Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0

It’s official Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0. Appearantly, to have a bigger impact they will be leaking news slowly instead of giving it all to you in one big bang. There is already a nice overview page available which lists some features, there are a few interesting news posts. One quite interesting part of it all is that the new Team System will no longer be running on SQL Server 2005 but on SQL Server 2008 due to its’ more advanced reporting abilities.

SharePoint Mirroring

I love articles that extend the traditional info that is provided by the documentation. Information that is vital, but that for some reason is not available in the docs. It’s those type of articles that tackle 99% of the problems you encounter when setting up stuff. It’s a bit like my article regarding the project file ” is missing. It’s the article with the most view results, to my great surprise. Michael made a great post like that, regarding SharePoint Content DB Mirroring. A must read if you are facing problems with mirroring.

Sexy Moss 2007 WCM Site launched

This is a discussion that I’ve had already quite a few times, and there isn’t a real fix answer for it. Is SharePoint the right platform to be used as an internet portal? In my opinion it is, and lately there have been quite a few sites that have proven this point (although I have no idea of the load they get). Latest nice addition to the list of sexy SharePoint sites : http://www.starz.com/ Have a look, it’s worth it.

Social networking within an organisation

As social networking is becoming a trend it might be good to already start looking out for do’s and dont’s for social networking and how to make it a success. I’ve found a few (10 to be exact) strategies to help you make Enterprise Social Networking a success. I find them a bit too general, but it is a first step in identifying what needs to be done to get an added value from ESN.

Patrick Tisseghem, we will miss you.

There are these times where you wished Swamii didn’t return you all the news related to SharePoint. I just found out that Patrick Tisseghem, Microsoft MVP and U2U Teacher has passed away. Appearantly due to a heart attack while giving class, at the age of 39. I hereby wish my to give my condolences to the family and friends. This is a great loss for them, as well as for the SharePoint community. Patrick was the first persons who tought me about Moss 2007 (at U2U) and he managed to pass along the fire and enthousiasm he had for the product. I therefor thank him, and the many occassions where I met him and he answerend open questions that I still had. Fare you well, Patrick. We will miss you.

If you would like to give your condolences, do so on Jan Thielens’ Blog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/09/05/patrick-tisseghem-passed-away.aspx

SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 Released

It’s starting to become obvious that holidays at Microsoft are a myth There have been quite a few releases the last few days, and here comes another one. They released a new version of the  SharePoint Administration Toolkit, now at version 2.0. It allows you to do bulk operations on site collections, an Stsadm operation to update alert e-mails after the URL for a Web application has been changed, and a User Profile Replication Engine tool (new). They also updated the MSI to give you some new installation possibilities.
Dowload:

x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en
x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en

SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit updated

Seems like I’m not the only one working hard during the holidays. Microsoft also released an updated SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit. I’m not gonna put the full list of all that’s in it over here, just click the link. In short it contains a lot of how-to’s, samples, … to assist you in your SharePoint Development0

Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool Released

Just a small and quick post to let you know that SP1 has been released. It includes (shameless copy/paste):

New With Service Pack 1

• Work item only view for users without a client access license. [Previously known as Work Item Web Access (WIWA) feature]
• Run a single instance with multiple languages.
• Create work items with initial values by using a URL.
• Share ad-hoc work item queries by using a URL.
• Find and view Shelvesets.
• Improved work item search syntax.
  

Features in Team System Web Access

• Direct links to work items, query results, diffs, changesets and more.
• Display custom controls on work item forms.
• View queued or completed builds, queue or stop builds.
• Add new work items or edit existing ones.
• Work with any type of work item, including custom ones.
• Add new work item queries or edit existing ones.
• View, download, upload, check-in and check-out documents on SharePoint team portal.
• View reports, export as PDF or Excel.
• Browse items in version control, download source files, view changesets, diffs, history, and annotated views.
• Search for keywords in work items.