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I'm going to be speaking at the International SharePoint Conference in London on 23rd to 25th April. My subject is: No Budget, No Time, No Permissions. It's a case study of building a SharePoint site with no allocated resources. Come along to find out more... Registration for the conference is open...

Yesterday, I received my advanced copy of the new edition of Designing Electronic Forms for SharePoint and InfoPath. This is a 1000 page book which does exactly what the title suggests. It's a guide on how to use InfoPath to design electronic forms, both for SharePoint and the InfoPath client. The first...

This demo shows how to create and edit a custom Document Information Panel for SharePoint documents using InfoPath 2010. It also shows how to filter drop down lists so that a second list displays different values based on those selected in the first.

Is one of your New Years' Resolutions to do more technical training? If so, you're in luck. There are a couple of up-coming webinars on Business Intelligence being put on by the Technical Advisory Services. Microsoft Gold Partners are entitled to a number of hours of service from this team and these...

It turns out that SharePoint is very sociable, at least according to Gartner. They recently published their Magic Quadrant on social software and SharePoint is up there as market leader in this space. Microsoft is ranked #1 on Ability to Execute and overtook several competitors (including IBM) to become...

This video continues my series of mini demos showing features of Office 2010 that you might not know about. In this video, I show how to save an Office document to SharePoint without leaving the client. If there’s a feature you’d like to see demonstrated as part of this series, let me know.

This is the first in a set of mini demos showing some of the simple yet powerful things you can do with Microsoft Office 2010. This video shows how to add SharePoint keywords from within an Office document.

The Software Development Kit for SharePoint has been updated. The SDK is a fantastic tool to make it easier for developers to build on top of SharePoint Foundation and Server 2010. This updated SDK includes new code samples, updated documentation and IntelliSense XML files. You can get hold of the...

I was somewhat surprised when I saw that there were people considering putting on a SharePoint Cruise . It’s an interesting idea. You get a pleasant cruise to enjoy and you get some valuable training on SharePoint. The fact that I get seasick means I’ll be shying away from this one, but...

There are some training courses for SharePoint 2010 available at a subsidised rate. These are designed to teach you what you need around key aspects of SharePoint as well as helping you pass the exams. These courses are immensely valuable for anyone wanting to get a competency around SharePoint. SharePoint...

This video introduces SharePoint Workspace 2010, showing the core functionality. SharePoint Workspace can be used to collaborate with other SharePoint Workspaces users or as an offline client to SharePoint Server 2010.

Who used to play with lego? I did. We had boxes of the stuff. Lego is such a fantastic toy because it has so much potential. If you give someone a box full of mixed lego bricks, they could build just about anything . But sometimes that freedom seems too much. You could sit there staring at a pile...

This video continues my series of Microsoft Business Intelligence demos. In this demo, I show the Excel Web App, the browser-based version of Excel available through SharePoint and Windows Live. I show some of what you can and can't do in this cloud-based version of Excel. This video is available...

This video continues my series of short business intelligence screencasts. In this demo, I show the Management Dashboard for PowerPivot in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download from my SkyDrive .

This video continues my BI Bites series, showing bite-sized demos of Microsoft's Business Intelligence solutions. Here I show the PowerPivot gallery feature of the PowerPivot add-in for SharePoint Server 2010. This file is available for download from my SkyDrive .

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. This follows on from the previous BI Bites video, where I showed how to connect a Visio 2010 diagram to data in Excel. In this video, I show how to publish a Visio diagram to SharePoint 2010 using the new Visio Services feature so display the diagram...

I am continuing my series of short business intelligence demos with this look at how easy it is to create a BI dashboard in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that can contain a range of different components. This file is available for download from my SkyDrive .

This video is part of a series showing the Microsoft business intelligence offering in bite-sized chunks. This video shows how to use Dashboard Designer to create a PerformancePoint Services dashboard for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download from my SkyDrive .

This video continues my BI Bites series with a look at a dashboard in PerformancePoint Services for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download from my SkyDrive .

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos by showing another element that can be built in Dashboard Designer for PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video shows how to build an analytics chart from a SQL Server data cube. This video is available to download...

This video is part of a series of bite-sized Business Intelligence demos. This video builds on the previous two to show how to put together a scorecard in Dashboard Designer for PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download in my SkyDrive...

This video continues my series of demos showing the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack in bite-sized chunks. This carries on from the previous demo, where I showed how to create KPIs in PerformancePoint Services for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. In this video, I show how to create a custom indicator...

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. In this video, I show how to create rich KPI in Dashboard Designer for PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2010. This video is available for download in my SkyDrive .

This video continues my series of bite-sized BI demos. In this demo, I show how to use PerformancePoint Services' Dashboard Designer to create a data connection to a SQL Server Analysis Services data cube.

This video continues my series of bite sized Business Intelligence demos. In this demo, I show how to create a dashboard in SharePoint 2010 to display parts of an Excel workbook.