Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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In Episode 26, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Jeff Dalton who discusses his very large SharePoint implementation at Volvo including;
- End User Adoption
- Training
- Features Used
You can follow Jeff on Twitter here:
http://www.twitter.com/jefferydalton
We also made an announcement that starting one week before the SharePoint Conference, the SharePoint Pod Show will be doing a series called "Road to the SPC". We will be starting in Seattle and driving to Las Vegas visiting companies and user groups along the way and doing interviews and shows.
If you would like us to visit your company or user group, please drop us a line at
feedback@sharepointpodshow.com and we will line it up!
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Monday, June 29, 2009
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In Episode 25, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVP Steve Smith to discuss end user adoption of SharePoint.
Below some notes from the show:
- Why should developers care about end user adoption?
- We've deployed SharePoint and no one is using it...HELP!
- How do you measure end user adoption?
- Enabling Auditing in SharePoint.
- My Sites and End Users
- How do you manage expectations of an IT department to empower users?
- Advice on creating an end user training plan.
- Follow up on the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference
- User Groups
Steve's links:
http://www.twitter.com/stevesmithck
steve@combined-knowledge.com
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In episode 24, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Paul Culmsee.
About Paul Culmsee
Paul is an IT and business consultant with 20 years experience across several disciplines. He is based in Perth, Western Australia. Since July 2006, he has spent a lot of time working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, as well as practicing the craft of Issue and Dialogue Mapping, but his background covers many other disciplines, platforms and technologies.
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Show Links:
Paul's blog
Office 2010 Technical Preview Registration
Critical Path Training
SharePoint Best Practices Conference, Washington DC
In Episode 23, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVPs Andrew Woodward and Eric Shupps to FINALLY get the answers on Test Driven Development on SharePoint.
If you haven't seen the infamous TDD videos that we did at the MVP summit, go watch them NOW as it will give you a great background on why this show came to be.
The following topics are covered in this show:
- What is TDD
- How does TDD and Agile relate to SharePoint
- Why TDD and SharePoint
- Pros and Cons of TDD
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We have largely been doing the SharePoint Pod Show largely to entertain ourselves and have been very lucky to have a lot of really great guests on the show. We have great fun doing each show and hope that comes through loud and clear in every episode.
Over the course of the show (about 9 months now), We have been loosely monitoring the number of downloads and have noticed a trend that is still quite surprising: a lot of people are downloading the shows! When we did the counts earlier this week, we are happy to say that we have now crossed 100,000 show downloads. We are quite humbled by this and will continue to bring solid content to the community and add value to your overall SharePoint experience.
Thanks to all of our guests that helped make this possible (listed in order of appearance):
- Eric Shupps
- Rob Bogue
- Patrick Tisseghem
- Bill English
- David Mann
- Mike Fitz
- Andrew Connell
- Arpan Shah
- Jeremy Thake
- Rickard Lofberg
- Todd Bleeker
- Ted Pattison
- Shane Young
- Todd Klindt
- Andrew “ZZZ” Woodward
- Spence Harbar
- Chandima Kulathilake
- Mark Orange
- Matt Smith
- Michael Noel
- Brad Smith
And finally, thanks to the faithful listeners of the show who really help us drive the direction of the shows. The SharePoint lifestyle is a very unique way of life and we will continue to provide great quality shows to help get you through the day…We’re all in this together!
In episode 22, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Michael Noel in London.
Topics discussed include
- Technical Writing
- Enterprise Implementations
- Enterprise Deployments
Other notes from the show include the SharePointJobs.com site.
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In Episode 21, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVPs Chandima Kulathilake, Mark Orange, and Matt Smith (all from New Zealand) to discuss the following topics:
- Small to mid-sized SharePoint implementations
- SharePoint as an application development platform
- Training
- User groups in New Zealand
- The upcoming SharePoint-based conference in New Zealand
If you have any feedback, email us at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.
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In Episode 20, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVP Spencer Harbar to discuss large enterprise deployments of MOSS. Topics include:
- What challenges do large enterprise deployments have over small/medium deployments?
- Virtualization
- How to you move into enterprise implementations from a skills perspective?
- Certifications
- PerformancePoint
- Spence's toolbox
Links to Spence:
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In Episode 19, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Australian (but with an Irish accent) SharePoint MVP Ivan Wilson.
In this episode, we discuss:
- SharePoint Architecture
- The need and use of virtualization in a SharePoint farm
- Companies developing MOSS features for WSS
- SharePoint Online and the "cloud"
- Economic climate relating to SharePoint in Australia
If you have any questions/comments/feedback, please email us at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com!
