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Overview About 8 months ago, we posted a "How We Did It" guest blog entry here about Microsoft Academy Mobile, a community driven videocast/podcast solution that had been built on the SharePoint platform and continues to be used internally at...
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When CodePlex, which is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site, launched almost 2 years ago, the SharePoint product group was one of its earliest promoters and adopters, and the Community Kit for SharePoint for which I was the founding contributor...
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Background This is part 2 of the blog series that was started about a month ago with Neil Hodgkinson's post . He and I had a good time with our session at the Office Developer Conference 2008 in San Jose a few weeks ago. If you attended our session...
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During the SharePoint Conference last week, HiSoftware announced the general availability of AKS 1.1 (free and open source) and Compliance Sheriff for SharePoint (commercial product that rounds out HiSoftware's end-to-end solution for accessibility...
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I'm very pleased to announce that the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) 1.0 is now available at http://www.codeplex.com/AKS . The AKS, pre-announced a few months ago, provides templates, master pages, controls, and web parts along with technical...
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As the adoption of SharePoint increases within Microsoft, more and more teams are bound to develop useful tools and add-ons, which in the past would have been kept strictly internal to Microsoft. With the success of the Community Kit for SharePoint along...
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As many of you know, one of the best new features in WSS 3.0 (and consequently MOSS 2007) is the way it leverage's ASP.NET 2.0 to support for forms-based authentication or FBA along with the ability to support multiple authentication providers. Steve...
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The Content Query Web Part (or CQWP) in MOSS 2007 is one of the most often used components on SharePoint-based Internet facing content publishing web sites and intranet information portals. This introductory post on how to configure and customize the...
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Background About a month ago on July 31st, HiSoftware issued a press release , announcing an agreement with Microsoft to develop the Accessibility Kit for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. The kit will provide templates, master pages, controls...
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About 6 months ago, I posted a guest blog entry by Scot Hillier, a SharePoint MVP, about the shared source Features project that he had started on CodePlex. Since then, several others ( Brendon Schwartz , Dan Attis , Renaud Comte , and Stacy Draper )...
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There's been some buzz about the Community Kit for SharePoint during the past few days, but it's not the only exciting and useful SharePoint oriented shared source project on CodePlex. The SharePoint Governance , SharePoint Features , and SharePoint...
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About 3 months ago, I pre-announced the kick-off of the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0 effort, and fairly quickly, over 20 volunteers signed up to help. After just 2 months of work (mostly on nights and weekends), the CKS team has accomplished...
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[Cross-posted from Bill Baer's blog entry .] I'm pleased to announce the availability of Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management (MSIT TSLCM) Beta 1.0 for SharePoint Products and Technologies . Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management...
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As mentioned previously , the Community Kit for SharePoint is one of the top 3 community oriented initiatives sponsored* by the SharePoint product group. (The other two are the SharePoint Community Portal and the SharePointPedia, the latter of which will...