Body: This morning I'm beyond thrilled to announce that Rackspace has purchased SharePoint911. Now all of us are Rackspace employees, AKA "Rackers". Back in January, our team took a trip out to San Antonio to the RackSpace headquarters, to meet our f

I created this 12 min video for the upcoming Microsoft Project Conference 2012 however the tips and techniques I share certainly applies to other events. Enjoy!   3 Tips to Maximize Social Media @ #MSPC12

Join JB Holston, Ray Wang, Alan Lepofsky and myself tomorrow, Feb 9 from 2.30pm-3pm ET, for a FREE live webcast as we discuss 'The State of Enterprise Social w/ SharePoint'.   We'll cover key topics including: - What is enterprise social? - What are

SharePoint is a complex and broad-reaching technology that is extremely effective for managing projects and fostering collaborative efforts, but implementing it intentionally and with a view to ensuring that the implementation addresses the issues of

Body: We like to give people the freedom to add content to SharePoint as they wish in most cases, and we like them to be able to add announcements on their site whenever they need to. Do you ever cringe when you look at a SharePoint site, because of

Body: You have all of this data in SharePoint, and you have all of this information about the site users, such as their department names, phone numbers, and much more. Instead of asking for site users to fill out all of their pertinent information e

Are you tired of relying on email to facilitate project collaboration? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a more efficient project collaboration solution out there? Office 365 can take your project collaboration practices to the next level.   I'm ver

Body: Forms and security. It is a common requirement to have a form that can be filled out, and when it is submitted, it goes to a location that the form submitter does not have access to. This is tricky because the users need to have contribute acc

Want to know what’s in store for Microsoft SharePoint in 2012? Join me as I talk to Jared Spataro, Director of Microsoft SharePoint, for a live 30 minute community webcast on February 2, 2012, Thu, at 3pm PT/ 6pm ET     I'll talk to Jared about: -  

The Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices: The Reality of Managing Complex Problems in Organisationsby Paul Culmsee and Kailash Awati The monolithic topic of organizational theory may be a necessary evil in the worlds of project management and manageme

With over 20 million Microsoft Project users worldwide, now is the time to maximize the value of this project management tool. There’s no better way to do this in 2012 but to attend the upcoming Microsoft Project Conference 2012 in Phoenix Arizona fr

Had a great time talking to Microsoft Project Director Arpan Shah yesterday. We talked about:   - MS Project 2010 momentum - Client success stories - The business value of project management - Project Conference 2012 - MS Project partner ecosystem -

SharePoint adoption in the enterprise is growing at a rapid pace, but many organizations are still struggling to achieve the proper mix of “people,” “technology” and “process.” In the midst of just trying to figure out the technology side of SharePoi

Want to know what’s in store for Microsoft Project in 2012? You are invited to join Arpan Shah, Director of Microsoft Project, for a live community webcast on Wed, Jan 18, 9AM Pacific/12 Noon Eastern. In this one hour webcast, Arpan will discuss: - 

Body: In SharePoint lists that contain calculated columns, you may have noticed that when a new form is being created or edited, the results of calculated columns do not display in the form itself, so the user does cannot see the result of the calcul

Body: Here’s a little hack that you can do, in order to create permissions on views of any list or library.  I’m not going to say this is the most pretty or perfect solution, but it’s at least a way to accomplish this.  It gets asked all the time.  “

Body: This is just a very quick how-to post.  I can’t stand those default web part pages for anything besides testing, because you lose the Quick Launch navigation, so I usually create a blank ASPX page instead.  These are the steps to take to create

Body: In MOSS 2007, we’re used to seeing a link in a drop-down box at the top right of our SharePoint sites, called My Links.  At first glance, it seems that this functionality has been removed from SharePoint 2010.  It’s still there, sort of.  Here

Body: In MOSS Enterprise, there are some great “Filter” out of box web parts.  In this post, I’ll explain how you can use the Current User Filter web part to send default information about the current user to multiple fields in a regular SharePoint l

Body: In SharePoint, it often helps to know the basics of how things are structured, and what the standard syntax of URLs is.  When explaining concepts to newcomers, I often take for granted that URLs are obvious, but they’re not if you’re not used t

Body: Today when I tweeted about the ability in Word to visually compare multiple versions of a document, I was surprised at the number of people who weren’t aware of this feature.  So, this post is a quick step-by-step on a couple of cool things you

Body: In SharePoint 2010, we can now set up asynchronous updates on lists, libraries and other data views.  Basically, this means that instead of users having to refresh the browser to see any changes to data on the screen, asynchronous updates can b

Body: The SharePoint eMagazine 2010 Special is out!  I wrote an article about the new Data View Web Part interface in SharePoint 2010.  Here’s the link to download the PDF of this magazine: Free DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine 2010 special Mirjam van Olst

Body: Task lists in SharePoint 2010 have a button on the List tab in the ribbon’s Connect & Export section, called Create Visio Diagram.  Thought I’d try this out, and see what I could mock up using this, so I created several tasks in a list, and cli

Body: This blog post is about the Social Connector in Outlook 2010 Beta, as it works with SharePoint 2010 Beta and Exchange 2010 Beta.  I just wanted to quickly share with you a couple of discoveries of mine as I play with these products. Environment