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When SharePoint MVPs get together in Seattle we make the most of the time by discussing important and pressing matters that will enhance and effect the rest of the community and business world. Finding a few spare minutes in their schedule, Rob Foster, Eric Shupps and Spencer Harbar all threw the difficult questions at Andrew Woodward....
Video: Test Driven Development - Part1
Video: Test Driven Development - Part 2
Video: Test Driven Development - Part 3
In Episode 18, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Shane Young and Todd Klindt to discuss Administrating a SharePoint farm. Topics include:
- Skills required
- Windows Server 2008/IIS7
- Common administration issues and their resolution
- Scripting
- Deployment
If you have any feedback, please email us at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.
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In Episode 17 of the SharePoint Pod Show, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVPs Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell to discuss various SharePoint development techniques and practices as well as their favorite tools used for SharePoint development.
If you have any feedback on the show, please email us at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.
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About Ted Pattison
Ted Pattison is a SharePoint MVP, author, trainer and the founder of the Ted Pattison Group. In the fall of 2005, Ted was hired by Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group to author the Ascend developer training curriculum for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Since that time, Ted has been entirely focused on educating professional developers on SharePoint 2007 technologies. Ted has just finished writing a book for Microsoft Press titled Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that focuses on how to use SharePoint as a development platform for building business solutions. Ted also writes a developer-focused column for MSDN Magazine titled Office Space.
About Andrew Connell
Andrew Connell is a SharePoint MVP and an independent consultant specializing in Web Content Management (WCM) solutions and Web development. He has consistently focused on the challenge facing businesses today to maintain a current and dynamic online presence without having to rely on web developers or proficiency in HTML. As a writer, Andrew has already co-authored several SharePoint development books and has recently completed the only book on building Web Content Management (WCM) solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Andrew maintains a popular MOSS-focused blog that has lots of good technical information about WCM.
In Episode 16, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Todd Bleeker and talk about the following topics:
- Custom SharePoint Field Types
- Common Debugging Techniques and keyboard shortcuts
- The release of the SPDispose Check tool
Links from the show:
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In their first show of 2009 and since the world economy has taken a nosedive, Rob, Nick, and Brett discuss what SharePoint skills that you need in today's tough economy. This show is based on the preliminary results of a survey that was conducted by Lightning Tools in the late weeks of 2008 and early weeks of 2009.
Links that are discussed in the show:
Microsoft Development Best Practices
Rob's Blog
If you have any feedback for the show please send us an email at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.
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In this episode, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Rickard Lofberg of Credit Swiss before a SharePoint Users Group meeting in London to discuss his company's SharePoint implementation, which is a very large globally distributed deployment.
Links from the show:
Rickard's blog :
http://rickardlofberg.blogspot.com/
The slides he used in his presentation at the London SharePoint Users Group, which compliment the interview:
http://rickardlofberg.blogspot.com/2008/12/slides-from-suguk-presentation.html
We would like to know your thoughts on the show length. Are we running too long, too short, or just right? Take the survey here (there are only 2 questions).
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In Episode 13, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint blogger, Jeremy Thake. After following his updates on his blog and on Twitter, we were happy to talk to Jeremy about his experiences as a SharePoint consultant in Perth, Western Australia.
Jeremy has recently lauched SharePoint Dev Wiki that focuses on collaboration around the topic of SharePoint development.
Jeremy's Social Links:
Links from the show:
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About Jeremy Thake:
Jeremy Thake is based in Perth, Western Australia and has been in the IT industry since 2003 after completing his First Honors Bachelor in Degree in Computer Science at Brunel University, London. Jeremy has been working with SharePoint for the last 3 years and before that was working with ASP.NET Web Content Management Systems and Portal Technologies from other Vendors such as BEA Aqualogic, RedDot CMS and Interwoven TeamSite. Jeremy’s passion with SharePoint surrounds Custom Team Development and the Governance Model surrounding this.
In episode 12, Rob, Nick, and Brett discuss the SharePoint 2007 Business Data Catalog.
- What business problem the BDC is trying to solve?
- Life before the BDC – custom web parts, third party solutions, data view web part
- How to connect SharePoint to your LOB system (Application Definition Files)
- What the BDC gives you
- Web Parts
- Business Data Columns
- Search
- User Profile
- BDC API
- Writing back to your Lob System (InfoPath, 3rd party applications, BDC Meta Man insert/update web parts!)
- BDC Survey Results
- Common issues with the BDC (our top support issues)
- Common misconception
- Authentication
- Composite keys
- Web services
- BDC Picker (filters/ShowInPicker property)
Links from the show:
http://www.lightningtools.com/blog/archive/2008/09/18/business-data-catalog-survey-ndash-the-results.aspx
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In this episode, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with Arpan Shah on Microsoft's corporate campus in Redmond, WA to discuss and fill the gaps that were left by the recent announcements about SharePoint in the Cloud, Microsoft Azure, as well as SharePoint 14 and Office 14.
