 10:21 AM by ferringer

If You Build it, Will They Come?

My wife got a new cell phone last night, a Palm Centro. It's her first PDA, and definitely the most advanced handset she's ever had. Not that my wife is a total Luddite or anything, she's just not...as entranced by technology and gadgets as...

Published 12-19-2007 2:11 PM by ferringer

Sharing Links: SharePoint Service Pack 1

Thought I'd get up a quick post with some links to articles and postings I've seen this week about the new WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1 releases. From what I'm seeing, it looks like there's some good, some bad, right now. The Good...

Published 12-14-2007 4:22 PM by ferringer

Free SharePoint eLearning classes available from Microsoft

Please note that these classes are not completely targeted at SharePoint end users, but if you're at all curious about how to get started building your own custom web parts or applications using SharePoint these are worth taking a look at. My experience...

Published 12-14-2007 10:05 AM by ferringer

With Great Power: Beware the New Shiny Precious

If you're like me and read over 100 SharePoint blog posts a day (and I hope you're not, because you need to get a life!), you're probably aware that Microsoft has released service packs for WSS v3, MOSS 2007, and Office 2007. So I'm not...

Published 12-11-2007 9:38 PM by ferringer

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