Links from the show:
Joel Oleson's blog on SharePoint Podcasts, Screen Casts and Videos
Our Music Survey
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About Arpan Shah:
Arpan Shah is a Director at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) who owns Technical Product Management for SharePoint Products and Technologies.
In this episode, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVP Andrew Connell. This is part 2 of 2 where we will answer listener questions on the topics of SharePoint Web Content Management / Publishing, writing a book, where to go for information, as well as some other interesting questions that really put Andrew on the spot! :-)
If you have any comments about the show, please leave a comment on this posting or send us an email at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.
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About Andrew:
Andrew Connell has a background in content management solutions and Web development that spans back to his time as a student at the University of Florida in the late 1990’s managing class sites. He has consistently focused on the challenges facing business today to maintain a current and dynamic online presence without having to rely constantly on Web developers or have a proficiency in Web technologies.
In 2005 and 2006 he was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Content Management Server for his contributions to the MCMS community. When the functionality of MCMS was merged into the SharePoint platform, he became a MOSS MVP (2007 and 2008). Andrew has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing sites using MOSS 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX.
Andrew has spoken on the subject of MOSS 2007 development and WCM at various events and national conferences such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia.
Currently Andrew is a Sr. SharePoint instructor with the Ted Pattision Group teaching SharePoint development topics including a class he wrote on developing Publishing sites with MOSS 2007. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and WCM focused blog at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog.
Andrew's Social Networking Links:
Blog: www.andrewconnell.com/blog
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=614214008
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/andrewconnell
Other links:
Blog: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog
Book: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: http://www.andrewconnell.com/go/131
Ted Pattison Group: http://www.tedpattison.net
In this episode, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with SharePoint MVP Andrew Connell. This is part 1 of 2 where we will discuss SharePoint development, using SharePoint as an application development platform and SharePoint Web Content Management / Publishing.
If you have any comments about the show, please leave a comment on this posting or send us an email at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.
Click here to download the show!
About Andrew:
Andrew Connell has a background in content management solutions and Web development that spans back to his time as a student at the University of Florida in the late 1990’s managing class sites. He has consistently focused on the challenges facing business today to maintain a current and dynamic online presence without having to rely constantly on Web developers or have a proficiency in Web technologies.
In 2005 and 2006 he was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Content Management Server for his contributions to the MCMS community. When the functionality of MCMS was merged into the SharePoint platform, he became a MOSS MVP (2007 and 2008). Andrew has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing sites using MOSS 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX.
Andrew has spoken on the subject of MOSS 2007 development and WCM at various events and national conferences such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia.
Currently Andrew is a Sr. SharePoint instructor with the Ted Pattision Group teaching SharePoint development topics including a class he wrote on developing Publishing sites with MOSS 2007. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and WCM focused blog at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog.
Andrew's Social Networking Links:
Blog: www.andrewconnell.com/blog
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=614214008
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/andrewconnell
Other links:
Blog: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog
Book: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: http://www.andrewconnell.com/go/131
Ted Pattison Group: http://www.tedpattison.net
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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In Episode 8, Nick catches up with Mike Fitzmaurice in London to discuss his new role since leaving the product team as well as different reporting capabilities that are available in SharePoint and also extended with the Nintex Reporting Tools, Silverlight and SharePoint, and SharePoint Workflows.
About Mike Fitz:
Mike Fitzmaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology at Nintex, a company that makes products that augment Microsoft SharePoint technology. .
He spent the last ten and half years of his life at Microsoft, working in one capacity or another on information worker solutions, be that in messaging, collaboration, portals, content management, application aggregation, search, workflow, and business intelligence.
Mike Fitz's Blog
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In Episode 4, we announced our LOGO CONTEST on this show. Basically, we need a logo and want to open the contest up to our listeners and the community. We are currently accepting your logo ideas (you can submit more than one) and the contest will end on October 3, 2008. The prize is an MSDN Premium Subscription, which includes Visual Studio Team Suite!!!
In this episode, Rob, Nick, and Brett catch up with two industry experts.
In the first interview, Brett was able to secure time during a very busy week at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference with SharePoint MVP Bill English to discuss MOSS Enterprise Search and performance tuning.
In the second interview, Brett was able to catch up with SharePoint MVP David Mann after his very full session to talk about SharePoint Workflow.
Links from the show:
If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please email us at feedback@sharepointpodshow.com.
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